S-Clarke

none working for me, must be some odd routing issue going on.

Prob because he's nowhere near match fit, but is there in an emergency.

Good to see De Ridder on the bench there, but our options up top are utterly woeful!

urrrgh, morgan on the right. Not a good start.

Harding is fine at RB. No issues if that's the case.

I don't rate him at all though to be honest. I think we're after much much better players.

jeeez @ that picture....what a mess.

To be honest, it's actually starting to look like Celtic are showing their hand somewhat. Will be interesting, but whatever happens it won't be until the backend of the window for sure.

I personally don't think we're looking for cover though, we're looking for players who can come straight in and improve us. We already have cover with Holmes and Forte to a degree, we want better now.

That is the sort of money needed to secure the type of players we're after. If we didn't have the money we wouldn't bother inquiring about them. One thing with NC is that he's clever and has a strong business understanding, so he'll never lead us into financial melt down and we'll only ever spend what we feel we're able to. At the end of the day to progress out of this league and establish ourselves in the premier league we need to spend some money, and £6m is a relative dip in the ocean compared to what we'd get back from it. If we don't want to break our record transfer fee then our progress will halt, I'm sure of it.

He'd be decent backup to Lambert.

I think you're being wound up there.

We now need to move on, this is as dead as it's always been. The summer is another story.

Probably end of Feb, beginning of March....could be sooner though, we have some quick healers at this club! He's had his opp and has started light training, but will be a while before he can participate in any full on stuff.

I've got a feeling this is going to turn into another of those massive player speculation threads, that doesn't actually happen.... ala Jay Rod, Austin... I cannot see him moving in January, it would seriously surprise me.

It could be the same for us, but you'd hope it's dynamic enough to adjust the higher we go.....you can't have the same wage cap going for the premier league, as we had in L1. It won't work and we won't be able to improve the squad. I hope that's not the case with us and we're a little 'dynamic' in how it works..

Link? Can't see them letting him go in January, whatever the price to be honest.

To me, reading Nigel's comments today, it seems we're being frustrated at the clubs prices of players and the wages these guys want in effectively englands 2nd division. His comments about going abroad are sensible and you'd assume...and hope we've got a good list of available European players, as with our signings of Papa, Guly, Lee etc. At this moment in time I'd say more ''surprise'' signings from Europe will happen, rather than anything from this league which is ridiculously over priced. £2m for Lukas shows exactly how overvalued players are at this level.

Aren't we going to be classes at the same level as Arsenal though? In effect this new rule is excellent for us as we'll be given Class A grading, but it's a killer for other clubs in the lower leagues who will undoubtedly have all their talent picked off by the bigger clubs and to be honest it will probably end up being us doing a bit of that.

It's doing my nut in. We're just a feeder club. Instead of wasting all this money on us and our players, why not invest it into developing their own scouting system rather than using ours? He'd be an absolute idiot to move before he's made an appearance for us anyway. I'm sure Chambo is loving the money he's getting, but surely he'd rather be playing at the top of a league....who knows.

The fact that he is costing £2m shows why you have to look outside of England for a striker. The fee's put on the heads of really average players are mental. I don't rate the kid massively, I think he's just an average championship striker. Nothing special, and if that costs you £2m then no wonder we're looking abroad.

He seems really settled there tbh, family wise. I don't think he's ever moved away from the Sheffield area in all honesty...but Leicester isn't that far...straight down the M1..

Possibly Bournemouth...? I'm slightly surprised by his fall from grace....Hednesford town ffs?? He wasn't that bad....I assumed he went back to Portgual or something.

That's so sad. RIP.

If you're offering £500,000 then let me know. I know of a good home for it. weird thread.