Our second highest goals contributor (goals+assists) has his last chance saloon away to the league leaders. Ok...

No pace for the counterattack in a game we expect to be under the cosh.

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/blackburn-rovers-transfer-fee-details-emerge-as-todd-cantwell-deal-edges-closer/ This talks about Nicko (well connected through his mate Park at the time) reporting his wage here is 'slightly less' than his salary at Rangers. Which seems to generally be reported as being 22-25k from what I can see. So, he almost certainly isn't on 30k. Likely our highest paid player though, probably by some distance given the wages we have shed recently. I'd guess he's on 20k here, personally, despite what 'capology' thinks.

I would imagine he's on about 4-6k. I'd be totally fine paying him 8k per week and I'd consider anything up to about 10k.

Well, if you don't, it's far stranger still to suggest someone who isn't Championship-ready to play regularly for the team you support in the Championship. (And before you get pedantic by saying you never said he should play regularly, the player you suggest he replaces, does play regularly)

Why did you wonder that? Were you still half awake? Recent brain trauma? Do you suffer from amnesia, perhaps?

The last umpteen January windows.

Makes sense as a long term replacement perhaps...not sure it makes sense as a replacement while Rodri is injured. Adam has been out most the season himself and has just had a setback in his recovery. He also isn't world class yet.

Maybe they just know he kept Wharton out of the team so must be some talent.....

A mistake they must have learnt a lesson fro- oh ok I see your point. This one does at least sound like he may be able to compete right away if he is as good as being claimed and already starting regularly in League One. But tbh I think our name has been put out by an agent as a way to get the glut of other clubs supposedly hovering to make a move. If several Championship clubs are interested in a player of that profile, he'll be moving for in excess of a million, and whilst we may have been willing to put what was it, about 300k into getting O'Riordan? I can't think we would spend above triple that for a very young defender when we need goals and haven't much of a pot to piss in.

I can't imagine they're right. A 19 yr old League One CB doesn't seem like the best use of a limited budget.

Chaddy, when people say someone is crap, they usually mean 'crap for this level'. Which Lowe and Akpan absolutely were. They just don't want to have to put 'for this level' every time they say it, as it's a hassle.

Joint second highest goal contributions in the squad this year.

Shouldn't have taken them on loan then, clearly didn't do their research.

When the current crop make it into the first team as at least squad members, or don't. There really is no other worthwhile metric of it. I know it's sadly a waiting game to judge it, but that's just how it is.

According to wiki it's a 7 mill obligation to buy at the end of the season. But that's not money now, and more to the point as my subsequent post states, they haven't been getting fees for a very long time now but spend a bit most seasons. Going back to 2018/19 there is only that summer and next summer where they've received a fee of note, and in 2018/19 they spent nearly half the proceeds, and have spent something in most seasons. If I recall rightly, when I looked they didn't receive fees in 2017/18 either. Yet we consistently have large sales and apparently can't spend hardly any of it despite similar crowds.

In fact, Millwall seem to have had a net spend in the transfer market every season since 2018/19 (except the 2020/21 season where they neither spent nor received fees...well, 3 were signed for undiscloseds and 1 sold for undisclosed). In 2018/19 they received 7.8 million Euros for George Saville (and reinvested nearly half of it), which may be the only time in this period they've received more than the 670k Euros they got for Tyler Burey. Technically this might not be fully accurate, as there have been 7 for which the fees aren't known...1 to a then Championship Wycombe, and the rest to lower leagues or inferior foreign leagues (Irish Premier Division). Doubtful those were big fees.

But we can't compete with giants like Millwall, their attendances are *checks notes* about the same as ours! Plus in the summer they brought in...looks like nothing. And spent about 5 million. And last year they brought in 600k and spent about 6 million. Our tens of millions in surplus raised transfer revenue is nothing compared to that! God, I wish fans would stop being ungrateful and remember it's not 1995....

I think the Travis injury makes that a much bigger ask now. The Trav-Tronstad combo has been fundamental to how we play, and nobody else we have in reserve plays like either of them. We essentially need a new system for the next 6 weeks. It'll be huge credit to Eustace if we can get a good points haul whilst Trav is out. Look at what has happened to one of the most highly rated managers of all time, Pep, when he has lost his fulcrum player in central midfield. Even with one of the best squads in the world he doesn't have a sufficiently similar player (or a sufficiently quality replacement for a Ballon D'Or winner) and is struggling to adapt, putting them in freefall.

I'd rather he be of some use here for a month with us in a promotion fight, and continue to be backup for that style of midfielder when Tronstad or Travis inevitably get injured or suspended again, than potentially end up notching just a handful of League One appearances again.

As you would be for virtually every club in virtually every window if every time a rumour came out you said it wasn't happening.

Not if he said it on the ones we signed too, which is what the person you quoted was replying to. But yes, denying every rumour will statistically result in getting more right than wrong.

I think a recall and a loan to League One should work for Rovers and the player, assuming there's interest.

That is their philosophy. And as far as their caveman crowd are concerned it's playing the right way. (Not actually knocking that style tbf, the game is mostly about winning and nothing wrong with a bit of passion...Millwall fans are proper scum though by and large)

I knew that, so I've no idea why I didn't think to bet on under 2.5 goals and also on Travis being booked, which was an inevitability in this game!