Bang on. Very rarely can you name a player's salary, especially with all the add ons bonuses and appearance money etc. i am a player i get paid £0 + £0 bonuses and i actually have to pay £3 to play so... Although there is a 20% of any future transfer fee on me. My last 4 a side team did not want to let me go.

its about time! Would have been good to have him in the team to face pompey. This could be clever rovers giving it time to cool down before making a further offer. Or could mean ferguson is off (now or summer) and we want savage now!

Only problem with your theory that bazza told viola to tell rangers is that viola works for many different clients and is heavily involved up at rangers i believe. So if he asked barry would you ever consider going back to rangers and this was met with a yes which would hardly be surprising. He's then gone to rangers and said oh barry would consider it and they've taken that as he wants to move. I think that if he wanted to move he would put in a transfer request as he did with rangers. "the only ibrox captain to ever request a transfer". He is far better than the last couple of games have shown, this maybe due to the injury which came ot a head vs cardiff when he came off. Having seen how he can play both this and last season he is a fantastic asset and i don't see him looking unhappy on the pitch. The difference between savage and bazza is that savage wants to leave brum and move to us. Bazza wouldn't say no to a move but would rather stay here.

Not true. Father fitted his house with carpets and BF wouldn't in until everything was complete. House was more than built, actually think its Hakan Unsal's old house he lives in. He's just soft. lol isn't that the same thing? Not ready and not built easily confused! Now he has his house he has to live init for at least 5years or he will get loads of bad luck....like a move to rangers or something!

We make £1.5million? not if they don't up there offer of £500k cash + £2.5mil we owe them. He wasn't homesick when he came only sick of his home (in glasgow). He then couldn't settle in because his house was late being built but since then he's been fine. Until these recent revelations that suddenly his family have decided to go back to sectarian violence in glasgow.

The thing that supports that is the rangers guys quote of "As a result, we made an offer. However, this was rejected and we have been informed the player is not for sale." And with us saying he isn't for sale i can't see him leaving. If we wanted to sell surely we would have said the bid wasn't up to scratch.

I believe mr bruce said he will start in there next game. The whole reserves thing was done for media spin and to make a point of savage. Although it doesn't seem to have worked in that his transfer request is still in place and i still think we will return with the offer to seal the deal. Brum see the transfer window as a chance to leave savage in the pet shop window til another team offers more. If a club doesn't appear unless savage decides to stay, i suspect they will sell him to us at what we offered. However its a dangerous game for rovers to play when any team could come in and overtake them.

HAve to agree 100% with that. I Think the media have got too wrapped on mcliesh saying he would love to have barry back, but there is a massive difference between wanting him and being able to get him. Barry is a club captain in the best league in the world. Surely the appeal of scottish football would not be top of his i would like to do list. More the bin there done that list

Savage knew the offers??? If he knew them he must be psychic. I am quite sure that if we had talked to him mr sullivan would have been on the phone stright away to the fa complaining. Also why would a player that wants to leave (ie. transfer request) tell the selling team these details. Your and your clubs logic is really way off. Reports place savages wages at £30k. When mr sulivan leaves your club will be taking a beating not ours!

It seems clear to me that if sullivans claims were true first thing he would have done is run to the fa and complain. His reluctance to do so and his desire to tell the media repeatidly that he has been tapped up shows he has nothing on us. "savage has been keeping us informed" what a load of crap, its been savage's agent & brum releasing all the comments and speculation. This isn't making us look stupid its getting all of us annoyed and making the brum board look likes clowns who run to the media every 5seconds.

Considering the injuries we have, we didn't have alot of talent on display. Tugay and Bazza (passing midfeilders) both out, Emerton ill. Dodgy defending left us with 3 of 4 defenders on yellows for 45mins which wasn't good. Less said about the ref the better. Looking forward to ewood?

Have to disagree. He had 1 close call where only a great last tocuh by wanrer stopped him scoring. He had no chances as there was little movement and passing from the lads. He has to have the ball played to him to have a chance of doing well, something he had alot of vs charlton.

jemal johnson on!!!!!!!

after 20mins of useless nervous footy, we have suddenly come to life. Been denied a legal goal for a dickov challange on the keeper which thommo finished, followed by a dickov long shot which made the keeper make a stunning save and then MGP hits the bar when it looked all the way in direct from a corner!

half time: 1-1 fear for the second half with 3 players on yellow cards, the crowd are starting to come into the game. With the ref already on there side its getting more and more differcult. 1-2 mokoena to score the winner

this is not going well. Cardiff guy diving trying to get dom sent off! Bazza injured, mokoena on for debut. It is not going well.

oh dear god! Brad makes an 'error' and its 1-1 to the ex-dingle. edit: Sky say that it was a well placed header into the top corner and not a brad error. Went straight in? edit2: Niell booked (5th booking out vs pompey)

the cardiff players have just managed to get matteo booked and he misses the next match vs portsmouth! The ref then failed to produce a booking or warning to any cardiff players! at least macca or spector might get a go (if he is loaned in time) 2 defenders now booked and only mokoena on the bench!

Cardiff coming back into the game now. Matteo given away free kick and then laid on a perfect set up for there guy who should have scored. Todd booked for a synical challange....mokoena on please!!!!

Match live shows amo in aswell? Maybe stead got injured in the warm up os something! Unless sky get there info from match live or visa versa? edit: On rovers world they have said it is stead!

One way or another he's finished at Brum so the last thing that he wants to do is pick up an injury is it modes? Yeah i would agree with the injury thing. He just seemed to make a few tackles and chase a few people. Other than that he wanted to make it go as quickly as possible!

Well i went to it. Cheered on the lad. He made an amazing run forward followed by a brilliant sprint of 80yards back to make a defensive tackle in the box and save a goal. Having given tony caig (newcastle keeper) stick for the whole game me and my mate got sworn at by the newcastle defender which was very amusing. Brum's new striker njazi kuqi looked ok but has a reluctance to heading the ball, he tries to chest it everytime he can. Savage didn't put 100% in looked quite bored. But when he sparked into life he did look a very good player. Tiny had a typical game where you didn't know he was there til he let them score and missed 2 headers at corners!

Yeah i am off to see him play with my brum and villa mates! I will be wearing my rovers shirt under my top and may try to get a word with the man himself. My brum mate has said he will give me his shirt with savage 8 on teh back if he joins us at which point i will put a rovers badge on it and Anybody know if one of newcastles reject staff is in charge of there reserves?

i have to say i am starting to feel sorry for savage and think of him as our player! Seeing the poor guy on his own makes you think! £30k a week and still wants to move to us who would not pay him that! I was thinking last night why don't we ask for permission to discuss terms with him and medical. Then work out a fee after?

time to get out of brum: 2 hours time to get out of blackburn: 2 mins