New striker expected before Saturday

Agreed Pirate.
I cannot believe some fans. How long ago was it when we slagged off the lack of a scouting network, the lack of professional backroom staff.
So the owners do it, not because complained but because it makes perfect economic sense.
The trouble I think is, there are a an awful lot of fans who could not run cockle shop on Weston beach, but feel free to slag off people who actually spend their cash flow.
Jesus Christ, get a grip

Enlighten me

I think the reason we find it so difficult to sign players is because DC has to make sure the player has the right attitude to fit the ethos of the rest of the squad and also he likes to make sure he gets players at the right value.

Although it might be frustrating to see other teams signing players that we’d like to see, it’s a strategy that hasn’t worked too badly for us over the last few years considering how little money we’ve spent on players.

Fortunately Eric, we employee a damn good manager to make those decisions so armchair managers like you and I don't have to. Thank God.

Doyle went for £300K we therefore don't need to "raise" any money as we just need to use some of Harrison's money? What I don't get is if we hadn't sold Gaffney or Harrison teh we wouldn't have the money in the bank, so why can't we spend it as, unlike under NH, you can't imagine the bank is seeking to have some of it's loan repaid?

If the ALQ's are looking to recoup some of the money they've spent then how are we ever going to progress, if we just sell our best players to pay off our debts, which are increasing so much due to having so many senior personnel/office in London etc we don't really need.

Now that would've been the marquis signing everyone was hoping to see.

What's that saying about cutting your cloth... as we seem to have gone from a non league set up under NH to a Championship type set up under ALQ but the annual income is probably hardly any greater (unless TG's worked a miracle this summer). The CEO, Chairman and office in London are probably costing the best part of £500K meanwhile we can't seem afford a similar figure to spend on replacing Harrison.

I guess the signing may be a pretty pretty substantial sum if DC is unsure afterwards whether or not he can then afford a loan signing. I believe that Cole is available for not much over £300K which to me would seem very good value, not sure what his wages would be though.
Lets hope we sign a good player, certainly the club needs to back the manager strongly.
If the idea is to get him before Saturday then tomorrow should be interesting.

Fair comment.
But let's be quite straightforward. It's for the shareholders, through their nominated directors, to dictate strategy and delivery. You may well think your opinion would deliver better results. But until you stick your own money in it doesn't mean much. Sure, the directors have been water poor at expectation management. That bothers me, but having had dealings with guys from the middle East at board level, it really doesn't surprise me. They have, a broad generalisation I accept, a rather elitist view on life, perhaps incompatible with current day management techniques. That does surprise me given Wael's educational background, but there you go. They really don't expect us to understand it and have a view. A terrible lack of foresight in my opinion, given the energy and not inconsiderable skill sets they could fall back on. And that from people who have a psychological contract with the club which dilutes the cost impact. Hiiggs and co did the same, their excuse was even more tame.