Yep, would almost certainly be either someone in the Kean/Coyle mould, or flipping a coin on a guy in his first managerial role

Yep, identifying talent does not mean that we bought said talent

quite probably

Next Seasons Squad Pears, Michalski, older GK if they can get one cheap, if not then either Hilton/Eastham Hyam, Carter, O'Riordan, Atcheson left footed CB on loan/Gamble Pickering, Gent Brittain, Duru Tronstad, JRC, Travis, Buckley, Garrett, Edmondson Hedges, fast headless chicken winger on loan/Markanday Sigurdsson, Gilsenan Dolan, Leonard, Vale, Tijon Szmodics, Gallagher sold to save money/keep lights on Telalovic back to the continent on loan with an option to buy Not including Wharton due to his injury Batty, loaned out. Markanday & Gamble loaned out if they get loans in who may be better Then all cross our fingers and hope court case goes ok in late August and scramble for late cast offs Not particularly hopeful

Even if Wahlstedt improves beyond all recognition, he is not getting in Sweden's first 11 in front of Viktor Johansson (who isn't even first choice himself)

He has already ben offered a new contract and even in our current state, they will have been able to match what he is currently on (otherwise they wouldn't have triggered his year option), so I don't think we have to worry there

"Head of Emerging Talent" Paul Aladejare left last week https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-aladejare-62a4ab66/ Friday was my last day at Blackburn and it has been a great journey within the first team recruitment department. Working with some top people with some really good work and business being done in the game and player trading model. Massive thanks to Gregg, Sean, Tom, Luke, Lewis and Stuart for all your support. With things around the direction of the club changing and external factors surrounding the club I believe it’s a great time for me to explore new opportunities. From waking up at 3am / 4am most days to get video work done just to compete against Premier League clubs with vast global scouting recruitment teams has been the biggest bow to my string. Identification of nemourous players valued at £350k 12/14 months ago now valued at £25-40million.The vast Hours of hard work, due diligence and data driven evidence based work to build a global database of talent from scratch has been my greatest job satisfaction which will yield fruits going forward. I am really proud we have been able to break barriers, engage and build relationships across the UK and afar with communities and organisations that felt disengaged with the club prior. Talent ID and recruitment is consistently evolving and I’ll be doing UK and European club visits over the next few weeks and look forward to seeing some new and familiar faces as well as continuing my personal development. The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Winners embrace hard work they love the discipline of it, the trade off needed to win. It has been a absolute privilege and I wish the entire club, Steve, Suhail, Rudy and the gaffer the very best in the future. Yours in sport, Paul Aladejare

Because of his age, Dolan only leaves for free if he moves abroad next summer. Still a risk, but if there is no money to replace him, then its one that needs to be taken

Read yesterday that they got "over 1000" twice last season (record crowds for them) out of 11 home games, so the average crowd is by deduction under 1000.

Best case scenario we can hope for with this would be Gallagher is sold, and whilst most of his wage and fee would go towards keeping the lights on (I do not believe his sale would facilitate an incoming transfer), they might be able to stretch to giving Dolan the wage he wants, whatever some people may think of him, Dolan is a useful Championship player with decent resale value.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/july/02/tyjon-signs-as-a-scholar/ Some good news

£30M release clause and no sell on fee or add on's When Palace do sell Wharton, the sell on fee will mean Rovers will have had more for Wharton than Leeds got for Gray Wharton was still sold for far less than his true value though

It all indicates that it is not FFP, but actual cash flow which is the issue.

Derby have today signed Kayden Jackson on a free and Jerry Yates on loan for the season

Luton don't disclose contract lengths, but he only signed for them last summer so I would imagine he is still in contract https://www.lutontown.co.uk/en/news/tim-krul-has-signed-for-luton-town

Is Elliot Jackson on here and just posts whatever the current topic is? https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/24425484.blackburn-women-hit-mass-exits-amid-minimum-wage-salaries-report/ Not the first time I have seen him post a story that is doing the rounds on here Hi Elliott

I think the main thing is he is not a fan. He is a Sheff Wed fan, so it is just a job for him and he doesn't want rock the boat with the limited soundbites he is fed from the club. At least as a fan, Sharpe had a vested interest in doing some digging when something didn't add up

According to his linkedin, He changed from being "Head of Marketing" to being "Head of Consumer" last November https://www.linkedin.com/in/fraserread/

20th

Maybe so.. maybe that meant that a lower amount of tax was paid than should have been paid? So many different "explanations" to know what is true and what is not

The reason they were restricted from sending monies overseas was due to allegedly fraudulently avoiding tax to my understanding

Anyone fancy being Rovers head of marketing? https://www.rovers.co.uk/club/job-vacancies/

Yes, set piece coach apparently

Sheff Utd still talking to McBurnie, If he does end up leaving on a free it will be because Sheff Utd couldn't pay him as much as he wanted, so I would wager that he is out of our price range too

Just hearing that Leeds do not have a sell on % in the deal for Gray to Spurs, so maybe not so great a deal they are getting... long term at least (still looks like Spurs are paying over the odds to me) Suppose Leeds traded off the future pay day for the immediate cash to sort their finances