Under Eustace he massively improved defensively and certainly doesnt go missing. Cant see a better right back in the league.

There it is!

I think O'Rourke has been off the mark for a while although did report the McLoughlin deal.

3 seasons Brittain has been here - misses 15 games a season through injury, goes missing when we are up against it defensively and we are getting 3.5 million with a year left on his contract. Normal circumstances good business, but these aren’t normal circumstances. Cheap or no replacement and weaker come the West Brom game.

If Brittain goes as expected, then obviously a giant blow. On Weimann, I said at the time that I personally wouldnt have offered a new deal considering his injury and he did start to slow down before picking it up, but he can be someone you wouldnt have renewed AND a big loss at the same time. He has to be replaced, would sum us up that we offered him a deal yet didnt see fit to bring in another player when he didnt sign it. Holding a grudge over him having treatment for a couple of months is unfair. You cant expect him to sign a new deal just because he received medical treatment under contract. Also, no thanks to loaning young Saudi players. Signing him long term to develop as well as signing some more ready made attacking players, then maybe.

But but..... Chaddy said he was staying. 1st X1 further weakened. Only ray of hope is it's O Rourke and he's been way off the mark for a long time concerning Rovers.

I agree with your final paragraph

Ok. We're going round in circles. The fact that the Club want to loan him out suggests they dont feel he's good enough for their first team. In those circumstances I'd say "the majority of the time" the parent Club would prefer a deal where there's a good chance of selling for a realistic fee at the end of the deal than an out and out loan. In fact maybe the story does ring true. We're probably wanting to loan him with a view to buying him for a half eaten Mars Bar and an empty Coke can at the end of the loan in our usual style.

Covered this summers transfer business and then some in one fell swoop that Brittain deal. Pasha and Gestede will be laughing there heads off.

Im pretty sure that Mercer said Derby.

He's going to go so get it done ASAP imo. If its left to later in the window then the club will claim they tried to get a replacement in but couldn't get it done in time. Then they hope, once again, it becomes yesterday's news and fans don't shout about the money not being re-invested. We're still waiting for the Wharton and Szmodics money to be re-invested! We saw a top-ish level striker as a priority in Jan and were linked with some good names, yet come the summer we're not even targeting a new striker. How does that work?!

I would also hazard a guess that if we could use up to date figures (following the 2 years of cost cutting after the court case & bond etc became an issue), and then take out Rotherham, Plymouth, Huddersfield etc, and replace them with Wrexham, Charlton etc, we may slip another spot or two at least

Think sports Pete is awful although I think there could be some substance to this given the massive Hackney windfall pending

As mentioned by Mercer. Terrible. Duru and Ryan to step up. I personally liked the look of Duru, but seems he had bad luck with injuries last season?

The below is from here https://www.matchdayfinance.com/post/championship-financial-results-season-2023-24

😪🙃 at least it's not to Derby.

https://x.com/SportsPeteO/status/1950887738065985747

They've just managed to appoint a new manager. No idea why anyone would take that job on right now.

"Quite often" is like asking "how long is a piece of string?". I would envisage that your scenario more applies to senior and/or highly paid players rather than youngsters But the majority of the time, (in well over half of cases), players are loaned out in order to develop and improve them

Quite often when you want them off the wage bill but there's no takers on a permanent basis.

That's 6 points for us then! 😟

Thanks, do you happen to know when ‘til?

CCL. Gone. End of. Time to move on, even if he does rock up on our 150th birthday celebration game and piss on our chips.

Iv not said he is any good I know the square root of fuck all about him. The link probably is bullshit but your point that it makes the link less likely due to his club only wanting to loan him rather than with a view is what I'm disagreeing with.Why does any club loan a player rather than just selling them?

A real end to end match with Rovers coming out on top. Well done Ian and Scott for keeping the blue flag flying high.