His missus is from Manchester too. Which may help.

He’s just posted a photo of him with the eyes emoji. Come on Glen, what have you heard pal?

Glen has heard something about Styles - according to his cryptic Twitter post anyway!

Great news to get the first over the line. Let's hope it opens the floodgates on the incoming front, and we get a couple more in ahead of the opener against QPR.

Still time for us to f*ck this up then.

Don’t be so silly.

The only arrival on mass at Ewood anytime soon will be for the prayer meeting.

Poor bloke is used to the best - his career is testament to that. IMO unless our owners / CEO / Pasha pull their fingers out of their arse, then he’ll be gone by Christmas if we’re not performing semi-decently in the league.

Yep. Time these ‘parameters’ are given some creativity. We’re snookering ourselves every bloody transfer window. It’s so painful.

As someone else has said, it would be odd if they have completely pulled the plug given JDT has come on board (cheapest option would have been internal promotions). Unless it’s just more broken promises to Broughton/JDT. I really do wish the Vs would just feck off though. Sick of their negligence.

A rumour. An actual rumour: SS Pete O’Rourke: Queens Park Rangers and Blackburn Rovers interested in signing Brighton midfielder Taylor Richards. #QPR #Rovers #BHAFC

Console yourself mate in the knowledge that it’s the same for Lionel Messi.

Somebody also posted on here the other day about this and how it’s effectively, all about marginal gains, which at this high level can make a big difference. You’re right though, 99% of the time it’s this way with left footers (MGP excepted!).

Assistant by day, DoF by night. Only at Rovers.

I didn’t like the thought of him and Wharton - two left footers - at the back in a four if I’m honest. It is concerning that it’s another who we’ve had an interest in, who is going elsewhere. We’ll be into the Z list before long.

All young players too. Which will fly in the face of the ‘experience’ line that the club has trotted out for months.

We’ll be looking to the non-league soon, and even then I wouldn’t be surprised to see us get gazumped time after time. Time Broughton gave an interview to local media.

A pre-requisite for a full back (even more so wing back) has to be pace. If we line up with Pickering / JRC as our full backs / wing backs this season then we'll be in huge danger - regardless of who we (finally) bring in elsewhere.

We seriously need to back the bloke. Unlike Mowbray, IMO, he’ll have some pride, so will be off like a shot if we’ve sold him down the river.

Beat me to it. Just the 23 clubs in our division ahead of us when it comes to recruitment.

Honestly, I don’t think there’s more than 1% chance that he signs a new deal with us. Why would he? He will get a better pay day now or at the end of his contract elsewhere. By a country mile too.

Only problem is he’d cost more than a packet of pork scratchings. And would want a decent Championship wage. Both of these rule us out.

We need to get creative with our wage structure. FFP is obviously a huge hindrance, but so is not budging at all for the right player.

Also, we could bring in the best in the industry, yet given we seemingly pay with magic beans these days, it won’t make any difference no matter how good he is.

Thanks for the reminder. I don’t know how my TV or cat survived the night.