Well if anyone wants to PM me some contact details I will pass them on to him. He seemed quite keen to pursue a story.

I've been in touch with the editor of the India Today article. He would be interested in doing a fresh story regarding their investment in Blackburn Rovers. He wants accurate details and numbers. Would any of the people with more knowledge on the specifics of their investment (in numbers) being interested in getting in touch with him?

Danny Rose is a terrible idea. Don't think he's played a game in almost 2 years - and he was woeful at Watford. Think he's had mental health problems hasn't he?

When I did Google 'Venky's Under Investigation' I also found a link from 2018 which contained the following: A subsidiary of the Venky's VH group (one of the biggest chicken producers in the country which supplies food outlets including McDonalds, KFC and Pizza Hut) bought a front page advert in the Times of India in February 2018. It did so in response to an investigation by the Bureau, showing that Venky’s sold antibiotics to farmers to make chickens fatter.

Reports suggested Henderson was being paid £700,000-per-week - four times what he was earning at Liverpool - but he denied those claims. "People can believe me or not, but in my life and my career, money has never been a motivation. Ever," he said. There's me thinking he'd gone for the money.

With a goal scored several minutes after the full-time whistle should have gone to rub it in.

I always find it worse when you head into these bloody international breaks with a defeat. 3-0 win and we enter the break in the play off places with three back-to-back wins without conceding. 3-0 defeat and it's a long time until we next play and have the opportunity to make up for it.

Speaking of this, who is responsible for our squad listing on this website?

Thanks - hadn't previously seen the quote from Semir. Certainly seems confident in his own ability. As for Hill - there are plenty of players who have U20/U21 caps that have amounted to nothing. Harry Chapman for one. I'm not overly concerned by the Hill signing as I don't think he'll play many games at all. I'm more worried at the fact that unless Sigurdsson is top drawer - we've gone backwards from last season.

https://rp-online.de/sport/fussball/borussia/borussia-moenchengladbach-semir-telalovic-das-ist-der-stand-v1_aid-95849645 "Semir Telalovic's application was impressive: With 15 goals and 13 assists that he collected last season for Borussia's U23s in the Regionalliga West, the striker went looking for a new club in mid-July. The hope of Telalovic and his advisors to find a place with a second or third division club has not been fulfilled so far" I'm also concerned that people seem to think Telalovic is rapid/fast. I've seen nothing to back this up from the clips I've seen - so not sure where that is coming from. As for what Hearts fans thought of Hill - they didn't think he was good enough for the Scottish Premier League - which is surely a concern?

He's hardly torn up trees at either MK Dons or Swansea. No idea why people rate him so highly. His win percentage over his career is 37.3% compared to JDT at 47.7% for example.

Well they've spent a fortune, not got a single point so far, conceded 11 goals in 3 home games and hard to see where their first points are coming from. £19m on a keeper that hasn't played above League One level. Idea for their commercial department: Sell season tickets for their away end. I don't think they tend to play at home at the same time as Rovers', so I could go and sit in the away end every time they play and have a great time.

Well I'm going to rate each signing and then come back and laugh at how wrong I was at the end of the season: Wahlstedt - 7/10 - I think this lad must have something about him. Already a Swedish international and reportedly scouted by Manchester United and Liverpool previously. Fully expect him to be cemented as first choice by the end of the season. Tronstad - 4/10 - From what I've seen so far appears to be a bang average midfielder with no particular stand out attributes. I'd not have him as a starter. Ennis - 6/10 - From the glimpses we have seen, definitely looks like he's got something about him. But it's clear he's got issues with fitness/injuries. Expect him to get 8-10 goals this season - so not the big goal scorer we needed. Telalovic - 2/10 - Good record at a very low level. Concerned that his advisors were apparently looking for a second or third tier team to take him on in Germany and they got no takers. Then along come Rovers'. Not expecting to see much of him at all and think he'll be well down the pecking order. Sigurdsson - 8/10 - Looking forward to seeing this one when he's fit. Expect him to come strong in the second half of the season. Hill - 4/10 - As cover, he will be fine. But it's concerning how unimpressed the Hearts fans were with him. Expect him to be fourth choice centre half. Moran - 7/10 - Think he be a decent addition and get at least 5 goals and 5 assists this season. Might take him a couple of months to get up to speed of the Championship. Overall, I'd rate the window as a 3/10. I certainly don't think we are any stronger than last season, but that's due to a complete lack of budget. As little as I rate Will Keane, he'd have been a better signing on a free upfront if we knew we couldn't afford a decent striker.

And it was only 3 points from losing positions from the first 45 games of the season.

All I'm saying is ignore his Wikipedia page as people can edit it. Which they have.

What are we basing the fact that he's rapid on?

I was scrolling through the donations and noticed John Buckley had donated £200. Class.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/23757411.blackburn-rovers-player-ratings-8-0-win-harrogate/ You can tell this Dan Barnes is a dingle. 8-0 win and the average rating of the players in the starting 11 was 7. Moran and Wahlstedt both got 7 out of 10 for example.

He was taking part in a shooting drill in the warm-up before the Accrington friendlies (the one where you play a one-two with someone on the edge of the box and then shoot from the D). He was bending most of them in the top corner every time. Looked a very confident striker of the ball.

We've had 11 different goal scorers this season - and we're still in August.

Dolan as a right sided Le Saux. I've definitely heard it all now.

Wahlstadt been taking positioning tips from Pears already.

Thought Hyam was magnificent

Mo Salah the latest one to be linked - potentially with a salary of £1.5m per week (currently £350k per week at Liverpool).

I went to the second leg of City and Real Madrid last season in their tunnel club. Whilst it's a great experience as a one off - it's not football as I love it. They had a DJ outside the players entrance and then the players all went down a red carpet through the bar area when they arrived. Then it pretty much turned into a nightclub as soon as they game finished. Give me a pie and a pint stood in the freezing cold any day of the week.