RevidgeBlue

Ive no idea really but arguably not much given his recent form? At one stage id have had him in the £5m plus bracket. Now I think we'd be lucky to get £2m for him. It's very subjective so I'd be interested to know what others think.

You'd think they'd be quite keen to comply with all technicalities at the moment given that not doing things by the book has already attracted the attention of the Authorities over in India.

For me his presence at the Club gets curiouser and curiouser by the day. I can't accept that all this would be a complete surprise to him after what happened to the TWO previous head coaches. Nor can I accept that anyone rational would think that RG's supposed model of either buying cheap or trying to develop Academy products then not reinvesting any proceeds could possibly work. The only possibilities I can think of are that like Lambert years before he's concluded it's easier to get another job whilst in employment as opposed to being on the scrap heap and has one foot out of the door before he's even arrived. Or, after a year out of work, perhaps he is simply willing to work under whatever conditions the three (or temporarily now two) stooges are prepared to throw at him as long as he can draw £600k p.a.

"Quick, there's a manager at this Club who might be leaving so in the mean time there'll be no transfer activity in or out. Let's pretend we're interested in one of their players so it makes it look like we're doing something." "Also get Jackson to put out another puff piece about Kapaudi being our main centre back target and us also being interested in Pye even though we've no intention whatsoever of paying the required fee for either of them".

So, if he ends up on the same career path as Nyambe that'll be playing for another Championship Club on more money?

Nah we've HAD (past tense) 2 extremely capable head coaches over the last 2-3 seasons who've by and large proved extremely adept at making a silk purse out of a How's ear. Not sure we have that now.

Entirely down to having an exceptional head coach (Eustace) who like Thomasson we drove away.

Suspect you're spot on unfortunately.

You're on form today! Need something to lighten the mood after the latest round of unattainable targets we're only prepared to offer 50% of the asking price for, or not even make a bid at all.

Oops, sorry.

Used to post absolute garbage on here, including the fact he thought the Jack Walker legacy was somewhat over-rated in his opinion and was also quite supportive when Waggott floated the phantom proposals to sell half of Brockhall and build a brand new super duper training complex. Also quite obviously a disciple of analysis and data. One question he never seemed able to answer was your army of analysts spend all their time feeding in your requirements to the computer and come up with suggestions that either ,are out of reach fee wise or in terms of wages. What use is that? Be interesting to see how he does and whether the data led approach works at the lowest level.

Because your point makes no sense. You're assuming he'll have a bad season next time out due to his age and there's no evidence to date to suggest that will be the case. I'm guessing then, you'd didn't like Kevin Moran or Tony Gale either?

Lol. At least he's being honest and isn't giving it the " I saw them on TV when I was a kid and have been a Rovers fan all my life" spiel.

No guarantee anyone will be any good next season. Still dont see your point.

Tbf I'm not even sure if Tavares' injury has been confirmed - I've only seen it mooted he was out for 4 weeks by some bod on Twitter.

I think with players of that age you have to park the number for a moment and examine how well they've actually performed. Someone cited examples earlier of players who'd been given two year deals in the past who shouldn't have been. I'd argue it was clear that Downing was slowing down mid way through his first deal and shouldn't have got another one and tbh I never rated Ayala in the first place. I wouldn't have given Weimann another deal either as I'm not sure his ability to pop up occasionally in the right place at the right time compensated for the fact his legs have gone. Edit: McFadzean was a lot older than Batth and again imo should never have been given a second deal On the other hand although a similar age to Weimann, Batth's powers showed no sign of waning last season. As such on a one year deal he represents no more of a risk than any other player. Bloody hell, we've spent E3m on Kargbo and Tavares and it seems they can barely make it through a training session between them!

Don't understand your beef with Batth. Signing him up for another 12 months was an absolute no brainer. I wouldn't have bothered with Weimann personally.

Sometimes it's better to say nothing at all..... What a pile of shite..

More tyre kicking.

"Exciting summer" = all our senior players walking out for nothing or being sold for a relative pittance due to their contractual situation.

Another "race". Wasn't it Nixon who said years ago that when three Clubs were rumoured to be interested in a player there was rarely anything in it, it was just the agent trying to drum up some interest? "The 3 Club rule" he called it.

Agreed. I dont even think Kaminsky is that great but he's a country mile ahead of our two, neither of whom are anywhere near the standard required imo.

Says the poster who rated Gallagher.

Not a chance. He didn't even want it. He's comfortable at the level he's at and it paid off.

At a normal Club, Dolan and Batth would have been re-signed without as much as a second thought. It would just have been a by line in passing in the local rag that they'd penned new deals.