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alex l

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  1. He has his own Instagram account, but probably too much to hope he speaks out on there
  2. Well on one hand a DoF was employed who appointed a coach who has brought an attacking, exciting style of play, with mixed results. The DoF has also been much more proactive in getting players on longer contracts, so players don't keep walking away on a free. Theoretically this provides greater financial stability. On the other hand, as we're all aware, finances have been tightened and the promise of last season has pretty much all been eroded.
  3. For those interested, Nick Harris of Sporting Intel has provided this response to a question I put to him re the ownership and how they may exit. Recommend signing up to his newsletter/substack even at the free level, which is what this is from. Agent of chaos: why the Venkys might not be the real bad guys in Blackburn Alex writes: As a Blackburn fan, it's fair to say the discontent with the owners is growing again. You covered the Venkys quite a bit previously but is there much which didn't make the public domain? And how do you see their ownership being resolved i.e. are they likely to sell or would it be administration or some other means that sees them leave the club? Several other Blackburn fans asked similar questions, including Alan Sheppard: Came here [to last week’s mailbag request page] with a similar question. Especially with the new rules about moving money out of India that seem to have caused cash flow problems at the club. NH: Thanks both. To start, there is a vast archive on Sporting Intelligence of Blackburn material from 2010 and 2011. I went to India for a week to meet the Rao family and look at how rich they really were (really rich) and find out what their motives were. I spent a lot of time with them and in contact with them through 2011 especially. Alex asks about information not in the public domain but I wrote about pretty much all the dodgy stuff as it happened, and by dodgy stuff I don’t mean by the Rao family, but principally by the agent Jerome Anderson, who orchestrated the deal to sell them the club in the first place without making it clear either to Blackburn’s board at the time, or to the Rao family, that he was acting for both of them without telling the other, for a commission at both ends. His aim was to persuade Blackburn to then let his company run the club on their behalf, and import players from all sorts of strange places to give them a world stage in the Premier League (with him as their agent) and then sell them on for profit (for him). Anderson did indeed get such a management contract, allowing him to fire and hire managers and buy players, among other things. He fired Sam Allardyce, hired Steve Kean (a client of his management stable) and started recruiting players, often with massive agent’s fees for associates of his. As far as I could judge, the matriarch of the Venky’s clan, Mrs Rao, was naive and massively badly advised, but wasn’t corrupt and had good intentions for the club. The Rao family remain owners and have spent hundreds of millions of pounds on Blackburn since 2011 because, I feel, they do not want to fail. They still think they can get the club back to the Premier League one day. At this point, it’s unlikely that they will receive an offer for the club that would recover a substantial amount of the money they have spent – but if they did, I think they would probably sell. More likely, they will do whatever they realistically can to keep the club out of administration – a scenario in which they would lose control completely. As for currency export issues, these have been happening since late 2011. Remember when there were fears that not having enough money in the club’s bank account at the Blackburn branch might lead to wages not being paid? That was due to currency export issues. One of the moves they made to get out of that one was selling Chris Samba to Anzhi in Russia in early 2012. I will try to look again at the whole situation soon – and if I find anything concrete to report, I’ll write about it here.
  4. Loan. I'd go Dolan over Siggy. JRC for Garrett, Brittain on the right.
  5. But some see it as a go to phrase whenever we sell a player (whilst equally angry when a player goes for free). It's understandable not spending millions today, to a degree. But the fan base will reasonably expect millions to be spent in the summer.
  6. I'd say Tronstad is the 6, Wharton more an 8 which I'd expect JRC to take when Brittain is back. Ennis sale confirmed by the club. Only positive with that signing was getting a fee for him.
  7. I engage when there's something going on at the club that I feel I want to voice an opinion on. I probably also start an annual shirt/sponsor thread.
  8. Not trying to be antagonistic but if you don't care anymore why are you reading and actively engaging with this part of the board? Genuinely, if it upsets you this much, take a break from all to do with the club. You might feel better for it.
  9. The post I was responding to said we should bring back the talk of Venkys asset stripping. I'm not happy with how they run the club but I don't think this can accurately be labelled at them.
  10. The amount of players, some of whom we received bids for and were turned down, who have left on frees would suggest otherwise. As would the continual loss they make in putting money into the club.
  11. Because our income still doesn't get close to covering wages let alone other overheads. I'm sure someone will have the figure but last time was it not a along the lines of 120+% wage to income ratio?
  12. Gally and Dolan stay if the club wants them to. Travis returns whether he likes it or not, unless as with any player, an offer is received which is accepted.
  13. 5 games for Austria Vienna and 2 for Liverpool as well, in fairness to him.
  14. Possibly this, to some degree. Or maybe, just maybe, he fancies a crack at the prem and earning god knows how many times more.
  15. All those asking for a replacement for Wharton - where would they fit in? To me, we always play 3 in central mid. Szmodics has the attacking role nailed on, Moran is better in the centre as a back up. Holding is Tronstad and probably Garrett as back up. That leaves one role, which JRC was great in prior to his injury. We then gave Ayari backing up who apparently can play all 3 roles. Yes injuries will occur and have. But who would be dropped? Perhaps JRC to rwb/RB but then Brittain is out - and he had a great link up with JRC. Then there's also Buckley to return As much as Wharton going is sad, replacing him isn't the priority to me - other positions are higher priority. The bigger issue is if we don't spend a reasonable (10m+) of what was brought in as that's what the model needs to be. It evidently won't be in this window but the purse strings must be loosened in the summer or there will be no defending the approach of the club.
  16. Venky hating and Adam heartbreak aside, rumours on signings appear to have gone quiet after a flurry in the afternoon. Anyone know an in the know who knows something?
  17. Wasn't that in the summer, prior to the budget reduction? In which case it would be reasonable to expect we should be able to spend a percentage of what gets brought in. But even that doesn't seem to be happening.
  18. Wharton finally announced by palace https://x.com/CPFC/status/1753122855347273956?s=20
  19. Funny you mention him. Just seen him having a medical at Brockhall (Toni that is, not a young attacker). More seriously if we sign McGuire and the Liverpool defender, surely we can rule out further loans due to match day squad limits.
  20. Ennis to stoke reported by Bayes. That's like an RKO out of nowhere.
  21. These are the figures from the same journo yesterday. Dont know the exact exchange rate but would think these convert to higher figures than what was being reported on this side. So perhaps the numbers are elevated again with the new deal.
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