4 hours ago, Ossydave said:

Same breed as that absolute weapon who ran on the pitch wearing t-shirt and gloves and reckoned he'd fight Savage, soon shit himself when Stephen Reid and Nelson towered over him 🤣

Those fingerless gloves totally sold it - straight from the fruit cart. Thought Reid was going to kill him. 

2 minutes ago, 1864roverite said:

The issue is not about bumley it’s about US BRFC

We'll beat them twice, should be enough. 

3 minutes ago, moerpho said:

What is it with the digs at Dolan and Travis? We’re 1-0 up away from home and shared top of the league with Burnley woth young acafemy prospect Adam Wharton firing on all cylinders. Moan all you want - I’m truly enjoying this as long as it lasts.

Edit: I’ll leave the typos. A bit tipsy now.

If this forum found a bar of gold on the street it would complain that it was raining that day.

Chaddy, really need you right now.

56 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

They've always been like this though. Don't seem overly worried about losing money, but not really willing to invest significant amounts above the operating cost of the club (which is still a £20m loss to them every year, so we can hardly complain) and a modest transfer budget either. 

I don't really get it, but I wouldn't say keeping Diaz is out of line with their general approach for the last 5 years or so.

This one seemed rather more high profile to me and with a great chance to actively advertise but it's just a feeling. Perhaps I'm just a bit too euphoric and will come down to my typical despondency and cynicism here shortly. I just want to be happy.

My main take away this transfer window is that the owners may not be using the club as a cash cow. Could have easily sold Diaz and done a runner. Maybe they are after more than moolah.

8 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

tidy player but he`s stepping up a level in a poor team

forest sign another one,michi batsuiya,who has been teminally on loan all over the world🙂,there will be carnage if forest don`t survive this season!!!!!!

"Terminally on loan" love it! 

Just now, tomphil said:

That's why they hired him.

He'll do what it says on the tin for a couple of years but any no wins in ten runs he'll be gone make no mistake. Makems WILL have his head on a stick not just sit in silence and moan on the interweb.

Yes man extraordinaire. 

5 minutes ago, alexanders said:

Sources: Blackburn Rovers in advanced talks to sign Siriki Dembele

Blackburn Rovers are in advanced talks to sign Bournemouth attacker Siriki Dembele, sources have told Football Insider.

The winger was a target for Turkish giants Besiktas, but Blackburn are now well placed to lure him to Ewood Park.

https://www.footballinsider247.com/blackburn-rovers-in-advanced-talks-to-sign-siriki-dembele/

That would be some serious intent and quality but I'm afraid to very my hopes up. 

49 minutes ago, J*B said:

Big effort guys. You’re actually on 746 including hidden posts. We need 254 pages on nonsense in the next 48 hours before the thread gets locked. 

I'm on it. 

Just now, RevidgeBlue said:

Have we got £4m left this window though?

That "special pot" tho.

1 minute ago, bluebruce said:

I can imagine that from the club tbf.... 'We're gonna sign 3 more players...SYKE!'

(The Americans will get it)

Ditto "dibs"

1 minute ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

If only a few other transfers had have been done under a similar arrangement. One or two of our recent signings would have been back at their original clubs.

Wonder if this also puts impetus on the player to perform better as he would want to secure the move.

20 minutes ago, islander200 said:

It outed Mercer.

He was claiming Barkley was at Stanley house last night on the back of that post .

Think he was drunk and the Stanley is a very old meme.

20 minutes ago, pomster said:

I wouldn’t exactly say he looks extremely pleased?

Probably bored to death with the same questions from the press.

32 minutes ago, Mercer said:

You would be amazed just how the big clubs use video scouting.  It enables them to watch hundreds of matches helping to sort the wheat from the chaffe and saving hugely on resource and travel expense.  However, 'live' scouting, as you would expect, is still a a big and vital part of it.  Arsenal are one of the clubs at the forefront of this approach and a friend's son is a key player in their recruitment team.  

Being able to sit and watch entire games repeatedly to pinpoint everything each player does is a fantastic tool and should be utilized. I hope we have a room full of peor doing this for every team we are fixing to play or player we are scouting - as well as in the flesh.

Have never belived in getting excited about a relatively unknown player based on compilation YouTube videos.

5 minutes ago, tomphil said:

But the club or Venkys London sits in a corner of the profitable VH Group who have to feed it millions and millions therefore in India it reduces the companies profits.

American corporations do it with sports teams all the time and thats what makes me feel very strongly that there is a way they are doing it. They are not here because they have a passion for Blackburn or advertising (because that would be available cheaper.) There has to be a finacial benefit, no company does anything to lose money on purpose unless its for tax reasons.

I was also not being rude to the tax specialist, I just have no idea who he is. Google is also pretty worthless because you have to plough through so much sheer lies, propaganda and sensless waffle - I'm a prime example. Purely was asking for a link to actual legitimate tax related literature. 

Back to transfers.

3 minutes ago, alcd said:

I specialised in corporate tax for more than 30 years. Is that good enough? 

No. Ive been burned by "trust me bro" too many times. If you can link me, PM or no, to some literature about sports teams in particular I'd be grateful. 

32 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

I didn't just 1 video of his time at Portsmouth, but I watched few video clips of him during the last few years, but don't forget I am not a professional scout that has access to different number of clips, scouting tools or even go and watch the player live by being at the stadium scouting them  

Understood. Glad to see you don't have me on ignore.

Still say judging and setting hopes based on videos is flawed and a recipe for disappointment with a side of animosity. 

4 minutes ago, alcd said:

Tax losses are not transferable between different jurisdictions ie UK and India in this case. 

I'm going to need some proof on that one.

16 minutes ago, RoverDom said:

It's no wonder this spot gets called the negative blackburn rovers forum is it

1 hour ago, callumrovers said:

Surely is we wanted him, we could afford him from Venkys special pot? I don’t think he would have any interest in coming here, not when he can wait until the end of the season and leave on a free to a prem team. 
 

Would love this, but it’s pie in the sky.

 Come the end of the window we may see that the only thing in Venkys special pot is a scrawny chicken.

6 minutes ago, lraC said:

Rovers are not for sale and I reckon that's at any price.

I have my theories on why, as I remain baffled as to why this is and why they seem to be losing money every year and a project they have zero interest in.

Tax write offs for the company. Just the purchase of the club alone would have given them millions in write offs for years. Then every year they can write off any loss and debt accrued against profit from the chicken business giving them a net gain.

52 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

well I would say maybe that your choice of film you like perhaps 🤔

I dont think so. My point is you cant judge a player based on a small cutscene of 5 minutes, or less, spanning a career of nine plus years. This is how advertising works and so many people fall for it. The person who made the video has passion for the person or product. I'm sure someone could make a video of all his misses and misplaced passes, if they had the passion for doing so, and that would equally be as pointless to judge the worth. I could make a video of Hitler petting deer, playing with his dog and being nice to children, it wouldn't make him a nice person as showing a player scoring nine goals doesnt make him a good Championship striker.