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These are the same players you'll be hating on in a couple of years when they leave for the same reasons as those this summer, by the way.

Perhaps Tronstad does want to go back to Norway. If that is the case, maybe just maybe we should be trying to persuade him to change his mind.

Tronstad's interview was Summer 2025 with Norwegian media https://www.brfcs.com/forums/topic/37711-2025-summer-transfer-thread-😂/page/413/#findComment-2735208

Are you saying it's an act of disloyalty to criticise your Club? Even when its in the wrong? That's just plain stupid.

Sondre Tronstad makes Blackburn Rovers contract admission | Lancashire Telegraph This interview. April 2025. Yes I will blame the club. They are responsible and the one constant in years of shambolic activity.

Pointless asking questions at the Fans Forum. Even if they answer them we have good reason to believe that they won't be genuine honest answers and even if they are won't be accurately minuted so that everyone can read them. I have zero interest in whatever fanciful figures you want to throw out there for what we spent in the summer. I do not for one minute accept or believe that we spent that amount and whatever we did spend was comfortably covered by what we brought in. Some might call that astute, but if it means we finish 10 places lower than last year where's the benefit? Venkys could send money over, they chose not to. Choice. Difference being the owners of Wrexham, Derby and Middlesbrough were willing to put money in.

ignorance is bliss tbf well i hope Saturday's win eased some of your misplaced anxiety

Let's focus on that and ignored we moved on and fixated on our players not players who gone

Some of that money covered Rovers losses whilst Venkys couldn't send money over.. We spent 10m this summer. Some left over for January window. Yet again I don't have all the answers why dont get Josh to ask these questions at the next fans forum

What serious questions are you asking too? Rovers management or just on BRFCS?

What interview? I gave you the link last week over Tronstad interview with Norwegian media last summer..plus link Gestede's interview last week. That's it blame your own club depends on what we talking about?

Yeah, I also cant understand the fixation about 4 (well, 6) key players all leaving the club because we cant sort first team contracts out. Only a minor issue.

Question - why, when we've sold over £50 million worth of players in 4 years (averaging out at £13 million per year, convenient that this is roughly the amount we lose each year) - are we not able to afford to pay our players as much or more than Wrexham or Derby? Please answer me that one.

Yes. Because it is important and directly affects how the club performs. Must be nice to just want to sweep things under the carpet and pretend everything is well and gross negligent chronic mismanagement doesn't matter because 'it's in the past'. Gestede, Ismael and Pasha would just love that if everyone fell for the 'new era' spiel again and forget all about the chaos of the last 4 years that they have delivered. If only life was so straight forward. Unfortunately unless we finish 7th or above there should be an inquest into what has gone on here and why and serious questions asked and answers demanded. Not just a shoulder shrug 'it's in the past' routine. The club will never, ever get anywhere if it doesn't at least accept and recognise past failings and ensure they won't ever happen again. Under this regime it is just being set up for the same in a couple of years.

Tronstad has said more recently in a local media interview that he was very happy at Rovers, loved being here and would like to extend his stay. So which one is accurate? With Travis you are doing exactly what the club want people to do - making out as though the club is nought but a powerless spectator in the debacle. You're contradicting yourself here - suggesting his comments about wanting to stay at Rovers weren't true and yet attaching importance to his recent comments to BBC Derby which of course are going to offer a different narrative. The club is to blame for his departure. Surely you can accept that basic principle?

Oh i don't know it's quite nice being able to see the clear picture rather than the dark illusions of having one's head perennially in the sand.

Neither could Adam Wharton

I am not sure I follow - why would Cantwell be more likely to get injured in a deeper role?

some can of PL money and some can of their commercial and sponsor money intake. Some owners don't want spend big on wages and some do. Had Rovers offered new contracts during Eustace early reign, some of them might have sign them. People are still fixation on these 4 players who have gone.

Can any championship club "afford" wages, most will be in significant debt and running at a loss, surely? The club would have had very little problems in getting all 4 on a new contract if the club paid the going rate in the championship and showed some level of ambition but as we do neither, it's no wonder they all left. I'm sure everyone is looking forward to seeing how the new players get on but we all know that none will be here beyond the length of their contracts, or even within the last 12 months of their contracts, as the new norm is to sell anyone who has 12 months or less on their current deal, and none will sign an extended deal because our salaries on offer are too low. As @Tomphil2 says above, it won't be long before our players are leaving for Preston and Oxford because they will have overtaken us.

must be insufferable for you and the other moaners living with this sort of fear on a daily basis 😄

Yep, O'Riordans seems a good one, and Edmondson & Pratt are being given a chance, but at the moment, the rest seem to be nothing more than squad fillers at their loan clubs

is it self imposed wage cap or is it Rovers paying what we can afford within our finances Dolan was never re-sign here as I said earlier. Travis wasn't after Eustace left. See his comments with BBC Derby, he wanted out Brittain I thought he would cos of Ismael. None did, but we sold them and reinvest some of money into signings, so instead of looking back and back why not look forward to the players here and will actually be playing in Rovers shirt this season.

It'll come to a point soon where the likes of Preston, Oxford and similar will come in and take our better players simply by offering standard championship wages of a couple of grand a week more over 3 years. The happy clappers are going to need lots and lots of blow up snakes in the near future.

Our self imposed wage cap has already seen us lose Travis, Hyam, Dolan and Brittain. 4 players who would be starting here every week, 3 of which went to other championship clubs. We'll never retain any good players, as they will always want to leave for more money. So the results on the pitch will inevitably get worse as the quality of the squad is constantly reduced.