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571 Edition

The Blackburn Rovers Chronicle

6 Jul 2037
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market6 Jul 2037

Daichi Kamada wants more than Blackburn Rovers are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Market6 Jul 2037

Simon Grant asks to leave Blackburn Rovers

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad6 Jul 2037

Daichi Kamada stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Daichi Kamada and Blackburn Rovers agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad6 Jul 2037

Tempers go at Blackburn Rovers

Ludovico Del Sorbo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad6 Jul 2037

Words at Blackburn Rovers training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ruben Kluivert is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad6 Jul 2037

Christian Sommer gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Christian Sommer has just signed for Blackburn Rovers, and for once the answer mattered.

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568 Edition

The Blackburn Rovers Chronicle

15 Jun 2037
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad15 Jun 2037

Liam Hill damages knee ligaments — 28 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 28 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad15 Jun 2037

Daichi Kamada in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Blackburn Rovers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad15 Jun 2037

Ruben Kluivert falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad15 Jun 2037

Moussa Baradji gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Boardroom15 Jun 2037

Blackburn Rovers bank $1.1M from an old deal

The unglamorous genius of a well-written contract. Lorenze Mullarkey-Matthews is somebody else's player now, and $1.1M has arrived because the people who sold him thought further ahead than the transfer window.

Market15 Jun 2037

Still no ink between Blackburn Rovers and Luke Parker

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Blackburn Rovers, another week without a signature from Luke Parker.

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