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I don't know. He might make more money, and he's now guaranteed 8 Champions League matches, including 4 matches against really top clubs and a couple of matches against the kind of teams he may see as his next move (Benfica, Ajax). I agree in principle, but I can also understand a player choosing Champions League exposure over playing in the Championship. Especially if a move to Qarabag could include a relatively friendly release clause that could be activated in January or next summer.

Qualified for the Champions League group stage.

Lowey?

I getcha. I do forget sometimes that to the outside world we are just a football club. And yes, I also forget that £10k per week is a half million pounds a year wage, which isn't to be sniffed at (particularly round here, where wages have not kept pace with inflation for the past 30 years). So, fair point. I getcha.

Is that quote writing players off or just an observation? If it was: "He is going to be shit and I wont even give him the chance to prove himself considering he was relegated." Then maybe.

Reminds me of Sir Bobby Robson in many ways aside from actual coaching calibre. Think Sir Bob though had a hard edge which obviously contributed to his success whereas Tony would rather have a cup of tea and bag of revels instead of losing his rag.

I’m not sure. I’d much rather he was thinking “I’ll move to crazy Rovers, score 20 in a season and move somewhere else”. I’m being deadly serious when I say I’d be asking him if he was seriously considering Azerbaijan and if he answered yes, I’d move on. Not the right character.

You've misunderstood the conversation .

Seriously, this holds true for most conventional clubs, but Batshit Crazy Blackburn Rovers whose reputation is in shitting tatters, whose 'Can Pay - WON'T PAY' philosophy is emblazoned on every decision so far this transfer window, and whose 'senior management' comprises a half-witted shadow dancer taking a massive salary and an over-promoted work experience trainee.... Hmm, come to think of it, Azerbaijan is very pretty in the autumn...cost of living is a fraction of the UK, tax regime is malleable.... Yup.

"Signing players who've been relegated" How many times did they get written off? You mustnt have been reading at the beginning of the window. And what the "abuse" comment is about I've no idea

Hunter was part of the Bobby Bell transfer. Bell came as a £20,000 make weight in that deal and we sold him about 3 weeks later for £55,000 to Palace where he hardly ever played. A Jim Smith master stroke, even if we lost Hunter who was top class, as his future career at Ipswich proved.

Drop a few letters and it also says anus.

Any player considering moving to the Azerbaijan league over English football raises serious alarm bells.

Pasha and genius in the same sentence. Blimey

I remember Jim Smith, who was the Derby manager at that time, telling the story about how Rovers bought Dailly. His chairman had heard through the grapevine that Rovers were going to bid for Dailly, so they had a meeting and agreed that they wouldn’t accept a penny less than £2 million for him. They nearly fell off their seats when in the conference call over the phone Roy Boy’s opening offer was £5 million ! They even managed to squeeze another £250,000 out of us !

You've joined the conversation late and misunderstood what was being said.

Leonard to stay. Have an amazing season and Pasha to look like a genius. You heard it here first.

Let's not mention what we spent on Christian Dailly 😩

The Furphy comparison is a good one I think. As well as moving on some stiffs, he sold what I thought were pretty much our three best players in Hunter, Wilson and Rogers (swapped for Barry Dumptruck Endean), dropped the Don into the ressies, promoted two youth players we’d pretty much never heard of in Bradford and McDonald, and promptly saw us hovering just above the bottom 4 until the aforesaid Fergie Frightener single-handedly turned things around. We just need to sign the next Tony Field, whose track record till that point would have seen him condemned as utterly useless had we had a messageboard then.

I don’t think this is true at all. But it is another case of words and phrases being re defined to suit arguments, also see the word ‘abuse’.

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A servant to our club 💙

Half of me agrees. The other half wanted me to see how he did on loan for a full season to see if he could stay injury free and score a few. A tall order, as you suggest, but when he was fully fit, he was pretty good I thought. But seven figures... For a lad that only featured for us here and there, has a poor injury record early on in his career... I'm slightly sad that another of our own is leaving, and while I've seen a number of doom and gloom comments about our academy, say what you will - it appears to be more than funding itself.

Yes. The club sign players. People form an opinion on whether you think they will be good signings (Morishita) or bad (De Neve). Whether they are correct or incorrect will be judged after a period of time after they’ve settled in and played (or not) for the club. Some people weirdly think that players should be perceived as being “good” until proven otherwise. And if people say they aren’t good signings they are ‘writing them off’, like it’s some unfair crime.