Summer window

**** happens unfortunately

 

I’m not optimistic for what the rest of this week brings but I’m also not going to blame the club for it too much. I do think we were counting on a sale that never happened. And are now operating in a war against uzis with water pistols.

 

If he goes he goes couldn’t give a **** tbh, anyone that isn’t 100 percent committed to the club can leave.

thanks for the goals mate and good luck.

 

Would love to get Cannon and Russyn in if Stewart goes and this French midfielder sounds optimistic. Then we need a good defensive midfielder loan fingers crossed

 

thats what I’d like but it’s 4 incomings in 3 days and I just don’t think we manage that. I reckon 2 in at best. Probably 3 out.

And we will end up short somewhere.

My gut is telling me it will be the holding midfield player we miss out on and we get told it’s ok because Matete is back soon, and O’Nien can play there etc.

 

Or it is a storm created by an agent wanting to rescue his initial screw up with the original deal offered by the club. I dont know the ins and outs of RS contract but from what I have garnered the club offered him a good deal which his agent said was not good enough and that he would be offered better by Stoke. Ross did not sign deal and negotiations continued.
Ross then has bad injury and club re-assess their situation and if all is true stick to their original offer but reserve it until he proves fitness.
My guess is that his agent is now hawking him around the championship looking for clubs who will offer bigger wages to try and salvage the situation for his client, the question is will any club take that risk whilst Ross is recovering from his injury, I guess it depends on how desperate you are.
If the agent can generate interest in Ross and get a club like Southampton to sniff around then maybe the club will flinch first and offer Ross the contract that the agent wants or maybe the club hold firm and see what happens, guess its a game of chicken.
he may leave he may not but my feeling is that he will probably have to prove his fitness and get a few goals first but again it depends how desperate teams get at end of the window.

 

Billionaire owner could buy us uzis

 

Wonder what we actually got for Lihadji, because there was a sale. Speakman seemed to suggest we'd made a decent profit on him too.

 

why should he? It’s the club signing players not him. His job is to make sure the club exists and can run sustainably without a billionaire pumping money into it.

 

I reckon that’s what pays for Rusyn. That one seemed to pick up post-Lihadji and been delayed by his injury (and now his WP) possibly

 

Didn’t Madrox try that?

 

Only low risk if we sell for peanuts and they are offering a much better wage which to me isn't low risk as I'm sure he'll be after the longest term deal possible.
If we are offered a good price that enables us to bring the quality replacement in we need then I'll accept that but I can't see any point in selling him at a cut price, we'd be better off keeping him and letting him go for nothing next year, he would play out of his skin to try and get the best move possible.
Then again if the club think the replacement we would bring in is going to be more beneficial the season then fair enough.
If he does leave then a lot has changed since his injury, as I've said in early posts he was about to sign and would have signed so we'll just have to wait and see what happens

 

Well we can’t harbour hope of copying the Brighton or Brentford model then, seeing as both of those had huge cash injections from their owners during the early days

As did Bristol City who are another following the same model (only without the promotions like …)

 

Exactly my feelings on the matter.

 

he’s never said he is copying them. Only people externally have said that.

 

That's fine until the billionaire goes and leaves the club in the hands of losers like Donald ...

... all three PL relegated clubs had billionaires.

And let's not forget all of them either, went into administration, wiped off millions in debt but grabbed the PL TV money without paying it back ...

... I love the way SAFC are operating, sounds like it's not really the club for you tbh.

 

All three of them make big player sales regularly, we have not done that.

Also, all three of them have built new stadiums and new training grounds under their current ownership so I’d like to think a large part of the ‘cash injection’ went on that, just like KLD has spent on upgrades at the stadium and training ground. At least do some research

 

Could do with a signing today the Stewart story looks to have dragged the mood right back down again, sooner this shuts and we can focus on Saturday the better

 

https://x.com/footyinsider247/status/1696791155805995233?s=46&t=lGmS7t3fhKmjcaf4pF4tQw

Says we won’t sell until we get a replacement so thats fine with me.

 

I think people need to be mentally ready for Rusyn to be the “Stewart replacement” rather than this meaning two strikers coming in

Think this was always the plan, rather than a sudden change of plan like the stories suggest