Not sure about that. According to the Palace forums (as someone posted above) they've been tracking him for some time, talking to his family, him, his agent selling the move to him. They wouldn't be bidding if there wasn't interest in the move from Wharton's side. Also, he goes to Palace, finds his feet in the premier league, much less pressure than if he joined Spurs, Utd, Chelsea, Newcastle etc. He gets settled into the league and moves on from Palace further down the line. All the while he develops at a better club and gets paid a lot more. It's a borderline no brainer.

Looks like Palace are serious and trying to get this tied up before any other clubs get involved. Testing times for the club for sure.

Undoubtedly Palace put the feelers out to his agent, I think Wharton (and probably more so his agent) would be mad to not at least speak to Palace and see what's on offer. It's Premier League football and a life changing salary.

Is there any world whatsoever where Venkys would sanction spending 85% of the recieved fee? Seems incredibly unlikely.

Going to be interesting to see what happens next. It's likely we would always reject any reasonable opening bid and fire some demands back to them. Our league position/form has probably added to this, flogging Wharton with little time left to draft in some replacements would be suicidal. Palace might very well come back with an increased offer and maybe a player on loan (not Wharton) could get interesting and I could see him leaving if Palace push enough.

(Awesome dog, btw)

If Wharton goes to Palace, this will be the first, and only test required of the "new system"/project (Whatever we're calling it). The idea of this new regime is surely to sell players and reinvest a chunk of that money into better players, save some money back for running costs sure, but a chunk should be reinvested. If we sell him and sign a couple of players for £100k from league 2, the protest thread need some serious hammer as they will be well and truly trying to pull the wool over our eyes. I've been dreading a big sale like this (should it happen) as we'll know once and for all what the priority for the owners is. Pocketing cash or trying to improve Blackburn Rovers. History tells us it's likely to be pocketing the cash.

I suspect the club would prefer a lesser upfront fee, with the deal stacked in future add ons/sell on clauses. We get a good chunk now but then a few additional payments over the next few years to aid with future cashflow etc.

Yeah I know they won't reinvest the money, just curious as to how much less our incompetent owners would have to put in next time.

Did he give a fee?

Yep, we are at the back of this queue and will only get him if they don't want him. Sad times.

What are those ratings based on?

Good news if true but it's taken nearly a month to get this over the line. We move at a glacial pace.

Sounds like the best move.

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If there is a deal to be done, I'd say he'll be off. As said by others previously, Rovers will want his wages off the books asap. JDT said in an interview recently that "he could not believe the club would weaken the squad further by selling him" so it looks to be out of his hands. They might keep him till the summer as our championship status is under severe threat but there will be no new contract heading his way, I wouldn't think.

Was just about to post similar. Although it's a copy of what Man Utd did/are doing, different coloured scarves are a great idea as they: Are affordable to most Require minimal effort Visual Encourages attendance to display Doesn't impact on anyone else (banners that block views etc) Can be worn/brought in any weather (t-shirts are hidden under coats/jumpers etc. Definitely a good way forward I'd say, coupled with a big push on social media to get the message out. Should be a great idea. (Love the yellow and black colours too)

Former Dingle Joey Barton, who has been on a one man mission to become the most controversial person on Twitter has now dragged Rovers into the mix, after the Rovers admin (perhaps regrettably so now) commented on one of Barton's tweets. How it started: And it continues: Apologies for the tweet spam.

Nope, just a guy who can't read

He was appointed in April 2023.

The original point was that I said we wouldn't sign 4-5 players in January and you said we could and referred back to your post from yesterday. Your post, is pure speculation and there is nothing to suggest we could receive money now, spend all said money on transfers and have money in the wage budget to pay them. It also would mean completing deals for 4/5 players, which we are generally slow at doing because it needs sign off from India. It is, undeniably, unlikely that we will make 4/5 signings before the window closes. We aren't playing footy manager here and if it was as easy as you made out in your post yesterday, then why hasn't the club done it.

I saw the post but everything in it is pure speculation, if it was that easy to get that money and sign those players (or similar), why have we not done it? You also assumed we spend all of the £5m, which we wouldn't.

Because we have no money, the wage budget is maxed out (or so we are told), we are notoriously slow/poor at getting deals over the line, the window is only open for a few more days, January is historically a poor window to do business. Did I miss anything?

Not a chance we're signing 4-5 players. Another 1 at best is all that will come through the door.