Grist to Howard's X feed though. Lol.

A poster on here mentioned those exact same names a bit earlier. Either he saw Howard's offering and posted or Howard saw his.

I'd say we need a massive improvement not just a marginal upgrade which is why I pose the question of whether he is the best we can do for that sort of fee.

Nixon inferring £1.75m will use up the entire budget? "Working on a few possibles" - Name them then!

If we have actually put an offer in for him it might be more or less a fait accompli. If however it's not that far along, or gets turned down, or is mere transfer window tittle tattle, I guess the question is "Can we do better for £1.75m? I honestly don't know, I don't have a seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of every player in the world like a lot of you guys but it doesn't sound incredible value to me. Not sure either that "an improvement on what we've got" should be the sole benchmark either. That shouldn't be hard.

I know it isnt happening but In the light of recent sales and sell on fees, why "should" that not be realistic?

But if we move onto someone else, Chaddy will think he's so much better than Asante!

We need someone who knows where the back of the net is first and foremost or the season will fizzle out. Can't rely on clean sheets every week.

Oh OK, thanks. Sounds a better bet.

I don't know anything about Asante but he strikes me as someone who'll just be at best a run of the mill Championship player for the next few seasons rather than the "difference maker" we need this. I think I'd rather try and get someone exceptional in on loan out of the two.

Everyone seems unanimous on Aasgard but there's no suggestion whatsoever we're even interested I'm him is there?

Are you thinking of Roverfan 99?

Still left with the same basic problem though, who's going to put the ball in the net?

The suggestion is that we have actually submitted an offer to Coventry for £1.75m. Whether or not anything comes of this link that would tend to indicate the approximate budget for the main signing, "the striker". Doesn't look like we'll be spending much on a wide man then.

Wiki says he plays CF.

Based on one goal in 25?

Got a bad feeling about this game, we were in better form at the time of the original fixture and can't help thinking our lethargy in going after our transfer targets will cost us dearly.

Are we allowed to sign anyone from any other Club apart from Coventry?

Is that the guy you thought we had a chance of signing? Lol. Just had a quick look online and it said there that Sunderland were prepared to commit to two loan deals for players with obligations to purchase costing a total of £33m if they go up. Meanwhile we've signed Adam Forshaw on a short term deal until the end of the season. It'd be quite funny if it wasn't so sad and infuriating in equal measure.

I assumed you meant Carl and googled him Lol. A little older than I remembered - 55. Would seem to fit our target age range perfectly.

As long as it's not "You let us have X and Y and you can have our manager".

That's a shame. Not that I ever thought we were in with any sort of realistic chance.

If we were serious about trying to achieve promotion either this season or the next we'd be targeting someone like Adebayo at Luton on a permanent deal.

Collins 34, Bradshaw 32. Come on, surely we can do better than that, an ageing journeyman very much on the downgrade. Stop giving them ideas!

Come on, no -one, absolutely no - one expects us to spend £40m, just a reasonable proportion of the monies raked in in transfer fees and sell on clauses over the last couple of years.