KentExile

Sounds like our sort of signing, 30 years old, history of knee injures, and played just over 40 league games over the past 4 seasons, also out of contract at the end of the season

I took it as a recent quote, but speaking of an event in the past (when Naglesman was at Bayern) My point was not that he may move to Bayern, more that he is more in the spotlight, people are talking about him, and that will lead to more interest Completely agree that he will be sold by summer at the latest (probably at a moment just as opportune as when Hyam left this summer) Looks like this may be the original tweet, from earlier this week, seems to be from a dissection of Hungary's failure to qualify for the world cup

The chances of him staying become slimmer and slimmer https://x.com/RoversXtra/status/1990795411007943039 Péter Gulácsi on Balázs Tóth: “I can say that when Nagelsmann became Bayern Munich coach, he asked me about Toth. His name had already appeared in Bayern's scouting system as the third goalkeeper, and I had nothing but good things to say about him.”

Farkas', Boggans & Sergeants games this evening have been called off. Edmondson is unsurprisingly not involved for Macclesfield in their Cheshire Seniors Cup game

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25630051.blackburn-rovers-transfer-battle-vs-premier-league-vultures/ Blackburn Rovers are continuing to face a fight to retain their hottest Academy talents with admiring glances from the Premier League. Rovers' youth set up is famed in English football, with Adam Wharton the most recent high-profile player to emerge from the Brockhall Senior Training Centre. Retaining talent to ensure they can graduate to the first-team has been a tough challenge. Igor Tyjon is currently stalling on his first professional deal whilst the club recently lost Rory Finneran. Tottenham eventually got Ash Phillips after years of interest. Head of Academy, Paul Gray, has conceded that remains the club's toughest challenge. "It's a huge challenge. You've seen recently that we've managed to keep players like Adam Wharton for a good few years," Gray told RoversTV. "I think he signed two or three contracts before leaving to go to Crystal Palace and obviously the club got the rewards with the transfer fee that they got for Adam and the future payments that we could also get. "But then on the flip side, we lost Rory (Finneran) at the age of 16 to Newcastle, which was a real tough one to take after he'd been with us since the age of eight. But it's hard. We've got huge Premier League clubs with huge, huge budgets. "It's tough and it's starting to go younger down. The scout lists for our games are extremely long. We're getting offers of compensation for players as young as 11. "We managed to keep some of them. There are others that we don't manage to keep and some that move on. But we've just got to keep doing what we're doing, selling our environment, showing people that there's a pathway at this football club. "You're then hoping that the parents and the players can see the light at the end of the tunnel here rather than maybe going for the bright lights elsewhere."Igor Tyjon battles for possession (Image: CameraSport - Lee Parker) The arrival of Jordan Rhodes as Loan Manager has seen a shift in approach. Rovers are now pushing to field younger Under-21 teams and allow those at the top of the age range to find move in the pyramid for experience. "The most important thing is getting players into the first team," Gray said. "It's about the individual development of the players. So I think we're now seeing Kristi have his breakthrough season, so that's really good for us. "In the last few games, he's come on as a substitute. He's had a real impact in a few games now. "In terms of the 21s and the 18s, you'll notice that we're quite young. With Jordan Rhodes coming in now, we've got a loan strategy, so we don't want 20, 21-year-olds playing in the under-21s, really. "We'd rather be playing 16, 17, 18-year-olds in the Under-21s. That's the strategy. We want to be quite young in the under-21s." Ex-Rovers player Josh Morris has spent some time working in the Academy recently. He is working with the Under-15 group, as Matt Derbyshire did previously having come through the ranks at Ewood Park. "Josh has just come back in and he is working with our Under-15s now and again," he explained. "So he's just another one who's been here as a young player. He's seen it, he's done it. He's then moved away and he's had a really good career in football. "So, yes, he's back and he's at the start of his coaching journey. But, yes, he's done a really good job so far."

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/november/17/-it-s-a-very-attractive-club-and-the-pathway-is-there-/

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25626189.adam-wharton-triggers-blackburn-rovers-transfer-clause/ Jackson claiming it has been triggered, Maybe he and Nixon will have pistols at dawn to sort out who is correct I suppose it is possible that there are 2 clauses, one for first competitive start & another for 5 competitive games?

https://sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/revealed-the-blackburn-files-from

An Albanian team that were also demoralised after finally going behind I would have very much liked to have seen how Wharton got on from that point, but he was replaced as soon as England went ahead, so he never got a chance to show play against a "different" Albanian team

We cant do that, too much money is made selling names on shirts 😉

retired I think edit - yep, spent most of his post Rovers career with Oldham & then moved to Port Vale before retiring in the summer https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jayson-leutwiler/profil/spieler/52598

One would hazard a guess that he was under instructions to reveal that info, as it means that there is no possibility of reaching 5 competitive caps before the transfer window, so it gives them another excuse as to why there is next to no transfer budget come January

Also true, but it was Mowbray dropping him that made him want to leave and eventually move on to Brentford. But then again we did use the money from that sale to buy the goal scoring colossus that was Sam Gallagher, so it all ended well 😉

Don't forget the dark days when he dropped Raya for Leutwiler

£3M up front, £5M from the sell on, and there was another add on when he made his debut for Spain, not sure what that amount was,but pretty safe to say it was over £9M in total