Dman

Danny Rohl is without a club.. Incredible the club didn't just pay the £5m or whatever to get him when we wanted him back in January.

I'm trying to not judge him too much right now, as we clearly don't have the players to suit his system.. But I'm sturggling to see what his system is. It seems to be get the ball wide and put a cross in to a 5'6 Adam Armstrong. Huge week for SR and Will Still - Not too impressed with what I;ve seen so far.

For me, a 'makeway' for Tom Fellows would be the best option for us. I really rate the bloke. Perfect for us at this level.

Good point... He would have been signed for Brentford whilst Ankerson was still there?

The english second division is an absolute mile better than the noody russian leauge. When you factor in money, support and reward for promotion - there aren't many in the world better. Only top leauges in England, Germany, Spain and maybe france come close.

I'll shut up then

My only assumption here, if this is true, is that the total package exceeds. Usually, release clauses are to be paid in full upfront.

1 year left on his contract also accounts for a lot. You're paying for potential and nothing more at this stage. He had 6 good months and went off the boil for the other 6 last season and his g/a return was poor (probably becasue of the side he played in). For all his quality atributes, he's very, very one-footed and imo, pretty lazy. Personally, £40m+ is a very good deal for us.

Lets be honest, Dibbling didn't set the world alight last season. if we want 50m for fernandes, dibbling isn't anywhere near worth that.

Played for Luton in the PL - So would assume well known and recommended by Trollope. A lot of loans, which is concerning, but seemingly a pretty decent track record on those loans. Can't be anyworse than Sugawara or Bree. Decent option, I'd say.

Get the impression they're trying to low-ball and force the player to kick up a fuss. Seemingly unsucessful, as it stands.

I suspect this is the plan. Aribo, Smallbone, Matsuki all out. leaving us with; 6/8: Downes, Charles, Sesey, Fernandes?, 10: Azaz?, The russian? Pretty balanced (and very, very strong at this level), I'd say.

The true definition of "your dad is taking the divorce well then"

I don't even think that is a controversial thing to say. Jones is a much better manager. Just much more unfashionable. It didn't work for us but there is no way Martin could do the things Jones does to smaller clubs with smaller budgets.

Rangers have conceeded 10 goals in 8 games so far, the race for +60 goals against is on... Again. Like night follows day, incredibly poor defensive records just follow Mr Martin. I'm sure its just down to lack of bravery, not following the system and scar tissue though.

The problem is, his style, posession at all costs - regardless of risk - creates confusion. Under 99% of other managers, the defender sticks the ball into row Z. However, under that dick head, they're pressured into playing 1 specific way. No if's, no buts. "Just shit defending" seems to be a trend that follows him club to club.

Impatience or experience? As per my orginal post, you'd like to think the club have started to think about it 👍

Tell him, his agent, his club we need a decision by x or we will move on to alternative options, before it is too late in the day. x could be 1 day, 1 week or 10am deadline day - that's for the club to decide how and what they have in the pipeline. Personally, if its not done by the end of this week, I'd be looking to move onto other targets. We'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

This is exactly what I'm advocating. We're chasing our tail here. In reality, the situation is one of these options; - He isn't all that keen to join us and/or is holding out for a better option (I suspect this is the case - we need to agree a timeframe to make a decison or we move on) - We're miles out don't want to pay what they want for him (fernandes West ham vibes - clearly we'd need to move on) - Everyone is aligned and its small bits of the deal (naturally this is the best case and most unlikley - It is or should be the easiest to resolve. Given our situation, we don't hold many cards, which means we might need to lose ground in negotiations). The longer this drags on, the less likley we are to get it across the line and the more likley it is we'll spunk 5-10m on 3rd/4th/5th choice on deadline day.

If (a big if) we have internally agreed that we only sell Fernandes once we find a replacement, then I'd agree. We don't have the biggest dick in the room but we are also desperate (especially if / when we lose Fernandes), we can't afford to let this run into deadline day just to miss out and be left with our dick between our legs scratching around for a deal at the last minute - which'll inveitably end up being some unknown loan or youngster from the continent. Biggest dick or not, we need and want players that want to be here. I'm not convinced that is the case here. I was pretty clear in what I want them to do. Give themselves a deadline to get this one over the line or move on to plan B,C etc before it becomes a panic buy late in the window. If the stumbling block is as simple as agreeing a fee with the selling team, and he is our absolute number 1 target, pay what it takes to get the deal done - in the grand scheme of things, we'd be talking about peanuts.

To be fair, they're right. They're nothing to shout about though. 1-1 another masterclass at SMS by Johansson

Then we move on. Its a simple as that.

You'd like to think, we will start to think about giving the club / player a deadline before we move on. We can all see how this one is going. By all accounts he's way to good for the championship anyway. Another SR masterclass in coming.

If we can find a system that plays to his strengths, I reckon he'd be the best striker in the leauge. The problem is, we need to find a system to suit him, rather than he suiting us. That being said, Still managed to get a tune out of Balogun, who has a similar profile. Personally, I think its the creativity behind him that is lacking - Archer is never going to be a player to play with his back to goal. We need someone who can get inbetween the lines and dictate the play. This russian fella could be the missing link.

People like JWP, Bednerak, Adams etc. becoming key personal in our squad kind of summarise how far we've fallen. All of these are squad players, at best, for any half decent premier leauge side.