I wouldn’t bother myself - he’s a forward / number 10, we would need a Rothwell replacement. Swift is the one for me. Recruitment has been very good in the past 2 years, I’m very relaxed about it. I hope we sell Rothwell, I’d be selling him today if I was Rovers. I’d have a Twitter post put out with the caption “For Sale, Highest Offer Wins”. He’s shown his true colours and 2M now is better than nothing in 4 months . If we keep him here against his will it will damage the squad more than he will help us out. You can see that from what’s already happened - Mowbray has questioned him as a man, Travis has liked posts that are negative to Rothwell. The biggest statement is getting rid of him and saying we’ve improved the squad.

Sounds like Bournemouth are signing Dembele. Did they ever really want Joe? Or just a tactic to unsettle a rival? I assume any interest is from a PL team at this point.

MOTM is live: https://www.brfcs.com/magazine/football/match/717138/luton-blackburn?tab=voting

The press the arrow thing? I know, we’re trying to fix it. I say we. Andy is. I’m too busy trying to convince the BRFCS board we should book a BRFCS bus to Wembley…

Here’s the 6M @booth

Did I?!

Darragh down-tooled when we got relegated and Sheff United wanted him. They’re ALL the same. Please don’t think they’re not.

Kind of, but it never really comes to that. Joe will be “owed” X on his contract. They’ll negotiate that figure to Y during the deal for him to leave. That figure will be a % of what he’s owed, it’s in everyone’s interest for a figure to be agreed and is often who blinks first. Rothwell wants the move to go through, Rovers want to pay him as little as possible The best example in recent memory is that WBA striker that turned up at another club on deadline day. WBA refused to pay him anything and insisted he put in a transfer request.

OK - in that case, you’re right and my correction is right. I would suspect after 3.5 years service Joe will get a decent loyalty payment for the remaining 6 months.

You pay a loyalty bonus based on the contract you’ve got. There’s a negotiation absolutely, but the player is owed a loyalty payment.

Shouldn’t matter really - the rep just does what the company recommends.

I was told Mowbray already has a deal verbally agreed to extend for another 2-years, it just hasn’t been inked yet because there’s a trust between Venkys and Mowbray. How else would you convince Markanday to sign? He’s not signing a 4 year deal for a manager leaving in 6 months.

What’s more cowardly is he’s not requesting a transfer. He’s asked to speak to other clubs. The difference being if he requests a transfer he loses the right to his contact and bonuses being paid up. So whatever figure he’s sold for - remember we still need to pay him his contract. Unless he submits a formal transfer request. BTW - same agent that’s instigating all of this represents Travis.

They listen to, respect and trust Mowbray. This is different than other high profile transfers.

Like I said, Mowbray is furious. There’s no way Rothwell stays now, all respect and trust have gone. He’s literally just questioned him as a man in a post match interview.

For context, Rothwell’s agent is telling reporters he can get a 6x increase on his weekly wage on a 4 year deal…

He’s gone, Mowbray doesn’t want him here.

As I said, Rothwell had a bust up and has requested to move. Mowbray furious. For those that I’ve got wrong, I’ll take this one… unfortunately.

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We’re going to steal this at the death here.

Lansbury doing a job on Buckley and we’re not doing enough going forwards. Subs needed. I’d go… Kaminski lenihan JVH Wharton Zeefuik Buckley Travis JRC Chapman Gallagher Butterworth So Chapman for Nyambe and Butterworth for Johnson.

Same at Oldham vs. Rochdale.

Mercer in ITK prediction shocker!

Have you heard anything about XYZ? Anything being spoken about RE XYZ? Nixon was a bugger for it. We (BRFCS members) gave him more info than he ever gave us. He solely used this forum to get information about Rovers to sell to the papers. Now he gets it over DM on Twitter.