Christ - while that makes sense to a degree, Travis has gone and we haven't actually properly replaced him. When was the last time we exercised an option to buy?

Right winger confirmed 😉 "The French-Malian, who can operate in a range of midfield roles"

His club must want him so badly if they’re willing to loan him out then….

did`nt val mention he is`nt a fan of loans

If it is I am sure they will apply for a postponement.

A loan makes no sense at all. He flops, we don't sign him. He excels, a bigger club snaps him up. Either way, he won't be here next season.

Also if Baradji's arrival is imminent it would tend to indicate the only real reason we couldn't sign him before now is financial and we had to offload Travis first.

You would only talk about the potential fee, if you thought people would be pissed off about the guaranteed fee. Otherwise (like most other transfers around) you would mention both. Can we please not pretend otherwise.

Well he's joined on loan instead 😂

Baradji in on loan with an option to buy

Exactly what I was thinking. Don't think people are making enough of this. We're replacing our captain and someone who is the lynchpin of the side with another player who is currently injured. Of course the injury may not turn out to be a problem long term but on the other hand........ Id say he'd have been OK as a punt as an out and out addition to the squad. But if he's seen as the direct Travis replacement it's a massive risk and more barrel scraping of the highest (or lowest) order.

We are replacing the club captain with a guy with one foot whose other foot won't be ready to play until weeks after surgery which no doubt we are paying for. Non of that matters though in the BRFC administration office because at least we don't have to pay him unless he plays. What could go wrong....

They've got injuries, but have got off to a good start to the new season. They beat Oxford 3-2 at home; a 0-0 draw at Coventry; and knocked Wrexam out the league cup at Wrexam. If we don't give it 100%, I fear it could be defeat number 4.

I have reached that point. Tomorrow afternoon I will be mostly gardening.

Signing a player who we previously rejected after a failed medical. What could go wrong?

I can easily imagine that £1.2M is the initial payment Adam Whartons fee, whilst being a guaranteed £18M (rising to, £22M, sell on fee of X etc etc), only included an initial payment of £6M

Signing this Baradji bloke on a pay as you play deal really doesn't instil any confidence that he's going to be anything other than the next Vince Grella

That would certainly underpin the managed decline a bit longer.

The best joke is ... i wouldn't even do this in FOOTBALL MANAGER and they doing it in reality

That's how i see it as there's no way 1.5 million rejected turns into 1.2 million accepted in a matter of days otherwise. One thing is almost certain you'll never be paying the full 3 million god only knows what add ons they've agreed to their just to drum up the figure.

Well done those two guys. EJ floundering like a fish out of water when subjected to any actual scrutiny.

It would be more poignant to sing: "Suhail Pasha get out of our club". To the same tune

Doesn't actually matter what the fee is. It isn't a good deal for Rovers because it isn't going into strengthening the club. The real bad news might yet come if Adam Wharton is transferred. A £10 million+ windfall could prop up this disgraceful regime for another couple of years yet.

It's a very fair assumption Id say given how transfers are usually structured. Rather than trying to score points off me, Id have thought you might have been more worried about how after several weeks of negotiation we potentially appear to have ended up with a lower initial fee than the one which was originally offered but one which has no doubt been sweetened up with the possibility of increased add ons at the back end.