What about the fees from Raya, Wharton, Szmodics and Brittain + Gallagher and wahlstedt????

buzzword or excuse?

So still not read the minutes?

Looks like "transition" season is going to be the new buzzword this season, with VI mentioning it in every single interview.

To be fair I don't know enough about his early career and why he doesn't seem to have been on the radar as the talent he obviously was by the time he played for Rovers.

I thought the replays were pretty inconclusive. Would err towards it not being given the significance and stage of the game but if the same thing had happened at the other end everyone would no doubt be saying it was a nailed on penalty.

I am not saying this relates to Rovers in any way, but how many of us on here were aware of this? 2023 Brazilian football match-fixing scandal - Wikipedia https://brazilreports.com/another-match-fixing-scandal-rocks-brazilian-soccer/6708/

Our proud name reduced to a fixture like that. Wonder what would happen if u wanted to sponsor a matchday under I don't know...Raos Out.com ?

I remember that - used to sit right behind Fox/Bancroft/Coar in the old Nuttall Street Stand. They shot off down into the sanctuary of the Boardroom faster than a badger down a rabbit hole when they saw the fans coming over. I was killing myself laughing! Edit: Thought it was during Saxton's time 40 ish years ago?

Again, as I remember it, the Club denied they had received any formal bids. What that means imo is that they have had buyer interest but have never allowed it to get to the formal offer stage. What's the difference? Whatever Venkys wants it to be! Weasel words. They've received offers alright but they've said NO. They want to preserve the myth that no-one is interested in buying Rovers.

There is hope for Kristi Montgomery & Jake Garrett yet! 😉

We've got enough pratts

We could always try the Belgian leagues...

Zidane wasn't recognised until he was 24 at bordeaux. Interestingly Zidane said Scholes was the best midfielder of his generation

Ive been saying for years that the Club has ceased to become a football Club where the aim or priority is to win football matches but is merely a place where certain people go to earn a lot of money. For me it's been like that ever since we got back to the Championship to an extent, with at different times The "Coventrio" of Mowbray/Waggott/Venus Broughton, Gestede, (and of course Pasha throughout) all having their snouts in the trough. From a supporters point of view, what is the point in a Club with no aspirations of success whatsoever, and whose only function is to scrape together enough money together to pay the wages of the people working there? There is none. And now seemingly, you can't even watch the football when you're having your pre-match pint!

Harry Nilsson - Everybody’s Talkin’

I did some 'back of a napkin' bottom-up tallying of our staff costs suggesting our all-in average cost per senior player was in the range of £10-11k/wk in 23-24 (My previous guesstimate was ~£13k/wk!). Perhaps there's a number of shady hangers-on, consultants, etc. making more than I broadly assumed, but, unless they're making millions (shrug emoji), it won't move the needle that much. Part of my previous point that while maybe senior guys like Hyam, Travis, etc. are currently on '£10k/wk', there are plenty of bonuses, etc. that push up 'staff costs'. Probably quite a split within the squad, with Academy grads on relative buttons, a few on 'decent' Championship wages (with Cantwell a potential outlier on top of that), while you can attract the likes of Tronstad, De Neve, Henriksson, etc. with, say, £8/wk-ish packages. It's all guesswork! --- Suppose we had a (mere) multi-millionaire owner who loved the club, had (or built up) a local connection, etc. but was open about only being able to sustainably burn, say, ~£5m/year (so, no FFP risk either), with occasional major sales helping stem those losses (with some % allowed for reinvestment). Furthermore, we'd likely still be well into the lower quartile of league turnover due to inherent financial inequalities (would hope we'd have higher turnover under this jollier scenario, but there are limits, especially relative to parachute payment clubs; as an aside, I've often wondered how much of our current commercial revenue is Venky's-related). In such a scenario, you'd probably have to accept that we'd have a relatively strict wage cap and would need to get creative (and lucky) with lower-league or Euro player trading, but at least we could start building back some pride in this club. Hence, you could maybe conclude there is some logic (even if frustrating) to what we're currently doing... However, we have multi-billionaire owners, where we have no idea how much they care or why they still own the club, have apparently deluded themselves into making a Championship club 'sustainable' even though their alleged wealth suggests they can easily absorb (FFP-compliant, after deductions!) losses of ~£17m/year (where, combined with semi-regular sales (and allowing some reinvestment!), we could probably manage a wage bill in the high £20s million). Whatever the merits of the model they're trying to impose, the fact that we again risk losing out-of-contract (or are chaotically offloading them) betrays a continued complete lack of strategic direction (and we thus should already be hearing murmurs of extensions for Carter, Toth, etc.). Bah, I say!

At the age of 21, Modric was having his breakthrough season in Croatia, which we can probably all agree is at least a level or 2 below the Premier League Interestingly enough, that would have been the same season as when Alex Ferguson was talking Tugay up as a Man Utd player if he was 10 years younger (from my last post) Strange coincidence

Barrett extension announced by Gestede as the exciting new 3rd choice keeper

We had five against Bradford, and scored one of them, two in the second half against Brum, missed both. I would say we create chances but don't put them away.

Money

He still has a long way to go to match modric but I think he's better than what modric was at his age

Need more than one either way. One if not 2 wide men and a striker. And seemingly will just get a winger. Probably some random no mark from a poor foreign league.

Electric Light Orchestra - Sweet Talkin' Woman

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/1029821.fergie-lauds-veteran-tugay/ Sir Alex Ferguson is the latest manager to sing Tugay's praises as the veteran Blackburn Rovers star continues to defy the ageing process. The midfield maestro delivered another virtuoso performance in the 1-0 defeat to Manchester United last week, which prompted Mark Hughes to hail him as the best player amongst a galaxy of stars'. However, Hughes wasn't the only man drooling over the 36-year-old's talents - Fergie also admitted to being blown away by the former Galatasaray star, too. Hughes revealed: "I spoke to Sir Alex after the game last week and he commented on what a good player Tugay is. "I told him if he was ten years younger he'd be playing for United, and Sir Alex agreed! "He's an exceptional player and, given his ability, he could play for anyone in the Premiership, or even the world for that matter." Although in the twilight of his career, Tugay remains a talisman for Rovers. He firmly believes he can play on at this level until he's 40, and Hughes doesn't disagree. ""Given his performances this year, I wouldn't doubt him on that," said the Rovers boss. "Given his position and where he plays, it might be a possibility. "He has a real love of the game, he still enjoys coming in to work every day, and he has a great enthusiasm for the game. "Once you lose that, you retire, and he shows no sign of losing that yet. "At times, I'll try and take him out of the frame to protect him, but we haven't really been able to do that lately (because of injuries). "But he keeps stepping up to the mark and he's been excellent."