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Considering he was in the first team for a length of time on £300 a week then probably had a bit of a pay rise how much do we really honestly think he was asking for ?

Maybe they'll loan Kargbo out for 6 months.

Low wages, just the way they like it and less than they'd have to pay Dolan whose compo will pay this fee probably. Anyone on 10k or over it's a 1 year contract !

At least we'd know what they really wanted it for unlike this lot.

The lad will have rosy cheeks after an autumn and winter in Blackburn.

I thinks it's AI run that account.

Why don't Rovers just stick Alan Nixon in that office he knows everything and is very good at recruiting and selling Rovers players. A strike rate of 1 in 100 surely qualifies him.

The riverside has buried many a player it has to be the miserablest stand in the league 🤣

A fee paid over the length of the contract is only a few hundred grand per year so i'd say it's money or loose change they already have in the pot. Or..... it points to an imminent outgoing....

They are in the horses for courses frame of mind whereas here i suspect we are back in the grab who you can for wherever if they are affordable and have a chance of quickly increasing in value. Then shoehorn them in. Most of Mowbrays tenure ended up like that it's why we never went anywhere until the 0-7 v Fulham kicked him up the arse when he was in requiring a new contract mode.

More likely hes decided or been told to take the club line on this and only comment when they do or some other story breaks. The LT in recent years very follows the lead of elsewhere on these kind of things, somebody else breaks the news or does a story then they quickly follow with their own. They aren't local investigative reporters anymore and i also suspect the club itself has a lot to do with gagging stuff.

Preston are fishing in the same waters as us but they had more of a pressing need given last season and obviously are putting their stock into lads with a bit of championship/English league experience rather than low level overseas punts. We on the other hand need to be retaining the very important players we've got - Travis & Batth arguably are the most important - and signing a bit of quality to build on last season. Instead we look like letting the best players leave again without a fight and rooting around for squad fillers with half a chance of increasing in value. There is no specific aim here other than wage bill reductions and increasing slightly an already low squad valuation.

Only last night i read some kid saying Venkys are now paying DOUBLE for players because of the court case so we can't spend much because of that. It's enough to make you cry it really is.

About a whopping 20 mins difference than to Blackburn Chaddy - sorry, Exiled - and it's a damn sight closer than Ipswich was or many of the others linked with him now.

Confirms 14 million a year not the fabled 20 mill.

Plus Travis is from the Ormskirk area, possibly still lives around there so Wrexham isn't far away it's a no brainer for him if they are serious. More serious is the fact these shithouses haven't bothered offering their captain, long serving player and academy graduate anything when this situation first reared its head over a year ago.

But they've now become the 'marquee' signings because they cost a few hundred grand.

Looking from afar it seems quite possible the ED are digging their heels in on behalf of the govt because they just don't want huge sums regularly leaving the country anymore. Probably trying to force them to drop the club or sell it, that could be the real driving issue.

It looks to me like they have a low wage cap for home grown players that doesn't apply to buys, freebies and Prem loans. No wonder they get fed up and decide running their contract down is favourable to a small rise or a 2/3 yr contract with years option on the same money.

The situation with Travis just like one or two others is engineered a year or 18 months in advance by the club so they don't have to commit to bigger longer contracts, bonuses and signing fees it's rather obvious now. Yes the players and their agents play a part but i'd suggest that is often once they realise nothing or nothing worthwhile is coming from Rovers. Once the wheels are put into motion well in advance the players are on their way it's just a matter of when not if and it's mostly by design. Ewood bean counters care not a jot to lose good players it's all about finding cheaper replacements and you could argue in this case that we will get a decent fee but we know were that will go. Venkys have long since blown every opportunity to mould the Brentford model instead having a benefactor we need their money just to survive to now a sell to survive model, we need sales money just to survive and continue the managed decline a bit longer. A player on a better contract commands a better fee, gets a better signing on fee from that as well but if it was signed 12 months ago it might have cost the club an extra 5k a week. They don't want that, can't be arsed with it so just leave things to chance till it's too late then shrug the shoulders. 'He wanted to go' 'We did all we could' and the age old chestnut 'But we offered to make him the highest player' - a month before he knew he'd get more or the same elsewhere.

Hopefully the championship wages for bog standard players and young players has been organically capping itself although i think ours has a lot to do with fluffing out the squad with kids.

Yes both PNE and Bolton in recent years hammered the Chorley area with stuff when they did their respective big early bird discounts. Doubt Rovers even bother in Accrington never mind Chorley !

I wonder if any of those locals know he's been pissing off locals in another town halfway across the world for nearly 15 years now.

If as one or two suspect a lot of the money comes from a huge borrowing facility secured against fixed assets over there it makes one wonder how long it would be before the bank stepped in and called the shots. That could be very painful for us.

Maybe they hold onto all the bonds/guarantees and properties until the whole investigation is cleared and closed. In which case there is little to no chance of future funds.