[JimboHTFC]

According the Unexamined, its a 'package' of £4 million. So, likely to be a tenner up front with the further balance due over the next 20 years!

Rumour suggesting we are after Marvin Sordell - really hope that this is NOT true! What a bag of shite!

[WakeyTerrier]

It's all very depressing yes £5million is good and all that but you don't win football matches on the back of a bank statement

[WakeyTerrier]

This just feels like a massive kick in the nads.

[Lord Snooty]

Don't know why everybody is moaning. We've got rid of a clown keeper, made a million per cent profit on Butterfield and Coady and signed two more exciting young attackers in Carayol and Patterson.
What's to complain at?

[WakeyTerrier]

And we still have Tommy Smith

[Mirf]

Hoyle needs to take a leaf out of Steve Gibson's book if he needs any help in how to run a successful Championship club.  One thing you don't do in any type of business is to continually sell off your best assets because if you do, sooner or later you will hit the buffers.

Can anyone currently list three worse championship teams than Town?, because I cant and 3 points from the first 15 contested says it all as far as I'm concerned.

It's time for Hoyle to forget all this "self sustaining " crap, unless of course he's wanting to take us back into League One where his overall costs will be much lower.

[ARTERRIER]

Hoyle needs to take a leaf out of Steve Gibson's book if he needs any help in how to run a successful Championship club.  One thing you don't do in any type of business is to continually sell off your best assets because if you do, sooner or later you will hit the buffers.

Can anyone currently list three worse championship teams than Town?, because I cant and 3 points from the first 15 contested says it all as far as I'm concerned.

It's time for Hoyle to forget all this "self sustaining " crap, unless of course he's wanting to take us back into League One where his overall costs will be much lower.

I know you take some crap on DATM Mirf but you share an opinion not too different from mine, I know this opinion is not popular on DATM, especially amongst the forums 'elders'.

The Butterfield is a sale too far for me, what now? Cheap and cast off replacements? What happens when we have no players left to sell just dross? I wouldn't mind if we went out and blasted all the Butterfield money on 3 quality replacements...but we all know we won't.

[Lord Snooty]

Yeah but Steve Gibson's Middlesbrough have to survive on double the amount of spectators as we get. We are a second division club with a third division fanbase.

[Denners]

In my opinion, we are punching above our weight in terms of our league status vs our fanbase but Bournemouth have done it, so we shouldn't think we can't. Disappointed by the sale of Butterfield, but not surprised. Hats off to Deano for consistently turning huge profits on players, it's just deflating that we can't see a solid team being built. I can understand the fans frustration because every fan wants success. You can build a good side in a budget - just look at Swansea and Bournemouth, but the fans need to see the side put some wins together, otherwise we'll just sack Powell and repeat the whole Clark, Grayson, Robins process all over again with zero progress.

[jjamez]

Middlesbrough had money from parachute payments that they didnt blow, money still from Europe and the league cup exploits that they didnt just squander. When they got relegated they had a few average seasons where they did nothing to write home about. But now gibson is willing to spend big and chase, he's rebuilt the club.


Dean is in a position where we dont have huge amounts coming in other than sales, we shoot ourselves in the foot with all this sponsorship crap being minuscule amounts. We're too busy trying to be a community club helping little businesses out, that we've taken our eye of the one thing that matters and as such we are dragging our feet trying to catch up again, we're going to need one huge window spree in winter or next summer like we did when dh took over. We probably need a few more football heads on the board and probably a boardroom shuffle. Too many on there have interests in other facets of the club that arent football related and its showing in the decisions we make.