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Gueye picks up yellow cards for fun, is tactically undiciplined and can't finish. He's be a £10m+ player if he could finish just a little better, but seems to be too hot-headed to ever become composed enough. Soumane with one good season in Ligue 2... not sure he's the answer but it shows how difficult (and expensive) it is to bring in a goalscoring striker these days.

Soumano bid turned down. https://x.com/reluctantnicko/status/1961025205746208991

Rovers are more attractive than Qarabag but money talks. I really hope Idah joins Swansea, terrible player.

I think our squad over-achieved by finishing 7th last season, and we're offloading the core of that team to Derby at the moment. I'd say that's well played, although a lot of transfers are happening towards the end of the window as usual. We have the international break coming up, giving the new group time to gel and be ready for Watford away a little over a fortnight. Let's beat Norwich first with an inspired Captain Toddy inspiring the troops against his old club, I think he'll be really fired up and we have a few energy bombs on the sidelines ready to come on. Another CM is probably in the works, reall curious to see which profile they choose for that position. Looks like there's plenty competition for Soumano, and good strikers are few and far between so we'll see... it's been a while since we had a goalscoring striker, we were pretty spoiled on that front for a good while.

He's had a few injuries but by no means injury prone. Knee surgery, hamstring injury last season (no wonder though...).

Two totally different scenarios. I think Trav would've been happy enough to stay and play out his deal, but Rovers gave him an ultimatum. I thank him for his services, not his biggest fan, but he's had some really good spells for us and been a good leader in a turbulent time at the club. Wish him all the best, as long as his team ends up below us in the table.

Morishita is golden! Did you see in the video when he met Baradji and realised they had stayed in the same hotel? 😂 I think Ismael is all about togetherness as well, but thinks he instills more dicipline and demands more in training than Eustace. We will see if that means more tired legs/injuries and some players on the fringe who become unhappy like under JDT, or if him and his team can keep the group together. I wouldn't mind an out and out winger to play on the right still, but most wanted at the moment is a striker so Leonard can leave. A central midfielder to replace Buckley and Trav and whoever else leaves has to be replaced like for like. I think re-signing Forshaw is a mistake and he will retire or leave in January, but we will see - hopefully he's not on big wages.

Let’s all find something to be miserable about!

Exit Gueye and enter Soumano - yes please. Big changes to the squad this summer, hope they all gel and hit the ground running. Much needed addition of trickery/flair and pace into the squad, and a lot more adventurous in the market than before.

Correct 🙂 But also that we're chasing a CM to replace Bucko/Trav and a striker could come in as well. I'm guessing we're searching for CB's too, and if there's a suitable option available, then Hyam leaves this window.

EJ latest: https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25414459.blackburn-rovers-transfer-latest-three-deals-close/

Too good to be true? 28 year-old Japanese player with three caps for his country and plying his trade in Poland.

My interpretation of that statement was that there's a set budget and plans for x incomings and x outgoings. Any 'surprise' additional exits on top of that will need to be replaced, so that's like for like (or less), and that's a seperate budget generated by the mentioned sales. I doubt we will sell Hyam unless we have someone lined up. Same for Tronstad and Hedges but their market value are lower (because of their age) and will cost us less to keep until next summer.

More of our players are linked away too, @ruggles1995 so it's a double-edged sword. Hope we can get an announcement tomorrow for the Japanese lad.

18-24 months is a long time as manager in the Championship 😉

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Afolayan seems versatile so Gueye out Afolayan out and he can play upfront if Yuki is injured or needs a rest. Or a PL youngster. Not the scenario I would want happen, but can see us bringing in someone on deadline day to fill the gap if the rumours of Gueye to Emirates are true. I'd take Dennis back if it's a cheap deal, I think he was poor last season but hasn't played much and there's a really good player there. Not sure if his attitute stinks or not, but Ismael will be the judge on that. Dennis can play out wide and upfront if needed too. We need to loan out Leonard in any case - he needs regular men's football, preferably in League One.

In January then if we can free up a foreign player spot?

Can't sign a foreign player to replace Hyam, so Colin Rösler could be a possibility as he's eligible to represent England. The Kapuadi ship has sailed and gone.

He's probably happy but not happy enough to sign a contract offer on the same terms as he's on now. Can't sell him before we have a replacement ready.

Excellent. Looked the better team for the entire match and Hull apparantly have played some good stuff up until now, and are a good home side with recent history on their side when facing Rovers. We continued in the same manner as versus Birmingham. We look very well organised and every player works hard as long as they're on the pitch, including Cantwell who really has lit up after being made captain. Special mention to Hedges who has been getting a lot of flack on here. He's been top drawer last couple of matches, so hopefully him (and everyone else) can stay fit for a prolonged period now.

McLoughlin just joined and Tronstad won't get picked as captain with his deal nearing its end as well.

We can probably sign him and sell him on, if he's a success.

I think we had spent the majority of the budget by then, but what do I know... Mafoumbi was presented a bit different than a U21 signing normally is, see below. So that they had aspirations for him to kick on is a pretty safe assessment, I would say. I agree with you though, and I'm positive Gestede and whoever else deals with this have learnt their lesson.