A great player for us but he's gone now. If he plays against us I'll give him a good receiption up until the game starts. It was obvious when he started the pre season friendly at Accy that he didn't want to be with Rovers. Early that game he claimed to be injured from a soft tap and showed no respect for fans as he left the field. His mind was made up. Twelve months earlier he played again against Accy like no other team mate. That season he proved he could do the job and was outstanding for us. In his mind he must have been thinking this could be my last chance to play in the premiership. Chance came and he took it. Good to recall but he's no longer our player.

mmm fair question, if nothing else he earned a ton of respect and now he's earned the disrespect (mine at least). But then I feel the same about Shearer and he was a legend (or is that a leg end mmm).

He would have been a good partner for Hyam I think.

burgess is a big no nonsense centre back who would have been perfect for us,seeing a batth is "leaving" wharton won`t likely be the same player,hyam is a mard arse and carter is injury prone

Cult hero to present era fans, Speedie style but at the other end of the division.

A one season legend - like Andy Crawford

Was he a legend?

He was hardly 'forcing' a move anyway he was gone the min they made a serious bid the haggling was just over the fee and terms of it. His release clause had been hit so he was fully entitled to go for that figure it's a legal agreement as far as we know. Fact is he turned out in some games afterwards and risked injury blowing it for him. If he was the twohat some are making him out to be he would have flatly refused like no doubt quite a few others have.

Ah, I see. A scenario: man woos a woman, the woman falls for the man, they marry and make their legal covenants to each other. The wife then gets tempted by another bloke with more cash and pisses off. A question: do you reflect on the warm memories of the good times or do feel aggrieved at the treatment you received? Personally I'm enraged by the actions not placated by the memories.

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.