Lights, camera, admin... I wouldn't draw attention to admin if I were the club.

Thanks, I thought that might have been the case but I couldn't recall for sure, so I just didn't mention it.

In fairness you've missed one of his biggest positives - he works his ass off.

Finneran wanted to move as he 'felt it was time for a new challenge'. Fuck off kid! New challenge my arse, you hadn't even established yourself here yet. Just another greedy, ungrateful shit like Phillips (moreso actually, at least Phillips did sign the scholarship deal and ensured we got a couple million). I hope he vanishes in the Premier League youth-hoovering academy and loaning system and winds up regretting his choice.

But that has a net value of £0, possibly less.

Cracking marketing as usual

We seem to like loaning young keepers to Bamber Bridge. We sent Goddard there a couple of times. As well as to Marine and Lancaster City. Not sure where those clubs were at the time but currently they play in the 7th, 6th and 7th tiers respectively. Goddard came with a reputation as a highly promising keeper, when he was about 16 or 17. Now, at 20, he is on loan in the Irish Premier and that's his best level yet, but it hardly makes me think he's gonna make it here especially with our glut of young keepers. Honestly I'm very confused what our plan is with all these young goalies. Are we just collecting them, sending as many as we can out to the non leagues and hoping we get another David Raya outcome? Because I don't see it. The level Raya went to at Southport was 5th tier. I'm truly not sure what they can learn in the 7th tier. I bet our Academy side would thrash Bamber Bridge.

Aye I remember we wanted Siriki Dembele as the replacement for Rothwell when Bournemouth offered us about 4 mill for him. Then Siriki went to Bournemouth instead when we refused to sell, plus we lost Rothwell to them for nowt 6 months later after he went missing for the remainder of his time here. More stellar business.

Oh ok, I'd only seen people on here talking about Karamoko lately. A bit of googling shows me you're right. Don't think that'd be a bad signing at the right price.

Eustace's post match comments said that both Sams were 'in talks with other clubs'. That's something that shouldn't really be happening until a fee has been agreed. But he can train whilst his agent conducts talks.

It's Karamoko Dembele. EDIT: Apologies, apparently it actually is Siriki that's linked.

As if he'd put even a penny of that into the club. More likely to use club funds for both those things then pocket any winnings!

Exactly. None of our transfer business will matter a jot if we don't bring in a better goalkeeper than Pears. We'd be left praying for the miracle of Pears actually having a consistent season, when he's probably never been consistent for a run of more than about 5 or 6 games at his best.

That's wrong too though.

If you don't know where the doubling came from, you didn't read what you were quoting the first time.

Again, double 3 is 6. The rest is clauses. We should have been getting 5-6 guaranteed, and still had the clauses. Or at least the sell on.

That was the previous season. Last season he stayed at Wigan. 38 games, 9 goals. It's a no from me.

Double what we received up front at the time would be 6 million not 8. As I already said, this isn't hindsight, it was my opinion at the time. And that of others. It was foresight. Just because it wasn't your opinion at the time doesn't make it hindsight.

This post should have been titled '10 Rovers opinions, and pretty shit ones at that'. Don't call something a truth when it's an opinion please, it's nauseating.

JRC spends a lot of time injured and can be used elsewhere, and Carter will often be needed at CB, especially when injuries hit. So Duru is probably third or fourth choice but might in practice end up second choice if he does well.

That's not true at all. They do have some form for being stubborn with valuations, but they also have form for selling players below value without a sell on or contract expiry being responsible. Raya, Kaminski, Cairney. Bullshit prices, each of them should have been going for double or more what they did IMO. Not a hindsight thing either, myself and others were critical of those prices at the time. Plenty of us not entirely happy with the Wharton fee either. Held out for a fair fee, considering impending expiry, for Armstrong. Held out for one for Brereton but gauged that wrong and lost him for free. Are there any other examples? Jones maybe, his clause was activated but there were rumours they somehow got a bit more than the clause due to threatening to sue or something. And I guess the Rhodes fee was roughly fair. They perhaps stick to their valuations, but seems to me their valuations are crap roughly half the time. And Cairney was practically pushed out the door, at a time when our finances were performing poorly. Which sounds a bit like now...

We won't lose Szmodics for free though (or if we do it will be on 3 years when all his best years are gone). I'm sick of us selling players below true worth, so I'll take it. Plus I do think 15 mill to a Prem team is fair (20 is a bit much though) although it's likely we'd have to settle for less, and that we're guaranteed relegation if we sell him. And I don't think he's a throw the toys out the pram type either. So I'm fine with this. Also, fuck Ipswich for their utterly insulting 6 million initial bid (allegedly).

Small typo there, sorted it for you.

He had a bag of tricks, you must have needed your eye prescription upgrading. But I suspect the poster is talking about the stepovers. As time has gone on he's stopped a lot of the flashy stuff, but he was a very exciting player to watch in that first season. Hasn't kicked on as much as I'd hoped, but his game has changed nonetheless.

Careful, people take your words very seriously on here, as our most reliable ITK... that winky face after asking if another saga is on its way will have people thinking you know something, which I don't think is what you meant. Of course, if you have heard another saga is coming, that's a different story...