Valérien Ismaël: Blackburn Rovers Head Coach

[arbitro]

Mr Aloof dismisses signing a free agent out straight away. Hyam was sold on the last day of the window giving us no time to buy a replacement (I'm not saying we would have spent btw) so the only option was a free agent.

We all knew Wharton and Carter are so susceptible to injury and yet he still wouldn't consider it, 'no way' he said.

His argument about getting up to speed is nonsense in my view. Signing someone in early September would have seen them fit by the end of that month, a month when the number games we played really began to take their toll.

His arrogance is going to be one of his undoings and is likely to cost us dearly.

[Mattyblue]

Standard script with managers that toe the line here, used to always hear ‘getting up to speed’ nonsense from TM too.

[Bronzed A Donis]

Yet we will sign a player injured ? How soon will he be up to speed if ever.

[JHRover]

We aren't going to sign experienced free agents because it isn't 'the project', we aren't paying competitive wages and our budget is probably maxed out from the summer.

The accountants and Suhail will not authorise and extra wage or two on the payroll.

If that means we get relegated off the back of it, then so be it.

It will be the same approach in January unless they can offload people first to raise money, despite Nixon's nonsense about investment coming, which is simply an attempt by the regime to buy time and get them through the next three months.

That's why Ismael is saying this.