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And League One !

someone from Belgium? what are the odds eh?

I hadn’t taken that into account as I’d completely forgot 🤦‍♂️ That being said, I think spending £100m could cause issues as FFP looks forward as well as backwards. I’m pretty confident we won’t get to find that out though 😁

Max Dean

Case number 36 on the list. New courtroom, new judge - exciting times 😁😁

War chest incoming. Nixon article 'Rovers have cash to spend due to FFP wiggle room' Once he browsed on here this evening.

Wasn’t Mike Harrison with some Brazilian girl at the time?

Omg .iv said numerous times I wouldn't be upset if he left I don't think he is a good manager My point is il say again i don't believe a change in manager will change much unless it's someone else other than Gestede and Pasha choosing it. No mental gymnastics going on by me.You seem to think it's Ismael dictating our transfer buisness and now claiming he is trying to placate the fans for a month by pretending he wants 2 forwards.(sorry but that is ridiculous) You also suggest we only had 2 strikers because of Ismael and he should have signed another.Like I said he had 4 forward 2 of which he clearly didn't rate and I agree Gueye is poor and Tyjon isn't ready. I think we will stay up yeah like I said 1 or 2 weeks in the bottom 3 all season with multiple key players injured.

The dreadful standard of the current dross as never been seen before in blue & white shirts !

@K-Hod - I got a couple of family members vouchers for Eight at Gazegill for Christmas, I'll let you know if you've made or ruined their Christmas 🤣

Is that taking into account that transfer fees paid out are split in the accounts over up to 5 years or the length of the players contract (whichever is shorter) If you need to take that into account then they could technically spend circa £100M in January and still be compliant (obviously thy would need to sell a few to balance the books next year) * obviously the most sensible time to do the big spend would have been last year when we were in the top 6 and it had only been 1 year since the Wharton sale & 6 months since the Szmodics sale

There is a fairly pointless article in the LT about how well Cleary did last night despite with quotes from him and Ally McCoist despite the article admitting from the start that we are unlikely to go back for him. Also describes him as a "terrific teenager" before saying that hes 21.

Why did he have so many games when we had a better squad than now ? Think about it. He wasn't in teams because of his goal threat it's not rocket science and i don't remember him being farmed out to china in his prime years either. It's nothing to do with comparing apples and oranges it's to do with rotten apples and rotten apples i.e two very limited forwards and the debate who was the rottenest overall. Championship versus Chinese leagues ? It's not even close and by the way i dread to think of your forward line up if you were manager, sounds like you'd be a one up top 'Gueye' .i just hope you'd have someone else who could actually control a football in the team.

Scott Wharton just recently. Before that, Harry Pickering in December 2023.

I could’ve mentioned the Raya sell on too…

It is pretty widely known there have been a number of approaches to V's over the years about a sale, or part sale, of the club. I cannot recall one 'official' acknowledgement of this so don't hold your breath.

No idea. Scott Wharton? Gallagher?

When was the last first team player to sign a new contract (because they were going to stay and not to help club maintain their value)?

Acquisition details below - ultimately they paid £21 million for a business which was revalued at £35 million. They got a very good deal, and proceeded to completely fuck it up…

I was talking about renewals.

Having better squads is all the more reason they should have been capable of goals. Those appearance stats really do mean sod all. Starting in different countries, Gueye isn't close to done with his career. Comparing apples and oranges. Nothing cast iron about it. In fact most people seem to disagree with you. If you would pick strikers who never score then I'm glad you're not the manager. Brown is the worst striker to have had as many games as he has at Rovers in my lifetime.

Did we really have class acts like Szmodics and Wharton playing for Rovers? Seems light years now from the current dross in blue and white

Whilst these are back of a fag packet, information like this is what the LET should be honing in on, researching, and reporting for all to see. Could also be very valuable for the coalition to do some digging. One of the most frequently trotted out arguments for the current ownership is that they can't possibly spend money because of PSR/FFP.

I think it was Eddie who absolutely nailed Gestede in a podcast about there only being a limited window of opportunity to reinvest due to FFP rules. Gestede couldn't answer that and merely kept repeating a lame excuse about how the transfer budget for the year was unaffected no matter how many sales were made. Which is utterly bizarre when you think about it.

A lot of our players sign reasonable contracts. 2-3 year deals with an option are pretty standard these days, but we just can't get them to renew. We seem to be operating with a mindset that players will routinely renew within the final 6 months of their deal on similar terms (if not worse terms). That just doesn't happen these days.