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roverstid wrote:

J.C - Rishton wrote:

garyintandem wrote:

Super_Clarets wrote:

owd nick wrote:
Doesn't need to bring in many players anyway, get Rochina back into the fold, make him feel wanted, a decent right back and make certain we have defensive cover in the middle and that's about it.

Personally I don't believe there will be a transfer embargo for any club because it doesn't make any sense because 90 odd percent of clubs are carrying significant levels of debt, many much more than Rovers are.

If one club is hit by an embargo all the rest have to be so clubs won't be able to move players on because no-one will be able to buy them.

Sadly for you though FFP has nothing to do with a clubs debt, it's based entirely on the annual loss you make, which in your case is quite a figure.

I have stated on several occasions that you will have to cut costs this season by upwards of £25million in order to fall in line with the rules, and this will mean a transfer embargo in the interim.

I cannot see any way for a Championship club with a wages to turn-over ratio of 136.1% to make a £25million saving without a drastic restructuring across the board. Bowyer is playing it down as you would expect but I imagine there is panic beginning to spread behind the scenes as the gravity of your dire situation becomes apparent.

All of your higher earners will have to go. The trouble is that some are unsellable such as Etuhu, Best, and Campbell, and as such they will have to have their contracts paid up to get them off the wage bill. The effect of this will mean that further player sales are required to recoup the additional loss made. I see Rhodes, Cairney and Hanley as your only players of value and as such I expect these will be sold as a matter of urgency. Rhodes replacement already appears to have been recruited in Varney however.

You can keep believing there wont be a transfer embargo, but there will be.

Those are the rules, your club has been aware of them since 2012 and agreed to the terms of non-compliance. The fact that Venky's have failed to act until its is far too late is of no consequence.

It's the beginning of a long, hard, miserable season for Blackburn Rovers.

When are you going to realise that a transfer embargo won't harm us. We've already got the players that are going to win us the Championship next year. Why do you waste so much of your mental capacity on the Rovers?

I presume this is a joke post ?

We MUST avoid a transfer embargo at ALL costs.

If you are put into one then our sellable assets would have to be sold (and would prob want to leave) at much reduced costs.

Bear in mind you can't leave an embargo until you've come into line with FFP and to make matters worse we would have to find an additional £10m in savings yet again (£2m in reduced ownership injection and £8m reduction in our parachute payments).

Too many Rovers fans are so ingnorant about the FFP rules and still have their head in the sand that it aint going to happen or it aint going to effect BRFC.

As it stands today, it will happen and it WILL have a (huge) impact on our club

Sorry J C but from someone who hasn't had a decent thing to say about Rovers since Venkys took over, your post is as predictable as Sloppy Clutz is.

Yes an embargo will affect us IF we HAVE to bring in players in January due to injuries, it doesn't mean we can't get promoted and it certainly doesn't mean there's nothing we can do about it or its even a certainty.

Our cost cutting over the last few years is evident and I highly doubt if the FFP is seen to wanting to be a success, that the FA will ignore all the evidence in front of them and sanction us anyway.

It doesn't mean it won't happen. But at this stage the likelihood of it is as certain as the Dingles hopes that Rhodes will be sold (again).

Another Rovers fan with his head in the sand.

Okay, lets go with your assumption that we get put into an embargo and we don't have a injury crisis.

How do we get out of it ? - unless we go up (and no-one can say we will, it will be a hugely competative league, as always and we will be one of 9 or 10 clubs with a good chance) because at the end of next season (summer of 2015) we will have to find ANOTHER £10m in savings (fact) on top of the £15-20m we will have already have had to find between now and then.

If we are put into an embargo our first priority would have to be to try to get out of it again ASAP.

I just don't see how we can make those massive amounts of savings without it having an impact on our ability to compete on-field (I'm not trying to be negatve, I'm trying to be realistic). I think fans saying a transfer embargo won't effect the playing side of the club are talking nonsense, of course it will !!!"