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Would you prefer us to have Dobson there, what pressure would that put on Neil or Ekwah.

Surely Ba is involved, learning and trying his best to fight his way into the team ...

... if he earns a place, he's in.

 

Struck my mind as well

 

Not guesswork mate I was told by a VERY creditable agent.

 

Club are making Mowbray look very stupid right now. My bet is there will be no new player in for the Coventry game

 

But what were you told Bob, it's so vague it could be anything.

The club have already said exactly what you've said ...

... he went to allow an incoming deal.

 

Mentioning timescales for new signings does seem a bit odd mind, either Mowbray is being told this or he is making it up. Either way I bet it's annoying someone inside the club.

 

It’s the other way around methinks, he’s not in charge of recruitment so he’s making promises for them

 

Stansfield not involved in the pizza game

 

People make the football club sound like playtime at mixed infants ...

... I'm sure people in the club have better things to do than stick their tongues out and shout nur nur nuh nur nur at each other.

 

It doesn't really matter if we got £3.5 million or £3.50 and a bag of haribos.

Unfortunately he didn't want to be here and never showed the promise we (me especially) hoped.

Him leaving freed up wages to be better spent elsewhere and frankly we need to keep a tight reign on wages

 

https://x.com/darrenowitcoop/status/1694035923489435739?s=46&t=bFwez-5oi7CdxUG56_1QKg

RE stansfield

 

There's all sorts of reasons why a deal Mowbray "thought" might happen, might not have happened yet. Here's a few options - starting with the outlandish and ending on the ones I think are much more likely:

• It was genuinely about to happen but Speakman decided Jobe's a striker now
• He was making it up to put pressure on the board
• He just genuinely hopes it happens but without any malice
• The player has more or less signed and is even training with us but not been announced yet for whatever reason
• The player was about to sign but we changed our mind because we got wind of an even better option coming available which might take a bit longer
• The player was about to sign but got a better offer
• He was mis-informed about how advanced it was
• A deal that was advanced is taking longer to dot the I's and cross the T's than expected
• A deal has been more or less agreed but the selling / loaning club have just got an injury so need them to recover first
  
• A deal has been more or less agreed but the selling / loaning club need a replacement first, which is taking longer than expected

Unfortunately however people just jump to assuming its because we are inept...

 

I would take that as just waiting for the first domino to fall and the knock on effect will probably occur

 

I think @Southern A hit the nail on the head earlier mitro replacement in then he will be out the door

 

The problem is that people take off the cuff comments from Mowbray and turn them into the Ten Commandments.

 

Has he gone to Saudi finally?

 

Could be anything. I think there’s pressure being put on through the media but ‘sorry for the delay just been talking to Speakman about transfers’ was the clear evidence not this

 

That would be a very foolish thing to do

 

As good as yeah

 

Forgive me it’s probs a stupid question but who on earth is Dobson!?

Ba has no chance of starting over Clarke. Clarke is the golden boy and without a run of games Ba can’t prove how good he is so it’s a non-starter because he’ll never be given that chance.

Clarke was the same at Stoke, playing off the bench most of the time and I’m not sure he even had a single goal involvement he was useless. They need regular game time to show what they’re about and gain some confidence, coming off the bench for 10-15 mins here or there rarely does that.