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!

I think it is that point of the season whereby many teams are not finished in the market, the fact that it remains open after the season starts is absurd really. Opening day line ups tend to be a bit of a mismatch, signings to be made, players left out expecting a move, fitness issues from pre-season. But I agree, there were also not that many new signings playing across the board. Fulham today seem to be missing quite a few, Reed, Cairney, Kongolo, Knockaert, Anguissa off the top of my head, possibly a mixture of injuries and players awaiting a move elsewhere. Bournemouth have a series of players pictured who arent yet fit, Pearson, Steve Cook, Stacey, Lewis Cook, Danjuma, Lerma is banned, Leif Davis has just signed, that young left back Zemura looked all over the place defensively. Reading named a 5 man bench which screamed of a gesture by the manager to the FA, considering that they are under an embargo. There are also rules I think around players who play one game being deemed to be part of a quota of players that you can sign so they are probably wary of playing kids and taking up spaces for new signings.

Mentioned in the match thread by me and a few others but possibly could get lost in there. Could the issue of service on the concourses be brought up at the next meeting please? Could solutions such as pre-prepared drinks and use of the bottle bars be mentioned to deal with the terrible service seen yesterday, the wait is far too long and avoidably so. @only2garners

Sheffield United have a squad that looks on paper to be incredible at this level, they have 5 top end Championship strikers, they have 3 or 4 midfielders as good as any in the league, and so much quality and depth in defence, their whole team basically is proven at this level. Throw in a proven manager capable of promotion and everything seems in place. I do think though that changing the formation without a major restructuring of the squad is asking for trouble, the squads been built over a number of years to play 3-5-2, the way that they played yesterday was totally unbalanced. We impressed yesterday but I wouldn't be keen to put us too far above that clutch of teams at the bottom @chaddyrovers until we bring in some goals in the transfer market and some quality across the team. Mind you, there is some really poor teams in what looks a rather poor league this season.

I think the Millwall game was evidence that such a set up could work on occasion, but it is often remembered in isolation when the whole week to which that game started off showed that between the 3, with Dolan central, it is difficult to imagine that such a set up has the goal threat to sustain us for any serious length of time. Good work rate, attitude and energy are good attributes but are not enough to play in the forward line, especially centrally. When Armstrong departs, we need to bring in a central striker to replace him, and whilst it is not realistic to get someone who gets 28 goals, we need someone who can get a decent amount. Going back to that week, we scored 3 goals in 3 games with Brereton and Gallagher flanking Dolan, 2 of which came from having Dack behind those 3 who offers a goal threat not currently in our team without him as well as Armstrong. Initially, that Millwall game was like a breath of fresh air but as the week went on we looked overall rather impotent in front of goal.

I think today was a perfect assignment for Dolan down the middle in that Swansea not only lacked quality but under Russell Martin were always going to try and play it out from the back and they were simply not good enough to do it. I would say going forward this season that Dolan should play more from the sides (quite often as a sub perhaps v tired legs) as over the course of a run of games, he lacks the quality and end product especially with his shooting to score enough goals to justify that central role. He is still very raw but there is definitely something to work with there and he is a nuisance. Armstrong is a natural goalscorer so he would have invariably been in the right places against a poor defence and there was also plenty of space in behind especially on the counter attack in which we repeatedly lacked the quality in front of goal, either the decision making or the shot itself was a little off. I do think that our young team that perhaps isnt the best technically should be geared around its energy and pressing, we do need at least one wide man and a central goalscorer to add to the 3 today though.