Ismael has said he wants Hedges renewed, watch them rush to sign him up instead of Dolan. In all honesty I think he is a solid, if extremely limited player. He works hard, especially in defence and pressing, but offers next to no attacking threat or pace out wide. I don't mind if he is here as 2nd choice but we need an upgrade if the "project" is to advance.

"We want to develop the club, if we get promoted that is a bonus, but not the aim this year" "Venkys invest every year"..."We need to sell to cover running costs every year" Excuse me what? How can it be the case that they invest but also we need to cover our own running costs before we get a transfer budget? Utter stupidity as an excuse and should have been called out by the interviewer. He keeps saying fans need to trust the plan but they have done nothing in 15 years to garner any faith in them or their ability to do so. Disgrace

Awful interview by Rudy, just platitudes and excuses. No accountability or ambition in sight. If the owners wanted to invest they could, end of story.

A little unfair to criticize Gueye for not gelling with Ismael when 2 weeks ago we all wanted Ismael out, and in Jan/Feb Gueye was comfortably our best player and scoring.

I wonder if the wise men are now panicking that Ismael has started winning and explicitly stated he wants Tronstad and Brittain as key players and to renew them. With all their doubling-down behind him during the slide they don't have anywhere to go if they want to pretend to maintain credibility.

He wants a new deal; he's been one of our best players since he joined; we lost form as soon as he was out of the team. And our oh so competent execs are "trying" to resign players. Probably means we'll sell him. No excuse, just get it done. Unbelievable that some posters on the LT are questioning if Ismael would want a "better progressing midfielder", do they even watch games.

Definitely not staying, which is a shame as he has always fought hard and given 100%. 200 games is not a small number and even if I don't think he has the premier league quality he might think he has, he is a very solid top-half championship player. As others have said, the indictment on the club is that he doesn't think he can achieve his goals here and will end up at another championship club, potentially Derby with Eustace.

Agreed, until a buyer/consortium can be put together Venkys will not have to address the structural issues, they can just keep batting away questions like Waggott and Pasha tried in their interview, ignoring problems and convincing enough of the fans that things could only be worse, which we know is nonsense. It would be great if "celeb" fans could be involved somehow, even just registering desire for change. Thinking Matt Smith, Liam Livingstone, Harold Varner etc.

If Director wages are included we might have an idea from the latest set of accounts....

He's an excellent player and visibly gives his all every game which is great to see. From his first game with us he showed quality above that of most of our squad, and his finishing stands out (Bristol game especially). Injured disrupted season but he is probably a 15 goal championship striker if we can actually give him service...

Kargbo did look pacy and talented in his limited game time. I wasn't convinced we should have signed him, but I think he showed enough to suggest he can be one of our 2 left wingers next year (still need another for rotation). His assist for Dolan was genuine moment of brilliance that not many in our squad would/could have done. Issue is we have so many holes to fill with all the guys leaving (loans and frees), and if (when...) we sell our spine of Trav/Tronstad/Hyam/Brittain we won't replace them with as good quality.

Would like to see Tyjon get on in 2nd half. A lot of faith being shown in Montgomery, he must have been impressive in training having been at Chorley so recently. He's not the one I would have seen coming through at RB this year, I had higher hopes for Duru.

ST sales a huge problem, they need as much revenue from fans as they can get to stop Venkys having to spend. It's why they've been all over waves doing interviews all of a sudden trying to pretend everything is ok.

Given a c.10% reinvestment from Wharton/Raya/Sammie money, gives us maybe 500k...

He did at times, but he also had to start from next to nothing in our League 1 season and fly to India every time he had to even try and persuade the owners to buy someone. Not to mention how they screwed up the Rothwell and Lenihan situations in all too familiar contract bungling. The Rothwell situation was particularly frustrating as it ruined the playoff push (he didn't care anymore), and denied Mowbray money to reinvest in January; another classic anti-ambition January window. By the end he was also abruptly and disgracefully ignored by the owners, who let him walk at the end of the contract without even talking to him.

Exactly right, Mowbray, JDT and Eustace all managed to drag us to top-8 championship form, despite constant meddling and kneecapping by the execs/owners behind the scenes.

Exactly, this is a decision they are choosing to make, and it makes them unfit to be owners of a football club. End of story.

Pasha also needs to be held to account for his claims about going to India and asking Venkys for 20 million to keep the club afloat and then begging for transfer fees on top of that. The basic duty and expectation of the owner is to cover running costs every season, no questions. If you have to ask them then they are not fit to own, end of story. It's not a charity or good ownership to pay that money, its the job. Good ownership is covering those costs and investing more money into the players, coaches, youth system, facilities etc.

Gestede talking about how we won't have a budget of 15-20 million, and we won't reinvest all the money from player sales. No surprises there. Pathetic as usual to say "we aren't that club anymore". Why? We have FFP leeway and they can afford it if they want to? This is exactly why the fans are so angry at them, they just can't be bothered to fund the club properly, in player trading, maintenance, anything.

Gestede talking about summer window, usual guff about needing to sign a bunch of player, and that we will probably have to sell too. Interesting that he corrected himself from "reinvest" from player sales to "some money perhaps" (paraphrasing). Also said we won't have a budget of 15-20 million like other teams because "we aren't that club anymore". Why? The owners can afford it, we have the FFP leeway? Why can we as fans not expect to have a competitive budget just because they can't be bothered anymore?

Given the situation he joined the club in, I think a 3-month break clause would actually have been a fairly standard clause to insert. Gives both sides until the end of the season to assess again. They would never announce it as part of the top-line 3 year deal but from a business standpoint it makes perfect sense (to anyone except our execs perhaps...) Glen presumably trusts his source, and frankly I have more faith in him than Nixon.

Awful performance, even if it has improved in second half. Useless manager and coaching staff, players not interested, they've seen JDT and Eustace get screwed over and seem just as apathetic as the fans. Nice to equalise, but worry it just buys Ismael time which none of us want.

Amount of infighting is pathetic and entirely detrimental to the club; crazy that they are more focused on squabbling for petty power than making our club better. Not going to absolve any of them, Waggott has his fair share of issues, but he comes across as less inherently destructive than Suhail. Potentially an explanation for Mowbray not getting renewed, as he was very much in with Waggott and they were able to control things for a while. JDT who know who chose him, they accidentally got themselves a talented and ambitious manager, with a competent (ish) DoF in Broughton who they then conspired to screw over by "not submitting the form" (this was 100% a directive from Suhail/Venkys not to spend, guarantee it wasn't Gregg). Eustace was also a Waggott pick by all accounts and a good championship manager who motivated players to in and around the playoffs, before again being screwed over by Suhail seemingly. Ultimately, they all have to go, we need a clean slate, apparently down to coaching team if DL has been undermining managers.

Shocking if true. David Lowe rumour seems particularly odd when Venkys seem to have so little interest in anything, and it would also undermine Suhail/Waggot at the top of the tree. Rudy being a pawn not such a surprise, how else would he have got the job. Such a fan of the club he forced a move away... Downgrading the academy would be unbelievable self-sabotage even for them, when their whole "plan" is to give academy lads more time to save paying senior players... but again wouldn't put it past them.

Pathetic that they are trying to portray activating Hyam's extension as a new contract.