davulsukur

Bamford is very nearly the very definition of "past it". 31 years old and hasn't had a good season in about 4 years. Jed Wallace is 30, so coming to end of his career but he is probably exactly what JE is looking for. A player who can play in a couple of different positions and is the most championship midfielder you can probably find. I've always rated him tbf, it's just a shame we'd be signing him 3 years too late.

Cheers 👍

I thought Nixon broke the news? Which account is saying about Godo?

Less pressure to rush Carter back now as well.

It's the right decision to move Fadz on but he comes across as a top bloke, so good luck to him and he certainly played his part in keeping us up last season.

O'Grady-Macken on the bench, was/is pretty highly rated here? Surely worth a sub for Buckely?

Weimann!!

Sir Andi Weimann, how has he made such a dogs dinner of that?

I didn't know that was his lad 😲 Let's hope his dad's been teaching him everything (maybe not rabona's) he knows!

Toth starting?

Here he is......

Exactly the sort of January signing you make when you're pushing for promotion and your club has a modicum of ambition to achieve it. You need to be looking at the league below, not above, when you're talking about Venkys though.

If Sanderson comes in and does well enough for us, it might end up being a better bit of business than it looks right now. Birmingham are very likely going up and they don't want him now in league one, so they won't want him in the championship. Might very well be available for a knockdown fee and you'd think with his existing relationship with JE and his staff (which he's already highlighted as a reason for being here in his first interview) we'd be his first choice destination. Fadz and probably Batth will be off in the summer, so we'll be in need of a CB anyway. Of course the flip side is that he comes in, does badly but signs in the summer anyway but that's a bit pessimistic 😂

Honestly, I didn't know either. Felt like I'd heard the name but had to Google it. He's only made 2 appearances for Brum in the league, so can only ly assume he's been replaced by better. JE knows him from his time at Brum though, so can only assume JE has had a say in this.

Dion Sanderson it is, straight outta left field.

Sadly for Dom Sams, he's unavailable for Ebbsfleet at the mo with a broken leg. So, Welcome back Doms!

Get excited! (Don't)

That just backs up my point even further? 🤷‍♂️ How can we build a squad if we just reinvest the largest financial windfall we've had in our history in players like Batth, Fadz, Forshaw and Weimann? We're literally throwing money away on incredibly short term signings. Once they all leave in the summer, they will all need replacing in the squad. The cycle repeats. Why haven't we invested some of this money in players who are younger, signed on longer term contracts, with room to improve? They can then be sold on in a few years for good profit and that money goes back into the squad and a much, much better cycle is formed that we can continue with for the benefit of Blackburn Rovers football club.

Why are we signing players "just for cover" when we've raked in £40m in transfer fees in the last 18months? Where is the squad building or the "Brentford model" we were led to believe was happening here? Forshaw - 33 Batth- 34 Weimann - 33 McFadzean- 38 Some serious long term planning going on with half of our signings.

I mean, I think I'd rather we just stuck with Buckley/Garrett/JRC rather than wasting money on Forshaw.

Plymouth spend £2m on a player and we sign their unwanted cast offs. I thought we were "going for promotion" and they were fighting relegation Very much feels like it's the other way around right now.

What the actual fuck? We've got Weimann for the aging pro role, we don't need this guy as we. Absolute desperation. Fuck off Venkys.

He's off to the dingles

Jonjo Shelvey (mentioned a few pages back) joining our dearest neighbours apparently.