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  1. 19 minutes ago, DevKWat said:

     

    Instead of “stop moaning” can anyone give me a genuine reason to be positive about our current situation that isn’t just our bank balance increasing. 

    It's football, and it's a bit of fun, and not worth getting upset over?

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  2. 45 minutes ago, diggerlad07 said:

    So do we think Gibson will sanction a replacement for Rogers tomorrow? 

    If so, who do you want?

    No. I mentioned yesterday, but we have 8 players for 3 positions in the attacking roles behind the striker, even after Rogers goes.

    It's not uncommon for us to stockpile in positions, but I can't see us bringing another one in there now.

  3. 36 minutes ago, Riverside94 said:

    Although it’s unrealistic for us.. I wonder if we had any sell on for Akpom

    I hope not.
    It would have meant we'd have had to have taken less upfront, and at 28 years old, he probably wouldn't increase in value. Sell-ons are only really any good for players who have yet to hit their prime years.

  4. 38 minutes ago, BearSmog said:

    All strikers currently on loan in Championship..

     

    Mason Burstow (Sunderland from Chelsea)

    Ui Jo Hwang (Norwich from Forest)

    Callum Marshall (WBA from West Ham)

    Liam Delap (Hull from Man City)

    Dane Scarlett (Ipswich from Spurs)

    Karlan Grant ( Cardiff from WBA)

    Jay Stansfield (Birmingham from Fulham)

    Ashley Fletcher (Sheff Wed from Watford)

     

    Dane Scarlett went back to Tottenham. He also played for them in the FA Cup, so he can't play for another team this season.

  5. 1 hour ago, diggerlad07 said:

    Play offs are long gone if we don't get a good prolific striker in the next 48hrs 

    We knew this going into the window and it now appears we are only going to try to sign a striker with the Rogers funds

     

    It was well reported that we'd bid for Vasquez, who would have been a few million, and that obviously predated any interest in Rogers. 

    We certainly need a striker, but the fact that there's very little value in the January market most years, and this year being especially slow, will have some bearing on whether we bring someone in.

    As it happens, I do think we'll get someone on loan.

    As for the point about playoffs being long gone, I have to disagree. Despite several injury crises, having players out of position and a rotten start to the season, we're three points off the playoffs. It would be one point if some wrong refereeing decisions had gone our way against Rotherham.

    We are certainly giving ourselves an uphill struggle without a striker, but 3 points is not insurmountable by any stretch with key players back.

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  6. 1 minute ago, LinoJo3 said:

    That’s been the problem though there is none of them around rn, literally only keiffer Moore from the prem. not sure about championship options but can’t think of any that stand out. 

    Yeah, that's true. Danny Ings possibly, but he's not going anywhere you wouldn't imagine, certainly not down a division.

    The other issue, @Rob, is that Nugent wasn't next to nothing, he cost us £4m! Obviously it was a gamble that paid off, because he scored some important goals to get us up, but we certainly can't be attempting to be financially sustainable while also spending £4m on players in their 30s.

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  7. Regarding McNair, wondering if someone can explain something to me.

    I seem to remember someone saying that a club couldn't offer a player a contract extension on a lower wage. 

    So, for example, when Jonny Howson's contract expired in Summer 2022, he let it run down in the summer, effectively becoming a free agent, before we re-signed him on lower terms.

    But when Howson signed on again in 2023, we offered him an extension during his current contract, because his wage remained the same.

    Is it possible that the club and McNair both want him to stay, but we need to allow his current contract to expire before we can officially start talks?

     

    Of course, this could all be based on bad information, which is why I hope someone with more knowledge than me can weigh in. 

  8. 39 minutes ago, Obii said:

    While i think we should take it part of me would like us to turn this bid down just as a show of us not being pushed around anymore. It's petty and probably the wrong decision but it would feel good 

    We haven't been pushed around really at all in recent years. And getting anywhere close to £15m for Rogers certainly doesn't represent that either.

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  9. 1 hour ago, Simply Red said:

    The table as it stands has Coventry 3 points above us and +12 goals , Safc 3 points above us and +7 goals .

    But , we have -1 less goals scored than Cov , and +2 with Safc , it is the goals against that is our downside with 41 goals against . I think we need a good CH AND a CF this window , and the links to Worral and McKenna suggest MC agrees.

    Either of those would do me , or Michal Helik . 

    I don't think we'll sign a centre back. Bringing in Ayling signalled the end of that hunt. Him playing on the right enables Van Den Berg to be another central option. With Clarke being fairly reliably fit since his return, and McNair back, we have 4 CBs to pick from.

  10. Put it this way, Dewsbury Hall has played 60 Premier League games, and has looked a level above in the Championship as a cog in a team that are cantering towards promotion.

    Morgan Rogers spent a decent chunk of the season being kept out of our team by Matt Crooks.

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  11. 17 minutes ago, "KM" said:
    21 minutes ago, TLF10 said:

    I imagine there is purpose to your question but am not getting it?

    It just feels like we are selling Rogers for peanuts then if it is correct that he is valued £10-12m.

    If we signed him for £1m as has been reported, that's a 1200% increase on what we paid for him a few months ago. In no world is that 'peanuts'.

    If he was worth anywhere near the £30m that KDH is being valued at, I daresay Aston Villa's first offer wouldn't have been £4m or whatever it was.

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  12. 7 hours ago, TheJew said:

    He's just come from a big club where he couldn't get a game, he's regularly playing for us and haven't we just signed his best mate?!

    It's professional football, not changing groups in a primary school activity. I don't think his best mate being a couple of hours drive further away is going to make much difference. 

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  13. 26 minutes ago, TheJew said:

    Can't see Rogers leaving personally. Makes no sense.

    It makes complete sense from every perspective.

    Villa get a player that they think they can develop for a price they can afford.

    Rogers makes a step up and gets to move back home.

    Boro make a decent profit on a player who has shown promise but no more, and doesn't really need to be replaced because we're already relatively well stocked in that area of the pitch.

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  14. 3 hours ago, Snowblind said:

    At Number 10 there's potentially Azaz, but that would be a risk given he's new here and has clearly been signed with Rogers still being here in mind.

    Do you think? I'm more in mind to think the opposite, that we've signed him because there's a chance that Rogers goes. We're looking to be in a position where we aren't having to replace players after they've been sold, because the replacements are already here. That's the theory anyway.

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  15. 7 minutes ago, Tarmo Kink Army said:

    Yeah I personally see that as him saying he won’t go to any other club 

    I can't imagine he'd have much of a choice if Man United only accept Boro's offer.

  16. 1 hour ago, Simply Red said:

    Talk of Ramsay last week , IF we get Diallo would that be to replace a loan for Ramsay ? OR could it be Azaz , Diallo and Ramsay ? AND the golden boy CF we were after ? Vazquez fell through , are we still looking to get a CF in ? Hope so.

    Gibbo can see we are close to a final , close to the top 6, and a possible play off , he will see it as his big opportunity to go for it. Class signings up to now, a couple more like Diallo , Ramsay , a CF , and we will be close.

    I think the Ramsey talk came from someone on here who has a pretty long history of getting stuff wrong, so I wouldn't put too much faith in that.

  17. 41 minutes ago, pikerman said:

    But I thought Hackney was going to Villa for £5m and Emery was guaranteeing him game time 😆I wonder if the people who thought up that ridiculous scenario will surface again to apologise 

    Nah, they never do! Nor do they learn their lesson, and they just swallow up the next bit of bullcrap that gets farted out from some random account on X

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  18. Where did the talk of Ayling having an injury come from? Was it just someone on here? Because the fact that he played at the weekend and that we're looking to sign him at all surely suggests that its more than likely that he isn't. 

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