Jaybako

I originally thought it was capped at that by the EFL to cover the AFCON lads, but in the Alex Millar story about the signing he says it’s up until Jan to then allow both parties to review it at that point.

Really? “Hello mr highly rated manager. Do you want to manage SWFC in league 1?” “No thank you.” or ”Hello mr highly rated manager. Do you want to manage SWFC in league 1. We’ve just been bought by a billionaire, we’ll immediately support you 100% in squad acquisition, your coaching staff, your support staff, and we’re putting a long term plan in place to restructure the entire club and revitalise all the facilities. And we’ll pay you a f u c k tonne of money.” ”I’ll see you Monday morning”.

In a general summary response to all the posts I’ve just read from the OP onwards; Barry Bannan should be given a playing contract each successive year for as long as he wants and then given an academy / coaching role . He’s been our best player year in year out and still is to this day. Liam palmer should be keep on a reasonable contract if he wants to stay but should hopefully be a senior squad figurehead for the younger lads as opposed to being anywhere near a match day regular. Ingleson is being given a little bit too much credit. There won’t be a huge queue of teams waiting to give him better offers than us. He’s committed, loyal, runs all day and is brilliant for our cause right now - but in reality he’s technically limited with very little end product for all his running. Impossible to predict frees and loans because (hopefully) avenues of availability will be open to us domestically and worldwide that we’ve not had the luxury of exploring before.

Yeah, I had the same thought. When I read we had both on trial but could only sign one, my guess was always that it’d be end up being Watmore as opposed to Redmond. Having that no.10 to link in between the forward line and midfield is definitely something we’ve missed massively since Windass left. The ball goes forward but rarely sticks. But in signing Redmond I guess HP is more concerned over our complete absence of a finisher. Both players would instantly find a place in the starting 11 if we were allowed to sign them.

I’d guess that that’s all the EFL would allow

You’re absolutely right mate, we’re already bursting at the seems with players. Absolute madness to sign another. If it was down to me I’d get rid of everyone all the way down to the youth structure and play the under 12’s. Fast track their development

Yeah I think so to

have they officially said that? If joe crann mentioned it then I must have missed it. The only reference I heard was on the radio heaven build up when the RS presenter was talking to the fan panel guy and he mentioned Feb 1st, but I assumed that was just him talking hypothetically that it might be a blessing in disguise if we didn’t get sorted until after the Jan window so we aren’t tempted to blow money trying to achieve the impossible and stay up.

As threadbare and rock bottom as we are, if we can get the new owner installed or at least ratified before the end of January, and get some embargo’s lifted to allow loans in, I’d ship Ugbo out on loan for the 2nd half of the season to league 1 or 2 as fast possible. Take him out the firing line and hopefully kickstart start him for next season.

Exactly this

It was mentioned sometime last week that one or more interested parties might be in attendance…… although, if we’re going to the lengths of NDA’s to protect anonymity there’s a good chance they might be hidden away in a box.

From memory, that “there is no current evidence that they are bidding”, (or words to that effect). I think that KW meant that the Waltons aren’t currently bidding. what are you thinking he meant?

Apologies, I didn’t realise you were asking a direct question

To suggest FH reporters can’t know for certain that the Waltons aren’t involved because they don’t categorically know who the 12 interested parties are is a bit of a logical fallacy. The admin team have openly stated the Walton’s aren’t involved. It’s perfectly plausible to know who isn’t involved without knowing who is actually involved. By the logic that you’re hinting at then Mr T, Ant & Dec and my old geography teacher could also all be involved because if they were they’d be covered by NDA.

And, daft as it sounds, the link to John Mclure might just be more telling than we’d think too. Other US parties had probably never heard of SWFC before being presented with the sale opportunity and so to them we’re an unknown project with lots of potential. But, for McEvoy to have spoken to JMc a d for him to have been assured first hand how massive we are and what a neglected opportunity we are, I’m not saying that’s his no.1 motivation but I bet it opened his eyes to the scale of what could be. Or maybe I’m just doing what I criticise others for and am putting 2+2 together and getting a wildly speculative 5