Haha alright lads. Merely commenting back to a post suggesting we don't need him as we have Dolan. A lot more relevant than the drivel that's been on here recently. At least it was based on an actual rumour. 

38 minutes ago, Hoochie Bloochie Mama said:

obviously Harry Wilson is a quality player but does he not play off the right where Dolan plays?

If Wilson signs, he starts ahead of Dolan for me. Dolan has been impressive but Wilson's quality is plain to see. Dolan would still get plenty of time off the bench as an impact sub & starts with rotation. Unquestionably more time on the pitch for the first team than he would've expected at the start of the season. 

1 hour ago, Prelude said:

He is great in The Championship but since promotion I have recruited well and will only need him If I have an injury crisis. 

Jack Vale is rated the same as him with more potential and at 31 Pratto has peaked.

I sign him on all my saves & you get two good seasons out of him before his stats & form drop off a cliff. Well worth picking up especially for a promotion push.

I don't have the stats behind the season as I'm 4 or 5 seasons deep now but it was a great promotion season.

15 hours ago, Prelude said:

I would snap your hands of if we got stats anywhere near this, this season! 

Lucas Pratto is gold 

1 hour ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Lots of people tweeting about Phil Jones to Blackburn, must be a load of rubbish though just thought I'd share.

I've just had a look and not seen a single tweet linking him to us. 

56 minutes ago, LDRover said:

It's not just the passing though is it?Whereas Downing played at a more sedate pace, Holtby moves the ball quickly and generally forward, not just in our defensive third but in the attacking third also. So the tempo is automatically quicker and that is, for me, the main reason why we are performing so well.

Couldn't agree more. We're pressing the opposition more, yes. But the big difference from last season is that we're doing more with the ball in the midfield. Holtby has been instrumental in this.

Let's not rewrite history on Rhodes. If we played our current formation & style of play with him up top, he'd thrive. We're creating chances and he's the sort of player that would finish them off. For the most part while he was here he was leading the line and making the most of scraps. If anything, we didn't play to his strengths enough.

7 minutes ago, JoeH said:

Significantly slower than the required pace for wing-backs in our current system
Much older than would be ideal
Massively injury prone
Not cheap on either fee or wages
Hasn't played right-back so confused by the both sides comment

He's a good defender, but I don't understand why he's revered as a God amongst fans. He played TEN games for us in 2019/20, but in the current 4-3-3 system, he simply doesn't suit the style. Better than Bell? Yes. But a million miles better? No.

He meant both sides as in he can do the defensive and attacking sides of the position well. I appreciate you're having a disagreement with him but it really isn't hard to work that out.

Just now, West Yorks Rover said:

How did Kaminski do on the goal, any fault ?

No fault of his. Came off his line quick enough once Fraser had been played through, but it was a good finish.

Absolutely delighted with the signing of Ayala. I'd argue that's the best bit of business we've done in years. At the start of the window a CB of his quality (& suspected wage demands) seemed out of our reach. Fair play to the club for getting it over the line.

LB is absolutely the priority now. I'd love to see Cunningham back if a reasonable deal can be done. Given the quality of the Kaminski & Ayala signings on the face of it, I'm happy to give the club the benefit of the doubt that they're lining up someone decent for LB. Fingers crossed!

3 minutes ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

Can I suggest a fund-raiser.  Every mention of "defenders coming" pays a quid into some fund or another.  

That the club can put towards defenders? We might actually get one in then!

Just now, briansol said:

It was said he rejected us for an offer to go to Saudi Arabia. I guess he went there and found out that money isn't everything. That also fits the quarantine aspect of the story.

I don't get the comment on twitter about it not being exciting though. Obviously his opinion, but if it is Ayala, I'd find that very exciting.

The team were let down today by the lack of transfer activity to date. I said to my partner at the end of the game that if we'd recruited a LB and CB, we win that game. 

I actually don't care what Mowbray has to say after the game. He's let the supporters and the club down by not having us prepared for the start of the season. On the whole, the lads turned up today and played a decent pressing game. But with Bell and Williams in the starting 11, we will concede goals and that's been our undoing today. 

1 minute ago, bluebruce said:

Not at all. I had wondered if Magloire might be used so we have the pace to cope with King, but from TM's comments it will be Del, and Wharton is next in line if not.

King won't be playing tomorrow.

48 minutes ago, J*B said:

 

My bad, he went to Saudi, Kim Jin Su. 

That's some scouting network we've got then if we were tracking the Korean league. I guess him being a full international helps in that regard. Shame we missed out. 

5 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Someone suggested Tomas Kadar. I may have spelt his first name wrong. Tamas maybe?

He's one of the players I thought it could be, but he moved to China in February.

Who is this left back that has gone to China? Been searching through transfers completed to the Chinese Super League and can't find him for the life of me.

1 minute ago, bluebruce said:

TM says we are light on numbers so he can't go on loan yet.

Dedicated CMs: Travis, Evans, Johnson, Davenport

Optional CMs: Bennett, Rothwell, Holtby, arguably JRC.

Dedicated AMs (for one position): Dack soon, Holtby, Rothwell

Optional AMs: Armstrong, JRC, Dolan

Emergency AMs: Brereton, Chapman, Bennett has been used here before albeit crap.

Light in numbers in Buckley's position? Nope we are flooded for numbers there, whether you see him as CM or AM.

Get him out on loan. Stop collecting centre mids like you're filling out a Panini Midfielder sticker book and stagnating too many of their developments by having them all play bit parts. Taking Buckley's cameos away for a while means better game time for others, and helps us figure out who is really up to it. TM obviously doesn't see that much difference in current contributions with the others, or he wouldn't be entertaining sending JB out on loan. If he is looking good enough to stamp his mark as a regular starter here by January we can always recall him.

Stop pissing about, these League One sides might have filled their spot by the time we bring in another CM or Dack is fit again, and we already have more numbers here than we need even when you take Buckley out.

I know some of you rate him for right now, but come on he is still a bit part player at the moment. If you want him to show he can be more he needs to show he can play 90 mins of men's football week in week out. These are key development times.

I agree 100%. I think he's looked decent in flashes. He needs regular game time to show that he can be consistent, but I think it would be a risk to give him that here at the moment. Getting that game time at a lower level should highlight his quality if he's genuinely as good as people say he is and he'll come back stronger for the experience. 

Wouldn't have thought we'd want to pay much more than £1.5m to bring in Cunningham. Cardiff need to be a little more realistic there I think.

If it's a loan to buy arrangement, whatever fee we agree is to effectively sign him this season, as opposed to paying to loan him for a season and then he's free to speak to whoever in the summer. As we've already seen with Downing & Bauer, we can't hedge our bets on signing up players when they run out of contract. If he's the guy we want at LB, we're better off getting it done now.

5 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

The Downing approach makes no sense. Surely he himself would have provided that competition in central midfield, in a 3 which would have suited him more, had he been involved from the start of pre season.

Now it shouldnt even be considered, at his age playing catch up would be even harder. Its this indecisivess, surely you can try and fill all positions simultaneously, if Downing ticks off CM before the CB comes through, so be it. If a deal that was financially worthwhile couldnt be agreed, then dont flirt with going back to it after the season has started when he isnt fit.

Im guessing reading that, maybe a second CB and sub keeper isnt in Mowbrays mind either.

We dont need competition at left back either. We need someone to come in and play. Bell is dreadful.

I started to get triggered by his interviews last season but now I take them all with a massive pinch of salt. Whenever he talks about competition, I genuinely think he means he wants to improve the starting XI, but doesn't explicitly say it so that he doesn't piss anyone in the squad off. It's annoying, as it just ends up pissing the fans off instead!

1 minute ago, chaddyrovers said:

Downing's contract offer isnt on the table anymore. 

https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/transfer-news/blackburn-rovers-contract-downing-mowbray-18911716.amp?__twitter_impression=true

I feel like he's the one missing out there. If he'd signed on, he'd probably end up playing the majority of the season for us. If we recruit well at LB & potentially a CM if funds allow, we won't have a need for him in those positions, plus we have plenty of young lads coming through (Chapman, JRC, Dolan) that can play on the wing. 

I'll go out on a limb and say that he won't be signed up by anyone before the end of the transfer window.

5 minutes ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

I said the other day a signing was close, that was Cunningham back in. There was a breakthrough the other day in that Cardiff were happy to let him go. We now have competition for that deal however

Would love him back. 

5 minutes ago, JacknOry said:

Wage cap or not, why are we then apparently going after Ayala who was previously on 35k a week allegedly? 

Because he was out of contract and no longer earning £35k a week.

It would be OK to say something if there wasn't some sort of obsession around taking to twitter to confirm the rumours with every journalist going and/or brag about it.