Raya wanted to leave after being dropped and publicly criticised by his manager - completely understandable. Raya did have/still has huge potential - he's still very young for a keeper. Definitely a mistake selling him - and I thought so at the time. Even worse was how we replaced him.

Did we miss him last year? Not with Walton doing such a superb job, no. Why wouldn't we have got £10m for him eventually?

Doesn't he need to quarantine?

I've not seen anything that stands out from JRC yet personally, but I'm prepared to give him time. He's like a very poor mans Paul Warhurst for me (not necessarily an insult, as I think Warhurst was very, very good but for injuries).

As long as the scouting report doesn't reveal Blackrod's been in his new girlfriend.

I actually think Samba was fairly underrated on the ball.

We seemed to specialise in signing players that other clubs didn't want. I'd never heard of Nelsen or Samba before they signed and they turned out to be exceptional bits of business. I also wondered why were signing Friedel when we had two very good keepers in Filan and Kelly at the club. Shows how wrong I was.

Newcastle United up next. In May 2007 we won 2-0 away at Newcastle – who had a strike force of Obafemi Martins and Michael Owen that cost £26m. Luckily we had a pretty expensive backline ourselves – Friedel, Samba and Nelsen costing a whopping £450k between them. If only we could find bargains like that nowadays!

Spot on. Then I start telling my mates that I've given my Corsa a wash and I'd prefer that to the Lambo anyway.

General Manager at Jaya Juta 2000 Sdn Bhd according to his LinkedIn

Pretty sure you're not thinking of this guy.

Does anyone remember a Blackburn Rovers magazine around 1995? Not sure if it lasted long, but I definitely remember buying one from a newsagent in Leyland. In fact, here it is.....

Isn't Garner a deeper midfielder? He can also play in defence.

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He's got as much chance of playing Premier League football as I have then ?

Pretty sure that wasn't all upfront either.

I bet Palmer doesn't go on to score goals like the one below in La Liga. Or ever command a 10m Euro transfer fee.

Andre Ayew cost £18m on his own, so yes they could.

Watford, Bournemouth, Stoke, Middlesborough, Swansea off the top of my head.

I don't think he's quite as good as everyone made him out to be. He would be an improvement on Bell, but so would my gran and she turned 98 yesterday.

He's a nasty so and so. Definitely not Mowbray's type, but probably just the type we could do with.

Well we need defenders in ASAP, so I hope that's not our strategy as it's going to be at least 18 years before they are ready to play.

Downing was alright. Stewart,not Paul.

Are we still on about the naughty little blonde here?

Well if I've already caught it....