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It was widely reported as the fee being €1.8 million. This is reported on several sites and the Telegraph reported it to be "in excess" of 7 figures. Of course this will be including lots of adds on's and stuff, but I imagine the selling fee will also include this.

Nixon believes we only paid £1 million for Gueye initially

That's how it is for many now.

Should have been loaned out and he could be back playing for us now. The club is run by total amateurs who shouldn't be a charge of a car wash.

Think I can certainly put myself in the category of almost giving up. I can absolutely relate to a lot of what has been said in the posts above. My son, age 9, is not into football at all. He has his own special interests, so the love for Rovers in my family will end with me. I do find myself questioning 'what's the point' now, when all supporting Rovers seems to bring me is misery.

My feeling at the time was his going allowed us to bring Gudjohnsen in.

I think this is the best post I've ever seen on here. So sad and so poignant. I hope you keep in touch on here from time to time and take care.

Do you really think they will notice? After all they have been boycotting Ewood Park for the past 10 years. Are they still alive even?

Anyone who doesnt see the need for a boycott or any other form of action should read Devon Rover's beautifully written post on the "Painful Acceptance" thread and take a moment to reflect.

U21 preview for todays game https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2026/january/12/preview--rovers-under-21s-v-nottingham-forest-under-21s/ Joseph is apparently injured, which maybe explains why he has not been included on the first team bench yet

Definitely echo everything that's been said so far. I'm 35 and grew up in Cumbria, which isn't famously known for it's football. The biggest team (Carlisle) weren't at all local and played in non League, so coverage was really poor. School had a mix of all of your traditional big teams, but you could count on one hand the number of kids that went to any games. My Dad wasn't a massive football fan and didn't have a club, so I essentially had a free choice on who to support. NW, play in blue, massive history, I can watch them on MOTD and maybe I'll be able to get to a few games... Went to well over a hundred games with my Dad and brother growing up, driving a 240 mile round trip to watch our heroes in Blue and White. The connection we grew with the club was special and it's given me some of the best moments of my life. I don't believe any other club in the English football leagues could rival us in terms of the family feel you'd experience on match days and we were pound for pound one of the best run clubs around. I've always been so proud to say that I'm a Rovers fan, even when others would laugh. I've experienced the highs (post Premier League win). The competitive league finishes, the European and Domestic cup runs, winning the Worthington Cup in Cardiff, promotion from the second division twice, playing at Ewood Park as an adult twice. I've also experienced the real lows. I was sat in the stands for my 3rd ever game as we were relegated against Forest. I was at Brentford when we slipped into L1. There was however always hope. For me, there has never been an expectation of winning. I bought into a club that honoured tradition and fought by skill and hard work. Peaks and dips are part and parcel of football but what we're currently seeing isn't that. It is managed decline. It has nothing to do with trying to run a successful football club. Everything that the club once was and stood for has been completely ripped away. Until that changes - and I think that means everyone gone from behind the scenes even remotely linked to Venky's, as well as the clowns themselves - I'm struggling to see what there is for me anymore. There is no ambition, no attempt to be better and the club now just feels soulless. I would love to take my 2 year old daughter to more games and be able to share my football passion and memories with her, but it's really got to the stage where I can't line their pockets anymore. They need to go before they cause even more damage. It's not just the football side they are destroying, it's the club and the will of the supporters that follow it.

And for all those that may not share same opinions going forward, we all have one thing in common at the end of the day. No one wants to pick holes in opposite opinions really but it's just got to, as Ian said, a tipping point. We don't want to see people throwing the towel in now because they might not come back if/when they leave. But look how it resonates with everyone. We've all got our own stories. But it's affecting people more than we think.

"Little money" is relative. Armstrong and Szmodics turned out to be absolute bargains but still cost £3m and £1.9m respectively. Our ceiling for transfer fees recently seems to be generally around the £1m mark with the wages being even more of a problem so that would put even a top League 1 or League 2 striker out of our budget probably unless someone else is sold to cover it.

How is Nixon working out we are selling Gueye for an 800k profit at 1.8 million, when the reported fee when we bought him was 1.8 million? Am I misremembering or are they just lying about the add-ons as usual...

I don't think anyone is labelling him the second coming but to many he had enough about him to be kept around. By rights he should've been loaned to Posh and he'd be recalled now fit and ready to have another go. However it seems Gestede was actively trying to sell him and even offered him to Peterbrough for less than they were prepared to go to to get him.

Technically has some first team experience which is more than could be said for Mason, but it's in the MLS, so who knows how relevant that is. If he has anything about him he should be able to stabilise the team at the very least.

And in summer they'll reduce it further by Trons, Cantwell leaving and selling Toth for a few quid. They'll then assume the advancement of last summers signings being another year experienced and more youth in the squad will be enough to stay up next season. Before they start selling that lot off to pay the bills.

This thread resonates so much for me, as anyone who has listened to our latest 4000 Holes episode will already know. The club is reaching a tipping point. Season ticket renewals will be interesting. So many fans are simply exhausted. Thanks to everyone who has shared on here…🙏

And the fact that they will need them on monday night for the u21s with most of the u21 playing in the fac cup on sunday

Easy to label Leonard as the second coming now that he's gone, but remember he's doing the business in League One after not having done the business here. I always thought he had talent but bad luck with injuries, plus he didn't really take his chances, and Peterboro insisted the deal was made permanent so as long as we're penny-pinching that's what happens. Alongside Ohashi he would be good but a bad fit with Andri imo. Need another striker that can put the ball away but also has good workrate.

First of all, he is not the ONLY problem at the Club but he is a bloody big part of it, he's an atrocious manager/ head coach - and he is fully complicit in the situation we currently find ourselves in. The real test of how good or poor a manager he is imo came last season. Literally from the first minute he walked through the door, remaining in the play off picture no longer seemed to be an option. In the summer he was completely on board ("aligned") with Gestede and Pasha as he oversaw the destruction of the squad. After wheeling and dealing with eleven or twelve players both in and out we've been left with arguably the weakest squad any of us can remember and definitely the one with the least attacking potential. Hardly surprising when we went into the season with only two strikers that he was prepared to use. Frankly I don't believe a word he says either. He's been prepared to pretend players were close to signing new deals one minute then make out they'd changed their mind on a sixpence the next, sling unfounded accusations at other outgoing players or send them to Coventry in order to ease them out of the door, and been happy to sell a key player in the last few hours of the window without a replacement knowing the alternatives had a history of being extremely injury prone. Now he's (imo) pulling the wool over supporters' eyes by pretending players were coming in early and that we're after two strikers when (again imo) he knows there's no chance whatsoever of that happening. And it comes only a month or two after he told the owners they could repair the pitch instead of spending in January. The owners need to go, Pasha needs to go, Gestede needs to go. But by Christ this fella also needs to go. 4 home wins in 19 and 2 goals in (edited) 624 minutes of football.

Fully relate to this in its entirety. Trying to pluck pennies from here there and everywhere to take the kids down to watch the Rovers. Walking down with pride knowing I'm presenting an experience to my kids that I worked hard for. Though financially better off these days, my heart breaks with every stride toward Ewood knowing that its not the place I used to cherish. It'll always be Ewood Park. It'll always be Rovers. But the passion is fading too. Hard as I try it just doesn't resemble anything as it used to be. Heart and soul torn from a working class town, born into Blue and White for the most part, our release, our heritage, our Pride of Lancashire and no one could take that away from us. But it has.

I'm not sure how others feel but being a Rovers fan not from Blackburn is actually pretty strange. I live in Southampton and been a Rovers fan for more than 30+ years and have this affinity to the people and area of the country that is completely different from my life down here. I don't know anyone in Blackburn and I can count on 1 hand how many times I've had a proper discussion about the club with someone outside of Blackburn who has the same feelings towards the club as me. It can be quite lonely when you watch a game and can't talk to anyone about it except on social media - which can be a great or awful experience, depending on who is responding or what has happened. Even when Rovers win, you don't have that person to turn to and celebrate with. You just enjoy it on your own. It's a bit easier when Rovers lose because you aren't reminded of it because no one talks about them down here. It is strange when you're in the away end at Southampton, Portsmouth etc hearing Rovers fans slagging Southerners off....when you're a Southerner...but I wouldn't want it any other way. It's even better when you spot your friend in the home end at St Mary's giving them a w****r sign and they're smiling back. It isn't great when you're grabbed by throat outside the stadium being called a Northern so and so when you actually live and work 10 minutes down the road. Like I said - it's pretty strange! I love going to Ewood Park because it does feel like a pilgrimage to your football church to see the team you think about every day. Whether it's rainy and miserable or the sun is shining, you breath it all in and enjoy every moment - except the food inside Ewood - that really does taste awful! The flipside of that joy is having to watch the clock tick towards 90 minutes knowing that you might not be back any time soon, which makes you feel sad. The reason why I wrote all that is because it's difficult reading this post. I'm sure we've gone through similar experiences throughout our lives supporting the club from afar. Personally, I would find it very hard to stop supporting the team. I've dedicated too much of my personal life and time towards the club, however, Venkys are a cancer at the club that needs removing and if that isn't going to happen soon then you have every right to choose to do what you feel is right for you. I hope you can switch that dedication that you have for Blackburn towards something else that brings you the joy that the club has brought you over the years. Good luck.

Well, we've turned them up before for little money (Szmodics, Adam Armstrong etc). I think we need to look at League 1 and 2 and take a punt on a couple of forwards with good goal scoring records at that level. I doubt loans are going to help us, or players from abroad. January loans tend to not be motivated, and players from abroad need time to get up to speed.

I'm not a prolific poster on this message board, but I have been a member for 18 years now, and I'm close to signing out too. My dad was my last tangible connection to the club really, I guess my brother too but we haven't really spoken about Rovers in a very long time. Dad passed away a little over a year ago. Dad grew up in London, he supported Rovers because his dad, who died long before I was born, was from the town. Even Grandad had left Blackburn during or around the second world war - though I am told he maintained the accent immaculately - by the time I came around the connection was already getting a bit frayed. I now live on the south coast, I guess Bournemouth are my local 'big' team, I used to go to away games with dad but haven't set foot in Blackburn in years, let alone Ewood. I probably have some relatives in the town - dad certainly had cousins who were still about, but I don't know them and wouldn't know how to find them. I genuinely, sincerely, love this club, but it increasingly feels like that one relative you gradually grow up to realise isn't a very nice person and you actually don't enjoy spending time with. I deeply resent that the rovers of the last years of dad's life was this version. It's gutting. It should be a source of joy, and memories - I want to see results and think 'dad would have enjoyed that', 'dad would have liked this player' etc. and I can't. He wouldn't have. The fanbase feels increasingly fractured, even on here. I have encountered other Rovers fans in the wild and been almost reluctant to admit that this is my team for fear of the reaction if my views on Venkys or recent history don't align with theirs, if I am not sufficiently 'getting behind the boys' or whatever. A prolific poster late of this parish accused me of being a dingle infiltrator a few months back for suggesting I'd like to see the academy players get a run out in the cup. Supporters of other clubs are unsympathetic or ignorant, and I find myself fed up of explaining, or attempting to explain the situation, so I shrug and move on. I used to be proud of this club, and I find myself wondering when I lost that. I guess it's just been worn away gradually over the last fifteen years. At some point it will be gone entirely and I will probably have to make the same decision as Devon Rover. I'm tired lads.