KentExile

no, it is a friendly, and therefore by definition, not competitive (legally or otherwise)

Jackson wrongly claiming we are at the 25 man squad limit, Goddard & Montgomery do not need to be registered as they will still be 21 come 1st Jan 2026, & it looks like Pears won't be registered. I would personally keep Pears as back up, but if he is not registered we have 3 slots left. If he is registered, we have 2 https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25430100.transfer-deadline-day-live-latest-blackburn-rovers-news/ As things stand, this is what we're looking like as squad depth. Rovers can name a 25-man squad with Tyjon and Michalski two that don't need to be registered. So they're at the limit. GK: Toth, Goddard, Michalski, Pears RB: Alebiosu, Miller CB: Hyam, Carter CB: McLoughlin, Wharton LB: Ribeiro, Pickering CM: Tronstad, Forshaw, Montgomery CM: Tavares, Baradji RW: Morishita, Hedges CAM: Cantwell, Henriksson, Tyjon LW: Kargbo, De Neve ST: Ohashi, Gudjohnsen, Gueye

Wrexham's keeper is injured, and even when fit he isn't up to much, they could have Pears at a knockdown price of £2M or so 😉

By "bananas", we probably mean that the wage offered were at a similar level to other Championship clubs

but it may save a few quid 😉

Yep, any teams in the National League or below can sign short term loans outside of the window. Rovers sent loads out to these levels last season (20 or so over the course of the season)

I think I just worked out "the plan" In the EFL, a club can take out an emergency goalkeeper loan for up to a week, with weekly extensions, if all their senior professional goalkeepers are unavailable due to injury, suspension, or international duty. A professional goalkeeper, by EFL definition, is a non-contract player who has started a senior match five or more times. The club must apply to the league, which considers the cases individually. Goddard may throw a spanner in the works due to his games played last season during his loan in Ireland, but as cases are considered individually, I think they will be ok getting this past a panel Essentially cut costs (big surprise) and get an emergency loan in if Toth ends up injured/suspended, voila, no back up keeper wages to pay for the season

He probably wouldn't have got the job if he didnt sign up to it And if that is the case, at least they have been up front to a manager/head coach for once... Well at least until they decide to change up "project new broom" for "project clean sweep", or "project hands washed"

I will add Loan out for Jake Batty, and Pears to somewhere (although I suppose Pears could end up somewhere overseas as there are still plenty of other countries windows open for at least next week or so, maybe he fancies an extended stay in Turkey after his summer holiday, or Gestede utilising his new contracts in Saudi Arabia to get hikm a move there?

He is not good enough for the Championship now (in my opinion) * He is getting games at Wednesday due to their issues and them having lost half their squad without being able to replace them, not because he is currently a Championship standard player * He is only 20, not 21 until the season is over, & does have the potential to be a decent Championship player in the future

both 😉 Its 2 different match reports

Even Charlton have a net spend of about £10M lol

Ben Sheaf off to Wrexham for £6.5M

It just won't be the same without some untried and untested teenagers arriving in the latter stages of deadline day 😉 Although that being said, we have already stocked up on the untried & untested, we just own them this time Suspect we may still see a Prem loan or 2, likely teenagers to plug gaps in goal & central midfield if Pears leaves (allowing Michalski to get a loan) and/or if Baradji is not going to be fit in the near future

He was loaned out a week before Carter was injured, maybe he would not have been loaned out if Carter had been injured beforehand. However, is now playing regularly just one tier below where Rovers currently are, and is on a similar trajectory to Scott Wharton & Hayden Carters pathways. He still has a fairly long contract, and can come back and be a part of our squad next season, when Hyam no doubt leaves

Remember reading last summer that Gestede has contacts in a few teams in Belgium & France (and apparently now also Saudi Arabia, which was mentioned by Elliott Jackson in one of his articles about Buckley being sold) From what I can work out, the Eastern European ones are more likely to be the works of Adam Owen & possibly also now Sadowski. Owen was also credited last summer with Ohashi Michal Cairney who joined in the summer seems to be mainly UK picks If that is the case, then Gestede picks - Gueye, DeNeve, Alebiosu, Gudjohnsen Owen/Sadowski picks - Toth, Ohashi, Morishita Cairney - McLoughlin, Miller ? - Henriksson, Kargbo, Tavares, Baradji, Ribeiro

Pears is on more money than Toth, so they want to get him out of the club in the hope that Toth doesn't ask for parity now that he is first choice Edit - Toth was originally brought in as competition/cover, whilst Pears signed his last contract when he was first choice when Kaminski was sold, and before the court case/most recent cuts/etc

I'm pretty certain there will have been a mix up with squad numbers, end and Max Davies (who is a centre back) would have come on for Carter From this, Davies may have been wearing 13 (& Barrett 12), which may be where the confusion comes from

Starts this weekend for O'Riordan - won 1-0 - played the full match, 2nd in the League table before the 3pm kick offs 7 - dealt well with Rotherham United's hulking forwards 8 - Another solid showing as he shackled Rotherham's forward line most of the game. Looks a Rolls Royce at times and made clearance after clearance. On the bench Olson - lost 1-0 - remained on the bench throughout Duru - won 2-1 - came off the bench for the last 5 minutes

U18s are away to Man City, 11am kick off lost 7-3 Both of Chris Sambas kids started & scoed for City It seems that Rovers twitter couldn't be bothered to say anything about this game, but one of our U age groupe won a tournament

It was a fairly high fee (£2.5M ish I think with a sell on..think they also got something for him being capped) for someone who at the time had not really shown he could perform at Championship level But all in all, he performed beyond the expectations of anyone, and both clubs probably did much better financially out of his purchase & sale than was expected. It's why it is always worth including international cap bonuses, sell ons etc just in case

Barcelona moved him back into midfield if I recall. It seems he was still a 1 in 3 striker when played up front, but spent a fair bit of time further back whilst at Barca Played as... Centre-Forward 39 13 4 Attacking Midfield 22 2 - Left Winger 6 1 - Right Winger 3 - 1 Central Midfield 3 - 2 Second Striker 1 - 1

Not without travelling to the midlands from what I've seen, closest I can find is Wolves doing text updates

U21s away to Wolves this eve, 7pm kick off Vare plays after a hat trick for the U18s, Michalski & Carter also start lost 3-1 conceding 2 goals late on

U21s Premier League Cup Draw https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/august/29/under-21s-learn-cup-opponents/ Coventry City (A) Wednesday September 10th York Co-op Community Stadium Kick-off 7pm Leyton Orient (H) Wednesday October 8th Lancashire FA County Ground Kick-off 7pm Leyton Orient (A) Wednesday November 5th BetWright Stadium Kick-off 7pm Watford (A) Friday November 21st The Orbital Fasteners Stadium Kick-off 7pm Coventry City (H) Friday November 28th Ewood Park Kick-off 7pm Watford (H) Wednesday December 17th Lancashire FA County Ground Kick-off 7pm