Was there? I hadn’t seen that reported, can you link it? My understanding was that Ayala, Dack, Brereton etc where all let go because JDT and GB thought the funds could be better used elsewhere. We signed three players - Ennis, Sigurdsson and Tronstad, then “the project changed”.

I haven’t read the comments from the players but it isn’t a good look to have them sat at the front without their new manager alongside them. If they where doing that the media officer should start the press conference by saying JDT won’t be speaking on anything further than introducing his new players, so don’t ask questions about anything but that.

We agreed his transfer before the cutbacks so it’s reasonable he’s on 15K to me.

I think that quote is true. If I was in charge I would have sold Adam for 22M+ as well. Every other club that’s done what we are attempting has sold players at the right time for their maximum value. There is no point us having a 22M midfielder and gaping holes up front and in defence. The question is will we reinvest any of the money. Thats what I’ll judge them on.

Is this me? I don’t think I’ve ever suggested anyone “is on a paid agreement to toe the Venkys party line” - can you show me where I said that? If so, for absolute clarity, I don’t think anyone at BBC Lancs, Andy Bayes or Elliott Jackson are being paid to say specific things.

We’re going to spend every penny we do have on loan fees. What happens in summer when we lose 6 loans, Gallagher, Dolan and Travis doesn’t want to come back?

Expect that to be announced at around 5pm.

Assuming this is true, as the paper trail seems to suggest it is, then well done to all involved on turning the McGuire deal around. I’ve no idea what his credibility as a Championship striker is, but if we’ve made an agreement we should (and seemingly have) do the right thing and honour the deal. I don’t know what happened overnight, but it felt extremely uncomfortable and the club have to acknowledge after Lewis O’Brien fans will assume the worst. Not the best start to life in the UK for Duncan, here’s hoping he finds his feet and starts banging in goals quickly.

I think it’s Ennis, Leonard, Gilsnan and Batty. But I won’t get confirmation on names.

Take this with a pinch of salt, but I’m told there’s at least 4 players including Ennis and Gilsnan that are waiting to for loan moves away from the club but JDT is refusing to approve anything until someone clarifies exactly who, if anyone, is signing.

I sincerely hope so, mostly so we do right by McGuire and Orlando.

5 years 4.49%. Best we could get but still a huge increase from the 1.95 we where at from 2 years ago.

Yes. We’re a fucking shambles, always have been and always will be under these owners and CEO. I remortgaged yesterday and I’ll put the fucking lot on it being our fault entirely without blinking an eye.

The senior staff at Rovers think the fan base are totally stupid and will believe whatever nonsense they put out through friendly media outlets. And quite frankly they’re right. There is only a few of us bother question any of it.

I don’t believe the local media reports for a second. They stink of reporting the Rovers PR line. Think about it - why do you inform people at midnight that a transfer isn’t happening, for a flight that lands at 8AM if there’s a potential hiccup in the Wharton deal? You don’t! You wait until the morning when you get clarification on the Wharton situation because the player is on a plane regardless. The plane isn’t turning around, there’s no need to inform anyone the deal isn’t happening until the player is at Brockhall with a pen in his hand.

Who is telling these people these things??

I think we target Suhail. Get a number of us buying tickets Jack Walker upper tier - he sits every home game alongside Waggott in the Directors seats. We can very easily be within eye-line and earshot of him. He’s got away with being the owners representative for far too long.

It’s a photoshopped image because nothing official has been released yet…

Adam has just been announced as a Crystal Palace by Fab.

Based on this evenings reports on Duncan McGuire, as a member of We Are The Rovers I would like the senior members of the Trust to put together a vote from the membership to see if there is a mandate to call for the immediate resignation of Steve Waggott and an open letter to both the Owners and Indian Government asking for the club to be sold due to negligence.

That’s not collapsed. That’s a very simple CEO to CEO conversation offering assurances and your word.

This is bigger than that for me now Duncan. The OBrien disaster was last season was embarrassing enough - not least the legal case which we didn’t have a leg to stand on. If we have made a commitment to Orlando and McGuire then as a football club we should honour it. If we’re in the business of giving back word and messing clubs and players around, then truthfully I’m out. I can’t condone that. I’d quit my job if the management behaved like that, so I must honour my own moral compass. I’ll give them a short period of time too clarify it - I’ll accept Orlando changed the finances or McGuires demands changed. If it comes out that we are at fault, have ‘changed our minds’ or decided we can’t commit the finances, I’ll be arranging a meeting with Waggott, telling him how embarrassed I am at the way he has operated and that I cannot support the club until all those responsible are sacked or leave the club. “We promise to honour Jack Walker's legacy” - incredible.

No, I took it from Bogert’s X account.

Morally fucking bankrupt if we have changed targets whilst the poor lad is on a fucking transatlantic flight.

We’ve chased McGuire all summer. We’ve convinced him to join us over Sheff Wednesday. We’ve put him on a transatlantic flight then changed our minds mid flight? What is wrong with this football club? Where are our standards? This is not how we should operate, it is embarrassing.