Valérien Ismaël: Blackburn Rovers Head Coach

[chaddyrovers]

19 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Right. So that February 2024. At the time Gregg Broughton was Director of Football and it was another 3 months before he left.

Around that time Rudy Gestede, fresh off the back of a playing career, was 'shadowing' Waggott by following him to meetings etc. allegedly with a view to him pursuing a future role in football senior management. 

Broughton, a bloke employed to run the football operation and presumably the 'knowledge' at the club (to be fair he quickly got us JDT in his first act at the club which in my opinion is the best managerial decision made at this club since 2004) is ignored/sidelined by Waggott, and then within 3 months of appointing Eustace we have Gestede taking up the role of 'Head of'.

You think all this is normal, logical, conducive to anything other than total chaos at the club?

As I said previously I think Rovers senior management lost faith in JDT and GB during that January Transfer window down to results and falling out with players aswell. I think Waggott line Eustace up a couple of weeks before JDT post QPR rant. After that JDT was set to go and after that we witness GB role go less and less. 

Just my opinion. 

We don't know what Gestede is like to work with but him, Owen and Ismael seem to be happy working together

[BRFC.]

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

 

We don't know what Gestede is like to work with but him, Owen and Ismael seem to be happy working together

Happy to be picking up a wage with no pressure at all

Edited 5 hours ago by BRFC.

[metalrover]

https://www.sportscasting.com/uk/news/championship-sack-race-odds-2025-2026/

VI 2nd favorites for the sack 🤔

[RevidgeBlue]

14 minutes ago, BRFC. said:

Happy to be picking up a wage with no pressure at all

Yep, Waggott/Mowbray/Venus were all probably very happy working together as well.

[BRFC.]

12 minutes ago, metalrover said:

https://www.sportscasting.com/uk/news/championship-sack-race-odds-2025-2026/

VI 2nd favorites for the sack 🤔

Hopefully 

[aletheia]

This transfer window has been poor. 
The squad is poorer than last year.
The manager is a has-been that nobody else wants.
The manager will be happy to be employed and pick up a wage.
The chief operating officer (or whatever RGs title is) is unqualified to run this club.
Pasha is totally unqualified to run a football club.
The club is a basket case with a poor reputation unable to attract quality.
The belief that this new model can give us promotion is naïve.
The PR directed at leaving players is very sad and classless.
The new alignment and model is likely to just about keep us in this league at best.
Ismael will see out his contract –it would cost Pasha money to get rid. Having said that, Pasha has 2 fall guys in RG and VI.

Take it lightly. They are just my thoughts. 🙂 

 

[RevidgeBlue]

3 minutes ago, aletheia said:

This transfer window has been poor. 
The squad is poorer than last year.
The manager is a has-been that nobody else wants.
The manager will be happy to be employed and pick up a wage.
The chief operating officer (or whatever RGs title is) is unqualified to run this club.
Pasha is totally unqualified to run a football club.
The club is a basket case with a poor reputation unable to attract quality.
The belief that this new model can give us promotion is naïve.
The PR directed at leaving players is very sad and classless.
The new alignment and model is likely to just about keep us in this league at best.
Ismael will see out his contract –it would cost Pasha money to get rid. Having said that, Pasha has 2 fall guys in RG and VI.

Take it lightly. They are just my thoughts. 🙂 

 

Apart from that.....all good though?

(I agree BTW.)

[aletheia]

Well, I do agree you have to give them time -that is just logical. And when people come on and say 'well, what else can you do, given the budget', you can't really argue with that either. But people are still going to get angry. All very frustrating.

[Upside Down]

7 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

just excuses after excuses for Eustace and Derby Rovers

Who the fuck are Derby Rovers?

If the season carries on as shit as it's started then the only entertainment we've got to look forward to is you tying yourself in knots to justify your pathetic support for anything and everything the club does, regardless of what their actions will yield.

[BRFC.]

59 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

Who the fuck are Derby Rovers?

If the season carries on as shit as it's started then the only entertainment we've got to look forward to is you tying yourself in knots to justify your pathetic support for anything and everything the club does, regardless of what their actions will yield.

I’m bored of it me. It’s not even funny either it’s just embarrassing and makes us look quite tinpot 

[OllieNO]

4 hours ago, metalrover said:

https://www.sportscasting.com/uk/news/championship-sack-race-odds-2025-2026/

VI 2nd favorites for the sack 🤔

Makes sense from a rational/normal perspective, but bookies clearly haven’t factored in the current “situation” at Rovers. Equally likely, regardless of results, VI’ll sack Rovers. Will he be sacked if Rovers get relegated?

[metalrover]

Bookie's odds makes sense only if Rovers is operating as a normal football club, but this is clearly not the case.