It appears that Cantwell is an additional signing to the Keeper, LB, CM and Winger that the club and manager have stated they need. Cantwell is a creative #10. In his best version, we’ve got someone who will play behind Gueye or Yuki and look to thread passes in behind for willing runners. He *should get 15+ goal contributions (Goals and assists) in our team. He’s had off field / attitude problems levelled at him, but if he hits his straps, he’s arguably one of the best players in the division. If this gets done for £600k, John Park probably needs a knighthood! Expect medicals completed for TC and Toth (Keeper) today, and announcements tonight / tomorrow morning 🤞🏽

Ohh ffs 🤦🏽‍♂️🤣🤣

Bang on mate… I have no idea when anyone would give a fuck, either way. There’s a million reasons why it could be London they met, none of them are any of our concern! It doesn’t matter..🤷🏽‍♂️🤣

Did anybody feel / see a change in Eustace’s body language / reaction to the transfer question in his post match interview last night? He looked more relaxed and confident…

I can safely say John Eustace knows more about football than you.

Yeah, thanks. I think we can probably trust our Head Coach, John Eustace who signed, worked with and managed Dembele, to make that professional call. Right?

Standard practice. Scroll past him mate…

Plus a CM - JRC is not an adequate back up.

Here’s my theory / guess…budget was set for a keeper, Lb, CM and Winger as reported. Then Cantwell as an additional signing, starts to gather pace and they need to find £15-20k per week to pay him. So they’re currently scrambling to make room by renegotiating wages for potential new signings and switching - forget Rushworth and Travers on PL money…whilst looking if they can offload Vale, Batty etc. Carnage. Hope we / they don’t fuck this up! 🤦🏽‍♂️🙏🏽🤞🏽

Team…. Pears Brittain. Carter. Hyam. Pickering Travis Sonny Weimann Dolan Hedges Gueye Subs - New Keeper, Batth, Mcfadz, Beck, JRC, Bucko, Siggy, Ohashi, New winger or CAM. Burnley 0-1 Rovers - First Clean sheet, Big Mak to rise up over Turf Moor to head in the winner!

Flat throughout…missed a few chances to put them to bed and let them in. The change was uncharacteristic and I suspect he wanted to trial three at the back but it destabilised us. Individually, we gave them two goals. Most players were below average. L Duru, Bucko, Carter, Siggy Weimann and Gueye did ok. JRC was poor on Saturday and worse today. Lesson - JRC isn’t a CM. We don’t look comfy with 3 at the back.

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Yeah, you’re absolutely right! Haha The key to Waggotts ‘statements’ lie not with what he says but with what he doesn’t. ”I can confirm that the owners are fully committed to the club and have no impediment to funding it…” Which cunningly leads the reader to believe all is well, but just because you have no impediment, doesn’t mean you will, and technically it’s ALL there money so in effect, the ARE funding the club. He just thinks we’re all bloody stupid!

Pears Duru Batth McFadz. Pickering Trav. Bucko Vale. Weimann. Siggy Gueye Subs - Hilton, Brittain, Hyam, Batty, Sonny, Dolan, JRC, Ohashi. Reasoning - I reckon a Keeper and LB are imminent (before weekend cut off) so Pears and Pickering are covered, if necessary. Have no option but to play Sonny or Trav and Gueye or Ohashi. Prediction - 4-0 - Gueye, Weimann, Siggy and Ohashi off the bench.

Please understand, I want them to spend the full £41m - every fuckin penny! 🤣🤣 I just find it odd that we’d expect them to spend when they’re £200m in. Fwiw, I think it’s the Cashflow which is really restricting us. They’ve pumped 10-20m in every season. Hope we find at least £5m in transfer fees by Friday 🤞🏽

Hmm…I don’t think you can say we “won it” bearing in mind we’ve had to sell our Crown Jewels to generate the £400. Either way, you’re still £2k in a hole, and kicking off because you can’t spunk it away on some new jeans! My point is, we’re (the club) is not £41m up, it’s £160m down. By choice, I’d still like the jeans, btw…👍🏼🙏🏽

I hate to say it, because I want us to spend some money too…but why do people keep going on and on about us ‘banking £41m?” The owners are £200m in, so it’s like having £2k on your credit card, paying £400 off and suddenly thinking you’re flush! 🤦🏽‍♂️🤣 This is the type of logic my wife would apply!

I don’t trust it…that was my point!!

GK - Travers LB - Beck CM - Baker or Seung-ho Paik LW - Dembele CAM - Cantwell I’d take that 👍🏼

But, but Parks wants him!! How dare you go against the structure!? Didn’t you know that’s how they do this recruiting thing these days? 👀

It was never going to be a permanent LB. Not with Batty on the books… I must admit, when I saw his name, and Loan from Liverpool,m, I did think, “Please don’t be a winger”

Defo got a touch of the Andy Robertsons about him. Looks a little light weight but has experience in the SPL last season where he played regularly until Liverpool recalled him. Here we go!!!

Saying he didn’t know much about them doesn’t mean he said no to them. Whereas it seems that he’s actively against these others. Why is that? I don’t know the answer but I don’t believe for a second that he’s trying to sign Dembele, Hall and Stansfield from Brum because they’re his pals! If he wants them, it’s because he believes they’re the best of the presented options, surely?

How do you know he wasn’t keen on Ohashi and Gueye? He admitted that he didn’t know much about them but here’s a thought…maybe he watched all the videos, read the reports, listened to the analysts at multiple ‘recruitment meetings’ and thought “Dya know what, they look really good” before giving them his seal of approval. In contrast, maybe he’s reviewed the same info featuring Germain, Matondo, Yeboah etc and thinks that Dembele is better? It would make no sense for him to want a seemingly inferior player, just because he knows them. Heres another suggestion, maybe the board are pushing so hard for Germain et Al because they’re all cheap as fuck, whilst JE wants them to get their hand in the their pockets!?

It’s not just numbers though…because if, as suggested by recent reports and them not being picked, JE didn’t rate enough to play Moran, Markanday Vale and Telalovic then effectively they were not even in the reckoning last season. So losing them plus Gally and gaining Yuki, Gueye and Weimann will make the manager feel like he has improved squad depth. The only player Rovers will miss out of that lot is SS. The rest were crap.