Me too. I had a look at how Eustace set up when Brum came to Ewood season before last. They played 3-4-3 then as well, or 5-2-3 (however it’s described) As discussed the other day on here, I think he’ll be looking to bring in a pacey RW and a LW this summer.

Eustace is a fan of Travis according to the LT today. I can see him and Tronstad in a 2 man CM.

Haha, It’ll be carnage!

Chaddy being held to account for Rovers lack of signings is next level frustration!

Doesn’t look like it. 2 other agencies have 3 Rovers players on their books (according to the link above)

What does your 2nd sentence mean?

Ok thanks, thought it was a bit odd. If it is true I’m just hoping it’s 3 shite players that are being jettisoned.

Has an agent with 3 Rovers players on his books got Venkys Out as his profile picture?!

Exactly what he said when I sent him the pictures.

Send them a quick email telling them about the issues with the club IT and that you want them to honour the early bird offer. Tell them to email you confirmation that they will honour it, and then sort it when you have a bit more time.

Kargbo Grabbi

What’s your number out of interest?

Yes, that was it ‘smashed’….whatever that means! maybe we’ve sold 8k already.

I remember when we were in League One, us and Wigan had a wage spend of about 4x higher than the next highest, who I think was Shrewsbury. Shrewsbury came 3rd as I recall. John Williams used to say you could, with only a few exceptions, predict a Prem league table before the season started based on how much each team spent on wages. I think that’s increasing true of every league in the EFL too.

You’re preaching to the converted, I’d be amazed if there wasn’t a decent budget based on who we’ve sold and the money coming into the club this summer (providing of course the funding issue has been resolved as per the club statement). The players you have suggested us as being linked with seem to suggest there is quite a substantial budget?

Yeah, it just said ‘budget’ on the forum so it could mean anything, but the apparent headline from Nixon on his website was that Brum would ‘blow their rivals away’ with £20m budget. I just assumed that meant transfer budget but it could just mean wages.

I thought it was that we’d already sold more early birds than last season in total? Someone linked the club twitter post in this thread. I may have misremembered.

We’ve sold more early birds than last season according to the club so last seasons poor performance may not be a big factor. I think the price reduction and the cheap kids tickets have gone down well.

The forum is Small Heath Alliance. the first comment after the £20m is revealed is ‘Nixon is clueless’ or words to that effect. someone also comments that Paik may move on but not somewhere ‘shit like Blackburn’.

That would make a great Rovers 3rd kit. Only real men would wear it.

The benchmark is how many we sold last season after the early bird ended. We aren’t guessing that figure.

You seem to be making a lot of assumptions based on zero evidence. A lot can happen in the next 2 months.

How do you know we’ve no money?

How many did we sell after the early bird deadline last summer? That will probably be a more accurate benchmark.

Reading Brum’s fans forum and Nixon has said they have £20m budget to get out of League 1.