I doubt it, if he did a medical today that doesn’t leave much time for the media department to do their stuff. I suspect it’s likely tomorrow, if it’s today it will be a Twitter post with a picture max.

I’m really worried about Dacky, it’s such a shame. Another season without a pre season.

Just placing it on record, whilst I don’t know too much about Brittain, I really rated Nyambe. I thought he was fantastic at right back, a very good right centre back at this level and a good right wing back. So Brittain must be some player to be better than him… and must be on very low wages to be a better financial decision.

www.soccerlord.se you’re welcome.

I’m gonna have to change the thread title here

He’s gonna look fantastic in Boro red.

When Rovers are offering you 20K a week and they’re offering you 45K a week, yes.

I’ll vouch for this - I always take a beer off him!

Another W for J*B!

We need to make a signing for message board harmony at this point if nothing else. I can’t cope with you all going around in circles!

I’ve watched Magloire enough times in the flesh to know he’s useless to us. If we get a pound for him I’ll be impressed.

Is this your opinion, or is your opinion influenced by recent hires in the retail team?

Based on the alleged £300,000 / yr salary and him having a 1 hour meeting with Chaddy, it cost Rovers roughly £150 for the meeting.

Well folks that’s that then, Waggott says everything is going good so we can all stop worrying, ignore the red flags and crack on as normal.

The same rule applies though - let's say Nyambe wants a 4 year contract on 20K a week, thats a 4.16M commitment. For the sake of the discussion, let's say we sign Brittain for 1.5M and 15K a week... thats a 4.62M commitment and I've excluded signing on fees and agent fees. Now I've purposely picked numbers to make Brittain more expensive, but its so tight and I'm not sure theres a better right back defensively in the league than Nyambe.

Do you acknowledge that letting Lenihan leave for free, then needing to replace him to the tune of 3/4 million quid plus 20K+ a week in wages is terrible practise?

To his credit, Waggott will see and speak to most people if you email him. In my opinion part of the problem is he’s speaking to too many of the wrong fans… but obviously that’s because my views are drastically different.

He wasn't academy though, was he? We signed him and he had a good year in U23s then sold him. Similar to McBride?

Good post. Lenihan - successful career, no monetary returns. 6 years of first team action for Rovers - looking at Anel or Davies at 3-4M to replace him... so lets say he's saved us 4M. Travis - successful career, still first team. Reckon you could link him to a similar player that has been sold recently for value? Nyambe - successful career, no monetary returns. Going to cost us a how much do you reckon to replace him? Raya - successful career, 3-5m returns Wharton - very early doors, but certainly a first teamer. If Anel or Davies are 3-4M, whats Wharton? 2M? Mahoney - didn't someone pay a tribunal? Buckley - I know you are, but i'm not yet convinced. Then you've got the next lot, assuming they sign contracts... Wharton, Garrett, Phillips, Batty, Vale.

Genuine discussion point - how much will this cost us and in turn, is it worth it? I know it’s Jack’s legacy but have we turned over anyone recently that we couldn’t have signed for less than the running costs?

I hate to say I told you so…

It’s all opinion, I’d have a strict policy whereby if you’re not signing an extension with 18 months left you’re sold to the highest bidder

He isn’t from me - I place this entirely at the door of Steve Waggott, Tony Mowbray and Mark Venus.

That’s irrelevant - if you can’t replace him like for like or better he’s still a loss.

Couldn’t agree more. Letting Lenihan, Nyambe and Rothwell leave on frees is going to financially burden us for years to come. On decent contracts we’ve let probably over 10M of assets leave for nothing, but don’t have 10M to replace them. Stupidity of the highest order.