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

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

Probably back to complete radio silence

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

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.

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

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

ACL

Philogene was about £5M Omur, Pandur and Connelly each cost between £1M and £2M That's £10M on permanent signings for last season https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/hull-city/transfers/verein/3008/plus/?saison_id=2023&pos=&detailpos=&w_s= High wages paid for numerous imports from Turkey etc and large loan fees for the likes of Delap, Carvalho, Morton, Zaroury, Giles, who were all highly sought after loans by numerous Championship clubs They spent loads this season, probably more than any Championship clubs but the relegated 3 of Leeds, Leicester, & Southampton, by some margin. Yes they sold Lewis-Potter a couple of years ago, but that money was spent the season before on Sinik, Tufan, Sayyadmaneh, and loan fees for Darlow etc https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/hull-city/transfers/verein/3008/plus/?saison_id=2022&pos=&detailpos=&w_s= Edit - and when I see what Rosenior had at his disposal in terms of money spent written down like that, it does look more like a failure and seems to justify his sacking to some extent

That is the exact amount that Darragh McAnthony said they negotiated with us "Still we might get a decent sell-on fee if he gets a move to the Premier League" https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/sport/football/peterborough-united/why-peterborough-united-missed-out-on-a-sammie-szmodics-windfall-and-the-need-to-finish-in-the-top-four-in-league-one-4597734

Tyler Maglore was also a regular for Motherwell in the SPL when we sent him on loan there. I am not saying that Gent will not be able to step up and be considered for a squad role, but the SPL is not on a par with the Championship. That said, since Gent has now played in men's football, he must be elbowing his way in front of Batty in the squad hierarchy.