I’ve no idea - but that’s the rumour which is going around at the moment. I don’t know how true it is, but I wanted to tell you what I thought he was talking about. And his subsequent reply makes it sound like I’m right. @1864roverite care to share anymore details?

It means what it says, I thought it was clear but I will try again. I really, regularly, attend matches. I buy tickets on a game by game basis. Over the course of a season - mostly because of Waggott’s surreal pricing structure - this is more expensive. However, as a lapsed season ticket holder, the club ring you and ask if you’re interested in a season ticket - or, as they are recently - a half season ticket. I use this opportunity to give feedback to the club, which I ask to be fed back up to senior management. They always tell me it will be, but I’ve no idea if it is. There’s other reasons eg I think average ST sales tells a story, whereas nobody ever talks about average match day ticket sales. This might sound insane to you. I can accept that. But I spent many years refusing to go to Ewood and did away games only, which I hated. I feel happier doing it this way.

They ring me a couple of times a year asking why I haven’t bought a season ticket. It’s the only way to give them feedback.

OK, one last time. The reason many people boycott isn’t to do with the success of the club, or the money spent by the owners, it’s to do with the lack of respect that the owners and their chosen senior management of the club have both purposely and accidentally shown the town and it’s people. Respect costs absolutely nothing.

I refuse to buy a season ticket and instead spend more money buying individual match day tickets for both home and away games. I appreciate it makes absolutely no sense but I feel like I’m making a point and will continue to do so until I see a proper operator running the club.

Whoa, hold up. The club have hurt the boycotters. That’s the bigger issue.

That’s a shame, most people I know have already left because they felt like Waggott and Pasha didn’t offer them any support. They might have stayed with change on the horizon.

Do you think he’s off even if Mowbray has us finishing 4th and gets an extension?

In all seriousness, it takes some strong CEO work now. Get the tickets priced well. Flood the ground with anything to improve support, make home games hell for away teams. Commit what is needed to keep this side together. Spend what is needed to get them over the line. Roll the dice, have some belief.

Give Lenihan and Rothwell 3 year contracts and let them decide the numbers at this point.

He’s talking about Venkys buying a huge area of land in the Ribble Valley, which they’re hoping to get planning permission for to create a new academy.

http://www.financialfairplay.co.uk/financial-fair-play-explained.php

The amortisation is only relevant to buying, not selling.

I’m going to stop after this one because I fear I’m taking everything off topic, but in response to each of your paragraphs: 1) I agree with you! I’d want to have a go, I’m loving watching this team, I think we could go up. 2) I can only assume you haven’t read the FFP rules and compared them to our balance sheet. Top line - even with the Armstrong money and Training Ground sale, we don’t have much play left in the budget. 3) I agree, I’d roll the dice. Waggott won’t.

We could have trillionaire owners, until as a football club we generate more money ourselves they’re actually quite restricted what they can do because of FFP. The irony is I’m convinced a good CEO is all that is needed to begin generating more money, although it would take a period of time.

It’s all ifs and buts, anything could happen. He could get a bad case of COVID. His form could U-turn like it has done this season. He could do his ACL like Dack. Or perhaps he will score another 17 goals and fire Chile to the World Cup. We’re looking at this in different way though. Yes, of course, if there’s a guarantee that we can keep him until summer, maybe get promoted and if not still sell him for good money then YES - of course - keep him. But his case is different because he shows on the balance sheet as a 7M investment. We’re already only just FFP compliant and that’s after selling our training ground and Arma. If this is decision is left to someone that isn’t a ‘roll the dice’ type character then Ben will go and the true reason he will be sold is because we paid so much for him initially.

It might not be risk related for Brighton - as it stands they’re 3 points away from potential European football. They’re looking to sign him to win those extra three points this season you would expect. We only just got the 15M for Armstrong, only Southampton where willing to pay that money. I think we would be looking at 10M for Brereton in the summer. I personally would sell Brereton in January for 20M because he’s a high value asset, as I’ve already explained. The second his value falls below 7M - whether that be because his form drops off, or that’s the best offer we can get for him, or he’s leaving on a free, he is a negative on the FFP balance sheet and that’s a risk we can’t take.

They’ve already signed off the kits for next season. They signed off this seasons and next seasons at the same time. A few of team involved have unfortunately left Rovers since - so god knows what will happen after next season. To give some context, Macron’s suggested away kit made us look like Bolton playing at home. The Rovers team created all three of this seasons kits after consulting some fans and told Macron to release these instead.

I think it’s very likely we would lose 10m on him in 6 months. Two reasons: 1) January is ALWAYS a sellers market. It’s the one opportunity for clubs to press the panic buy button if their league status is at risk. 2) Come 1st January 2023, Ben can agree to sign for a club for free on 1st July 2023. There’s absolutely no protection against that for us.

Out of interest, if he’s 20m in January or 10m in summer, would you still feel the same?

This won’t go down well but if I was CEO I’d take 20 million, I’d let Tony join Ipswich and I’d pay more money than we’d like to for Lenihan, Rothwell, Nyambe and Kaminski.

He will have already been notified via his agent, in writing, that the contract extension will be activated at 23:59 on 31/12/21. They do it at the last possible minute so that the extension is for as long possible It’s not unusual for a contract extension to be on different terms than his current contract.

I can’t get over how they call their admin “leaders” and now I’m desperately trying to find a way to implement it here.

Agreed, if he hasn’t signed by the end of the season he needs to be sold to the highest bidder very very early in the summer window.

No, we wouldn’t. If he signs a pre contract deal with Seville, let’s say, on January 1st 2023, he’s going for free in July regardless of whatever bids we receive. He decides where he moves and once he’s signed a pre contract he’s going.