Armstrong could play in the middle---it'll be "like a new signing!"

So that's £2.5M for players and £7M for a future young star!

Unless they are free of course! Like Downing.

Its a difficult one this. That £7M probably has been wasted but we all hope the lad makes rapid strides in the next couple of seasons. Its what it tells us about the club's priorities that worries me most---and who decides them.

Might as well as have all our scouts in Middlesborough!

So we can splurge £7M on a young, unproven striker in the hope that he will come good in future years but we can't afford a smaller fee for arguably the most important man in the team? Says everything about the crazy state the club continues to be in.

That's the key!

Its also because he "doesn't put himself about", can't head it, doesn't seem to have much of a shot on him and couldn't trap a bag of cement. If he does turn it round his nickname will be Lazarus.

Its not a question of wanting to or not---I just don't.

Because we have history.....recent history.

Chaddy was amusing but never knew it.

Here's a test for you. Suppose Rovers decided to sell Brereton, would ANY CLUB give you more than a million? I think not and even at that level it would represent a punt on potential. We took ourselves to the cleaners there.

Yes, a real goal machine that lad!

i knew that, just making my comment! Hoping this is the usual tabloid, transfer rubbish.

How's Chapman going to get a game if this goes through?

Well thanks for the correction. No profound change there then! He's still young for a goalkeeper but not a kid.

Makes the Brereton transfer even more inexplicable.

But what about the spirit in the dressing room?

The trouble with all this incrementalism, getting nearer to promotion bit by bit is that I won't live to see it! Have a heart Tony and get on with it!

And Mac'Ginn. Would have been a great buy.

My God, that's frightening!

Spin spin spin. Rothwell was missing from the starting line-up for months even though the supporters rated him highly. When he came in late , he showed what we'd been missing. Same goes for Travis. Lenihan was an established starter before this season. Dack isn't young for a footballer----26. Bell's game has gone backwards but plays. Nyambe hasn't featured much lately. The last 4 you mention all made a token appearance or two when it was all over. Hopefully will be used properly next season but you wouldn't bet on it.

If we do have a wage ceiling its self-imposed. Giving contract extensions to players now sadly past it, signing players who were never there to start with with, blocking promotion to young ones with something to prove-----all of these have impacted on our wage bill. Signing a safe goalkeeper would be worth 10-15 points a season at least. I've supported Rovers when we didn't have a pot to piss in and its tragic to see us nearly back there. But we always had good keepers, some brilliant, without paying much of a fee. And we always had at least one rock at centre-back. Thank you for your complimentary remarks about my previous post---now sadly deleted by admin.

Find another Dyche and get promoted would do me. Didn't spend £7M on the entire team. I'd suggest Allardyce but they already sacked him.

To be fair his children haven't finished uni yet.