Ossydave

He's on the books of Athlete Plus which just appears to be a small Japanese agency, in fact he's listed as their second most valuable asset at €900k. It appears to be a good deal, you'd imagine most Japanese players dream of playing in England to be fair, there's probably others with a similar clause in their contracts.

I think they were trying to get said player over initially on trial, not sure if it's progressed. Mafoumbi has been at Stanley House all week so they may have been trying to get a few to room share to save cash 🙄

Probably found out via playing football manager. On a serious note though Japanese players from the J league don't sell for big fees. Furuhashi of Celtic at around 5m is the most expensive, ever. More expensive departures tend to be Brazilians. Mitoma was less than 3m

Humphrys is a no from me, purely because the spelling of his name is irritating* *not being serious before anyone starts

Flip it around to the here and now and his recent career, he's scored 32 in 53 matches since the start of 2023. Szmodics has scored 33 in the last 48 games. So yeah totally different leagues but similar recent figures.

I doubt it as it only really affects non season ticket holders for the top category games, their season ticket prices are reasonable and they've sold a fair few....

In fairness it's a step up from someone on here who wished Szmodics a broken leg the other season, our own player.

Szmodics wants out and his agent will pester the club to accept lower bids, if he does have some kind of clause its 100% more than 8m.

Highly doubt you'd have even got a direct flight to Manchester today, London airports maybe but that's obviously adding more hours travel. On this basis I would say Jones is talking absolute shite.

It's a secret . Honestly never read anything worthwhile from these meetings.

The J-League is dire and I'd wager pretty much every player in it would leap at a move to English football in a heartbeat.

I honestly don't know that level of detail sorry, if i get further clarity I will post it. Mafoumbi (and family) were flown over so I'd say that's a goer providing nothing dodgy showed up medically today and he doesn't look bobbins on his trial.

No he's over here now though and been at Brockhall today

Well you view it as pointless baiting then, I couldn't give a shite pal. I suppose Telalovic was that too? 🤔

Makes absolutely no difference to my life if you believe it or not, feel free to form your own opinion.

Looks like we're shopping or at least trying to in France again, centre half from Nantes in this week 👀

I quite like a Desperado for a change to be fair, I don't like Ewood much at the moment though 😕

Those are nothing like a protest against owners. They involve assaults and like I initially said if you'd read it, making contact with players amongst other things. Added to this, you don't NEED to enter the pitch to disrupt a game.

Don't be ridiculous, do you really think that would happen? It's mentioned as a deterrent, people rarely get charged. If you were attacking players then yes you would. Something deemed dangerous would get you a criminal record. The very worst you'd get is a small fine or a banning order.

It's true

I know quite a few who would be onboard, there's a lot of people on this message board who'd know quite a few too. I'm not even sure it would need 100's. 1 pitch invader halts a game, even 20 would cause major problems.

I dunno, there's an element of people now who are at their wits end, myself included. I couldn't give a shite now if I get banned from Ewood if it helps the cause I can only think that complete disruption of games is the only option now, let's be honest we aren't gonna be winning any. This is brilliant:

Mafoumbi lands tonight on an initial trial, for a week. So it might be another week or so till even he signs, if at all. Still, it's probably the most movement I've seen on any incomings in a while.

https://www.3addedminutes.com/sport/football/ten-best-new-kits-world-football-including-blackburn-rovers-4709690 3rd kit has been deemed one of the best, in the world 😎 Probably our biggest achievement for the new season.....

Screams pitch cutting up to me too, it's not leaving much time for it to recover between the men's games.