davulsukur

I seem to remember seeing Leo Castledine's name mentioned a few pages back, he's signed for Boro for £1m. Being touted as really good business for them.

Might as well start Powell tomorrow, we're already playing Championship opposition, be a good test for him.

I suspect it's more protecting them from injury, rather than resting them.

Our relegation rivals Oxford, have appointed Matt Broomfield as their new head coach.

The only positive about that interview is that Gudjohnsen, Mori and Forshaw are all about 2 weeks away from a return.

Primarily a left winger, wasn't even given a squad number at the start of the season. Looks like our man.

Is that the deadline passed now? Any signings we make now can't play against Hull?

Even if he was given a plan to follow and sent away to do it, i'd still be expecting him to use the club facilities rather than a public gym

It's a club rule to go out the night before a match? Explains a lot.

Luckily most of us knew what was coming as soon as Ismael said he wanted players in quickly. I still can't help myself get mad though.

Utterly ridiculous that we are in this same situation again.

We can't not sign a striker. Even when Gudjohnsen is back fit we need an option off the bench/for rotation.

As expected, we don't look like we are close to signing anymore players before the Hull game as the manager wanted. We are pretty desperate for a couple of Strikers and wingbacks. Shipping out Gueye is step in the right direction but we really need to get these players in ASAP, even if they don't make the Hull game, they need to be in before Ipswich.

He'll be way above what we can afford in wages.

I think Cashin will be ok for us, our ambitions and expectations are significantly lower than Birmingham's. The focus needs to quickly shift onto getting some Wing backs and Strikers through the door now though.

If he keeps Pratt out of the team, I'll be annoyed. We do need options to rotate the squad but unless he can play in the centre of the back 3, it's not really a priority position.

He'll be like a new signing when he's back though (whenever that is)

lol, even better

5 days until the Hull game, not even a whisper of a player joining. Assume Ismael will just shift the goal posts when asked if he's annoyed at not having players in as he wanted/expected. "January is a difficult time to sign players, the club are trying, yada, yada, yada."

It looks like WBA trod a similar path to us. Sold good players (Fellows for £10m, Heggem for £14m) with the aim largely to "reduce the average age of the squad", employed a manager who's been claiming they're better than their results show as the stats point to more shots, more chances created, small margins, only losing games by a goal etc. despite results being poor They are 3 points better off and have 2 more wins than us but at least the club have realised this isn't working and have binned him off. Ismael will take us down and still be here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cn0k9j1dz94o

The players long contracts were a way around FFP I think.

Rosenoir's contract is until 2032. Some people just don't learn

Sacking season in full swing around the leagues. Ryan Mason sacked by WBA

So Liam Rosenoir is the new Chelsea manager. Really not sure how this will go but I've just seen that Strasbourg are owned by the same company that own Chelsea, so feels like a bit of a lazy appointment on the face of it. He's done well in management so far but these type of appointments rarely seem to work out at big clubs over the medium/long term. Maybe the days of getting "big name" managers in are over?