Same injury as Ryan Nelsen before Spurs signed him?

It remains to be seen, if the newcomers are here just to fill gaps. From what I saw at Ewood against Everton, there was some promising signs.

I hear Baradji returned to action for Yverdon, playing for 72 minutes, yet we declined to sign him for medical reasons.

You’ll likely get your Jelly and Ice Cream all the same but Esteve signed a new contract, hopefully Beyer and Ekdal are back fit and we’ve added Hartmann, Tuanzabe & of course Kyle Walker so you might argue outfield player wise it’s stronger rather than being dismantled. Obviously need a new number 1 now and will no doubt struggle - but we would have regardless. Still no sign of a striker either

We are in managed decline and there’s nothing positive to draw from Venkys reign….but I still can’t get comfortable with anyone be “sure” that we’ve had a bad window. And just because you don’t know a player, and he doesn’t cost millions doesn’t mean he’s rubbish. It’s different if the club hadn’t signed anyone or if they were signing players we’d been watching for years and could say unequivocally that they were crap!? But I’d put money that most of us haven’t seen any of them play before, including McLaughlin. So I just don’t see how anyone can be so sure that we’ve had a bad window.

Middlesbrough have made two signings now - Alfie Jones from Hull for a fee which could reach £3million with add ons and Abdoulaye Kante (defensive midfielder) from Troyes for a fee reported at less than £2million. Clearly, reinvesting the Hackney money. Will they now deliver a knockout bid for Brittain to thwart Eustace and Derby.

Yeah Blackburn and Darwen obviously now Burnley marketing territory - they are a PL club, after all.

I wonder what will happen when BwD is scrapped and the councils of there, Hyndburn, Burnely, Rossendale and Pendle (and perhaps bit of Ribble Valley) get sqished together as is proposed. We'll probably abolish marketing altogether.

They signed a midfielder for £3 million yesterday or day before

Looks like nobody can be arsed updating the kick off times on here: https://www.rovers.co.uk/matches/results/

Luton were linked to Travis when Edwards was manager there, so I wouldn't be surprised if he's on a list somewhere.

Although the 92/95 team wasn't a one-man band - as could be seen by how they maintained performances in the 2nd half of the 92/93 season without Shearer - it is fair to say that without him we wouldn't have win the league. The 2000's teams under Souness / Hughes / Allardyce were much more a sum of their parts and less reliant on an individual talisman.

Lower league and non-league clubs are one of the few places that still take large amounts of cash on a weekly basis

Apparently each deal is worth "up to £3M" Jones Kante Which by my maths, is more than £0 Also If Hackney is sold, Boro will sign another midfielder, with options in mind who they’d hope can come in and make more of an instant impact to replace a regular starter. I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up with Brittain & either Travis or Tronstad

They also have bought 2 players in the last few days. And had the delay of a managerial change.

See above

I imagine that comment will age like milk by the time the window is closed, As they have demonstrated in recent seasons, they spend upwards of 70% of the money that they bring in, and they are just about to bring in another £20M +

Middlesbrough have sold players worth over 50 million pounds over the last 2 seasons. They haven't spend ANY money on transfers so far. Let that sink in too!

The cynic in me says, Venkys are making sure that relegation will happen this season. Eustace and Szmodics have kept their plans on hold for 2 seasons.

I would disagree personally. Puerta was ok there last season so is just making that deal permanent, if and when he can be registered. Brandon Williams I wouldnt touch.

Without factoring in outgoings, I think many would rather take the players they've signed over the players we have. If someone said to me we could swap just Gustavo Puerta and Brandon Williams as permanent signings, for all 4 of ours - i'd probably take it 🤷‍♂️

Absolutely. But in this window, I definitely wouldnt say that Hull have had a significantly better window. Lots of teams have improved on paper more than us. Wouldnt include Hull.

They also have had a lot of departures from their first team squad But that being said, if Rovers were under an embargo, as we have seen before, we would end up with Sacha Petshit and Bengali Fode Koita, rather than a Brandon Williams, who may have a questionable character, but is a potentially ambitious signing who could make them a good profit if they get him back to previous levels

To be fair, I am really not sure they have. Ajayi and Famewo have injury historys, they are having trouble registering the top 2 (Puerta was there last season), Phillips is a sub keeper, Ndala is an untested kid and Williams hasnt signed but has a questionable character and hasnt played for a while.

Very interesting, thank you. There appears to be no end to the number of people who want to own clubs but (seemingly) shouldn’t.