14 Jan 2026 09:58:58
Mr Shi MKII has so far been conspicuously quiet since his appointment.
It’s now 2 weeks into the transfer window and absolutely nothing.
I’m starting to feel the worst….as usual probably sell our best players and then on to last minute “bargain basement” failed bids.
Having said that what decent players would want to join this shambolic Shi Circus.
Keep up the fight lads…”Out Of Darkeness”…….

1.) 14 Jan 2026
14 Jan 2026 10:33:55
In all honesty Oxley did you really expect anything different. I said before I'd take his words on face value for the time being but the January window would tell us more.

I don't really blame this fella as he's here temporarily to do Shanghai's bidding unlike Jeff Shi who sold everyone a pup for years dragging us down to where we are now.

So far, no incomings, but then again none going out apart from the odd loan, we'll see.

2.) 14 Jan 2026
14 Jan 2026 11:02:48
The whole Jeff/nathan thing was just a ploy to stop the embarrassment for fosun due to the protests. Nothing will change while fosun stick to the self sustainable model, if anyone thinks they are going to do what they did when they first bought us and chuck a load of cash at the club to get us back up is living in cloud cuckoo land, they won’t.

The debt we will be liable to won’t change because we are in the championship we still owe that money and mainly to third parties, not like some clubs who’s debt is actually to the owners who can write it off if they wish, we are not in that position.

3.) 14 Jan 2026
14 Jan 2026 16:42:51
I'm beginning to think that a quiet transfer window would be a blessing in disguise. Rob has the squad finally playing well. If this continues, the inevitable departures will fetch more in the summer. They know each other's strengths and weaknesses. We don't usually recruit home-grown players, so any new signing from abroad now would be unfamiliar with the PL, and we know how badly that worked out in the summer window.

Serious recruitment should start in the championship after some lucrative end-of-season sales. There's no way we're going to buy survival in this January window.