Nick Blackman gone on a season long loan to Sporting Gijon. Effectively ends his time at the club. Luke Thomas on loan to Coventry until January.
Our squad looking quite small now...
Why don’t I put money on these things?
Leeds were unbelievable today, carry on like that and they’ll easily win the title. Debatable whether those energy levels can be sustained all season though.
As expected, we’ll take a few weeks to get going. A lot of new players who need time to gel.
We beat Southampton 3-0 yesterday. I know it’s only a friendly, but it’s difficult not getting excited by the attacking football we saw.
If we can get Marriott in, we could be a force. Currently think we just lack that quality up front to really challenge. Nugent and Jerome are nowhere near...
Looking likely that Lampard’s first signing will be John Terry.
Apparently he’s happy to halve his Villa wages to join up with Frank. Speculation is it’ll be a player/coach role.
Just read it up. Seems it’s not just an embargo anymore...
“The Football League are now able to impose a points deduction during the current season, or demote a club from an automatic promotion position into the play-offs (or out of the play-offs altogether). Transfer embargoes are also...
They’ve basically seen our wage bill at 35m and thought forget the 20-25m turnover...they’re losing 3m a month!!!
Clearly 35m a year on wages isn’t sustainable in this division though. We threw money at trying to get promoted, failed, and now we need to cut back. The 10m ffp bill is the...