Exiled_Rover

We're £72m in the black in transfers during our time under this awful ownership. We'd be much further in the black if we were run properly - Brereton, Lenihan, Rothwell to name a few walking for free. You cannot just put ALL of that money into wages. You have to reinvest into the squad - it's so short sighted to sell assets and not replace them with cheaper, younger assets.

I'd hope the next owners would put competent people in charge - a CEO and a DoF worth their salt would be a start. Anyone buying a Championship club will have to have a good deal of cash on hand for immediate running costs. That £20m a year figure is because we're so incredibly poorly run (and I still think it's a myth).

No, there's another poster on here that doesn't rate Tronstad either. He's rightfully mocked.

Basically. You're on a hiding to nothing having an Academy outside of the PL these days.

Assuming absolutely nobody gets injured or loses form.

Our season fell apart when Travis and then Tronstad got injured. At a functional club you'd look to strengthen that department.

It's also two years out of date...

Reduced to Wrexham, Derby and Middlesbrough trying to buy our starting players. What a 15 years it's been under these cunts.

I suspect part of that price is his agent advising him that he can get more money as a free agent (I know there's a tribunal fee) and part of it is because he's artificially supressed his own wages by not signing a new contract for us 2 years ago and he's trying to make up for lost earnings.

If he's anything like he'll be playing in the first team soon enough - we're desperately short of numbers.

Don't give them any ideas.

Fantastic news.

At least three of them have some pace. Would be a big change for us, we're usually so pedestrian.

To be fair if I didn't give a fuck about a club I'd happily work under these conditions for £350k a year too.

You need a few of them if you're playing a high pressing game.

In a team that refused / was unable to cross the ball to a 6'5" CF with a leap on him. I hope the new wingers can cross (I don't think the Belgian lad can from his highlights).

Someone in that front 3 has to be an outlet ball. It's a team game and the CF has to do more than score goals. When Gueye was on the bench we didn't have one. None of Ohashi, Dolan or Hedges could run in behind (and Hedges especially couldn't hold the ball up if you played it into his feet). Kargbo might solve that problem, if his hamstrings aren't made of cheese.

Ohashi nicks the odd goal and presses, but absolutely nothing sticks when he plays as a 9. He's a very good sub. I'd like to see him in a 2 or out wide in a 3. As the lone striker he gets bullied every week and piles the pressure on Rovers as we then don't have an out ball.

Depends what wage he was coming in on.

Staying fit is his problem, sadly. We've seen in the League Cup games that he's a decent player and should be very effective at that level. He's a #10 though, he doesn't have the pace to play out wide.

We're in the bottom 6, if not lower, for spending (including wage) and are in the top 10 on performance. We're consistently miles away from the PL relegated sides though (bar Luton last season). Some of that is recruitment, a lot of it is down to coaching. The frustration is nobody has asked us to spend big - just to be brave and bring that little bit of extra quality that would push us over the line into the Playoffs. A striker in JDT's first season would have done that, a CM and a winger in Eustace's second season would have done that. Alas here we are again begging for scraps. It's no way to live and surely you can understand why fans are incredibly frustrated.

Transfermarkt tells me Mohammed Al-Sahafi is 49. Marwan Al-Sahafi is the guy we've been linked with I think.

Who owns Barnsley - are they elusive billionaires that everyone hates too?

I think you have to commit to Cantwell and give him a free role behind the CF. A couple of his assists last season came from the left wing, but he's not quick enough to defend from that position - he leaves his LB exposed. If he's allowed to drift out there, when the space dictates it, that's a different kettle of fish.

If I thought we were a serious football club I'd be worried.