Please make this happen, it would be hilarious. But even Eustace appears to have had enough of Calamity at the back end of his tenure here - I'm not sure he'd even go with this, despite his fetish of all things Rovers.

I think, with whatever money is left in the budget(!), we need to throw it at a young, talented Prem forward who needs a season in the Championship. I'm not overly familiar with all things Prem these days, but there must be one who fits that profile. No idea on whether Morishita is any good or not, hadn't heard of him before yesterday. But the Polish fans being devastated at him being sold is a promising sign.

Imma say it - replacing Pears with Toth has probably saved us 10 goals this season. It's an unbelievable upgrade.

I get that, and theres obviously a different manager. I suspect a downgrade considering how much Eustace was getting out of the squad he had. But its hard to deny that if you do a direct comparison, the contributions of Travis, Brittain, Dolan, Batth and to a lesser extent Weimann and Beck of last season do leave considerable holes. Some players that we already had may do better (or worse) too. Its not a linear comparison necessarily. But we have lost a lot of important players. Hopefully weve gained a lot of quality too.

Quite excited to see Morishita. Should be at his peak and seems to be coming off a good season. We need attacking threat and hopefully he can give us a new dimension. It is critical that we sign a striker and its never really felt likely. Not convinced by this Soumane link, especially with suggestions that he has his heart set on Widzew Lodz (who?). But I hope we do get someone in.

At £5m there's no chance. At circa £2m I reckon we've got the budget there if Travis / Buckley / Pears leave.

In what world!? Eustace got a bunch of free transfers and loans. I don't think he had any real say in Ohashi and Gueye arriving. Cantwell was meant to be the jewel in the crown, but he wasn't an expensive transfer. He obviously wanted nothing to do with the crap they brought in in January which is part of the reason why he left.

Yes

Welcome Ryôya 👏👏👏👏🔵⚪️🌹

Would he be eligible to sign outside of requiring an ESC slot?

Ooooph those are uninspiring highlights.

And where the hell is the money coming from to fund Soumano? No chance sorry.

Before the dawn the darkest hour.

So Lorient want £5m and Rovers are looking to discuss a compromise... Magic beans again?

So the total opposite!

Same formation, but a different approach. Clearly want one of the DMs to be a box-to-box CM. Wants to press high up the pitch rather than employing a low block.

😂😂😂

Eustace (kind of) did get this backing. JDT was the unlucky loser when it came to real investment in the squad. I've seen a fair bit of Soumane, he could probably best be described as a more complete version of Gueye. He's fast, but not rapid. Good hold-up play, but you can't exactly run your attacking play through him. Decent finisher.

Rarely nowadays. I keep trying to walk away but your club is still yours even if you've almost fallen out of love with it.

‘Huge promotion payment’. Surely Lorient wouldn’t fall for that one.

14 goals 14 assists last season. And the player himself has said he prefers to play in attack .

Not according to this chap (Tweet as of yesterday). Think Nixon is pulling that figure out of thin air. More our price range:

Because they aren't french

made 53 appearances in 4 years at Lorient beyond which he's been loaned out to 3 clubs I've never heard of. Ambitious? £5 million? Really?

Exactly this. His Pep-ball reputation sees him get further than he should do. He finished 19th and 13th in league one with MK Dons. He took over a Swansea side that had finished In the play offs twice and led them to 15th and 10th. Somehow he got the Southampton job. Despite the parachute payments he finished 4th but won the Russian Roulette of the play-offs. In the Premier League they got 12 points, losing 30 out of 38 games. On what grounds did the Rangers board think he was a good appointment? If he turned up here I’d be furious with that record. Absolute Charlatan.