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Oh dear.

I suspect Gestede has been tasked with getting rid of all the high earners and his ego ( which we all know about because he refused to play at one point) allows him to be a right bastard and walk all over anyone who disagrees with him.

Transfer windows used to be exciting. Say goodbye to those days, there won’t be anymore under Venkys.

Voluntarily killing the club. Absolute despicable tossers.

‘Twas moi. I guess Venkys don’t think so though. Maybe they believe they’re on top of the game here and can put together a successful team while paying sub standard wages. Or maybe they just don’t know what the hell they’re doing. They could tell the truth and explain they’re cutting their financial backing, then the question would be “why don’t you sell”. It beats me what they are trying to achieve now.

Who knows how much we paid. surely though, if I was paying 2 mill for a player and giving him a 3 year contract I would want someone with championship experience or someone proven to score goals at a similar level. Rovers can’t or won’t do that because they won’t pay the wage. Because we won’t pay the wages we have to gamble more. It’s not the road to success in my opinion, unless you either have top class scouts or you get lucky. Dont forget, league position tends to correlate very significantly with the wage bill.

3 year contract with 12 months option. Someone is certain he’s the real deal. They’d better be right.

I hate saying it but the club is rotten to the core. The owners, through the “directors” to Gestede, not one of them should be here. In fact, neither should many of the players. The whole ship needs rebuilding.

and back to Adam. theres one thing lacking from his game that could hold him back, his workrate. He isn’t the modern all action midfielder that runs and tackles for the full 90. He isn’t one who’s going to dictate the possession for you or put opposition players under constant pressure. He’s the one with the silky skills that used behind the top strikers in the world can be devastating. If he did combine that workrate with his obvious exceptional talent he would be one of the best in the world. I don’t think he will.

A lot has changed at Ewood since the restrictions were put onto any money they send over.

That’s a naive thing to say. Those two would score goals in any team Chaddy. They created plenty of their own chances like err….. good strikers do. Would you have made Ripley a priority signing over Shearer?

@chaddyrovers You get dodgy refereeing decisions and miss game defining chances all the time. Every team does. The thing is when you can’t score yourselves every little incident is vital. The trick is to score more goals yourselves then these things aren’t even on the fans minds on their way home or for days afterwards. The other trick is to see past these incidents, see the bigger picture and understand why the team is living on the brink every game.

It’s not just at Ewood Matty. Apart from the usual chants inside the ground there’s hardly any real dissent or protests anywhere. We all know rovers have a small core support of fans who will turn up whatever the circumstances simply because the club is their life. I was like that when I started in ‘62. Don’t forget a lot of fans had walked away after the ‘60 cup final when tickets were apparently very hard to get hold of. There was a lot of anger with stories of players selling tickets outside woolworths etc. Many fans vowed never to return and didn’t. Losing fans isnt new to rovers. We should really admire those that will go whatever situation the club is in. Now if all of those fans could do that while still acknowledging that the clubs a sh1tshow. That would help😀

Have to ask dodgy Pasha for a dodgy stick.

How do you all expect people working at our club to know how good he was though?

You don’t know that.

We’ll look back in a few years at that team and think “oh my God. How poor was that team”.

Nothings really changed with these owners from the day they took over. They’ve always been of the opinion that they don’t need to spend on transfer fees and that bringing through youth players can be successful. 15 years that’s been their thinking. They’ve always believed that it’s for the managers/CEO’s to back and support that ideal, rather than for the owners to actually back the manager. They’re set in stone and nothing is going to change their minds. In fact, if anything I reckon their views have hardened in that respect. We’re stuck with it - and them.

The full stories we get now regarding players only being offered contract extensions on the same terms can only come from the players. They’re telling us now what’s happening at the club.

It’s clear now that the overall wage bill is being cut. I don’t expect replacements for these players being offered the same as those leaving, they will be offered less. Either the club is in a worsened financial position, or the owners and probably Pasha as well don’t know what they’re doing. Probably both.

There are thousands feeling like you Bohinen. Most of them just walked away and won’t come back. Even for me it doesn’t feel like the club I supported for over fifty years. I went from watching Ronnie Clayton running out with the ball under his arm, to the Stewards invading the fans in the Darwen end to tackle the anti Kean protestors. If there was a turning point that was it. I just felt everything had changed. It wasn’t the club I’d grown up with.

It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if that were true. At a proper football club the manager would be paid solely for results or league position. This is just more proof that there really is no real ambition to improve anything, any more.

10/10. Spot on.

All wind and piss in my opinion.