I'd have too much professional pride and respect for myself to even do that at Burnley.

Is that their plan for the whole stadium?

135 years of existence, really. The last 15 years we've been in purgatory.

Eustace literally walked out of a club in the playoffs for a relegation threatened club in January. Why anyone thinks we'll spend any money in the summer is beyond me. The writing is absolutely on the wall.

Yes, but they listed Neville's house as a company property for farming et al, which it obviously wasn't, for a massive tax break. If you stumbled upon that sort of casual fraud wouldn't you thoroughly investigate the company too?

Yep - players and HMRC are still being paid so there's nothing to see here as far as the EFL are concerned.

As I understand it we're at the inconvenience stage, and have been for 2 years - it's become an impediment for the Venkys because of the money that would sit in a Government account awaiting the resolution of this trial. They clearly know they have a very, very good chance of losing this case and that money, which is why they're so reluctant to pay it. Which again begs the question, why not just sell Rovers if you're so reluctant to fund them? It's one less overseas liability you have to worry about - and one that absolutely detests you to boot.

Broughton tried to get him to re-up from that improved offer (whatever it was), but he turned us down. By the sounds of it he hasn't really been interested in renegotiating since then. Who knows how much money he's left on the table in the short term by taking this approach - certainly several thousand pounds a week for two years.

What is there currently to celebrate?

What are they spending the money on? Certainly not the team.

I'd be absolutely astounded if he gets a PL offer, he's miles off that standard.

I think he's Plan A. A 6'5" aggressive, athletic CF who wins the vast majority of contested balls and brings others into play. You build around that and let the others (Cantwell, Winger, Winger) start taking over the game.

Easy enough to resolve, fire Ismael.

What was our style of play when Ohashi was upfront? Watch the ball come back at us time and time again? We had the balance right at the start of the season - start the games with Gueye and then bring Ohashi on as a sub on 70 minutes when the defenders were tired.

I've genuinely no idea why fans don't like Gueye. He was our best player at times last season and completely unplayable for defenders.

Exactly.

He was arguably our player of the season.

Derby came in and took our manager. What hope do we have of stopping a player going there?

I thought they were all pretty good signings, especially considering the outlay. Gueye was unplayable at times, Ohashi scored 10, Toth has taken the gloves off Pears (we hope!). Sadly Kargbo got injured, but he has the pace we've been crying out for. Alas the person that lined those all up left in October and you saw the calibre of player we brought in during January under Gestede et al. We're fucked.

Wahlstedt covered the cost of Toth, Gallagher covered the cost of Gueye and Ohashi. So what, we spent £1.5m on Cantwell and Kargbo after bringing in over £30m?

Well they haven't spent any money for nearly 2 years and literally drove off one of the best managers in the league because they refused to back him - so I'd suggest it's unlikely.

But the lame 'American Badass' version.

It's both. He's hated at Charlton and Coventry. The man is a cancer.

It depends what system Ismael installs next season. If he goes to 3 at the back with 2 wing backs then we need another CB and a CF. If he sticks with a 4-3-3 / 4-2-3-1 then we need two talented wingers.

I see the plastic scousers are out in force in Liverpool today. I really do detest that club.