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Their action, or lack of it, in the rest of the window will speak volumes because this current group of players have zero chance.

How did he slip through our fingers? 🙂

We haven't been adequately funded. SR is trying to carefully balance the books so that incoming transfers more or less match outgoings. So it's the old player trading - nothing wrong with that if you're switched on you can do it and improve the squad. This lot clearly can't so the only way we'll improve is if they splash the big cash but that's not going to happen so we're stuck in this long period of inertia.

Will that suddenly improve his total lack of positional sense?

Found it hard to believe that Adam Blackmore failed to pick him up on the constant drop off in the second half of matches particularly after it even happened against Doncaster. Lots of drivel about nothing yet the one thing we'd all like addressed by Eckert is swept conveniently under the carpet. What's the point?

No, he was signed because those running the club finally accepted that Bazunu will never make a goalkeeper.

He probably will but his bank account will look pretty healthy.

Not sure. He seems to suggest that Mateus Mane was a member of our U18 squad but that appears not to be the case.

Seems it was one game as a trialist and he decided to join Wolves.

Ah, so his appearance for us was as a trialist and he opted to join Wolves. Presume for some reason he never met Ankersen or he'd have certainly joined us 🙂

Presume you refer to Mateus Mane. I'm not sure of his history but records show he played one game for our U18s in 23/24. Strange because there is no transfer history for him other than he went from Rochdale to Wolves.

My guess is that SR consider our chances of promotion slim to zero and, as such, will not be doing any further business this window other than outgoings.

Amen to that!

I agree with a lot of what you say especially about us being predominantly a bottom half Premier league/top half Championship club. Unlike you I am not reasonably content because SR, the coaches and players rarely give us reasons to feel hopeful and proud about the football club we support. Since SR took over they have presided over a complete mess and show no signs that they are capable of learning lessons or getting their overinflated egos out of the way and allowing someone into the club to run things who has the benefit of a wealth of genuine football knowledge. I am rapidly losing any affinity to the club because, along with everyone else, I've been worn down by these clowns running my club. Time they were gone but I'm not sure how that happens because it's a weird set-up and the ambition seems to be more about player trading than building a football team worth watching and supporting. The game has changed so much and mostly not for the better now that the money men have got their claws into it.

This corporate guff is what is ruining football. Rich people who think they are clever have infiltrated football clubs. They don't want to be coaches but their huge egos lead them to actually believe that they know enough about the game to warrant influencing what goes on and how the game should be played. It is a slippery slope and things are getting worse. High time the grass roots guys who know and love the game took back control but the stark reality is that money talks so these charlatans can buy their way in and manipulate the narrative. We have first hand knowledge of how damaging such charlatans can be once they attain position of power and influence.