Courtois has been super human tonight. Immense.

We can’t even keep two of our own players who want to stay!! Our new gaffer and his team are going to have to show some creativity, that’s for sure.

I don’t know why anyone would choose Carvalhal over Farke, if Farke were keen. Huge if of course.

Seeing Tony Pulis’ name there gave me a few chills. The sort of fella that could come from those long odds to land it - especially given his agency.

Is he not off with an International team?

Beat me to it. That’s the best we can muster from a list of 60 odd?! Jesus wept if true.

Fabulous news. Waggott, Lowe and Benson to follow please.

Absolutely zero point in discussing players until we have a Manager on board. We can't even look to tie Lenihan or Nyambe down until he's in situ. Any links at this stage, unless to youth players, just are not accurate.

Really?! He assists nearly as many as he scores. He’s the definition of current elite level if you ask me and will go onto be recognised as the best player in the world once a couple of the old guard wind down. The only thing that will stop him from being one of the real greats is if he gets a massive injury in the next few years which takes away his explosive pace.

Waggott and Suhail strike me as the chuckle brothers, but the above would surely be far worse as they’d appoint some HSH no mark.

I know 5 years is a long time but the ‘open’ updates (‘next stage in the process moving ahead’ etc) from Bayes and Sharpe would suggest that this hire - for now - is being completely run out of Ewood by Waggot, and probably Suhail. Just seems odd to what we’ve seen in the past with this lot and previous manager hunts being cloak and dagger. That being said after this arduous process it’ll probably end up being some HSH no mark who comes out of nowhere that our owners end up putting in the hot seat.

Sheff Utd now 2-1 up so it’s level in the tie. What a r*llocks up this will be from Forest if they go out.

Pompey hoping to land Carter for £500k this summer: https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/20143531.portsmouth-ready-go-sign-blackburn-rovers-defender-hayden-carter/ Would be a balls up for me. Let the new manager come in and assess him.

Hopefully with Farke not too far behind him.

Forest should comfortably win these play-offs. They should have beaten Sheff Utd by far more than 2-1 yesterday. Sheff Utd, Luton and Hudds are so poor. As the poster says above, criminal that Forest are the only decent team out of the four and yet we still couldn’t make the play-offs despite being 2nd at the turn of the year.

Probably. But if the right (wrong for us) agent gets in their ear then they funnily enough move very swiftly, with it all done behind the curtains too.

Pete O’Rourke: Carlos Carvalhal has emerged as one of the front-runners for the manager’s job at Blackburn Rovers and they can land the Braga boss without having to pay any compensations. It would be a real coup to land the Portuguese tactician. #Rovers #Braga

It really will tip me over the edge if it's a Grayson/Dunn combo, with the club and majority of our non-messageboard fanbase eulogising over it due to their ties with Rovers.

He's also popped up as a studio 'guest' for a couple of our recent Sky fixtures. Be afraid.

It does feel like a more honest statement would have gone along the lines of: ’Tony, Balaji still talks about your missus’ lemon drizzle cake even now, all these years on. All the best. Madame.’

I'd imagine the players are all off on their jolly's now which is why he cleared his desk yesterday. Zero reason for him to come back in now. Focus needs to be on Farke!....who am I kidding with that one?!

Feels like it deserves its own thread! CLUB STATEMENT: TONY MOWBRAY

@Mercerrecommend me a bottle of fine red to celebrate please my man!

Love all these sources having to break it on behalf of the club as we couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery.

That’s another argument entirely I agree.