Eh? No, not remotely right. Did you mean something else, like net spend in a window or something? I'm fairly sure the answer to that is also no. We have spent over a million on several of the players you mentioned, so I can only think you mean something else.

It will be tomorrow's won't it? Don't the league have some kind of rule about managers having to talk to the press in the pre match conference or something?

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/24093905.blackburn-rovers-block-tomasson-speaking-media/ Potentially a slightly alarmist headline when you read the content, but potentially not. It's not a great look.

This has been an utterly dog shit window. That's all I have to add right now.

As he should. They might proceed without his approval though, which I imagine would be last straw if he doesn't get the players he needs today.

I don't think they are. He has a 4.5 year contract that he's going to massively upgrade. I'd love to go to a much better paying employer and get a huge lump sum for leaving.

I don't want to see any midfielders inside any left forwards. I'll stick to the MILFs.

Ahhhh...so he's insane!

Tbf it's also possible we just don't know exactly what happened and it's been exaggerated. Nearing transfer deadline it gets very easy for stories to be blown out of proportion. 'We can't confirm it until Wharton is finalised' can quickly snowball into 'the deal has collapsed mid-flight' once a bit of Chinese whispering has reached the clickbait peddlers.

I've watched bits of his videos a handful of times...he's usually quite chirpy and I've never seen him swear before.

Even Chaddy is far less upbeat about it than James Langy Langford... Got to say Chaddy, it's reassuring that, although it clearly takes a helluva lot, you do have it in you to criticise the club. And seeing some of the social media shit, you're not as blind as some!

2,000 fans not turning up would barely be noticed by Swag, it certainly wouldn't register in Pune. 'Oh they're just shit fans over there'. There's been more than that fucked off due to them already. But 2,000 fans singing all game about how shit Venkys are and how they want them gone would absolutely get back to them. They'll do what they want in either case, but if you want them to know about it, non attendance isn't the way. It would take a sub-3000 league attendance I'd wager, for them to hear about it, and that simply won't happen. They really hated that snowball though and I bet they hated the chicken on the pitch too. Anything that gains enough attention to be reported back in India is best.

There is no indication the owners pulled out of the O'Brien deal. As you say, the fact we went on to appeal at presumably a fair bit of cost suggests they didn't. Which would make this once, not twice.

If that's real and not a mock-up, he really doesn't look best pleased by it.

I dunno, I think you could find a few who think it's a signpost for a rapid and painful demise into oblivion.

You don't honestly think Broughton decided to fly a player out from the US and cancel the deal for fun do you? We'll have to wait probably to get the full picture, but so far it seems like the owners or the money men have decided to pull the floor from under our transfer efforts. If GB knew we weren't going to be able to spend fees, he wouldn't have tried to get a 2.5 mill player. If all we wanted to do was act like we've 'tried our best' we can just make that up and nobody (well, the bulk of the general fanbase) will be any the wiser. Flying a player out then cancelling the deal doesn't achieve anything, it's merely embarassing. The only thing it could conceivably achieve can be achieved by just a simple statement like 'we tried some deals for cash purchases but it was just too late in the day to achieve it'. So it's not rational to assume GB did this on purpose, unilaterally.

I never suggested it was important. I just thought it was very weird and a bit amusing to put "Greg" in that punctuation as if you thought it was only allegedly his name. We don't even know if this random Twitterati is right about the deal being off, and if he is, we don't know if it's because Wharton is off, or there's another target. So whilst this doesn't look good at this moment, I'll wait til the deadline has gone before I vent my spleen (which I'll certainly do if it stays this shit).

Did you hear this from someone reliable who isn't Tom Bogert? And did you hear why?

That, or having a better target suddenly available, are the only acceptable reasons (and the latter is still pretty shitty to the player). If the rumour is true.

I'm confused, do you not think that's his name? (Tbf it's not, it's a double-G at the end)

What's she wearing?

I'm very calm, you seem awfully angry though that I'm ruining your weird little game, the one there are more important issues going on than. Maybe don't waste yours and others time on it if that's the case?

Just for the benefit of anyone who isn't familiar with this poster, he likes to make shit like this up during transfer windows for some weird personal amusement. Don't bite.

I think those are slots for signings within a season, rather than players within a squad, so I would imagine once they're used they're gone. Next season the figure will reset (and I think it drops to 2 or 3, or less if you haven't given enough minutes to domestic players, whether auto-qualifying for a permit or not). But like you say, if someone knows for sure that's better... You'd think our erstwhile local rag reporter would have looked into it and mentioned it somewhere...

https://www.transferroom.com/gbe#calculator Keep in mind I think (might have been another one) I used it before for a while and then it stopped me using it without registering, so maybe don't go nuts with it, but I think different browsers and incognito mode should get around it. Also this article seems to say Tronstad auto qualified but the new rules are how we signed Siggy: https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/23634717.latest-transfer-links-shows-blackburn-rovers-casing-net-wide/