Or buy a bloody centre half! or will it be the David Rays suite??

And Bormuth said to have been looked at by Barnsley last year and not convinced he’s better than league one standard !! what the hell are we playing at ??? we might as well have kept Paul Downing!!

Ipswich keeper with a foreign sounding name - as European as Mowbray and his scouts can get !!!

And we must have the only scouts in England with no passports

Aye and bizarrely M1st I bet they are both on a lot less money than the City kid. bonkers

Possibly mate yes but if he’d got 50 caps he’d probably be £25million . lots of Europa games and captain of his club suggested bags of experience and know how . I paid little attention to it at the time but having had the stuff posted by Swanson I actually think this player could be a hell of a catch for us st the money . wonder if Rich Sharpe has heard it?

Have to admit Bruce those were exactly my thoughts when I saw that pic from Swanson . Proper kick his granny type , Jim Branagan esque.... bloody ideal !!

It just seems crazy that you could get a current Croatian international centre half for less than £2million when you look at some of the nonsense deals that go on . That’s a team with the likes of modric , rakatic etc so he’s not going to be crap .

If it’s true then maybe they have done and fair play in that case . I’m just trying to find out if Skoric ever played against Middlesbrough !!!!

I know - why don’t our scouting dept ever come up with any though?

Bloody hell wish Mowbray was that quick !! yes I think that looks right from what they guy said . Apparently a no nonsense leader - Rangers played them in Europa league recently(?) and we’re keen on him . Thats about as far as it went before it was my round !!

A guy who’s lad plays in the academy was saying in Hare &Hounds at lunchtime that we are in for Croatian international centre back called Skoric captain of Osijek. He said it will happen after this weeks Europa league game v CSKA Sofia and for £1.5m didnt think much of it at the time but may be we’ve moved on from the city lad no idea how strong this is but just passing on what was said

Green light from India for 2 bloody loans????!!! there in a nutshell my friends is why we don't stand a chance under these morons whatever spin gets put on it from Ewood. So much for them trusting Mowbray and Waggott . FFS

Youre right Merc and no way defending Coyle but Venkys also took both centre halves away from him late in the window and give him no chance to get replacements . I'm not sure in the 2 1/2 years since that Mowbray has progressed that aspect of the team. In fact the 68 we shipped last season under a conservative manager is arguably worse than any of his predecessors. The point is that he's had 2 plus years to sort our defence and appears not to know how to even begin the task. Clueless .

I admire your optimism Chaddy but shopping at B&M for a keeper having had to sell the previous one to finance the Gallagher deal doesn't cry out to me that we have £6m left to spend but then again ………...the Brereton surprise last year !!!!!

I hope you are right with Cooper, Chaddy but somehow we know now that any bids we make are probably £1-£2million at best. I cant see Millwall falling over themselves to accept that kind of money for one of their best players at this late stage. To me, if that was going to get done then it would have happened by now. But what do I know ????

Unsall, they invest every month to deal with the abject mess they started 10 years ago . Its completely self inflicted. So yes , if they up sticks and go we could be in a terrible mess but this is all their own doing and for which not only will they get no credit from me but I will hate them with a passion as long as I live.

The positivity will come from seeing him as one of the first names on the team sheet as he should be. Anyway, Glad you're enjoying the great things going on at present. Enjoy.

It would have been if anyone was convinced that TM sees Travis as a starter when everybody is available. He should be but you still get the feeling TM doesn't see him as a ''safe'' option and will defer to his tried and tested

Progress we would never have known about had Smallwood not got sent off at Sheff Utd. Trav would have been on loan at Fleetwood or somewhere daft. That said I think he's a player and its the right decision. But Tony , FFS don't try and use this as a distraction to a crap transfer window

Bang on Arbitro. If we had to raise funds to support our plans then selling Raya was probably about the best feasible option. We wouldn't get the cash for the ones we all know aren't good enough and we wouldn't want to lose those that would command decent money. So Brereton looks more ridiculous by the hour at £7m. Add to that we have topped up the wage bill with Downing which also looks mystifying if things are tight. None of what we have signed or any we have been linked with reflect well on our scouting system let alone our European ''enhancements''. So far ,a combination of known to TM from previous clubs/played here before/played well in a game against a TM team in the past/live on the same estate in the North east !! If that's our level and our budget then that's what it is but from April onwards we have simply been fed absolute rubbish by him and Waggott so much so that they cant remember what's been said earlier and constantly contradict and back track on themselves. All this same budget/defenders are coming/need to stop conceding 68 goals/get them in early nonsense is exactly that.....nonsense. Even if we sign a couple of top notchers now (extremely unlikely) then this window could never be described as anything other than haphazard and certainly not planned .No way Walton was our top GK target. So yes, something appears to have gone decidedly wrong down Ewood way. I stand by my harsh words of last week, I think Mowbray is not very bright. He is as safe a pair of hands as exist in this murky world but tactically crap, not brave enough and too loyal to guys who don't give him any trouble but who fundamentally aren't up to the job. Ladies and gents we might flatter to deceive at points in the season but overall we ain't going anywhere with this bloke in charge.

Pedro , you do know that Wigan dropped Walton last year after a series of high profile cock ups that were down to him? Not sure this is a material upgrade tbh and certainly not what folk expected when throwing names around like Forster, Hart, Adrian, etc. Lets hope there is better to come in the GK dept but I have my doubts that this fella would be coming to warm our bench.

Don't disagree Kamy but whilst we all know transfers don't necessarily happen in the preferred order for many reasons , overloading midfield and striking dept (where apparently nobody will play down the middle!!) looks flawed. If we had a tough big back four who could kick and scratch ie just out and out defenders then those in front of them will often create something somewhere . The problem we have had for a long time and at this minute still looks the case , is that we concede soft goals and can often implode and ship a few goals in a few minutes in games. This is what most on here have identified for ever and why £7m on Brereton looks so odd in that context. £7m spent on proper defenders and GK would in my opinion have given us a pretty decent foundation to start looking upwards in the Championship .You could probably have got 4 proper ones for that money . As it stands, its gone on a player whose attributes aren't clear , nor is his favoured position and very likely he wont be a regular starter. That in the eyes of many is a very muddled, ill thought out transfer policy when the funds have to be carefully watched. Basically it all looks a bit of a mess less than 2 weeks to the big kick off.

At the minute nobody playing down the middle looks like we will be playing minus a keeper and central defenders. Bloody hell Mowbray's got a degree in bullsh1t and the contradictions coming from him in the last 6 months have been truly mind blowing.

48 goals away from home , many comical / horrendous . He made a big thing of it having to stop in May and here we are without defensive reinforcements less than 3 weeks before the season. Truly baffling knowing that 10k Rovers fans have seen it plain as day and expected corrective action last Jan . They might come , lets bloody hope so. Ones that have to be ready to go on August 3rd!