The Alex Neil one came from family with good connections to PNE. All I would say is don't write that one off just yet! My colleague in the NE like myself is an experienced financial professional with strong business connections and a wide range of contacts in the area (I'll leave it at that) so it would be no surprise if he picked something up. As for 'finer details of the Armstrong deal', I did not say that - I posted £12m with £3m add ons which is not finer detail - funnily enough, someone else on this MB posted they've also read elsewhere it's £12m with £3m add ons. I think it's better for this MB if the likes of you and @chaddyroversstopped having a pop at me as I'm sure other members find it boring and tedious.

Moving up to PL is huge. Doubt his pace will worry many. Don't think he has a football brain, needs too many chances to score, poor touch and caught offside too many times. Don't blame the lad as it will set him up for life whether he succeeds or not. However, I wish him well - going to live and work in a lovely part of the country.

I don't give a sh1t what you two lads think but at least give a balanced view and get your facts right Clearly, you forget where I've been right on numerous occasions. And for the record, Mullan did not break the news that Rovers had agreed a deal for Rhodes. Check the postings if you've nothing better to do. I posted that hours before anything in LT, on Radio Lancs or on here. It came straight from the Huddersfield camp. Who also posted about Seneca's attempt a few years ago to buy into Rovers some 24 / 48 hours before anything appeared anywhere!? What pearls of wisdom have you two ever come up with?

Would be a loan with Southamton subsidising wages.

Read it again !!! "Adam Armstrong of up to £15m with add-ons" It's in the wording ie UP TO £15million when adds on are taken into account. If it was £15m plus add ons, it would say so!!! I'll back my colleague in NE over any Talkshyte presenter.

The lad missed the 2nd half of last season through injury!!! Hope it isn't going to be another one of those.................................

According to a colleague in NE, it's £15m MAX INCLUDING £3m add ons. £15m max ties in with Hampshire press.

£12m + £3m add ons. Without the add ons, which have to be earned, nets Rovers £9.7m. Rovers got their b@lls squeezed - didn't Rovers want £25million!? Think Southampton's deal is okay given the sh1t hole, IMO, Waggott and Mowbray put us in.

Problem Gav is it's not that simple! If no club coughs-up, we are left with a disenchanted player who will almost certainly either leave in January in a 'cut price' deal or will walk for nothing at the end of the season.

But he hasn't, he's less than 12 months. IF my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle! Time for realism - Rovers between a rock and a hard place.

"a few quid here and there" - IMO, bullsh1t! If you are so close you just get the feckin deal done. Think Mowbray getting his £millions and £quids mixed up!!!

This is Armstrong they are trying to sell and not Messi!!! The market for Armstrong is very limited and the sooner the Rovers realise that and show some realism the better. If they don't, they are going to make the feckin hole they've dug for themselves even bigger.

Pretty certain that no club will pay what Rovers want - IMO, it's grossly inflated and Armstrong isn't worth it. Not a question of not being able to afford but more a realisation of what Armstrong is worth. Bloke down the road wants £4k for his wife's car - I want the car for one of my lads but it is not worth £4k even though I can afford £4k. Offered him £3k which is in line with what he'd get for cash at We Buy Any Car etc. Told him the offer stands for 72 hours - sadly, Rovers will soon find themselves in a similar if not worse situation. Market forces determine a commodity's worth and not wishful thinking!!!

Mowbray and Rovers can squeal all they want. IMO, facts are: Armstrong doesn't want to be here Southampton / Palace / Norwich is the apparent market and none will cough up big money £12million is as good as it will get, leaving us with £8million which is what a few of us on here thought Rovers would end up with for some time I think Rovers are a totally dysfunctional club, and have been for over 10 years, and the situation we are now in is all down to the clueless management of Waggott and Mowbray. Sadly, I think things will only get worse.

I treat the letter with the contempt I think it deserves. Two words for Balaji & Co, Waggott, Mowbray and Venus - feck off.

P1ss-up and brewery come to mind! IMO, just underlines how dysfunctional our club is. Think it's 'funny' how there always seems to be a job for Tony's 'mates'!

European scout gone! https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/19491566.blackburn-rovers-head-european-scouting-to-leave-18-months/ Dropping like flies.

So did Coyle!

Ambition, ambition, ambition. The aim when we came up from League 1 should have been to march straight on to the PL the next season just as Wilder did with Sheff U.. Howard Kendall almost pulled off the same stunt with Rovers some 40 years ago but we missed out on either goal difference or by one point. It shows what good and ambitious managers can achieve and what they are all about. Momentum and confidence are everything below PL. Always thought Mowbray was a p1ss poor manager from when he was appointed and boy the penny seems to be dropping with many fans now.

Kaminski Nyambe Carter Lenihan Pickering Travis Buckley Rothwell Dolan Armstrong Brereton 3-1 Rovers. Great time to play Swansea - missed out in play-offs, no manager, Covid hit and, sadly, a win will buy Mowbray even more time (IMO, he's a bit of a lucky b@st@rd). Attendance - 7,300 which miraculously I think Rovers will announce as 11,100 !

Administration by Christmas, Neil in as manager - not as crazy as some like @chaddyroversmay think. Sadly, I think we are sinking like a stone. I think 5 years of Mowbray & co have done for us.

Nothing surprises me any more where Rovers are concerned. Posted earlier, if Mowbray goes in August then lump all you can on you know who..................

Total b0ll0cks. When we were close to the bottom of old Division 3, Ken Furphy bought John McNamee who was about 31 and he turned out to be an inspirational signing. There have been manu otherds as well. I doubt we will see a penny of the Armstrong money when sold. Consider this - 12 months to June 2020 we lost £22million. Since then, there has been no gate money and commercial income will have fallen off a cliff. If our losses for 12 months to June 2021 are not £30million then I'd be amazed. I posted the other day I thought there was an 80% chance we'd be in administration before Christmas - I'll stick with that. Not as we know it 'Jim' ! If Mowbray walks before end of August, I'd put every penny you have on Neil taking over!

Never been a Mowbray fan since the day he joined even when he took us up in second place to the mighty Wigan - I think you will find my posting has always said that! Even Chaddy would have got us promoted with the facilities we had and the biggest budget in League 1 by a country mile.

The reality is that some other manager might just have got us out of League 1 and with momentum and confidence taken us straight to the PL just as Wilder did with Sheff U.. Keeping Mowbray was a shyte call. He failed to keep us up and IMO, we've made little progress from where we were when Coyle left. We are in one feckin mess and, IMO, that is all down to Mowbray - now that is reality.