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We will find out what he offers us soon enough 

interesting payment structure with this signing 

Is he any good at football? 
so that’s Davies and Stearman replaced so far, are we getting a Chester replacement as well?

When does the transfer window shut folks?

1 hour ago, Srg said:

But if the rest of your team is built a certain way and other signings made to play in that way, what's the point in signing someone who won't work in that system?

Good footballers are good footballers they can adjust unless of course that we won’t have good footballers 

25 minutes ago, Srg said:

4 of those strikers were in the division last year and didn’t sniff automatics. 

I just keep reminding myself that Didzy was absolutely not a goal scorer before he came here. In fact, he struggled to stay fit before he came here. Only need to find the right player for this team for it to work. 

Correct - but the rhetoric that they they must be this and that might be missing the obvious just like McGoldrick who Warne would not have signed - if they are a good footballer they are a good footballer and this is the third division so do not discount the likes and type of a Chris Martin who can feed in the likes of our other forward thinking players 

1 hour ago, Srg said:

Think we would all collectively eat our hats if we loaned anyone from Forest. 

I don’t think they would care as they have so many players on their books so anyone to pay some wages for those who aren’t going to be played - can’t say I want any of their players who aren’t first team 

Extremely hard to replace knight - it costs you at least two players 

1 hour ago, Srg said:

Not surprising, just want it done asap so we can reallocate funds.

You possibly need to not expect any transfer fees received not to be spent on incoming transfer fees, we have debts to pay and transfer fees are possibly the only way of paying them.

18 minutes ago, Anag Ram said:

Agree, but getting promoted automatically involves scoring more goals than we got last year. We’ve lost our only real goalscoring threat from last season and that means finding several new players who can score, because we are seriously short in our current squad.

 

Not necessarily - win 1-0 = 3 points lose 2-3 =0 points - clean sheets will win us promotion with our all round goal contributions 

When we talk about signing forwards I tend to set my standards much higher than those we are linked with - it’s going to be another interesting season 

4 minutes ago, jimtastic56 said:

Fitness is very important to Paul Warne and they have to be the right “Type”. Is that how we ended up with Tony Springett in January ? When a 5 goal midfielder / striker would have got us over the line and we would have been talking about playing Leeds and Leicester.

At that moment in time a very average Chris Martin would have had us in a much better position because as you say Springett gave us nothing apart from from filling in the opponents in training - White also gave us nothing and in fact cost us penalties and points in very harsh circumstances 

1 minute ago, PistoldPete said:

We will want to sign the best players available to us … selling Knight would alter our budget and we may be able to sign better players than if we didn’t sell him. 

It might also not alter our wage and transfer budget at all - if the owner doesn’t want to fund losses and I suspect he doesn’t.

in the past folk kept saying we can stay with a £13 million loss every year then everything is fine but it’s really a £5 million loss per year if the owner isn’t pumping his own money in and why would we expect the owner to operate the club in a loss making way? 
Mel Morris raised everyone’s hopes by funding our losses which ultimately fuelled our nightmares. 

Based on what we have currently I think we need knight and if we were good enough to be promoted we would certainly need him in the championship as we would have plenty of limited players, obviously he needs convincing to extend his contract with us.

I wonder who he will get to give him a lift every day 

16 minutes ago, MACKWORTHRAM said:

Yeah I'd be all over this. Just turned 31. Would easily be capable of 15-20 goals in league one.

Has form for being out with a long term knee injury as well - would take a known risk? 

I still think he would be very useful to us in this league 

2 hours ago, JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta said:

Bennet will about three goals for Burton, and I bet at least two of them are against us.

Well it looks a great signing for Burtonand I think he will do very well in this league 

31 minutes ago, KBB said:

I must be a maverick. Out on my own, standing above everyone else, not afraid to go against the grain, but I would take Cosgrove in a heart beat.

He totally destroyed us at pp off the bench, scored vital winning goals for Plymouth both home and away.

Sure he isn't exactly salah, but at this level his height, bravery and physical attributes make him a decent player.

One of them was offside and a tap in and the other a poor piece of defending then the keeper should have saved the shot and rumoured to be on £18,000 a week at Birmingham - I hope we aren’t very interested to be honest 

3 hours ago, Betty Swollocks said:

Seen a link on Twitter to an account with around 20k followers that Birmingham want Knight!!

Eustace knows an excellent midfielder when he sees one unlike a lot of folk who post on here it seems 

36 minutes ago, Oldben said:

Would any of the following players, have significantly improved our clubs attacking line ... 

Josh Gordon (Barrow) to Burton,

Cole Stockton (Morecambe) to Burton,

Danny Mayor (Plymouth) to Fleetwood,

Reeco Hackett-Fairchild (Portsmouth) to Lincoln,

Christian Saydee (Bournemouth) to Portsmouth,

Conor Shaughnessy (Burton) to Portsmouth,

Anthony Scully (Wigan) to Portsmouth,

Dan Agyei (Crewe) to Leyton Orient,

Ethan Galbraith (Man United) to Leyton Orient,

Max Sanders (Lincoln) to Leyton Orient,

Alistair Smith (Sutton) to Lincoln.

Whytte to Portsmouth

I have heard the names of a couple of them but maybe scooby doo will know if they will be good signings 

1 minute ago, MadAmster said:

£5M for C-H is OTT considering he's into the last year of his contract. When you look at us being allowed to pay "moderate" fees, I think moderate for L1 is somewhere around half a million maximum. The lad may well go for £3M but that is way more than a "moderate" fee. Out of our price range.

Let’s see what they get shall we - maybe they will maybe they won’t but historically they have done very well with transfer fees but the financial world in EFL football is different and he’s not going to the premiership. We will probably see him still playing at Peterborough this coming season if they can’t get near what they want for him.

4 hours ago, DCFC1388 said:

Chris Martin 👀 🤣 

Would technically be a level above this league, abit like Didzy

If there are others buzzing around him then he has to help - has he not signed for anyone yet? 

I think I’ll judge players after I see them playing for Derby County - over the years we have signed many underwhelming forwards who have done very well for us and wasted plenty of money on so called good players.

Burton are putting together a very competitive side 

50 minutes ago, Anag Ram said:

We’re very trusting aren’t we, buying all these season tickets without having a clue who’s going to be playing for us this year? 😊

Have you got anything else to do on a Saturday afternoon?