We will always be Burnley's superiors, they are just temporarily above us in the table. Obviously 'temporarily' is a subjective term!

He's been there for a while.

It's worrying he said the answer is to not go a goal down! I understand he's trying to be positive, but it gives the impression he doesn't really have an answer, just like his team doesn't.

IIRC he came back after the first Covid lockdown and finally looked like a footballer. So last few months of 19/20 season which was from about June 2020 to August 2020. Before that he was shite. I think they put something in the vaccine!

Maja reportedly off back to Fulham.

They're a rough lot if the match at Ewood is anything to go by. A bunch of toothless coked up 50-somethings with bucket hats looking for a fight. And the blokes weren't much better.

Once tainted you can never get back to normal. It's an incurable affliction.

How are the FA Cup sales looking? I know a few are going that don't normally bother. I wonder if Brum will sell a lot?

It's a logical assumption, rather than an illogical one, based on the fact he's running down his contract so he can move to a club he wants to go to. Otherwise, he may have kicked up a massive fuss when the club apparently turned down the Nice bid. But then we're assuming he's the type of guy who wpuld kick up a fuss. It's all assumptions, so criticising the club when none of us know the facts is as pointless as presuming he didn't want to leave.

Unless you know what he was offered, and you know what his thought process was, you really don't have an argument. And please stop with the 'defending the club at all costs' nonsense, some people just have a different viewpoint to you.

It's also a massive jump to presume BBD wanted to move to the clubs that bid for him last summer. And if a club doesn't have to pay a fee, some of that money ends up in the pocket of the player. Pretty standard practice, so it benefits BBD to leave on a free.

Who is Nikita Haikin? Former Chelsea & Portsmouth youth goalkeeper linked with Blackburn Rovers - LancsLive Write up on Nikita....I feel an Elton John sing coming on.

Agree about opinions, but yours was he wasn't good enough for Rovers. JDT and GB disagree with you, they offered him a contract and didn't withdraw it based on his ability. And we are a mid-table Championship team. We have been for the last 4 years. We're now only a few points above 15th. And I'd have RN at full-back before JRC and Carter. RN is a specialist full back.

That's the spirit!

That's unfair, Nyambe is a good full back that was pissed about by Mowbray. He was offered a new contract AFTER GB/JDT came to the club so they obviously thought he was worth keeping.

A points deduction should be applied to any team that goes under an embargo in my totally unbiased and honest opinion! It's effectively cheating. They are signing players whilst not paying clubs they already owe money to.

Good read, and I'm really pleased we've FINALLY got that structure in place. Let's hope it brings us success. I presume that's what we all want?

BBC said earlier that Udinese bid £250k for Porteous and that it was rejected. Some ITK on their forums said it was the sell-on clause rather than the fee that couldn't be agreed.

I know. Tell Mercer.

Which would have been the worst of both worlds. Lets him rot in the 'ressies' for season and then let him leave on a free.

Laughed probably. It's not the 70s anymore.

Sounds hopeful.

BBD: I'm not leaving. Job done.

Current top earners at Udinese. I'm more hopeful we can land him if that is accurate and it just comes down to money.

He's already trousered the money so I doubt he cares we think he's pants.