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Jesus. Really ? if you don’t want a rich owner you are in the wrong sport !

We also invested materially in January with Torp and EMC. I thought he extracted max value from the Vik and Hamer situations and much more than SISU would have done.

But let’s not kid ourselves the alternatives were Sisu for longer or possibly William Storey ( 🤯). We didn’t have an emirate billionaire desperate to buy us, in fact any interest in buying us for the previous near decade was via Gary Hoffman trying to rescue us from Sisu. sitting on the fence...

He did buy the club. If someone owes you money and they give you something in exchange for that debt then you have bought that item for that value. I have been a city fan for over 40 years and whilst it is still early days I don’t recall a better owner at the club. I know some might say John...

I doubt it was Kings decision to award Godden a new deal. Robims would have recommended it.

Why do you dislike Doug ? It’s implied in most of your posts ?

Or we sign loan players for positions we don’t already have top talent in …. Left back for example

I’m sure he could do it but I prefer him out wide where gets more space.

But you have the issue of the loaning club and player expecting him to play ahead of your own permanent signings ….

Doug has frozen season ticket prices, and doubled down on his “I’m ambitious and we are going to give it a proper go “ message. neither suggests we have run out of transfer funds ….

I don’t buy this particular insider snippet. we bid £8m-£9m for the player that went to Benfica in Jan. Yes we have bought EMC but there will be some left for transfers in my view. Clearly we will and can do more if the Vik money comes in.

Based on what ?

Almost certainly leaked by his agent to flush out whether there is Premier league interest at that price. I think we would want more than that anyway. I don’t believe he would leave us for another championship club, unless it was Leeds following today’s match. Leeds is still a big attraction...

On reflection your right. Bring back Sisu ! 🤣

My guess is that we have not brought him over from Oz to train with the under 23’s …. But ultimately Robins will have to decide whether the first team squad is too early for him.

No one knows yet. He will be assessed in pre season and then I’m sure a decision will be made on where his levels are at relative to the first team squad.

Bosmans are not free. It’s a misconception. The signing club simply give a huge signing on fee and inflated wages to the player rather than having to give some of that money for the transfer. if McCallum had been available for £2.5m I doubt we would have the same fan sentiment toward signing...

Yes I understood that I just don’t see us paying £8m on an understudy …..

Agreed. Although he was to compliment Simms and wright not be their understudy. He’s hardly featured at Benfica. I wonder if we would consider trying to loan him in for a season.

We also failed to beat Cardiff, Birm, Hull, etc etc with one of these options available. If Simms was to be injured or suspended and Wright went through the middle you are really hoping that Borges is an unbelievable find if he has to be able to come on / start most matches.