How is Dack being held back? He has been injured and hasn't had a pre season. After his past 2 seasons we have to be careful how we use and bring him back. We don't want him breaking down again and missing another season.

I think probably missing a Danny Graham hold up specialist to make the system really tick

The players mentioned will have their positions for the majority of the time and be able to interchange during a match creating a more fluid attacking threat.

Nixon linked us with a loan move last week if Brighton agree a new contract with him.

Brittain was a player the recruitment department suggested last summer and in January. Both times rejected by Mowbray.

We definitely need 6-7 more signings and I would prefer them all to be permanent signings. A couple of injuries and the squad is looking very bare.

A Barnsley friend has said they have agreed a deal with a Championship club and we are the only Championship club who have enquired about him.

So back to transfers. By the looks of it, Szmodics is likely to be signed today or tomorrow and I keep being told styles will by the end of the week. Hopefully we can get a CB as well in this week. One thing that worries me is that we have not been linked with any forwards at all. I would have though with BBD likely to be leaving we would have been linked to one or two by now.

We are much improved on set pieces. Our corner taking and free kicks looked like we'd actually practiced routines in training

It seems that he thinks he can develop Gallagher and Dack at the moment doesn't fit into the game plan.

I think it will be £1.5m rising to £2.5m based on appearances etc. I wouldn't be surprised to see both signing.

I still think Styles will arrive in the next couple of weeks to solve that issue

Throughout Venky's tenure they have either been kept the same or been increased each season. Prices have never been reduced since Venky's have been here

In agreement on all of this but ask JW what Madame Venky said about his season ticket policy before he left. They don't like to devalue their product with price reductions. Sadly I don't think anything changes until Venky's leave and a new owner comes in who understands the fans, attends matches and wants to get involved and improves things. Till then it will be a death by a 1000 cuts maintaining the status quo and season ticket price rises each season

To us fans it's an issue, to Venky's it doesn't matter, they still inject £15-20m a season into the club and seem to be happy for players to leave on a free. If Venky's have agreed a wage budget and certain maximum levels for player categories in it then there will be no leeway or flexibility with it.

In an ideal world yes but this summer was always going to be difficult with the new team only just being in place. In reality JDT hasn't seen any of the players in a competitive match yet. We seem to have a plan of the system JDT wants to play and the additional players needed to make it a success which is better than most seasons. It's just going to take time to get the players in within our budget.

That's the benefit of being proactive and getting rid of the manager early, giving half a season to review the squad and decide what is required. Our issue is down to how long it took to put the new system in place.

Barnsley probably want a replacement lined up before they sell Styles.

I'd counter with Nottingham Forest, terrible first 10 games followed by promotion

We will have to wait and see on the details but player trading will be classed as turnover. We'll need to concentrate on boosting turnover and turning a sponsor down who is offering £1m a season won't be tolerable from next season

Nope at the moment I believe it excludes the cash injection. The injection is for normal running costs, maintenance and transfers and not for player wages.

Just the players

It is just accounting of how the money comes in and doesn't really effect things too much. Cash or Shares are really the same thing in this regard.

The actual detail of this is still to be released, I would expect that to be in August/September for it to be made public. Over the past 2 years the wage budget has been reduced substantially and after the departures I think we are probably now at around 75% and have a wage budget available of around £50k per week possibly more.

Yep they can increase to £20m a season without needing to sell the rest of the training ground etc. The issue will be the wage budget and keeping it under control or substantially increasing turnover in the next couple of years.