Angry_Pirate

We are 7 games away from having our £12 million "strike force" go the entire season without either of them getting a single goal at Ewood. Sack the manager.

Not making signings is pathetic. Not shipping/loaning out ANY of Smallwood, Samuel, Mulgrew, Brereton, Chapman, Buckley, is inexcusable incompetence. Mowbray, Waggo, Venus (Lowe and Benson - just because) out.

If FFP is as dire as they will use the excuse now, then why the actual fuck have you opted to recall Mulgrew and his £16k a week, and not loaned out expensive flops/backups on loan like Smallwood, Samuel, Chapman and Brereton. That's what, minimum (generous) £50k a week. Clueless.

The first person to write "give Mowbray the summer window" should be banned and/or committed to the asylum.

According to the SSN website tracker, we are the only club in the entire league not to have made a signing this month. I... am... flabbergasted!

Hearing similar positive rumblings around Ewood. Going to be a late one. Some disbelief regarding this Chelsea lad and Maddison was us, but now Hull have shipped out their wingers he will be going there. Maybe as many as 5 outgoings too. Freeman ?

Cannot wait for a transfer window when Mowbray is no longer our manager!

Sums him up. Every other club is frantically trying to do business and Uncle Tony is here daydreaming about the window closing. He's just lucky we're actually playing Middlesbrough this weekend so his "focus" can be taken both ways!

Can't be Rovers, too many people on here keep telling us that we're in the verge of the top six, not mid-table. ?

I agree with that, and also the inclination to include Rothwell and Rankin-Costello. However, Dack (as it stands) will be down to his final 6 months the next time he is fit to play, as will Holtby... and Lenihan most likely won't be Blackburn Rovers player when that happens as I can't see us keeping him again this summer. Travis could be a star, and bigger fish probably know that. That leaves Nyambe, who Mowbray massively underrates and it wouldn't surprise me if he got the "Raya" treatment this summer, and three players who perform well 1 in 6 games in Gallagher, Rothwell and Armstong. If Mowbray is our manager on September 1st, we will be relegated next season. (And I'm not talking about from the Premier League!!)

“When people phone about our players, you pick a number out of the air and that gives them an idea about what they might take. “Either negotiations start or you frighten them off with that number." Talk about amateur. No wonder other clubs are proving hard to deal with, "Oh you're calling about Richie Smallwood, (spins tombola), it think £6m sounds about right." Get rid.

Whitehall isn't a CB, despite playing there recently. He most definitely sees himself as a midfielder. I wouldn't loan Buckley out either, I'd take the mythical £10m (with add ons if possible) and PMSL for the next 5 years... like Forest are doing with Brereton.

Now that's not strictly true, I believe Mowbs is putting all of his, and the clubs resources into making multiple clones of Elliott Bennett as we speak. I'm more worried that excluded "some" of Sam Harts wages, nothing and no one else has left, and we've also regained £15k+ on Mulgrew a week. Are other clubs really going to get to deadline day and think... "oh shit, we need to go get (Richie Smallwood, Dominic Samuel, Ben Brereton)!" Emrace what is (not) to come (or leave) the next 6 months....

I'm sorry for bringing up the wage of Harry Chapman... Mulgrew is on £20k for what it's worth and Wigan were supposedly paying 60% - 80%. (Can't remember what I was told.) It is depressing that Chappers is on more pounds per week than we have season ticket holders. So about 1/6 of all ST sales go on his wages for the year alone. No wonder we are racking up dept, and fringe players never want to leave without golden handshakes.

Harry Chapman is on £10k a week.

He is on the contract of his life. And he knows it. For perspective, Harry Chapman is on £10kpw, says it all about some of the daft wages Uncle Tony dishes out. Yes, he is on £10k.

I've never seen him play, but I can guarantee he is better than Smallwood.

Sheffield Wednesday away was (originally) this years "bucket list" must go to away game for me, as I've never been due to many factors - Night game, on TV, Stag do's, other plans etc. It makes me angry that I didn't for 1 second consider going today and that I have had zero motivation to go to ANY away game this year so far (usually get to 6-8 away games). For this, I 100% blame Tony Mowbray and his management, playing "style" and mentality. Hope those that go today enjoy a surprisingly good performance and we get a positive result... but I can't see it.

Can you guys keep an eye out for my interest, I've lost all mine for the remainder of Mowbrays reign and especially this (transfer) window. Not even 3 weeks into January and just like last year it already feels like the season seems over (in both directions). I genuinely fear that if Mowbray sees out this season and begins the next one, we will be relegated (again) in May 2021.

We laugh, but the amount of truth in these jokes is sobering.

?? next.

I agree, no massive problem selling Evans as I dont think we will get a better buyer for him ever again with his ex NI manager new at Stoke. Say we pull some magic and get towards £1.5m I'd be thrilled if it meant we could build elsewhere. I realise it will be less. But we cannot go back to Smallwood. That's my huge fear.

Please do not sell Corry Evans Before we have shipped out Richie Smallwood, I beg you. Imagine selling Evans allowed the worse of the crab twins getting back into the team just in time for a stupid contract extension and us being further stuck with a L1 plodder.

Scott McKenna is a name I plucked out of total thin air during the summer. ? Could fit the TM and Venky philosophy of selling our best (fit) player for circa £8m-10m (Lenihan) and replacing him with a player for a few million less which can go into the black hole/debt fund. I do think there could be some decent defenders north of the border and the SPL should be a market we look at more seriously. Look at what we missed out on with John McGinn. I know, for every Goodwillie there is a bad one... but McGinn, Van Dyjk, (Mulgrew) etc prove that league has splatters of quality which translate well, especially for clubs like ours, in this league. McKenna, Souttar, Ajer are all in that bracket for me.

The sad reality is we entered last summer potentially only a few players away from competing for top six... As it stands now, (because of our manager/transfers/loan dependency) we are potentially only one or two more players (sold or injured) away from relegation fodder (thanks to selling Raya and Dacks injury so far). The blame starts, and finishes with Tony. (He's spunked £15m+)