I think players can only sign pre-contracts with clubs playing in other countries.

Mowbray's vision is being realised now. 5 clean sheets in a row - I think the first time since the promotion season in 1980.

No we would not get compensation in 18 months time but there is no reason to sell before the end of the season whatever the offer. The rate of his improvement means that he is more likely to increase in value than reduce.

According to Wikipedia both players are contracted to Brighton until June 2023.

Your attachment bears out what I have said !

What on earth does this mean ? He will be on the books at £1.75m at the moment.

That is not correct. The value of players is amortised over the length of their contracts so Brereton signed for £7M 3 years ago on a 4 year contract before options will now be in the books at £1.75m. I think it would be foolish in the extreme to sell our most valuable player just as we have a realistic shout at getting back to the Premier League. Any sale should be left to the close season.

You don't seem to understand that those who thought we were best off sticking with Mowbray did so because we also want the best for Blackburn Rovers and have ambitions greater than a mid-lower championship finish.

Seems bizarre to take a stand against divisions amongst fans by posting such a divisive statement.

Certainly disproving the theory that we shouldn't be using loanees.

It's not pedantic to point out that you are distorting the facts in your increasing desperation to justify your irrational hatred of the manager - any more than it was pedantic of me to point out to another poster who claimed that Mowbray had had almost 3/4 of our relegation season in charge that the correct position was that he had had less than 1/3.

I missed the "near record 17 game losing run". When was that ? More generally, Mowbray took over as manager when we were in the relegation zone and we are now in a play off position. There is simply no way any reasonable person would conclude that he "is an extremely poor manager".

If this is a reference to Mowbray in the 2016-17 season he had 15 of the 46 games which is less than a third !

The wisdom of the club in keeping Mowbray as manager is becoming more evident by the day with the players responding to the environment that he has created within the club. Opting for the faded has beens like Warnock, McCarthy, Hughton, Hughes would have been a big mistake.

Yes, Jokanovic, along with the likes of Warnock, Hughton, McCarthy, Pearson, Cowley was a name being promoted as manager here. Subsequent events have shown that the club did very much the right thing in retaining the services of Tony Mowbray.

Southgate has proven conclusively that he should be managing the national side.

Southgate's judgement borne out by what is happening on the pitch.

A very interesting analysis. The whoscored.com website also has Poveda and Buckley as our best 2 performers in the game, for those who want to compare the ratings.

As I recall, Williams' policy of having "a raft of players in their 30's on ludicrous contracts" had us in top half of the Premier League year after year plus many excellent cup runs. We certainly did get out of that cycle when the idiots who now own us took over.

It is at times of adversity that you find out about people. Today after the horrors of Wednesday and the concession of an early goal we found out about Tony Mowbray and our players. They responded magnificently and we can look ahead to a season that promises much.

But better than nothing.

Yes they did own the training centre. If the club had gone in to administration the centre would have been one of the assets of the club. Now it's gone - and the club will probably be paying rent for it.

Accounts as at June 2020 showed £141m owed to the owners and a bank overdraft of £14m. You are correct in what you say about the circumstances surrounding other clubs going in to administration which is why until today I didn't think there was any prospect of it happening to us. But if they did just get fed up funding us they could now do it and have something to show for their money.

I don't think it is being done for the reason of selling - not yet anyway. Until now Venkys have funded the club via loans from the UK holding company which in turn is funded by share issues to India. Because the value of the club is well below the outstanding loans continuing down that route means that they get nothing back for their money . Doing it this way means that they, rather than the club, now have the asset of the training centre. In the event of the club going in to administration, which I think is more likely now than it was before this had happened, they lose the club but still have the training centre on which they may or may not be charging rent which the club would still be liable to pay to them for the duration of the lease.

It certainly isn't a good thing. Previously when the club initiated a process of obtaining possible planning permission for a redevelopment of the centre there were suggestions on here that certain named employees of the club stood to benefit if that redevelopment took place - although there was not a shred of evidence to support that argument. Given that those running this new owner of the centre appear to have no connection with the club that nonsense can now be put to bed. But going forward this is a very disturbing development. Effectively rather than funding the club via loans the owners have now acquired the club's most valuable asset. The first obvious question is will the club be charged rent on the centre. It makes a future sale of the club much more messy . Those who talk blithely of the club being put in to administration as a way out of the club's current mess need to understand that an obligation to pay rent to the owners of the centre will continue .