Don't like giving out contracts ...🤣 You've excelled yourself with this one pal, most of the 150 million they chucked through the books is hard evidence otherwise. It's paying decent transfer fees regularly they haven't been keen enough on, signing off contracts and wages has been the easy option for them. the reason we ended up in court with Berg is because Shaw altered the one Venkys had agreed to sign off, it's all out there in public. At some point you are going to have to concede this is just as much at Mowbray and Waggots door as the owners. They've been spaffing previous budgets on the Downings and Holtbys etc and going nowhere rather than tying down their own. Presumably because they didn't have enough faith in them being worth decent money eventually. Now its been left too late they are all banging on the door at once wanting double their money to stay. It's a collective fook up !

Promotion is worth 150 million and the play offs are probably worth a few quid so 82 grand is peanuts and it isn't bringing in players. Rotate the team as much as possible, experiment with the system etc, all the things Mowbray normally likes to do. A chance for him to get that out of his system as well and have a good look at other players. These are the games to do these things in. if we win we win if not for once we can all shrug our shoulders and move on. If they want to look at everything as a balance sheet then look to the ultimate goal.

This team is definitely punching at the moment and it's great to see. As a club though we've been under achieving for a decade.

Nah he's crossed the divide now from lost kid to classy player imo He might not keep up these scorching levels of scoring but he has too much quality to slip back into just Brereton. Unless those mythical booboys chase him back there of course...

They've always had some cash turnstiles at the DW for pay on the day when some seats remain available.

There will no doubt be 'advisors' breathing in the owners ears suggesting half this team is ripe to sell right now. Hopefully our CEO, manager and invisible middleman are pleading otherwise.

Hes been getting too much grief because hes been expected to perform like the finished article, like a Prem standard wing back grinding away in the championship. He is a decent player who has improved since he broke through but his role has changed in that time. In terms of end product he's still lacking but i'd prefer him to be a good defender over a good deliverer. Similar things about end product have been aimed at Rothwell until this season when its just clicked. King was largely pants with his end game...until he stepped up a level in a better team. People need to give over writing off Nyambe it's clear for over 18 months him and the manager don't seem keen on one another for some reason. I doubt it's personal either it's just what they expect of each other on the pitch. It looks inevitable he'll leave for whatever reason but hopefully it's in summer and we have a decent 2nd half of the season out of him. Getting a few million for him now is unlikely to make much difference to the team at the min in terms of replacement.

We aren't going to get 25k are we that's in the realms of fantasy. Got to be aiming for the 15-17k home fans bracket lets be sensible, that's achievable if the form continues. Small steps to bigger long term gains.

I suspect there are no real funds to play with unless some are created so TM and co fancy a few mill from Nyambe. Probably replace him with a loan or free and maybe put the rest towards an improved deal for another of our lads ? At least that might be the company line trotted out.

It's a vicious circle within football sadly, you have non league players told they have to have agents if they've any chance of progressing. Then they are handing over ten percent of their 50/100 quid a week, mostly for nothing. Yet the authorities continue to allow this blood sucking.

Wasserman are into literally everything so if its them then given what you say there it wouldn't be surprising if they try and broker big wages. They need something to invest after all.

All agency have one thing in common, pure greed i think the players themselves don't get much say. These parasites try and control everything.

Not sure but Wasserman have been buying up other agencies so i wonder if that has anything to do with it. Can't be easy dealing with a big organization that has bundles of hugely paid talent on its books.

Considering Wasserman also have BBD, Dack, Johnson to name a few it's a bit worrying.

Allegedly it's his agent who is hard work.

It's just down to Waggot and his pre set targets for matchday income, one cheap game followed by an expensive one to balance it. Said it a dozen times before but hes got to cover his 300k his wages are likely coming from matchday and commercial income. The 150 million pot at the end of the rainbow or the extra revenue from play off fixtures seems a bit lost on these lot. If we fall away they'll be floundering around near the end of the season cutting prices and moaning they've done all they can to get over 10k home fans again. The horse will have long bolted by then. Lets hope not !

Don't forget the thousands locked out ! Or is that Burnley ? I'd get the two confused except Leeds sometimes nearly back up their claims, Dingles never do.

Maybe we've been paying them too much and now they are asking for more it makes it unrealistic. You just never know with Rovers and their odd wage bill. I'd say a comfortable wage for established non marquee players is probably about ten grand a week.

Nyambie spent two season being told to keep possession like the rest of them so no surprise he struggles a bit with releasing the ball quicker. If anything he tries too hard he needs to relax a bit but nobody can question his workrate. Plus the way we play it often means when he breaks down the right there is no center forward to aim for in the box. Also it's not that long ago he set up a goal but it's always been my concern that we ask a right back to be a main creative force. Get a winger in there and you'll get crosses.

I think the real figures down the years will tell the story those ends there don't hold big numbers i don't think.

I'm sure any contracts have promotion wage rises included just like relegation reductions. Also don't forget the big one off bonuses allegedly being dangled.

We've not had over 2k ish there since Souness was here i reckon.

Seems a bit of a coincidence that some of the longer term Nyambie bashers are ones who claim 'sauces' close to the club. Of course though we know whenever a player leaves Rovers it's down to no one but themselves !

I don't think they were setting out for where we are now for one min, i;m not saying it's a fluke but i'd wager its surprised everybody. Imo we were gearing up for another mid table plod and rotation policy involving the likes of Buckley, Poveda, Clarkson and Khadra etc. So in a normal Rovers season he'd have had a lot more time whether he was good bad or indifferent. Thankfully this squad and its natural leaders had other ideas.

Some muppets are still calling them poor crowds, i really do wonder at times about the grasp of reality of some of our lot. Still the crowds getting applauded is better than back in the day when 4 reasonably packed terraces got announced as 10 or 12k. To the cries of '#### ###' from the BBE ! Bill Fox knew how to pinch a penny or two from Mrs T.