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We didnt sell Brereton, those same owners who are getting credit chose to stubbornly reject bids. Same with Rothwell. If you own a Championship club then losses are unfortunately par for the course unless you get promoted.

Im not forgetting him. Hes just been crap, although I suppoe although hes slow, cant take a man on and is soft, he does at least score the odd goal to be fair.

In the past weve been very lucky with goalscorers stepping up but theres definitely no one internal who will score a high number should Szmodics go. Gallagher and Dolan would be the obvious 2 because unlike the rest theyve scored at least a few goals per season over a number of seasons, Gallagher usually gets 8 or 9 and Dolan less. But neither has it in them to suddenly start banging them in. Markanday is not good enough and needs moving on if anyone will have him. Leonard isnt ready for regular Championship football and there is plenty of hype around Gilsenan but he has only played a couple of league minutes and he might have scored a decent amount in the kids league but its a massive step up, see Vale as proof of that so if he becomes a first team member we have to treat it as a bonus rather than something we bank on.

Jump ship? He had likely fallen out with JDT and wasnt playing.

Theyve said similar throughout, all hot air. Nothing in reality has changed, the same court case has yet to be resolved and the same disinterested owners remain.

Carter has had a terrible season including his injury. Hopefully its rustiness but he seems to have made at least a bad error in each game.

It is as if the last 12 months havent happened.

Do you genuinely expect the owners to allow that though?

No way are we spending £7-10m.

Could have said the same about Telalovic videos scoring v pub players.

How would it help cover central midfield? Do you watch much of the German 2nd division?

Cannon isnt a Prem player so probably will be loaned out for a hefty loan fee so thats us ruled out. Its an easy link, Nixon desperate for gossip to justify his patreon. Im sure he said us and Preston along with half the league wanted him last summer. He will hedge his bets on Cannon and many others.

Dont think he would be mentioned without the name.

Not to the extent of suggestions that neophox has put forward. Matos and Drameh are only on loan at those clubs anyway so I suspect its just a case of randomly listing them.

A hybrid team of the relegated players seems a risky move.

Really hard question as we badly need far more than 3. New JRC Carter Hyam Pickering Tronstad Travis Hedges Szmodics New New

In terms of transfers in and out I would say so. Kaminski was as you say a big player and the downgrade was giant. Brereton was also a huge loss and again Sigurdsson a huge downgrade. Them 2 changes are the main 2 where you see a massive downgrade if you lose 2 players like that. Beyond that, the differences aren't as stark. Tronstad is the one signing who has been good. We did though lose Travis for half a season. The Wharton situation is a bit murkier in that we only had him for half a season but he didnt play much last season. All of our other signings at best had a decent month or two. We also lost Ayala who did actually play quite a lot last season and Dack again had a month or two but he did score some goals in that time. So its mainly just losing Kaminski and Brereton. Thats before you compare differences in players here both seasons. Szmodics a different player, Hedges constantly injured, Gallagher often injured and not as effective, JRC likewise etc.

Its a huge assumption to suggest that we would have continued that form throughout the rest of the season. Both him and Mowbray were not backed at the point where we needed a push, even if it meant selling players. Im well aware how bad our owners are. But you are cutting off your nose to spite your face if you would be aggravated if we did spend a bit (we won't, even though we have money sloshing around) simply because we didnt in the past.

Koumetio didnt play a league minute either.

The overall squad this season is far inferior to last season. Hence we didnt improve. We may improve the squad in the summer, we may not, if Szmodics goes we may get worse. Its an unknown.

I think they were in a very difficult situation with Mowbray, he was a good appointment but his sickness and unknown return date left them in limbo. Obviously appointing Rooney was the main issue.

Whether we have a competitive budget or not will solely be down to Venkys. We need money to be spent, it wont, but I dont get why it would infuriate you if it did.

Hopefully hes just trying to protect the players egos. We do need major surgery, surely he isnt that deluded into thinking we dont and/or already aware that we wont have any money. We have loads of loanees going back and our squad is pitifully short, look at the bench today.

Tomasson mentioned more than once that he had "said yes to a lot of players" when frustrated that players werent in at that time. He may have said yes to players not because he really really wanted then but because they are better than nothing. Im sure we will make signings. It doesnt mean that they will improve the squad. We didnt this year.

Or just do as you please, without the superfan rhetoric or prodding people towards boycotting.