You’ve posted the regulation that says the player shall be free to seek registration with any club of his choice at the expiry of his current contract. Which is correct. But you can sign a pre-contract agreement with another club. Plymouth wanted to keep Ennis and offered him a contract, but he rejected it to move to Ewood. He signed a pre-contract with Rovers and Rovers announced it. For overseas transfers you can sign a pre-contract with 6 months left. For UK to UK transfers it’s within the final month of their contract. If Derby had agreed with Batth and it was signed off they could announce it.

For oversea transfers yes, for domestic no. Anyways as I said, I’m out.

I’ve posted the relevant regulation as to when a player can negotiate a new deal. Clearly things can be different with the current club’s permission. I’m out now as if showing the regulation doesn’t persuade people nothing else will.

They certainly aren’t despised by the vast majority of the Ewood attending fanbase, any conversation on a match day would tell you that…

Nothing can be made official prior to July 1st unless Rovers agree. Derby not announcing anything is proof of the square root of fuck all.

Don’t think so. He can just sign a pre-contract agreement at Rovers. Nothing Plymouth could do about it.

So if Derby are offering a 2 years contract to Batth he can accept the offer and announce the deal and joined them on 1st July. Yet no deal has been announce by Derby and we dont even know if Derby have ever offer a 2 years contract. Which was my main point all day 👍

If it works like it does in FM (I know...), once a player is within the final 6 months of his contract, he's free to discuss terms on a pre-agreement. The owning club doesn't have a say in this, at that stage. Once a deal is agreed, the transfer takes place upon expiry of the contract. The onus for the owning club is to tie a contract up before you get to the final 6 months.

Additionally, how many times have we fallen foul of the 'weaker' sides? Like Iceland, under Woy. In any case, we beat Germany in a knockout phase in the last couple of tournaments - and, without checking, I'm sure we've beaten some Croatia-level sides also. You don't get to choose who you play; the trick is beating them and progressing.

They’d still have had to okay him signing the Rovers’ deal early and he still didn’t officially join until 1st July.

Not this again. Getting put on the ‘easy’ side of the draw pre kicking a ball is luck/fortune/chance, whatever you want to call it, as you have absolutely no input into it via performance on the pitch, it’s pre-determined. That wasn’t England/Southgate’s problem by the way, as you can only beat (or not) what’s put in front of you, no guarantees, but probabilities wise, it helps.

Plymouth wanted to keep Ennis. He rejected a contract offer to sign for Rovers. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65730082 You can sign a pre-contract agreement earlier, but the registration doesn’t officially change until the end of the current contract.

Nope, all three of those signed/will sign on 1st July. (After contracts expired/will expire) https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2023/june/15/sondre-signs-/ ‘He will officially become a Blackburn Rovers player – along with fellow summer signing Niall Ennis – on July 1st’ https://www.swanseacity.com/news/cameron-burgess-seals-swansea-city-move ‘The 29-year-old defender will become a Swansea player on July 1, having agreed a three-year contract, with the club having faced considerable competition in securing his services’ The fact deals were sorted and announced earlier would have been because their current club gave permission. As we want to keep Batth that won’t be happening with him.

Yes they can't. How did we sign Ennis and Tronstad to contracts before their contracts ended at the previous? How has Burgess signed for Swansea when his contracts ends hasn't end at Ipswich.

If he aspires to be head of football and/or CEO, though, then he's all good.

My wife says a semi is never enough.

Imagine Wharton pinging balls through a year older. But it wouldn’t have happened as the club wanted to sell him, just as they wanted to sell Szmodics. Therefore I’d have said it to whoever objected and said to me whatever Bohinen1983 said. Let’s not pretend we were hopeful he would stay. As a club you can’t try and flog a player and then moan if he doesn’t want to get injured in pre-season to ensure said move happen. Another quote from Szmodics “Blackburn wanted to sell me for as much as possible.”

Yes it is, is this a 2 page argument or the full 4 pages?

It'll obviously never come to that - this is change found between the cushions of the sofa for them - but again it does beg the question with all of this going on why are they hanging onto a very public PR disaster? Surely they'd sell and batten down the hatches?

They clearly KNOW they're going to lose the case, which is why they're so reluctant to put any money into the bond with the government.

“I was still training, sometimes with the team and sometimes on my own, but I was going in and being professional.”

You'd have said that to who? The manager clearly wanted to keep him. Imagine 20 goals from the #10 instead of whatever Cantwell / Weimann contributed - we'd have been comfortably in the playoffs.

I'm not missing the point, I'm arguing the point. You get your wall chart and the route to the final Is mapped out. The fixtures are then determined by results, nothing whatsoever to do with luck. If you get an "easy " game or a hard one, it's as a result of how each team performed. Luck would be drawing an "easy" game out of a bag every round.

He was going though wasn't he? It's principle, he can train with the squad until he leaves..

I think if anything they've had it so easy over here for years because we're powerless to rid ourselves of them. They're arrogant billionaires who never fall foul of the EFL or HMRC - they always put in just enough money to satisfy the two bodies that could force them to sell the club. They're despised by the vast majority of the fan base, but it's irrelevant to them as they simply never attend.