Bar Carter the talent pool has all dried up so you'd think the situation will come to a head in summer 2026 when either they'll have to try and sell us or at that poiny at least put enough money in to keep us afloat.

That's way down the list of priorities for me. We've got a great player albeit on loan in the LB position. (Decent) striker Pacy winger (Decent) midfield cover LB cover

To be fair you've probably answered your own question with the second bit.

Thanks for the information unleaded as always. I pass no comment on whether Kargbo is any good or not, personally I'm not keen. That's not the point though - IF the manager and Club think this guy is the player we really need it's insane to think that we would risk letting the entire deal collapse for the sake of 200 k Euros. Similarly with O Brien - despite our alleged interest in him read an article on FLW about a week ago that Hull were prepared to pay half of his 40k p.w. wages which we weren't. So despite claiming to be Interested in these players it's all a bit of a charade really because we're not prepared to pay what the selling Clubs want. In the specific case of Kargbo as well, if there's a Friday deadline, the Preston match goes by the wayside and it's probably too late to do anything else by then. "But we did all we could". Like I say, bit of a charade. Keep the Info coming though please!

Agreed, but what can he say?

I think tbf a decent striker usually costs money. That's why we never get one despite us always claiming it's the primary target. We're still awaiting an Adam Armstrong replacement, let alone a BBD one or a SS one. The other positions could maybe have been filled more cheaply but it seems we couldn't even be arsed doing that. (In reply to JH Rover)

Well - outdone ourselves in January as normal, played ourselves out of playoff contention without even signing anyone who could be considered a candidate for the starting X1.

Disagree, if assurances were made along the lines of "Yes we know what happened with the last manager but lessons have been learnt and you'll be backed" then you're entitled to take that at face value initially.

No-one in their right mind would just walk away from a well paid job. If he is intent on leaving he'll find something else soon enough.

He was shite midweek. Pears isnt the best but has been quite good on the whole this season.

Oh dear. The race to finish 12th is hotting up.

Hardly surprising if true. What is very telling and quite damning is that having stumbled almost accidentally on 2 very good coaches now, having pissed them off there's seemingly no effort to try and sort things out with them and retain their services.

Boro have equalised.

Could do with the win really to keep us in with a theoretical chance of the play offs.

Whaddya mean - "We've stepped up our interest!" LOL. Our ineptitude would be quite funny if it wasn't so serious.

As far as Asante goes, no one would be even mentioning him if we hadn't been tenuously linked with him. He's definitely not the man to shoot us into the play offs imo. We'd need a lot better than that.

Not sure if you or sg are right now, I'd have agreed with you in the past but it does now feel like a determined asset strip of the playing side and Swag is obviously just trying to keep his £300k p.a. coming in until the last possible minute or until he retires whichever comes sooner. We'll know for certain in summer 2026 I guess when the **** properly hits the fan if it hasn't already done so by then.

Podcast. The link's a few pages back.

Wow..... things are bad when Chaddy's saying this.

Glad to see we're bringing in that extra "quality" we were after to help the squad.........

I know that is the reason he's doing it obviously, but I have even less respect for his output if he actually thinks exactly the opposite.

Not listened to the whole thing yet, the first 15 mins, on the last two defeats was very good, but if he's saying what he REALLY thinks on here and taking the LT's shilling to write as though everything is normal and nothing is untoward in the newspaper, does that not make it even worse?

Terrific article. It's a godsend to have a bit of quality and realism in the LT as an antidote to Jackson's drivel.

This RJS bloke is almost constantly anti Eustace . Makes Eddie look like a huge fan. There's also an account in there in the name of RoverEnd which sticks out like a sore thumb. He is constantly counselling against going up in the play offs, wants us to build slowly, he doesn't want us spending any money this window and wants us to blood youngsters for the rest of the season as he sees this year's work (avoiding relegation) as done. Then whenever he posts, everyone ends up invariably agreeing with him.! A lot of them on there look like Club plants or paid bots, if not they have major problems.

I don't blame Eustace but that's been going on for a while now with him expressing the hope that existing members of the squad could step up in several different interviews. Probably when he realised he wasn't going to get any worthwhile backing.