They'll be a lot more ambitious than we would be with whom they're going after. They've also been linked with Steve Cooper.

Even worse. Looks like really tacky cheap knock off stuff with a poor version of the Rovers badge ironed on the front.

Horrible.

Not sure if Jackson has had his knuckles rapped after a brief spell of questioning things but he now seems to be back full square banging the Company drum. A headline this week was "First out of contract Rovers player signs contract extension". Happy days you might have thought. Probably Brittain with whom we've allegedly been in protracted discussions? (No) OK, Dolan, Travis, Tronstad? (No) Actually a lad called Felix Goddard who I must confess I've never heard of. Apparently a 21 year old keeper out on loan at Ebbsfleet United who again Ive never heard of but he must be (at best) 5th choice keeper as he'll be behind Toth, Pears, Michaelowski (sp) and Jack Barrett. At points like this, with headlines like that, Jackson is actively taking the piss out of the fans.

That's the worry. And if we flog off our few remaining decent players for relative buttons simply to keep the lights on a bit longer, then the gig is up.

Well, Premier League Ipswich came in for Travis and now ambitious Wrexham so he obviously has something other Clubs value. There never seems to be much interest in Tronstad. If we had to lose one only out of the two I know which one I'd rather lose. Last season imploded right after Travis got injured at Millwall. As others have also commented many times however it wouldn't exactly be a surprise to lose both and Brittain as well so any comparison between the merits of Trav and Tronstad may well turn out to be irrelevant.

Good point. As myself and others have commented many times already it wouldn't be much of a surprise to see players sold to cover much of the entire £4.85m let alone the amount of the guarantee.

The Club requested £4.85 million for running costs April to June I think, so you'd assume that amount should be being sent over to the Club and they give the Court a lien over c £2.4m worth of funds at the Bank etc. As regards transfer funding it has been suggested in the past that the Court will only authorise money for expenditure on running costs not transfer fees although I don't think I've seen any official confirmation of this anywhere. As for the thought of Travis being sold to Wrexham to cover costs irrespective of their upward trajectory - good grief. Uncle Jack must be spinning even faster than normal. Just thinking aloud, if Tronstad is as good as everyone apart from me reckons wouldn't it just be easier to sell him for a higher fee than Travis if money is that tight? He's half the player Travis is as well.

If you recall during that train wreck of an interview RG offered forth the ludicrous excuse that it hadn't been possible to hold any talks with anyone because at that point we didn't know what division we were going to be in. Well we know now, but unsurprisingly no raft of extensions

As the old terrace song went, Oyston ended up "sewing bags". Don't suppose the same fate will befall our owners as a result of the Indian Court proceedings, but you're right, we'll likely end up with a shell of a squad.

I can never get past the firewall. What did it say then? I'd actually be surprised if we were serious about keeping CB and didn't in reality want to offload him in order to replace him with a cheaper option.

Well, Platini has just come out in an interview and said at the time France would have built their entire side around Hoddle so that's good enough for me!

Probably standing on his head.

Spot on.

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Sorry. Seven is decent imo. Think Hedges has scored seven in four seasons at the Club. That's probably the sort of standard that will be coming in to replace Dolan.

Well, if there was thought there was any free money to be had, Waggott would probably have been in on it. Didn't someone once say the great master plan of him and Fraser Reid was to allow the Riverside to fall into disrepair in the hope it would be condemned and we could then claim a grant towards rebuilding it? This season, we're heading people into it!

Don't they have various pharmaceutical interests in Europe? Wonder how they manage to get money to them if needed? Although they're maybe all profit earners or at the very least self sufficient.

I mean, in an ideal world, we'd all like our wide players to be chipping in with 10 -15 goals per season but I really don't think 7 is that bad. If he'd reached double figures that would probably have been regarded as an excellent effort. Not far off.

Yep. (Speculating here)......maybe it's like Exiled said and they know there are further matters yet to be uncovered therefore they know they'd be likely to lose any monies put up as guarantee. But.....(Thinking aloud) If all other dealings related to Rovers are above board then even with a politically motivated Government gunning for you, surely any guarantees given in that respect should be safe and there shouldn't be any worries in that respect about sending money over. It's a weird one.

We got the case heard PDQ this time compared to all the others. Perhaps there's ways and means when you really need it.

The BOI dont seem to have any issue with them though as far as Im aware? I'm not fully up to speed on what they're meant to have done or not done but obviously, yes, IF that has occurred that potentially could be quite serious. The only things I was aware of were allegedly improperly using VOL funds (which obviously should only be used for BRFC purposes) to buy Neville's old house and the Akon shares

That's exactly how I see it as well. They COULD send more money over under the existing conditions if they really wanted. They just don't want. To my mind, choosing not to is worse than being prevented from doing so. Irrespective of whether it's your fault in the first place.

So......who have we got worth £4.85m?

Might be the case that being merely being under investigation is ok, but if they're actually found guilty of anything implying any form of dishonesty the EFL might take another look. Innocent until proven guilty and all that. Rightly so.