it doesnt make sense..

[singing canary 0]

we need at least one striker... so we sign a defender on loan and sell one,at the end of the season even if we got promotion we wont have a team surely its better to work on your perminant squad,myself i rated shaknell plus the fact you can only play so many loan players at a time anyway, no team at the end of the season no money, sorry for sounding pesamistic all sounds a bit strange to me but in a buiseness term makes sense sell all your players get what you can draft in loan players on a short contract with no transfer fee.

delia wanting to sell up,another million pound in the back pocket-a promise of a striker for months every other team has managed to get one even forest and they were in a division lower last year, i think we have to read between the lines here..no money to buy,and a want away owner.

[Mister Chops 7]

It won''t make sense at 12:01am tomorrow if we don''t get a striker - but I really do think we''ve got one coming in before midnight tonight.

[lucky green trainers 0]

new boro loanee can play left back!!!is drury off as well???

[nutty nigel 7,902]

It wouldn''t surprise me if players have been sold to balance the books. However, I don''t suppose for one minute that Roeder has been lying about his attempts to bring in a striker so he must believe we have the ''wherewithall'' to bring one in, either loan or transfer.

 

[Dean Coneys boots 1,531]

Think you are right Nutty. Sold to raise funds and nowt will happen. Hope you are wrong though.

[nutty nigel 7,902]

[quote user="the artist formerly known as VIYAG"]Think you are right Nutty. Sold to raise funds and nowt will happen. Hope you are wrong though.[/quote]

Whilst I have always believed we would sell players to balance the books, because we always do, I also think Roeder has known it was going to happen so given what he has said he must believe he has the funds to bring in his striker either as a permanent or a loan.

 

[Lazza 0]

I don''t think the plan is for promotion this season. I think GR is just setting the basic building-blocks for a longer-term team rebuild.I''d settle for mid-table this season with some of the loanees swapped for permanent signings in summer and again before the start of next season with a strong push for promotion next season.

[lucky green trainers 0]

[quote user="Lazza"]I don''t think the plan is for promotion this season. I think GR is just setting the basic building-blocks for a longer-term team rebuild.I''d settle for mid-table this season with some of the loanees swapped for permanent signings in summer and again before the start of next season with a strong push for promotion next season.[/quote]spot on - its only the first year of our latest 3 year plan!!!

[Ivana_rubyatitz 6]

[quote user="Mister Chops"]It won''t make sense at 12:01am tomorrow if we don''t get a striker - but I really do think we''ve got one coming in before midnight tonight.

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What makes you feel that confident Mr C?  I hope you are right but I just dont see it myself.

[Mister Chops 7]

[quote user="Pboro_Canary"]

[quote user="Mister Chops"]It won''t make sense at 12:01am tomorrow if we don''t get a striker - but I really do think we''ve got one coming in before midnight tonight.[/quote]

What makes you feel that confident Mr C?  I hope you are right but I just dont see it myself.

[/quote]I don''t know.  Sometimes I hear voices.

[lucky green trainers 0]

[quote user="Mister Chops"][quote user="Pboro_Canary"]

[quote user="Mister Chops"]It won''t make sense at 12:01am tomorrow if we don''t get a striker - but I really do think we''ve got one coming in before midnight tonight.[/quote]

What makes you feel that confident Mr C?  I hope you are right but I just dont see it myself.

[/quote]I don''t know.  Sometimes I hear voices.[/quote]more like ''one coming out before midnight''!!!

[Canary Boy 0]

[quote user="Lazza"]I don''t think the plan is for promotion this season. I think GR is just setting the basic building-blocks for a longer-term team rebuild.I''d settle for mid-table this season with some of the loanees swapped for permanent signings in summer and again before the start of next season with a strong push for promotion next season.[/quote]We won''t be ready for promotion for several season yet.

[Salopian 1]

It does make some sense, possibly, if the striker is to be a loan player, whether Helguson or someone else. We have to wait a week before we can make further short term loans, - 3months, and we have no game for nearly two weeks. We could consequently sign the striker early next week in time for the Plymouth match. There would still be a gap of one month in December before we could sign Iversen or whoever in January.This does sound possible, but if so is pretty desperate, and disappointing. I can only assume that Roeder''s confidence was misplaced and he could not persuade the other club, or couldn''t offer enough money.

[Lazza 0]

[quote user="Canary Boy"][quote user="Lazza"]I don''t think the plan is for promotion this season. I think GR is just setting the basic building-blocks for a longer-term team rebuild.I''d settle for mid-table this season with some of the loanees swapped for permanent signings in summer and again before the start of next season with a strong push for promotion next season.[/quote]We won''t be ready for promotion for several season yet.[/quote]Don''t over-estimate the quality of the teams in this division - Look at the teams that got promotion last season and how well teams like Bristol C did!Personally I think Safety in mid-table would be good for this year showing signs of a good squad, a push for a possible play-off place next season, hopefully losing in the PO final which would give us welcome extra funds followed by a real push for a top 2 spot the year after. Winning promotion this year would probably be bad news for us as we are nowhere near ready unless everyone is prepared for a season that would make Derby look like world champions.Of course this might all be blown out of the water with the current board-room changes - who knows who will be on our board in a month, let alone in 2 years time! We might find ourselves bankrupt after all the money people pull out taking their cash with them or we might be cash-rich with PC being free & easy with his money to buy the best players money can buy [;)]