Bailey Adamson offered a contract.

Wasn’t he at Grimsby, played for Lincoln

Only just 18 but a big strong lad with potential, from around here too, whether he will kick on is a risk.

Can't imagine he'd be on great money so could be worth a punt for the future...not that I've seen him play like!

Agree. Physically he's in the Mani D mould, which is quite something for an 18-year-old. Obviously there's work to do otherwise Lincoln wouldn't have let him go, but as long as his attitude is right he could be a prospect.

Big lad up top as second fiddle to Mani, sounds just like what Mark Beck would have been albeit significantly cheaper (assumedly) and less experienced. Not against giving the lad a go, could be a gem.

Happy with him coming in but we cannot go in to the season with him as back up to Mani D. We need him and another striker.

If it happens.

Wise words Mr G.

Good luck to him, big responsibility if mani gets injured like….but cheap at least

He could be the new Emily Eskey n we get a huge sell on clause.
UTP.

You mean like Mancini

If he’s the big lad who played at Greyfields he looked really raw but I remember Charlie Wyke on loan at Pools. He was raw and not ready but went on to have a successful career.

When I watched him at Greyfields he did impress me with his strength and attitude. He reminded me of a very young Bob Newton so if he improves like Bob did he will be one hell of a signing. He is worth a punt in my opinion.

Rob Law on Twitter this evening re. Adamson
"No contract offer yet.
Club is impressed by him so far.
Signing is a possibility but 'nothing on the table yet'.
Tonight could help determine that though.
DS said he wanted to see trialists against better opposition before making a call."

Is my memory right that we signed a player on a short contract weeks ago? If so where is he?

you are thinking of that trialist the non league paper had us linked with - ex Cheltenham lad.

not even sure if he played the FC game ?

The big lad did nothing last night so must be really impressing in training if thats the case

Just passing on what I got told Sunday.

A takeover with the Arabs on.

Go on then Kevin i,ll be the first to bite.

It's not Mustafa Laff is it? Owns a chain of pawn shops in the Seaham area?

If It’s Sheikh Halegg, then I expect the negotiations to move quite quickly.

I knew it ...that's the reason Amanda Staveley and her husband left Newcastle United. I want to be first to predict Premier league title and Champions league winners within 7 years. I wonder if the 75,000 new stadium will be in Wynyard. UTP Off to order my blue n white thobe jubba

My sauce was told by a well known Pools fan in his late 60s.
Obviously won't name him.

But mite be something in it cos ya not Gunna splash the cash if ya want out.
And that's whats going on.
Opinions may differ.,

Step forward Ronnie H

Was it the Guy Arabs, Mr Accy will know more than me …….he’ll know all about them.

It’s not Arabs but believe the takeover really is on.

Heard its Russians. They want to melt down the Mill House roof to make T-72 tanks.

Can you give us anymore details Bob

There was a massive Malaysian yacht in the marina the other week. Makes you think.

There's a growing feeling of meh with me around takeover rumours now. Too many false dawns over the last 12 months or so.

Is anybody willing to say what or who the rumoured parties are?

If somebody says THEY or know someone who knows, But cant/dare say then your right. MEH

Question is why do ordinary supporters not tell the rest of us who what where and when That in itself is the biggest mystery of all.

Simple they don,t know JackShit.

Where's Bailey Adamson.

Noooo it was a gay dredger…just in to have it’s bottom scraped…

could be worse it could be some old Daim ler.

I would not use a rumour of a player signing, As of the same importance as a takeover of our Club.

Why did you change that rumour to Mite.

Forgot to add, I don,t know JackShit either

I don't think any of us know Jackshit Mr G, which is the reason these rumours are started in the first place. Nothing wrong with speculation on our starting eleven come Aug 10th, for example but personally I prefer to wait and see, which is why I generally don't get involved in such conversations.

strongest possibility yet that something is rumbling in the background....

Heard that someone from the town has got involved with an american business man / men / people.... Raj has agreed and like has done already is taking that step back to 5% ownership with obvious other add ons etc...

no and its not Goffy !

Campbell is only here because they fronted the wages (does make sense as we beat Crawley to the offering also).
we are due a very good number 9 who we have spoken to already as well as a CB !

Where's this from like? If it's done why is it not announced? And fronting money before a deal is done doesn't make sense to me? I keep hearing about someone wanting to make a tv show but that sounds far-fetched as well.
I want shot of Raj like many here, we need a fresh start but read nothing with any real substance to back up the rumours. We can only wait and see.

Campbell is here because we got rid of 15 players and brought in a megre 5. He only come from Crawley, they probobly struggle to pay much more than us and they were a league higher. Im sure if we were about to be taken over we wouldnt be pissing about so much over a keeper and even contemplating having Dixon remaining in goal for Yeovil.

The rumour (and I stress rumour because I have no idea on truth etc) is that it's the same lady who was working for the international investment fund and brought them and the trust together as part of their bid. I believe her background is in TV/Film production and investment in that kind of area so could link in with the making a tv show thing?
No idea where Eiphos gets his info but it's rarely right so big pinch of salt

We only released 9 and we've signed 5 with Sarll saying he's still wanting 4 so that would be 9 in and 9 out by my maths. Where does 15 out come from?
I'd expect that Campbell was on a decent wage at Crawley compared to what our average wage would be bearing in mind the season we got relegated Dom Telford was among the higher earners in the division according to many reports.

We had 6 loans, 4 of which were senior players who we would’ve been paying some if not all the wages of.
Crawley cut right back last season and got rid of their high earners so while Campbell might’ve been on a decent wage for league 2 he wouldn’t have been earning loads.

Here was me thinking we had a stack of loans at the back end of last season. Must of been wrong then? Im sure Campbell was higher than what we were paying but crawley have to abide by rules were they can only spend a percentage of their income in the football league and considering they are one of the smallest clubs in the country it wont be loads more .

Billie counts players on loan who go back to their club when their loan period is up as "released."

The fact that they were all brought in to replace for players that Pools had let go out on loan because they were crap, or as cover for long-term injuries (Umerah, Wallace,Lacey etc) doesn't count apparently

Of course you do you are paying a wage. Like when we got the lad the previous season who nearly saved us. So after two months we find out all these great signings arent that great and we bring in 5 loan signings some on rest of the season loans do these players not count in the budget the manager has?

So who was paying the wages of these 6 players towards the end of last season? Pruti (at Farnborough) Ndjoli (at Spennymoor) Wreh (at Tamworth) Hastie (at Hamilton) Paterson (at Kelty Hearts) Burton (at Chester)?

We don't know what proportion of the wages of the loan players KP brought in were covered by Pools, or what proportion of the wages of the players Pools loaned out were picked up by the above clubs.

We dont but from the end of last season the last couple of months 15 players who played for us are no longer here. Also remember the thousands we were paying jake hastie every week, though thats probobly down to the hundreds now his wage has been freed. Judging by the standard of those clubs i think you will probobly agree they wont of been paying anywhere near what we were?