Batth to Derby confirmed. 1 year contract

Did the Sheff Wed players get paid, has anyone seen any updates?

Yeah, that's fair. Feels like off the back of his loan, he probably could have gotten a move elsewhere, especially on a free, so maybe indicated he'd only be willing to sign a short term deal, so he's not tied to Rovers for 4 years and is essentially loaned out for all 4 years. He'll be earning jack shit here, so he probably would have been better off moving on and establishing himself at a lower level. It's all pure speculation on my part. Just an odd deal all round.

I wonder if the 1 year contract length was more Batty's preference than Rovers. I guess this is his last attempt at making it here, if he signed a 4 year contract, he'd just be loaned out again. If he doesn't make it, he should be able to get a free transfer to a league 1/2 team, based on his performances on loan last season.

Their actions certainly suggest that

Wrexham lining up Lewis O'Brien for £5m, according to Nixon. Another club viewing Rovers in their rear view mirror.

Venky's just continue to be a huge embarrassment for the club and seem determined to drive us further and further down. We'll be a league one club soon enough.

Apparently, even Oxford are chucking £3.5m at players now. We are being left behind under this regime.

Losing out on targets to the mighty Oxford now 😂 Venky's are the gift that just keeps on giving.

I don't really know what they can do tbh but there must be something that can be done, or put in place that protects clubs better, surely? I assume the authorities have no problems with the way Venky's run the club because of the reasons you have listed, and yet the fans of Blackburn Rovers football club would be cheering louder than ever if they finally did the right thing and sold the club. However, I didn't even mention Rovers or Venky's, so i'm not sure why you brought it up.

The club will only push it so far though. Imagine if they stuck a decent offer on the table to push the compo up and he signed it! They'd be hawking him around the championship the following day!

Nixon reckons that David Lowe will just leave the club altogether, rather than be moved into any other roles at the club.

I agree that we don't really know but if we've been trying to get him to sign a new contract for 2 years and we've not been successful, you'd have to say that the contract on offer hasn't been good enough. Even when he's had managers like JDT, who took us to the brink of the play offs, or Eustace, with whom the players really seemed to like, he still hasn't signed it. That surely throws the spotlight back onto the club, in that they haven't offered anything remotely tempting for Dolan to sign. Journo's now saying we haven't even tried to engage him or his agent in talks again, suggests that the club won't be increasing their offer any further and clearly Dolan and his agent believe they can get more money elsewhere.

Yeah, fair point. Death by a thousand cuts and all that, for us

What an absolute mess. Gotta feel for those that are involved and of course, the long suffering fans as well. Feels like this could easily be us, Venky's just turn off the taps and let the club to implode. Once again though, you've gotta be asking serious questions of the Footballing authorities, another club that has been a disaster for long enough and now it's finally reached the tipping point, how have they allowed it to get to this state?

Assume we've just chucked a poor contract offer on the table, knowing he won't sign it, in order to get the compo but we won't have made any serious bid to keep him

It seems that the clubs preferred option is to keep players on the maximum of £10k per week for the duration of their contracts and forego any transfer monies, as opposed to offering them new & improved terms and getting them on a longer contract. As it stands right now, the club have failed to negotiate a new contract with Ryan Hedges, the most bang average of championship players. Presumably, they want to keep him on his current terms for as long as possible and only think about putting a new deal under his nose in 12 months time.

Twitter rumour (so take it for what it is) gathering pace that Dolan will sign for Derby, along with Weimann and Batth.

Ismael's only remit is the same as JDT'S in his second season. To stay in the championship and develop players. Ismael knows that, so unless he's secretly harbouring ambitions of a play off push, I can't see him walking away from "the project" and of course, the clowns running the circus won't sack him.

When does the squad go to Spain?

And "Bob"

Yeah. I'd have him back over either of our current keeprs tbh.

I'm not sure who gets any benefits of listening to a random Sunderland player, who's just been subbed, giving his opinion as to why Sunderland are 5-0 down at the Etihad after an hour. Players will be limited on what they can/can't say. Same goes for the any half time footage of the dressing room. Sky can't show Pep losing his shit when his team are 1 down and he's going ballistic at his players.

Morton puts in a superb cross for that 3rd 👌

OK, so looks like Derby are spending big and backing Eustace. As the tweet says, you can see why he left, Derby showing some actual ambition, whereas Rovers are the polar opposite.