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Said it time and time again, take the responsibility away from managers and CEO or whatever Julian is.

Get a proper scouting team appointed and let the manager go to them with a list of what he needs and what attributes he wants and then they produce a list. Can then narrow it down with budget etc.

if the manager does leave for any reason we have all the reports for the next manager. Manager can still have final say but that way we might cut out this utter scattergun approach we have to recruitment now. How much money have we wasted? The money is there for it

 

He's totally finished at this club after that window. He's gonna get it from all angles tomorrow.

 

Is this one of the worst transfer windows ever?
Nothing suggests weve taken steps forwards. If it starts badly tomorrow I can only see a backlash from the fans. Am sooo disappointed with this city. It feels like the towel has been chucked in. This window could prove to be seminal for many people at city players staff and board.

 

And no doubt Park bantam (Chairman Mao) and banbrotam (Kim Jong Il) will put a hugely positive spin on this and tell us how fabulous this transfer window has been, and how 9-1-0 is the formation of the future.

 

Just realised, as it stands Novak and Guthrie are our strike partnership for next season. Wow.

 

It's ridiculous Bowyer is even trying to put that across as the reason. Tranmere wanted Vaughan in the summer so if playing at a higher level is so important to him, why didn't he chose to sign for them back then? This opportunity hasn't just sprung up, it was there in the summer! Equally, when you sign a player on a 3 year deal, you don't just say to them after 6 months that they can leave because they fancy a change, UNLESS something has happened that makes their working relationship untenable.

 

Have been to 6 away games so far this season. Lads couldn't be bothered for Mansfield so didn't go so tomorrow will be 7. Only going cos 10p rail tickets and meeting eldest in Manchester as he's at Uni. Good chance to spend the day with him.....and maybe see Dave, Rocket and SteveC from the forum!! Yes could be interesting!!

 

Billy Clarke and James Hanson were sold for about £350-400k between them IIRC.

 

There is no point in asking for Gary Jones, he has made it absolute clear he is not interested in being a football manager.

 

City’s activity Seems to be the exact opposite of backing your manager....

 

That squad handed over had improved every season

 

To be fair you make it sound like it was all Bowyer's choice but it clearly looks like the deciding factor was ££££ not football.

No fan of Bowyer at the moment but this window was clearly being operated on a shoestring.

 

I'm not so sure. Lose today and it'll be yet another abysmal result on the road against a poor side and the grief he will get will be unprecedented. Rhodes has got to be thinking about damage limitation now - ST drop is likely due to the god awful football and on the back of that window, even more fans are totally disillusioned, not to mention if we drop out the playoffs today. One way to appease supporters somewhat would be to get rid of Bowyer and get a bit of entertainment back at VP especially, albeit it wouldn't solve all our issues.

 

Plenty of very good players in that side

 

Wish i was off tomorrow one bizarre january.

 

like Greg Abbot when SM was manager?

 

unless it was the managers decision to clear Doyle, Vaughan plus gang out? But so late a decision it didn’t leave much time

 

A touch underwhelming... But the summer window, that will see us right. Yes indeed.

At least the defensive unit remains intact; now more than before though they need to maintain their goals-against pace of less than 1 per match, thanks to a midfield that remains problematic and a forward line that doesn't really inspire. It's a bit of a problem when, 30 matches into a season, "own goal" suddenly becomes your joint top scorer! Mid-table nonentityness seems more likely than not to be our fate this season.

RCB