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- Thread starter Drog
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Looks like Finneran is on the wanted list of a number of clubs. We need to develop players like him and Phillips into saleable first team players like we did with Wharton but it seems regulations are making it ever harder to work to our survival blueprint.
https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/n...-transfer-battle-for-blackburn-rovers-player/
https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/n...-transfer-battle-for-blackburn-rovers-player/
steve w
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We have a blueprint?
Drawn up by Harland and Wolff of Belfast?
Barmitzvah Boy
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JRC has reached agreement to join Sheffield Wednesday at the end of this season. He won’t want to get injured.
Dunnfc
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goozburger.
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It's Groundhog Day!
goozburger.
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Where has this come from? Rankin-Costello's contract expires in June 2027, so we would surely be due a very good fee for him if this is true. I would be surprised if he's leaving.
steve w
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goozburger.
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Oh. FFS.
I've been Barmitzvahd.
Can we not have a bit of peace for a few weeks after a tough season?
goozburger.
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goozburger.
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Rovers still tracking Duncan McGuire with both Waggott and Broughton having been in touch with the McGuire camp since the deal collapsed in January. Suggested fee is £2.5m, but no formal offer made.
Interestingly, there was some mischief-making in January amongst the chaos. It was suggested that Orlando City raised the initial fee for McGuire to £7m in a loan-to-buy option as a punishment for Rovers backing out of the initial deal. Elliott Jackson reports that it was raised to £3.6m, although that's still £1.3m above the original fee that was agreed.
Article Lancashire Telegraph
Interestingly, there was some mischief-making in January amongst the chaos. It was suggested that Orlando City raised the initial fee for McGuire to £7m in a loan-to-buy option as a punishment for Rovers backing out of the initial deal. Elliott Jackson reports that it was raised to £3.6m, although that's still £1.3m above the original fee that was agreed.
Article Lancashire Telegraph
Well whoopy do! Never mijnd net 9m from the deal, that represents a loss of 42m in my book! FFS!
To quote the Bard, "Something is (very) wrong in the state of 
goozburger.
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There is absolutely no chance a player in this league could reach a point where they're worth anything close to £60m. Aside from clubs that were relegated and immediately had a fire-sale, Ollie Watkins is the record sale by a Championship club at ~£28m, and that's with him being a goalscorer who are generally more expensive than any other position.
Watkins went on to play for England, as will young Wharton, no doubt. Wharton has had to prove himself in the Premier League, even if for a very short period, to reach a mooted figure of £60m.
goozburger.
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I suspect we had little choice but to sell Wharton for less than were hoping. With the owners unable to add funds to the club as they normally do, perhaps a panic ensued and we had to get some sort of dough through the door. Unfortunate timing all-round, if so.