I think the dembele link is genuine but like someone just said I’d be shocked if we got him. I think Birmingham have better prospects than us currently despite being relegated. the only two other links that seem genuine are ruddy on loan from Newcastle and baker from stoke but apparently they want 2.5m so that’s not happening. Someone last night said a young Liverpool winger on loan but it was on Twitter so no idea how reliable.

Loans are just a part and parcel of championship football for every club unfortunately. Could see us bringing in 3 loans and maybe 2 permanents, older keeper on a free and maybe a dembele type for 1.5m when Szmodics goes.

It’s been a 9 man subs bench since Covid. I don’t think we are too bad currently: keeper, Batth, Mcfadz, Buckley, Garrett, hedges, ohashi, sigs, vale/markanday i know Garrett is potentially off on loan but I assume we will be bringing in a replacement. Problem comes when it gets to November and we’ve 5 injuries. Need 4/5 more to flesh out the squad.

Hang on the other day you said there is no way we sign weimann as he will go to a ‘proper championship club’. You can’t have it both ways, moan we won’t sign someone then moan when we do.

Lots of 1 year deals being handed out. Doesn’t seem much in the way of long term planning? I do wonder if this is still the venkys end game? Do enough to stay in the league while they look for a buyer?

Surely if that was the case we wouldn’t be loaning him out until late in the window? Seems stupid to leave ourselves potentially short

Is this an ITK message? Or just a potential one seen as weimann has been training with us?

7 million! I’d file this under nonsense

If we get relegated selling Gallagher wouldn’t rank in my top 20 of reasons why we went down! if other teams were signing these foreign players you would moan we aren’t expanding our recruitment enough. I agree the club is mess but we are allowed to get some excitement over new players. At least until they’ve played a few games for us.

Not being funny but if the links are just made up to try and placate the fanbase would it not be more beneficial to make up links to good players? Not sure I’ve seen a single rumour that’s made me think wow what a signing that would be! Not sure waggott etc care that much to go through the trouble

Ball. Head. Goal simple

I might be wrong but maybe the club are trying to soften blows of more outgoings by timing the announcements of Gallagher out and then players in. Hoping that people focus on the new players in rather than more people leaving. Just a theory.

This is the issue. The fanbase has just been destroyed by dysfunctional nonsense over the past however many years so everyone understandably thinks the worst. It makes it hard work being a fan because you feel like you can’t even get excited about potential positives because in the back of your mind you think oh the club will mess this up! Depressing!

The difference is Szmodics wasn’t a replacement for our top scorer he was an addition.

I think the gueye for Gallagher stuff is good business. Let’s face it Gallagher never scored 10 goals in a season so he can’t be worse. the smzodics replacement the issue. I understand we were never replacing 30 goals but an unknown lad from japan is not exactly screaming progression.

Szmodics 2 years ago? I do get your point though. I’m one of the more optimistic people on here I think but even I don’t believe we will reinvest money. id imagine smzodics and gally go and maybe even another senior player. We will replace with cheap frees, kids on loan and there will probably be 2/3 signings permanent for cheap like 200k. for me the season is now irrelevant we will be cannon fodder. The big thing is what’s the plan here? Is this venkys end game? That’s all I’m clinging to now.

Except when he said we had money to spend? Just another chancer like nathan jones that puts up contradicting information then claims to be in the know. It’s all very boring and tiring and if we weren’t such a shit show these accounts wouldn’t get half as many people paying attention.

This is a point I’ve long wondered about. It benefits Waggot for the new set up to fail, if it was successful he could be in trouble if others became in favour. I doubt he wanted his mate Mowbray to go. I’m not saying he is actively working against Gregg and JDT but also wouldn’t surprise me if he wasn’t particularly helpful to them. JDT has made snipes at Waggott all year

I think it sums up the state of the boardroom and clowns running the show that they haven’t sacked JDT. I can’t think of another club in the league that wouldn’t change manager with the run we are on and the performance on the pitch. I looked last night and we are the only team in the bottom half who haven’t changed manager. I agree with everyone that the issues are wider spread than the manager but the fact they haven’t made a move just to try and keep us up this year sums up how they run this club

What a weird assumption!! You think JDT leaving will cryptically be tweeted by the women’s Twitter account. That is peak levels of conspiracy

Slightly controversial but if we are cutting budgets like we seem to be JDT probably isn’t the best manager for us. Need someone like rowatt who will just try and make us hard to beat so we stay up. Depressing but it’s where we are at. For what it’s worth I don’t think jdt leaves he’d of just left today. He doesn’t owe us anything so why stick around, plenty of managers have left jobs the day before games. Steve kean being one.

Same for me I’m done now with it all until venkys go

How’s this waggots fault? It’s all venkys they are a disgrace! They hire waggot the book stops with them

This is classic venkys, almost impressive at this point they keep getting away with it! Just to recap/predict the day: - snag in the Wharton deal so can’t spend money on incomings - what a shame we were itching to spend 3m on a striker as well what are the chances - oh look the Wharton deal has been saved we can sell our top asset and bank 22m - the maguire deal? No that’s impossible to save, what a shame we so wanted to spend! - oh look we tried all day but it was just too late and you know it’s a bad window to spend money on what a shame - here’s a 19 year old on loan from Brentford, don’t worry he’s never scored a goal before he has an xg of 9 million in the under 15s! It’s a good job we are so good at developing young players because all the top clubs send their best youngsters to us. complete jokers!

The lad is going to quadruple his wage and be playing premier league football!! You are making out he’s being sent to fight on the Gaza Strip