JBiz

I guess it’s individual how people read into this scenario, I personally don’t think it’s evidence “our setup is abysmal”, and would count that as “olympic level jumping to conclusions” Neither of us truly now how involved, bar setting budgets, our owners are. Hence why I probably don’t share the same level of immediate concern, a worry that echoes the same day in day out bellyache, in June, whilst the manager search went on.

He knows as much as the rest of us, and I don’t think it’s fair to say our setup is abysmal when 99% of the issues we seemingly face are down to finance. Anel for example - despite plenty believing it’s a made up issue, if someone is offering 10k more than our wage bill allows, we’ve no chance. The turnover / ffp allowed limit sets our wage bill too.

Had nothing to do with having our squad sorted in July though did it? Each to their own but I’m nowhere near as worried as most and I will be giving the new setup at least a season and couple of windows before I start coming to any conclusions.

A good second half of the season is just as “key” as we’ve experienced.

You know as well as I do how difficult the windows / market is in the championship. Lots of competition for the best talent and many premier league fringe players won’t even be available till all the squads are confirmed.

Course we’d feel more confident if we’d gone out and signed some exciting players. There’s still lots of time to judge the new direction though that doesn’t necessarily need such worry.

Window closes in 6

Absolutely no reason to panic

If we’d signed a load of old dross or sascha petschi esq nobodies, you’d be saying the same thing. Give JDT at least a few months for god sake. How about one or two windows?

Can’t help but wince when I see ANOTHER day and ANOTHER reason(*) to have a good old bellyache. *reason - JDT is getting another member of his own staff… no idea why that’s a problem but don’t let me interrupt the setting up of gallows.

As you mentioned, Hedges, also Markanday and Pickering in the last 12/18 months We agree here - however throwing everything into one expenses pot, I’d suggest we are nearer the top and therefore need a running transfer profit Plenty of those clubs have nowhere near the same level of overheads, and when you’re talking about wages it’s only the facilities and coaches in the academy that are exempt from FFP, not your u23 / reserve or professional contract players. I’d say we’d probably dropped a huge chunk but I would’ve guessed the loans of Poveda, Khadra and Van Hecke (as more expensive premier league wages) would’ve been the equivalent of cutting out the Bennett’s, Mulgrews and Evans. We had a transfer registration embargo. The rules should’ve changed in regard to covid, remember clubs work on yearly budgets and the finances come a year after, the black hole of no crowd money caused serious issues for a lot of clubs (hence huge amounts of players available on frees this summer) Yea but not 20k a week loans of premier league level centre backs. Player of the season last year? I agree and I am frustrated but I acknowledge that it’s impossible to force players to stay. Could we move the budget and convince them through money? That’s one of the things that makes managing a football club difficult. Knowing exactly which basket to move your eggs.

It’s called reality mode. Prefer it to “let’s ignore the facts for weird conspiracy speculation” mode that you’ve taken up this morning. Fact you instantly went to an insult shows exactly how flimsy your arguments are.

I imagine there are a lot, I mean loads… of fans of other clubs, who would read this about Blackburn Rovers and think “wtf are you talking about”… How many clubs in this league have actually spent any money on a fee in the last few years? Let alone 10+ million on two strikers? Re the part in bold, why is it so hard to understand that the club constantly loses money because of low turnover? Whilst JHR might believe FFP is a made up excuse, and that covid didn’t really cause any issues - in my opinion, this “venky” black hole idea is just another conspiracy from people who simply don’t even remotely understand football finance. Yes because… we aren’t at the front of any queue because of MONEY! 12 months ago we had to offload the training ground to get out of a transfer registration ban… am I the only one who remembers these things?

I think people should realise how stupid they sound, pining for a 35 year old striker on a free when there’s 7 weeks of a window still open. It’s a strange desperation to come every single day to lament our lack of activity, but then also criticise a potential rumour including a decent championship defender, as a waste / another loan. What did people expect with a new manager? Time has to be afforded, and those suggesting that the new people have been lied too about funds, surely you need more than a month to come up with that assumption? How about we kick a few balls first?

The argument is they’re good enough as back ups and that will give them opportunity to improve, not about them being “thrown in” If we get others in they go on loan, it’s been the same setup for ages.

Olympic level jumping to conclusions based on the first 60 minutes of JDTs career.

Ladies and gentlemen, 3 weeks and 3 days

Now you’ve gone and done it.

I asked myself, “what have I missed?” for this to be the mood. Then I read a page or two back that suggest we’ve lost out on a player due to a team with parachute payments paying more wages, I shrugged my shoulders and logged out.

https://capology.com/uk/championship/salaries/ Compare our estimates to the top salaries then delete your post 😂

What do you think agents are saying to players when top championship defenders are on 50k? The system we have is restrictive but that’s down to the 12 year malaise.

One of the best centrebacks we’ve had since league one is Tosin. He is now on 50kpw and was promoted this year with Fulham. Thats the equivalent of our 3 top earners combined. If you understand wage discrepancy and the advantage of parachute payments, you understand the issue. Throw in city teams with higher turnover, more hands on owners - they’d gladly give someone an extra 10k a week over 3 years if they aren’t paying a transfer fee. It’s almost as if many discussing these issues think BRFC is the only team in the country.

Hmmm Which is worse? A. Joining in with an away crowd singing a “tongue in cheek” song about a player leaving the club B. regularly posting about how players “should be sold” because “they’re obviously not good enough” Answers on a post card.

Gutted but also slightly peeved at his reluctance to commit to the club. Its hard not to see these things without “Lancashire Rose tinted glasses” but still the only person who makes the decision to stay and play is Ryan. Good luck but I hope you play shit against the blues.

Surely in 2022 “letting these 3 leave” isn’t a sentence that’s compatible with reality?