Yes, but they never want to pay the going rate, they will expect to get him for £10 just like they did with Armstrong. They are just “tyre kickers”.

He was great for us in a back three, but struggled when playing on a back four. He is great in the air and tackles hard and performs with great composure, but he is slow and this showed up more when playing in a back four. Wharton is also very slow so the two of them playing in a back four against quick attackers scares me, they are too easily torn apart by clever quick passing. I think that the way JDT wants to play requires quick CBs, so as much as I loved Van Heckes commitment I don’t think he’s what JDT is after.

Cheers Glen, very professionally done and very insightful. Thank you for your time and efforts on behalf of us all. I suspect SW will be better briefed and prepared for your next meeting. I think that you being so forthright with him and not holding back your punches will hopefully make him think more about the issues rather than just treating it as another PR charm offensive. Hopefully your remaining questions will cut to the quick and put him on the spot with the issues you will discuss. As many have said already he has not performed up to scratch regarding the state of Ewood Park and the pitch, the training ground fiasco, contract renewals, season tickets and the ridiculous length of time it took to find a manager! I would ask you to ask him how he intends to get Philips to sign a professional contract and the same applies to the very highly rated Batty, who I believe is yet to sign one. once again thank you it is very much appreciated by us all.

I would love those two, brilliant talents. Those two plus George Hurst, who did really well in his loan at Pompey, plus Davis would be an immense transfer window. Supplement those with one or two good quality loans and we could be competing for a top six place again. I appreciate for that to happen we would need to sell BBD, but the above would be a great use of the money received.

Transition is fine as long as it doesn’t lead to relegation.

Who is Warburton?

He’s only been signed as cover for a young and exciting right wingback that they have ( not the one they are selling ), so he be warming the bench most of the time. However, if he has set himself up for life with a great salary then maybe he’ll be happy. Sadly, I think the same will apply to Lennihan

But you can only sell if there are willing buyers. If the only buyer wants to leave it until the last day to buy at a bargain price what can you do? The only option is to lower the price to a ridiculous level to entice buyers early which is something the owners will never do as they have their price and they will stick with it.

We can’t let him go for nothing at the end of the season, so unless there are early offers, any sensible team (like we do) leave it late to get him on the cheap. Consequently GB would have to sell him even if it is deadline day. If there is no solid bids before then what can you expect him to do? Football is a dog eat dog business.

We pay lower bottom half of the championship wages and that (or worse) is where we’ll end up. If we can’t win the race against one other team when the player actually played for the manager, then we will only end up with players who nobody else are interested in. Very sad and disappointing.

Or just flown straight to Portugal.

Very good point.

Surely we haven’t still been paying the salaries of Williams, Bell, Mulgrew, Bennett, Evans, Holtby, Armstrong, Downing, Smallwood, Leutwiler?

He won the league twice with Celtic albeit without Rangers in the league at the time. I appreciate that it is not much of an ask in the circumstances but he has had success elsewhere hasn’t he? I am genuinely trying to find out how good he actually is.

If we are trying to follow Brentford’s system why don’t we entice some of their best recruitment people here, it would probably prove very cost effective.

Why do you prefer Knudsen over Delia, what do you have against Deila he seems to have Been successful wherever he has been?

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Hi, what do you know about Deila, would he be a great appointment?

His nickname in the England squad was “village”, short for village idiot so I am not hoping it’s him!!

Don’t worry Lowe will put some cones out, we’ll be okay. 😊

If the new manager is being forced to work with Benson and Lowe we are definitely not going to get anyone decent. The compensation for them would be way less than the money we’ll lose with Darragh and Ryan leaving. A good manager would have been able to keep them. We are not showing the players any ambition with the way we are going about this.

Why, he was very poor at Bournemouth when you consider the players they had?

I wasn’t dismissing him I was just pointing out the fact. Farke was also sacked. I would take either one myself.

He wasn’t a success in his last job, West Brom I think.

If they have made promises about resources and budgets to Farke so that he comes, I fear that it will end up like the Lambert scenario, failed promises so leaves us and we are back to square one.