Are you really thinking there's no grapevine or jungle drums in football ? Everybody in football who takes an intertest would soon know about it, probably before it's announced. Certainly before fans.......and Nixon.

That's vintage Nixon. Splinters in his arse and nobody any the wiser, including him.

Odd that he didn't know the state of play with Chapman's contract seeing as A) He's the all knowing Rovers oracle running everything. B) His best pal and number 1 assistant is in fact according to him also the DOF who does the deals. C) His CEO is also his pal.

It would be less daunting if it was a 2 year contract they might thrust in front of him rather than 3 or 4. Anyway if he's an embargo signing he'll have to take 10k pwk or less. Again though we don't want to be doffing out long deals to these types to come here and kick back rather than kick on. He's what 28 ? and sounds very much the average champ plodder capable of good/bad but mostly average.

Its begun to go backwards again quite a while ago.

To be honest if i was a Rovers finance man i wouldn't let Mowbray near any other recent ex Boro boy with a contract.

That;s probably it i saw a few tweets asking where he was. I don't think gaffers get involved until the balls come out so nothing in his absence there.

Just Tony looking after another ex boro lad even if he doesn't fancy using much. We've seen it before a plenty. For me Chapman has always looked miles more at home in league 1 but he's still quite young so there's time. Yet another on our books who needs to be working for a manager with different football principles imo.

The are parallels at times with what Southgate does with a team of highly talented internationals. Doesn't quite work the same with a group of championship plodders and kids but he's happy to lose 1-0. Gareth however has it the right way round.

Will they though ? I'm not so sure i think their tenure at Rovers could well out see a lot of fans. Reason it went pear shaped with the Walkers is the younger ones weren't interested. If Barry's lad and other younger members of the Rao clan have an interest, even if it's only as a toy, then it could go on a long time. Their empire is growing and the spare money is there to chuck around annually. These lot view it as an ongoing project/game/experiment. Jacks empire was ripe for breaking up and reigning in to a manageable, profitable size. His kids and grandkids just seemed to view it as the old mans expensive obsession but the old man was gone. The Rao elders are only 40's/50's this could go on a long time yet.

It's a slow news day they have to start some bullshit.

It's only ever good business if you get something back out of it. If he ends up loaned out again it's only good business for the middlemen and maybe the lad himself financially. Personally i don't expect anything different from the Chapman/Mowbray saga we've already seen recently.

The manager who doesn't like wingers re-signs a winger. Off out on loan again probably.

Again there are silly idiots abound on social media claiming Vs have just injected 29 million and turning it into Mowbray propaganda. The finer details of it all, like it's mostly money already spent, totally lost above their heads. How many of these lot will stump up £30 for walk on tickets i wonder ?

We always manage to stump up the wages for an ex Boro boy. Wonder if he's HSH or connected to them ?

Not that he's a fully fledged International likely to involved regularly this no doubt means the rotator will rotate and rest him even more !!!

Banks usually step in and fund it as a going concern in the short term until a sale is agreed. Definitely collateral damage though it's unavoidable but it's unlikely to happen anyway. The way Vs fund it means as far as we know there isn't much external debt. Not that can be heaped on the club anyway. The bank OD limit usually runs on a par with squad value so a sale or two would square that. So if Vs did plonk it in admin it would probably be so it could be bought back and start again. That's an even grimmer prospect.

It was the same last summer then by the end of the window most were pleased. Squad was the strongest it had been for years but it didn't deliver though did it. There are bigger issues further up the chain.

I wonder how much him and his other parasites have had of their money, adding to our debt. It's a wonderful situation for the likes of him and his clients.

I doubt it's to spend more like mostly squaring off what's already spent. Wonder if this was the assurance the FFP people were waiting for.

3 million was converted last time we were up the creek with FFP.

Trouble with Amin here is it wouldn't necessarily get totally rid. One or two of them could well form a new company and buy it back !!!

These lot will have us as a midtable lge 1 outfit soon enough anyway, it's always been on the cards. Far more likely than ever going the other way. They are stupid enough to think go down again and we'll bounce straight back. We won't.

Not saying auditors recommended that in particular but more of a speculate to accumulate philosophy. As in any business you have to invest to produce better future performance and sales. The cheaper is better approach adopted post Kean wasn't working. Although you'd expect the advice to say buy low sell high rather than splurge it all on Brereton. However an asset or two already on the books showing a massive increase in value would cover it if need be. So, in theory, it becomes less of a risk and more of a structured gamble. The owners though don't need the money, so once those running it have sold them this plan it can soon go to pot. When they don't want to sell because they feel they don't need to. I don't think they've ever quite grasped how all the FFP stuff works but Bradders got injured anyway. Then again you're probably right i'm giving them too much credit. More likely everything is just done on a whim depending on which way the wind is blowing !

Didn't we have a similar fuss when we signed that Carlos Kickaball from a Youtube video ? Soon died down and fizzled out as i expect this will although it's a good story to be fair. The odd angle of how it all came about is the selling point though rather than anything else.