[Salopbaggie]

While I am happy with the kid coming in, I am not happy with this continued loan business where there is not the option to buy. You would like to think if Barnes is as good as people seem to think he is, we would go in with an offer now, if they don't want to sell, then move on.

We can not build a stable foundation for the club with loan players. if he is that good and we do 'amazingly' (with the way things are going) manage the bounce-back, then he will go back to his parent club at the end of the season and we are back in the poo poo and will have to pay out Premiership rates. After of course putting a good few million on Barnes's value. even if we are offered first refusal we probably would refuse it if it were more than £15.00, remember Lakaku when Chelski offered him to us for £18 mil, before we messed trying to get him even cheaper and Chelski got fed up and put him on the open market, the rest being history.

If we can not front up for players of Championship quality then what real prospects are there for the club?