Before anyone gets too excited, there's still plenty of time left for us to bugger up this transfer yet.

Dortmund will be lining up their 11th hour bid.

Put very nicely by IraC above. In addition, once assets run dry to sell (which they are about to after Szmodics), then surely there is only one outcome should the Indian government dig their heels in. Eventually at least.

Especially so when you throw in that there's just a shrug of the shoulders to a number of our higher earners only having a year remaining (Dolan, Hyam and Gallagher just 3 off the top of my head).

The absolute worst part is a few will lap it up (ahem, no names mentioned). "We've signed Danny Batth, so it's wrong to say the owners can't and won't let Eustace bring people in. Nixon is now saying we're following this up by looking to bring in X & Y". *Smacks head against brick wall*

Ah yes, thanks Steve. First up will be Danny Batth - you know that player that we spent months trying to sign last season but didn’t. Now almost 34 after barely kicking a ball last season. Real investment and creativity shown with this one. Every single thing about the club makes me feel sick.

Did the sewer rat Waggott show his face tonight?

Which moron has said this?

HowardRV7 I don’t know the chap but followed him for a while and seen him get a few things before the local media (who he’s clearly not a fan of judging by his activity!).

I meant more the timing - this guy called it pre-weekend that he’d very likely be off this week. Then cue the club saying he didn’t play at the weekend ‘as a precaution’.

A chap I follow on Twitter (not nathan Jones!) who gets a lot right, seems to think he’s off.

I'm laughing as I type this (but asking anyway) but Pasha won't be there will he?

I'd wager they'll be keen to keep him until the 20th August unless our valuation is met - whatever that looks like (I mean, who is even qualified to determine what it should be?!). If the case doesn't go well (for Venky's) then he'll be off to the first bidder.

A celebratory drink at best. I’ll be partying like we’ve won the champions league when that lot finally fuck off, though.

These lads were our equivalent in the German second tier last season. We look miles off it unsurprisingly.

Our options from the bench last season were appalling to say the least. This comings season’s will blow that out of the water, though.

You may just about still get 11/2. A license to print money as Mercer would say.

‘Blackburn are speaking with X’ ’Issue over terms and length of deal’ ’Probably won’t get done but could. Come back next week for more of the same’.

Cooper is just this years Batth. On top of that we have even less of a pot to piss in than this time last year. What a tragic time to be a Rover.

We probably have spoken to Cooper et al’s representatives as Nixon implies. However I don’t see why he finds it so funny; we then clearly offer them such a derogatory amount / shit terms, which means they won’t touch us with a barge pole. This summer really is shaping up to be a cracker.

Lump on the relegation odds soon, because it’s now becoming known outside of Blackburn just how much of a mess we’re in:

In talks with Liam Cooper according to the LET. https://tinyurl.com/y8brf75w

Szmodics may keep the lights on slightly longer, but certainly beyond next summer at the very latest (Easter perhaps) they/we are goosed.

Exactly this. Personally speaking I wouldn't care about what he's got to say, because at the end of the day he won't have a clue about the bigger picture or direction of the 'owners'.

A damning indictment of our recruitment team too. Rovers just absolutely stink from top to bottom - a shell of this once proud club.