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The other 2 were also not "aligned" to anywhere near the same extent as Ismael is He is far from our biggest issue, but he is at the very least complicit in what has happened over the past year

And got sent off for it.

This club of ours just Cannot do anything the right way.

I see what you mean, there's no point taking him early for more money because he can develop the same here and will be nowhere near their first team. I kinda wondered why they were bothering to buy him ahead of time even in the summer, and my guess is either because otherwise they might lose out on him to someone else, or because they wanted support in their youth team. Interest in him seems to have increased, Villa and Manure have been linked since the summer and I don't think they were previously. No surprise as he's now coming to the end of his contract so is on the verge of being just training compo. If anyone were serious about him they'd just pay a bit more now to steal a march on their rivals. I suspect nobody is all that fussed about him, including Arsenal, or surely they'd have a go at getting him now for 500k which I bet we'd accept, so that nobody else does.

McLoughlin just stood in the dock, looking baffled 😄

Looks like Suhail is defence counsel what could go wrong.

Do you know anymore context on this? What's the breach of the contract? Are we trying to exit it early or something?

Representing themselves, what could possibly go wrong….

He was only here fleetingly, and played sparingly - but Patrick Valery was pretty uncompromising. I love the fact he arrived from seemingly nowhere - looked as Gallic as it is humanly possible to look - played a few times and mullered a few oppo wingers, and no-one ever heard him speak - then mysteriously disappeared and was never heard from again. Classic cult player.

Called it a while ago, but it’s official (despite denials in the fans forum from Suhail and his lapdog)

The other two absolutely had options waiting for them. I don’t see anyone lining up to bring Ismael in as gaffer.

Doubt he will. Had far more trust and confidence in JDT/Eustace. I wouldn't trust Ismael as far as I could spit.

And people are out there saying “we need to deregister players before we can sign anyone”. There are more than enough substandard names that could be dropped. Hell we deregistered Siggy a few years back and I take him over just about 3/4 of our squad.

I’m sorry for your loss. I’ve found this reference for the cup replay vs West Ham in 1956. Could it’ve been that one? (obviously Frank would’ve been at a different school!):

The other glaring issue and arguably the bigger problem is the wage cap. Better players absolutely back themselves with higher wage demands. Particularly if they're a striker. Whoever implemented the wage cap shouldn't be at the club. Again a low wage cap increases the odds of you having to spend another transfer fee to replace the poor player. It's completely counterproductive. What is does do is protect the club from having to spend the money needed to compete at this level – while still appearing as though they are trying to. Any player costing £3m+ that's worth their salt will want wages above 10k per week at this level; so offering that kind of transfer fee to anyone at the moment isn't real and is a complete waste of the players time. Suhail Pasha and Gestede shouldn't be anywhere near the club, they're complete charlatans. Further to that the even more enormous issue is the fact that the owners are allowing someone to operate this way, if they had any interest in Rovers having success they wouldn't. The fundamental issue at the club is who owns it. All the failings come back to them, everyone else are just natural symptoms of detached ownership. On wages, look no further than Hull, Suhail, they had a transfer ban but a good wage structure in place. Wages alone sees them 4th with a chance of the Premier League, while we are 22nd. Maybe send Rudy to shadow some management teams at this level again, and tag along. Since you have absolutely no chance, or interest in building your own.

Didn't Flitcroft take out Duncan Ferguson in an aerial assault just minutes into his debut at Ewood vs Everton?

Samba needs a mention too. Man was an absolute beast

Flitcroft is unlucky not to get a mention here. Don't think he did anything particularly 'hard', but there was definitely never a physical battle he shirked

What would his wages be compared to Cleary the Barnsley lad

Another transfer window is turning a total mess. We dont even know what formation we are going to play. Certain things made sense about the change to a back 3 prior to injury. None of our wingers are competent, our threat from wide comes from Alebiosu so it frees him up. Our strikers (although Ohashi isnt very good full stop) both benefit from having a partner. And with Hyam and Batth leaving, our centre backs need an extra body as they arent good enough individually in a 2. So surely the window should have been about improving the team and the squad to make it more suitable to that formation. Either that or commit to 4231 and sign proper wingers. We have abandonded trying to get a right wing back and seemingly wont bother with a left wing back. We have signed a small left footed centre back who was already moved to left back and a "versatile" forward who has also played in 2 different positions in his 2 starts. Now we seem keen to sign a young striker who hasnt come close to showing that he is Championship ready, for peanuts.

John Coddington for all his penalty aberrations was a lumbering beast though not in the same mould as McNamee. I witnessed McNamee's debut vs Tranmere away. It was breath-taking; he was a galvanising force for Rovers and against all opposition. I haven't seen a harder tougher competitor in a Rovers shirt before or since. Man's game in those days. Compare with the sneaky feigning modern tactics adopted generally in the game these days.

The issue with Leonard was that we sold him rather than proceeding with the initial loan agreement. End of.

The issue with Leonard was his dreadful injury record. I know very little about Cadamarteri but I see from Wikipedia that despite being over 18 months younger than Leonard he has managed to play significantly more first team games. Additionally from the above it seems that at least one other Championship team are interested in him whereas Leonard had to drop down a division to find a club.

The fact he leaves will be a positive

So he turns out for the first team a few times post January, doesn't look out of place - indeed has an assist - and we shuffle him off to Barrow? Meanwhile Ribeiro and Pickering still can't get a sniff. Make it make sense.