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See Club website. No longer any reference to him as a Club Official and I can say from personal knowledge that Julian's old office is now occupied by Ryan Sparks.
You'll be wanting photos next!

 

Players I would like to never don a City shirt again-hopefully someone takes them on an 18 month contract:
DMH-would have to be shown where the door is and then have someone to open it for him
BRE-would let the door get goalside before bringing it down
Guthrie-wouldn't be able to hit the door from 3 yards away
Donaldson-would just flop to the floor feet from the door

 

They were League 2 when he took over. 3 years in the Championship in the last 10 years is 3 more than us.

And in that time he's;
- Bought the ground, so no longer paying £450k rent
- Found a new £25M stadium which will be self-funded working alongside the University and incubator companies working in the facilities
- Has talent worth between £15-20M in his squad (Dembele attracting big offers)
- Currently, sitting in the playoffs
- He's sold a 51% share for a considerable sum
- Made £60m on player sales (we made £10m in the same period)

Despite his crowds being a third of ours, his commercial revenue is 3 x higher.

 

All of them with a bit of luck.

Just because they've tried a bit for a few weeks it doesn't fool me. I honestly wouldn't be bothered if not a single squad member remained come February.

 

I'd be annoyed if we sold Staunton to Peterborough now. Unless they're going to pony up a minimum of 500k with some juicy add ons. He should be growing with us for a couple of years and then aiming for a championship club. He's got a lot of potential that lad.

 

The news must be slow in reaching Knaresborough - Stowell left in 1972.

 

You regularly moan about our lack of ambition and winning mentality (rightly), but you have no problem with selling our best young player after he's played a handful of games?

 

Harsh on Cousin-Dawson, Staunton and Novak.

I also see improvements in Watt, Sutton and Paudie. Pritchard getting a chance now too. Wood has a bit of quality and Clarke hasnt done anything wrong either.

Getting rid of the better players is ill thought out. We need to improve on the shite in the squad.

Longridge, BRE, DMH, Samuels, Donaldson, Guthrie should be the first to go. 6 for you there, improve on them with some half decent signings and we could be ok.

 

Why are some on here always so quick to write off young strikers?
Oli McBurnie derided by some on here when Parkie threw him into the first team........
A certain Omari Patrick has just scored, putting Carlisle (known by some as the City rejects) top of the division. Maybe just maybe we’re a little quick to judge young strikers, maybe just maybe keeping Omari wouldn’t have been the worst decision in the world. Maybe theirs a footballer in Samuels after all, just waiting to be coached properly and given some confidence, hope he doesn’t ever log onto here!

 

Wolves might turn him into the next Steve Bull, but I’ll say it again, we’re four points off the relegation zone. Novak, Guthrie, Don and Samuels have 12 goals between them. Novak has seven of them and he’s out injured for a third of the season so far. This isn’t the time to be training up Wolves’ players. If Novak gets injured again, who’s scoring the goals that keep City in the league, the goals that might just keep City in existence?

If Austin gets his confidence knocked by that he’s never going to make it as a professional footballer. I’d sooner see Austin back at Wolves and City sign someone who can score goals in Lee Novak’s absence

 

Deluded!

 

There is absolutely no way on earth Wood or Staunton are worth £250k at this moment in time.

I agree we need to keep hold of them if possible but if club comes in with a cheeky low offer our heads would be turned. It always is.

 

Bradford City are at risk of going out of the football league and all that entails. It’s not a time for charity or experiments to see if he can play. He failed to score at Tonbridge Angels’ level with Kidderminster, his only senior goal is against our own juniors in the Pizza Cup. If he was one of our own youth I’d agree, he’s a 20 year old from one of the wealthiest clubs in the country. The correct place for him is seeing out his contract at Wolverhampton.

 

Ironically even the one 'performing at the level expected' was widely vilified through the early part of the season. I remember everyone wanting to sack him off at the earliest opportunity.

 

Tell us more the very mention of the name Darragh McAnthony has some doing back flips, all that money he/the club have had over the years and there still a league one team.

 

I don't disagree - I've always thought he goes to ground too much and his distribution is poor. on the same note, if we want to progress we have to have 7 or 8 players who walk into every other clubs first XI's. I'd guess at the moment we have 3 (maybe). it's a big job for new recruitment team to build a squad capable of challenging at the right end.

 

As Wood is over 24 and is out of contract in the summer and unlikely to gain interest much higher than League One, in a Covid ravaged industry, talk of £250k for him is wide of the mark. If he goes in this window it’s more likely to be for the outstanding value of his contract. Staunton has a long time left on his contract and a decent fee with a sell on clause would be expected.
The other three can go as can Samuels. I’d agree the Don is going nowhere until he retires in June.

 

I doubt we'd get £250k for the whole squad.