JHRover

They've probably already spent the majority of it on their flurry of activity last week. That's what you do when you've got a serious and ambitious owner who accepts there is a need to sell from time to time but will do his best to respond to that by reinvesting and backing his manager with proper signings at a crucial stage of the season. Might work, might not, but at least they've tried. Scratching around for cheap loans and foreign punts a month after we needed immediate reinforcements with proven quality as identified by our manager sums it up.

Kargbo clearly got nothing to do with Eustace and another 'project' signing pushed by persons unknown. Yawn.

Yep and I'd narrow it down further from 'Prem' to 'Villa/Brighton/Liverpool/Everton/City' as very much doubt we will be after anyone from any other club

I'm sure there will be people working for Rovers scratching their heads as to why sales are poor. I'm sure they are daft enough to think that the visit of mighty PL Wolves will be enough to get the locals coming in their droves. Of course it won't be and most of us don't consider such teams to be anything worth getting excited about. Sunday lunchtime game, live on BBC iplayer, digital only tickets, £2 surcharge if bought in store and an absolute disgrace of a January transfer window explains a lot

Only thing I'd say is that we've got 5 days until the window shuts, so ever so slightly less ridiculous, though that only matters if you've got any confidence that those extra days are going to make any sort of difference, and I don't think they will. We've done nothing in over 4 weeks, so expecting in the last 5 days to get the 4 signings needed, and not just that but proven Championship quality as our manager has highlighted and expects, I'd say is fairyland stuff. Bring in that we've got a game on Friday to occupy us and a Sunday when nothing ever happens anyway, there's not much time at all. I think we are seeing the signs of increasing desperation though with the 'rumours' of today. I've no doubt they are sat down there glued to their phones ringing around the houses trying and hoping that eventually someone somewhere will agree to a very cheap deal or loan.

We don't know that any talks have taken place with Dolan. All we know is that Waggott has said they have. You're pretty foolish IMO if you believe something just because Waggott says it or the Venkygraph print it. They also said that countless other players were in 'talks' for months on end yet it was obvious none of them were staying.

Don't worry yourself about this bit, uncle Steve and Sohail are being very careful, we won't spend any of it.

Indeed, and I don't think it is any coincidence that the last two to sign were then sold the following transfer window. I'm convinced that there was some sort of plan or understanding in place that those deals were contingent on a sale following soon after.

A good point to raise Chaddy and perhaps more than the non-existent transfer activity this is the biggest clue as to their true intentions. They can of course make up plenty of excuses for not signing players in January - Waggott listed about 10 in his 'update' last week - its hard, we tried, everyone else has more money somehow, blah blah blah - I'm sure we're all tired of hearing it but excuse maker in chief came out with them all again. But they can't really make up excuses for the TOTAL lack of ANY senior contract renewals. Not one. Not even ones that should be an absolute doddle (e.g. Hedges if they want him) or absolutely essential (Tronstad, Travis, Carter). The FACT that NONE of these people even sound remotely close to ANY extended or improved terms gives the game away - it's got nothing to do with 'A difficult January' or 'other clubs' - we're just not at the races and not remotely interested in doing anything that is going to increase costs or expenses including offering deserved new terms to our own players. It is disgusting. I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see Eustace head to a real club in the summer and promptly snap up 2-3 of our best performers this season. They've worked their socks off for him this year and have been totally let down.

Indeed. Which might explain one or two things but they were a non-league club when we were bought by the scum as a Premier League side. Parachute money can't explain that one away nor does it make it acceptable that they are spending millions and we are going with a begging bowl to Plymouth and Birmingham for cast offs.

They want the club to be 'self sufficient' yet: have allowed countless assets to walk away for nothing, costing them millions have chosen to not employ a single proven experienced operator at executive level in 15 years continue to employ a used car salesman / spiv ex-agent to run it for them have no commercial director and haven't for years have a laughably bad commercial setup to the extent you can't even buy shirts or tickets from the club shop make zero effort to sell tickets or engage people from beyond the narrow confines of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council Are refusing to follow the 'sell and reinvest' model that many clubs, ourselves included, have profited enormously from in recent years (Armstrong, Szmodics, should have been Dack, Rothwell and Diaz) So once again what they claim to want and what is actually happening are two very different things. People wanting to own a football club and for it to be self-sufficient would address all the above as a matter of urgency.

Money in does one thing and one thing only - help Venkys pay their bills a while longer without the need to use (as much of) their own cash and thus making it easier for them to leave us on the shelf gathering dust and for Waggott and shadow man to cart on without needing to request cash. It certainly ain't going anywhere near a transfer kitty for Eustace that's for sure. Even if they pretended it was it would collapse and then disappear (O'Brien McGuire). So less money brought in the better for me. Lets crank up the financial demands on the Indians, they've had a couple of easy years by flogging the crown jewels and destroying 2-3 promotion opportunities.

I'm sure it isn't the root cause of the issue but I'm also wondering what sort of hindrance it is to have employed someone as Sporting Director who has never operated in any comparable role before and seems to have got the job because he's an ex-player and was happy to follow Waggott around for free for a few months shadowing him. Like I say, by no means the root cause but in their desperate bid to save money and take the easy route they've thrown a total novice into leading the sporting operation. He certainly wouldn't have got the equivalent job at a rival Championship club. I find myself wondering if any of the owners, directors, management team sit and ask themselves this or whether they just shrug their shoulders and congratulate themselves on navigating another window without spending or increasing costs.

All of what is said there is free. It costs absolutely nothing to 'try'. It costs nothing to 'hope'. It costs nothing to contact other clubs and ask if they will heavily subsidise things. It costs nothing to whinge about a potential target opting to move to a rival instead of coming here. It costs nothing to claim, usually after the event when it is too late to do anything about it, that we were interested in x.y.z and wanted them here. I would like a day where my football club is free from the shackles of Venky oppression, when we have trustworthy and honest people running the club. Unfortunately we don't always get what we want no matter how much we go on about it. What costs is transfer and loan fees, signing on fees, decent wages and offering more than other clubs to ensure we get our targets.

They're pretty daft if they are lining up incomings based on potential money by selling a player to us. They'd be wise to look at the last couple of January windows and learn a lesson - even if we agree to do something we backtrack and it breaks down.

I think when people see Luton Town and Plymouth Argyle, both fighting to survive in this division and certainly not what would be described as big or affluent clubs in this league, comfortably outspending and making more effort than us, it might make one or two realise what depths these vile owners are dragging us to. Then again maybe not. 'Punching above our weight' in the top 10 of the Championship I keep on reading.

Quite clear that Kargbo is a Gestede name. Doubt Waggott has anything to do with it. Even less likely that he's a player Eustace has identified as the 'top quality' that he said he wanted. It's another window-dressing signing. Even if he ends up being a good un, he's not going to come in and hit the ground running or immediately adjust to the rigours of the Championship. But it's cheap and an unknown so a few will get themselves excited about it.

Even if there was logic in waiting until the very end of the window, which there isn't if your priority and focus is on games and results rather than pounds and pennies, but even if there was, surely the painful experience of the ever so unfortunate fiascos in the last couple of years, both seemingly occurring under the time pressures of deadline day, would convince the 'powers that be' to perhaps not leave it to such chance and to avoid that outcome again this year? Lessons learned from past mistakes? Or maybe that's exactly how they like it - then they can trot out with the usual excuses with an ever willing legion of fans on standby ready to lap it all up - look at Luton spending millions on a League One striker 'we can't compete with that' etc. Well actually, we can compete with that, infact we did several years ago when these owners pumped in millions to sign Brereton, Armstrong and Gallagher, and could do so again now by releasing a fraction of the tens of millions they've brought in. As it has always been it is a Venky choice that is killing us. So instead they're just sat waiting for one of our 'targets' i.e. loans whose parent clubs are now willing to release and subsidise to a degree that we are willing to pay in return for basically guaranteed games as we've no depth not to give them guaranteed games.

Improved communication like he boldly proclaimed he was going to do in his in-house media interview about 5 months ago?

There's a logical argument to say that it is better for us if every player leaves on a free. Every pound that Venkys have to find from their own cash rather than from player sales is, in my view, a step closer to them throwing in the towel or being unable to do it. Whilst the conveyor belt of million pound sales continues it takes pressure off the vermin. I'd like them to be under immense pressure to the point where they buckle. That's only going to come legally through the Indian courts or financially if they can't pay the bills any more.

We've been here before. Late interest in one of our players from another club with the lure of hard cash on the table. No doubt at all that the scum will be interested in a sale. So they'll put it to Eustace that selling Pears for a few million will immediately and significantly enhance his transfer kitty. Out the side door he goes, admin errors come along, money doesn't get spent and is never seen again. Ready made replacement already here. I've never been a big Pears fan but do feel he has done a good job this season and I wouldn't even entertain selling anyone under these wretches as there's no chance it is getting reinvested. At best it's a couple of loans to placate the manager and fans for a while.

Because they made a poor managerial appointment in Walter whereas we got lucky with Eustace. Also they had a huge turnover in players last summer.

Nothing at all wrong with spending lots of money. It seems at some point to have become a negative around these parts, no doubt fuelled by an ownership and regime keen to avoid spending, and decorated with the old 'FFP' mantra. If you can do it and not break the rules then it is not something to be ashamed or embarrassed about, it is good and in theory will see you get somewhere in the game. Of course around Rovers so many have become indoctrinated with a fear of spending cash, created by Waggott and other charlatans employed by Venkys. If you are fortunate enough to have an owner with some ambition and a desire to invest then good for you. I wish we did.

Let's go back to Waggott's book of excuses , aka his 'update' statement released last week, may be Louie Barry wasn't the 'right type' of character for our special squad. Maybe they don't want to endanger the 'togetherness' of the squad by bringing external elements into it. Maybe Hull didn't get the memo about it being a 'limited' January window. Maybe Hull were prepared to pay the necessary to get their target and a quality addition in the building now rather than p1ssing away another week or two haggling and with it jeopardising the season. Maybe Hull actually want to sign decent players instead of owners and a board desperate to hide behind every excuse going

Even if it comes to fruition, and I'll have my doubts particularly when there's a fee involved until I actually see him in the matchday squad, it is in no way what Eustace has made reference to wanting. He's mentioned proven quality, big names. This isn't that. So either there will need to be other irons in the fire coming as well, or they're just not giving Eustace what he has asked for/wants/has been promised.