bowlingcrofty

Really enjoyed yesterday lads and lasses, was a good few games, tight matches as well. Up the B&Ws

Looking forward to this!

Aye fair enough - I'm in.

Who are we going to loan? As soon as we're involved, there'll be outrageous loan fees no doubt.

Sad thing is that essentially the Anderson and Minteh stuff is almost like a previous transfer window. They bear no significance to this one, because they were sold to solve a PSR Issue for last year, not this one. Such are the stupid fucking rules we have to play by.

If an apology is the "least we deserve" then what the fuck is the most we deserve?!

Birmingham are signing a £10m striker in League One. I'm not sure between 500k and 5 million is gonna get you much in that climate sadly. Stupid thing about all of this is that I don't disagree that it's been a poor window - I just disagree with chucking toys out of the pram like petulant bairns when we've been on a steady improvement path for 3 years and we're impeded by the rules designed to impede us.

I'm saying that signing the first team players we need to sign now, to improve the first team, having bought a couple of cheaper players, isn't easy and anything below that is a gamble we can't really afford to make at the prices that those gambles would now be...

Other clubs can improve their first team with cheaper signings, and pay them lower wages because they're not the 'richest club in the world' and therefore having agents try to gouge their fucking eyeballs out. They can then get them moved on easier for the same reason. Man City can do what the fuck they want because they're Man City and the rules either don't apply to them, or were written partially for their benefit.

What changed is that we now have a good first team so signing improvements is much more difficult. The post-takeover equivalents would be better players, obviously, but still would potentially leave us with the same problem. I don't think it's a difficult concept, is it?

They are three perfect examples of players who were signed because they were 'decent signings'. In the situation we're in, where we need to improve our first team, not just fill up the squad, and where we have limited room for manoeuvre because of arbitrary financial rules, signing nobody is preferable to blobbing money on a gamble that backfires and has you bogged down financially for years afterwards.

We should've went for lower targets if we couldn't get our first choices in, imo. We should've been looking at Ryan Fraser, Isaac Hayden and Matt Targett for example. If we'd signed those three, they'd would've done a great job for us as second choices and definitely wouldn't have ended up hanging around too long costing us money on long-term contracts and stopping us from pursuing higher quality players later.

Yeah I just thought the situation should make us realise that strides have been made in this department, big time.

To be fair, we've come a long way. We're now complaining that our adidas-made third shit, featuring the old retro NUFC crest and a huge revenue-generating sponsor, has gone on sale too early on the JD Sports website in Australia. It's only a couple of years ago that our giant number 4 Castore shirt with falling off £2.50 per year gambling sponsorship was launched with a 'form an orderly queue' facepalm tweet and liked by 6 mouth breathers in Byker.