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Well Hilssner takes all kind of flak for being paid £200k a year for doing nothing, but according to you it’s a small, nominal sum, so what’s the big problem?

Thanks I feel way better about Hilssner now

I walked past a bookshop on Friday morning with a big display in the window saying the book was totally sold out. Walked past it again yesterday and the book was back on sale half price!

For the same reason people get hung up about Hilssner - if you’re going to throw around £400k when you’re in our financial position then you better get it right.

In Doug We Trust is it then? Good luck!

It’s academic what the fee is “for” - £400k before wages is a substantial fee for a club with a catastrophic cash flow situation to be paying.

Plenty of clubs in this division do it. I’m not sure why we’re so keen to pretend we don’t have to fit into the food chain.

How much did he cost? I doubt Paterson will prove to be good value in comparison - few players would.

It’s a nominal fee apparently - supposedly we spend this kind of money on transfer fees all the time.

The sales alone suggest he has a surprisingly large base of popularity. I imagine he’s feeling pretty vindicated at the moment.

Clearly squad depth is a problem - right now the first team squad with Gyokeres is a ramshackle hut with a Lamborghini parked out front. Fair play if you think we can afford to keep it - I enjoy driving it as much as the next person - but unless we can come up with another plan to raise cash...

Neither of us know the Palmer fee, but having to stage a Dom Hyam fire sale on deadline day to keep the lights on (as has been widely reported on here) suggests we weren’t exactly swimming in cash to throw around last summer. But nevermind, clearly you think we’re in a much better place now...

There’s nothing to suggest the Palmer fee was anything like £400k, and regardless, we were having to sell Hyam in order to stave off administration just a few weeks later anyway. What’s changed since then that means we can now throw around £400k on “nominal” transfer fees? Do you think Doug King...

It’s come from a fairly obviously fake account, so the controversy is a bit silly. The fact that people think £400k counts as a “nominal fee” for a club that was selling first team players just to keep the lights on a few months ago is pretty funny though.

Correct - which is why I prefaced it with “Considering his age and form”

What’s the point? No other Championship club even wants him apparently.

Do you think a £400,000 transfer fee represents good value for Paterson? Considering his age and his form, I’m struggling to see why we should pay that much for a player who moved on a free transfer at the start of last season. I know he signed a new contract with Swansea but he’s not really in...

Well observed. Do we have loads more money now then?

I think we’ve only spent this kind of transfer fee on five, maybe six players in the last decade.