Regarding Arma, I don't think anyone is willing to pay the £15-£20m we were expecting. Sounds like Watford have ended their pursuit him and Southampton haven't been back. No doubts, he will be bundled out of the door last minute for a knockdown fee to someone. We already know we aren't getting any money to reinvest in the squad.

------------------Kaminski Nyambe--Ayala--Lenihan--Pickering ------Buckley--Travis--Rothwell -----Gallagher--Arma--Diaz That's what I think will start. 1-2 defeat. Don't think we've ever won an opening game under Venky's? Also Swansea will probably have the new manager bounce. Diaz to score.

Somethings definitely not right. I don't know what's going on but I am not looking forward to what shit show is around the corner.

Why are we losing so many backroom staff?

I don't want us to sign a load of kids on loan but that's basically what he's said he will be doing. We really need some experienced players for the squad though.

WBA confirm the signing of Reach. Our one and only transfer rumour is now officially over. I guess we look forward to loaning a load of kids from prem clubs.

I hope he is getting sacked but it would make absolutely no sense to sack him 6 games in after giving him the summer window and preseason. Also, what if he won all 6?

A wave goodbye 👋 , that would be alright.

Didn't watch it but sounded like a typical Mowbray game, start one system, it fails, change some players and the formation and we look a lot better but never enough to win the game and always chasing it. Not the first time he's tried and failed to implement a back 3. Basically wasted pre season trying this only to go back to 4-3-3 at the very end.

He's been an astonishing waste of money. Big money, as you say.

Is that the same injury that kept him out last season?

Not even in the squad. Guessing he's injured again?

1. Yes 2. Yes (He'll get a new 1 year contract when they can get away with timing it right) 3. Tommy K 4. 20th 5. West Brom or Fulham

Pretty much a guarantee now. We'll have offered Reach a contract but with zero back up targets. Sat on our arses waiting for an answer and now he's off elsewhere, it'll be "that's a shame", shoulder shrug and start looking for someone else, which will take another 2 weeks.

Pretty sure he trotted out the "you can't build a team on loans" line at Coventry, just like he did the other day. The short sightedness and lack of forward planning with regards to recruitment has been unbelievable.

Where have you seen one in tomorrow?

We were never getting any money from the AA sale. Anyone thinking it would be reinvested was kidding themselves.

Exactly, they certainly aren't free.

Like the Journey, the rebuild has probably just been reset because TM can say whatever he wants. Sharpe saying Rothwell has been struggling with a back injury throughout pre-season and he should be back training tomorrow. Not the one out of the door? Or the has move fallen through and now he's back in training?

I can't believe how short sighted we have been with regards to recruitment. How, have we allowed ourselves to get into a situation whereby we now have such a thin squad, not only are we relying on our own youth players to make the step up but we have to go and loan other peoples young players in order to have a reasonable sized squad. Shambolic really. Someone needs to be pulling Mowbray up on his journey and building a squad comments, it was all clearly bullshit.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19475833.mowbray-makes-transfer-admission-blackburn-rovers-search-goes/ We are just lining up prem loans of their younger players. There i did it, killed everyone's mood.

Have we had any explanation from anywhere (Crooke, Sharpe etc.) As to where Ayala, Chapman, Rothwell are?

1-1

What formation/lineup are we playing?

It's ok, we've spent the last 2 seasons playing the way we want. Why wouldn't we play multiple different formations throughout preseason this time? Christ knows what the plan is these days.