KentExile

What I will add is that even once an arrangement is made - the initial fee will likely be a few £100K at most, with the lions share being based on future appearances, his part (if any) in Newcastle's successes, International appearances, sell on % etc - Rovers will probably never announce it anyway

as per the previous post, no settlement had been agreed as of early November (according to Nixon).

Short answer is "no" Everything we know (I think) is attached above

"Aaron", like "Madonna", I guess?

match report https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2026/january/26/report--rovers-under-21s-5-0-birmingham-city-under-21s/

He isn't a "youth player" if that's what you mean?, he signed a pro deal in 2024 His contract expires at the end of the season, and he is apparently not being offered a new one, so will be a free agent then. Youth trials are pretty common, its the parent club doing right by the player and trying to get them fixed up elsewhere. We did the same a couple of years ago with Tom Bloxham from Spurs in the second half of one season before signing him in the summer

Is it possible that last time they hadn't put massive wage reduction clauses into players contracts for relegation to League one? But that this time they have? Still have the loss of revenue to factor in, as you say

Pretty sure that what is done in these cases is that there will e different loan fees and/or wage contributions payable if the player features in over or under x% of minutes he is available to play during his loan spell, with less payable if he hits of exceeds the threshold

Normally I wouldn't put anything past Rudy/Pasha/Venkys etc, but, he had zero appearances when he signed that contract and whatever his wage may go up to, would probably still be less than the 25-50% share of Cashin's wage we are paying Also, I is my understanding that if there was wage increase linked to appearances, it would by more likely to trigger once he had made the 10th appearance (so would already be in effect), not once he had surpassed 10 appearances

I wouldn't have thought so. They have been trying Powell centrally for a while (personally think this is strange as he looks like he will be the perfect fit at wing back when he builds himself up a bit), and Dlamini is a wide player Tyjon (2) Trialist, Garrett & Powell with the goals so far 5-0 up trialist off the bench was a 19 year old winger/wide forward, Osman Kamara from Arsenal

It seems that way. Joseph on the bench for when that proves to be ineffective Michalski Houghton Carter Pratt Batty Vare Garrett Doherty Powell Dlamini Tyjon

U21s team for this afternoons game with Birmingham Of the starting 11, only Vare (who has been named on the first team bench) & Houghton have never featured for our first team, which may be some sort of record for us? There is also a game v Preston tomorrow afternoon which will probably see a younger team

Obviously he wasn't nearly as shit (*), but I always thought that Souness was teetering on the verge of the sack when Newcastle paid us compensation to take him to the North East * Souness was great for us in the most part but did seem to be self destructing and falling out with everyone just before he left

Maybe they are trying to offload both, and the first taker that they got was some foreign team for Ribeiro? Both are superfluous to the current system, and bizarrely, even when we played a back 4 yesterday we did so without a left back on the pitch