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English football is a behemoth in the world of football. Of Venkys ever wanted to sell or leave us for whatever reason, there would be a queue.

It costs money to own and run football clubs. Even if you buy a ready made PL one, like the Venky cretins did, you do so with full 'buyer beware' knowledge that there are 3 relegation slots every year which with some bad luck/decisions could wipe out the value of your investment and end up costing tons of cash. Yet despite all that the buyers keep on coming. Indeed in the last 10 years or so English football including the lower leagues and smaller clubs, has become even more popular with foreign groups and interest whereas in the past it was largely limited to local or British businessmen. So it's a myth that there is no interest, and everyone knows they risk losing a lot of money. I find it hard to comprehend why anyone would have concerns about the motives or intentions of potential new owners given the current gangs' background. Never coming to games Never communicating Wrecked the club On track for another visit to League One Potentially involved in criminal or at least highly unethical conduct in India resulting in a freeze/restrictions on their ability to fund the club Agents running the show And yet you'd be worried about the motives of a new owner? They'd have some way to go to trump this lot.

We definitely need a battering ram/ beast forward to give us another option. I’d rather that than another powder puff technical player that isn’t up to the meat pie nature of the championship.

Different issue. Venky’s having no inclination to feck off is pretty much agreed on here, whatever the reasoning is. But if they did, nobody being interested because they’d lose money is a very strange argument for anybody that has even a passing interest in English football.

I genuinely don't know the answer to this,but how wealthy were the owners of the clubs which have been recently taken over? To me there are 2 main reasons that clubs are sold, either the owners want to sell or they have to sell. I don't see Venkys falling into either category, certainly not the second one.

They are both really poor. I'm not comparing them to us, i know how bad we can be, just based on what I have seen from them. Both of them are right in it with us and its impossible to say who stays and who goes out of those 3. Turned it off and they go and equalise!

1-1 into bottom three we go.

They still beat us! You said the same about Charlton and they’ve taken 4 points off us too (should have been six). There is a recurring theme.

Looks like we'll be out of the relegation zone for the next week at least. Portsmouth are really poor.

The who would fund us argument is misleading. People don't own football clubs to make money. If you've got tens of millions to spare and want to make a return on investment - invest in the stock market, buy a profitable business, don't buy a football club. If venkys don't want to fund the losses they shouldn't own us, it's not an act of generosity its an obligation as it is with evert club for which there is no shortage of owners and people wanting to buy a club.

To act decently, you have to do so in both good faith and in agreement with the rules that we set for each other. Sadly, we are not all adults in the sense you suggest. Take our now departed Chaddy, who behaved like a drunk in the corner of the pub shouting endlessly the same things over and over again, seemingly with a level of enjoyment and lack of self-reflection. The bar staff would rightly ask him to leave.

It just astounds me!

“ I SUPPORT VENKYS.“ I wouldn’t want that as my epitaph.

Made in bad faith if you consider his rather childish comments in the other place.

As has been suggested many times, it's all about standards. It seems there are those who are willing to see Rovers run in this manner.

They’ve learnt what, exactly?

And they are going to spend it bringing in good players and improving their squad ??? …. ARE THEY MAD !!!!

"They're bullies over there, its as simple as that when you boil it down. They're trying to create an environment where its open season for personal abuse and intimidation towards anyone who is positive about Venkys. Well the brfcs keyboard warriors can snarl as much as they want, its not changing my view. I SUPPORT VENKYS! They plough a huge amount of money into the club, they've learnt from their earlier mistakes, and all things considered they've done a decent job from the Mowbray era onward." I kid you not😲

That's not how it works. Cash injections from sell on clauses don't affect transfer budgets. Source: Various condescending knobs in charge and treating Rovers fans as dimwits over the years.

It staggers me that they seem to be letting Robertson leave for Spurs.

Sounds like they might lose one or two more as well. If Rovers fail to beat them at Ewood then there really is no hope for survival.

I feel this is a fair assessment.

It’s like being Prime Minister. It’s the biggest arse kicking job in the world but 100’s of MP’s would jump at the chance. Not everybody on the planet is dealing with a full deck.

But there are plenty of these bonkers people that do want to own (Championship outfits especially) football clubs. So I don’t see why it is so unfeasible that we’d be bought by one.

Nope. I do acknowledge that. And I think anybody wanting to own a football club is bonkers! But for me, the financial questions and the intentions of any new owner still worry me, and still have to be answered. And, yes, I'm just as befuddled as any other supporters as to why the Venky's still own us. I hear certain stories, but they are still here for whatever reason. The footballing/business world is an odd one to say the least. You're generally right. I cannot answer for others. I'll hold my hands up, maybe I'm guilty of it here and there, although I try to not get carried away, and I do attempt to argue my points. In spite of suggestions that I'm just looking for a reaction, that's not the case, rather that I just expect I'll get the usual reactions that I'm happy with everything, I want to do other supporters down, blah blah blah. Total rubbish. The thing is, we'll eventually agree that "we all want what's best for Rovers". I don't know what answer that entails. I don't think boycotting has been fully thought through, and the ingredients aren't there for full support of it. See yesterday for evidence of that. That's not doing anybody down or deliberately looking to wind people up. That's just my objective take on it. 🤷‍♂️