That’s taken the veneer off things …

Aaaaand another one leaves!

Restructuring: it's a new phase, academy development and a stronger leap into Premier League. I'd rather "demolition man" stuff happening in the backroom than the 1st team tbf

Perhaps they can’t handle the pace and intensity that Aston works at.

All leaving the sinking ship

poet added 21:26 - Jul 4
No signings as yet! Why? There may be a very good reason, whatever that reason is, the fans are obviously not party to that reasoning.

Some of our Championship rivals are strengthening, while it appears we are sitting on our hands.
Just recently a local rag reported that we have a very good squad and that’s why the bookies have us as favourites to go up. They obviously missed the fact that we are desperately short in midfield and Delap hasn’t been replaced.

Assuming the Agyemang interest was genuine, then no less than Derby ( almost relegated to division one last season) have just out-bid us with a 5m plus deal.
So, I think we have good reason to ask…. What’s going on?

Birmingham are building a new 60000 stadium. Not a surprise to take an offer like that.

It just shows the great people working behind the scenes at ITFC. The rise of ITFC has alerted others! It is a huge compliment to how ITFC is run. But like players, they will be replaced and it gives the new people to move the club forwards. The Club is bigger than individuals.

The stadium improvements are done for now and the new training facilities are under construction so with the exception of the re development of Portman road which Ashton says is a long term project his work here is probably done and he’s no longer needed

@peckam Birmingham are splashing money around. We know what happened during our previous in terms of stand investments... not wishing ill on Birmingham but a lot needs to go right.

Scumbag of a man, if you know you know. Always jumps once he’s been found out and management grow tired of his behind the walls behaviour. I hope he has a miserable transition at Birmingham not a popular individual amongst staff at Portman Road, From staff and private contractors!

Poet. Urxtalking rubbish. U say derby habe outbid us for Agyemang, with a £5m bid? Well that's wrong for a,start. Bcse ifcthezrumours are right we've already bid over £7m. But we dintceven know if we actually are after him. Just rumours on crap sites like footballleagueworrld. Stuart Watson is,right, we do habe a very good squad. Yes, we need a couple of midfielders and a striker but there's no panic to get them. Better we get the right ones rather than just rush In. Haven't seen any other teams signing players that would concern me too much.

Peckham. This may well be a better opportunity for him, in a part of the world where he clearly has roots.

But the others have largely been sacked ‘by mutual consent’ for failing, not for being successful.

Let’s have it straight. And have a bit of integrity, rather than the murky blue hue on those glasses.

If we are to be elite. We need honesty, and to learn, not pretending really low standards are ‘fantastic’ because it feels better.

Lots of room to get new bums on seats.., that’s a positive at least.

Obviously we got the last set of appointments wrong, so let’s see what happens this time.

Lessons learned (hopefully).

Will be fascinating to see the quality and pedigree of those coming in.

I think the lustre has worn off the McKenna hype, and last year was a great chance to recruit world class talent.

So hopefully there is a long term vision and those conversations with the right people are happening.

Time will tell.

Darkhorse28. Wondered how long it would be before u spouted ut usual diatribe. So u think the guy who's gone to Bournemouth, was sacked? Ridiculous. Just like st any other business, people move on and get replaced. Si as usual u slate mckenna, saying his lustre has diminished? Must be why so many fans were so delighted when Andrews got the Brentford job. Just gor once, surprise us snd font just spout ur negativity on here. Really getting boring now.

Room for Paul Cook to return !

Birmingham has big ambitions and is backed by a lot of money. Potentially, it could be a very big club with a massive support base. I'm guessing RC was attracted by this and no doubt by a financial incentive. (But I have no idea if I'm right.) I've no strong feelings about B'ham, but I certainly hope we can do the business on them in our opening match.

This club is falling apart at the seams everyone leaving and bringing in a new goalkeeper probably the last thing we needed
Klug the biggest shock McKenna and Ashton are destroying all they built please both of you leave now.
Ashton was hated at Bristol City for what he did now he is here destroying us

Seriously, is there any need for the uninformed negative comments from the likes of ArnieM and Widj123?

I’m not going to pretend I know exactly what’s going on behind the scenes and whether things are peachy, but the point is, there’s likely no factual basis for the speculation being posted.

People change jobs all the time – that’s just the nature of work. Take Rich Carpenter, for example, his LinkedIn profile shows he went to school in Leicester and has previously worked for West Brom and Aston Villa. Perhaps he’s simply moving roles to be closer to family, which is a far more realistic and positive explanation. The same could be said for Ivan Mukandi, who studied at university in Bournemouth - maybe he has personal ties to the area. Who knows?

What I’m trying to get across is that there isn’t always a negative reason behind someone leaving a company. In fact, their decision is often driven by positive motives.

Anyway, rant over. Let’s focus on supporting our team and creating a positive culture on this forum, i.e., one where people feel encouraged to read and engage with the comments, rather than being put off by constant negativity.

Eltham Blue, spot on.
The stupidity on here is amazing at times, but heres a tip for you. When you get someone who really pi88es you off, click on their name and ignore them. you don't have to listen to them moan but you CAN see other people slate them.

It’s amazing and somewhat embarrassing how some on here question nothing, condone everything, and make excuses as if mandatory.
No one can dispute justifiably that the Club News has been ‘extremely quiet’ and player and staff exits have been pretty much wholesale recently.
Neither of which is an encouraging sign right now and leading into a new season - not to mention that is not ideal in attracting potential new recruits to the Club.
This close season, thus far, has IMO been rather underwhelming to be honest.
But - cue my opening line - as you do.
Oh ! - I forgot the New Shirt ! - we may well need more than that ??

There is some serious Budgie trolls on this site right now ……rent free comes to mind !

Hope all these people leaving formed an orderly queue ,

Love the way people on here can turn the mass exodus of people leaving into a positive. In view of the fact that we have heard virtually nothing from Gamechanger in about 6 months I get the feeling that they might be tightening their belts on the cash front . What do you think happy clappers is this another positive.

I’m pretty sure he’s gone because they’ve offered him significantly more money as he’s going to be working for a club building a huge new stadium. I’m sure he’s very good at his job and we will replace him with someone very good at the job. The negativity should be withheld for when it’s warranted otherwise people just think you are a drama Queen who’s lost their Prozac.

we have a few sado’s amongst us. Give your heads a shake peeps