Maybe my maths are out here, but the league table says Brum can finish 9th at best, and 12th at worst. Not sure if it works the way i'm thinking, but thats an inclusive £ rate of £3m, (£750k per place). There seems to be alot of arrogance from some on here that we can, or have a right to, do anything we want and thats not like City fans so not sure where it comes from. When we were skint, (and it should still be the case now), £3m was mega bucks and would determine our budget for next season. We loaned Hart to Brum for the season, and that is exactly what they will expect us to adhere too. There are too many comments against Brum and too many people thinking we should have a right to get him back. If ALL this was reversed and it was £3m we were depending on, we wouldn't be too happy if the parent club came in for one of our players of the season just because they were too stupid to let him go in the first place, or at least not ensure adequate back up was available should the worst scenario happen. Brum have no reason to let Hart go, none whatsoever and we don't have a leg to stand on, Billions in the bank or not. The season was always going to typically ride on some daft decision of ours at some point, and that is proving to be exactly the case with this ludicrous situation we have now, a situation where our 4th choice keeper is the only one fit, all because we decided to let the future England number one go off ALL season and not ensure adequate back up was brought in. It is going to bite our back sides in a big way, but we only have ourselves to blame, not Brum, not Mcleish and no silly anti-City articles in the papers. I just hope we've learnt our fucking lesson here.