Ric Flair

They won't be in for any additional funds surely? Leeds paid £35-40m for him and selling him for the same amount.

You don't think the club should announce the signing when it's done just to appease fans? Bizarre.

I know you like to argue for the sake of it and defend the club at all costs but come on. Doubt it would have saved us any money as it was an obligation from 1st July 2024, Sporting unlikely to have paid his wages from that date to when he signed. We probably just couldn't be arsed to announce it.

Not to mention take an additional 2 weeks to sign Fatawu from the obligated date of permanent purchase. We leave no stone unturned in our ridiculousness.

7/10

We scout Belgium heavily and badly need a player like him. Even if it is us and we've lined it up we're proven transfer fluffers and they'll go elsewhere anyway.

What's the advantages and disadvantages? Agreeing to sell to us on a loan with obligation next summer if we stay up means if we don't go up but he has a very good season then they may benefit from a larger sale to another club as we can't legally enforce the purchase. The downside to this deal for them vs Hoffenheim is they get a guaranteed £15-16m this summer, less the remaining amortised book value for Hozlek which is circa £8m. So they get a current year guaranteed profit of £8m. But perhaps they don't want to sell to another Bundesliga club and perhaps they get more from us in loan fee and potential future fee than what Hoffenheim pay now.

I've no problem with missing out on targets if we have a sustained and strategic blueprint that is going to correct our financial mismanagement of the past. If we now have a robust wage structure and transfer fee system and our recruiting model has aligned with this to add asset value with the intention to buy low and sell high then absolutely fine. However, I'm not so sure that is what's happening. Our approach still seems very scatter gun and we aren't targeting countries and leagues with value for money. We genuinely need winding up, the club that is. The fan base is long past that stage.

Convinced this still happens which is probably more alarming in itself. Insanity has set in.

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£75k a week offer incoming

He's one of those from a stats perspective is just colossal.

I think it's us

Broja is crap

Signing/s in ahead of the Spurs game so they can contribute. This is not happening now.

Tomorrow

Some fans would say the same when it gets to deadline day and we don't get deals across the line. The club are extremely concerned by how ill equipped we are and yet despite this we aren't able to get deals done quickly and efficiently and the downside to that is we likely gift the Premier League two head starts. Firstly in being the absolute pits until we get the necessary players in and secondly when the likely points deduction lands. It makes the task of staying up so much more difficult and why I question the types of signing we've seemingly tried to land this summer.

Seeing them do this more and more, let's see if it makes their signings any more successful. I suspect not, as we also found out ourselves.

Thierno Barry please

We love a couple of days minimum delay after everything has been agreed. Happened with Okoli too.

When you say investment, I assume you don't mean purely financial because we've not thrown stupid money at it trying to hoover up all the best young talent from academies in the midlands and beyond. We've spent the last decade carefully making improvements that to many remain unseen but as we took the place of being the best football team in the midlands, the recruitment at a very young age from the catchment areas will bare fruits in years to come. For me, this is the single most important part of our football clubs blue print. It's why I'm very disappointed in Steve Cooper, it's critical we look to develop our academy as one of the key priorities, even whilst trying to battle with Premier League survival because it's also one of the most essential contributors to our survival financially.

Got no problem myself with fans that can still muster the confidence in our ownership. I find it so difficult to look past the refusal to make changes at director and board level despite monumental failings. As well the decision making with complete disregard for our fan base that is becoming all too frequent.

Why on earth would I know of some potential owners? This isn't having the ability to identify new players or a manager. However, because I am not in the business of talent spotting promising football owners does not mean I cannot yearn for new owners. Why do I want new owners? Because I don't know what it would take for Top and his family to make the necessary changes around them, and whilst they don't we will continue to suffer. Not only will we suffer but it's more than that, it's the bitterness and resentment building in the fan base. I will forever be thankful for Vichai and Top's stamp on this club over the last decade or so but now is the time for a new era. Top has proven he has no interest in rectifying the catastrophic mistakes the club made in the lead up to 2022/23 and during it and the complete starvation of communication from an empire that proclaim to be custodians of our football club is now gone past repair. We are no longer a serious football club, there's not one facet of the way the club is currently ran that counteracts that.

We have sold £200m worth of players in the last 2 years. Plus had over £150m of players leave on free transfers. Do not underestimate just how far we have fallen in asset value. I think the future is extremely bleak and cannot wait for our owners to sell up.

Wouldn't be surprised if he's nowhere near any evidence giving.