I can foresee "unforeseen complications"

And yet he incorrectly listed that Hedges does not have a year option on his contract in an article posted a week ago. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/24373599.blackburns-contract-decisions-11-players-enter-last-year/ Not the biggest error in the world, but shows that even going back 7 days, he does not have a 100% record. Article on Rovers site from when Hedges signed that states he has an option - https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2022/january/30/ryan-is-a-rover-/

Note that they these roles are "Head of...." ,rather than "Director of....". In business language that means cheaper To my knowledge, there are only 2 people at any club able to "press submit". In our case, Waggott and the guy who replaced Silvester (Brett Baker)

According to Gestedes linkedin, He has owned a company in France for the past 3.5 years (H&R Associates if anyone wants to do some digging - just be careful not to mistake it with one of the numerous similarly named companies)

That is being rather pedantic. They have been announced. and will be available for their new clubs next season

The dingle signings were on loan last season, and made permanent (for large fees) this summer And the signings by Norwich, Stoke and Coventry also are not free transfers. they are multi million £ signings. As I stated earlier, it doesn't matter if the window is officially open. several Championship clubs have completed and announced signings well in advance of the window being open.

I will never understand the "transfer window is not open yet" argument https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/championship/transfers/wettbewerb/GB2/plus/?saison_id=2024&s_w=s&leihe=3&intern=0 As is demonstrated by that link, it doesn't matter if the window is officially open. Numerous Championship clubs have completed and announced signings well in advance of the window being open. The ideal is always to have the majority of your squad building done before pre season starts, in order to bed the new signings in and give them time to adapt to what the manager/head coach wants. But I am a realist, and understand that the ideal is really only a possibility for those clubs who can cherry pick who they want and pay the fees a and wages to get them.

I didn't say that either of them were good enough, but it would surprise nobody on here if Leo was sold and one of those two were promoted to 2nd choice in a cost cutting measure

Or more likely Joe Hilton/Jordan Eastham promoted to 2nd choice

He likely didn't. He will have received a percentage of what was left of his contract with Sheff Utd for them to cancel it, and Rovers would have paid the remainder

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.

Played right back whenever I've seen him play

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

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

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

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

Fixed it for you 😉

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

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

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

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/

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

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