But they don't really want a CEO do they that role is already filled just not in name. They want a Chief Administrator really who is only in charge of certain non football things, more like another 'Head of Heads'. So it's probably irrelevant who they appoint now.

Cheapest.

Hypothetically speaking just imagine if someone - in return for running the ship from the shadows or an initial stake or even a contract that is impossible to break without a massive payout - was entitled to just 5 or 10% of every buy or sale deal. That might not sound much but over 15 years it's a very handsome return and the kind of investment or involvement a very crafty clever snake would include in their deal with clueless mega rich new ownership. Remember how they were all in bed together at first and under scrutiny in the early days the Matriarch said 'Jerome's role will diminish as time goes by' she didn't say his involvement would end. There may well be a 5th member around that farmhouse kitchen table when dealing with Rovers. A member perhaps represented on the board by a duel agent who's worked for both companies. The sheer number of players who are seeing out their contracts here now is also interesting when considering this.

Punishment for the snowball is the craziest theory on here the rot was well and truly set in way before that. The 30 million a season black hole they'd created which lead to a fire sale and relegation was less snowball and more Anderson/Kean, And Venkys own ignorance.

'Bit in paper' ?

The irony is all these players wanted to stay here but some of them haven't even been offered anything, that includes those with a year left. So really one way or another they are being forced out, a point a lot of people seem to be missing in the wider domain.

It was a throwaway comment originally, google it if you don't know what that means. Meanwhile lets have your payroll evidence and your superior inside knowledge to Glen Mullan. I'll wait whilst you get your coat.

They are accurate based on what ? Football manager ?

Ah so thinking maybe a lid has been kept on Derby taking two players until we've signed a couple is a crazy theory but here you are confidently telling us what our players presently earn ! Amazing you are.

It isn't a theory and it isn't crazy at all but think what you want you obviously know everything.

It's possible but ... THEY HAVEN'T ANNOUNCED IT have they.

I'd say the 10k think is correct you have to look at the bigger picture and all the things in it and for now it probably allows us to keep a few higher earners a bit longer, coupled with the squad filled out with lads on far less than 10k. Elements in the equation ... No/severely reduced funding Clubs surviving in the near future on sales income/low ticket sales The need to pull in line future wages to income ratio or risk punishment No players of any real value left to sell. A 10k cap makes perfect sense.....to them not us. I believe Preston had similar a few years but had no choice but to up it in order to compete but we are clearly being set up to go the other way. It's operation put a team out and don't go bust at Ewood now.

What does that matter if the cap has on recently been introduced ?

You're assuming concrete interest and bids that would satisfy Rovers and give the player a pay rise. The likely event is there is neither so unless they ask and forfeit whatever is owing in order to gamble on a move the fashionable thing to do at Rovers is play out or sit out your contract. Pick up your full pay and anything owing then go elsewhere free hopefully get bigger wages and a signing on fee.

Not difficult to ask them not too really is it out of respect. These things happen in football all the time and they don't have to bother about shifting season tickets do they. All it takes is both players to say out of respect for Rovers to say please don't tip the press off yet By the way would you like to show me where Derby have announced it ?

Because logically it's more lucrative to see the contract out at Ewood.

It's ok, when Weimann breaks down, Dolan frustrates and Batths legs go in September (as i keep seeing physio therapy expert Rovers fans expecting) then we can laugh at them. All 600 of us at Pride Park !

Already seen it they always fall for the simplistic 'they get 27k every week, we only get 12'. No second thought to why they are snapping up these kind of players in the first place nor the time they've spent in league 1 or what debt they may owe etc.

Number of people or so called people i'm seeing saying not arsed about losing those two they are old we need younger. Guaranteed to be wailing next season at some point we need a solid leader in defence and oh if only we had a goal poacher we could bring on. Rovers fans .... you can script em almost to the word it's amazing how a couple of cheap punt signings, not for the positions we are losing good players from, suddenly puts a 360 spin on things. For the more balanced we can't be anything other than disappointed again and pray there is something resembling replacements in the pipeline.

Why have Mowbray or Eustace never been linked with Buckley ? They know more than we do so it's quite telling they've never - to date - fancied snapping an out of favour lad they know well.

It's all a no brainer for Eustace as all he'll have on his mind is a better season than last, anything else will be a bonus. He must think his Christmas has come early after being associated with our shambles and now he's able to spoon feed off our incompetence. Fair play to him i say.

Agreed ages ago but buried until we'd got some signings in, hide bad news behind good.

Yep a deal 'up to 2 million' can mean any number of things and it's most likely it's a few hundred grand per year then a load of add on's IF he hits certain targets' Still they've committed about 2 and a half million now over the next few years including the Belgium lad so that IS re-investment although we all still dream of a 5 million pound striker ! These lads wages will be low and i'm on the other side when it comes to how these are paid for we don't spend unless there's been some sales or room made on the wage bill so i fully expect by summers end the buys v outs will balance somehow.

Still playing for Chorley, had a few unfortunate injury problems that hampered his league career but the signing of a 5 year contract on 5k a week so young did him no favours at all. I doubt Batty has had that luxury yet.

The people at the club now are just ignorant to the local market and too spineless to present anything radical to the owners in case it threatens their own position. The only focus is squeeze and ever dwindling fanbase to the max to ensure a certain static level of income per season. There have been multiple missed opportunities to get thousands back in overnight and at certain times the finances would've allowed it. There is zero real desire for it though in head office. To achieve the gates we did under the Souness/Hughes/Allardyce era we still had to price tickets very competitively because quite simply that is what the local market required it was the only way it would work. If these lot were in charge then we'd be averaging about 18k given their attitude to pricing. It was just the same for Wigan and Bolton by the way, just as it still is now so anyone who constanly cries about crowds and we don't get 20k a home game like we used to because 'shit fans' seriously has a hole in head and a grape where their brains should be. It was never happening at this level and certainly not the way the clubs been run.