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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 !!!"
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Busy summer ahead for Rovers boss as he balances books

9:00am Friday 30th May 2014 in Sport

This Is Lancashire: Gary Bowyer Gary Bowyer

GARY Bowyer says Blackburn Rovers face a ‘big summer’ as they bid to avoid financial fair play sanctions in January – but he expects less transfer activity than a year ago.

The Rovers boss knows he faces a delicate balancing act this summer as he bids to reduce the club’s wage bill again, while bringing in players to improve results.

Rovers have already put six players – Leon Best, DJ Campbell, Dickson Etuhu, David Goodwillie, Alex Marrow and Jordan Slew – on the transfer list and must move on some of their high earners before the Football League’s new financial fair play regulations come into force.

Clubs falling foul of the rules face a transfer embargo from January onwards, and Rovers have been shedding players for some time in preparation for the new regulations.

“It’s going to be a big summer for us because obviously financial fair play comes in,” Bowyer said.

“We’re aware of what we’ve got to do and we’re trying to implement that now.

“We’ve released quite a few players throughout the course of the year, I think it’s been 26 in total.

“We’ve made inroads on that wage bill but we’re not kidding ourselves, we know it’s still got to be addressed.

“But at the same time we’ve got to make sure we’re still competitive, as we were last season.”

Discussions are ongoing between clubs and the Football League over possible changes to the rules, but as things stand Rovers will face a transfer embargo in January if they post a loss of more than £3m for the 2013/14 – with a further £3m loss permitted via shareholder investments.

Rovers have significantly reduced their wage bill by moving on the likes of Danny Murphy, Nuno Gomes, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Gael Givet and Scott Dann in the past 12 months.

But the club announced a pre-tax loss of £36.5m for the financial year ending June 30, 2013. The club’s wage bill stood at £36m at that stage.

Bowyer still wants to add players this summer but does not expect the same number of signings as 12 months ago, when the newly appointed manager was reshaping his squad to fit his own ethos.

“Last season I think we brought 14 in during the summer and I don’t think we’ll be doing that again,” he told Rovers Player.

“But we fell short of the play-offs so we feel we need to add a little bit more.”

Bowyer’s plans for next season are already being formulated and he hopes the positivity of a 12-match unbeaten run at the end of the 2013/14 campaign can be retained.

“I’d like to think there’s a lot more positivity about the place at the moment,” he said.

“We still feel there’s a hell of a lot to do both on and off the pitch.

“We’ve laid the foundations for things to progress and hopefully we can do that this summer and go again.

“Going into the final game the message to the players was just win the game.

“It was important because they’re away on holiday now with that feelgood factor, with that 12-game unbeaten run.

“I’ve had four days away with my wife so the season has started now for me.

“As soon as the season finished you’re straight back at it looking at the start of the next one coming.”

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