bluebruce

Difference is we don't have Prem club resources. It also doesn't make it right either way, the system is broken. Someone said we paid a 6 figure fee for Eze if I recall, so I'm not sure we did abuse the system. I can't imagine it entitles a League Two club to that level of compo for a 15 or 16 yr old whatever he was. Sounds more like a fee we agreed. Regardless, we wouldn't have been paying much more than that for him realistically, whereas a Prem club can fart out a fair fee for these players. But they don't have to, so they don't.

Is the conversion period at the end of each season, or is it within a year of them signing?

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25293917.samsunspor-make-dolan-salary-claim-blackburn-rovers-wait/ I was surprised to see this club are ruling themselves out because they can't pay above a million Euros a year (20k Euros a week). That's higher than I thought he'd be demanding (unless he just doesn't really fancy a move to Turkey so would charge more). Though free agents do come with a wage or signing on bonus premium, often both. I expect he has probably already had an offer with something approaching that wage. What I am confident of is he wouldn't have been demanding that from us a year ago if we had got our shit together, and definitely not 2 years ago.

And if we manage to ditch Mafoumbi we will have another, right?

I'd be surprised too, I was just going off the rumour being presented.

Prem interest raises the price of course. Well, it should, we didn't give a shit when we sold Kaminski or Szmodics.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25293917.samsunspor-make-dolan-salary-claim-blackburn-rovers-wait/ I was surprised to see this club are ruling themselves out because they can't pay above a million Euros a year (20k Euros a week). That's higher than I thought he'd be demanding (unless he just doesn't really fancy a move to Turkey so would charge more). Though free agents do come with a wage or signing on bonus premium, often both. I expect he has probably already had an offer with something approaching that wage. What I am confident of is he wouldn't have been demanding that from us a year ago if we had got our shit together, and definitely not 2 years ago.

Oh that's surprising tbf. When he wasn't announced with the intake I thought that was done. Probably hasn't been able to secure the deal elsewhere he thought he could. Certainly a positive but given how he clearly wasn't all that keen to sign up, seems very likely he will be off at some point if he impresses the bigger fish enough. Perhaps more of an Ash Phillips than a Finneran.

We've had a bit of a rough time with promising youngsters being ruined by injuries. Whitehall, Gilsenan, I'd say JRC despite him being in the first team squad (had bad injuries at youth level and senior level, I think we've never seen the player he would have been without them), Butterworth had some bad ones whilst developing I recall. Can anyone think of any more?

Seems strange to me to release the third kit before the second...does that usually happen?

It's a hell of an if.

As long as you were bouncing between League One and the Championship. It causes a reset of the time period, presumably because of the gulf in finances involved.

Big statement of stupidity paying 12 mill for a 30 year old at this level.

I feel like the word is pointless.

The accounts (if they weren't doctored, which would be a bit surprising given how long has passed and how many fans on here have scrutinised them, but not entirely surprising given how dodgy these cunts are) demonstrate that for a long time we didn't have a lot of leeway on the spend most seasons, within the rules. If those accounts are true, then you were wrong (aside from ways we could have been creative whilst that was allowed, of course) at the time. Now, we have definitely pulled the purse strings shut relative to what has been coming in and what they could do with funding. We had a season where we showed a profit, and there has been minimal spend, so they're definitely holding the money back now. That's not the same as you being proven right on your previous posts about what was happening then, just saying.

I think a more honest couple of interviews would have had quotes like 'Blackburn was a shitshow behind the scenes, Eustace was the only competent person in the management team and he has moved here and wanted us...plus Blackburn offered shitter wages so we were off.' Chaddy won't be able to claim we only lost Batth because he's been offered a longer deal now, both players signed one year deals at Derby.

The losses have never been more than 20 mill in a season before, so that only makes sense if the owners haven't sent us any money at all in the past 2 seasons, which is demonstrably false. In fact there was also at least one recent season where we made a profit in the accounts. In which case, what losses?

Yeh it's much more likely the roles are just reprised.

Especially if you're pushing yourself to impress your new boss and teammates.

No it isn't. You're thinking of the last week of the window.

It's enough to turn 7 draws into 7 wins.

Yep, the main improvement that took us to 7th last season was we became more solid defensively. A lot of which was down to Batth.

I already said the eye test is more important. I was simply commenting on the data itself in isolation, since none of us have watched him live.

Exaggerations. Apart from Beck and ACD, your gone list aren't actually gone yet. They're in the 90% going category, which you've also exaggerated.

Got to say, given it's just the Portuguese league, the only stats that stand out are the passing (completion anyway, the progressive passes and passes attempted are very low) and interceptions. He has more shit stats there than good ones. The proof will be in the pudding of course, and the eye test will be more important. But if he has been signed because of the data, I don't see why. Not from this data anyway.