It’ll turn out to be something small and largely irrelevant, which will likely have no impact on improving the playing staff… which realistically, is all that we really want.

It's insane, we have a CEO who blatantly does not care about the Club in the slightest.

He lies, strips the Club of it's assets, hires all of his useless buddies, gives himself huge pay rises, rinses loyal supporters... yet he's completely untouchable.

We need him gone, but the only people able to make that happen are even worse, and somehow care even less than he does.

It's insane the things that we fans have had to put up with... mad things that would simply never happen at other Clubs are the norm here. I genuinely believe we're cursed at times!

Would Sammie fancy a move to Turkey?

Possibly not.

Assume he’ll hang on for a decent PL Club to come in, which should happen soon enough.

So Nicko teases some ‘very positive’ news to us for days…

What could it be? Warchest? Waggott being sacked? Good freebie all but signed? How exciting…

Well it turns out, that we just want to loan a youngster from Palace, who we’ll probably miss out on. Or the ‘very positive’ news could be the fact that Man U are trying to pluck from our academy, yet the player might not want to go (but probably will).

What a wanker that bloke is.

Should put ourselves in the mix for this lad - was thought to be a big prospect at one point if I remember correctly.

Probably not short of offers, but no harm in trying.

32 minutes ago, unleaded said:

Just hope it’s Not Sam Gallagher is signing a new long contract or that Mark Venus is free now to take up the post after his Birmingam paperwork is finalised… both are nightmares … 

Oh dear 🤣 Are these things you’ve heard?

1 hour ago, MarkBRFC said:

I'd hope if we get a midfielder in that Garrett would be going out on loan.

A year in league one playing every week would do him the world of good in my opinion.

Absolutely agree.

I believe he still lives in Liverpool - Stockport and Wrexham are both nearby.

1 hour ago, Miller11 said:

I’m not really following here. For clarity, we weren’t given any assurances that all money generated would be put back into transfers.

This is purely my opinion, but…

We have been hampered by FFP/P&S rules in recent years. Yes, we have contributed to our own downfall in this regard with failure to properly protect playing assets and losing them on a free rather than generating a fee, but we’ve more or less operated on the cusp of the FFP threshold for a rolling 3 year period since we got back into the Championship.

If we had really “gone for it” and failed, we’d then have to basically pay for it the following season or two (expect to see Hull do this over the next 2 years). it’s a risky strategy, and the current board are very risk averse. Avoiding sanctions is massively high on the agenda.

Through a mix of factors, we’ve generated a lot of additional funds this year. We’ve obviously needed to use the cash for the ongoing running of the club, but what it has done is put us on a good P&S footing ahead of time. This makes “going for it” a lot less risky - forgetting the cash situation, we have enough leeway in the accounts to increase the wage budget over the next few years and to add significant transfer expenditure to the balance sheet.

If Venky’s don’t have the permission to remit funds to us for the forseeable, this won’t happen as the money we do have and are scheduled to receive will just go into running costs - like practically all Championship teams we operate at a loss ordinarily. If Venky’s don’t have the inclination to remit funds for us to fund a push, then the same applies.

I’d hope that conversations have happened to highlight that there is currently a window of opportunity to actually progress.

 

They have previously had to provide a breakdown, the basic idea appears to be to show that the funds are not leaving the country and are going in roughly the right direction. There isn’t anything to say they can only use these funds for certain expenses. While the last lot specified things like PAYE and HMTC commitments there wouldn’t be anything to stop them adding any other expenses on there, ie transfer fees.

Good post. How much do you expect them to spend this window?

Of course, nobody really knows, but as someone with better insight than most i'm curious as to what you think.

4 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Would be a good signing! 

For us? Sure.

For an ambitious Club? Nah.

That account has been suspended from Twitter...

Could it be that the Club have reached out to get them suspended, due to their leaks? 👀

6 minutes ago, lraC said:

I actually dread to think where will be in 2 years time to be honest.

I think the club is in serious trouble right now and will be very surprised if something major doesn't happen between now and Christmas, that put's the very future of BRFC in jeopardy. 

Agreed.

If I could have a look 2 years into the future, I wouldn't be one bit surprised to see us struggling in League One.

2 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

Really? I don't expect them to sign any.

I'm sure they'll still find a way to fall short of that estimation.

Oh I think they'll sign one for sure...

Might end up being some cheap useless tosser that nobody else wants, but I do think they'll get one.

10 hours ago, Blue n White Rover said:

Trying to get one familiar face back in. All I can say right now.

It's Gregg!

Waggott realised that he doesn't really know anyone else, he's trying to get our Gregg back on reduced terms.

8 hours ago, Neal said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13444541/Bristol-City-Blackburn-lead-chase-Motherwell-striker-Theo-Bair-Canadian-stars-prolific-season.html

 

Doesn't fill me with confidence. 

We need 2 strikers... if this can be the cheap backup, then i'm all for it. Big lad, apparently a good finisher, only 24.

However, I fully expect these muppets to only sign 1 striker, in which case we need to be shopping a couple of levels above this.

There are actually some really good free agents coming (or already) available, some will require a decent wage which will probably rule us out... but there are plenty i'd take that'd make a huge difference to our squad without paying transfer fees.

To name a few...
Josh Bowler
Sorba Thomas
Max Lowe
Wes Foderingham
Herbie Kane
Aaron Connolly
Tyrese Campbell
Paddy McNair
Chris Willock
Sam McCallum
Jake Cooper
Josh Onomah

Sam McCallum has been released by Norwich, if our lot had any brains between them they'd move in for him pronto... but they don't 🙄

38 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Aaron Connelly is a must sign for me this window, would be a class above what we have up top.

Would fully agree, however...

He's been on over £20k a week at Hull... highly doubt he'd be willing to take a huge wage cut to come here.

He'll end up somewhere that will give him around the same as Hull, clubs like Middlesbrough/Norwich/Watford spring to mind.

2 minutes ago, DackDackGoose said:

Dack released, newly promoted club maybe? Can see him going somewhere like pompey, will have to lower his wage demands etc

Nah League One I reckon, has Wrexham written all over it.

13 minutes ago, islander200 said:

Be ridiculous if it is Gestede.

Why would a prospective DOF have to shadow people at the club?

This is the thing isn't it, things like this don't happen outside of Blackburn Rovers.

Waggott and the Venky's don't care about quality or inexperience, they care that he'll be cheap - we'd essentially be giving him work experience, in the 2nd highest division in the English football pyramid.

8 minutes ago, ABBEY said:

Why wouldn't he have bitterness after the venky shitshow

Like I said, who knows - maybe he does!

Does McGuire have too much genuine bitterness towards the Club? Who knows!

I personally get the impression that this is maybe just his agent advising him appropriately, since 'what happened' gives him the upper hand when/if they come to negotiating his salary.

I could be wrong of course, in which case, they should leave it be.

Also - considering the fact that he's on about 1k a week right now, I wonder what he'd consider to be "a lot of money"?

We might have originally offered him 7/8k a week, but maybe now it'd have to become ~10k?

4 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Rudy Gestede 

☝️ this is correct

29 minutes ago, jones_rover said:

I wonder if Eustace will be interested in any of the Brum players, having been their manager less than 12 months ago?

Do any of them fit the bill for what we need?

Oh he definitely will, and some of them certainly fit the bill for what we need... but not the ones he'll be going for, sadly.

Whilst i'd welcome the likes of Miyoshi, Dembele, James, Bacuna and Laird with open arms... it's more likely the case that he'll be looking to recruit players like Jutkiewicz, Pritchard, and of course Ruddy.

Inside info on the DoF, apparently we've hired some guy called Weve Staggott - anyone heard of him? Paying him shit loads i've heard.