bluebruce

Well at least he only played and threw away one game. Alan Fettis on the other hand....

Dunno about that, it doesnt include any insults.

Kevin Davies. 7 million when that was a lot of money in the game. Expectation was high. Beattie went the other way cheaply as part of it. Davies was crap for us, Beattie was great for them. We then sold him back at a significant loss, bringing Ostenstad over as a makeweight in that deal. He was even worse. Davies ended up at Bolton, who I hated, for free, and was great for them. Still makes my blood boil.

I agree he shouldn't cost much more than 1 million with Charlton's and everyone else's financial situations. At that price, with his age, the data, and having seen a bit of him from the clips, it seems a no-brainer. A million isn't going to be the difference between breaking the rule limits or not, nor between administration or not. You expect he will have 10 years left at or above his current ability, so you're talking 100k a year plus wages.

I think they should be banned, personally. They protect the players not the clubs and the players already have the upper hand. They make millions and nearly all clubs live in debt trying to feed them.

He hasn't said it is Armstrong he heard about.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/18636225.salary-caps-introduced-championship-discussions-ongoing/ League One and Two introducing salary caps, well below what ours was in League One. No clarity there on how it affects teams who go down (as I'd argue that forcing them into a fire sale as soon as they go down would hardly encourage financial sustainability for relegated clubs). Implied that the Championship are considering a similar move, but not explicitly stated. They could be in talks about whether to delay profit and sustainability cut offs etc instead.

Why not?

That money would go to another Brereton/Gallagher type gambit, with the rest to soak up debt and losses. We wouldn't progress. It would still be a no from me as a fan who wants us to go up, but the financial reality may mean we have to take a bid of that figure.

Wait, is the info you have heard that we have accepted a bid? Because you wouldn't necessarily be wrong just because the player isn't sold, if your info was only that we have had a bid.

Don't see Travis attracting a starter bid of 10 million yet. Literally only Arma and Dack where the initial bidding could start at that amount, especially right now. I'd say it's most likely to be Arma if it's real. Whilst it might take 10 mill to prise Travis away (probably not though tbh, we sell low if it isn't our chief asset) I can't see an opening bid for him being any more than around 5 million in the current climate. Which hopefully we would reject outright.

It's gonna be Arma. Small chance it's a gamble on Dack before his fitness is proven.

Two players. Williams too. Injuries can happen at any time, at any stage of fitness. The enforced break probably resulted in some players not taking care of themselves enough, or maybe even pushing too hard. We get injuries in pre-season all the time, and that's after months of not playing too.

I mean google can help if you're that curious, but: Amari'i Bell is back in first-team training, but Tony Mowbray doesn't expect he nor Tosin Adarabioyo to feature in Blackburn Rovers' final day fixture against Luton Town. Bell has been absent throughout Project Restart, nursing a muscle injury that has prevented him from featuring in the past eight matches. (20th July) https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/football-news/blackburn-rovers-graham-bell-luton-18627979

Ok, you seem to feel unnecessarily strongly about it, so we will, no worries.

Sounds a bit conspiracy theory for me that one. Pretending players are injured is usually more about covering up that they're about to move clubs. And I don't credit TM with having figured out he bought a shite player. Especially when he had been looking less shite if anything.

Don't see any reason for them to hide that. I also don't see TM realising when someone isn't good enough.

Don't remember, didn't miss him enough to care what it was. Him and Del were both injured for the entirety of post-lockdown is all I remember.

Although tbf he was injured

Eh? If we have Dack back at anything like his former self, solidify our defence and 2-3 players have an Arma level breakthrough we would absolutely storm this league nevermind have a chance.

7. Of which 6 were in the league, 1 in the cup.

No you're confusing 'we shouldn't overpay for players', which I generally agree with (sometimes you have to make an exception though) with 'we are crap at figuring out roughly what clubs value players at and judging the market', which is the poor state of reality we inhabit and which makes us flounder with our transfer business every year.

Chaddy come on, we get this wrong every summer, and that's from the horse's mouth. Mowbray and/or the recruiting team don't have a clue what players are valued at. Blaming other clubs is daft, it's not about them raising prices on us, most of the time at least. It'll be poor estimates grounded in TM's outdated notions of player values.

Until we realise everyone costs double what we thought...

26 year old LB with 51 career league appearances. Sounds about right. 22 Australia caps too though somehow.