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Far as I see it, we are now woefully short in: Goal - Pears is here but seemingly won't play any time soon, so if anything happens to Toth (injury, loss of form) we are probably relying on Michalski, who is enormously inexperienced and in his one showing so far, quite frankly looked shocking. CB - McLoughlin (banned next game), Wharton (just recently back off a huge injury layoff, and has had injury problems before), Carter (also injury prone) and after that we are relying on players who aren't CBs (Miller possibly an exception but I believe hasn't played there tons) to fill in. Wings - Hedges (shit despite a great game lately, seen enough), Kargbo (fast and can cause problems, still having end product issues), Morishita (could be a good one), De Neve (really a wingback and works hard but doesn't create much). After that you're wedging in players who don't really play there. Arguably wing isn't too horrendous if Kargbo and De Neve can come good, but there's a lot of scepticism about that. Striker - nobody proven to be able to score even 10+ goals at this level. I mean you could even argue CM is lacking enough quality, unless Tavares steps it up and Baradji comes back from injury and is a beast. Possibly I'm feeling too down about things after the disgraceful sale of our main CB on deadline day with no replacement, and some of these players could come good and assuage these concerns, but there is a lot to be anxious of.

Oh come on. I dont like him or particularly rate him but you're surely not going to defend the decision to replace him in the last few hours of the window without any sort of replacement, let alone a comparable one. You've been watching football long enough to know better than that.

Thanks all for the experience but I'm genuinely done for the foreseeable. All the best.

I have the same feelings. Rovers supporter for over 30 odd years and this lot running the show have this summer sapped the last of my enthusiasm. I understand we should be getting behind these new signings, but losing Brittain, Batth, Dolan, Trav and now Hyam is too bad. Most other clubs in this division would have tied them up to longer contracts and strengthened. We are League One next season. We haven’t got a good enough squad. Players will be played out of position and as we saw when he arrived, when the going gets tough, Ismael hasn’t a clue. I imagine that purple patch towards the end of last season was the players putting themselves in the shop window.

Tronstad still here but your point is still valid

That's because England have some decent players

That ‘Privy’ account has lost its marbles at Josh 🤣

Hope so

Le Tournoi !

Leaving aside everything we know of the last 15 years, the absence of any interest/desire of the owners, the revolving door of nonentities in the C-suite, the parade of managers, the most notable feature of the window for me is the number of established players who wanted to go elsewhere. The Lemon Drizzle club atmosphere is now clearly a thing of the past (it’s demise being initiated by a demanding JDT) I am perhaps in a small minority in not seeing the loss of Dom Fucking Hyam as a catastrophe (or at least as a bigger one than anything that preceded it). The Preston og, the shrinking violet needing his dad alongside him, the Turf Moor 0-3 pussy, the “calm down”. I’ll not miss him no matter who has to fill in for him.

In my eyes we've gone from "battling relegation and likely to go down" to "we'll be lucky to match Rotherham's worst total" with this squad. We were in a position where we may be able to nick some points here and there on the back of the defence. We're now going to get some serious pastings I expect.

Don't blame you, however you profess to be mad keen on England and they've won fuck all since 1966!

In one transfer window we've sold or let go: Our player of the year Our club captain Our vice captain Our top scorer Our 2nd top scorer Our main CB EXCITING SUMMER 🤯

A disastrous window. We really are in trouble. Will Ismael put up with this? Will Pasha make Gestede the scapegoat when we are rooted in the bottom three? 'Exciting' times ahead.

I understand its crazy to accept a bid on one of our few experienced players..but the money Wrexham and Birmingham are throwing around is crazy stuff. How much have they spent this window...£35m? Bet hes doubled his wages if not more. Never thought I'd say Wrexham are spending way beyond what we could ever have done in the championship.

If you don’t laugh you’d cry.

No one can defend that decision surely. Absolute utter madness to sell an ever present in such a vital position with no replacement. Talk about self destruction. It's actually depressing being a Rovers fan

Tbh Iv seen a shift from many of the half glass full fans this hyam transfer may have tipped the balance it’s beyond insanity

Until today, I viewed it as a 'jury is out' window. Too many unknowns from entirely different leagues. A very risky dismantling of experience within the squad, and a lot of turnover which would inevitably harm cohesion, but if the players were good enough and we didn't suffer too many losses until January, it could have been a reasonable transition to maybe theoretically kick on for next season (lets face it, who realistically expected us to challenge for playoffs again anyway?). But today has made it a shocker of a window. We were arguably already short at CB given the injury proneness of Carter and Wharton, and now we are a gnat's pube away from disaster at CB. Insane own goal for the sake of probably about 2 million (I bet the 0.7 is add ons, maybe even more of it than that). Could cost our league status.

Hailed as a sucessful window on the LT site! "Fans" appear to have bought in to the narrative that it was time for a clear-out and a fresh start!

And we're done. The absolute blatant downgrading of the squad is complete. How they had the brass neck to do it, I'll never know. Can only assume Gestede, Pasha and Owen are toasting a fine summer window. ✅️ Shipped out some high earners ✅️ No contact renewals (so no payrises) ✅️ Replaced all out goings with lower earners ✅️ Made a profit in the window

That's aged well. Had the nerve to call Mercer a bullshitter as well.

We can’t even compete with a 2 year contract to a 29 year old. Madness

Most supporters will lap up what they have to say. They don't need to go into hiding

Least we don't need to worry about relegation... it's a foregone conclusion after this past 2 months.