Minimum £15m then let the lad decide , the Leeds rumour won’t go away and maybe the lad wants to play PL and not go abroad either way we need to plan for his exit and get replacements .. yes plural .. lined up !

There is a certain journalist who has been saying we are and have always have been after 2 central defenders , my guess is VDB will arrive end of window but target 2 will come in first

VDB to be announced tomorrow And be introduced to fans during half time ? that was a thing clubs used to do , can’t remember last time I saw it at Ewood … (watch some smart arse come up with a player from last year 😂)

Very good 👍👍👍

That’s 25% of our goal tally .. come end of season that would be classed as prolific wouldn’t it

A C/B is a must , a left back would be nice and I still think we are a midfielder light Edun just does not do it for me , If BBD goes then obviously we need to replace him

Sorry I’m a an 80’s child 😂😂 tracksuit manager on the Amiga 500 kind of guy

Objection your Honour …. Chris Brown .. then Lowe 👍

I seem him as a Holding midfielder in the Pirlo/Tugay mould rather than the Makelele style

Alfie Mawson still without a club too , I know he was discussed on this boards weeks ago and a lot were of the opinion that he wasn’t the player he used to be but he might just provide the experienced cover at C/B we don’t have

Can we have some 7 year old kids in tears holding up homemade signs saying Please Venkys sign JPVH At the game Saturday …seem to remember it working at Old Trafford once 🤔

Thought Vale struggled to get involved today , a few nice touches but not much else I think there is more there than what was shown today , Hedges same can’t say he contributed much but with 15 mins to go i thought Gally and Diaz were struggling we needed fresh legs that when I would have brought on Dack and Markanday , felt we were hanging on towards then end , Dack has the ability to lift the crowd even if JDT doesn’t think he’s fit enough or fits into his style of play he cannot deny his impact on the team and fans

The Brentford model 😁

No .. it’s pronounced Smodic 😁😁

Won’t be Style and Bowler , one or the other or none imo .. 3 bids went in for Smodiczs they were rejected , then the enquiry for Bowler went in (Blackpool wanted 3m and rovers were happy with it) at some point between agreeing that figure and talking personal terms with Bowler , something has changed , somebody somewhere has had cold feet and then the sniffing round Styles has begun . I honestly don’t know who’s at fault here and I am in no way an ITK I am just getting bits from Blackpool end and putting it together with what’s in the open I’m just not that confident now we will land any of them

Buckley Travis And Dack

Buckley will find him

Brighton may take a smallish fee (3-4m)fee but with a massive sell on %

it’s a week since I shared here the story about Bowler I didn’t know just how true it was but the message board needed some good news so I shared it anyway and then another poster confirmed it . When I asked the person who told me , a few days ago If there had been any progress , his answer was not good and the atmosphere on this board at that time was pretty downbeat and I didn’t really want to add to that .. since then the bids for Smodizcs have been made public and there is a very strong link to Styles which is making me think Bowler is NOT coming Rovers .. Elliot Jackson’s report is either old OR something has happened Very recently

Just a bit more detail on how it was when I started watching football 1 Gk mad can’t kick a ball straight 2 RB doesn’t cross half way line 3 LB ditto 4 CM headcase that just kicks everyone 5 C/B that’s hard as nails 6 C/B that can actually kick the ball Straight 7 R/W all pace but no end product 8 C/M that can pass the ball 9 C/F but playing second Fiddle to No10 10 C/F main man .. God .. no9 wants this shirt 11 L/W mercurial brilliant one week shit the next all skill no effort

Just watched a video of the lad on YouTube … all left foot very comfortable on the ball good close control and has a bit of a “dig” on him .. can see a midfield 3 with Him left Buckley deep and Travis right

Blackpool fans think he’s. Blackpool fans thinks he’s a £10m player don’t see it myself but hey ho

A few years ago I did one of those walks with Jeff Stelling for prostate cancer , I did the walk from Blackburn to Blackpool got friendly with a couple of Blackpool Fans and one was a member of the Tangerine Knights .. anyway he just text me saying Blackpool have received a £3m offer for Josh Bowler from a championship club reckons it’s us he’s never shared any info like this before so don’t know how accurate it is but if it’s true he must be one from John Parks list , can’t imagine JDT would know so much about him

Ha ha … Diaz lives in Hapton by the way

Clubs still held the players registration, if players moved clubs tribunal would set fee