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Predictably Brian de Keersmaecker has had a good season at Oxford, seems important to them and is already being linked away for profit. Meanwhile we need to buy Tavares, Henrikksson and De Neve replacements and can't move them on anywhere. As I said in summer, buy cheap buy twice. Or in the case of our summer scouting, buy cheap buy 6 times which is what it will ultimately need to be. Along with a Tronstad replacement... Sack Rudy Gestede and Ismael now!

Their VH conglomerate is estimated to be worth 1.6 billion on most recent info. Mrs D herself on most recent estimates is said to be worth a shade over 600 million, not billion. Very wealthy yes but 10 billion ? Unlikely, there plenty more wealthy people in Pune although knowing for sure is difficult the way things are done over there will limited info. The land is an odd subject as well because the Lavasa development which involves vast areas of divided up land around Pune has hit massive problems and most of it has stalled. Legal battles are still ongoing. I'd say a combined family wealth of business, cash and assets of around 2 billion plus is probably nearer the mark.

It is a moot point, that the club (aka Mr Short pants and the Shadow Hider) thought it 'good business' to sell a young prospect to a lower league club only to try to replace him with a clearly inferior alternative at a much higher cost. If anything shows the abject incompetence and incredible ineptitude of the Chuckle Brothers then this is it. It also highlights the much greater long term impact of their weird pseudo-strategy, which places Blackburn Rovers on an inevitable and predictable decline towards failure. Why there is no outrage amongst the fan base about the constant opening of the seacocks by these destructive knobheads is a mystery to me. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together can see the trajectory keeps being revised down and the likely outcome keeps becoming gloomier under their odious hands. Knobheads OUT! VENKYS OUT!

Agree Leonard should of been put in for Gueye

Transfermarkt also haven’t included the Travis and Brittain deals in the 25/26 totals, they have the fee down as ‘?’ So it’s more than €7.43m

He will probably end up here, over the last 2 weeks we have likely called them daily to offer from 0% wage contributions, increasing by 2% per daily phone call.

He did indeed, added a note to my previous post

No it means he will still be playing in the PL2 and having top quality coaching. Compared to a CAT3 academy which plays in a lower standard of league.

Notice Gestede said in that leaked phone call that Pears had "two years plus an option" when when asked about his contract. Could be another Hyam that just hasn't been reported for whatever reason like you say.

Has Paul Mullin gone anywhere yet?

Cadamatari managed 5 goals in league 1 last season. Leonard has smashed through that by January. Should never have been sold when we are so short up top.

Guaranteed.

Please tell me again how/why we are better off with our current ownership stricter than we would be without them?

Not sure if he was hard, but he looked it and played with a heart attack didn't he? Givet?

I think this is where we get it wrong. The Rao wealth of 2 to 4 billion is a very old figure. What we do know was the late father benefitted from a deal which gave him ownership of a third of the collar of land which went all round Pune sometime in the early 1990s in return for making sure it was developed Pune has grown fivefold since then. A third of the land area of Pune today is worth over a hundred billions. Now cut that figure dramatically because they don't have an interest in the central areas then the Raos are still easily worth ten billion plus today and their growth in paper wealth each year has massively outstripped the cash put into Rovers.

All I know is: When we were in the PL, they quickly cut us down to the Championship. When we were on the verge of promotion back to the PL, they sabotaged it. When we dropped into L1, they got the engine moving and quickly pushed us back into the Championship When weve been steady in the Championship the status quo has been maintained. Whoever has actually run the club this past 15 years seems to like it here. Far away from the harsh, prying glare of the PL, but with enough money flowing through the ecosystem that a handy cut can still be hypothetically made through player sales and other arrangements. Very cosy.

I'm sure they have advisers advising them but whether they are listening is another issue. I'm from Singapore and i know a lot of Asian bosses have this mentality that they know better than the professionals. They are also surrounded by Yes men who won't openly contradict them. The Raos might have some super unrealistic plans in their minds where they can invest little yet sell the club for a profit down the road and no one is telling them it's not feasible or they are not listening.

I take a 36 yo Bannan over Cadamarteri any day. Our key problem is we can't create, 2nd we can't finish.

Not sure if ‘Hardman’ is a good descriptor but I always thought David Thompson was a scrappy fucker on the wing.

Fair enough, I'm used to betting decimal.

We are penny pinching from them that’s all it is - we will get him but he isn’t what we need imo

faz and keeley certainly did`nt take any nonsense david mail was pretty granite,went full on with billy whitehurst when whitehurst was playing for reading(think he got sent off for one to many elbows) nicky reid liked to mix it up and he could take it as well later on kevin moran was genuinly hard,loved getting stitches did kevin craig short was pretty hard as well,he used to relish getting stuck in

If we only manage to bring in Cadamarteri it's a shambles and I doubt they can even pull that off. Given our current circumstances low ambition deals like this shouldn't be taking this long.

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