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Update: a good source now. Sounds like his agents playing dirty here.

I don’t know anymore, who knows what is up for debate. I know he’s definitely, 100%, not travelled. I don’t know if he’s injured or not. I don’t know if he’s asked for a transfer. I do know that there’s at least 5 people spinning the exact same story to me and none of them are linked. He’s not travelled, he’s not injured and he’s trying to push through a move this window.

My WhatsApp’s and Twitter DMs are full of people saying the same thing here which hardly ever happens… Rothwell has refused to travel with the squad and has asked to speak to “other clubs”. Mowbray furious.

They’re the same thing, no?

There’s something in this Rothwell rumour. I’m not 100% whether he’s asked to leave but he’s certainly not travelled.

No. Not in a million years. He was a starter every week until his injury. There’s no chances on this earth that they’d let him go on loan and even less chance they’ll do that with an obligation for us to buy him. He’s probably a £35M player now. We’d quite literally have to sell Ewood to even show we could afford it.

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Mercer’s arguably got the worst record on here. Blue Nun could mean anything.

They’ll go for a decent attacking midfielder or winger if you ask me. As much from promotion as for getting BBD to 30+ goals by the end of the $ea$on.

It depends who we replaced them with. Zeefuik has a good reputation, could he be better than Nyambe? Maybe. Van Hecke looks a player, could he be better than Lenihan? Maybe. That Dembele looks a player at Peterborough, could he replace Rothwell? Or Hedges? Who else have they lined up? Nobody expected Mackaday.

Yes I do, I just think we’ve been incredibly unlucky. Dack was meant to leave for big money, then did his ACL. Then COVID hit and almost all clubs stopped/reduced spending. I think in a pre-covid world we would have sold Nyambe, Rothwell and Lenihan last summer (if they wouldn’t sign new deals) and replaced them with unpolished diamonds.

Because theres rules to stop exactly this. You can only buy at an accurate market value. Much like there’s rules on sponsorship. They can’t just give us 10M quid to sponsor the shirts because it’s not the market value. As a side note FFP is a con to keep the big clubs big and the small clubs small. Unless we can hugely increase the clubs natural revenue we don’t have many options available to us.

Never mind a PL team, I reckon as things stand a recently relegated team would spend £10M on Rothwell if he was on a 5 year deal.

It’s no secret we have a 15K / week wage cap. I half agree, rather than extending contracts I think we need to be selling our players earlier if they’re not signing new deals.

But FFP isn’t based on one year, it’s currently based on 4 years. So yes, this year will be better and will give us a little bit more flexibility than usual. But that doesn’t change the fact that the club makes an 8 figure loss every year. They either try and cover that with player sales or the reduce the running costs. I’d rather they went with player sales than selling the stadium, not having a Cat 1 academy, never signing a player for over a million.

I reckon a contracted JR would be a £10M player to a PL team. That’s big money for a Championship midfielder. Especially one we signed for 300K.

Have you listened to the podcast I posted earlier where Rovers finances are gone through in detail? You can’t just say “I’m not having it” when the numbers clearly say we only just got through FFP.

They’re not rare beasts, there’s tonnes of them. Rothwell would be worth good money if he would sign. Pickering is a multi million pound player now, same with Kaminski. Wharton is a multi million pound defender already. Mackaday will be the next striker. It’s a pointless discussion and you’re killing yourself if you’re thinking there’s a chance they’ll ‘go for it’ this January. This IS them going for it. They’ll stick to the Brentford model exactly. Remember what Brentford did, they where in a strong position for a couple of years before they went up. Anyone thinking “ignore the rules, get promoted then worry about the repercussions” are living in dream land.

Because they’ve got a completely unsellable asset. If they sell up today they’ll need to write off all their debts and would be lucky to get £30M. They would stand to lose over £200M. In the interest of being transparent - although how much you choose to believe is at your own discretion - here’s an exact quote I received from a current, senior Rovers/Venkys employee, that uses this Forum, when I asked the same question: Suhail and Babu run the club on behalf of Balaji. Each of the family have their own financial interests from their fathers inheritance, Blackburn is Balaji. Balaji's son studies in the UK and enjoys following and attending games. Its a personal passion for father and son.

The plan is to fix up a rough diamond to sell every summer. Although it’s more like every 18 months that we would need a big sale. It’s the Brentford model, Mowbray has said it himself. Polish up a diamond, sell for big money. Reinvest wisely, buy two/three rough diamonds. Polish them up, sell one/two of them. Reinvest wisely, buy two/three rough diamonds. Eventually you’ve got a team with enough diamonds that you’re promoted.

I don’t think they’re expecting to have another global pandemic anytime soon.

A Chilean from Stoke.

From memory, it took selling both Arma and Brockhall to just scrape through FFP: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-brfcs-podcast/id1282664472?i=1000545177676