On the free transfers, I think Gestede specifically mentioned that market when speaking to Elliott Jackson. Got to be proactive and offer decent wages or at least think outside the box. On our own players. We always make excuses, we dont want to distract them, we need to know what division we are in. Its all bollocks as its preferable to get them signed up (or at least be 100% sure they wont sign) mid season to avoid the mess of having to simultaneously try to give existing players contracts (or at least pretend to try) and then deal with that and potentially replacing any that dont sign simultaneously with bringing in new players.

Some are overreacting here. We are currently a selling club, especially to PL teams. If any player gets a chance to play in the PL, they'll take it. In the case of Szmodics, he pretty much single-handedly kept us in the Championship during season 23/24 and deserves to be appreciated for that. We should be way more concerned as to why the club is not reinvesting the money generated from player sales to push the team forward.

We hadn't heard of Ohashi, Toth, De Neve etc. No idea if the guy Swansea have signed is any good. Merely saying that they had spent big money on someone amidst saying that Burgess is a good signing.

thats an excellent signing,everyone hoovering up the free transfers apart from us,who can`t even complete deals for players we already possess😰

They both refused to play because they wanted to go somewhere "better" Not in the Derek Dougan class of downing tools but there's not much difference Sammie's spoilt it for me and has tarnished his time at Ewood

Come off it - he singlehandedly ensured we weren't relegated.

A monumental overreaction he's hardly Rudy Gestede.

Why on earth would he say any of this stuff!? It's ridiculously naïve. Why didn't his agent stop him. He has to come back to Ewood this season, why get everybody's back up with stupid unnecessary comments like that. He was a legend at our club and held in great regard by the fans now it turns out he gave us two fingers and told the club to do one. Don't know about you but I love rejection. What kind of reaction does he anticipate? If he aspires to get into coaching after his playing career is ended he's pissing on his chips with any return to us. I defo would have given him real good round of applause when he came back to play against us but after treating us with such disrespect he'll get an earful. Self centred and entitled like all the rest of the overpaid footballing pre Madonnas, absolutely no respect for those who make them as rich as they are. Do one Sammy.

Bites... go on...

I will remember sammie for what he did for the Rovers, rather than what he didn't do.

wide player from Sweden for £6m who I've never heard off

The guarantee is in place due to the ED not wanting Venkys transfering all their cash overseas and not being able to pay the fine. They have already had $7m of property assets seized in India to pay for the investigation into them. I am pretty sure if they lose the case any guarantee funds they have placed with the ED already will be lost to pay part of the fine.

Swansea have signed Cameron Burgess on a free. Thats a really good signing, theyve signed a few players including a midfielder for a few million.

No thanks i'll not bother i'd much prefer someone to scroll through his tweets and replies.

You can listen to his comments on radio Lancs website maybe but how many clubs are really offering him a 2 year contracts

With the clubs history I feel for anyone who thinks Batth, Weimann or (come on now) Dolan will be here next year. Ordinarily no news is good news. Not with Rovers; many posters have predicted what is likely going on behind the scenes. Fwiw I wouldn't offer Weimann a new contract, would offer Batth a year with an option for another and would be doing everything possible to get Dolan's signature.

I can't remember the last time one of your sources came through.

To be fair and to use the full sentence on that, he described it as moving from a 'massive club' to 'another massive' club, which he felt extremely lucky to have represented both. He worked hard in the games he did play for us, so no complaints from me.

Both,absolutely no question!

Or maybe he's mulling over multiple offers.

Honesty is the best policy and something sadly lacking in the Ewood boardroom so fair play to him he isn't the first and won't be the last but he has the balls to admit it. Never ever let us down on the pitch even just before he moved unlike one or two others.

They knocked off £20 🤣 Even at the time some said it was a con trick so they could then say 'no point bothering'. When nobend first did theirs an adult ST behind the goal i think was £100 cheaper than Rovers at the time, Bolton was even cheaper but obviously a league lower. It's hard to fathom are they complete crackpots or just con jobs covering their own arses.

Well you can ask him, i can't iv'e been blocked since 2012 so have to rely on others quoting him. The quote i saw said Rovers offered him a good deal but only 12 months and he wanted 2 years which Derby were willing to match.

I’ve never met you but I count you as a football friend❤️

...But according to Sufail they listened to Waggott about lowering the prices and got little responce. Always an excuse with these Clowns running our Club.