He didn't sign him. The owner specified that he should be signed along with Goofy. Hughes is putting a brave face on it but they weren't his decisions.

There is no doubting they are quality players but you can't just put world class players into a team and hope it works out. The players have to fit into the way the team plays. That's why Madrid have got rid of all their big names and now sign players who fit in, Barca are doing the same as well.

absolute tosh,if hughes did not want either JO or ANY OTHER PLAYER HE WOULD NOT HAVE SIGNED THEM

Structured payments over 4 years. Jo and Ronaldiniho transfers are above Hughes' head.

It's a tough job when you can't sign the players you want and have to fit big ego'd players into your team.

after 4 years of sparky at ewood,i reckon he won't have signed anyone who he thinks ain't good enough for his team.bitching used to be for women

And your basis of this is??? ....

Are you forgetting that they are possibly also protecting the long-term interests of the club and not throwing money at it that was blitzed by the likes of Kidd, Hodgson.

Might as well throw the towel in now then, as it stands this is possibly the best it is going to get. Get used to it

not backing the manager in january is what i base it on,not a problem to me but premiership survival is all we will get with that attitude,things have changed since hodgson and kidd.JACK IS NO LONGER WITH US.

Without wanting to approach Drog's levels of cynicism ........ those sort of things are easy to say with hindsight. If he'd have got 10 mill in Jan, who's to say we wouldn't be in the same position now (but 10 mill worse off) with Hughes saying he needed 20 mill to stop him buggering off. Or given him 20 mill etc. Make your own numbers up. Reality - with 16 other Prem teams, our players/manager/coaches can be bought. And maybe that's more than 16, see Ronaldo at the Scum.

maybe i did not get my point across,rovers under this admin are penny pinching

and what a match for hughesy love child to miss,the arse at the emirates.tuesday morning will be fill off posts off how we missed the norwegian beckham,lets hope sparky picks peter/treacy than the useless berner

played a blinder there sparky

I would love to know the reasoning behind selling him.

my nephew who is home from iraq on friday mates with joe,i will ask him the reason why he left,i'm sure it was that he wanted to play 1st team football at a decent level,actually turned down 500k to play for dundee utd