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Poor signing, especially at £1.8m

All things considered and with the logistical challenges, a decent enough window. As JDT said - ‘above average’. Can get on board with most of the business except Szmodics. On current evidence seems incredibly limited and not sure he’s any better than anything we’ve got. In fact probably worse. Hope to be proved wrong. Credit where it’s due also to the owners. Sensibly or not they’ve turned down decent cash for Brereton and ultimately said ‘meh’ to another loss next summer. Must be nice when money doesn’t matter…. Will be an exciting season, looking forward to it

Is Ross Barkley at the Dunkenalgh?

Bonkers isn’t it. Billionaire owners? What’s £20m to them I suppose.

post of the millennium

12 hours to go......!!! Hoping it ends in surprised revelation not deflated misery. The fax machine will earn its crust today. Is it working?

Good grief.

Not sure it is too early. Szmodics is woeful.

I used to think he was a decent, solid enough championship player. I went to the game last night and that opinion changed and quickly. He doesn't possess any pace at all and unfortunately doesn't have the football brain/ability to counter that, a la Salgado. Reading clearly had a plan to exploit that yesterday and other teams will too - Khadra on Saturday..... Signing a LB must be a priority for us now.

Awful. Not seen anything yet to suggest he’s a decent signing in the games he’s played. He was miles off the pace and when he had the ball v poor decision making and lack of quality. We’ve been done by Barry bloody Fry there I think

We were awful, Reading were decent. Learn from it, move on. Oh, buy a left back too.

This is night and day. JDT got it wrong to start today. Recognised it with the changes. Come on Rovs

We need to go shopping for a left back

Really struggling to understand why we’ve paid good money for Szmodics. Looks a yard off the pace and he’s v poor on the ball. Phillips and Ayala look decent enough.

Dolan, Pickering, Vale and Szmodics been crap.

Would like to be a fly on the wall in a Venkys v Levy negotiation.....

well this is depressing. Prospect of losing BBD to Everton and now Phillips for nowt

This bid won’t be accepted. Unfortunately it will lead to a domino effect and more bids coming in. Beginning of the end for BBD at Rovers. We can argue he should have been offered a contract earlier but hindsight is a wonderful thing. He was beyond average for 3 years. Lets enjoy the last few games, wish him well and pray we have a decent plan/replacement lined up.

Quite a simple thing to resolve in theory, get promoted.

Not fit to lace Carlos Villanueva's boots!! I jest, thanks for the link Glenn - at least something interesting to look up and think about.

Nyambe not in the starting XI again for Wigan. Hard to fathom how he thought going there was a better option than staying at Rovers.

Jon Dahl Tomasson: I saw how Carlo Ancelotti dealt with Silvio Berlusconi and learnt about management https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/240ec036-1a41-11ed-b4a0-f11f082a3a3c?shareToken=4ccdcd1503ebc3398f80e30ba3cd19d9 Here you go. Brilliant interview, hard not to really, REALLY like JDT. Interestingly it was Suhail he spoke to….. We are lucky to have him, hope it’s for a good amount of time before he moves on.

We should have pushed the boat our for him. Will be a top top player so no worries on recouping any investment. Ah well.

Get the impression TM liked butterworth, talked him up a lot. Never seen anything to back that up. His loan last year was crap too. Needs to drop the ego and work harder.

All quite exciting isn’t it. JDT is now on record saying we will bring more players in and the key point, we will be ‘stronger’. None of us seem to have a clue which players that will be. Enjoy the ride! I can’t see BBD leaving now. Venkys are stubborn and money seems to be no object so him leaving for free seems the most likely outcome. A big question mark for me is what JDT does with Dack. Concern if he isn’t in his plans he is a big character in the dressing room and could start a rot. He seems a bit stuck in the L1 days where he was a big fish in a Danny Graham and Charlie Mulgrew sized pond. There is no doubting his ability and would love him to take on the challenge and step up - over to you Brad.