Spot on Mike. Socks look rank but the jersey is awesome I think! Agreed on DG same awful tactics of last year, look better defensively obviously Damian Johnson’s impact. Weve got the players but they look 70 percent under Mowbray all the time Arfield should have hit the net

No the bet I’ve made even game thus far, Johnno looks unfit tho. Rovers seemingly no tactic shape change from last year, rangers pressing all the time

Brilliant support brilliant stadium, shame we’ve not picked the best side to give them a game

3-1 to rangers

Line up Jayson Bennett Lenihan Mulgrew Bell Evans Johnson Downing Dack Armstrong Graham

No Gallagher in squad. Looks uninspiring as a line up. Mowbrayesque the most negative manager we’ve had

Been looking forward to this all week especially given Rangers are my Scottish back home team and Blackburn being the team I’ve supported since a boy and having family from nearby. Should be on Rangers TV. Rangers have had quite. A few friendlies and started the Euro qualifiers so should be fitter than us given our lack of preparation this pre season. Fancy Rangers 2-1 as looks like we are still getting minutes into players who’ve only just joined us. Gers are looking forward to it too: http://forum.rangersmedia.co.uk/topic/323544-official-rangers-v-blackburn-rovers-thread/#comments Played for both teams? Then of course Souness who’s been at the Rangers summer camp this year. Hope he’s there today! Khizanishivilli Tugay Ostenstaad Ferguson Berg Daily Diouf Beattie Any more? ??

I agree but when you’ve a contract on the table and some of the games he’s had and where he is now I don’t think it’d be right to keep someone not fully committed

If he gets 15 goals plus he’s doubled in value. Asset sales against what we know will always be losses so how long have we got? persinally for me it’s this season or we strip and start again

Being honest it’s a question which I’d like to see a journalist from the LT or the fans forum ask? It’s quite important in my eyes, if the clubs honest I think more fans would be understanding of rovers transfer business. Is there a forum soon? It’s a question which would allay fans fears of having a Dack sold this summer. By my maths I think we are good for 18 months but Dack is sellable to bring us under FFP and givesroom to reinvest some proceeds and offset a years loss. Is the latest account loss exempt from FFP and part of SCMP? Where a huge loss hit? We must be still at a 10 per annum plus trading costs deficit purely based on salaries exceeding income basis. Our salary bill is quoted mid tier in the championship, given youth progression and under 24 and 10 appearances from memory including staff and academy how much of the cost of these is exempt? Given we’ve missed some targets on fees as they’ve rose with more bidders have we offset the wages against fee principle and signed the likes of Johnson? We are safe as a club, nothing tangible to strip, ground ain’t disappearing soon, it’s VLL the parent company owing the debt away from Rovers with guarantees from the VH group to operate and cover losses. Reality is club is deep for the overdraft at the moment. I can’t believe the FL negotiated Media rights so low for this league the most sixth watched, buying PL reserves is what’s busting most clubs hence we can’t compete with out going away from the model. It’s sensible how we are operating at the moment, it’s like how we used to too, we are relying on selling a gem or in the case of this year promotion. Personally promotion sees venkys offset share value off for a PL team sale about 80million, bank a tranche of sky dosh and lose half the lost already. If they stay we don’t spend we go down with the last 7 years being de ja vu. SBOI surely don’t hold assets of what they’ve loaned. For me SBOI difference is probably an asset of securities held, venkys want that back as I believe it’s land has rocketed, SBOI won’t loan more won’t recall following this KPMG new business British model

Judging by nickos 350 k and 15 percent to Plymouth I make by my maths it’s 2.25 million upfront. Rest over his length of contract adding to 5 million to male amortisation better. Meaning those pilgrims thinking 750k on 5 million are right but as with transfer fees the sell ons. Between clubs are also staggered on payment structure

Our wage slips to rovers employees have been from a trust, the accounts suggests venkys group I don’t think they’ve actually inflated sums to cream off us as none are VH employees only VLL. They’ve stood the costs of bad singings, pay offs, umpteen managers and trading at a loss on income to salary for years that is where it’s gone. Im no venky fan I’ve protested handed out flyers at Ewood you name it but actually they’re behaving and making decisions at the moment worthy of a custodian of a football club. Good luck to them hope it continues, I hope we go up they recoup half there debt which seemed unlikely 2 years ago and sell us recouping even more. We can’t complain at the moment, we can’t begrudge legacy issues but we are where we are and they seem to be actually along with Cheston and Co putting a plan together quietly which might against odds work. Souness once said said “we’ve got to wee with the willy we’ve got” seems to me we are doing that

10 million last summer plus wages Gally and Johnno wages plus what comes in goalkeeping wise. Investing not trading, I’m going to say thanks through gritted teeth to venkys.

We’ve one year of 15 million losses. I think those qualify under SCMP anyways so we’ve got a reset hence our going for it this year. If we fail we will sell next year. It’s quite good planning really.

Agree with the moneyball type comment but it’s usually Venus what does the scouting as he brought in Bulgarians and all sorts from abroad at Coventry. I don’t their scouting was better than ours and equally dismantled. Still least it’s not Paddy McNair linked again this morning!

Possibly for some reason I thought Magloire started there!

I thought Tyler started out upfront though?

Grayson was asked yesterday on Adam.... was a wait and see type answer saying he keeps his cards close to his chest. Think CA is topping up fitness, can see Butterfield signing though.

New New Lenihan New Williams Rothwell Dack Johnno Arma Graham Gally Like Balajis total football

https://mobile.twitter.com/Rovers/status/1150072392196218880

Galley signed

Gally, Adrian, a Jonas Ramalho released by Girona at centre back or right back and lazar markovich releases from Liverpool and I’d see up promoted ?

Heard anything about Josh Sims on loan too as part of the deal?

Wonder what Eldin Jakupovic is up too? Leicester 3 rd choice! Thought he was decent at hull myself. Mentioned this lad before, would be a great trialist: Heinz Lindner, plenty of Austria caps and on a free, good age of 27 and 6ft 2. Decent shot stopper, nicknamed the wall at Grasshoppers. Sign him up Tony!

Who’s is agent has he got no GKs?