They collapsed like a second half of a Rovers season, so it would be fitting.

What service?

Ribeiro was under contract at Braga until summer 2026. It seems odd that he has agreed to swap that for a year less of contract security. His wages would have to be triple his Braga wages for it to be worth his while financially, unless they've paid off 2/3 or so of his contract. Which is probably the going rate for contract payoffs, but I have to wonder why they were so desperate to offload him that they'd do that. Also strange we haven't put a one year extension option in there, especially given we will be down a left back in the summer.

Is Forshaw a perm until the end of the season too then? Curse my memory

I can only think it's because the final signing we are targeting is a loan and we already have 4 loanees, limit being 5.

Schlupp reportedly going on loan to Celtic

I think you're thinking of what you'd like to do to them.

I'd have thought a loan to an English club made more sense, since it's not just getting used to men's football but also England and English football.

Insetad the middle of the season would define the entire season based on injuries. It's not the January window's fault things are shit here, it's bellend chicken farmers in India.

Possibly not. @wilsdenrover will know! Ribeiro auto-qualifies according to the GBE calculator I checked. So no ESC slot needed.

A twitter post from the club confirming it higher up.

Interesting, didn't expect that. We must want that ESC slot back. Assuming it does that?

Because we are getting utterly fucking desperate?

Which is ironic, because if today doesn't improve they're probably going to lose about that many too...

Fuck all really. Not sure when your last status check was, but... Ribeiro likely to come in as our LB signing. Hilton being sold to Bradford. Eustace seemingly confident we will get a couple in (one of which is surely Ribeiro) and was surprisingly smiley in the interview when asked about it. Tons of Championship rivals having no problems signing players, including ones that have already done far better than us this window prior to today.

Yet for some reason has daily back and forth with RF99, who doesn't agree with anything he says either 🤷‍♂️ I don't get it.

There are too many people still doing that for them all to have ulterior motives. Other reasons include: ignorance of the information, chronic positivity-in-spite-of-facts syndrome, and sheer stupidity.

JDT was on record repeatedly as saying he offered to resign and was refused. If you resign, I believe you are financially penalised as you are under contract. Otherwise managers would resign and go to another club instead of that club receiving compensation.

Hence why I said supposedly. Reports did also say we were trying to buy him at first then changed our mind. Obviously I don't believe it was ever happening, but certainly seems like the sort of thing our clowns would tell Eustace.

You don't know that, you just saw a report, and frankly I can't see why we would pay 2 million for a 6 month loan when we are such skinflints. Half of that would be enough of a surprise. Even if such a figure was correct it would definitely be inclusive of covering his wages. After he didn't come here, they then had to rush a deal through to the MLS because they hadn't registered him, so their bargaining power will have been low, and outside of superstars MLS teams aren't going to pay those sorts of loan fees. His stock has only dipped since. There's no way they've recouped anything like 8 million in loan fees.

The cash that was supposedly available to buy Duncan McGuire before it collapsed.

Yeh I highly doubt that.

I don't know why, but he does indeed seem confident. Either he knows something we don't (very possible) or he still has a bit of naivety about just how shit things are here.

But...but Forest care about him

I didn't see JDT doing it, with his big smiley face, either. He'd made a couple of cheeky remarks about the bus etc but still. And I think Eustace has far more of a temper. I think he'll see the season through as there's no reasonable clubs likely to come up, but I wouldn't rule it out if one appears, nor some choice remarks