Players like that actually seem to get inspired when the opposition fans boo them, rather than just not being bothered. My mum and I always groan when Rovers fans lay into those types, as we know it could bite us in the arse.

With the Croatian defender, I suspect if the rumoured Newcastle and Bournemouth interest is real, we won't have a chance. Two Prem clubs showing interest will balloon the fee beyond what we can/will pay. Shame, would love us to sign a decent defender and he sounds promising.

Still, surely less of a pay rise than a Championship club would give. And most players would rather be a Championship player than a League One captain. I suppose you just run the odds on these things (higher league interest can vanish overnight, you can get injured, it's a short career to risk not getting a pay rise at all, might not work out at the new club etc) and make a decision. His stats are nothing impressive. Is he more of a tough tackling, keep the ball moving type?

Seems a slightly odd decision to sign a new contract at a League One club after attracting Championship interest he thought he was good enough to turn down. Allows Donny to price him out of a move. Unless they had an understanding or clause that lets him move for a fair fee.

I just read that Brentford's France scout, Brendan MacFarlane, is responsible for sourcing Maupay, Benrahma, Mbuemo and Jeanvier. Nevermind players, sign that guy up!

Bit of a write up on a few players from the game. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.lancs.live/sport/football/football-news/three-standout-players-blackburn-rovers-17603598.amp

Chapman only cost in the 300-500k region, which we spent quite a while haggling with Boro on. 10k a week would be 520k every year in wages. He's also a young, injury prone player who had no Championship experience and the manager has shown he doesn't even fancy that much. I very very much doubt it is anything like 10k. Our top end wages are about 20k. What a club who went extinct by over-paying their players paid out to some presumably fairly experienced players is irrelevant to what we pay a cheap punt.

RIP Sheff Weds match thread. You began life with predictions of certain doom, morphed into an orgasmic celebration of an emphatic thrashing, then died in the form of inane discussions about what the shorthand for the club's name is and on how mods should deal with political references. All of which is to say that brfcs in the meantime, has stayed true to form.

Haha why won't it??

His contract shouldn't have anything to do with wanting to be loaned out though. He will still earn the same unless he moves permanently.

All fair points. Some players can cut it at crazy ages. But nobody is disputing that. Many lose it at the drop of a hat at this stage of their career. The current best team in the world can easily manage Milner's wages. Downing is probably one of our best paid players and we are in huge debt whilst risking FUP sanctions. It can only be a one year deal. And as I said before, a bit of a wage drop really as the risk of suddenly losing it increases. If he carries on like this though til the end of the season, I think we all definitely want him for another year.

Ffs. It doesn't fucking matter. It's very boring to see this discussion pop up a few times a year. I call us Rovers 99.9% of the time or more but it's not like I've never ever said Blackburn. Nor would I give a hairy toss to hear another fan say it. What a crap reason to berate someone.

And in this case, Liverpool let Travis go and we took advantage. It's a good model though. Spurs were bastards for it a bit ago, the amount of young English talent they were mopping up from lower leagues.

Yeh I figured something got lost in the translation with that bit!

Really? I wonder if a Prem team might take a sniff at that, pretty much every time I've seen him he looks top drawer. Think we kept him a bit quiet in one game though.

The Polish league is nothing to write home about either, outside of a few outfits. I don't know it well but would have thought that was a bit of a step up too? It certainly has a lot less money in it than the Championship. 4 goals and 3 assists, with 3 goals in each of the last two seasons in that league, doesn't exactly have me wanking with joy. The translated Polish article seemed to have question marks over whether he can adapt to our game. I think it was trying to say he may lack stamina? And if he wants to move to make the Euro 2020 squad, six months of 'needing to learn how Sam Gallagher plays the wing' won't help.

Hes been unexpectedly brilliant. But. He is old and could go at any time. The older he gets the more likely it becomes. Despite how good he has been, the sensible decision would be to offer him 12 months...at a reduced wage. I'm sure some won't agree, but you will if his legs give out in November. A player-coach arrangement may also suit all parties.

Hmm. If JRC can play right back, and on Saturday came on on the left side for us, does it not stand to reason he could play left back?

No. I'm tired of listing this. Travis, Downing, Johnson, Evans (not right now but still under contract for quite a while), Bennett, Buckley, Davenport, Smallwood, and arguably a few others can all play CM and are capable of less than disgraceful showings. Lyons doing well in u23s too and JRC can probably play there (think I was told it's his natural position). If we shift about three of them then sure, let's get another. Or if the budget is infinite, sure, let's get another VERY good one (Ollie Rathbone doesn't sound like he cuts that mustard). In the meantime, we have 9 other positions on the pitch which are all bigger priorities, and all the budget should go on them first.

I pray to all the gods that we are not trying to collect another CM. I'm sick of this obsession with it.

Dude. He literally showed a quote of you saying 'Sounds a good choice and what we need in the keeper area'. This might not be the exact same words as 'would be a good signing', but it's baffling that you're trying to argue this isn't basically the same thing. You would get a lot more respect from your fellow posters if you could just accept when your argument has been shown up as inconsistent, or a big hole poked in it. Lots of other posters can do it. You don't have to stubbornly resist every counter point as if it will somehow make you a worse poster to accept being wrong sometimes. Accepting it would have the opposite effect and make people take you more seriously.

Not asking for a flawless keeper. Just a decisively less shite one. We are going to have to agree to disagree because I think he has been bobbins on the whole, and we urgently need an upgrade. Now. Which I don't see costing more than 1-2 million if done smartly. Probably do-able for a lot less if we are really smart.

Christ. I can only think you three have entirely different criteria for a keeper. As for the last few weeks, Tugayisgod, he's been ok overall but fairly sure he had at least one game with two game-costing fuckups, though I forget which one. And seen at least two where he appears to have moved out of the way of the ball. Keeper and left back still the biggest priorities for me. And keeper is the cheapest position to recruit.

No player with a sense of self preservation is going to tell you any differently though.

I don't feel that a description of one good save in a quiet game makes him exactly what we need, but to each their own. If we do get him though, I of course hope he's a good un. We definitely need to get someone in there. If we do have an outside chance of a playoff push, Walton is more than capable of derailing it.