Signed Aiden McGeady and Adam LeFondre in back to back seasons. We will be putting Fleck in the academy if this is the yard stick

Is our wages for the scouting department higher than the wages we can offer any scouted player?

I thought they still had some requirements regards playing at national level and continental football on some regard. Might be wrong. Or has this lad played for Sweden firsts or their youth team a bit?

Work permits make this a none starter

Think he's a winger, Google tells me a pre contract. Agree Turkish football has no money though. Also think if they did, and Szmod can't sort a proper deal elsewhere - the country, passion and European competition could tempt him

Bright Osayi Samuel

For Nixon's weekly big Sunday special does he: Find out mid week, make a note and hope no one breaks it before him (every week ad infinitum) Have some contact at the club working overtime Saturdays during the season end Make it up and cover himself with vague mystic meg predictions

Celtic signing another centre mid come centre back. Lawal who was at Fleetwood might be worth a cheap loanee punt ala Ayari. Never keen on developing other clubs talent but a cheap utility player with some promise might be an ok avenue to explore.

Rovers new scouting department...

Robbie Fowler

Cadden, Cole and Kane from Barnsley all released. By no means starting eleven players but a more attacking fullback to Pickering, a more industrious midfielder to what we have and a striker with different qualities to Gally? This is really bleak isn't it.

As much as I think there is a player in Connolly, I don't think signing a kebab loving shag about striker would help with the standards as they currently are at rovers. Between the manager giving him days off to keep him happy and the fans being banned from booing him I've no doubt hed have a great time - just not on the pitch

Might be a daft question and it's speculation aimed at someone more in tune with the legal system than myself, but - if Gregg leaves and signs an NDA he can't discuss privately the chaos of the club and in turn he looks a naff DoF thus future career prospects look bad. However, if he thinks he is better placed to discuss his time here (privately not publicly) and that may help future jobs - can he refuse to sign an NDA?

Barge pole purely for the fact he's another sleight dainty player (although from stats alone, a good one). Would be ok with it if he was a replacement of sat Markanday and he went on loan. However very uninspiring, did they find an old scouting list when packing out Gregg's desk?

The blindingly obvious fact going unacknowledged is that fan base numbers are in theory compounding. If you give 16-25 year olds engagement and good value, when they're 30-35 you've got 2 or 3 fans for the price of 1 when they start bringing their kids.

Have they misheard someone saying Gestede was great at heading upfront at Blackburn Rovers, as Gestede was great at heading up a front at Blackburn Rovers?

Hull's owner has come out and said Allsop is crap, Connolly is over weight and playing passes between defenders is naff. Would we take Allsop and Connolly and does this help our chances

They've also a giant of a keeper called Sherpen who's 6ft 7 and has 7 clean sheets in 12 games in Austria this year. As well as the Swansea keeper I think

Double Demebele (Blackpool and Birmingham) would transform our break. With Sammy gone we've an absence of pace over long distance. Dolan is quick but only over 5 yards. Gally is easily replaceable for what he costs for me. I understand he's great at defending and tries really hard but that's a dime a dozen and we may as well punt on Draper on the Norwegian guy at Rotterdam. Big nasty centre mid and a full back and we're looking like putting up some fight

Just to make the point, the MLS has a complete range of players these days. Gone of the days of Landon Donovan + college kids and central americans. They've been going big on Argentinians (think Almada at Atlanta has a world cup medal). Not to say he's a world beater nor is the league on par, but it's not the yeehaw leagues like it once was - despite how odd Americans are

Your cars in good nick just needs 4 new tyres, engines blown, exhaust is hanging off and battery dies intermittently

For me our £/position/ability is a bit all over the place. We've fluked Szmodics much like we have Armstrong etc al. Currently Gallagher if he is on the 15-18k per week people say is just not justifying it and for what he brings is a dime a dozen for a better rate. Ive said before id rather we sling him for Draper from Lincoln who's much younger and can do a similar role. We then need to spend some money adding goals across the board. Our wingers and defenders need to contribute more because otherwise, no one is scoring 20 next year and we really are up the creek. I can see Sigurdson getting 10 or 15 but that leaves us 20 adrift and that's for a league position of 19. Helik if he can get 7 again, Koroma got about that this year and adds a bit of pace, Demebele from blackpool and suddenly weve a bit of pace and a threat at set pieces.

Helik from Hudds would be decent

Imagine how much we'd have scored with Jordan Rhodes (current) in the box with his attacking positioning and not gallagher