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Jesus. Some interview is this. https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2020/january/boss-explains-mulgrews-return/

Further evidence that I know absolutely nothing about football.

Sorry Charlie but you’re on 20 grand a week and have signed a contract to say Wigan are going to pay 50% of that. We don’t have 10 grand a week spare for you to play in our reserves.

Why on earth would we pay him off when we had someone paying a % of his wages? If we’re paying him off that should have happened the minute after Wigan stopped paying him. If he’s going he should be going for a fee or staying at Wigan.

Well well well...

...why has he been let go by an MLS team?

That is categorically not what the players thought. If the fee was agreed he was off, his side was agreed.

Nonsense - if the playing squad are aware, the manager is aware. No way is that not fed back to the manager.

Side note, Silas is right.

Have you considered that crying because of boos today could just be the final straw? Perhaps he’s very handsomely paid and has a beautiful partner... but loves playing football and his dream move to become a star striker is falling apart because he hasn’t been given opportunities to shine upfront, and when he has it just hasn’t happened for him. Perhaps he’s having all sorts of family trouble, Nottingham is just a bit too far away, his partner is staying down there because she can’t do her job up here and doesn’t want to become a wag. Perhaps he himself has no idea what’s going wrong. Perhaps he’s up all night worrying because everything he did at Forest that worked brilliantly seems to fail here, and he just can’t understand why. Perhaps, just perhaps, despite the 6m transfer and massive wage increase, the promises he was given just haven’t materialised and suddenly the transfer is the single worst thing he’s ever done. I suggest you read Matt Jansens book when he talks about returning from injury. I have edited out my final comment on this post because on reflection it may not have been fair.

I’m not sure Ben will be welcomed back by the ladies of the Ribble Valley, considering the chaos he left behind him!

The money spent on Brereton and Gallagher is the Dack money. It’s already been spent trying to find the next Dack type signing. The reason they’re worrying suddenly is there’s a Dack transfer-fee-sized-hole that needs filling for 12 months.

Whilst it’s clearly not the easiest thing to do, the only way to work FFP is by getting the timing right. You need to have the opportunity to spend when you’re close to the playoffs and the way to do that is by either not spending in the seasons beforehand (allowing you more flexibility later down the line), making a massive sale then spending that money well or cheat the system by selling off assets to your owners. If we had the 12m now which Brereton and Gallagher have cost us, we would probably go up. Mowbray gambled on these signings, they haven’t worked. To be fair Waggot has played FFP well to ensure that we have a decent squad - but the injuries to Cunningham and Dack have essentially ruined the season. It will be another 3 years before we’ve recovered from a FFP standpoint and can go again.

You’ve seen the latest accounts, right?

Now now Vinjay, don’t speak about family like that!

One thing they’re not thinking - “it’s time to sell”. On the basis that Matt Southall, now chairman at Charlton offered to buy the club in September this year through a Dubai Investment Fund and was told categorically that further investment isn’t needed and the club isn’t for sale.

I wouldn’t mind but you of all people can probably guess exactly where it came from, too!

I’ve been told there’s a deal in principle to sign Cunningham, so they’d be stupid to not take them up on it. As a side note I believe when Cunningham returned to Cardiff and asked Warnock if he could do rehab in Blackburn, Warnock responded by saying “I couldn’t care less where you do it!”

I just don’t think we will sign anyone. Probably offload some fringe players, but they’ll play either Holtby or Rothwell is Dacks position - OR play 442. You can’t account for a 10m+ player getting injured for 12 months. I think we will probably sign Cunningham because that’s a transfer that’s already set up.

Again, that’s different because Venkys told United that Phil Jones wasn’t for sale and to stop contacting them.

@Stuart I accidentally deleted your post - but 90%+ of transfers happen by the club going to the player/agent directly first. It’s the only way to work out whether it’s worth pursuing a player through a window. What clubs don’t like is Clubs continuing that convocation after they’ve been told their bid is either miles away or they don’t want to sell. In my opinion the club knew Dack had a move on and had transfers lined up based on the money they expected to receive. Now that’s broken down, Tony has come out today and said we need to sell to buy.

I don’t think it’s that strange - in fact I suspect it’s pretty normal. I would hazard a guess that Dacks agent was approached by WBA, he spoke to them about a potential deal, then spoke to Dack to let him know the rough terms and to find out if he would be interested. Dack then spoke to Mowbray. The next stage is the long transfer negotiation. We can’t not play him in December because WBA might come up with the money to buy him in January.

I wasn’t there - but I was with a few of the Wigan players that I know on the night of the game.

What was who doing there?

That is the usual way transfers happen.