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Every single noise coming out of the club had been “not yet”… until that court case didn’t happen.

I very much expect this is the case. Anyone with eyes and a functioning brain can see Wharton was absolutely integral to what he has tried to do since day one. I’m dismayed at fans who think our window was anything other than an absolute disaster, so I’d expect our manager to be seriously unimpressed.

Fleck didn’t cross over with Hyam and McFadzean. He was there at the same time as Waggott though. With the new age profile approach I’d be keeping an eye out for Peter Ndlovu.

I got into an argument with that one the other day. Absolute simpleton.

There’s a flight from Manchester to Orlando departing at 9:10 in the morning

Selling to repay loans to the Bank of India is what you said

Why pretend you were suggesting Wharton’s sale was some sort of Venky’s exit strategy? You’ve just pointed out the futility of that argument above. It’s ok to just admit you were misinformed.

Reducing the debt… I presume you are referring to the debt OWED TO VENKYS??

He’ll probably get a tune out of him as well. Can see him getting his first league goal at Ewood a week on Saturday.

Completely agree Glen. It’s a bare faced lie as far as I’m concerned. Ewood is an ambition free zone and this scattergun approach of loan signings makes a mockery of any long term plans they talk about.

At least we got a good few years out of Duff, and at least he went on to a team that won trophies. That move seemed a lot more natural than this one, this is just sickening.

You’ll change your mind by 10 past 3 on Saturday when our centre backs are passing straight to the opposition, or as Garrett/Moran/Ayari gets dispossessed turning away from our goal 30 yards out.

If the club had a shred of ambition he’d be happily lining up for us for at least a couple more years, doing his absolute best to get us promoted.

With all these centre backs I think we are going with a 3 man defence and abandoning fullbacks

Hope we get the first fax off in good time. We aren’t very good at contracts when there’s a buy out clause involved!

Any loyalty bonus would also have been significantly less 6 weeks ago before we gave him that improved deal.

If we’d told him not to bother flying out we’ve given up any chance of him signing though. We couldn’t exactly ring him this afternoon and ask him just to nip across the Atlantic so sign his paperwork and do his medical.

McGuire deal apparently back on. There’ll be plenty of backtracking and even more criticism of anyone who dared question the commitment and competence of Venky’s or anyone employed by them.

Just look at this reply. What percentage of our fan base live under a rock? This Orlando site getting well deserved props for highlighting things. Far too often when a Rovers supporter does it they are rounded on and savaged by our own fan base. I can’t believe any of this is news to anyone, and I’m equally baffled by the fact that people seem surprised at these recent developments.

Collapse all the deals please Gregg. I’d happily go with what we’ve got and keep Wharton. I know, I know, he’s gone… but this is giving me a sliver of false hope that Adam is now staying. I know I’m setting myself up for a fall, but I can’t help it. I know it’s just our usual incompetence that causes nothing but misery deep down.

Don’t worry, we won’t be selling Dolan. He’s out of contract soon enough so naturally any bids will be knocked back so he can leave on a free!

I strongly disagree on Hill. I’m actually pretty happy with the O’Riordan signing, but Hill gave us versatility and was mature beyond his years. Big miss. Hopefully O’Riordan is ready to step up. I’m not the world’s biggest Travis fan, but you know what you got with him. A good option to help see games out for sure. Another big ask for two youngsters to step in and do a job here and there, and Ayari seems more in the Buckley mould. I think we will have to wait and see with McGuire. Tronstad took a while to settle and is considerably more experienced. Needs to hit the ground running really considering Telalovic looks miles off it and Ennis was clearly just a terrible fit for us from day one. Big, big expectations. Agree on Wharton, and if anything I think you’ve understated his importance. If we continue to try and play out from the back as we have we will be watching a lot of football through our fingers. He’s irreplaceable, but we ought to be giving ourselves the best chance of doing so, and 36 hours doesn’t do that. Couldn’t agree more with your last paragraph… unfortunately I feel we’ll see the unthinkable.

So this is looking the likely outcome of our window… Ins: O’Riordan McFadzean Chrisene Ayari McGuire (?) Outs: Hill Travis Wharton Ennis There is absolutely no way anybody can argue it’s been a success. If anyone had posted this as a prediction on the 1st of January they’d have been laughed off the forum or lynched. Anyone who claims we haven’t massively weakened our squad this month is either deluded or dishonest. Even if we generously add Buckley to the ins list, it’s appalling. The players returning from injury have been replaced on the treatment table by others. Considering we’ve been in free-fall for a couple of months our Championship status is very much being put at risk.