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This is why Doug needs to put his money where his mouth is - or at least give Robins the necessary tools to attempt this

To be fair if any of the other crop come up to us and demand a pay rise all we have to say is “alright - if you can find the club that’s willing to pay you this, we’ll let you go.” other than O’Hare there isn’t a single player other than Gyokeres and Hamer that’s won us games single handedly

Nah building a 100m stadium that we couldn’t afford got us in the shit in the first place

See I thought Inter reminded me of us - the opposition was better as a team and inter tried to keep it tight whilst trying to take advantage of any mistakes

In hindsight I’d wished it had ended there

Unpopular opinion - FFP shouldn’t be a thing. People should be able to invest in whatever they want. What should happen is that clubs shouldn’t be given loans. If an owner wishes to invest it should be by way of gifts

I’ve seen 17m and 35% - if so - that’s a great deal

He didn’t score from open play after we beat QPR

Lot of professional scouts seem to disagree with many on here regarding Gyokeres’ ability to play at Premier League level

if he can’t start for Sheff Utd in the Championship he’s not gonna be good enough for us

He’s 37 and scored 2 goals last season…

I’m more alluding to our previous owners who stated that If we turn up there would be funds available. They promptly opted to sell our centre back last season. my thoughts on Doug are reserved until August 31st to see if he’s actually any different. he’s put funds into Ryton, but if he’s...

Fans turning up again - Over to Doug now… or are we going to be fed more bullshit as to why there’s no funds

Obviously the way I explained it was simplistic. For example we already have a philosophy, Dean Austin has come in having bought into it. going forward Robins will tell him what he needs and Austin will send the recruitment team to compile a list robins. long term - Austin will have a list of...

I was using 17m as a random figure - ultimately we need the cash and other teams know this. Obviously we can hold out longer now becuase it’s the start of the transfer window. Although it maybe that we want him to go as early as possible so we can start replacing

But it’s not an auction, it’s more a game of chicken. We can see opening offers of same 15m - we have to decide a figure to accept or risk teams dropping out if say we accept 17m it means the other teams are likely to bid 17m not trying to one up each other

Not necessarily - Mourinho for instance had an issue at United there wasn’t a director of football, to deal with the off the field stuff the particular system also looks into the long term planning and development of the club. As I said Robins understands this and it is Dean Austin is in charge...

Modern football works like that, they’ll have a list of strikers with an attached value. If they can’t get one for the value they want to pay Kevin Thelwell is in charge of recruitment at Everton and Scott Munn is in charge at spurs. the oversee the transfers. The manager will get a list of...

Becuase these days most football clubs operate a director of football model, the players are brought in to fit a system as is a manager. It’s a continuity thing - basically the manager effectively works with what he’s given

What can the union demand? Their members are just going to accept lower pay in the championship - or I suppose England dropping their selecting only from the prem policy