"The 24-year-old helped Bury to a clean sheet in a 1-0 win at home to Walsall in his League One debut, but defeats followed at home to Sunderland in the Carabao Cup and at Wigan in the lead.
Thompson was dropped after the 4-1 loss at the Latics and never played again, while centre-back partner and fellow summer signing Tom Aldred was stripped of the captaincy after the that defeat and has since also found himself on the substitutes' bench."
All I heard was an ex target who went to Blackpool and assumed Hartley. Aldred could fit that bill as well.
Aldred has played in the league for Bury whereas Hartley has only played in cups for Blackpool.
Aye but we can hopefully move him on for more when he has put a strong run of performances together. So we get more money and the benefit of him for a while.
He was immense on Saturday and he will hopefully improve over the season.
There's a formula for cross border compensation for u23s and he's 22 when his contract ends. There are different categories of club which involve different levels of compensation.
The only problem is if you end up with a situation like Craig Sibbald where no one wants to pay the compensation but the player wants to leave.
McHugh played centre half for Bradford and Plymouth before moving into midfield.
I think he would be disappointed to go back there though. You can see him improving enough to play centre mid for a Championship team but he's too small to play centre half at a higher level.
I heard a rumour that if Heneghan goes we are looking at trying to bring in Peter Hartley who we almost signed last summer.
Looking at Soccerbase he signed for Blackpool in the summer but hasn't featured in the league at all for them so may be surplus to requirements.
Dom Thomas is in the Sun today picking four people to have dinner with, anyone alive or dead. His first pick was.... Paul Slane
I didn't read the rest of it but i'm guessing dinner would be chicken nuggets and a bottle of wine in an underpass.