Silent_Bob

I guess no news is good news. If he had dislocated his shoulder, I think they would have found out by now.

Not sure if that's the right thing to do. We can only assemble a squad of Championship players. And why would we need that unless we plan to stay in this division?

No, like turning down quality players who could play 6 to 30 months, because there isn’t enough long term in it. None of us knows if McGinn actually is Premier League quality. Let’s hope we will fond out, but i’m Not sure he is.

Building a young team only makes sense if we are in the division we prefer to be in. But why would we want a squad of young Championship players on long term contracts if we are promoted?

Not a link to us, but an European club with new owners have offered Usain Bolt a contract. Could fit with us. And I think it’s the type of signing our new owners would consider to get some publicity. I’m sure we hve Champions League aspirarions some time in the future. http://www.sportbible.com/football/news-usain-bolt-offered-two-year-deal-by-european-club-20181015 There is a club in Europe that has offered Bolt a two-year deal, they have been taken over by new owners who have aspirations of Champions League football," he revealed.

I say He is the new Messiah, and I should know, I've followed a few

Maybe we can resurect this season after all.

It would make a lot of sense at least. We need one from Huth, Terry or Collins now, and we probably need to add to that in Jan. I would prefer Terry, but that might not be possible.

Just Win This One

Could be, but I would rather go up with Bruce and Terry than staying in this division. Bruce is here to get us up, he won't be managing us next season anyway. I honestly don't care if the football is awful, as long as we are winning games and getting promotion. That's what this season is all about. Not pretty football, no great cup runs or anything. If it will happen with Terry remains to be seen, but I'm quite sure it won't happen without him. Which makes all this squad stregthening, and FFP talk bit pointless. Just. Get. Promoted.

I simply don't get why we don't sign him for the season. It would be a 38 week contract. At £70K the total cost would be £2.66m. At £60K £2.28m. At £50K it would be £1.9m and so on. If it's FFP, then we're obviously down to relatively small amounts of money which would decide if we're in breach of the rules or not. If it's down to the owners not wanting to spend money on ageing players, that would seem justified. IF it was a longer contract. But we're only talking to the end of the season, if we are promoted, then who knows. But at least then we can afford it. That wage bill is no bigger than the amortisation costs of buying a £6m player on a 3 year contract. And we would probably need to pay that players some money on top of that again. Why we would spend loads of money to keep Grealish and to get the others that we got, when we actually at the same time make a concious decision of not getting propotion because we literarly don't have defenders is beyond me. I'm all for not buying old players on long contracts. But I can't honestly see age being a deciding factor in getting a player who is out of contract on a short term deal for a postion we desperatly need strenghtening. Especially considering the window is closed and we don't have that many other options.

Well, towards FFP it's the amount of money, not how it's spent that matters. To pay £2,5m for a CD isn't that bad. That's what you spend on a £10m player on a four year contract. And then you need to pay the player some money on top of that.

Which I find very strange, considering we tried to sign other players.

Not signing another CB would be one of the most bizarre decisions in football in recent years. We spend all summer fighting to keep Jack and strengthen the team. Obvious candidates for automatic. Weren't it for the fact that we only have one CB. A situation we can choose to solve by signing last years captain with over 400 Premier League matches as captain for Chelsea and 78 caps. By offering him £70k per week he will cost £2.500.000 or thereabout in total. So why choose to risk all the money that has been spent for saving £2.500.000?

Which might be one way of looking at it. The other way of looking at it would be that it makes sense to invest a little bit more if possible, to ensure the big investments in the squad isn't wasted.

But instead we have a couple of other lads who most likely can do something similar.

Bruce is irrelevant. His job is to get us out of this division, and that's it. We're getting a new manager and a new team if we get promoted. And I honestly don't care how it's achieved as long as it's achieved. Each day that passes without JT signing is a day wasted. The sooner he signs, the earlier he will be matchfit.

Conspracy theory, but SB could have wanted to, but the new owners wanted younger players instead. Now it's much less to choose from

I don't think that rule would apply to JT as we were his last club so it wouldn't be a transfer. But I could be wrong.

It will mean Abraham is first choice at least. But that dpesn't mean Kodjia won't play. Obviously we can't rely on Abraham for 90 minutes in the next 42 games. This is not the early 80's where you can win a title by using 13-14 players.

Low wages and promotion bonus perhaps. At this stage I don't think he would be to concerned if he only made £15-20k p/w and could make another £20k p/w as a £1m promotion bonus. I don't think he as that many offers substantially better either.

Linked with a move either here or Derby. https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/martin-odegaard-line-championship-loan-13068254 Makes sense that Real Madrid trust Steve Bruce on youth developement. The youngest player to ever play for Real Madrid, but I guess that is a club where you just don't break into their team while you're still a teen. Maybe he will make it into the Real Madrid team in the future, maybe not. But could still be a decent player, even though he's not good enough for Real Madrid at the moment.

I guess it means Grealish could still be off to Real Madrid or Barcelona as well.

You beat me to it.

I'm sure he can cut the mustard in the Championship