Gueye is the player imo in the squad who could do an Armstrong/BBD/Szmodics and have a really exceptional season. He has all the ingredients, totally unplayable on his day. I would really want to keep him. That said... UAE clubs do need to sign quite a lot of random smaller players to make up the numbers with big money players, they will be offering a higher wage also with zero tax. He may speak arabic too coming from Senegal. Sort of feels plausible to me.

Sometimes it doesn't even need "decent cash" to be on offer

Just a regular reminder - decisions are not being made for the betterment of Rovers, the squad or with footballing considerations in mind. Decisions are made based on savings and unlocking £££ and nothing else comes into it. If decent cash is on the table for anyone they will be sold, if that ruins our squad and season so be it.

The plan is relegation !

The time is right the day after the meeting rather than a month down the line…

It just beggars belief we would even contemplate selling Gueye a week before the season starts. If he goes it’s got nothing to do with improving the team and is simply more money into the black hole. We have already removed our 2nd and 3rd top scorers from last season without replacement. We know nobody else in the squad will contribute much as they have been here long enough. Is Hedges going to bag 10 goals and 10 assists? Travis? Tronstad? De Neive or Kargbo have no record of either. Brittain was our only crosser of a ball and now he’s going. The only person who has potential to contribute more in goals and assists is Cantwell. Unless the plan is to 0-0 our way to survival then we need to get some attackers in ASAP not sell any.

'We're selling ole,ole,ole,selling ole,ole,ole..selling again,selling again,selling ole,ole,ole'!!!

There could be other people in the shadows, who could benefit from his sale, especially to a Saudi club who would pay an over the top fee. Probably bull shit but never say never at Ewood!

Not if he's told from above that we owe future instalments and don't want to or can't pay them.

Absolutely nailed it here.

If we are talking £800k for him and he goes, it can only be because Ismael doesn't want him in the squad. We'd be selling at a loss.

The initial fee quoted for Gueye when this BS first came out was c800k. Nobody is paying millions for him so there is no point whatsoever selling but this is skint Rovers where the budget gets cut summer on summer and what happened last year has little bearing on this. So anything could happen.

For me, having a plan B is a means of changing the way a team is playing, during a game that isn't going your way. Gueye is ideal for this. It does not mean that Gueye is a replacement for Yuki if he is not available. What we need is a similar player to Yuki for when Yuki is not available, and keep Gueye for the plan B tactic. Ideally we get a better player than Yuki, and Yuki becomes the back-up, with Gueye the plan B ( I doubt very much that the last bit will happen ).

U21s are playing Ashton Utd at 1pm this afternoon. Jordan Eastham could play against us after signing permanently for them in the summer

I'd find wearing a Kim Jong-un Mask more appealing than one of that Venky Two Hat!

Reading the situation at Hillsborough, a 44 game Championship season and just 2 relegation slots is a 50/50 likelihood this morning.

The problem with having someone similar to Ohashi is the lack of plan b. If/when teams figure us out we need something different to change things. Gueye is that player involved in 12 of our 63 goals. You are right about some ‘assists’ I don’t think they should be classed as such but at the same time the equaliser away to Leeds he got no credit for his big part so evens itself out. If we can get another 5/6 goal contributions out of him taking him to 15-20 that’s decent for a back up player

I would command £5-8m up for Gueye. He is a beast, he is a great character, he gives us something else and has shown glimpses of what he can do. IF we sell him I would replace him with (wishful thinking) Matija Frigan from Belgian Super League. Rumored to Elche. 1,85, Croatian and had 9 goals last season for his club Westerlo. there is one really good thing with getting players from Swiss K-League, Belgian Super League or similar league and that is the season is already started and they should be fit and ready to go straight away. I guess today (not many hours) will give us answers how far things have advanced with both CB and MG. will they be in the line up against NEC?

Try and be right and I will cheers though

I'd sell him for a 6'+ do it all CF with pace - as with our wide players our #9 is going to have to create all his own goals. As that's not going to happen I'd hold onto him.

Selling Gueye now would be cretinous. We won't have a replacement lined up, and all we'll have is Ohashi and Leonard, who is rubbish.

I’m in the camp that wants to see Gueye again this season there were times last season when he was an absolute beast , the Preston game. At home comes to mind but everyone has a price and I think £3-4m is the tipping point for me

Didn't Alf Ramsey say something similar to Jack Charlton ?

I would not. In fact I would be hesitant to sell him for anything less than 4-6 million right now. Feel this will be a good season for him, I’m worried who we’d get in to replace him with, and also he is the club’s grip strength champion apparently.

Yes, the writing has been on the wall for 4 or 5 years with the 2 seasons in league 1 being a temporary distraction from the owners actions. He’s pretty much follows his Worcester playbook day by day, the board who were in place (made up existing directors) sadly took too long to accept what he was doing and contributed to the death by a thousand cuts we’re seeing now. Whittingham as he did at Worcester will walk off into the sunset with all his debts wiped and having picketed millions from loans to the club, etc.