8 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

Raya’s value in Brentford’s books depreciates each year in line with the terms of his contract. If they send him to Arsenal for a year, he’s worth less in their books when he returns. Consequently, the loan fee is to offset this accounting (not footballing) valuation.

Raya apparently signed a 2 year extension with Brentford before his loan to Arsenal so that Brentford were protected in case the loan didn't work out

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12936962/david-raya-brentford-goalkeeper-moves-to-arsenal-on-initial-gbp3m-loan-with-gbp27m-option-to-buy#:~:text=The £27m option could,for an additional 12 months.

3 hours ago, rigger said:

Another center-half

Another center-half, just what we need.

Played right back whenever I've seen him play

1 hour ago, Bohinen1983 said:

5m in todays market just isn't competitive
 

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/championship/einnahmenausgaben/wettbewerb/GB2

Based on this, it is

Figures are in Euros, but only 3 Championship clubs spent at least €5M more than what they brought in from player sales, and half of the division spent less than €5M in total.

So £5M is, at worst, a middling Championship transfer budget, and at best, a top 6 budget.  Depending upon if you are looking at total or net spend.

That being said, I would be amazed if Rovers have a middling Championship transfer budget this season, regardless of sales

Luke Griffin (Rovers Head of European Scouting) also off this summer.

So that's no UK or international scouting at the moment, may as well close this thread for now

Rovers do have an advert posted in linkedin for Head of International Scouting, which I guess replaces the Head of European Scouting and gives that slight hope (which will likely not come to fruition) that Rovers may sign a load of South Korean or Japanese wonderkids for next to nothing

19 minutes ago, Oldgregg86 said:

Might be a long shot but would potter be a good shout, plays a similar style to kompany. I’m not sure where potter fits for his next gig . He isn’t going to get one of the top jobs now and everyone knows you can’t stay out of football to long. Walking the championship with Burnley and being back in the prem would be a good choice for his career imo although I doubt he would take it.

https://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/next-brighton-manager-odds-graham-potter-favourite-to-replace-roberto-de-zerbi/218035

1 hour ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

 I thought he did well at Derby but since then, not so good.

Wasn't his assistant (Liam Rosenior) allegedly doing most of the managing when Rooney was at Derby?

1 hour ago, Oldgregg86 said:

Strange one. I thought de zerbi was highly regarded, unless it’s his choice , but even then it’s a risk. Kompany would be perfect for Brighton and I honestly think he would thrive there 

Brighton have only won twice in the league in the last 3 months.  But that being said, he did look impressive, I've not checked this but from memory , their dip in form seemed to coincide with Mitomo getting injured

8 hours ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Add Stoke to that list. They always spend money badly

Fixed it for you 😉 

11 minutes ago, Neal said:

Heard the name Ryan Gould from a friend... Anyone else heard this? 

3 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

There’s a Ryan Gauld who plays in Canada, was once dubbed the Scottish Messi. I remember him leaving a Scottish club at a young age to play for Sp Lisbon or similar, but didn’t know he’d ended up in Toronto till I just looked it up. Think he’s a winger

https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/football-news/ryan-gauld-blackburn-rovers-transfer-20719424

Rovers were linked a few years ago when Mowbray was here

More a playmaker than a winger

18 minutes ago, riverholmes said:

The club used to recruit youth players widely from Scotland and Ireland, especially. It was how we got Duff, Hanley, Treacy, Alan Judge, Jon Douglas, etc. That seems to have mostly halted, though there are some occasionally brought in. I wonder if investment in that sort of scouting would be beneficial, though, I'm sure the competition is fierce and likely the pool not huge.

Gilsenan, Bloxham, Finneran (Ireland), Atcheson (Northern Ireland), Fyles (Wales), Montgomery (Scotland) from the current crop.  Just looking at Britain and Ireland.  Also I think 4 (Biniek, Nsangou, Tijon, Michalski) have some eligibility for Poland, Farkas is eligible for Hungary, Duru is eligible for a few different nations, Cirino made his debut for Montserrat this season and Haddow is from Hong Kong and eligible for Japan.  The Edmondson brothers are either from or eligible for the USA

6 minutes ago, TheRevAshton said:

Have heard a few mentions of this lad over the last couple of month, excited to see him play.

One thing I want to know, does he have pace?

  Some clips of him from about 20 seconds on in this video

1 hour ago, simongarnerisgod said:

whiteman yet to agree a new deal with pne,good player at this level and a steal for free if north end can`t agree new terms with him,not expecting that much ambition from us,such is our complete nadir of uselessness in the boardroom

https://www.pnefc.net/news/2024/january/ben-whiteman-signs-new-long-term-deal/

He signed a new contract in January

Browne is out of contract with them this summer

Duru has signed a new contract until 2026 with an option for a further year

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/may/13/duru-deal-extended/

20 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I was pleased when we signed him on loan, my impression was that he’d looked good at Hudds. He did nothing for us, I thought he was a real disappointment. Then I was out at a social event and got talking about football to a guy who’s best mate has a son who was/is on the fringes of our first team ( no names ). He told me Thomas was a Billy Big Bollocks who thought he’d really made it and was getting on everybody’s nerves at Rovers.

Heard similar stories about Thomas, he was also left out of Huddersfield's squad for the last game of the season as he was one of the leaders of a bunch of bad apples.

Huddersfield fans on their forum do not have a good opinion of him either

28 minutes ago, tomphil said:

It's a fair point to make and it would be of no surprise if the system was at fault or not fit for purpose or lack of basic training but it did seem to work for the majority of transfers.

Somehow no one could work it properly for mid season big money buys though so it seems rather selective.

I am not blaming the system (other clubs seem to have managed just fine), just think its possible that Silvester maybe couldn't get to grips with it, which would maybe explain that when pressured for time (late deadline day deals) he messed up.

Pure speculation on my part though

9 hours ago, tomphil said:

Much more qualified ?

You are aware of Silvester's background, experience and the sheer amount of transfers in and out hes overseen right ?

This is a complete guess, but was Silvesters "good prior work" and record before the EFL changed how transfers were registered from the old school way (faxes etc) to the new online system?

I genuinely do not know, but maybe Silvester did not get to grips with the new system?

Edit - According to this article, faxes were still being used in 2015, but had stopped being used by 2023 (although the article does not state exactly when this change happened).  If the change was 2023 that would tally up perfectly with the issues we have had

16 minutes ago, Moptop1 said:

Let’s wait to hear this years excuse as to why not to invest any money in the playing squad, clean the ground up, generally not invest in Rovers.

They must have a list and put every reason into a hat and pick a couple for each season.

And this season we can not put any money into Blackburn Rovers because…  (insert your answer here)🙄

Probably back to complete radio silence

1 hour ago, islander200 said:

I doubt Dolan will go even if he doesn't sign a new contract beyond the year extension we will still be entitled to a fee  for him next summer

24 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

This is on the proviso we offer him a new contract (on at least equal terms to his existing one)

It wouldn’t surprise me if the club forgot that part of the regulation…
 

 

And that if/when he moves to another club at the end of his contract, he moves to an English one. 

If he were to move to a Rangers/Celtic/Random European club, Rovers would get nothing regardless of his age, or if we have offered him a new contract on better terms etc

Gent named in SPL team of the week

42 minutes ago, JustARover said:

Looking at what you're saying here and reading through some old posts we all agree it looks like we're going to go with the same formation with wing backs so if we do bring in another lwb I hope he can deliver a ball into the box and that at least 1 of the attackers can score headers or get on the end of it 

Will stick my neck out on this now, Eustace at Birmingham and Kidderminster has always gone with a 4-2-3-1 when he gets a summer window to do what he wants with the playing squad and make it "his". with the back 5 as a back up for tougher games.  I see no reason why that will change.

13 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

I'm not far from Stoke and have plenty of friends/work colleagues who support them.

Most are glad to see the back of Campbell and say he's a complete waste of time and wasted potential.

Had a few good games towards the end of this season as it's been known for a while that he would be leaving and he's in the shop window.

He has the feel of one of those players who will sign for someone this summer on a free, have a stellar season, move next summer for big money, and then never get more than 5 goals in a season again for the rest of his career

8 minutes ago, arbitro said:

Szmodics was amongst the crowd watching Bolton play Barnsley last night.

He is also going to be at the Peterborough vs Oxford game tonight.  Assume with Peterborough being one of his former clubs, the League one play offs are of interest to him.

Not sure if this has already been shared, no idea what time tomorrow its on

https://linktr.ee/notippytappyfootball

9 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Maybe I’ve missed something. What is the nature of Wharton’s injury ?

ACL