What an absolute clusterfuck.

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What loss would he claim? He’s still being paid….there isn’t a civil court in the land that would order payment of damages with no tangible loss!? What type of consultant are you out of interest?

Wow, if that’s the case….people need to be held to account. Unthinkable that a team sat there including a DOF with likely £500k in wages between em couldn’t fathom this out 😳

There’s something wrong there…an issue with him…?

He’d do fuck all, is the answer!! 🤣 But, he would be sure to tell us he’d “been around the block” whilst insinuate that he was some big shot with pals in “all the right places” and that everyone should just “man up”…. Sound about right?

Ahh, sorry. I thought he’d failed the medical. All aside though, do we really want Maja? Seems he can’t find a home anywhere…

I think it’s fair to say that historically we’ve been lacking in direction and strategy. But I do genuinely believe that GB has a plan and he will need time to execute it. We all want success right now and I think the recent forays into the Playoff positions have raised expectations but it’s clear to anyone that we are not a top 6 team / squad. We simply do not have the finances, so will need to overachieve to get there. I don’t think we struggle to identify players, the problem is that we simply cannot afford them under FFP regulation. If another owner came in, they would be under the same restrictions. Of course, we must get better at generating revenue from player sales but with diminishing gates and being placed in a low economic area, we just don’t generate the funds we need to.

He failed his medical, didn’t he?

I agree, it felt a little unnecessary. Afterwards, my friend (A Sheff United fan) asked if I knew Waggott, such was his openness and relaxed conversation. But for the record, I do think Lenihan was dreaming that he could get a move to the PL and I can’t think of a single defender in the PL who isn’t better than him. Hyam is MILES better than DL and I don’t think he’s good enough..

I accept that he could’ve lied to me but it was an impassioned plea from him in spite of me not pushing him… He spoke very openly about how crap Nyambe’s advisors were, about a conversation he’d had with Lenihan, who apparently thought he’d get a premier league move which Waggott laughed off. He was ADAMANT that Rothwell would be sold if he didn’t sign and indicated there was interest in him. I also know for a fact (basically the horses mouth) that the Rothwell to Bournemouth deal was done last Jan and replacements lined up (Dembele & Jed Wallace) - that deal was torched by Venkys. As I say, I’m not sticking up for Waggott but his bosses can’t put him in the firing line for decisions he isn’t empowered to make. Which is probably why they haven’t sacked him! Completely agree that anyone with any self respect would’ve resigned, but I guess £300k a year ain’t too bad for what’s practically an administrator role!? 🤷🏽‍♂️

I’m not sticking up for Waggott, I don’t think a good CEO. You only have to look across the board at us commercially etc and you can see his limitations. But he can’t be sacked for the reasons mentioned here because he wanted to sell Lenihan, Nyambe, Rothwell and Brereton before their contracts ran out. He told me so in a chat I had with him at Ewood. Something or someone must’ve blocked him because he was adamant they’d be sold if the wouldn’t sign.

Name one top manager who changes his style of play to suit the players….Ferguson? Mourinho? Guardiola? Klopp? Arteta? Conte? Ten Haag!!?? Not a chance!!! Every top manager has a way of doing it and you either fit in or fuck off. JDT is a winner. He was as a player and he has been as a manager. My guess is that if the club don’t pull their finger out and back him, he’ll walk away.

What who tells me? I’ve been a season ticket holder for years and a member of this board for a while now too and im as sure as I can be that most on here would’ve gladly waived Ben off on loan at the start of the 21/22 season. We’d probably have been right too, he’d been hopeless most of the time until then. They’d offered him a new contract BEFORE Christmas! Had they offered him it before that season started, I’m sure he’d have been delighted to sign and most of the fanbase left wondering why? It’s simple supply and demand. On a they know they can get more, you’re knackered. Planning 2yrs in front is the only way to mitigate risk, but even that wouldn’t have worked with Ben, such was his rise.

Well, it was those ‘dimwits’ who saw something in him in the first place when most of the ‘experts’ on here wouldn’t have paid him in washers. What really is annoying is why they haven’t just grappled him to the floor, wedged a pen in his had and physically forced him to sign the contract. They’re so shit!!

The key here is that I can admit that they’re very shit at lots of stuff…I’ll await you opening up on some positivity about what’s happening at the club and then we’ll talk about who is biased and who is not…👍🏼

The club in many ways are a shit show, but i genuinely think sometimes that if they came out and announced they’d learned to walk on water, you guys would say it was only because they couldn’t swim. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Ohhh jeez - They offered him a contract and he didn’t sign it. He wasn’t worth a wank until last Christmas and even then no one wanted to stump up the cash for him! Hindsight is a wonderful thing and if Venkys had known we were going to implode last Christmas then selling BBD and Rothwell for £15m combined would’ve been a solid call. Truth be known, they woulda been lynched for it back then. It’s very very unfortunate how this has turned out. But as early as Sep 2021 most of wouldn’t have given a shit if Brereton had gone on loan and never come back…that’s 18 months ago and we’d have been perplexed had he been offered a new contract. It is what it is. The club don’t have a crystal ball and can’t even pay the wages of the likes of Boro and Bournemouth - we must move on.

He doesn’t have a plan, it’s just big, brash, cliche ridden hot air! It’s Nigel Farage talking to the right wing idiots, or Boris promising to give the NHS £200m if we voted for brexit. They’re just words playing to ego’s… We’d all love to beat our chests like William Wallace and charge to promotion, but with a budget in the bottom Q of the championship and a club rooted in a financially challenged area, we simply do not have the muscle or muster to make that charge….YET. Mercer (assuming he has been around the block) must know that too, as I’m sure do those ‘liking’ his narrative!! But in reality, we’re going to have to try and do it a different way… I’m not saying what they’re doing will work, but the ‘plan’ (if you can call it that) as described by Mercer takes us back to the stone ages.

I think the point being made, and correctly so. Is that this incessant whinging about players leaving on a free is irritating. People somehow think that we have these players under lock and key and can tell them what to do…we can’t - it’s a simple supply and demand scenario…. Rovers have offered every one of those leavers a contract over the last 2+ years. The players have rejected the contracts because the demand for their services is sufficiently high enough for them to realise they can get a better deal elsewhere. Others have signed contracts, because it’s suited THEM. The likes of A Wharton and Phillips signed because they see a pathway to first team football. Make no bones about it, should they both kick on as is expected then neither will be rushing to sign a new £20k per week contract in 3yrs when their agents being told they can get £120k!! This ‘let them rot in the ressies’ crap is boring too! Who even says that, these days? Why would you let your best assets rot when they could be winning you games!? It’s archaic. Where we can and must be better is in long term planning and looking to engineer moves for players who indicate they won’t sign extensions in good time (2yrs)….but if they won’t sign, and won’t move then you’re stuck. There’s nothing you can do! This regime will be judged on that planning over the next 12-24 months. With the extensions they’ve secured, I’d say they’ve made a decent start.

Finally, some sense. Excellent 👏🏼

I think the keeper has been linked because Pears wants some first team football and our 3rd & 4th choices are likely getting released in the summer. Start next season with TK, Haikan and Pears - that’s what having a plan is all about 👍🏼

Quite…let’s write copious amounts of non transfer content and then blame Greg Broughton for getting to “200 pages without a signing”

Whatever has gone before, in Greg Broughton we have a strong leader with a clear strategy based on the owners vision of being a sustainable Premier League club. His in depth articulation of the role and objectives he has gives me confidence in the process. Reading between the lines also helps us to second guess what they might do, too…eg based on his analogy of the midfield scenario, we won’t be signing an experienced midfielder UNLESS they’ve lost long term confidence in Travis and Buckley because to do so would block pathways of Garrett and Wharton. Really interesting and encouraging insight. Whether you like it or not, there is a plan.

If you’re watching the games, you’ll see that out of possession, Dack is deeper and helping the midfield by closing spaces down etc. So the two becomes a three in midfield, out of possession, which makes you both right!?