RoyWegerlesLeftToe

The Venkys don't care. The really don't. They don't know how we're doing. They don't care if we get relegated. They don't care if you do or don't go on the games. They don't care who's in charge of the club on a day to day basis. They haven't provided instructions to the management on how the club is run as that would require them to care, but as I mentioned before they don't. They don't care if we sell our best players and replace them with cheaper players, they really don't. All they care about is the massive black hole they have on their balance sheet because they happened to buy an old English football team. A black hole which has been funded by debt and grants provided by the Indian government (and others). To this date they haven't realised that debt, there is no sunk cost fallacy. At the moment, they haven't lost anything, but if they sold they'd need to book a huge loss in their accounts. This is a problem. The thing is that the debt isn't on the club. If the Venkys sold up, the black hole wouldn't fall on "us" due to the equity set up (there are smaller debts, e.g. from HMRC, we do need to be concerned about but we can ignore them for now). If you chant against the regime at home games, it doesn't matter because they aren't listening. If you protest before the game, it doesn't matter because they aren't watching. If you throw a chicken on the pitch, it's done on deaf ears because, well, we're just an asset. The only way you can impact change is by one of the following: 1. Help get them promoted to the prem so that we are worth more than the black hole and we can be sold. 2. Get the debt in Indian forgiven so the owners will sell. 3. Make the situation so fucking embarrassing for the Venkys IN INDIA that they will stomach a huge loss on their balance sheet. This means going to India and doing things. So, what are you going to do? And I won't accept hiding from the problem by not attending the games or shouting Venkys out into a vacuum.

Dapo afolayan? There was a story a few weeks back. Is there new news?

I'll be happy if we manage to keep it tight for the first 5 mins...

I had a similar dream except we were allowed to pay in chickens.

On paper I don't mind losing trav and hyam for profit with suitable replacements. But on the eve of the season, come on guys...

Sorry for the massively pixelated image (stolen from reddit which was stolen from twatter). Although related to Sheffield Wednesday, I thought the looking to buy a "traditional club" comment by John Textor was interesting...

Anyone fancy providing a little positivity? I for one can't wait to be back on Ewood, cheering on the boys. I know I'll get irritated the second the guy two rows behind me calls the first player who misses a pass a "f*ckin' silly c*nt" even though they were saying before kick off how we need to get behind the boys regardless of the ownership. I like the signings we've made and understand why we need to let players go (I wish we didn't have to), and am much more positive this season than to last season.

He looks like smozics replacement base on his leaving video.

It's like champ man 01/02.

One thing I noticed when I clicked that link was their fans excellent use of animated emojis. Took me back quite a few years.

Just to put things in perspective, if you look at ligue 1 in France then this summer we've spent more than half the teams there (including psg ).

Yey, false equivalence.

I come to this topic for the gossip even if it won't come true. It's painful wading through the treacle of negativity...this is a summer transfer thread, brighten up.