I'd love to know who your source is. This sounds like water cooler griping from the recruitment team. "Bloody manager, wants a say in who we sign. Who does he think he is?"

He's shafting my enjoyment of Blackburn Rovers, if that helps? Clearly a terrible coach, but a symptom of a wider problem.

I gather they lease out the catering to an external company, so they don't make much money from concessions. Baffling business decision I know, but that's Rovers for you.

He has - apparently he's looked bright. He's training with the first team if the video they've just released on Twitter is anything to go by (unless we have another black lad that can speak French - 'cos someone walked out of the changing rooms deep in conversation with Gueye).

A cut above Blackburn Rovers? Good lord.

Stansfield would be a massive upgrade over Sigurdsson and Dolan as the #10 - but obviously we're not paying £6m for him.

Raya had a massive mistake in him every game when he was at Rovers. I don't watch him enough to know if he's eliminated that from his game, but I assume he has for the money he's been sold for.

It's now Tuesday evening - we last played on Saturday. Does anyone have any confidence that we'll sign a player before we play again? I certainly don't. That'll be four games with Pears in goal - absolute suicide.

And yet he's still a better GK than Pears.

I wonder if they're actually allowed to settle this out of court / sell the club. I'd be surprised.

If he's anything like me when I lived in Cambridge he's losing his mind at how flat and featureless the landscape is in East Anglia and he's desperate to escape.

Analytical breakdown of the game (if you're that way inclined): https://www.pinkun.com/sport/norwich-city/24529154.norwich-2-2-blackburn-ben-lee-canaries-tactical-analysis/

Our owners find themselves in fitting company in that court room this afternoon.

He was linked about 400 pages ago - on loan.

I hope he has a Rovers shirt on under that gown.

It would leave us short at LB - you'd have 4 CMs for 2 positions (and 3 RBs for RB [with JRC doubling up]).

Kwame Poku is a winger.

Dembele, Poku, Germain, Stansfield and a GK - sell Dolan / Sigurdsson. Dream window (as far as dream windows go for this corpse of a club).

Our Youth players didn't score a dozen goals in the Championship at 20. Plus y'know, £3m used to buy you Alan Shearer. The game has changed.

I'm not so sure anymore. As spectacular as the football eventually turned out to be under JDT and the impressive achievement of nearly getting us to the Playoffs with a squad assembled for the cost of two pieces of chewing gum and a Freddo, the end was equally as spectacular. We were hurtling towards relegation.

Buckley can't get up and down the pitch enough to play as the runner in a midfield 3 and Dolan is wasted out wide (he essentially disapears).

They clearly don't play the same position and you've got to think Germain will be incredibly cheap (4 months left on his contract and coming from the J League). It surely can't be either, or. Germain has to be a bonus.

Kept us up last season when we were in free-fall, 4 points from the first 2 games this year. Passing every test with flying colours so far. Is it because he doesn't have JDT's cheeky chappy smile?

Anything on an actual professional standard GK and some wingers?

Save us, Sanjeev, you're our only hope.