Tamworthram

Tbf, if that had happened then I'd have hoped that someone would have started a thread about them when they were relegated so that we could all take the p***.....

No.  Nobody has mentioned it, not even in passing.  When was this?  Is there anything on the internet about it?  🤷‍♂️

Was it from Warne? He basically said as much in his interview. 

Ah yeah, how much you seen of Milan Smit? Are you smitten?

Paul Warne would've sorted Keogh out/been a puppet of Keogh* and Paul Warne would've got more juice out of Anya/got Anya to take a loan elsewhere/had Anya training with the u23s*
*Delete as appropriate.

It tends to matter eventually though.

Could we afford both though? Surely if we’d paid a fee for a player still under a contract elsewhere we would still have had to offer them a decent wage?

Blackmailed more like.

I actually like Birmingham the place, it's just those particular bluenose supporters that disgrace it.

Middlesboro
Wycombe 
Leads
Notts forest
Birmingham (div 1)

I doubt we'll be playing other Championship teams in friendlies.

XG? 😜

I agree, he’s done a good job but not enough to erect a statue in his honour quite yet.
The real judgement will come throughout the upcoming season rather than in the summer.

Likely that money helped us get Ebou as well... and we don't go up without him.

I agree, he’s done a good job but not enough to erect a statue in his honour quite yet.
The real judgement will come throughout the upcoming season rather than in the summer.

I agree, he’s done a good job but not enough to erect a statue in his honour quite yet.
The real judgement will come throughout the upcoming season rather than in the summer.

Do they have a lot of potential being a southern club? Can’t say I’m familiar with Wycombe and its surrounding areas.
If you are a billionaire, and want to put money into a club, I see Charlton as a prime opportunity. London club, 27k stadium but looks like it could expand to higher.
Top players want to play in London. It’s the only reason the likes of Palace and Fulham are comfortable PL clubs. If they were located in the midlands they would be lower Championship clubs.
 

We would have gone down the season before if it were not for points deductions.

It’s going to be a massive rebuild and with it comes massive risk. The new players ( of which there will be many) will probably take a good while to gel and that could quite easily lead to a bad start to the season results wise. A bit like the past season but maybe worse…
Not all the signings will be a success cos that’s how football works.
We will need to be patient and understanding. If CBT can find his feet in the championship that would be a massive plus and almost like a new player on the books given how little he contributed last term. 
Ditto to a slightly less extent Bradley- cos if he’s not up to the Champo we will be desperately short of central defensive players. Mind u, I am still hearing that Fozzy will be with us for another year….(hopefully then coaching staff )…

Some people keep banging on about our restrictions being self imposed which, of course, they were but do you not think the club had some kind of steer from the EFL or at the very least had an idea of what might be acceptable? I don’t think the club were completely free to set whatever level of restrictions they wanted knowing they’d be approved regardless.

(Going to assume that this post is sarcastic as I’m sure you don’t actually think we had that money to spend on any player)
Feel like I’ve said this about ten times now but I don’t quite understand how anyone can argue that Warne isn’t impressive at this level. He’s had four promotions. He got us promoted in his first full season. Yes, the football has been less that pretty, but the job he has done is impressive.

Nobody is saying we were poverty stricken. And before you accuse me of doing this by using the word "shoestring", let me just clarify that I used that word simply to describe the small amount of money we had to work with and the balancing act the club had to go through to sign a player: CBT being the most obvious example of this. Fornah and Kane Wilson two others.
Our budget, even under restrictions, was almost certainly competitive when compared with the division as a whole. I'm sure Cheltenham Town and Bristol Rovers would struggle to match us ever with the EFL looming over us. 
But we certainly weren't in a position to splash the cash either, were we?
Other teams were managing to beat us to the signing of players because they could pay fees that we couldn't. Warne even acknowledged this when speaking about a striker that had joined a rival (believe it was Lang going to Portsmouth?).
You're trying to make out that we had money to spend and just chose not to. I don't think that's true or even fair. 
The wider point of this whole discussion though is around whether Warne and the club did an impressive job recruiting this season with those restrictions in place. I think they did. 
You don't seem to want to engage in that discussion, but instead you would rather play the role of an English teacher marking an exam paper, dishing out big red crosses for the use of terminology you find "erroneous" 
I've agreed with many of your points over the season on Warne and his style of play, but it's starting to feel now like you are just entrenched in a position of constant criticism of him that isn't particularly fair.

That's a great way to lose any compensation we'd be due, though you aren't the first poster who's proposed the club should throw money away just to "get rid" of a player they don't rate.

I think we'd all be wrong, stunned and disappointed if DC went on anything close to a Mel Morris style spending spree this summer.
The point I was trying to make is that some people keep repeating this "it was our business plan" as if to imply it's our own fault that we've been restrictions because we set the plan.

It's absolute tosh. We were required to agree to a two year monitored business plan by the EFL with parameters each season with which we had to comply. If we'd refused to comply with these restrictions, we'd have been sanctioned once again. Every signing had to be approved by the EFL. Both Birmingham and Reading have had points deductions applied for breaching agreed business plans.