Won't happen.

His assists are vital if we are wanting a quick return to the premier league, he looked out of sorts last night as he has been unwell but if we lose him and omari then we are going to struggle to even make the play offs this season.
It was clear we need many more quality players who can last 90mins, our current players don’t seem up to it! COYB ..get the cheque book out!

I wonder if Leif will catch a throat infection?

Seems pointless lining up a bid for a player who is not and won't be for sale . We can't take out both left backs in a week and still maintain we are promotion favourites

I think last night proved we’ve had more subtractions that adds - we need the latter - or we are in for anything but a memorable season ahead.
Heed these words !

He's not good enough for the premiership.

I think it's about time we started spending some of our parachute payments, it's what they are there for.

Watching town last night reminded me of Luton’s first game after relegation from the PL. We looked devoid of confidence and extremely flat. Once again we were unable to match up for pace and physicality which was our problem last season. It’s early days and it was a fantastic away point but with possible departures the squad is getting weaker. Our midfield were terrible and our wide players didn’t show up. Strong additions required and retention of our quality players needed. Cajuste will help but he hasn’t had a pre season so probably sometime until he is ready to start. Morsy was missed big time although I think the time was right to move on,

I'm pretty sure that the parchute payments are spent on wages, 13M on gate receipts (max) 10-12M from Sky plus some shirt sales are not going to cover the costs at Portman Road for long.

We have a crisis at left back. He won’t go. Well unless it’s £50mil+

Jimmy, spot on!
Everyone has a price and if it's £40m plus, it's going to be difficult to turn down.
But we need 2 in that position to cover. It may well be a left sided defensive midfielder would be a good option given McKenna's style of play plus a standard LB.
Let's see what we land in terms of incoming players before even contemplating this....

Jimmy p45; Unless he wants to go and then we won’t have much choice.

Would be mad to sell him unless we have strong replacements signed up, personally I prefer Townsend at LB but as we all know is out for the season

Hands off!
We need him now CT is out injured

After last night, it’s clear we need reinforcements not sell more players. Starting te season without replacing Delap and extremely light in midfield was disappointing. We need to strengthen and replace Hutchinson and Broadhead when they go. That’s A LOT of business, before the prospect of replacing Davis as well.

Do Forest a deal, Leif for 45 and Omari for 20, then wouldn’t have to give Chelsea anymore any money as percentage on profit…

We need some honesty. I get the emotional investment, I get the lack of knowing how the business side works.

It was pretty clear though, even before Brett’s clumsy statement, where we were strategically, and then when it became 100% clear, we collectively burried our heads in the sand.

We are for sale.

Our owners WILL move player assets off the balance sheet (as quickly depreciating assets) and in to cash if they can. It increases our value (significantly). Obviously up to the point where we still have a quality squad ,capable of competing at the top end of the league.

Our owners won’t care if we don’t go up, if they’ve sold at a higher multiple because they crystallised player assets to higher cash values on the balance sheet .., they simply won’t.

Hutchinson. His book value is maybe £14 million now, and less each day, we will sell him for £40 million and that sits as cash. Which doesn’t decrease to Zero as a contract winds down.

Same with Leif. His value on the balance sheet is well below what we can sell him for. A business is simply worth more with a much higher asset side of the balance sheet, especially in cash rather than depreciating player contracts.

All the ‘but Mark said different and he’s doing a wonderful job’

Mark is one reason we are for sale, a huge under performance relative to the promises he made the owners.

These are the consequences.

This a is a critical period.

If this helps a sale, and we get football people, with deep pockets, it’s brilliant long term.

Sell too many key players, replace them with loans, and kill our promotion chances, and then don’t get a sale and it’s a situation that will be like the worst of the Evans years. if we don’t get promoted this year or next, a serious mess, a cash rich balance sheet doesn’t like a Tuesday night at Stoke.

But let’s stop just hating people who don’t clap, and parrot everything the senior team say. Marks a good operator at this level, but last season has huge strategic consequences, not least the owners losing faith.

A lot of what’s been said by Mark since relegation, has been putting out fires. Self preservation, and crisis management.

I feel sorry for him. He’s had the rug pulled by the owner statement.

But net £80 million plus to cash from player assets on the balance sheet, is great for the owners sale needs…, not great on the pitch.., arguably could be a disaster on the pitch.

If Townsend was fit, Leif would be going.

I suspect he’ll be made to stay. But Hutch, Broady, and Wolf will all go.., all big increases in balance sheet asset values.

The ‘this is progress’ .., in the short term, it’s anything but. That’s not being negative, it’s just the reality, and has been for a good while.

Long term, hopefully better owners who support the football side long term. And want to be here and build something generational.., so maybe we look back at this as growing pains, the end of one beginning and something new.

But Gamechanger painting some brilliant murals and firing some fantastic PR, it was how you buy goodwill and give yourself time and space for an exit where the team will suffer for their commercial needs.

We need to be a lot better at at least allowing critical evaluation and agency.

I’m tired of seeing supporters treated like village idiots, and then clapping it.

£80 million in net asset sales. That’s where we end up.

Every player has his price. The club can say what they want to the press it’s just a PR exercise to appease the fans but when a PL club comes knocking for one of your players you are pretty much powerless to stop it. It maybe agent led but as Roy Keane famously said “it’s his job”. The agents job is to get the best deal for their player as a footballers career is a short one. There isn’t much loyalty in the game now. Let’s say Davis is on £15k a week at Ipswich and Forest offer him £60k a week you think he is going to turn it down? No probably not. In the past if a club wanted to buy a player they had to approach that players club to get permission first. These days the club speaks to agent and may have even spoken to the player directly to sound him out. By the time a bid comes in the deal is pretty much a formality subject a medical. It’s a case of when and not if the deal is done, at that point it’s just up to Ashton to negotiate the best deal he can for town.

darkhorse28 I hate to admit this but believe you are probably right, it was written in KM's face last night. Have we all been duped? Time will tell I guess, such a shame because the story unfolding was beautiful.