The payment plan will surely be part of the contract whereas if there is a gentlemans agreement to knock a few million off both fees to reduce any sell on, that couldnt be a legal obligation otherwise surely it would cause issues with blatantly window dressing the fee to avoid paying as much to Newcastle.

How many times have you seen out of interest and were they for Southampton or the Ireland under ages groups? I have seen him a couple of times for Southampton including v Norwich post lockdown and he looks bright and his assets are obvious. Do you think that he would be a good signing? The one aspect that would please me would be the long term nature of the deal.

I dont get how the price can be affected by a potential Obafemi deal as Mowbray isnt even sure if he is interested and whether a deal will be agreed with him. Plus if Armstrong is at a favourable rate, what stops Southampton cancelling the deal?

I think about any loan signing with no/minimal senior experience is a stab in the dark, hence why I am against the idea of getting 5 of such players on top of an already young squad. It doesnt mean that he will be a poor signing, as Harwood Bellis and even Elliott proved, but there is no way that anyone can say that he is a good signing, I bet no one had heard of him this morning. Assuming that we are fishing in the loan market for flair players, I would have liked someone like Morgan Rodgers who at least as proven his ability to score and assist at League 1 level. Tatith Chong is also an interesting one who has had loan spells abroad who has gone to Birmingham.

Well no, I have just pointed out 2 positives from a cup, well I can think of 3. Most of our seasons just fade into mediocrity and have very little excitement. Why as a fan would you want to dismiss a potential bit of excitement, a game or 2 against big teams or getting quite far? Financially, people keep banging on about FFP, getting further especially if we end up on TV, have a couple of extra home games and/or play a bigger side might get some unexpected income in. There is also momentum, win tomorrow and we go into the weekend on the back of a couple of wins. By all means rest a few, no point playing Ayala for example, put in a couple of youngsters amidst mainly the first team. Mowbray has said that there wont be wholesale changes which I am pleased about as I havent paid a tenner to watch us forfeit with our under 23s. Are you attending, and if so why if a cup run is not what you want, surely a win would be an unwelcome distraction?

Have you seen much of him? I have seen him a few times for Southampton and he looked very raw, lots of good assets but big questions over whether he could get a decent number of goals over a full season. It would be good to sign a permanent player to develop though. I was looking on Southampton forums and there seemed to be a lot of insinuations suggesting that he has suffered numerous muscle injuries stemming from a lack of professionalism.

Potential extra income and the intrigue of a tie against a big club to get a bit of excitement in a season that if it is anything like the last 3 will spiral into mediocrity.

A bit underwhelmed with him having so little senior experience, it is a stab in the dark really. Goes without saying that I will judge on his performances in a Rovers shirt like anyone else.

Not that Dolan is a good finisher, but is this fella any better, where is the evidence? The video is worrying in that he looks like he can run at players but there is nothing at the end of it. A player with less than 10 minutes of senior football is always a bit of an uncalculated risk really, hard to not be underwhelmed when we have been linked with loanees like Rodgers who have had success at least at a lower level and when he is replacing Elliott.

A video of Khadra from friendlies and kids games. Everytime he runs with the ball he loses it at the end!

Says in the LT that Khadra has a slight injury too.

Being linked by a questionable source to a bigger side doesn't mean that anyone who has doubts over him is wrong.

https://www.footballinsider247.com/brentford-set-sights-on-signing-blackburn-rovers-26-yr-old/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1628503168-1

Only £15m for Armstrong is a very low fee, considering we have "held out." It is a myth that Venkys always hold out for the highest fee, look at Cairney, Gestede and Duffy for example. We HAVE to sign a permanent replacement, of course at a fraction of the fee we receive. This Khadra doesn't excite me, minimal first team exposure, a total unknown. Loans in general (as long as you dont sign too many) can be a very useful method of signing players better than what we have, seen with Harwood Bellis, Elliott, Reed and Adarabioyo.

Was he not? Aside from a few games in which he was rested, and the last 3 when thinking of this season, he was one of the first names of the team sheet. Definitely not coming back though.

Maybe that Broja on loan is their replacement for Ings and they have given up on Armstrong. Norwich seem never to have been interest but have also gone elsewhere so maybe it is Palace or nowhere.

He has been regularly starting for Liverpool through pre-season and impressing, I think in a slightly deeper role than he played here. I would be surprised if he got loaned out and if he does, I suspect it will be to a Premier League team or at a push a contender for promotion in this league.

I appreciate the need to rotate especially with a small squad but I always find quite how dismissive people are of the cups (especially the League cup) particularly strange. I totally get that the league is the bread and butter but a cup run can be a highlight of an otherwise drab season, more often than not we nestle in mediocrity so the buzz of a cup run, playing big teams and even generating some income could be a bit of otherwise absent excitement and a bonus to help our bleak financial situation.

I don't think that we should actively be aiming for someone not as good as those 4. We should aim to bring in first team quality, someone who in theory is better or at least as good as those, especially with the question marks over Buckley and Rothwell over a consistent basis. Of course, at this moment in time, that trio very much have those shirts to lose. Regarding Clarkson, I am unconvinced that a player with only a couple of senior appearances would provide that to be fair.

Leighton Clarkson not on a bench for Liverpools last friendly that contains 10 players most of whom are kids. Linked here yesterday.

Talk about covering all bases 😂 making it up as he goes along. Norwich have just signed or are signing Sargent from Werder Bremen.

If he broke his leg in October and then was willing to sign a 3 or 4 year deal, you would say no? Surely cutting off our nose to spite our faces?

Financially, there is no way that we can justify keeping him so totally with you on selling him, as much of a hole as it will leave, But if he did end up staying, there is always a risk of a serious injury like a broken leg but it is a slim one, whereas continuing to score goals would only increase interest in him as a free agent, potentially getting him a bigger move and even more money added into that, so on probability he would surely crack on as normal, maybe after taking a few days to get his head around staying again. Mowbray suggested that he might play on Saturday if he is still here. There is no indication that he would sulk or has a bad attitude, he has continued to train and play in friendlies, although the potential of an imminent career changing move will always play in your mind. If he stayed here, broke his leg in say October or November and was willing to sign for a few years, we would be cutting off our nose to spite our faces not to agree, but of course we should not get into that situation.

I just think for Sheffield United that they are so well suited to 3-5-2. They have 5 wing backs in Stevens, Baldock, Lowe, Bogle and Norrington-Davies who can all get forward, and they have 5 strikers who all are proven at this level bar maybe Mousset. They dont have any width in the squad and their tactics yesterday were very strange. I think the relegated teams and Bournemouth have squads in a different league to the other 20. Not convinced why Parker has such a good reputation to be honest so unconvinced by him but the squad he has inherited is littered with proven quality.

That would also be a potentially good idea, the queues all went right back to the toilets and then curved off to the side such were the size of the queues and they weren't going down. I got one before the game and it was a fiver for a pint of Amstel, so the fact that price is not my main complaint tells you everything!