Hasta

It was widely reported as the fee being €1.8 million. This is reported on several sites and the Telegraph reported it to be "in excess" of 7 figures. Of course this will be including lots of adds on's and stuff, but I imagine the selling fee will also include this. edit - "Blackburn target striker Gueye, 2.5mill could seal the deal" said Alan Nixon back in July 2024 before he signed.

He was under contract till 2027 anyway, so there was no need to sell and leave us with no strikers. Also read this from the Lancashire Telegraph, and then ask yourself if it sounds like we were desperate to keep him and offering him a new contract.

I'd be taking them to the cinema or Arcade Club or something. Or doing something else I rarely do with them whilst I have a "free" afternoon. Not spending on the ground, as a tactic, would only really work if it was implemented across a period of time / games rather than a one off which won't be either felt by the club or noticeable.

Wonder if that's what Colchester fans said when a young Sammy Szmodics didnt score in a season and a half for them when he started his professional career?

Credit to all the lads who have made their debuts this season who played today. They worked hard and held their own. But it was a dire, dire game with no quality.

As a season ticket holder I wouldn’t have that choice to make. That would be up to non-attendees. But if you want someone removed, financially rewarding them would be a bit odd. Other than to prove to the rest of the fan base that there is a significant number of people boycotting, what impact would it have on Suhail and the owners?

Not at all. I only tagged you in as you don’t seem to believe there generally are fans who think that Venkys have done OK and the criticism is over the top. Now if the Lancashire Telegraph did a 5 night special expose listing everything that’s happened, people would either be exposed to the truth for the first time, or believe it more than reading it on here or twitter. But that’s not going to happen. We have to accept that there is a portion of fans out there like this and any protest isn't going to be unanimous agreed with and followed. Therefore anything that is done needs to be as successful as possible by involving those who are aware and possibly aren’t happy with Venkys, even if they still attend. Which is why I don’t think doing something inside the ground as well on the 24th will work, as it just dilutes the protest. I also think that as many people against the owners aren’t there, it would be difficult for someone like @Wheelton Blue (possibly , I don’t know) to face away from the pitch holding up a red card for 2 minutes, when the majority of the stand may not want to take part in that protest. That would only work if there were enough people in the ground to take part.

Depends on the situation. I’m not going to start shouting back across a couple of rows to correct them, nor do I want to spend 10 minutes during a game trying to outline all of the Venkys wrongs they don’t know about. But I heard it said (about the chants / pitch) in the pub after the Sheff Wednesday game and I had a long conversation chatting to two lads. They didn’t know half of the issues, but I also felt like they didn’t believe it either as I couldn’t really prove much on the spot.

If people choose not to boycott a single game with the Watford game, I doubt the same people would protest in the ground. For example turn their backs for 5 minutes, show red cards etc.. Any protest inside the ground will occur next to people who think it’s stupid / pointless and many people will naturally be less confrontational . Therefore an in ground protest as well on the 24th would be spun as “most people are happy”, as the majority who would take part won’t be in the ground. The other point is @Dreams of 1995 says “I am of the opinion that all supporters have the same opinion - that the Venkys have been nothing short of a disaster for Blackburn Rovers.”, but we have to accept he is wrong. Not on the opinion, which I agree with, but there is a significant portion of attending adults who do not think they are doing that bad a job. For the abandoned games, a group around me were laughing at the Venkys out chants, saying Venkys cant control the weather whilst being unaware of the lack of investment in the pitch. Those people don’t read sites like this or social media. They won’t be aware of Brockhall, FF minutes, payday loans from some guy in Bolton, court cases in India etc.. They just think they put the money in and the managers fail.

I’m not sure he’s that good, but I’m also adamant if he was under contract longer he would have featured at some point instead of Henriksson and Diamini up front. If we did go down it would be more mismanagement.

Could be worse. We could have been Millwall this weekend.

Mac 1-0 up at half time. 117 places between them. The biggest shock in FA Cup history is on the cards.

I’d actually take Bishop as a backup striker. A goal every 240 minutes last season in this league is better than Ohashi. Before that he scored 41 goals in 2 seasons in league one and won Pompey player of the season. (A goal every 180 mins). Clearly having a bad year this year.

The best ally the coalition could have on the 24th is the weather.

First 30 minutes were pretty level. United then had a spell where they were rampant for 15 minutes before and then 15 minutes after half time. Loads of shots, clearances off the line etc.. Got themselves in front, immediately took Bruno Fernandes off for some bizarre reason and then it went pretty even again. But in the spell when Untied were on top they could have had 4 or 5.

Big Mak knocked that ball right into Weismann's patch at Turf Moor and I thought "We've got a handful here". However the next 14 months proved it was a bit of a fluke. For someone so big, his aerial prowess was poor. He often was out jumped by shorter centre halves, and when he did win headers they weren't the knock down from the Burnley game, they either flicked on to nobody or were aimless. He is a poor header of the ball, and has a poor leap for such a big guy. He has certain odd games (West Brom away was it?) where it seemed to click and defences struggled to handle him. But generally he's been disappointing. Would I rather have him upfront for the last 10 minutes instead on Henriksson. Yes (if he stayed onside). But generally, for the money we paid, there has to be better options available.

Rudy. Rudy. Rudy.

'Nobody can get hold of him' - what happened to David Batty?

The difference between us and Wednesday was they repeatedly stopped playing the players. Therefore boycott action to remove the owners was also seen to be supporting the players. I imagine it made it a much easier decision for match attendees to miss a game. Even then, they still had people that turned up.

Hope Forest win tonight to push West Ham 7 points from safety and Burnley 9 points from safety.

Let's see. 👀

Interesting. So last season on average 1 in 5 didn't attend who had bought tickets (or 20%). However for league midweek games outside of the Christmas period this number is 30% For Saturday games this number is 18.5%. The highest figure for a Saturday game is 24.3% I suspect a large portion of this are kids who have been bought a season ticket (or even match ticket) because they are so cheap, therefore it's easy to "waste".

That seems to have been pinched from here, but it would make sense. My gut feeling is people will make more money from him being elsewhere, so he will end up elsewhere.

That's not reported on their social media feeds (which reports other contract signs), nor can I find any other source saying anything.

Moussa Baradji. Looks like he could be a good player. And yet something tells me he won't be here next year. We were reported as agreeing a loan with an "option-to-buy" However he signed for Yverdon sport in June 2024 on a two year contract. His contract runs out with them on June 2026. Therefore he is a free agent in the summer. Yverdon cannot "sell him" at any point except this window. This implies that the option to buy only is really relevant during this window. In the summer he can go wherever he likes. Am I missing anything?