Cherki has been threatening to play for Algeria, so he rather forced France's hand into playing him in a competitive match to lock him in (even though it was likely an empty threat).

LT reporting Drameh interest too, worrying as to what it means about Brittain.

France senior team called up their best under 21s player to miss this tournament rayan cherki. He'll probably be on the bench

& the author of this… https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/northwest/news/2152825-unpopular-chief-executive-steve-waggott-leaves-blackburn-rovers

Nobody doing the “making a Drameh out of a crisis” gag then…🤓

Double post

Those 3 I'm assuming.

https://www.citytilidie.com/latest/blackburn-away-fa-cup-5th-round-196869/ Write up of the game here @47er and some comments at the bottom from Rovers fans who attended.

Seemingly quiet dense? The irony????

How do you know? Plenty of players have turned down somewhat meaningless senior team inclusion in order to represent under-21s at international tournaments.

BBC Radio Lancs - Michael from the 4000 Holes podcast https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002c95n?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile 1h 43m in roughly

Rhyming slang?

It’s definitely not his preference. He’s too good to play with the kids, already has international tournament experience and wants to get bedded into the first team ahead of the world cup. He would obviously prefer a full summer’s break so he’s ready for preseason.

He didn't He would be a decent signing as back up/competition for Brittain, but if he is Brittains replacement then it is a significant downgrade He does have decent pace though

Pretty sure he started out as a Centre mid. Would be a class signing.

Brereton and Rothwell were down to the owners not allowing bids for those players to be accepted and reinvested.

I was on the Blackburn end, with my mum.

Is that a bus we hired or bought ?

Yeah... I mean if Venkys are really committed to balancing the books through player sales Brittain is one of the most likely sources to even begin to do that. With Waggott getting potted I wonder of part of it was him letting probably around 26M of talent (BBD 15M, Dolan 5M, Rothwell 3M, Lenihan 3M?) leaving on a free in the last 5 years. Maybe a bit harsh as the root cause is the Raos not funding new contracts but I guess Suhail could have thrown him under the bus.

The Villa went to a replay, I don't remember the match, but that Villa side won European Cup the season after, beating Bayern Munuch in the final 16 February 1980 Score 1-1 Competition FA Cup 5th round Venue Ewood Park Attendance 29,468

We're going to face a full summer of this sort of thing, especially with a relatively new manager and Gestede in place. Most of it is self inflicted due to our recruitment and contract policies. But we all know from experience that little of it will come fruition and we will be scraping around at the 11th hour. The fact we seemingly want to keep both Batth and Weimann yet haven't got either over the line tells us where we are on summer business.

If we really do have an interest in Drameh then that points towards Brittain leaving

Apparently Rovers are competing with Derby & PNE for Cody Drameh, with Hull willing to sell at the right price https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25187227.blackburn-register-transfer-interest-hull-city-defender/ Competition & the "right price" presumably being more than £0 surely make this unlikely

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25187227.blackburn-register-transfer-interest-hull-city-defender/ Cody Drameh, who I believe is a right back. Knew it wouldn't take too long!