Which has nothing to do with Venky’s ability to fund the club going forward.

We did discuss it and the above is your interpretation. I was merely adding a bit of balance by stating what the official line from the club is, which contradicts your interpretation of the current state of play. They clearly state there are no future impediments by the Indian Authorities to Venky’s funding the club as long as they match future funding with a bond. if the club are being disingenuous we’ll find out soon enough, but there isn’t anything clever about their stated position, it’s very clear as @Miller11 confirmed in the Trust thread.

The issue, in so far as it affects Venky’s ability to fund Rovers, is resolved according to the club statement issued via WATR.

Leonard’s movement was excellent under JDT, it got him in some really good positions. Problem was he kept missing. I think there’s a player in there, hopefully next season he can push on, either here or out on loan in League 1.

Oh right, must have missed that.

Think Luton might be losing their manager too, possibly to Ipswich if rumours are to be believed.

This summer is pivotal really. If the club gets it wrong again like last summer we are in the mire. We got away with it this year due to szmodics.

When Eliot was here which of ‘our own’ was he blocking from developing? And were they as good as Eliot? some loans are excellent. Some are shite. I think this years loans have been poor. I think Broughton did well on signing up academy players and getting the assets tied down, but his work in the transfer market was mainly poor.

I think the model is to sell players before their contract expires. If Siggy, Dolan and Gally, who all have 1 year left, indicate they won’t sign another contract then they’ll have to be sold. Sammie will leave as soon a someone puts in an acceptable bid. so it looks like being a big rebuilding job up front this summer, unless the players with only a year left sign new contracts. Even so, we’d still need a sammie replacement plus a striker and winger at the very least.

You seem to be a person in the know. What’s the situation with the funding? Will we be able to spend money this summer even if nobody is sold?

I think he’s on about Nixon

On here? I haven’t seen any of that but surprising if so. He’s a decent Championship player who contributes a lot more than people realise, but he shouldn’t be one of the top earners.

It wouldn’t surprise me if Gally, Siggy, Dolan and Sammie all got sold this summer

I know what he was saying, I was just pointing out we wouldn’t be giving him away for nothing or else we wouldn’t have triggered his contract. The fact Ipswich were willing to pay £1.5m for him suggests he will have other suitors and that he’s not as bad as he’s made out.

Why would be get rid of him for nothing, he’s under contract?

I’m glad we’re looking to sign wingers. Eustace signed that Brighton winger that we had on loan (Khedra?) when he was Brum manager so I think he likes pace out wide. Make a change have some pace out wide.

Season tickets are £280 at Chorley

Park left Rangers dec 23 and joined Mowbray at Brum in Jan 24 as head of overseas scouting. He may well be available now Mowbray has left.

It will be a good test. FWIW I think whoever it is knows his or her stuff.

Waggott And The Rao’s they used to be known as Hootie And The Blowfish.

Encouraging early signs. We’ll have sold out before we get to the 2nd phase at this rate.

There’s definitely one hiding in plain sight. maybe this Abbey chap is another one, a sort of Kim Philby character who will be called back to the motherland at some point to spend his remaining days in Pune.

Cheers for the info guys, we’ll see if any funds are sent between now and August.

I wonder how many won’t renew due to the new TV deal?

No probs kid. oh and there is a Pash bot on here. Let me know if you ever work it out.