TheRevAshton

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 🙄

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.

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

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.

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?

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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.

We really do need to make ~7/8 good signings, but there's no way we will... if we sign that many players, they'll mainly be useless tossers who nobody else wants.

This is my concern... I'd expect GB to be fully on board with bringing in good, experience players who aren't too over the hill - but I think it's likely the case that Eustace is just looking at the really old and really cheap options, that nobody else wants... and that's where there's been a clash.

Have heard a few mentions of this lad over the last couple of month, excited to see him play. One thing I want to know, does he have pace?

If he can be snapped up for around 1.5m then absolutely. He's fast, skilful and dangerous in front of goal. Under the right manager, there's a fantastic player in there.

If he was more aggressive when it comes to headers, Gallagher would make a quality centre back 😂

Window is a few weeks out, here's what i'd consider a good and semi-realistic window; IN John Ruddy - Free James Hill - 2m (?) Ben Chrisene - Loan to buy Yasin Ayari - Loan Herbie Kane - Free Siriki Dembele - 1.4m Josh Bowler - Free Duncan McGuire - 2.4m Aaron Connolly - Free OUT Gallagher - 1m Szmodics - 12m Wahlstedt - Loan Telalovic - Loan Garrett - Loan Seems unlikely they'd spend that much (~6m) atm but if they sell Gally and Szmodics I think it becomes more possible. Some pricey frees in there too I guess, but would massively improve the squad that's for sure. Would also like to see a better keeper bought, but feels certain that they're getting Ruddy and that's that.

Haha true, would still feel ripped off tbh!

100%, should enquire about a loan at the very least, a (currently) hidden gem that lad.

Agreed, i'd say £330 for the JW Central should be the absolute max'. They've destroyed the product, so should charge people accordingly... What if Netflix announced: "Dear valued subscribers, we're halving our catalogue and removing all high-royalty AAA titles, and ceasing future additions. Instead, we'll only be adding movies/shows that in turn will benefit us more financially, regardless of their quality. Meanwhile, subscription fees will stay the same or increase." The result? A mass exodus of subscribers. They'd better get this right, or Ewood will be a ghost town.

Gregg: Steve have the owners got back to you regarding the budget? Waggott: Not yet, they said a couple of weeks back that they're looking into it. Gregg: Ahh okay - could you possibly give them a nudge so we can plan for the window? It opens in 5 weeks. Waggott: Umm yeah course Gregg... *bites a chocolate digestive* i'll look into it. 5 weeks, let's hope they can get their ducks in a row! Though I wouldn't hold my breath...

Seems that they're more focused on flogging Rovers Darts shirts at the moment 🙄 Even got Bradley Brooks involved with the marketing... Christ almighty.

Madness, shocked that the writer even bothered to mention us 🤣

Mandela Keita, worth 11m on Transfermarkt 🙄 https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/mandela-keita/profil/spieler/707844

It'd a gamble for sure! Suppose time is still on his side at only 24, and there is potential there if someone can get the best out of him.

Exactly this, I wouldn't want any of them except maybe Campbell... The Club only care about saving money and doing things on the cheap, despite the fact that we've brought in around £25m since last summer (plus the incoming Raya money, and probably an extra £12m when we sell Szmodics).

I'm one of those! I'll go with Liam Kelly, due to be released by Coventry, Waggott will be drooling.