The previous 30% youth policy under Broughton, under money saving instruction from his bosses, nearly got us relegated and they had to get Eustace in to stop that rot. If Ismael doesn't get some backing he'll finish the job but i remain convinced some inside Ewood would be more than happy with a new low level low cost league 1 BRFC.

Kean never being anywhere near any kind of job in England since here as always struck me as a bit suspect and he even bolted Scotland once he'd landed a job back there. Must be some tax dodging reason or something seeing as so many in football bought his victim card but no one has had him near any level of English club. Dodgy b'sard.

Not defending them for 1 sec but the questions have been answered albeit by the billy bullhitters classed as CEO & COO. The fraud squad over there haven't turned anything up yet other than miss spending money sent for the football club on personal property. They CAN send money but don't want to because of the alleged pound for pound guarantee. Unless the investigation suddenly blows up then we have to assume it's nothing other than them being clueless on certain things as usual. The focus at the min is on this end and those who are seemingly now running this club into the ground bit by bit.

The Ewood bean counters will be happy with a million in compen and the saving of not having to hand out a shiny 3 or 4 year weekly double figure contract. Win win for them then they can put five grand a week towards a young loanee. They are gaining a lump sum instead of committing several mill over a contract and they have a small wage to reinvest. It's the stuff CEO & COO bonuses are handed out for !

Absolutely must keep this fella but i dread to think what terms they might offer him. Here Danny 1 year with a year extension but your wages are halved.....

Oh aye he'd be aware of it no doubt but probably not daft enough to get mixed up in it if indeed anyone else actually was of course.

Doubt he had anything to do with the Brockhall stuff there were/are others in up to their necks in that and he didn't strike me as being interested in anything other than the football side of things. However the whole Hedges thing was a bit ropey in my eyes.

Mowbray certainly provided a great front of house shield for everyone else, something he was more than happy to do. He did well out of the club it was good for him and he was decent for it on a number of levels. Everyone has a shelf life though and in the end they shafted him as well by the looks of it.

Big Val's Blue & White army.... 👊

Probably also collecting a nice loyalty bonus as they exit the departure lounge. The people running this club cannot get anything right can they, the sales of the likes of Wharton and Sammie just cover the shitshow and allow it to keep rolling along.

Don't see the point of the safe standing proposed by these clowns unless it's nothing more than a bit of fake virtue signalling. Either do it properly with at least 1500 in the middle across the back or don't bother as it'll have very little impact on the atmosphere.

Definitely has a touch of the Sir Bobby about him personality wise in that he absolutely lives and breathes the game. Not many would go again after such a serious bout of illness but footy is his life that's why i hope he carries on but somewhere that is more suited to where he's at both as a gaffer and personally.

Just like for years we were calling for an early bird discount then when they knock 30 quid off it's on the back of the worst season in years to a backdrop of more budget cuts and player sales. Then they look around in bewilderment because sales don't fly. Complete idiots.

Those kind of keepers are gone its been a dying art to command the box for a few years now. One after another we'll say the same things but i'm encouraged by what iv'e seen from Toth so far, he's certainly better than Leo.

Considering he came as a kid off the scrap heap i'd assume he was on peanuts and any wage rise since won't have seen him anywhere near double figures. We've no idea the figures but when becoming not only an established first teamer but an important one he'd be entitled to want parity with some others. I think the chances of him being low balled a few years ago and another stand off developing with the contract dept are better odds than him asking for 25k a week.

He'll only really be appreciated by some when he's finally gone and Markandy or some skinny kid on loan is trying to fill his place. A player like him is absolutely integral to how we allegedly want to play but he's another walking for nothing or next to it and this isn't 'just football' it's been going on for 2 years. More than enough time to sort it or sell. There is something very very wrong inside this football club.

So 3 clubs since he was here and sacked from 2 of them but might have made a fist of it at Brum will a bit of money although i'd wager they'd been a classic mid table Mogga team. Always has and always will be a bang average solid safe Championship level manager and his dreams of steering a big tanker to promotion were always just that, a dream. Hope he stays in football but is a bit more honest and realistic with himself he'll still do a good job for someone lower down.

Can they afford his wages though ? I reckon it'll be a straight shootout between him and Mowbray for Ty, if TM is still in a job of course. WBA will pay him more than Derby.

They've been saying he should stand down for weeks, sentiment rarely works in football it was a daft appointment by them.

They don't see that as 'investment' their idea now is get someone for 4/500k on 5 grand a week and pray he turns into a player.

Their Monaco residency all sorted once that deal was done.

Cringe worthy 'we are the gentry' except when they come to Ewood and they are the apes.

A whiff of lets have a look at him and let him earn a contract here.

A good reminder of the instant mess they made of it, how the team was weakened and how agents and consultants began to bleed their money out of it.

It did cross my mind maybe the reluctance to give decent new contracts at an earlier appropriate time, so they actually get signed, might be down to preventing someone somewhere getting a contractually obliged cut of the action. Or the players and their agents prefer to eye up the so called loyalty bonus they get here instead of signing on fees. Then get a new contract, maybe bigger wages and a signing on fee elsewhere. Whatever it is it's pathetic it keeps happening and us getting told oh that's just football. The only thing covering that policy from financial disaster is the knee jerk sale of the jewel in the crown.