Tronstad is a better player than Travis in my opinion. Decent with both feet, blocks or intercepts almost everything at times and retains the ball better. I'm sure plenty disagree but I was shocked at how good he was in some games last year. Travis is more legs, in your face, passion, less technique... but I'd rather they were both out there. You need to retain those qualities and that kind of depth if you want to do anything serious in this league.

That's called a severely underfunded rebuild. How lucky we are!

Madness. What kind of message does this send to any high performing player at Rovers. You might still never hear from us with a new contract no matter how well you do...... pathetic leadership and convoluted ownership, unable to get any results. This isn't how football clubs are ran!!!! #Venky's Out!

Ah I see the imaginary war chest has been unlocked again. Unbelievable.

Our offers aren't serious for any of the more ambitious targets so they are right to play him until Oxford come in.

Get out and take the players to a club with better ownership. Simple and an attractive sell. Rovers will always be at a disadvantage while owned by Venky's. Better, more fan engaged days will be ahead of us if we can somehow change ownership, regardless of the division we end up playing in. Our owners are not interested in doing whatever it takes for Blackburn Rovers to win trophies, avoid relegations and earn promotions. What more does a fan need than that to want new owners.

It appears as though Danny Batth could have been tied down to a new 1 year deal in January by a well organised football club, with proper, interested executives supported by a good owners. That's the only catch... A Blackburn Rovers of a different era.

Personally think Rovers did well to get 90% of the business done before pre-season with 90% of the budget spent. Good luck Val....... you'll need it!

Batth and Hyam had a great partnership... I saw them work well together aerially on nearly every long ball and Hyam looked improved, it disappeared when Carter came in. A new CB is needed, a new striker is needed and a new winger is needed. All should cost decent money and make the first 11. Arguably need a better keeper too and right back cover. Get moving... !

I think the key to any successful sports team is having a setup that managers aren't desperate to walk away from...... Yet unfathomably inside the ground on a match day, some morons look confused by a Venky's out chant.

"That he's a snake." 😂

We are experts in making offers that are definitely not enough. We are so shoe-strung we spend that long messing about on fees that we always miss out on the better "targets" that come with competition, even when they're heavily discounted. De Lange last summer being the prime example of this. Val wanted 90% of his business done before pre-season. Which contradicts what some fans say on here about patience - that hasn't got us anywhere. It's about getting the targets in as quickly as possible so that they can bed in and increase your chances of a successful campaign. We have billionaire owners but are constantly scraping the barrel and missing out. As it stands today we have 1 new signing training with the first team, no one has heard of him and are short on the following players from last year: Dolan Weimann Batth Woodrow Dennis Cozier-Dubbery Beck Sanderson That's a lot of minutes missing.... from a team that wasn't good enough to get the playoffs. We haven't picked up any astute free transfers, some of these have resale value which would have been key to our model if not spending, in the mould of Viktor Johansson from last year; these are the fine lines that means we haven't and never will make the playoffs under Venky's due to a non-competitive approach in the market: As it stands this isn't a rebuild, it's simply a lot of time wasting and a seemingly major inability to tie down any valuable senior players to attractive long term contracts. There's not a chance we paid millions for Taveres. Career wise he isn't even a player that would be worth £2m, it's nonsense... but they will advertise it during the next crisis video. We have all of the signs of a team operating without any influential senior executives... and still, distant owners. As a result current players are holding off from committing, or know they can get a better offer elsewhere.

If you think Dolan's going upwards from here career wise you'll be in for a shock. He's trying to get a move to a team, any team, that otherwise wouldn't typically pay a transfer fee to sign him. Either way I don't think he will have much of an impact wherever he goes, yes we could end up missing him since we relied far too heavily on him, I'll say it again... due to a lack of investment in his position to give him any sort of decent competition... Other teams probably wouldn't miss him as much since they'd spend a million or two on a replacement. He definitely won't get as many minutes as he did with us as close to the Championship top 6 again. If he somehow manages to fluke a prem move off the back of some decent Sky performances and OTT punditry with us, I can guarantee you he won't feature.

We love joining a race.

Personally think we are already 90% done 😄 Good luck Val!