https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/transfer-news/blackburn-rovers-transfers-garner-united-18898483. Garner linked again. Not the good one.

Oh Chaddy! What a tangled web we weave...

New single form NO. I likes it.

It's mental on here ? I hope we sign someone soon....

We aren't. They've raked in tens of £millions from sales. You can't separate the two issues and then compare our budgets. Their budget includes the £millions received in sales. Incomings and Outgoings dictate budget. Not just outgoings.

Interesting to see how this plays out. Not how I expected.

Net spend is the only true indicator.

A net figure would be more relevant. PNE, for example, have raked in a lot more than the £9.5m you say they've spent. Mowbray has been fortunate he's only had to sell Raya.

That article confirms what I said. It took a year to agree a fee after that was published! Fax machine again Hopefully we are due a slice.

Nobody knows. Read the article above. Rovers have never released the details, nor have B'mouth.

It wasn't, I think because he was under 24 and we'd developed him, or something like that. See the article I linked above.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/18479378.rovers-watch-man-united-josh-king-chase-interest/ It was never confirmed, nor the sell-on % if there is one. It was negotiated by the club and not at Tribunal.

Villa have apparently made a £16m bid for Josh King. We'll hopefully soon find out if we did have a sell-on % and if it's available for Mogga to use.

Top man.

The team in 6th finished on 70 points. Ergo, 70 points was enough to get in the Championship PO's last season. That was my point.

We would have needed 70 and a better goal difference.

Ironically last season was one of the very few times 70 points would have been enough. Mowbray was hoisted by his own petard there.

And of the late Gary Speed.

Not quite. Being confident of achieving something is not the same as being able to achieve. 12 teams COULD finish in the top 6 next season (as is normally the case in the Championship), I doubt very few if any of them are CONFIDENT of doing it - a subtle but important difference. Like I said, even the most heavily resourced clubs can't be confident of finishing in the top 6. You've also misrepresented what I said - "by the same token get some quality defensive reinforcements and we could mount a serious challenge for the top 6" - is what i said. I didn't say 'confident' at all. I said 'could'.

Good read. Wasn't aware of the Dulux thing.

How can anyone be confident of finishing in the Top 6? Having the biggest budget and best players isn't always enough in the Championship. And removing a large % of the budget is lunacy, once you start losing games and get dragged down to the bottom there's no guarantee that you can get out of it even with cash injected back into new players in January. If we don't recruit a defender or two we could be really struggling this season, by the same token get some quality defensive reinforcements and we could mount a serious challenge for the top 6. It's always the finest of lines in the Championship between success and failure. Considering we have a squad full of academy grads I'd say Mowbray is doing ok developing the kids.

"My name, yes it's J H Rover"

He's living la vida.

He has taken it badly. Any nibbles?

Seriously?