There seems to be just as much overreaction from those saying it’s an overreaction. 

This thread has largely been bemoaning the disgraceful behaviour of the regime (so like most threads on here) over the sale. There has then been a sprinkling of posts discussing him as a player. I’m really struggling to see what’s ‘tinpot’ about it.

How is the ‘reasoning poor’?

He was brought up a five minute drive from me, he’s a fan of my club. Can’t say I remember any other Blackburners since Bryan Douglas who have had the career he will.

I will follow his career and make no apologies for it. You have no connection to the area, so don’t get it, not really my problem.
 

There’s a difference between the back and forth about the fee (has got tedious, hands up) and wanting him to do well in his career.

He’s a Blackburn lad and Rovers fan, I’d be interested in how he does even if he’d never come through our academy.

You aren’t an east Lancs lad yourself so you aren’t arsed, fair enough, but there’s nothing ‘tiny’ about it.

The fact they’ve sat on that for what, five years, says everything about this regime.

Such a simple but meaningful change and they couldn’t be arsed as they have absolutely no feel for Rovers or its heritage.

For me he’s a sign of the the post-PepBall future. He isn’t interested in the safe option, always looking to get the ball in to dangerous positions and to turn the opposition (even if he loses Palace possession at times)- the exact opposite of what the likes of Grealish have been turned into.

You don’t think agree that clubs take advantage of other clubs in a poor financial position.

Oh, Chaddy.

Indeed, obviously running a football club and all its elements half way around the world is far too expensive for them… so they keep hold of it, because…

Indeed, it will make all the lemming coaches and DoFs at the various levels of the game (and academies) look a tad silly when League 2 centre halves and goalkeepers are expected to be centre halves and goalkeepers again.

ChadGPT

You keep missing the point islander, we all know the big clubs weren’t interested (even though we knew he was a phenomenal talent), because in reality he hadn’t really done much in the grand scheme of things.

So you don’t sell until he had done much more and you *do* get the bidding war (but obviously the regime just wanted quick cash and didn’t give a fuck about that).

 I’m talking ‘raw’ I.e a first team place at an elite club, Palace obviously thought different…

It is, hope he’s developed a bit of a thicker skin as he’ll need it running a L2 club! 😄

The fact the elite clubs didn’t bid says how raw he still was, they didn’t fancy dropping 17 million or whatever then and there for a squad player, unlike a Phillips that was a bit of pocket money for Tottenham - so as I say a normal club wouldn’t have been selling as you aren’t getting the price his potential would obviously lead to.

Parish spotted it and could offer first team PL football whilst he was at it.

Because it was too early in his development, he hadn’t even become a top week in week out performer in the Championship yet, ergo a normal club wouldn’t be selling there and then when his potential was off the scale, they’d wait and pick their opportune moment - we aren’t, so we did, end of story.

Value and worth is only based on what the market says it is, is he twice as ‘good’? Course not, but alas assets of distressed sellers just aren’t worth as much. 

Maybe back JDT and try and get in the PL ourselves then, then we’d have been getting 50 mil… oh silly me, we don’t have that kind of billionaire owners of a Championship football club 

Hmmm, maybe you don’t sell to them then?

Of course, it would never have been a sky high fee in January 2024, nobody said it should’ve been.

He was still not a household name at this level, oh and we were a distressed seller with cash flow problems, so how could we have got anymore there and then.

Obviously a normal club with billionaire owners wouldn’t have been conducting a fire sale in the first place and would have instead been selling post he had developed further and become the league’s hot prospect on their terms at some time down the line, not the buyers.

The Masher Paradox

My father in law who has been going since the late 1950s hasn’t renewed, for him it was the TV factor. He has Sky and he has  a fair drive to games, so the fact he could see two thirds of our home games on TV made it a much easier decision.

The 2027 thing is a quite unbelievable stat… well, it would be anywhere else.

‘A slow build’, indeed.

I’m not, no, as it makes no material difference to the team, kind of the point of selling players.

Exactly, matters not what he went for in the first place, will matter not for his next move… doesn’t mean we can’t find the behaviour of the regime re bundling him out the door to the first bidder a fitting symbol of their chronic mismanagement.

Hmmm, err, £80million, why not.

Champagne corks all round for Swag-hail.