Mattyblue

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/17769160.mowbray-rovers-journey-sign-sam-gallagher/

Well that explains BB...

My post had no inference, certainly Mani’s post has some merit, just unique in 2019, no?

Nyambe is our only non British & Irish outfield player... and even he is from our academy. So that’s zero signed foreign players.

I doubt there is another club in England like that (certainly in the top two divisions).

https://mobile.twitter.com/talkSPORT/status/1150117692009000962

Just now, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

That was then. What's he done since ?

Nothing. A career that was drifting, like so many PL academy graduates. But it’s previous in this division, in a relegated team.

End of the day he’s here and it’s more of a pedigree than the other fella (and a considerably cheaper fee).

12 goals for a 19 year old in a relegated team? Good enough for me!

The way I look at it.

A 19 year old Sam Gallagher scored a dozen goals for us in a shambles of a season that ended in relegation.

Compare and contrast to another young forward brought in in much calmer times...

Indeed, something chaddy never got.

There is a hardcore who wouldn’t dream of not being an Ewood regular. Part of who they are. 

But there are many more that dip in and dip out, the ‘floating fan’. They certainly DO need adverts, freezes and the rest of it as they need bringing in the tent to start with.

Just now, Stuart said:

 

In other news, how poor is the LT Sport Editor these days? Gallagher photographed at Brockhall and not a peep from them. They can’t even catch fish in a barrel!

Reading the article on SG in the Telegraph this morning sums them up.

’According to rumours in the national press’. They seemingly have literally no contacts within the club these days. Poor stuff from the local paper.

Just now, Bigdoggsteel said:

If I don't come on for a while and then try to catch up in this thread, it's basically moan after moan from the same posters who post the same moans over and over again. There is no debating that. 

They are entitled to their opinions and I am entitles to mine. 

You are basically just after doing what you are critisicing me for doing...you do realise that 

Nope.

Feel free to say their moaning is incorrect because of a, b, c. Of course they can be debated, if you can’t be arsed that’s up to you.

I was surprised at Biz, because I often disagree with him but he will normally debate the issues to the cows come home, not try and close debate down.

Just now, Bigdoggsteel said:

Can this be pinned to the top of every page of the thread? 

The default reaction to moan about Mowbray and the club is so deeply entrenched in some that no matter what happens from here to the end of the window, people are going to complain. 

Although I'm sure I'll be told now that this isn't true, probably by a mod, even though it is true. 

So what? If their opinion is Mowbray/the club is having a poor window they are free to post it.

Debate them. Don’t just post a combination of ‘hysterical’, ‘breakdown’, ‘meltdown’.

As you know what, posts like that add bugger all either.

Think I read the Price of Football twitter account the other day say they are the only club in the PL with no external debt.

Just now, Biz said:

You mean having my opinion based on a transfer, in one aspect using the bloke who likely inked the deals actual words?

I’ll likely stick to just stick my own way of thinking cheers MB

A very arsey mea culpa 

Maybe you’ll take what he says with a pinch of salt then in future Biz and not go in to bat for him for months decrying anybody that disagreed as financially illiterate and not understanding the wonderful world of flex.

The lies he’s currently coming out with re season ticket sales says the bloke says whatever is good for his position at the time.

Just now, Biz said:

Would be a more expensive transfer than the Brereton one if that’s the case anyway 

So ‘flex’ isn’t the crux of what we do then at all, is it?

Because this transfer breaks the two rules of ‘the flex’.

just something you made up to make the BB transfer more palatable 

Just now, Stuart said:

“Flex” isn’t a real thing but is a contrivance of conniving agents whose clients are out of contract but of good pedigree.

“My client is worth £5m in today’s market (if he was contracted to another club). Do you want to sort him out with a big sign on fee or divide it over his wages? Oh, and the club down the road has already said they will.

When it’s an incoming player some fans justify it as a necessary evil. When it’s an outgoing player it’s a mercenary who needs to be knocked at every future opportunity.

Im talking about the club’s internal ‘flex’, accounting practices, we don’t want to confuse the two.

Biz said we do one of two things:

Either small/no fee... means experienced can have a big wage - Johnson

Big fee but small wages - so development players like BB.

That is the flex. We couldn’t possibly spend say £5million on a player AND fund his £25,000 a week wages... oh

Just now, Biz said:

Someone will be along to tell you this is because of the flex.. oh wait ..  

Can you explain how the flex works with Gallagher. 

Big outlay of a transfer fee and a PL wage earner.

Sounds great, looking forward to hitting the 10,000+ by KO.

Really? Only missed them by a season.

Just now, ruggles1995 said:

heres a shout, what about Peter Crouch on a Free ? I think he would be a alright squad player. Forget Age, experience, and squad role I think he would do a job

Well timed 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48964162

Just now, Bigdoggsteel said:

Don't think it would be in the clubs benefit to publicly explain our finances to be honest. Or did you mean one of our resident experts here? 

The latter 

Just now, Bigdoggsteel said:

Ya, could work out expensive. Say a 4 year contract, plus the fee and you are into double figures in the millions. I just wonder is the flex open ended or will it impact us this window. 

I reckon the rest of the business will be a keeper on a free and a CB on loan. 

Don’t worry, somebody will along soon to explain all...

£5million and bought from a PL club, with the contracts that entails, what does that do for the ‘flex’?

A goer then if the broadsheet journos are sticking their neck out...

End of the day Johnson came out of the blue, as did some of the signings last season. So I’m fine with letting the window play out.

But it has to be a worry that we are three weeks from KO with no keeper and no improvements to one of the worst defences in the division. Let’s hope it’s an expert game of poker he’s playing...