Because our income still doesn't get close to covering wages let alone other overheads. I'm sure someone will have the figure but last time was it not a along the lines of 120+% wage to income ratio?

Gally and Dolan stay if the club wants them to. Travis returns whether he likes it or not, unless as with any player, an offer is received which is accepted.

5 games for Austria Vienna and 2 for Liverpool as well, in fairness to him.

No guarantee of this. Bradley Dack.

Possibly this, to some degree. Or maybe, just maybe, he fancies a crack at the prem and earning god knows how many times more.

All those asking for a replacement for Wharton - where would they fit in? To me, we always play 3 in central mid. Szmodics has the attacking role nailed on, Moran is better in the centre as a back up. Holding is Tronstad and probably Garrett as back up. That leaves one role, which JRC was great in prior to his injury. We then gave Ayari backing up who apparently can play all 3 roles. Yes injuries will occur and have. But who would be dropped? Perhaps JRC to rwb/RB but then Brittain is out - and he had a great link up with JRC. Then there's also Buckley to return As much as Wharton going is sad, replacing him isn't the priority to me - other positions are higher priority. The bigger issue is if we don't spend a reasonable (10m+) of what was brought in as that's what the model needs to be. It evidently won't be in this window but the purse strings must be loosened in the summer or there will be no defending the approach of the club.

Venky hating and Adam heartbreak aside, rumours on signings appear to have gone quiet after a flurry in the afternoon. Anyone know an in the know who knows something?

Wasn't that in the summer, prior to the budget reduction? In which case it would be reasonable to expect we should be able to spend a percentage of what gets brought in. But even that doesn't seem to be happening.

Wharton finally announced by palace https://x.com/CPFC/status/1753122855347273956?s=20

Funny you mention him. Just seen him having a medical at Brockhall (Toni that is, not a young attacker). More seriously if we sign McGuire and the Liverpool defender, surely we can rule out further loans due to match day squad limits.

Ennis to stoke reported by Bayes. That's like an RKO out of nowhere.

These are the figures from the same journo yesterday. Dont know the exact exchange rate but would think these convert to higher figures than what was being reported on this side. So perhaps the numbers are elevated again with the new deal.

Don't know how true this is but...

https://x.com/SkySportsNews/status/1753067548147659251?s=20

I wouldn't say it's bs, but it it stating the obvious. If we're reliant on funds from Palace to sign someone, and they don't complete the transfer and send money until 1050pm, we've no money to spend. Or certainly not the funds for a multi million pound transfer.

Even when combined with football media reporters stating we've pulled the deal? On that logic, you can't have believed we were in for a deal based on the same reporters and the relative having followed half a dozen Rovers accounts?

Perhaps not but she's not following the Rovers sites anymore. She'd have no reason to say anything at all if it was likely to still happen.

Along these lines? GB to Vs: if we sell Wharton with 18m up front going to 22m, can we spend 10m? V: yes GB: ok, so we've signed the experienced defender we wanted on a free. We've negotiated £3m on a striker and he's flying over. Also some enquiries for defenders. Still all good? V: oh, we meant you could spend 10m on running the club generally. You don't need to pay for players, you showed that earlier. Raul and Ronaldinho aren't playing for anyone, have you tried them?

The only way I can see this being a miscommunication is if the Wharton transfer took longer than anticipated to complete and we told Orlando we couldnt complete the transfer at that time. However what is more concerning is the report that all transfers with fees are off, particularly as the Wharton transfer seems complete. What a sh*t show. If Venkys have changed it so we can't spend any of the Wharton funds, theres no model to work with. Hope for the player's sake a transfer is completed, be it with us or another championship club, and Orlando get what was agreed with us.

Hoping this is correct for many reasons, where have you seen the reports?

Tronstad, JRC, Garrett, ayari and Buckley to return? For the 2 deeper roles?

How peculiar. I saw a post on twitter from an Orlando fan account stating they were bidding 2m+ for this guy - surely we're not signing Orlando's striker and the player they're targeting?!

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We want strikers, experience, and a signing that makes us feel younger. I have the answer.