The old BRFCS shut down trick: “Wait until the window is closed before commenting”. *window closes* ”Well the window is closed now, we need to get behind the players we have. No point in going on about it now”.

Not sure how you can just say he’s a poor player. Mowbray has let that lad down enormously. He will have to take a step backward just to get away. Let’s see how long Samuel stays fit because nobody in their right mind would buy him off us.

So pleased Hart is ok. It’s been a real worry given how important he is for the first team. Glad we didn’t sign that Man City defender who Guardiola is keen to blood sounds like he’d have been terrible given that the Baggies fans are throwing the sour grapes around. We really have no recruitment strategy whatsoever.

Good old Sodexo. Expensive hot dog and chips.

And Samuel will? With the right manager Nuttall could definitely cut it in the Championship. Davies was turned into a PL player FFS.

That’s such an embarrassing climb down. Defenders are coming! Erm... on the bus from Leyland.

Would be a good deal for Blackpool. ‘Potential’ cost us 10 times that.

Yes, yes I do.

https://www.efl.com/news/2019/july/efl-statement-bolton-wanderers-and-bury-fc/ 5pm today to provide ‘information’ or their opening day fixtures will be postponed. Grim.

Or it will show what a lucky break it was that Dack was damaged goods at the point Reading wanted rid. Two court cases was it?

Aye. It’s correct name is The River Bolton Road.

A victim of the PL buy-to-let culture. Would walk into our team but can’t get close to Southampton’s but will be priced out of a move.

Nuttall linked with Blackpool https://the72.co.uk/140219/blackpool-plotting-swoop-for-blackburn-rovers-striker/ I’m a fan of Nuttall but I think he should go. He clearly won’t get a chance here. Brereton has been brought in and occupies the understudy role that Joe will feel he has earned after serving his time and performing in the U23s. Unfortunately for him, Mowbray has staked his reputation on Brereton while nobody would bat an eyelid if Nutts left. It will also be a headache cure for Mowbray if he gets shut. Personally I wish Nuttall well and think that we wasted £7m that we now don’t have for defenders. If it was a case of use it or lose it then he should have bought two defenders. If someone stopped him from doing that and the money was only available for a striker (that we didn’t need) the Mowbray should have walked away.

It’s also telling that we can’t seem to sell players like Smallwood et al. Largely because of the wages that they have been awarded. Nobody was beating down our door for them anyway but when they are being paid over the odds it’s even more difficult. So while they are here and being paid the most, they play.

He looks to have exactly the tools we need. Which means Mowbray will be looking elsewhere. He is a player who would be a first team starter but that means he will upset ‘the group’. I fear that new contract we have given Mulgrew will prevent signings like this for at least another 12 months. Come on Tony - prove me wrong!

The trouble is that a player like Nuttall needs regular game time (as, I expect, does Brereton) while at the same time Mowbray has a rotation policy that takes no account of form or ability or potential. They are like pinball machines that he just plugs in and expects them to operate. That’s bad enough but he then has the cheek to talk about players needing to “take their chance”. Nuttall took his chance when he first came into the side last season and was then dropped as soon as the eternal crock Samuel was back (temporarily). Rothwell took his chance but is in and out of the side. To a lesser extent Williams took his chance but it’s looking like Mulgrew is back in favour. Brereton also took his chance when actually played as a number 9 but then Mowbray-sense prevailed. My view is that Nuttall is an out and out striker who Mowbray can’t put out wide as he seems to want to do with his strikers. He could be the next Jason Roberts or Kevin Davies if he had a manager who believed in him. Sadly Mowbray is a tinkerer who buys too many midfielders and attackers and then spends his time trying to find a system which they can operate in, while the all take turns at being in the side. Meanwhile he sticks with mediocre players in defence who he leaves to it, barely even recruiting them (preferring to convert midfielders), let alone having enough depth for healthy competition.

You really don’t like Nuttall, do you. Doesn’t matter what he does you will always criticise. Think it was about his “wayward shooting” last time out. Sadly, the lad will get nowhere at this club. Mowbray has made up his mind and so have his pals.

By what day next week will he be a wage-stealing mercenary who demands to be the first name on the team sheet?

There seems to be a misconception, due to misinformation peddled by certain mischief-makers, that there are Rovers fans on this site who want anything but the best for Blackburn Rovers Football Club. Don’t fall for it.

Why would it? Everyone would be delighted if he paid back his £7m transfer fee.

Strongly disagree with this. These players should be signing for Blackburn Rovers or Norwich or Charlton, not signing for a PL club and then loaned out to a Blackburn Rovers or Norwich or Charlton. If they are good enough then we can sell them to the PL clubs for a fair price, having invested in them. These players will likely be better with their money, have better attitudes and be better role models. They are paid too much too soon and is ruining the players and impacting clubs. It sounds like there’s a good chance this young but supposedly decent defender won’t be joining us because we can’t agree to use the player as required by Guardiola. If we told Bauer he wasn’t automatic first choice then there’s no way some City kid should be.

@Revidge Blue In 2018/19 the PL top 6 teams sent out 96 players on loan - granted more than half were from Chelsea. These players should be learning their trade at lower PL or Championship clubs. I’m with @renrag. The loan market has been abused. It was meant for emergencies and is now used as a nursery for players. We should be talking about Buckley et al breaking into the first team, not potentially being loaned out. Same with Wharton. We give him another new deal and then loan him out to “protect our investment”. It’s hypocrisy. Not good enough for Rovers but good enough for Northampton’s bench - but if he makes it we’ll have the cash thanks very much. It has changed clubs’ priorities. A little earner on the side instead of trying to be successful on the pitch. All very well for the likes of a Venkys-owned Rovers but what about others? Chelsea 49 https://www.planetfootball.com/quick-reads/how-each-of-chelseas-49-loanees-have-fared-in-the-2018-19-season/ Liverpool 13 https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1084484/Liverpool-loan-players-Dany-Ings-Loris-Karius-Nathaniel-Clyne Spurs 10 https://www.planetfootball.com/quick-reads/the-10-tottenham-players-out-on-loan-this-season-how-they-fared/ Manchester United 9 https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1084438/Manchester-United-nine-loanees-Premier-League-SPFL-flop-Fosu-Mensah-James-Wilson Manchester City 8 https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/manchester-city/leihspieler/verein/281 Arsenal 7 https://www.planetfootball.com/quick-reads/the-eight-arsenal-players-out-on-loan-this-season-and-how-theyre-faring/

Well, it’s possible that Mowbray will be right about this defence and right to swap one keeper with potential with another keeper with potential, and the fans who doubt him will be (happily) proven wrong. We are due sterner tests that we have had. Mowbray now has to turn this positive pre-season into momentum going into the season. Have we won every pre-season game? The last time I remember doing so wel we went on to have a stinker of a season.

I think we now know why we chose such deadbeat opposition for our pre-season campaign. It papers over a lot of cracks. August is going to be very interesting.

Someone else would. And then we’d be in the market for the players they currently have. It used to be called the football food chain. That’s been replaced by a football rental agency with conditions attached. Ambitious clubs sign up and if they are lucky they get to the big league and can afford to buy their own. If they are unlucky those players leave - with no revenue in return - and they drop down the leagues. Meanwhile these franchised players just go from club to club being loaned out again so they will always play at PL or Championship level if that’s what their parent clubs want. It’s effectively legalised third party ownership.