The absolute levels some people will go to in order to protect their own self interests. Insane

sounds like most recent summers 😉

I can picture it now... Utter carnage and chaos behind the scenes. Contracts and extension offers not accepted/rescinded External bids for players accepted. Players walking away. No new incomings. U23's expected to step up. Hitting pre-season in the opposite position to what Ismael wanted. Disaster on the pitch awaits.

Hence the first line of my previous comment Just because our players are paid below average by Championship standards. does not mean that they are not paid more than other groups we could compare them with (such as the women's team and/or normal fans) by several orders of magnitude

Or if you compare it to the highest men's player getting £20k a week (according to Dugdale) when many of the women's team got £9k a year, it's easy to see why you'd think the men's squad might have a few quid to help with those legal costs.

Stakeholder. 🙂

A stakeholder is just anyone impacted by what you do so supporters are the obvious one but it would also include staff, sponsors, local businesses, residents that live nearby. In our case its largely irrelevant as they all get equally ignored

Waggot seems to have leaked to press that he wanted to bring in external investment to wonens team rather than bin it. Clearly not happy at copping all the blame for Suhail.

That all depends on who we are comparing them with But if we are comparing their current financial remuneration with what they would get at any other club in the championship that has any realistic hopes of being in the mix for the top 6 next season, then yes, I agree

It seems to be a new word that has sprung up in recent years. Fair enough communicate with supporters who ultimately pay people's wages and fund the club but not sure who counts as a stakeholder who isn't a supporter.

Somebody who holds a stake? Beyond that I'm no wiser than you are. Trendy buzzword for something or other I presume.

I think at best we are getting a Broughton type external appointment - someone relatively inexperienced who would love to add Blackburn Rovers and Championship to his CV who would probably have good intentions, come in and realise what a joke the club is and be gone again within 12 months More likely is they let the 'search' drag on for months, this will be an excuse for another botched summer, with ultimately the remaining trio filling the void and curtain twitcher consolidating his power.

What is a stakeholder?

Part of the problem is gone. Rovers, Please do not simply replace one sycophant with another.

If there is any suspicion of money laundering, it could be investigated anywhere. There have been suggestions in the past, that the initial funds used to purchase the club, were not necessarily traceable. I don’t know if there is any truth in that, or if it was investigated properly. Pasted below is quite an interesting article. https://www.occrp.org/en/news/uk-indias-king-of-the-good-times-re-arrested-for-money-laundering

Can you post a link?

If that is true then surely it reflects well on Waggott and terribly on the owners? You are just continuing to deflect away from the real problem.

LOL they're not that well paid.

Billionaire owners, apparently. Who else would buy us, they ask. We've sunk so low I don't actually recognise this club any more.

So we have enough money for a bodyguard for Waggott at home games, and enough money to film our own games and beam them back to India (assuming this is done professionally with a director / gallery this is NOT cheap), but not enough money to fund the Women's team? This club is an actual joke.

Sell up and fuck off.

30,000 in a ground nowhere near as big as the modern one. Imagine what it was like when the record attendance of 61,000 was set. 50,000 wasn’t uncommon then. Notice also - if you look closely enough - kids sat over the wall on the running track on all sides of the ground.

Just seen a decent article online alleging Waggott and the owners clashed over the women's team. Apparently a meeting was held last season at which a firm which invests in women's football by taking an equity share offered external investment into the Rovers women's side. The article alleges that Waggott would have been up for such investment but the owners refused because they thought the optics of accepting investment for the women but not the men's team looked bad. Interesting if true. Edit: It might be this Company have done us a massive favour by hastening Waggott's long overdue departure even if they didn't get their investment.