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Anderson was up against poor opposition, who gave him the freedom of the midfield. He looked good compared to the rest , who were below the standard required for a top international side.

Yeah - the question that needs to be asked is what is the advantage for any of those players to extend their contract? Why does anyone extend their contract with an employer? 1) You are offered more money (we have only done that recently when it is guaranteed we will attract big fees for the player e.g. Wharton, Szmodics) 2) You maybe don't get more money, but you buy into the long term vision of the employer and feel a valued part of a longer term plan where you can see how you grow and you enjoy your work. The way we operate completely and utterly undermines this. For all those players, especially with the well worn path to free transfer / sale mapped out from Lenihan and BBD to Travis and Dolan, why on earth would you commit early? Just wait to get to the end of your contract and look for a better option. The reason it's so important to get rid of venkys is while we may be in an even worse position in terms of money (although it's getting to the point now I am wondering about that), we can go some way to mitigating that through having good long term planning and operating like a somewhere with a vision and a good place to work longer term.

Wow. Para 1) Pretending Dolan doesnt count as a player who refused to sign a new deal this summer. Classy. You yourself said you made have offered to put Dolan into our top bracket of earners on £15 k p.w. which clearly never happened Para 2) You can insist it's all down to greedy players/agents if you like but in the last few seasons we've seen at varying levels Rothwell/Lenihan/Nyambe/Brereton/Dolan/Travis/Brittain/Hyam/Batth and Weimann all refuse to commit to new deals. That's if they were ever offered anything at all. Just the odd ten players. And driven out two great Head Coaches in the process. Never the Club's fault, always the greedy players huh? Para 3) It's useless setting a wage cap if it's too low for the Division we are in Para 5) The Pears "situation" appears to be that he's been completely frozen out therefore we're paying him good money for absolutely nothing. Seems to be acknowledged by Jackson at the LT. Are you denying that's the case? Para 6) We didn't bring in a Hyam replacement so thats why there is debate. No point saying "it would have been ok if we'd done X,Y or Z". We didn't!

do you think I don't already know this??? you are obsess and fixation on this issue. Dolan was never signing a new contract here.

Also Hendry was sold in 1998

Looking at anderson's performance on Saturday, Wharton might struggle to get that number 6 role

History tells us that they don't want, or know how to renegotiate current contracts, so I fully believe this to be the case.

Short sighted, deliberate sabotage.

I would hazard a guess that Ribeiros extension was triggered due to games/minutes played, rather than we negotiated a new contract with him He signed for Rovers 3rd Feb He then started in in 9 out of 10 games Before his extended contract was announced 3rd April The "9 out of 10 games part" (90% of available minutes), right before signing his extension, just has the feel of an extension being triggered, rather than a new deal being negotiated

It would be good to see the other side too such as ongoing expenses, wages and running costs. Wages to revenue figures etc. Seems a bit harsh to call people absolute lemons just because they want to see the club run prudently (i.e. Not need the Venky input at all).

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Its only Ribeiro as a first teamer (and even he was a weird short term deal that then got extended) out of any of our players that have signed new contracts over the last 2 seasons. That is the fact. Go off on all the tangents you like to try and justify it, but that is not normal. Brittain, Travis, Dolan, Batth, Hyam, Weimann. And Tronstad also unsigned. But yes, just 3.

Mirror's the Men's team.

Crystal Palace's mega Million's Asset will get THE very best Medical treatment money can buy...stop your fretting!

Wharton's injury problems look very similar to the problems Pedri had after playing so many games whilst his body was still maturing. It's taken Pedri several years to have a consistent season form and injury wise.

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Its 3 players who have left this summer. Dolan was always going. We have recoup around 9/10 million pounds for those 3 players. So if I making making assumptions on wage demands then surely it yourself blaming Rovers and totally and utter resolving the players or agents off any blame So its quite clear we have a limit on what we will pay and we won't pay above that. you complain about us not paying enough then in other topic you complain about players taking all the money out of game and fans being ignored I'm not the one who complained about Ismael answering the question directly and proper instead of not. He did that with the Brittain situation and he was the Travis situation. He is straight to the point and doesn't sugar coated situation. Pears situation? what is the situation? please tell us all full defence of what? I have said Rovers were wrong to sell Hyam so late and without any form of proper replacement. Had Rovers sold Hyam and then brought in a replacement like Callum Chambers or Mattie Pollock then none of this would be a debate

Wouldn't be too bothered about that part to be fair. This lot don't deserve to make another penny off him, I hope he leaves on a free.

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Also add Carter, Wharton and Pickering to that too.

on the type of loans for promising players, how much playing time they get and we avoid the situation like last year we witness with Jake Garrett who had 2 disastrous loan moves

It's pretty pathetic at this point - we are nothing short of a Sunday pub team

Excellent post Scary stuff “We've been relegated on the last two occasions when our centerback pairing has been sold (Jones/Samba back in season 11/12, Hanley/Duffy back in season 16/17). During this summer, we've lost Hyam/Batth. Hopefully, history won't repeat itself for a third time...”

Stockholm Syndrome is some of our fans (I see it on x quite a bit) constantly blaming fans, it’s why we won’t get change.

But we only have 12k... We've always sold our best players.... It's all the fans fault.... 20 mill a year, just bad advice (since 2010 and counting...)