So the club is sitting with millions in the bank? I agree with all the facts regarding poor decisions with contracts, negligent owners and directors but ultimately, where has this money gone if it’s not propping up barely competitive wage structure?

If your wage bill is 20m, and your turnover is 10m. What do you think plugs that gap? Especially if you’ve got skint or absent owners? Player sales. I also don’t understand how you split transfer fees and wages as if they’re not intrinsically linked. Of course, Venkys should either invest or fuck off but that’s not got anything to do with saying that none of the money from player sales has been invested.

Nice of teams to give us Van Veen, Tavares, Cantwell, Kargbo, Ohashi, Gueye et al for free isn’t it! Before you reply with another single sentence “tbh”, if you spent some time reading how much our meagre wage bill compares to our turnover, you might be able to offer more nuance to discussion.

You won’t find a post praising the owners or directors from me. It’s their fault the turnover is pitiful, and players are walking for free. The point I made, and make again - the total wage bill for the club is money spent on football. Todd Cantwell’s price might’ve been £500k but if his wage is 1m+ a season, that’s investing money the club has earned one way or another, back in to the team. Do I wish the “billionaires” would put them maximum they could in? Yes probably, as that would be the quickest way to them being able to sell us. We all want rid.

Don’t think I or anyone would argue that the well thought out decisions had been made throughout their tenure. The point I was making is without investment from the owners, all of the money coming in is going on a wage bill not even top half of the championship. Therefore spent on the team.

It all depends on the money in the bank though, are you trying to compare us to a parachute payment team, or a city with larger turnover and/or ambitious owners? Id love for the Rao’s to fuck off like anyone here, but just shutting down any sales conversation with a “the money disappears tbh” makes this thread even more pointless. Especially when the facts regarding our finance are available for anyone to read.

You say this all the time but if you go and sign up to the Swiss ramble, you’d see that most the money that comes in is spent on wages. Aka back into the team.

Quality transfer discussion once again.

I bet you could find the exact comment in 2023 too …. followed by a “we will win 3-0” prediction for the first game 😂

Halle fucking lujah

Narrator No2 ”but that’s just not what we talk about here” 😂

As frustrating as it may be - without sales or contract extensions, all those players play for us next season regardless (other than Dolan obv) so I would argue you’re a summer early

I’m not, I’d say I agree with most of the comments. We don’t need to be reminded that we’re owned by twats all the time though? Maybe that’s the only distinction. If there is a stance that I’m probably on my own with, it’s the “I’m happy if Venkys aren’t sending us money” because “hating Venkys” and expecting investment, seem diametrically opposed viewpoints.

It’s been the same since 2010 so I just try to remind myself that there is still a “husk” to support and, like last season - you never know. 1 point off playoffs? I wouldn’t call that another season of decline but my basic “goalposts” aka league position aren’t shared here.

Must admit that your response has gone over my head but I have less interest in politics than BRFCS these days so it’s 100% my fault 😂

Why don’t you write us a Bob Vylan style folk song titled “Deaf to the VHG”

Budgets are budgets at the end of the day, if he’s signed by a team with more than a “pittance” in turnover or parachute payments, you’d call it a lack of ambition, I’d call it the reality of a shite financial climate.

Quality input to transfer discussion!

Fair enough your final sentence, I disagree, Wednesday are in a financial mire, and I’m not suggesting there isn’t “nuance” but do we all need to be reminded about players on final years in every response? My view is an unequivocal “no”. The rationale for that is, we already know - bore off.

It is possible to take a transfer rumour on its own merits, without dragging every other issue the club faces into a discussion, just saying!

This from the biggest “tid bit” bullshitter that Blackburn Fans have ever seen.

And we’re talking decades of it!

In fairness, he has a point. For example, this thread shouldn’t be the “transfer thread” it should be renamed; “Roversfan99/JHR/Mercer predict relegation, all best players sold, and all new signings shit, whilst Chaddy Inexplicably still reads their responses and replies constantly” I guess you and others enjoy it, but personally, if it wasn’t for potential snippets of actual information every 100 or so posts, I wouldn’t bother.

Set the tone

Is this a coincidence or do you think this is them putting the money in for tavares?