The word “arguably” was the key word in the sentence.

Hasn’t Mowbray said in the not too recent past that he’s looking to evolve the team’s style of play? In that sense this signing would make perfect sense.

That’s a goal every 2.8 games which equates to over 16 games a season (playing in a Pulis team out of position).

Oh look, it’s gone up by another 10k now!

All of this is only valid if we actually want the lad, obviously.

Some folk still fail to understand that in football, transfer fees are never paid as one large chunk.

Only Rovers fans could be unsure about the possibility of signing arguably the league’s best striker! We’re a special bunch aren’t we!

We’ve learnt he watches the pennies so he’s currently travelling up on horse and cart as we speak. May arrive by Friday lunchtime.....

Come on lads and lasses let’s get to 150 pages before Chappers signs. 150 pages before a signing must be a record!

Haha this board is comedy gold at times. Venkys get crapped on for not investing adequately (quite rightly) but then when the cash is stumped up we get told that we should be doing a much slower build! Others are saying we should only be signing players that go straight into the first 11 but then when one of those is rumoured to join they say “how could we possibly afford him”. It’s like spinning around in a circle of negativity at times. Let’s just dream for once and get a good nights sleep.

Boro fans over on their forum seem to think that a sale of Assombalonga would have been likely this window due to needing to balance the books, but they are shocked that we are the club ‘supposedly’ in for him.

Mowbray tomorrow morning: Ben, we’ve sort of been working on this deal......

Me too! But the point still stands, if that one can happen then so can this imo.

They all know bugger all about our transfer dealings. They were all in denial about BB until he was driving up the M6.

How many of his own false teeth has Balaji pulled out to sanction this move?

That implies meeting an agent to me or somebody from Middlesbrough.

Surely we must

Thank God Shelfy isn’t in charge of the Fax machine.

70% chance or 70% completed?

Does sound too good to be true for Rovers doesn’t it!

Let’s see what happens over the next few days. Let’s not shoot the messenger just yet.

Honestly we are just glad that you’re sharing what you know. Nothing better than a spicy transfer thread!

If this Assombalonga deal is indeed on then surely we can’t be getting Gallagher as well?

Seriously? How much would Assombalonga cost and what would his wages be?

Kodjia?