Originally Posted by
Longshortandtall
Unfortunately the injury to Coutts may force the issue. We can't afford for Fleck to get injured also without quality cover it will derail our season. Our high intensity game is already causing a number of injuries and our squad needs to be able to cover this. If we continue to be in the automatic places come January the Board will have some big decisions to make. We will not have a better chance of going up.
I don't see the mindset of McCabe and co changing because they don't have the money to invest so don't expect any significant funds that could make a difference in the next transfer window. We will be in the Cole and Leonard market only.
We need two quality midfield replacements unless the current back ups suprise us in the next 8 games and turn out to be as good or better than Fleck and Coutts, that is highly unlikely. There are also no guarantees yet that Blackman and CCV will be here for the rest of the season.
The way to finance a push for the premiership is to sell Brooks. Unless McCabe pulls a Chinese investor out of the hat whether we like it or not this is the only option. I don't like it because he could be worth double the figure quoted at the end of the season if we go up.
In a parallel universe I'd like to imagine we have a Board that will provide a huge boost to the transfer fund and say Brooks is going nowhere, but that won't happen. We can continue to hope that we'll get promotion on the cheap by scraping through the play offs like Huddersfield or we can build in some contingency by investing significant funds and go for automatic.
So who will twitch first? probably the most important transfer window coming up in many a year.