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Looking at the Turkish League I was surprised to see Beskitas finish 6th last year.... Thought it was a closed shop between Gala, Beskitas and Fenebache but actually looks quite competitive with Trabzonspor winning last season, Gala finishing all the way down in 15th. Theres a club called Istannbul Basaksehir who have won the league recently also and regularly finish in the European places. Seems quite topsy turvy. It's a straw to cling to that Beskitas do not currently have european football, and is not guaranteed to get it in future (even if they won the league year before last)... but it's hard to see - even putting money to one side - how Championship football is really going to compete with one of the Turkish giants. Edit - for what it's worth that his ex-manager is there at Beskitas, obviously he highly rates him, and he will be very cheap I will be surprised if they don't bid for him. And if they bid for him they will defo get him over us imo.
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2022/2023 Pre Season Thread
joey_big_nose replied to MarkBRFC's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Ah interesting. Thanks! JDT seems to be broadly sticking with what Mowbray wa doing last season then. So presumably we will start 343 next weekend. My guess at the team ; Kaminski Carter. Ayala. Wharton Brittain. Travis. . Buckley. Pickering Markanday. Gallagher BBD Subs : Pears, Phillips, A Wharton, Dack, Dolan, Hedges, Vale Im pretty okay with that except very light if injuries in defence of midfield. -
2022/2023 Pre Season Thread
joey_big_nose replied to MarkBRFC's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Did we play 4231 or 343 in this game. I was only half watching bits of it so never quite figured it out! -
I think coming back from injury it is. If players have had a bad one around the hamstring, Achilles etc they might only go 70%-80% to protect themselves. Pickering was out with a Hamstring so could be that. It's weird he still seems struggling for pace since he came back in March though. One to watch. We do need another left back, and would be very happy if styles joined, but I'm not writing Pickering off yet.
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IMO Pickering he was very good first half of last season before he got injured. He was a key part of our run up to 2nd, and when he got injured at start of Jan it coincided with our collapse of form. Since he came back he's been poor. I'm hoping his struggles are temporary as he gets back to fitness and finds a bit of pace.
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2022/2023 Pre Season Thread
joey_big_nose replied to MarkBRFC's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
Usually last preseason game is the starting team for the first game. Players you would expect to be in there that aren't are Ayala, Buckley, Gallagher - what's up with them? Brittain not starting understandable. -
Absolutely - I think we are over rating how much he is valued by Brighton. Their manager has indicated that if he gets any game time for Brighton it will be minimal and he is open to loaning him out. It's not looking good for him. As said I can't see much top league interest in him around Europe in terms of transfer rumours. If he was valued - especially as he is in last year in his contract - clubs would be going after him. I think we have a good chance to get him.
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If we can't get him to sign a new deal, and it's clear that isn't happening, then we have to sell him.
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No other clubs were linked to him despite being free, and he's only secured a one year deal with Wigan. It's hard to come to any other conclusion other than he is rated poorly by scouts and managers across the Championship. It's strange as we as fans have generally rated him highly. Never really seen so much of a disconnect between fans assessment and the market's.
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Hmmm.... He's a tidy all rounder but I can't really see where he fits in. Not physical, poor in the air, standard quality passing, not particularly a dribbler or pacy etc. Feels a similar sort of players to Davenport but not quite as good. It'll be a bonus if he steps up, but I am not anticipating it.
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I do wonder if we as fans don't really recognise how good our academy is. I certainly didn't till I started looking into it. Premier League 2 (the Premier academy competition in the UK) has two divisions : Division 1 - 14 clubs, 12 of them clubs with senior team in Premier League. Just us (finished 9th above Chelsea and Everton) and Derby (finished dead last and miles off the pace) not in the prem. Division 2 - 14 clubs, 7 prem (including the likes of Villa, Newcastle, Southampton, Wolves) and 7 championship If you consider we have also aggressively promoted a lot of our youth players to the Senior Squad it's really an impressive achievement. Maybe there is something in considering our academy something really remarkable at the moment? And when we fret about using "kids" it's a different proposition to say promoting kids at Millwall or Bristol City (both of which are not even in PL2 Div 2). Details here : https://www.premierleague.com/tables?team=U21&co=16&se=438
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If we promise him serious game time I can see we would have a chance of signing him. Going to Spurs theres a real risk he would just disappear into the U23s and endless loan factory. Depends if we can promise him first team football I would say, as obviously if it's a choice between Spurs U23s or our U23s he may as well go to London. I have no idea if he's good enough for first team or not.
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2022/2023 Pre Season Thread
joey_big_nose replied to MarkBRFC's topic in Blackburn Rovers Fans Messageboard
If JDT can improve Gallagher's back to goal and aeriel game he will be a much better forward. His focus, bizarrely despite his height and strength and lack of dribbling or crossing ability, has always been running with the ball wide. I don't really buy this is 100% Mowbray, I suspect it is part of his own personal preference too. I am curious to see what happens under JDT and if he can really be changed.