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For those with any concerns about his injury record. It appears it was a complete freak incident and isn’t something that’s a recurring injury… his match sharpness would be the main issue. He managed four full seasons prior to joining Cardiff, then has barely played in the last two years. He’s probably one to ease in slowly, which isn’t the most ideal when there’s only a few months left. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/brutal-injury-never-seen-before-27550239.amp

It’ll mean that the deal is all but dead. Chansiri is digging his heels in, so all but a massive U-turn last minute, that’ll be that. I’d like to hope there’s a better option out there for us than Gregory. And we shouldn’t be waiting for any U-turn from Wednesday as it’ll ultimately ruin any chance we have of getting a good alternative.

A - Jamie Ward B - Kamil Jozwiak C - In recent years, Chris Martin. D - Anya. The low fee for Hughes as a way of waiving money owed for Vydra/Anya just makes his signing even worse.

The booing at half-time against Cheltenham has been quickly rectified. “Ebouuu, Ebouuu”

A player who did well for Forest Green in their League Two winning side, who has moved to the Championship but not really got a look in? The last one like that is alright, so why not.

I don’t think even Quantuma could explain what they did throughout the admin process. I think there was mention of a 40% sell on for Delap (unless I’ve just made that up) which was cashed in on, so even though it’s only 2%, it’s nice that solidarity payments exist to give clubs something extra, however small that is.

That’s true, although I do think that the signings at the likes of Bolton and Pompey are being looked at more enviously because of the lack of our activity. With Bradley at Bolton and Holmes at Pompey, they may be good players but I wouldn’t start them ahead of our current options so it would be a waste of a limited budget. I’d rather CBT over Callum Lang so I’m not particularly worried about that one either. I think we need to worry more about ourselves rather than what others are doing, if we end the window with a couple of round pegs in the round holes we need then I’d still back us to finish in the top 2. I don’t think we will get those round holes, but missing out on promotion would be more to our failure to recruit rather than how well other clubs have done with their signings.

Thanks, I knew it would be minimal but that’s more than I thought. I don’t suppose you know the cut off in terms of definition? With players like Whittaker it’s pretty cut and dry, as would be future sales for players like Gordon and Delap. Players like Ebosele, Plange & Ebiowei were signed to our academy but weren’t exactly ‘developed’ by us, do you know if the solidarity payments by definition cover players like that?

The way I read it is that we would still be entitled to some payment as we contributed to his education. I don’t know what the cut off or definition is in terms of that, but as Whittaker came right through our academy we should get a small amount, but given the quoted fees, it’s a sum that could still be useful for us.

I believe we’d be due some kind of “solidarity payment” due to our role in his development. It may only be something like 1%, but that could earn us £100,000 - £150,000 which may help in bringing an extra face in. https://www.easportslaw.com/news/training-compensation-and-solidarity-mechanism#:~:text=“If a professional is transferred,former club (solidarity contribution). “If a professional is transferred before the expiry of his contract, any club that has contributed to his education and training shall receive a proportion of the compensation paid to his former club (solidarity contribution).“

It honestly wouldn’t surprise me if we finish Thursday night with Cameron Jerome as a Derby player again…

I’d rather send him to that other team for zilch than let Wycombe have absolutely any benefit from us.

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That account posts a load of pollocks.

Well that puts to bed any rumours we get in the next 9 days about permanent signings... We can only have 5 loanees in the matchday squad, TJJ and CBT are two down, I think we'll probably end up with Smith and a CM (Embleton replacement) as well, so it leaves one more space for a "surprise" if we need it. I wonder if this deal structure also helps us out in the sense that, by signing him permanently in the summer and out of any EFL restrictions/business plans, we can then give him a longer contract and protect his value a little more.

We could always sell everybody and decrease the 6 million operating debt??

Here we go!

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I can understand the reasons behind it. It's incredibly tight at the top, so if we bring on someone unproven and then lose the game, he would regret it more. I would still rather be more positive and try to win the game, accepting that on odd occasions you'll get caught out and lose, but I see the reasoning for not doing that. Every point is going to matter. Our away form this season has been amazing, so a draw away at Lincoln isn't the end of the world.

Win on Tuesday and we finish the night top of the league, that's guaranteed. There should be no bigger incentive than that.

That's my point. Your post was based around ifs and buts. I don't think we win 32 points by being awful, just because one side had more clear cut chances in a game that finished 0-0 than us doesn't mean that it's season over.

One criticism I would have of today is that why have players like Brown on the bench if you aren't going to chuck him on to try and get a goal. Just off the back of scoring 5 in one game, whatever standard that is, he's going to be full of confidence. Sometimes there's games like today where you just need one to go in off someone's backside, so he'd have been a good backside for it to go in off.

If your feelings were right then we'd have been liquidated two years ago and all be watching AFC Derby in the United Counties League, so I think it's just as well that your feelings are never right, hey?!

But we didn't though? That's like saying if we didn't concede last gasp goals against Portsmouth, Wycombe and Peterborough we'd be 3 points clear of second with a game in hand. It's pointless criticising the team with hypothetical situations that didn't happen.

We are more than capable of beating pretty much every team in this league but no team would ever win every single game. It's about reacting to results that haven't gone completely your way, and we have the chance to do so pretty quickly. I think this side has shown quite a strong mentality and we have done well in bouncing back from set-backs already this year. Points deduction or not, Reading have been a bottom-4 side all season so I back us to grab the chance to put things right at the first opportunity. I'm going to stick my neck on the line and say that every other side in this league will draw and lose again before the end of the season, so we can make those 2 points up again no problem.