If the IFAB allowed it, he would get a drone & float around about 20 meters above the center of the pitch & point from there. The fun part would be when the mutiny comes & his squad tries to knock him out of the air.

Any players worth taking, should it happen?

He's said countless times he wants to play at the highest level, to a player in this country that's the premier league. Does anyone on here think Dolan is a premier league player? Listen I'd prefer Dolan to stay, but none of us know what he's demanding. I doubt he'll ever amount to more than an average championship player though....

i think he`ll be better than de neve,who will be so bad he`ll make clinton mola look like paulo maldini,not expecting much from sidnei,though it does appear he runs about a lot

Absolute theatre - Strap yourself in lads and lasses this could be a wild ride.

I'm sure he will be able to 'point' out their problems. Telling other players what to do was always his chief skill.

Another one who flattered to deceive.

brereton was another footballing crime that venkys commited,in a long line of them,he should have been sold when he hit that purple patch and brighton were interested,it`s a miracle we are still in the championship,looking back at some of the decisions they`ve made in the 6/7 years

I now realise why he used to stand in the middle of Ewood pointing to where his team mates should put the ball. It was all practice for becoming a manager. Risky move by Brentford, they will be in a relegation battle next season and 'Shirley' will be gone by the New Year.

Another underrated visionary like Raya plucked from under our noses by Brentford. 🤔 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c3w48p7n014o

There's always two sides of the story. I'm arguing that the club should have taken action already during the second year of his contract (season 2021-22) as he was quickly racking up plenty of minutes in the Championship by then. 18 months ago, you're suddenly talking about a player who's had more than three years of experience in the league and probably sees himself as a key figure at that point. Not surprising if he demanded 15-20 K/week by then to which the club would find excessive and walk away from. 2K / week is not a competitive salary for a regular starter in the Championship if you as a club want to protect your 'assets'.

world class pointer is keith,they won`t be short on instructions and how to do it

Might mean Brentford go down instead of........ 😒

Can John Textor please enquire about Blackburn?

Absolutely it is semantics, but for some reason it’s an obsession for IraC. This thread is littered with him trying to score points on the back of that word. It’s strange behaviour, not least because saying there’s a genuine impediment gives Venky’s an excuse for not funding the club and instead selling all the best players to keep the lights on. Very odd.

There’s an irony in you telling me that I don’t know what an impediment is, then telling me it’s a ‘condition’🥹 An impediment is a serious obstruction to doing something. That’s a literal definition. There is no serious obstruction to Venky’s sending Rovers money, just a choice. So when Waggott said there were no impediments, he was right. There are just ‘conditions’ that Venky’s have to agree to, which are in no way onerous. So as I’ve always said, it is Venkys choice whether they send the money. There is no impediment, legal or otherwise.

Nothing wrong with the one you used.

Well all the indications are he did. This has all the hallmarks and exactly the same pattern as with Lenihen and Nyambe and it's clear when our home raised players have become established first teamers the people running the show do not want to pay them a salary reflecting that. Similar with Brereton, they papped on about the 'flex' big fee low wages because it was an investment sigining. Then they failed to renegotiate along the way to try and protect that investment so in the end he walks for nothing when he would certainly have commanded some sort of fee. This is the central reason this keeps happening i think it's rather obvious.

Knew I shouldn't have tried to be clever and use Latin!

I wouldn't consider them all to be first team players but as it stands you'll have Travis, Tronstad, Tavares, Montgomery and Forshaw all classed as 1st team players by the club, and the extra one you wanted to sign gives you 6. By Centre mid, I mean players who will play as one of the two, in a 4-2-3-1 formation which we usually play. Of course, Ismael might try and adopt a different formation for the coming season. Buckley & Garrett probably being moved on but currently they are part of the pre-season squad.

I'm not one to argue the clubs point of view, but if he's only on 2K a week then its entirely of his own doing. He could have demanded a contract on much more money 18 months ago, but clearly thinks leaving on a free is going to be better for him in the long run - and is probably right.

Sad if true if Dolan currently has a salary of merely 2K / week given he's a regular starter. Contract situation should've been sorted long time ago as he quickly broke into first team since arriving and has been playing over 1 700 minutes in the Championship for the past four seasons (according to Transfermarkt). Like you said, a weekly salary of around 10K / week is more than reasonable given his current status which could've enabled us getting a relatively large fee this summer instead of (probably) having him leave on a free. Club is getting punished for being cheap.

Yeah, I get that and mentioned it in my post. But we need a MUCH larger squad. We need strength in depth in virtually every position, and I will not complain about any signing that is made. Yes, and we dropped out of the playoff places when they got injured. There's a solid chance that they be injured or suspended for a decent percentage of the upcoming season. We need more cover in central midifeld. Who are these 8 that we would consider real first team players? And are you throwing someone like Buckley in? Who is typically played further up the pitch? 'CM' can be a pretty broad category, but I don't think we have many viable options for players who can sit in front of the back four, break up play, turn, and get the ball moving forward.

It's not that people don't want good back-ups, it is a lack of faith in the owners/Suhail/Gestede to create a situation where we actually have the depth we need. In an ideal world a sensible team would renew Trav and Tronstad, have De Keersmaecker as the 3rd 1st choice so to speak, Tavares as 4th option and I guess Forshaw as the 5th choice player-coach type. But it is so against the evidence of Venky's entire reign that they would seek to achieve this.

About 20 of 32 first-round ties have been shown so far (they're releasing one episode per day). Might be mid-July until the next Rovers one then!