Unless a keeper is brought on from a European club at a decent level. Rovers obviously looking in Belgium, Netherlands etc, and the top tiers there are decent enough to qualify players for work permits outright

Got a work permit when he first signed, as he had played enough games at a decent enough level (Dutch top tier)

He was on the bench yesterday

and yet their fans are saying he should be in their strongest 11 https://gaschat.co.uk/thread/22690/strongest-starting-eleven Markanday by all accounts was outstanding for Chesterfield, but in League 2, I would genuinely expect him to be in the divisional team of the season without breaking a sweat

Potts was a winger before he was converted to a wing back, and they signed a Danish winger the day after Lowe was sacked off. Not much in the way of back up, Its the lack of full backs that may dictate how they will have to play in the short term

Numerous U21s involved in lower leagues

he is

yes, "only" a sell on fee is included in transfers as par for the course, and most are 15-20% on any profit. 10% of any profit is a good deal

Delap will be dropped for Broja/Hirst, or moved to the right side

Only a year left on his contract though, and no option of an extra year. After the job Rovers did with Szmodics, they may be persuaded to accept less up front and a larger sell on fee? According to Jackson, Szmodics sell on fee was only 10% on any profit made

He has better get used to it. Pretty sure that's where they will be playing him this season. Looks like when attacking Ipswich will do a similar thing to what Rovers do, but with the left back overlapping and left winger pushing inside rather than the Rovers version where Brittain overlaps from right back and the right "winger" (JRC) moving inside.

I don't think Chelsea get it either 😉

Apparently they cant https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/24519670.blackburn-contract-state-play-new-detail-revealed/#:~:text=Dom Hyam has a one-year option in his Blackburn,The Lancashire Telegraph can reveal.

Only starting because the dingle they bought is injured

and there was me, thinking that Dolan would be your pick as the next king 😉

Last nights report for anyone interested https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/august/16/report--everton-under-21s-3-1-rovers-under-21s/

That's fair, agree with you on that

The only way there is any chance of that happening is if Rovers agreed to something like a 50% sell on fee (and even then it would be a slim chance) Brighton bought him for just under double the price that you are quoting, and whilst he has not pulled up any trees in England, he is still only 20, has a contract with Brighton for another 3 years, and has plenty of room for further development. I cannot imagine that they will be in a rush to sell, when they know that one decent loan will see his value skyrocket

I think we can also predict with a decent level of certainty that Arsenal will be 2nd, and that Chelsea will have been "proven" to have wasted several hundred million ££££s by well before the end of the season

2-1 at half time, Bloxham

U21s play Everton away at 7pm, seeing as this is a PL2 game, they may even update the twitter feed. Looking at the absentees, have to assume that Duru & Tijon (maybe also O'Grady-Macken and Saadi but those would be more surprising) have maybe travelled with the 1st team to Norwich. But if they do not, click here for a live text score/scorers update on Google Apparently Its George Pickford, not Jordan (no relation) playing in goal for Everton U21s

In his first few games for the club, in which he was playing from the left, Sigurdsson looked more than useful and scored a few too. There is the possibility that as last season progressed and Rovers found such a reliable source of goals in Szmodics, that other avenues of attack were bypassed/ignored in favour other the guy who was in red hot form, especially towards the end of the season when it was win or bust. That being said, I expect him to be a bench option at most this season with Dolan central and a new player on the left

To pre-empt the "where do I have to be/travel to in order to watch the game tomorrow on Rovers TV" question https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/august/16/watch-our-clash-against-the-canaries-on-roverstv-/

The player in the center of the 3 will be Dolan,

We don't play 4-3-3