So clubs could spend whatever they wanted, unchecked in League One but you're forced to follow the rules in the Championship? (possibly not anymore as noted by others)

How do they circumvent the rules to be able to spend so much? The same rules that "force" us to sign players for £250k

Hull next?

I highly doubt it, seems like ages ago the word from LET was that contract talks with Brittain were positive and a deal was close. Total silence since. I have no doubts that the club have 0 interest in renewing any of those contracts, due to the uplift in salary they can all now command.

Fucking hell, their away kit will be blue & white halves at this rate. Serious though, I think Eustace has a lot of pull with our players combined with a decent payrise, we could be in trouble. Brittain is an excellent full back and we will absolutely not be able to replace him with a better player, or even one of equal abiity.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/july/02/mullarkey-matthews-pens-pro-deal-/ A "new" right back

Absolutely horrific news. Just got married, has 3 young kids & his brother also died in the crash. RIP

Yep, highly unlikely we'd get promoted under these clowns. We'd be in league one until we got new owners, which we probably wouldn't

Literally unable to compete financially with Oxford. We're in trouble!

Weimann also announced by Derby. 2 down, 1 to go for them.

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.