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Like Rudy was, Parson?

Most clubs have this role. Last season Stuart Jones did it. Rhodes is the ideal choice for the role. As a young lad at Ipswich, he had a number of loans to other clubs as he was developing as a professional footballer. He knows the problems youngsters would have going to other clubs on loan because he's been there and done it himself. He's also had loans at the end of his career so knows the problems it can cause late in your career. Thus he has the experience for the role and he has a knowledge of Blackburn Rovers. For me this is an excellent appointment in so many ways.

Was it Udinese who famously had something close to 100 players out on loan one year

I think it started when premier league teams like Chelsea and City would have full teams of people out on loan, for us it seems more of a made up jobs for the boys / appease the fans role

Depends upon what you want to look at. I personally wouldn't count triggering extensions, like they did with Hyam in the summer Forshaw during the summer? (despite him technically leaving first, I'm not having him counted as a new signing) Although that probably wasn't a hard one to get done Ribeiro at the end of last season? This may have been pre agreed based on play time/setting in when he signed n January Before that it was Szmodics, Pickering & Adam Wharton around Christmas 2023 Before that, Pears & JRC is the summer of 2023 This has a link to the last contract renewal of every current Rovers player. Browse to your hearts content

TBF I think its fairly common. I believe at some point Johnson had the remit of Loans Manager under his technical stuff

We are suddenly going to pay a 35 year old 25k a week for a year or two ? Give over, this interest ends when he's offered 10 grand a week for one year but maybe another year as an option.

I wonder how the people who have lost their job recently feel about this ? Created a new role for Rhodes probably because he knows the odious Gestede.

He very much comes across a child in a sweet shop, a very small spoilt child whose been told he can eat what he wants and it doesn't matter if he eventually trashes the place and pukes everywhere because mummy and daddy will clean it up.

Is this a role that is commonly found at football clubs? I've never come across this before.

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Just simply not someone we want invovled with the running of our Club.He's zero prior experience at this level,still learning his trade and comes across as a loose Cannon..very divisive and dangerous.

He's like that in person, tbh.

I think it more likely he wants to play at this stage of his life(assuming he still wants to). Something he probably won't do a lot of at Birmingham with the squad they have assembled. So, on that basis, IF we pay the money,it has a chance because we have the opportunity

I've said this previously. The rumour that this person takes around £500,000 per year out of the club and has done so for a considerable time, suggests he will fight tooth and nail to preserve his own cushy situation at the expense of others - even if that (paradoxically) will result in the end of the club. The only theory I can speculate that might make sense is that the Venksters have given him carte blanche to take the money for as long as he can keep the club going with little or no fresh input from them and with a remit to generate regular sales to chip away at the sunk costs (with payments going back to India as sweeteners), but that the long game is to allow it to fail in a way that doesn't alert the football authorities. Whatever the game is, it is a snidey little gobshite who is the executive instrument at the moment - someone IN THE PRESS, should be asking in a public forum, "What does Suhail Pasha Shaikh actually do at the club?' and "Why is he paid an obscene amount of money for so secretive a role?' Come on PRESS people. It's not rocket science 😉 Oh, and someone on the end of Gestede's petulance should give him a taste of his own medicine and show some balls when treated like shite. Cowards never like the spotlight, and neither do cockroaches.. VENKYS OUT! PASHA SHAIKH SHADOW LEECH OUT! RUDY GESTEDE BILLY BIG BALLS OUT!

Since 2010, West Bromwich is the furthest north he’s played.

Can't believe you wrote that. Don't you think those things matter? If he bullies people, enforces his own moral code on them and shafts anyone who crosses him, don't you want to know? Wouldn't you include these matters when considering whether he is the right man? If what has been alleged is true he should be sacked on these grounds alone. We used to be a happy family club before these morons turned up.

10% Interest if payed back within a week. 20000% interest if not.

Quite possibly yes? He's not originally from that area (he's from Rochdale), no idea where he currently lives though but think he's married with kids so might be at the stage of his life where he doesn't fancy much of a commute to work. I certainly wouldn't be trotting down the M6 every day no matter what the wage was!

You think the player who was most recently playing for Wolverhampton turned down Birmingham because of location?

Let’s not forget, it’s a case of him now making decisions, when he has previously been happy to force a move and announce, he was not in the right frame of mind to play for the club.

But more than what he is making right now, just

I imagine Sky will come up with a Venky defence and be ridiculing the fans just like before.

I imagine lots will go to see the Rovers side that almost finished in the playoffs last season. It is going to be embarrassing all the way round. Question is will VI still be here by then, will he still be here when this international break is finished.

That's definitely one word. I was thinking of the words "the lazy part-time bastards".