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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.

Soon to be 5 with Dolan. Beginning to think it's club policy for some reason.

So it seems no qualifications are needed but experience and some sort business degree and/or a sporting degree is kind of an unwriiten rule. No wonder it's such a crazy reckless wasteful world that attracts hustlers and parasites by the truckload. Crazily enough Gestede on paper in now probably more qualified than many others in those roles.

It's a public limited company.

Surely there has to be some type of qualification criteria to be a Chief Executive of a Championship club ?

Still running the club via proxy (swaghail) would not surprise me in the slightest. 10% of all ins and outs over a decade and a half is some serious money.

About ten thousand home fans actually turned yesterday so it's probably a couple of thousand have signed up for next season already.

People could see the good sense in the appointment of Allardyce even if they didn't like his football or even him. A lot have struggled with the word salad attempts to justify this appointment given his track record, he's every bit the mercenary going from pay off to pay off. Better to be honest and say well we won't pay a serious coaches wages nor back him so we had to look in a specific market to fit our non budget. He applied and agreed to the terms etc, Rudy likes him, Suhail likes his low wages so we rolled the dice.