I doubt he'd just want to walk away from a job compensation free though, he probably isn't in anywhere near as favourable a financial position as JDT. If he was prepared to take the potential hit then that would speak volumes about how bad things really are behind the scenes.

Not implausible at all but where have those comments come from?

Literally none of that will happen.

Sorry wrong choice of words. Presumably you knew what I meant though - them winning the case.

He's in a tricky situation now, there obviously won't be anything available until we're a bit further into the season by which time we may be rooted to the bottom of the table which will ostensibly make him less attractive to potential suitors. Edit: If he were to walk pre season - what a message that would be. Not even Waggott or his PR arm the LT could put a gloss on losing two managers inside a few months.

Difficult to be optimistic about the August the 20th hearing. There is only one scenario that leads to the sort of immediate surgery the squad currently requires. The complete dismissal of the case against the owners which then allows them to send funding over without having to pay an equivalent supporting bond. That seems fairly unlikely. Furthermore that also still requires them being willing to fund the Club to the same levels as previously or to even greater heights as there's now apparently a 20% levy on monies sent abroad from India. The most likely scenario for me ( if the case goes ahead) is that they are once again allowed to transfer monies over for running costs only (but not transfers) and we wither away slowly with no net investment in the team but without the pressing need to sell SS at the hint of the first enquiry as we did with AW. The doomsday scenario is another adjournment or that the case goes against the owners which as after the last adjournment would probably see our star asset,in this case SS, offloaded within a week, guaranteed relegation and a great deal of short term pain. Owners either forced to sell or fairly imminent administration. However if we're looking longer term over the next 5-10 years maybe it's the only viable option?

Me too.....lest we forget he tried unsuccessfully to flog off half of Brockhall as well. Things could have been ever so slightly worse, we could have been sat here still wondering when work on the brand new state of the art training complex promised by Waggott and Cheston was due to start. How ludicrous does that proposition sound now?

Presumably though, if there was any intention at all to fund the team we'd have made some signings by now. You'd have hoped for example that even if the Wharton money was needed at the time to keep the lights on then the Raya add on would have been a nice little bonus which was available. It can't be a deliberate policy to wait until right to the end of the window until everyone else has gone.

That's a fairly astounding u turn from someone who traditionally nearly disappeared up the collective backsides of Mowbray/Waggott/management et al from his view in the Corporate lounges.

I doubt it's anyone of any significance. Probably an Internet wannabee pretending to be an "insider". The fact he knew what colour the kits would be I'd neither here nor there. If he was posting earlier in the summer that there was "genuinely money to spend" then he couldn't possibly have been further wide of the mark than that.

All that said, and this will no doubt upset you and many others, IF the situation changed tomorrow and they were once again willing or able to fund us up to the limit allowed by the regulations I'd take that. To be competitive we require funding as We've seen from this non transfer window. The whole thing feels extremely brazen now to me there's not even a hint of contrition from the Club that there haven't been any signings so far despite selling Wharton and receiving the Raya sell on fee, Neither are there are any assurances or positive messages whatsoever coming from management or owners along the lines of "never fear, signings are coming". We seem to have even given up on any pretence that we're going to be competitive this season. The only person who seems to be bothered about new signings is Eustace who has probably correctly deduced that it's his arse and reputation thats going to be on the line when things go South. In normal circumstances I'd say Waggott would be probably crapping himself that his cushy little number was coming to an end but like Mowbray before him he's probably just about managed to limp through to the point where he's happy with his financial lot and is happy enough to leave anyway.

No, I've said countless times since the recent financial problems started that if they either can't or won't fund the Club they need to go. Obviously you haven't been paying enough attention.

Yes, what did you attempt to ask, or have asked?

Bit puzzled by this stance Parson - do I take it then that the Management and owners could do ANYTHING and you would just continue to buy a season ticket regardless?

Almost identical to Gallagher in terms of Stats. According to Wiki Gallagher has scored 51 goals since 2016, Hogan 47 since 2017 although he did have a 21 goal season with Brentford in 2016. On that basis a massive thumbs down, the only caveat being that if there was another (decent) striker coming in as well, at age 32 he'd probably be no worse and a lot cheaper wage wise than Gallagher

If I may butt in he's done considerably more than Southgate whose only achievement at Club level is to get Middlesbrough relegated from the Prem. Poccetino arguably also vastly overachieved at Spurs for a period reaching a Champions League final despite not being financially backed by Levy.

Out of that grizzly bunch I think O Neill might be the least worst. I'd be asking the question of Klopp, Guardiola, Ancellotti, Poccetino and Ange Postecoglou personally. Guardiola and Ancellotti's contracts expire in 12 months so if either of them were interested, it might be worth putting in Carsley in the interim.

It's the archetypal "Get behind the lads FFS" post. Albeit he/she replied in very polite fashion to me. You're right though, headline fee of £18m for Wharton plus around £5m from the Raya sell on and it's almost like Waggott and Co are hoping no-one will notice - the narrative is "Blackburn have no money" as if those windfalls never happened.

Thanks for the courteous reply.

Don't wish to be rude but I couldn't disagree more with that. Firstly we haven't signed anyone yet. Being linked with someone means nothing unless we actually bring them in so supporters are perfectly entitled to be concerned at the absence of signings to date. Secondly however if we are linked with someone then it's fair to assume the Club have expressed an interest so why shouldn't we the fans be entitled to express our views on the player before he signs? Not every signing is a successful one. If the fans express opposition to a signing and the Club sign him anyway then the situation is a bit different. You should temporarily park your misgivings and give the player a chance to prove you wrong but all this narrative that you should be in favour of everything that happens, no matter what, right or wrong is extremely wearing, it's not that different to Southgate inferring that you shouldn't be criticising England if they're playing badly.

All of that presupposes there is money to spend and every indication so far has been very much to the contrary.

Why would we sign a 3rd choice keeper?

He's commented it's happening but he's right, it would appear he's shrugging his shoulders as opposed to whinging about it which is incredibly worrying if a large enough section of the fanbase are equally indifferent.

So you admit we're being run into the ground but you're not particularly bothered about it. What an incredibly strange point of view.

Semi finals absolute minimum. In a way, given we didn't win it anyway, maybe it would have been better if we'd gone out against Slovakia as we deserved because that would have been a more accurate reflection of our performance during the tournament. By limping unconvincingly to the Final it seems to have fooled everyone into believing all is well - 2 successive Euro Finals yada yada. Question: Do you think We've progressed since losing the 2021(?) Euro Final to Italy? Whilst I didn't hear what he said in full, Harry Redknapp apparently nailed it by commenting we didn't play with any pace.