9 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

7 goals in four seasons for us.

Mind you it's not as though we didn't know what we were getting when we signed him, at age 29 I think he's scored around 17 career goals.

Dreadful player.

Honestly I think he'd make a fine LWB - he's quite useful until he gets into the final third. Then it all falls apart for him.

5 minutes ago, AVE1875 said:

It was a tongue in cheek comment making fun of wanting 90% of transfer work complete prior to preseason 😉

Adding Mannsverk as reminded by @davulsukur, now 3 out of 12 ... 25% haha

As much as I hate Gestede and co I'm not sure what you're getting at with these figures.

I'm sure the figure is much lower than that 25%, in terms of players linked to signed, when you factor in that we've probably asked clubs about 100 players this summer. We're not Liverpool, Arsenal et al - our conversion rate is never going to be great. 

Coincidentally unlike Liverpool, Arsenal et al there are thousands of players that would easily improve us. There's perhaps a few dozen for them. 

19 minutes ago, Ghost7 said:

Brittain is probably the only player we have that might not have looked out of place technically in the prem, great touch and delivery. It's a disgrace he wasn't offered a contract earlier.

Difficult to comprehend the level of incompetence at board and ops level at Rovers given the size of the club and money involved.

 

On the ball, perhaps.

Off the ball - PL wingers would roast him. 

1 hour ago, ruggles1995 said:

I don't know about anyone else but I don't see losing Brittain as a big deal. Id say hes average at best. Apart from crossing a football hes not exactly been outstanding. Anything between 3-5 mill would be good business I think. Hes not blessed with pace and hes not exactly the best defender. I've watched many occasions him get his pants pulled down. Id love to see duru stay fit and get a go, loads of pace, and whenever he did play he did ok, I know it wasn't many mins for us but theres a player there. Id also say there are other positions that are worse to lose. 

It used to be that FBs were frustrated / failed CMs. Now a FB is often the best player on a team - they're asked to do SO much in the modern game. 

35 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Maybe they are moving from Brittain perhaps

More than likely they're getting both.

7 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Dolan always had it in mind to leave even 2 years ago.

This helpless narrative is exactly what the club will be wanting spread. I suspect it was a case of the offer not befitting what he felt a player with a number of years of Championship experience should be getting. Im not having that he decided unconditionally to run down a deal with 2 years left on the tiny contract he would have signed not longer after joining.

Let's say the offer from Broughton was to double his pay to £6k.

He's turned that down holding out for £10k+ - an offer which wasn't coming.

He's left money on the table backing himself to get a better contract elsewhere. 

22 minutes ago, cesus said:

Just for one summer why can't we be normal. Operate like a normal club, offer players with deals coming to an end a new contract, if they don't want it tell them to tell their agent we are after X amount for them to move on. 

If the owners are not willing to spend, working like a normal trading club is more important than ever. Yet for the second season running we have a player refusing to take part in pre season who 100% will leave the club. 

They could easily do that if they employed competent, driven people to run the club.

Instead they employ their lackey and bleed tens of millions a year (allegedly).

I've no idea how they're rich - the poultry business must be a piece of piss if they run their other businesses this poorly.

7 minutes ago, Tomphil2 said:

Ismael is already scratching his head and thinking how can you let players like Dolan, previously on £300 a week not that long ago, end up walking for nothing.

It's obvious he isn't impressed.

He was on £300 a week when we rescued him from the PNE scrapheap.

He's been on several thousand pounds a week for the majority of his time here - and we know he turned down another pay rise when Broughton was here.

He's hardly been hard done to. He thinks the grass is greener - good luck to him.

27 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Sheffield Wednesday are in takeover talks with an America group. 

 

Wednesday are in chaos - they've got a 3 window transfer embargo and the few players that remain at the club refuse to play for the manager... who also doesn't want to be there.

4 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

what the problem with looking overseas like we always have? 

The ESC rules, mainly.

So here's a thought exercise for everyone.

Assuming Brittain is the last 'starter' to leave, what would you do in Gestede's place? Where do we need strengthening? Who needs shipping out? 

For mine:

• Sell Pears
• Sell Buckley
• Assess Duru or loan him out and bring in another RB
• Bring in a starting CB (possibly loan)
• Bring in another CM
• Bring in a RW (probably loan)
• Bring in a GK to challenge Toth

So even conservatively (I wouldn't expect to challenge for the Playoffs with that squad, unless that loan RW was sensational) we're 5 players short. 

6 minutes ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

Alfie gilchrist is available from Chelsea would be a handy rb/cb option 

Only a year left on his contract, but worth £8m on Transfermarkt so it's unlikely.

4 minutes ago, Tom said:

But didn’t we have a youth team friendly yesterday? Surely he’d be better in that if it was him 

Why?

He's a Uni student so probably 21 - it's sink or swim time for him. Might as well throw him in a professional game against men to see if he's got anything.

1 hour ago, had.e.nuff said:

I heard today that the women's team may be withdrawing from the league altogether as they are struggling to raise a team I believe the open trials didn't go to well rumour has it only 11 turned up ,and most teams have already begun pre-season mathces

Good - you'd be mad to play for this lot. They've shown their true colours. 

37 minutes ago, superniko said:

Does this feel like good use of £10k a week for a team that hasn’t got a pot to piss in / hasn’t got owners who want to piss in the pot???

Who says he's on £10k a week?

20 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

He was playing right back today.

He's played RB a few times for us - he's clearly not a RB. He's a CM (and probably not good enough to play there at this level).

2 minutes ago, booth said:

Check my post history, I liked him in his first few months here but then he seemed to decline. He was obviously much better last year as his forward play was excellent but I still found him frustrating when it came to defending. 

I don't think we'll miss his as defending but we're going to miss him going forward.

He's a more athletic version of JRC (at RB). Very good going forward, good enough defensively when he's set, but still lacks a little pace (obviously JRC lacked a lot of pace). 

We'll miss him when he goes. 

27 minutes ago, Hasta said:

The problem for Championship clubs is it’s difficult to know what to offer salary wise if you don’t know what you will have to pay when it goes to a tribunal.

It no good offering an extra £10k a week over 4 years which will cost you £2million if you then get stung for £2 million.

If he went to a Premier League club it is peanuts and abroad it is irrelevant.

In the league where there is most interest, he is not truly a free agent.

This was told to me by a Baggie fan who is fairly close to their club who says they are interested.

So basically "we quite fancy him in and around the squad, but not enough to pay a fee for him".

Which is pretty much right. 

27 minutes ago, waggy on the wing said:

I know it is a bit of a tribute match but all those LFC shirts in the Home ends!! and you just know they are from Preston.

All the hatred we have for our local rivals I think we really should be applauding each other instead of slagging each other off. Blackburn supporting Rovers Preston supporting PNE and yes even that lot supporting their home team and not jumping on any kind of "big club" bandwagon.  Respect to all of you who support your local team.

Game's gone I'm afraid.

Know loads of Liverpool fans at work - none of whom are from Liverpool.

There'll never be any sort of parity again. 

Seen the highlights of the Stanley game - the new kit is awful. 

23 minutes ago, Rover84 said:

Jackson’s comments when deal stalled suggested that something should be done over next few days. Would that mean renegotiating fee and clauses. More tests to see how long till it heals or probabilities of it getting worse. The safe bet would be to get a specialist opinion which could take a few days depending where they are based. Should here more in next few days but it didn’t sound completely dead

Surely all of those things are on hand when you're performing a medical?

38 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Also Dennis, allegedly on £20k p.w.

But we've no money for Brittain/ Travis/ Dolan/Tronstad etc.

Absolute insanity.

That was left over money in the annual budget.

They won't commit to significant multi-year contracts it seems.

2 hours ago, philipl said:

That is not going to heal quickly

6-8 weeks, apparently.

8 minutes ago, JBiz said:

Wages 60+ million in the last three years, outstrips all revenue including player sales

£60m despite absolutely slashing the playing squad since Mowbray left. 

A flat £20m a year come what may. Not shady at all.

42 minutes ago, TommyRovers said:

But it’s still an attractive job.

A very competitive league with a half decent squad at a historic club.

Any manager worth their salt should think they can do a good job.

Especially one that has taken a hit on their reputation recently.

Why would they?

The last two managers have been cut off at the knees.