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Yep like flipping cars or houses you buy at auction, repair, spruce up then represent on the wider market to sell and profit in a short time.....and the agents get commission from the buy and the sell. Now if we kept him for a full season and got some performances and results with him then he went for a big fee we can't really moan, you could even say good business. However i think they are looking for the quick flip here and he'll be gone in summer for small profit, which doesn't really benefit anyone except player and agents etc.

Could be a LWB to be excited about. Him and Alebiosu might actually make this formation succeed.

Defenders signings are coming.

If he is successful, the club will convert the purchase option even just for selling directly to another club. Given that it was the failed medical that prevented a transfer where they agreed a fee, they certainly must have gotten a decent deal with the loan to purchase. The way the club spoke about the loan afterwards, sounded like a formality if they wanted to take up the option of permanent transfer.

as far as I am aware, the standard is "before the loan contract ends" (so either 31st May, or 30th June), but there could well be a clause added that includes a "must be activated before X date", and/or "optional fee which becomes compulsory after X appearances" etc Baradji will have already agreed terms. possible future fee, wages, contract length etc are all legally set as soon as a loan with an option completes. There is nothing stopping them from offering him better/longer terms than have already been agreed once he signs, but of course they wont, otherwise Alebiosu would have ben given a new contract in Sept/October

Well, we knew all about his managerial record and we have to remember who hired him...( and their agenda)

And just think of the commission on the horizon from such a turnover of players in such a short time. Plus it's presented to the owners as cost cutting on top of all the transfer fees they've raked in the last couple of years. I'm holding this pair of pricks responsible and whoever is involved in the middle and whilst they are mostly detested here over in V land they probably think they are a couple of geniuses. They might come to regret that though by the end of May !

This boils my piss!!

I was sceptical of the Baradji signing in the summer, given his injury, but the loan-to-buy deal made sense to protect us from that. I have seen enough since he started playing to know he is miles ahead of Tavares and Henrikson, and probably TGH as a mid. If we were even a vaguely competent outfit or actually following our alleged plan to sign talent, develop it and then sell them on, we would exercise his option now if we can, and sign him to a long deal like the one we did give to Henrikson. That, as we have found with Reyes at Barnsley, actually increases a players value when we inevitably sell anyone half decent in the summer. With the buy-option do we know when it can be exercised? Is it appearance related or just whenever we want? Is the contract here pre-agreed as part of the buy-option or could we negotiate a better contract now we have seen him and thereby increase our bargaining power when we sell him. Oh wait Suhail and Gestede don't care about any of that....

Again I don't disagree with that, and you are correct the form as Eustace left was pretty bad but we were just hanging in there. Just judging the managers performance though since coming in, he was and still is an absolute shocker. His past managerial career before turning up here will tell you that.

l lol, I just saw this on Rovers site and thought they have got one in (it was only a thumbnail in my defence) False alarm people

Baradji is just here to get fit and get himself a good move and the middlemen some commission. He's looking very much like a player this club should be buying and building a team around but ladies and gents we are quite simply just a vehicle now for others benefit. That's why those running it do not want a good ambitious manager they just need their own coach in place to go along with the 'model'.

We are also top of the sabotaging seasons league too, have managed that for 3 out of the last 5.

But the team had been on the slide before he came-8 defeats, 4 wins, 2 draws....14 points out of 38 is not play off form, is it. The players seemed shell-shocked after Eustace's departure ( and its pre-amble, which would have been visible to them) This was a season sabotaged by Suhail and Gestede...

We are top of the blooding youngsters into the first team league, so for that we must be thankful. Job done.

To add my tuppence to this: I don’t think the manager trusting more academy players than expected reflects badly on him, but it reflects badly on EVERYONE involved in our transfer business and their bosses. The results reflect badly on them AND the manager.

The FIFA reg allowing a player to play for a third club has conditions linked to it. One of these (re minimum of length of contract) means this reg can’t apply for him until our season has ended.

Same applies to TGH unless Birmingham want to use him themselves (as Stoke did with Baker last season), as he played for them twice before moving here

Tronstad had a fews weeks out in January/February too, but he also came off the bench in Ismaels first game, and then started all but one of the games for the rest of the season. VI had our strongest squad available for the run in last season (barring Pickering and Carter) that had been in the top 6 pretty much all way through the season so far, and then destroyed any play off hopes within two weeks of being appointed. Sure, there are much bigger problems than him at the club, but he has been an absolute disaster from day one.

and even sooner if we want them to have a training session with their new teammates, which would probably be useful

Hearts are genuinely the best of the three teams at the moment. The transfer window is the crucial element now that the old firm have steadier hands at their rudders.

lol, even better

That's my take on it

Ta, so he couldn't be flipped in this January window if a team actually wanted to play him (and if they didn't they may as well let us keep him). Other than to a team in the MLS or something like that, with a weirdly timed season. Sounds like he will almost definitely be here to the summer.

Pickering got injured for a while about the same time as Tronstad.