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So apparently we have a budget. If that is the case, it won't just be a black & white '£x for transfers / £x for salaries'. It's a bit more flexible than that - they can spend a bit more on wages when needed, but it lowers the amount in the overall pot (including for fees). Signing Dennis and Wickham on loan last season was an example of this - both on (relatively) large wages, but very little paid in loan fee, as opposed to spending more on the transfer fee but being restricted by lower weekly wages.

It took longer than most other managers have to wait under Venkys, but eventually whoever you are, you will have the rug pulled from under you. Yes, I am sure that Venkys had a big chest of funds just waiting for him to spend. He repeatedly whinged that season over not having more money. They took longer to do so than anyone else, but they fucked him over like they fuck everyone over. Hence why we have never and will never prosper under them.

I can't complain too much i wanted a rest for everyone possible and wanted to see the squad men and youngsters given a good run. Also couldn't give a stuff about the cup this season nor the thousands who only turn up for a big cup game, even if we are doing ok in the league. The money is also irrelevant this season as keeping Championship status and revenue is paramount. Good also that this should see Toth regain his No1 status because the next few months are the last we will see of him. Also at the end of the day we lost because we can't score penalties.

Waggott told someone I know during "the Rothwell window" that the owners had made a healthy transfer budget available in addition to the promotion bonuses which WERE actually publicised in the LT. So either Waggott or Mowbray were lying because if Waggott was correct there was no pressing need to offload Rothwell to raise funds. If Mowbray was discouraging them from spending at that point it would be at least be consistent with his behaviour of a couple of years previously when he freely admitted he had to get the owners to "calm down" following promotion from League 1. He wouldnt have the same problem these days.

He can’t win football matches which is fairly important for a manager. Well, at any normal club it is. As an aside, we’ve scored two goals in the last 525 minutes of football. Jesus wept.

‘A brilliant performance.’ He must be taking the piss at this stage. The youngsters did themselves proud to an extent, but it was no shots on target save for a cross come shot in 120 minutes of bloody football!

Josh Sargent trying to force a move from Norwich, refused to play today. That would be good news for us as it would weaken Norwich considerably. Assume they would actually reinvest some money though.

Dragged us back into the game in our last match

Can't wait... Him and Mullin then 😉

probably that ballpark He is at least capable of running, which puts him ahead of Ennis

Somewhere between Henriksson and Telalovic ability wise? Or closer to Ennis type potential?

Huge shout for the 2 young CBs. O'Riordan & Atcheson look real good prospects. Kept hull at bay for 120 minutes with limited chances. If we only we had some threat upfront.

Agree to a point. They were fairly happy to spend for Mowbray for a while then held back a bit, I’m sure partly due to how awful BBD was before he got the D… By no means a Venkys apologist, hate the tossers, but I do think Mowbray had a very different experience to more recent managers

a warm body young quite tall that is all

I only know Cadamarteri from his goalstats but can someone enlighten me as to what he would bring to the table?

But knowing that he will not land another job in the Championship, he will probably put up with just about anything. My prediction: the day he leaves Rovers is the day he has decided to move back to his family in France.

Full strength team probably wouldn't have scored either.

re TGH, agree absolutely spot on

No. Every single manager has encountered these problems. Mowbray took a bit longer to experience them but he did, every manager has and will. In the season you mention. In the summer we sold Armstrong and reinvested nothing. Mowbray spent all summer moaning about it. In January, he was willing to sacrifice Rothwell to sign players. He wasnt allowed and again publically complained about it.

They've paid at least £1m because it is pocket change for the vast majority of teams in this league, it is the going rate for a squad player. At our club that figure is used to take a punt on somebody from a far flung league to be in our starting eleven, in the hope the fee will multiply ten fold. We are the outlier.

Baradji never looks bothered or interested. Not the sort of player you want in a relegation scrap.

We’ve got the worst of both worlds in that we don’t create anything and even if we did, there’s nobody to finish the chances off. It’s so grim. We put all our eggs in the Gudjohnsen box as to be fair, he can finish.

Well that was the party line yes....though I'm of the view he was prepared to say that or not bothered about correcting it as it served to 'protect' the Indians from criticism. I find it all too convenient that for owners who have shown zero appetite to invest that they managed to find what must have been the only manager int the world who 'actively discouraged' them from doing so. More likely Mowbray knew he wasn't getting anything/wasn't worth asking but he and Waggott weren't going to upset the apple cart by telling fans that it was Venkys' fault. He knew better than that. It's the only way of getting sacked around that place. They clearly haven't been prepared to back managers in the last 2-3 years when sat in the top 6 in January, so much so that both managers have forced their way out within a fortnight of the window closing, so I find it unbelievable that they were prepared to back Mowbray but for inexplicable reasons never seen before in football he chose to turn it down. Far too convenient.

The new brains trust inside Ewood thinks it's being clever operating a two for the price and wages of one policy all across the squad. We are seeing the benefits of that this season but it's ok it's working, they might make 800k on Gueye !

Hope to God that the option to buy isn't exercised. He's talentless. I just don't know how two clubs have apparently paid fees of at least £1m to sign him.