32 minutes ago, philipl said:

Might have been dropped. He let in 6 in the previous game.

Yeah maybe, even thou Pears hade a mare himself against Reading, but wasn’t dropped.

Why wasn’t the Greek at the goal? Injured, not up to speed or Eastham is thought as the better prospect? I am quite surprised tbf

Dolan for Elliot for me but yeah I cant see it happening either

Kaminski - I had forgotten what it feels like to have a Goalie that you can rely on. Id go as far as saying that He is Rovers’ most important player at this moment.

Armstrong - Hard to leave him at second place, but the reason why I am doing it is cause we on books have enough players who can score goals too. I know not all of them are doing it cough Gally cough Brero, but we still seem like a team capable of scoring lots of goals.

Holtby - I quite like him. He dictates our games. Can pick a good pass, not afraid to get into a tackle and can easily chip in with a couple of goals a season.

Dacky - He was never the quickest and I don’t know where he fits in our system at the moment, but if he can get back from his injury and contribute even the half of what he used to, he will be one of our most important players, no doubt.

Rothwell - I know, I know, he never scores, he is inconsistent etc. However, I like how direct with the ball he is and even thou most of his dribbling comes to a dead end, he offers something different to the team and in my opinion Rovers are a much more complexed team with him on the pitch than without.

well, when we are the better team, we often lose, when we are the worst team however, we always lose, so no surprises here.
I think Swansea are quite decent and along with Bournemouth and Norwich will be challenging for the first 2 positions

Meh. Everyone expected it and we never felt like scoring. Why do people pretend to be surprised?? Its not the end of the world and Forest kinda Deserved the win. They were very organised at the back and felt like scoring at the end which they did. We move on

5 hours ago, Swanson said:

He was poor against Serbia, but the whole team was poor in general. As I have mentioned before, our national coach tends to play his favourites every time. Like Alesaami (no club), Stefan Johansen (not playing at Fulham) and Markus Henriksen (without a club for several months, still played).  My opinion on Alesaami have changed after the Serbia, I tought he has been decent before, but now he seems poor. He probably just lacks game time, but I would prefer a younger player.

Either way the lad is without a club and he surely knows that there are some speculations of teams being interested in him. He should have done/tried his best in order to warrant a contract somewhere, but as it seems he has massively flopped. Id stay away.

11 minutes ago, Mike E said:

Only Olympiakos connection I can find is him turning them down at 16yo to join Slavia Sofia?

It was all over the Internet two years ago in Bulgaria

https://newsbeezer.com/bulgariaeng/sound-slap-for-slavia-the-transfer-from-stergiakis-to-olympiakos-has-failed/

p.s. plenty of sites/informations in Bulgarian confirming the information too

20 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

He turned down Olympiakos at 16 years old

https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/transfer-news/blackburn-rovers-antonis-stergiakis-transfer-19055878.amp?__twitter_impression=true

He was 19, not 16

51 minutes ago, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

I don’t believe Bulgaria is on the quarantine list, so he should be all good.

Bulgaria it is on the quarantine list and have been since the day the list was announced.

As a Bulgarian(who does not follow the Bulgarian league AT ALL) I must say that the goalie is highly rated here. However, even though he is Greece’s U21 national keeper, they do not seem to rate him very highly over there. 
It could be because their U21’s team is shit and they just got trashed 5-0 by Croatia or because he refused to sign for Olympiacos because he wanted them to guarantee him a starting place in their team. Idk

Either way.. from all the Bulgarians in Slavia Sofia, Blackburn Rovers are about to sign the only foreign one. Typical..

All the best to the lad thou

When he was 19 years old Slavia wanted €800K for him and the media in Bulgaria said that an agreement was reached with Olympiacos for the amount of €700K.

However, I really doubt that he would cost more than £300K in today’s market

We have been the better team in 4 matches but we have managed to only win 2 of them. 

How come we never play shit and win

I am surprised none of our players fell asleep on the pitch after Cardiff got their player sent off 

59 minutes ago, Spankus Munky said:

I didn't ask him to prove anything, I asked for his evidence that Arsenal were not interested in Raya, evidence and proof are not the same thing.

Thought the purpose of evidence is to prove something. Sorry i am not fluent in English 

1 hour ago, Spankus Munky said:

Oh 8 games in the Premier League is Premier League Class pull the other one... And the evidence is all over google type "David Raya Arsenal bid" 100's of websites offering evidence Arsenal had bids for Raya. can you post evidence that Arsenal were never interested in Raya...

I am not trying to be annoying or anything but you CAN’T prove something thats negative.

Once at work, I was asked to prove a negative claim so my maneger told the other party to prove that they are not Mickey Mouse first. 

I mean, I cant really see Brereton, Arma and Gallagher all starting together at any point this season, so Brereton will most likely be the one that Gally will replace 

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Guys honestly we are an absolute joy to watch

8 minutes ago, JoeH said:

I would imagine the reasoning for JRC over Nyambe is that Jozwiak is going to tear apart whichever one plays, so may as well use the lad who has the better forward ability so we can outscore them.

Lol. This doesn’t sound like a good reason/solution to me 

The worst part is that we all know that Mowbray wont ever sign anyone to replace Nyambe once he is gone

12 months ago Mowbray signed Cunningham on loan because Bell was not good enough. I just cant think of a scenario in which he leaves us with only Bell for this season.

The Only question in my head is : who is Mowbray going to sign (and when)

Thought there will a domino effect of new signingS

so Ryan Manning ended up being just a rumour. Very strange having in mind how certain all the sources sounded

14 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

source Lancs Live website. From Mowbray during his post match interview

Is there anything you can tell us on Ryan Manning?

"No. That's a name you've just thrown at me. It's not true. I think Ryan Manning is a very good footballer, I imagine QPR are not going to let him walk away.

"We haven't got any money to buy anybody. How much is Ryan Manning going to cross? If you're going to buy a player, you have to buy the player and then you have to give him a salary.

"So I would say there is enough money to buy one player who can help us to get to where we want to be or we could loan two or three players and use that money as salary, which just becomes dead money at your club at the end of the year.

"Our decision is ultimately whether to loan some players who are going to help us in a one-off season or are we going to buy one player who can be ours?

"But then we've got more than one position that we feel we need to strengthen or cover, it's a difficult conundrum for us, somewhere along the line we'll see what falls in place.

"If not, you saw the team today, there is a lot of young players who are doing the job. How young is that team today? It's a pretty young group of footballers who are trying their best and yet I know, and maybe you know as well, that it's very difficult to maintain consistency with seven or eight U23 players in your team all season.

"We would like to strengthen in certain areas or cover in certain areas because we know the games are going to come thick and fast.

"I know exactly to the penny how much we've got but it's probably a couple of loans or a signing, I would suggest, and I'm not sure I'd want to spend it all on Ryan Manning when we've got Amari'i Bell doing ok, so there's other areas I feel we need to strengthen first."

Did someone make this thing up or are these Mowbray’s words?

Someone claiming he has signed.

Any chances of the domino effect as per Mowbray? 
 

Great signing Ayala is. I am super happy