Despite it not being necessary to use the services of an agent, as the selling club, Rovers appear to choose to do so. Given that we appear to be cutting back and saving, in almost every other area, I have to question, why they want to spend money on agents, when it can be avoided? Perhaps there is a logical explanation, but yet again, it appears that Agents are benefiting, when perhaps they shouldn’t be.

Pasha said “Spending money on players, does not guarantee success”.

we COULD afford many players but the people running the day to day of the club will not allow money to be spent

Axel looks like he can ping a few in from outside the box, not really evident on Saturday but going off his previous goals. That and our awful set pieces are 2 huge problems for us, both things that teams who will struggle for goals should have nailed. Even watching Sheff Weds yesterday and despite all their issues, their set pieces were 10 times better than ours.

Perhaps I am stupid but I thought he had a better than decent game. Found myself quite excited about possibilities with this fella.

Seemingly what Ismael wants is not something BicMac has in his locker. Shame that cos he looked to be coming on a bit during the end of Eustace's reign.

Why do we not shoot more often, Tronstadt had what.looked to me kike two lovely shootin chances and did not. The cross from the new guy.early on lovely but no one there. Nothin much clicks up front.

Your last line reminds me of something Alan Myers said in a fantastic interview I heard him take part in. Myers said he once chased an agent out of the building when at Rovers and the MD at the time told him 'it's probably not a good idea if we throw agents out'. It's not related to the theme of your post, but at one time we did have an official who was ready to throw agents out if needed. That story can be heard at 2:21:25 below: He starts talking about Rovers from 1:58:25 and spends a good 20 minutes or so talking about his time at the club. Really good listen. He speaks fondly about the fans and the staff. Says we are his second club and that we have all been through so much and that he wants to see us back in the Premier League. Also states that the staff were doing the jobs of five people (no change there then?) At around 2:09:55 he talks about how things were going well, we had a 40 goal striker partnership, then suddenly there were financial issues. For anybody who hasn't got time to watch it, the follow on to the above is the golden quote from Alan (up until 2:10:40): "Suddenly there were financial issues and I didn't like the way it was going there...I could see relegation coming...I'm no football professional but I could feel things weren't right...so I resigned, because I'm principled, it's silly and it costs money, but if something's not right you've got to say it, I can't go in and steal a living by just going through the motions". Alan was talking about 2014/15 with that quote. The same thing applies today in 2025! WTF is going on here? 10/11 years on from the time Alan is taking about and still the same issues persist. Why? Financial issues, cheap punts, relegation vibes. This is all being discussed today as present concerns. We can see where it is heading, just like Myers could back then. Billionaire owners? Piss off. FFP? Piss off. Indian Court case? Piss off. Top man is Alan Myers. One of the real, genuine good guys that turned up here during this 15 year debacle. I'd love to have him back at Rovers under new ownership and a new Board. A proper professional who wants the club to succeed. It was Alan who was responsible for getting the historic timeline put up around the ground. He states this in the video. He wanted the fans to feel connected to the club again. He gets it. Then we saw what happened with the timelines discarded not long after. Night and day, is the difference between real operators and absolute charlatans.

Harry Leonards just coming back from injury hes expected to play for the under 21s. We've not many options up front at the moment.

We've lost 4 players from last season, it's going to take a few games for the replacements to be on the same wave length. I'm going 5-0 to Rovers bounce back after the west brom disappointment.

"Please have your pitchforks at the ready"

Never particularly been a fan of Travis on the ball. He's very limited in terms of ability but this is now far too much disruption and instability amongst the squad for me. We're losing some key characters. Travis is a massive part of this team and I think we're running out of personalities in there. When this happens it typically doesn't end well. I'm not sure the cheap unknown signings Gestede and Venky's are gunning for are going to inspire others? The biggest problem seems to be how we're replacing them. Personally I'd rather have added Forshaw's wage to Travis or Brittain's contract. Bizarre signing. Buckley, Pears, JRC, Dolan, Batth, Weimann, Travis, Cantwell, Brittain all potential outgoings this summer. To be replaced largely by players with 0 championship minutes and extremely low wages. Worrying times indeed.

We need to gel as a team, or it will be more of the same.

He's 6ft 5in plus, and trips over his own feet. Waste of money.

I wonder if Cantwell's phantom injury will have cleared up in time for this one?

it`s enough to fool some gullible fans though😞

I thought he must be Middle Eastern!

In all your years of evasion that post tops the lot.

Always been a Travis fan but iv'e never once seen him as a 5 million pound player especially given he only has a year left. It'll end being undisclosed fee of about 1.5 million plus add ons imo.

This is a public service announcement: Please stand by for operation 'Travis is a greedy bastard'. Please stand by for operation 'Travis is a greedy bastard'. Thank you.

Spin by the club to make it not their fault that he’s going 👍🏻

But we won't see it?

No worries, Rev. I've put the link there so that anybody who has some free time and wants to check it out for themselves can take a look. I didn't know it was a thing either, but the documents clearly show many agents listed as representing the 'former club' (selling club) in transactions across the game. It appears to be normal practice, but I don't think it occurs in every sale. I want to know how it comes about, how does an agent get that particular role. Do they offer their services or are they chosen by senior people within clubs? What has emerged to me from studying these documents and looking at various other things over the last 15 years is a clear pattern. The pattern has been there from the start but took a sharp rise in 2015, oddly enough. I can't think what happened in 2015. I made two predictions based on that pattern a few months back and told the forum: Karanka is next in and keep an eye out for six clubs. A week after my first prediction...a friendly hack has Karanka down as the leading candidate, which the club denied. An agent trying to get Karanka (former Boro, former Birmingham) the gig? I think so. As for the second call...just look at this summer. Who wants ex Sunderland, currently out in India, as the new CEO? That's the first piece of speculation I saw this summer. Press rumours are press rumours I guess and people might say 'just paper talk' etc but again, there are a lot of coincidences that keep on happening.

id`e be happy to get 3 million for him,i don`t think he`s a great player but he`s a good leader and we`ll miss that ,same with batth

He’s top for us he isn’t a top championship midfielder imo. I don’t look at him and think he’s he walks into all the top teams in the division no way we get 5m+ for him not a chance