We've just given someone older than him a contract.

If only they'd messed up on the paperwork when they bought the club. They've been toxic.

Arguably, a clumsily assembled team of mismatched players will be playing. Certainly not players capable of a relegation fight, which the CEO and Venkys puppets knew about in advance but failed to prepare for both in terms of coaching staff and players. Even worse, when the head coach offered to leave he was told to carry on his footballing philosophy. Champagne football on next to no budget.

When was the last time they addressed the fans? A decade ago? (as in a TV interview, not Steve Waggott typing something up and typing THE RAO FAMILY underneath it).

The owners aren't doing anything. They passively allow a handful of under qualified people to make the executive decisions whilst their sleazy affairs impact the clubs finances. That's what will lead the club to relegation. If you deny that, then you're excusing them.

There's a lot worse than sulking going on behind the scenes. The owners need to sell the club, they are clearly incapable of governing it and have little respect for BRFC as a historic institution, and even less respect for the fans.

More like get behind the Venkys and the lads these days.

He could do this but when he asked to leave it appeared relatively rosy. It would have been difficult to renege when the club was in an arguably decent state, finishing outside the play offs on goal difference. All to play for in the coming season with a veneer of respectability Now it's more difficult to defend themselves after allowing their sleazy affairs to interfere with the running of the club. It says a lot about the club and the owners that they won't come to a mutual agreement when a manager wants to leave. It's obvious that it's not good for anyone, and they refused purely to avoid answering awkward questions. Like, why did your most successful appointment want to leave after one season?

And when he is, if it gets no better there can be no excuses from the usual places.

It's quite clear that if he asked to go, and they wouldn't let him, then he's bound by contract or he'd be away. I'm not sure why people are debating this. It's also easy to work out what happened. He got us to within a whisker of the play offs. They told him the project had changed. He asks if he can leave as this isn't what he signed up for. They shit themselves and say no. A manager leaving the club on a relative high would be strange and raise questions. Like the cowards they are the allowed the situation to decline till he was dragged down with them.

Balaji signed Owen Coyle 😄 When Neil Warnock had agreed to the role. Got to be one of the worst decisions ever made in football.

It depends on the contract. I wouldn't call a multi-million pound football manager contract as indentured servitude.

If you sign a contract and then break it, I'm sure that technically they could do yes.

One thing that Venkys have always been great at is making a bad situation worse. You can't buy class, or in their case, intelligence.

I agree, but I don't believe we have many players with the ability to scrap. They've not planned for this at all despite knowing for some time that we were heading for trouble.

Yep. "We don't need expensive players, we can always lease them" Annie Deshit. "Reports that Blackburn are looking to bring in David Beckham and Ronaldinho." Sky Sports. There's always been conflicting interests in the club since the club was bought, with two extremes instead of a pragmatic and sensible approach.

Waggott said that Suhail, Babu and Mr Desai were in charge, in his meeting with Glen M.

"Make your own transfer budget." "Really?" "Yes. No money incoming from the owners." "Oooh here's £18m" "That's theirs too." "Ennis to Stoke, £500k" "Running costs!"

It sounds like he wanted to leave but they are holding him to his contract. Has this ever happened at a football club before?

We need a team for a scrap first.

And Suhail.

So the project changed, he asked to part company and they've forced him to stay. Another solid decision from our guys at the top.

So he offered to leave and they won't release him from his contract?

I hope all the imbeciles on social media celebrating a brilliant window, and abusing those who believe otherwise are enjoying their loss. Midfield weakened, still no striker, free kids and old men only, still no width and a reserve goalie. And this is what you get.

I hope not, we don't want another Rovers legend sullied by these cretins.