M_B

If we're saying Szmodics is a replacement for Rothwell, as a direct comparison, I don't see how he's being seen as overpriced. I also don't see the point in screaming for a change in management, then questioning one of the first things that they do. It's the club's money and they'll spend it as they see fit. As always,at the end of the day, they will be judged by their results.

I'm not going to disagree with you on that, but the conversation was regarding contracts and players not signing them.

And how long would it take to raise the £3 million they lost because Venkys wouldn't sell Rothwell? It's a drop in the ocean compared to potential money raised from player sales. I'm far from a Waggott apologist, but the stick he gets over contracts is way over the top when he must be more frustrated than anyone.

If the club has set a salary cap/wage structure or whatever you want to call it and it's broken every time someone wants more, then the club doesn't have a salary cap. Whether it's set at the right level is a different argument,that's a matter for the owners, but some of the stick levelled at Waggott is just ridiculous. Put yourself in his position,counting the pennies, then losing players for nothing which are worth millions. It's been 10 years and it still hasn't sunk in with some that Blackburn Rovers isn't a normal football club.

I'm expecting Hedges to be involved.

If you gave me a million quid(please), and I had to put it on anyone to go up, it would 100% go on West Brom. Felt Bruce was getting them playing towards the end of the season and the signing of Wallace is massive.

I can't imagine anyone coming in with an acceptable bid for Brereton, I think he'll still be here in January. If he has a decent first half of the season, that's when Prem teams in the lower reaches will take the plunge. I'd say we would probably then hold more of the aces, even though he'd be closer to the end of his contract, as teams in fear of relegation have to gamble. On signings, I'd hope for another 2 quality buys in the Styles mould. The Morton loan looks like a good move, if we can secure a player who's played 9 times for Liverpool, it has to be done. Don't think we'd be far off there, with maybe another couple of clever loans if Broughton can pull a couple of rabbits out of the hat.

This conversation about pace reminds me of Tommy Doc. He said to Leighton James, you're very deceptive Leighton, you're slower than you look.

Wouldn't mind if we had a look at Erik Pieters, haven't heard he's gone anywhere,he never let the Dingles down. Bags of experience to utilise for a year or two.

I'm not convinced at all that Broughton even tried to keep Nyambe after their meeting. To me, the most likely scenario is that Broughton thought he could do better for the money. With our potential first transfer being a full back, this only backs up what I was thinking.

We don't know if Wigan have offered more or less though do we? We don't know if the Rovers offer was still on the table, Broughton may well have withdrawn it leaving Nyambe with only one option. He may feel that the offer to Nyambe was a good one and feels he can get better for the money.

There's a lot of assumption that Wigan have paid higher wages than Rovers without any evidence whatsoever. Even if they have, it doesn't mean Rovers couldn't beat their offer, it could well be that they chose not to.