not quite all... I didn't... because Tony already told us we aren't signing anyone cuz we got no FFP headroom.... and for ONCE I believe him. We can't even afford Ollie Rathbone. We couldn't even afford Myles Anderson.

Mowbray says focus could be on the lower leagues for new recruits, but that figures being quoted in the early weeks of the window have priced Rovers out. Confirmation we can't even afford to shop in poundland. Close the thread.

Factually incorrect. We ARE skint. Last time I looked, being £150 mill in debt qualified as SKINT. Venkys are not skint if that was what you meant. If they are happy to fight FFP investigation in 12 months they can spend as much as they like and make sure we get to the PL this year. £60 million gratefully received.... ? No... thought not... throwing good money after bad. Tony won't get sacked (because the owners think hes good, as they did with Owen and Steve) and he won't walk either because he has the safest pension slush fund in English football.

He wasn't a centre forward either but bearing in mind every player at the club bar Downing is regressing (and we now have a thread on most of them) this needs explaining. Today TM is saying Gallagher needs to learn how to head it, when to run, when to jump, etc. Fundamental basics ? I watched Liverpool schoolboys teach Everton yesterday. 16 - 19yos dominating a PL side. I thought... bring any one of them lads here on loan and it will end their career.

Pretty confident you don't get to Sam's age at a PL club if you don't even understand the basics of playing centre forward. I imagine the problem is taking daily centre forward lessons off a centre half. Alright buying these players to develop but who is doing the developing ?

Almost 19,000 against Wigan. This game should be 22,000. It will be around 15,000 mainly due to away fans thinking it's their cup final. Wrong Price and Poor Quality keeping thousands away.

Hasn't this thread been closed yet? No money (to spend). No hope. Developing young players.... not here. That would involve good coaches. We have cheap coaches. That is why none of our young players progress and why our senior players regress. The whole coaching staff need replacing. Too many analysts not enough experienced pros on the grass working with players. Venus, Lowe, Benson all need replacing with more capable coaches. Even the cones need replacing.

£28... I don't think so. Like Ben Brereton.... What a waste of money !

This is just bollocks. The lad is either a kid and should be playing with them, or he's a first team striker and will be expected to score 20 goals plus or he can go elsewhere. 20,000 used to boo Keith Andrews every week because he was complete shite and below the expectations of a Blackburn Rovers player. I don't doubt it included many of these so called fans who have become aware of mental health as the latest fashion. If he can't hack it then it says it all. Knuckle down and prove everyone wrong... or everyone is right. Simple fact is a striker has an instinct and he doesn't. You can't coach instinct. Either have it or don't. What if Mowbray cries ? Give him a sympathy job 4 life ? What if Balaji cries ? What if Cheston cries ? What if Don Trump cries ? Is one person worth more than another ? Embarrassing discussion. Even more embarrassing, fans trying to call out other fans for allegedly booing BB and making him cry. Incidentally, as Duncan alludes to, it is 99% likely to be total bullshit.

I thought the exact same thing.

no gold rush cup run

out the cup rubbish

Arma finished it well

What should happen now is that we should go on to win 3-1. The sub was sent off. Was on the pitch for 1 minute 38 seconds

Gally been lively second half. deserved that pen.

Brereton was like a lost child in that first half. Downing, Arma and Bell playing well. Rothwell anonymous.

It's also always going to be the case that ANY professional goalkeeper who comes here is not going to develop under a coach who once had a do in the nets between 2 jumpers and read a "how to be a goalkeeper" book. Absolute piss poor. On a par with tin pot Judan Ali. Like having the kid behind the bar in the BBE who can't pull a pint telling Danny Graham how to score goals. Hang on... is that who coaches our £12mill duds ?

yep ! I'm actually glad he came out and told us we have got fuck all so at least we aren't going to spend the next month looking for links and debating bullshit and then another 2 months theorising why it didn't happen. Still.... demoralising hardly covers it.

When Graham scored the other day we were joint 3rd....

good point well made.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50978201

Indeed.... WTAF ! Preparing for the inevitable move to take over from our Tony so can hardly blame him.

Agree. We could sell a 3 year sponsorship on the stadium for £10 million and call it Venkyland. I do wonder if it has already happened (all the Venky signs) but never announced and in next year's accounts. There will be loads of scams we could pull if Babu actually did something creative.

Just read the Mowbray statement that we have no money and won't be doing any business. Pretty obvious from the accounts. Because we can't sell Dack any spend will bang us straight into FFP. If Sheff Utd did come for Lenihan I doubt he would have a choice. Pretty sure we would sell him and look for a freebie replacement on less wages. Forget the football side of things now. It's 100% about the finances and FFP making all the decisions. The only "Dack Plan" has gone up in smoke. Even KPMG didn't have a plan B. Good that Gladwin has gone. Expecting about 4 more to go. Smallwood, Evans, Bell, Samuel.

He appears to have played in our last two u23s games.