Exiled_Rover

Brentford did it with data scouting before Brexit and the clampdown on unknown foreign players happened. They have to be established players (with 4 exceptions) which is incredibly hard to do.

Why are they determined to burn money?

Once again I ask the question: why do they own us? What can they possibly get out of it? Evidently they can't afford to run us properly.

He'll get a stony silence from me, like all of our ex-players do these days. No legends have run out the tunnel for us for many a year.

The Academy is the only reason we exist. Travis, Nyambe, Lenihan, A. Wharton, S. Wharton, Carter etc etc... Without the Academy pumping out quality Championship players over the last decade we'd have sunk without a trace.

They have turned off the taps - where did the Kaminski / Raya / Szmodics / Phillips / Wharton £40m go?

Games gone if anyone is calling for Pears to play for us ever again.

Were any of their undesirables foreign billionaires completely insulated from any criticism?

I remember under Williams basically every penny in went out on wages, which was probably unsustainable in the long run.

Evidently Eustace, Batth and Weimann think it's a higher level...

How long are Rovers fans meant to watch the life being strangled out of their club? I guarantee every other fanbase would be down to the bare bones in the ground, like we are, if they found themselves in our situation.

£60-70k a week?

I'll make a bet now that they'll be in a better situation than is 5 years from now.

Nixon talking about Phillips being whored out again - this time to Sheffield United. Everyone could see it coming when he went to Spurs.

I bet Fulham couldn't believe their luck when Birmingham offered £12m+. This Rowe lad is twice the player.

The Burnley CB has had more of an impact in CM than Morton has. I hold grudges. He was awful for us and has been awful today too.

Peak Morton. Costs us a goal and precedes to lose the midfield for 50 minutes but puts in one good ball so everyone forgets all the crap. Lives a charmed life that lad.

Well that and because they had this Arsenal CF on the bench, but only decided to play him in ET.

Absolutely fallen apart since Morton came on.

Got subbed on for our only CF though and appears to be playing RW - so that was odd.

And because of that they're getting far more sympathy in the press / from the football community than we do. We're literally in football purgatory - at least their nightmare is coming to an end.

They appear content to put in the absolute minimum so we don't fall foul of the authorities.

Drogba is the prototype for me in these systems. Obviously there aren't many of him knocking about!

A few of them look streets ahead of their colleagues. Interesting that Liverpool are selling Quansah - a young, talented, English CB. With the Champions League registration rules you'd think they'd hold onto him for dear life. Anderson won't be at Forest for long, he's fantastic.

He's another small #9 playing upfront on his own. It's what I fear will happen to Leonard and has happened to Ohashi all season - they just don't impact the game enough. You have to be lightning quick, or incredibly intelligent at their size playing against two big CBs.