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Players weren’t offered contracts because the club would have known the terms the players wanted through agents. Why would they put an offer in writing if they know the player would reject it? The bigger issue is not whether players were offered formal contracts, but why we can’t compete financially with the likes of Derby or Middlesbrough, given the wealth of our owners. Jumping on whether a contract was technically offered or not is missing the point entirely. I dont doubt there’s plenty wrong behind the scenes, but you’re desperate to whip up the fans at any opportunity to boost your ego. The conspiracy theories are tedious and distracting from the main problems. As an aside, Hyam being sold yesterday is a farce and has undone any of the good work achieved over the summer.

Could still have a loan or permanent overseas Plenty of windows still open around Europe & further afield https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/statistik/transferfenster

His full name is Suhail Anwar Pasha Shaikh. He was regularly referred to as Suhail Pasha in the early days, then more commonly Suhail Shaikh. The former seems to have stuck with fans.

That’s my size & fit 😉

No wonder venkys have gotten away with it for 15 years and now Rudy and Pasha are able to run the place freely.. unless you’re being sarcastic

You can respect their religion without being restricted to their beliefs.

And I'd argue that any player at this level should have an ounce of football intelligence already or they'd be playing for the Dog & Duck instead. We took that corner direct and with too many bodies in the box because we were going for a winner. That's a managerial choice.

Pasha is part of his name: Suhail Anwar Pasha Shaikh

No idea mate, was just pointing out that Pasha was not his real name. I think it was something to do with his shadow man persona back in day and referring to him as “Pasha” maybe evokes a shadowy figure of influence, no idea really. Possibly something pulled from south asian connotations of authority, but again really no idea. Point I was making was that the guy in charge is not called Pasha. But who cares really. I don't like him.

He was always known as Suhail Pasha in the early years. He seemed to start using Shaikh more recently Wikipedia have him listed as Suhail Pasha, The BBC still refer to him as Suhail Pasha - the quote below was from a couple of months ago: Blackburn Rovers chief operating officer Suhail Pasha has sat down with BBC Radio Lancashire this week - the first time he has spoken to the media publicly since Venky's bought the club in 2010.

Not a go at you personally but this is the exact response they want from the fans. Draw all the attention/fury toward their designated puppet (Gestede this year) and deflect away from their own decisions. They’re 15 years in now, there is no naivety and they have their own man on the ground. Make no mistake, these are Venky/Pasha decisions with Gestede as the sacrificial puppet for this year (previously Broughton, Waggott, Shaw, Hunt, Senior etc etc)

I suspect it will be there or there abouts.

Tbf I could sleep am just used to us being like this now unfortunately. support the team not the regime!🔵⚪️

....behind the team seems reasonable (although it is really the only outlet for fan ire of all things club related); behind the project? no, just legitimises the loons and snouts in troughs.

They couldn’t give a toss mate. All they care about is filling their bloody pockets!

Will just echo what others have said, I really struggled to get to sleep last night, what were they thinking selling our steady eddy at the back without having an adequate replacement to come in. Utter madness. Why have we stripped all of our British players from the team, I’m not saying they were world beaters but they at least knew the British game and I’d think would be the voices in the changing room, madness to sell them all. We have basically become Watford, signing foreign players on the say so of agents. Look what happened the last time we done this with our Portuguese influx. I wasn’t thrilled by the window prior to selling hyam but now I think it’s horrendous. Gestede is an absolute snake, I honestly can’t stand the guy. I thought we should have targeted a proven striker and a loan like Alan Browne yesterday, instead we have done god knows what. i have said many times on here I’m done and I can’t do it anymore but I will always support this team, no matter what I try and convince myself it just really really bloody hurts how far we have fallen and the long slow death we are all suffering.

On the non footballing reasons such as certain food being banned. It’s understandable because Rudy is a Muslim then you have Pape kargbo baradji VI etc. guess we just gotta respect it. But Rudy still needs to go he’s a right clown

I’m more Laurel than Hardy 😁😁

Are Venkies aware of RG's behaviour? Do they know the story?

I think Ismael is going to need to get them playing well consistently much quicker than that! Everyone has their own viewpoints and limits, but I think we're really at it now based on the feelings I'm reading.

Becoming more and more common with owners now. Fans and footballing aspect things are secondary it’s all about the business side of things

The big worry is losing Championship experience. The new players have a huge job on their hands to show that they can step in. I can imagine they will want to prove those worries wrong. Whether they will or not is another question. What I do believe is that footballers have the same mentality as any of us that work when it comes to wanting a move. You don't move for less money than what you're on unless there are extenuating circumstances, and I doubt the players really feel the Venky mishandling that we as supporters feel and have to continue to deal with. My guy instinct tells me that it's fanciful to put it down to anything else than the players that have left knew that they could get bumper deals next summer if leaving for free. That's always been the case, and Rovers aren't the only ones affected by that particular state of play. But whatever the reason, or even if contract renewals aren't being offers, the club is then left with the choice of doing what it's done in the past (far too often in my view), which is to let them go for free in a year's time, or get a few million for them now and try to deal with the problem. I'm not against the latter, and many have complained about the club not doing that in years gone by. Well they're certainly doing it now. Whether the replacements work out is another matter.

I'd argue that any player with an ounce of football intelligence/quality would do as I've said above. Nobody coaches you to clamp someone on the halfway line to stop a last minute breakaway, a winners mentality and professional intelligence makes you do it. Did anyone tell Lee Williamson to whollop Ings in the dying moments, no he knew to do it

Is this not something a newspaper might be interested in running as a story. Surely public opinion will be if a sympathetic nature for the little guy. Ciuld this create some pressure for Gestede and his nasty treatment if employees. Running these players iut because if personal vendettas is fire on the dpot type suff to me. Get him out of here.