I think it was inevitable that all 3 were leaving several months ago, with Lenihan being the one most likely to stay. Nyambe was decent but, in my opinion, has stagnated for a couple of seasons. New scenery and coaching for him should give him a chance to kick on and he’s certainly replaceable from our point of view. Not nice to see Academy lads leave, but let’s reserve judgement until we see who their replacements are…

We didn’t pay £7m, that would have been the final figure had all caveats been fulfilled (eg us being promoted). Actual fee we paid was closer to £3m-£4m, which means any percentage of profit owed to Forest will actually be higher.

To be fair, every player smoked, drank and every match finished 54-34. Not really comparable.

This time last season I said that Brereton was going to become a very good player, score a lot of goals, get international recognition and play in the top flight. Admittedly he's only one good season into his career, but his best days are very much in front of him. If we set up to play to SG's strengths, he'll get a decent wedge of goals for us in this division.

Depends - as a general player, I'd agree. But as a central striker, I'm taking Gallagher all day long. Give Gallagher proper service and he's scoring 15+ goals in this division.

Good point Glen - was going to mention that. When he had the likes of Okocha, Hierro and Djorkaeff at Bolton, they certainly weren't playing long ball. Sam gets a bad rap, but he's a very good and effective manager, certainly at mid to lower Prem level.

I think this is an important point - Sam plays to the strengths of what he has to his disposal. At Rovers, he was able to organise us to be very competitive in the Premier League, with an inferior team to the majority of the top half of the league (at least). With some proper investment, I have no doubt that the 'style' would have improved as better players came in. I didn't care less; we won matches and were a top half Prem club - that was more important to me than the method of how we picked points up. Football is a competitive sport first, entertainment second.

Dack has quality that almost all (if not all) of the other players lack, so he’ll be involved. How fit he gets and how much impact his injuries have had will dictate the rest, but there’s no way JDT won’t want to utilise who was, arguably, the best player in the league before he got injured. I think we’ll see a big season from Dack this season.

What a good first impression they’ve all made, kudos all round. Having genuine reason to be optimistic as a Rovers fan in recent years is a odd feeling, but one I can quickly get used to.

Joining in with the optimism - feels like a good appointment, along with his staff and the new DofF. It might take a period of time for his methods to sink in - and the previous bad habits to disappear - but, from what I’ve read and seen, the signs are very positive.

To echo what most have said, probably better than what a lot of us had feared (Pardew/Woodgate/etc), so that’s a positive. Be interesting to see how he fares. Exciting to have a different approach, that’s for sure.

It's sounding like JDT then - but have we had anything firmer than 'a bloke on Twitter said it'? Looking at the odds, there's money to be made if anyone has an unofficial (reliable!) word?

No, he took over after Ince had guided us firmly into the relegation positions.

Absolute facts 👏

I’m astonished that our Head of Commercial was some random Sales Exec for Hull just a couple of years ago. And his comments on the club speak for themselves. Didn’t know this until today, but it makes sense of a lot of commercial issues, errors and mistakes over the last year or two.

I’d still be surprised if Dyche hasn’t been interviewed. But the chances of Venky’s paying his level of wage makes it nigh on impossible…

We might as well get our money's worth and have him take pre season training until the end of the month 😁

Other than how well he handled the whole situation at Derby - his team ended up being Academy kids and some well-past-it free transfers - I think the ‘name’ factor shouldn’t be underestimated. Players will want to sign for Rooney. Can the same be said for the likes of Warne and Ainsworth? Shearer never hid the fact that a big factor in him signing for us is Kenny being manager - getting to play under his hero.

At this stage, Rooney is about as good as we can hope for. Based on his brief experience with Derby, I’d be ok with this…

By the same token, we finished 2nd, based on the first half of the season?

Not a chance Pardew could have turned the club around from where we were, when TM took over. Not just on the pitch, but the whole club. We didn't even have scouts and the whole place was in turmoil - we were heading for MUCH worse than League 1.

Keeping on the existing coaching setup smells of panic, with the players due back in next week and no manager in sight. Their options were to let them leave at the end of their contracts and hope a new manager is in place before pre-season starts, or keep these lot on and have the safety of some coaches being present when the players turn up. I doubt there's some weird conspiracy to keep the likes of a young goalkeeping coach on the payroll.

Hugely disappointed. Crap, arrogant and well past his best, which is why he’s been managing obscure teams abroad. He’s horrible and I don’t think I could bring myself to go to matches with this human fart in charge.

I don't know too much about Deila, to be perfectly honest, but his managerial career to date holds up (minus a couple of years at Valerenga). Apparently plays high tempo attacking football, ideally for more than half a season...

I’m amazed that anyone still reads the shit he puts out. He blocked me on Twatter last year for proving why he was wrong on a number of his ‘stories’. Clearly doesn’t appreciate the truth. The truth doesn’t sell red top rags.