Have to say it is looking horribly ominous for Bury. I would put odds of extinction at well over 50% now. The absolute lack of interest in the club from a town bigger than Blackburn suggests the Shakers are seriously unloved. I don't think Bolton are in that much better shape either. There must be some really awful stuff under the surface for nobody local to have come forward seriously.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5253633/Man-City-footballer-20-25k-week-buys-market-2-25m-home.html He is on £25k per week and his brother is agent. Sounds like a totally toxic combination which is going to cause nothing but trouble. The mere fact this story appeared in the Mail means his brother needs a serious talking to. That said he has been seriously discussed on City fan boards as possibly being ready to step up as a Kompany replacement.

I'd take that keeper swap if it is on offer rather than a Championship Manager game play.

If you Google him, he has a single mother and two siblings. He bought a house for them all when he was 19 which cost over £2 million which even on City wages means he owes somebody a large amount of money. My guess his agent has excessive control but Mowbray has hinted his Mum is also involved in the delay.

On Tosin, deal terms with City were agreed nearly two weeks ago. There are hints of personal/ agent/ parental issues.

Chelsea want £3.5m from Swansea for Kasey Palmer!

Yes- either disaster or as clever as three over lapping central defenders for Sheffield United last season. I guess we will have a good indication by the end of August. Downing might need a pacemaker before the season is out... Will need us to get that beast central defender (or two) signed with that lop-sided defence.

And this all action left wing back is....

Nuttall has a striker's inate instinct but the rest of his game needs to be developed. I would loan rather than sell.

Over to anyone to produce a song including this City lad's full surname..

Nuttall has the uncanny ability to get into the right place at the right time. Big lad who can bully defenders. Apart from that he will frustrate.

Manchester Evening News report Man U expecting 8 signings before 8 August and names them with their Sky Bet odds rating all of them unlikely. They'll be signing Thomas the Tank Engine at this rate.

Very sad. Stonehouse was a very honest player who had a knack of scoring important goals. Always contributing in games although not the most physical or gifted, he made the most of what he had.

Yep, my current village in Malta knocked out Hadjuk Split away 3-1 then came down to earth with a 4-0 thrashing in Latvia.

Any videos of this game?

Remember Rovers might go for two defenders. Tosin deal done but complications with agent apparently. Have read enough about him to want us to hang in there to get him.

We are screwed

Blackburn Rovers Rovers Under-23s: Fisher, Annesley, Platt, Magloire, Thompson, White, Lyons, Butterworth, Chapman, Nuttall, Samuel. Southport include ex-#Rovers pair Charlie Albinson and Jack Doyle in their side.

I will again be paying match by match. Too many games I cannot be sure of viewing to make a subscription worthwhile.

Not in the least contradictory. 1) The window lasts to 8 August, not yesterday. I have always argued for a beast of a central defender being our most pressing need this window but there are 11 and a half days to go before we need to start closing the over bridges on the M65 to prevent Rovers fans leaping off them. 2) In the same spirit of there being 11 and a half days before we have failed to sign the central defender we need, there are eleven and a half days for at least ten Premier League managers to escape the pressures their lack of acquisitions this summer are creating for them. Idiotic not to be alive to the risks that poses. I am feeling particularly uncomfortable about Bruce at Newcastle.

At this stage of the window, we have to be absolute a-holes on the price. At least £20m for Dack. I know I got clobbered for reporting a private conversation at Man U but for all the noise from Old Trafford, they have done remarkably little business and that squad needs a radical sorting out.

Just seen the Sky highlights of all Prem and Champ friendlies except one (yes, our's) including Leicester and Leicester under 23s! Some take aways. Bristol City- oh dear, they will be hoping they got rid of a season's worth of defensive calamities in one pre-season horror show. Brentford- all three goals conceded were down to Raya mistakes. He also laid out an opposition forward with a misdirected kick. Fulham and Watford both playing in halves this season. Shawcross injury at Stoke looks a horror.

Saw the highlights of Charlton's 4-1 home friendly defeat (their goal was a rather fortunate penalty). Charlton's defence looks disjointed and slow. So we need the pace we have in the squad from kick-off. Not starting with both Rothwell and Armstrong on the pitch would be criminal. Chapman on the subs bench too.

I will post my real fear about this window. Look at Premier League transfer action, or lack of it. At least half the clubs are leaving their moves to very late. We are far from out of danger on Lenihan and Dack.

I saw the one Raya let in behind closed doors against Norwich reserves and was shocked. Routine shot to left corner of the net from unmarked forward at knee height from centre left just outside the box which he could see all the way. Those are ones you could put your house on Raya stopping last season. He didn't even get remotely near it.