Doubt he will have spoken directly to Venky's though. To the extent he has been told anything its probably come from Waggott.

Would make no difference.

Ah see what you meant.

We WILL presumably bring some players in though (irrespective of what everyone thinks of their ability) Why not bring them in now to help the squad?

They could do that but we'd be stuck with an extremely unhappy manager in the meantime. In the real world WBA (or whoever) would just agree compensation with Venky's

Boom! Wish you were advising the owners and not Waggott.

Not a laughing matter but that made me chuckle.

Us longer in the tooth fans have seen it all so many times before in the pre Jack Walker era, as soon as we start doing well, the manager gets poached which is probably why we're so twitchy. We have multi billionaire owners now though so you'd think there'd be nothing to worry about......

Hope the "rumours" are correct. I have him pegged as someone who's fairly ambitious though, not someone like Mowbray who's only aim is to plod on and feather his nest for as long as possible.

Great post and valid point about the relative cost of the 2 G's which never seems to get taken into consideration.

Doesn't preclude his agent from making the right noises though.

Callum Brittain is cleared to pull me out of the flames then.

Fair point - but I'd say WBA is one of the more attractive openings.

Yeah - Gallagher, Lowe, Evans, Bennett - all world beaters. Tronstad doesn't fit into that bracket - I just think he's extremely ordinary.

Not all as potentially attractive as the West Brom one though.

100%.

As you all may eventually come to realise if we have to go for an extended period of time without Travis. It's OK though - I won't expect an apology!

He (and his agent) must be weighing up in their own minds whether or not he can afford to give Waghail the benefit of the doubt and leave it until the end of the window. If he does and it's the usual predictable damp squib or disaster the WBA will probably have been filled by then and it may be a while before a job of similar stature arises again.

No - he gave the ball away initially under no real pressure then was directly responsible for the goal at the end by ball watching and not picking up his man. Watch it back.

That's only your own personal opinion. The Club's in question obviously were not of the same view We don't know for certain where we are or who is available or whether the Club have any genuine intentions of improving the squad at all. All that is pure speculation at this stage. All we know for certain is that we are in desperate need of reinforcements and none have arrived to date and we lost at home today.

It's about both.

I've never been a Brittain fan but he has been much much better in recent weeks.

You're welcome. If you think I was intending to be condescending before I might as well go the whole hog and ask you if you want me to explain what it means to you. (Joking) Whoops! You probably realised that so being condescending again.

Exactly.

Bamford is the antithesis of a clinical striker. If we want someone who can provide silky build up play and then miss from 2 yards (on a very large wage) he's our man I'd guess. And that's assuming he's fit. Makes Gallagher look robust.