StarterForTen

By this time tomorrow Steve Bruce will be available.
As Jim Bowen would say: “Look what you could’ve won.”

I always thought that he was at fault for all those away defeats under Rooney. 
Then I thought he was the best thing since Sliced Bread this season until we lost one game at home and now I think he's out of his depth. 
Just thought I'd sum up the thread. 
 

Whether you’re a royalist or. Republican, by living in the UK we are all choosing to live in a monarchy. The country’s sovereign of over 70 years has just died; doesn’t she deserve a few days of small sacrifice as a mark of respect?

Whether you’re a royalist or. Republican, by living in the UK we are all choosing to live in a monarchy. The country’s sovereign of over 70 years has just died; doesn’t she deserve a few days of small sacrifice as a mark of respect?

Point 1 - The players we have lost from the academy, that were around the first team, were players we had got from other teams quite recently and we didn't really do too much with their development. I think Festy was the longest serving player from the academy who left this summer. We couldn't stop the sale of Kaide Gordon or Liam Delap due to the nature of how the youth system and contracts currently work, but they also both left before we were in admin.
Point 2 - We've got academy players on the cusp currently. Darren Robinson being the most prominent, but Carlos Richards and Bartosz Cybulski have been involved with the first team this season and Ola Ibrahim and Osazee Aghatise are there or thereabouts with their development too. We don't have a lot of players at academy level at the moment so I do expect the recruitment team to actively be looking for players to add to these squads through the season to help bolster, and hopefully we can give a chance to the next Plange/Ebiowei too. Jake Rooney looks to be a signing with this in mind. Signed and announced for u21s, but he's looked ready for first team football each time he's had his opportunity.

Did I miss something ......have we got some money to sign a 30 goal striker now ? .......promising players are about all the FL will let us have !

If keeping them pair meant we couldn’t sign anyone else I’d take it all day, then just hope everyone chips in with some goals! 

If we were to sign Andy Carroll would we be in Wonderland?

I've been to a few EFL Trophy finals and they are cracking days out. A couple of years ago I was one of very few neutrals in a near-90,000 crowd to see Sunderland vs Portsmouth. You don't get many games at Wembley with that many 'proper' fans in - normally filled with corporate bods (like me!).

If we were to sign Andy Carroll would we be in Wonderland?

I've been to a few EFL Trophy finals and they are cracking days out. A couple of years ago I was one of very few neutrals in a near-90,000 crowd to see Sunderland vs Portsmouth. You don't get many games at Wembley with that many 'proper' fans in - normally filled with corporate bods (like me!).

Telford Balloon Festival. The Rams are going up!!

 

You don’t want to leave early at a Rams vs Posh game - third injury time winner in a row. 

Fancy us for this one. We’re at home, good record at home, Peterborough play the same way year in year out whatever division they are in, we’ve beaten them at home already this year confident we will again. Should be entertaining. Marriott will score. 
 
                         Wildsmith
Knight        Stearman     Cashin     Roberts 
                     Bird         Hourihane    
 
      Dobbin          Sibley        Barkhuizen    

                           Collins 

So in MLS, unless signed as a marquee player (very much doubt it) the salary cap means senior players can not earn more than $612k per year, which is under £10k per week. However, the average MLS senior-roster player earns well under half that, in fact about £4k per week.
Guessing Byrne would be over the average but under the top rate.
Might have this wrong, but I thought he was on £12k a week with Derby?

Bus driver got his ass kicked for that. 

Bus driver got his ass kicked for that. 

You would also hope the likes of Justin Walker and Wassall would know a lot about some of these players. 

He strikes me as the kind of guy who will be asked to be caretaker manager one day and reel off four wins on the bounce by cheering up the dressing room!
Then he'll get offered the job full time, crap himself and never win another game.

But if Bremen are paying development compensation, not a transfer fee, that assumes he was not under contract. If the same is true for Byrne then he is available on a free transfer. 

During a dispute such as this I wonder who finally arbitrates? Being football, I guess it won't be a court of law in the first instance.
You'd think this is for the FA to decide upon, or perhaps the EFL if the player registration is through them - especially if his registration is to pass from one EFL club to another (as seems most likely).
I'd heard from a source at Stoke City that they felt it would cost no more than a year's salary to sign him, about £650k.

But if Bremen are paying development compensation, not a transfer fee, that assumes he was not under contract. If the same is true for Byrne then he is available on a free transfer. 

But if Bremen are paying development compensation, not a transfer fee, that assumes he was not under contract. If the same is true for Byrne then he is available on a free transfer. 

He strikes me as the kind of guy who will be asked to be caretaker manager one day and reel off four wins on the bounce by cheering up the dressing room!
Then he'll get offered the job full time, crap himself and never win another game.

He strikes me as the kind of guy who will be asked to be caretaker manager one day and reel off four wins on the bounce by cheering up the dressing room!
Then he'll get offered the job full time, crap himself and never win another game.