alexanders

Carlton Morris's wage at Luton Town is £520,000 annually. This translates to roughly £10,000 per week. This salary was for the 2023-2024 season, when Luton Town was in the Premier League.

Would you increase your wage budget if employees were not achieving goals and the costs were increasing? Combined with lack of funds to "plug a hole" this ownership is becoming extremely difficult and will end in misery.

Too quiet for my liking. Nothing new about incomings or outgoings

Dennis has worked under VI before. Might be positive or negative

I was thinking yesterday that Henriksson would be a great fit with Cantwell. Brain wise he had some neat passing and moves.

I agree with this. Would not sell for £1.5m. Rather let him go for free.

Think both were bad against WBA, but latter end of season Tronstad was best

Elliot Jackson: Lewis Travis state of play: #Rovers are not budging from their valuation and Derby have yet to up their offer. Understand they’ve bid twice with latest around £1.5M plus bonuses. It’s an impasse that needs resolving quickly. Hard to see how he features on Sat right now. Can see this turning rotten. Dont think Derby will pay what we want.

Big turnaround in the squad where we have replaced seasoned Championship players with unknowns. Was run ragged against in our last pre-season against NEC Nijmegen. Played under par against WBA and lost against league two opposition yesterday. Also lots of rumors and talk about what's going on behind the scene and our captain has publicly stated that he wants out.

Trav leaving is a real sucker punch. He is someone the supporters identify with and someone who brings pride to the team. Compared to Britain, JRC and even Dolan, he will be very very very hard to replace.

Im just going by watching the replays of two matched under VI from last season. VIs style doesn't suit Trav. I love Trav. I have him as my profile pic on X and as I said yesterday in here - he is Arte et Labore.

I agree DutchRovers, but under VI he has been the best of the two. He is a better passer and even score two goals against Millwall. I love Travis, but he hasn't been favored by Ismael since he took over. Another very obvious observation is that VI doesn't rate Gueye at all. Even Woodrow came on before him last season.

It is evident that VI dont rate Travis as much as we do. If my memory serves me correctly he was the one (of Trav and Tron) to be subbed early most of the times. Tronstad popped up with the occasional goal and looks more of a VI player. Trav is his best when he can harass the opposition, before of the style of play under VI it requires even more pace and engine than Trav seemingly has. He had some moments under Eustace where he was amazing and I think JEs style of play suited Trav better than VIs. Trav might have come to that conclusion himself. If you love working under a manager who gets the best out of you I can fully understand the eager to join up with him again. He turns 28 this year, and he might feel that he needs a new challenge.

Very much so. I have even rewatched Rovers v Watford and Rovers v Millwall to try to understand it. What is quite clear is that VI wants a style of play where we win the ball high up the pitch. This makes us very vulnerable when don't win the ball. Also we were very reliable on Ohashi collecting the ball, back to Cantwell and Tronstad who puts the ball over the defenders for Britain and Dolan to chase, going round the defender and cut back. Think 3 of 4 goals against Millwall came that way. We saw glimpses of this against WBA, where De Neve got round his defender and cut the pass back in only with Axel to arrive a bit late. We also saw that Alebiosu got by his marker and got the cut back in. This is defently a big part of our strategy. What also is very evident is that we are playing very sluggish, passes completely astray and a chaotic game. I have never warmed to VI. In small spells we look like a very good side with neat passing, running and winning the ball back, but when it doesn't work we are running around like headless chickens and look non-league. Also - how extremely bad was Gueye yesterday.

What I find most worrying after yesterdays game and saturdays game is our inability to create goalscoring chances. we don’t seem to have a good plan and look very easy to defend against. With that said we have absolutely made it super difficult for us by going down in the first minutes. This makes it even easier to defend against, because the teams can just with a low block and we don’t get the space required to create chances.

I wonder if I should switch to Derby myself. They seem a lovely club.

Don’t kick a guy who is Already down 🤣

According to this he is on 15k pw https://salarysport.com/football/championship/blackburn-rovers/

Sammie out with his Ipswich against Bromley and Brittain and Boro taking a thrashing against Doncaster.

According to my link Trav is on 3.5k pw Hyam and Cantwell the highest earners.

According to this Cantwell has 30k pw. https://www.capology.com/club/blackburn/salaries/

Ipswich out against Bromley!

There has been refill of ink at Ewood https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25384116.blackburn-rovers-nicolas-michalski-pens-new-long-term-deal/

It was a but frustrating to not recognize the play style from pre-season. We seemed to lack energy or we were on half distance for way too much of time.

I agree that we missed Cantwell. The thing is Trav and Tronstad both came deep to collect the ball. We then played out to Ribeiro or Alebiosu and then inside to Axel, De neve or Ohashi. Hedges was never involved in the play and slowed down most attacks. We didn't have the creativity to play the pass which opened up the defense. Looking back we actually came to several good crossing positions from both De Neve and Alebiosu in the first half, but the ball didn't end up where we wanted. Its early doors, but besides the low intensity press there was several positive signs from Saturday.