Rovers a best priced 39/29, Swansea 40/17 according to Oddschecker. Even with Rovers being at home, I'm surprised at them being favourites.

We should have been put under an embargo for signing those two.

It's a broken record. Pretty much the same thing happens every year.

This. Mowbray is still here and it's a friendly with Fylde. Not sure I could be less interested either.

I remember cringing at that. Dack opened the scoring and Villa got a late free-kick equaliser. You could see on that day that Grealish was far more likely to make it at Premier League level than Dack though (I said as much at the time). He just looked at ease on the ball and taking players on.

My missus is the same.

He's a free agent now - maybe we should make it happen. It'll be like the Ronaldinho stuff all over again 😂

I feel the latter is the only reason he's not been fired.

Not sure if it's been discussed on here, but it's been widely reported that the £7m was the total fee including all potential add ons. Presumably there was an amount due to Forest if he went on to play international football. I wonder if that was specified as playing for England, or whether being called up for Chile has actually meant we've had to pay more money out for him?

And 552,000 more than Rovers on Instagram 🤨

And as it turned out, Kevin Davies could be alright if utilised the right way under a proper manager. Makes you think about Gallagher and Brereton.

Sounds like an upgrade on the Gallagher we've seen since he re-signed.

He' definitely be better off financially not signing a new contract with Rovers (unless he has a Dack style nightmare). He'll end up pocketing a chunk of whatever money the club he signs for saves in transfer fees.

Interesting that it took a few years for Beattie to fulfil the promise he showed at youth level. Whilst he was playing at a higher level than Brereton (Copa America aside 😂), he only really started scoring regularly once he turned 23, so still time for Brereton to become a regular goal scorer. Beattie's record: 98/99 (Aged 20/21) – 39 appearances 6 goals 99/00 (Aged 21/22) – 21 appearances 0 goals 00/01 (Aged 22/23) – 42 appearances 12 goals 01/02 (Aged 23/24) – 31 appearances 14 goals 02/03 (Aged 24/45) – 49 appearances 24 goals 03/04 (Aged 25/26) – 45 appearances 17 goals

Having seen him in a few videos with Bradley Dack, the lad struggles to speak English never mind Spanish.

I hadn't realised he had signed a 7 year contract (although that is backed up by the article below). Crazy. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/6152424.rovers-blackburn-break-club-record-sign-southampton-star-davies/ One bit from this article is who Southampton were lining up to replace him: "Manager David Jones, however, is believed to have lined-up Crystal Palace's Matt Jansen as a £3.5 million replacement" It's funny how things work out.

I'm not sure that's still the case, as he was clearly prepared to talk to Celtic and it sounds like it's collapsed due to not being able to put his own backroom team together rather than anything else. Personal situations change as families age. However, not a chance in hell he would come to Rovers these days. We aren't the pull that we were pre-Venkys.

Taken from the BBC: Antonio Conte has left Inter Milan after winning Serie A, Zinedine Zidane resigned from Real Madrid and Tottenham have sounded out Paris St-Germain boss Mauricio Pochettino. Winning the Ligue 1 title couldn't keep Christophe Galtier at Lille, Juventus are reportedly close to sacking Andrea Pirlo and bringing back Massimiliano Allegri, while Hansi Flick's departure from Bayern Munich triggered a domino effect in Germany. The dust has barely settled on the 2020-21 campaign, but already we've seen an unprecedented number of top managers on the move. Just a shame it's the top managers on the move. What about the sub par to bang average ones?

And limp back out of it 5 minutes later. I'm sure I've seen a few people refer to Ledley King as the best defender out of any of them, he was just constantly injured.

Absolutely agree. I always thought that G.Neville, Campbell, Ferdinand, A.Cole was as good a back four as any in the world at their peak. Not a chance you'd pick any of the current crop over the centre backs and full backs. I think Gary Neville would also have a strong case for a place.

Out of the 34 games we've won over the last 2 seasons - only 7 of them would we have needed to score 3+ to win (and four of those victories were end of season games with not a lot to play for. We've actually kept 17 clean sheets in those 34 wins.

Well considering Harry Chapman is every so slightly older, he's managed 20 league starts in his entire career compared to over 150 from Kirk. Chapman had only started 4 league games in his career by the time he turned 23, before he joined Shrewsbury.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57145394 Not sure if anyone saw this article on the BBC - I wasn't sure where to post it. Shearer and Richards selecting their top 10 Premier League winning sides. Fully expected Rovers to be left out altogether - but Shearer had Rovers at number 2.

You'd wonder why he would agree to a new contract though. Not getting games and Mowbray doesn't seemingly think a lot of him. By all accounts, it sounds like his attitude hasn't been great since he joined permanently either. After the form he showed at Shrewsbury, you'd think there would be some other clubs willing to take a chance on him. If there is genuinely a chance he stays, I think it's because the managers future is unclear. He might be waiting to see if Tony goes before deciding anything?

It's all happening!!!!