How do you even know that ? You don't. Besides it's TWO clubs.....

Surprised by this appointment - Gibson going to be treading water again. Really surprised by this one - no real track record and bombed in his last two jobs.

Batth's stock wasn't high after his stint at Norwich, he wasn't even getting a game when they had multiple injuries at the back. Probably why he accepted a 1 year deal then but wants a 2 year deal now that others might be interested.

PNE have local lads "The Spud Brothers" as their sponsor. Their logo looks abysmal on their shirts.

In demand by one club wow.

And Forshaw x2. Now the other 2 aren't desperate they are in demand so they'll go where the biggest pay is, naturally.

Like Batth and Weimann did?.🤔

The free agents will be ones who'll accept 1 year deals because they are desperate.

I think we are still waiting on Ronaldinho to decide.

So we have 2 matches whilst we are in Spain, (opposition still unknown), and 2 fixtures announced back here, surely there should be more, and announced by now?

Maybe people like Mowbray and JDT actually rated him. Johnson and Benson also Maybe we waiting for the player to decide?

I think he was referring to all of the free agents that would be leaving Rovers...

Jake Batty close to agreeing a new deal according to Elliot. I imagine the plan is to get him another loan next season and see where he's at after that.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25259212.sky-sports-deadline-blackburn-rovers-opening-fixtures/ This is when Elliot thinks the TV picks will be made for the coming season.

To rinse the Everton young support, they’ve no interest in attracting ours.

Probably be like last season, where they were organising Friday/Saturday games through out pre season, and forgot to arrange one on the Saturday before the start of the season. I'm not really sure why we aren't playing a match on 5th July either considering they will have been training for two solid weeks before that? Unless they are doing something behind closed doors maybe.

https://rovers.co.uk/news/2025/june/25/ticket-news--rovers-v-everton/ Rovers have announced ticket prices for the pre season match with Everton. Under 12 non season ticket holders are being charged £8 which I think is ridiculous. A nominal £1 or even free would surely be the way forward to potentially attract the next generation. Extremely poor but unsurprising for a hugely out of touch regime.

I think they might well have. Court case and all that.

Gestede specifically mentioned free agents when he talked about plans this summer. But especially with domestic based ones, I am guessing the financials have proved too much (signing on fees and wages) on our budget.

Well we might be..... if they are a free agent after leaving a Scottish League 2 team 😉

This is what dutch speaking fans are saying: '4.5 million and they can have him' 'Sounds like a great move for the club but less so for Brian, who really wants to play European.' It doesn't seem likely if both those things are true, not to mention the article the rumor is from's top comment is making fun of the publication for their inaccuracy in reporting with transfer dealing with this very player. '“De Keersmaecker saw a transfer to FC Midtjylland in January,” nice work again VP.' I seriously doubt it's going to happen now, I'll look into Kapuadi later.

We aren't in the market for free agents due to signing on fee/wage demands. Both look to have decent pedigree compared to our first two signings, which tells me they probably won't happen.

I’m going to do some more speculating here. The £26 million was requested (as evidenced in order of 7/6/23) for Venkys London Ltd, Venkys Overseas Limited and Venkateshwara London Limited - but with no details as to proportions. The Order dated 31/10/23 then tells us this £26 million was to cover their commitments for the year 23-24 (suggesting ‘payment in advance’) Venkys Overseas Limited is the company which they claimed was for rearing of ducks etc (source - Directorate of Enforcement press release 2/9/23) As you know, Venkateshwara London Limited own the training ground - I’d postulate some of that £26 million was to enable them to pay instalments due (to the club) on the purchase of this. The fact they then took out the loan against the training ground (I think someone may have suggested £9 million?) possibly supports this. In October ‘23 the next £11 million requested - the breakdown in the relevant order (31/10/23) indicates this was also for 23-24 commitments (which I’d suggest makes this part of the initial £26 million) £3.54 million sent + £11 million sent + £9 million loan on training ground = £23.54 million (not far off - maybe the remainder was for rearing more chickens🤔 * ) * Despite the aforementioned DoE press release stating no business activity being initiated in the eleven years since Venkys Overseas was incorporated 🧐🤨 (nothing dodgy in trying to send more funds to them then…) I’ve made a few assumptions along the way there so I might be spot on but equally I could be entirely wrong!! Edited to add an additional thought… The £15 million in March ‘24 could be the payment in advance for 24-25. Is this figure lower than the year before because of Adam Wharton…

Where are we at with Brian De Keersmaecker? Anyone seen him play outside of those Youtube highlight packages? Probably not... Personally I'm itching for a centre-back and word online seems to be that we're linked with Steve Kapuadi.