Wharton was the stand out young player in the Championship and in his first season we just missed out on the playoffs and he played very well too. Do you really think Huijsen is worth over twice as much?

Is he worth over twice as much?

Maybe back JDT and try and get in the PL ourselves then, then we’d have been getting 50 mil… oh silly me, we don’t have that kind of billionaire owners of a Championship football club

Hmmm, maybe you don’t sell to them then?

It depends who’s doing the recognising. Even as a kid at Rovers he was at a Tugay level of passing. That was pretty obvious.

who says that a club paying a higher fee would have agree 15% sell on?

That’s not what I called him, but how we could do with him now.

most likely luck more than judgement but i think we`de have been in oblivion if it had`nt been for last 3 decent managers (mowbray,jdt and eustace) not sure who picked them but all of them in their own way have saved us from a complete nosedive through the leagues imo it`s damning indicement of how generally badly the club is run as 2 of them have both walked away and the other one did`nt even get the sentiment of being offered a new deal,despite him being here for 5 years,whether ismael continues to keep us in the division i do not know,i suspect however he`ll do the same as his predecesors and walk away as well,anyone with any idea of progression is in the wrong job here

The problem is it’s the fans that missed out. Only seeing one of our own and a generational talent playing for the team he supports, for a very short time. Not only that, the lad didn’t want the move and had the courtesy to sign a contract, to ensure that the club got at least a half decent fee.

Imagine he will be at Rovers as a coach in a few weeks (Ismael connection from their time at Barnsley & West Brom)

The best 'deal' would have been to have backed our manager 12 months prior when the PL was achievable, and again the following summer, and again the following January, whilst Wharton was here. Had we done any of those things there's a decent chance we'd have got to the PL, kept Wharton and now be naming our price for him like Palace can. None of the above is far fetched or ludicrous stuff. It was there to be done and our owners flushed it down the toilet because they don't care. So I'm glad they've missed out on millions on Adam, it's the least they deserve for their behaviour.

Of course, it would never have been a sky high fee in January 2024, nobody said it should’ve been. He was still not a household name at this level, oh and we were a distressed seller with cash flow problems, so how could we have got anymore there and then. Obviously a normal club with billionaire owners wouldn’t have been conducting a fire sale in the first place and would have instead been selling post he had developed further and become the league’s hot prospect on their terms at some time down the line, not the buyers.

Just looking through the booklet that was anonymously printed back in 2016. Nothing changes.

I think physical toughness is a much more important attribute down here (general weakness in our squad for a long time now, as it happens) and there’s more emphasis on “protecting the players” in the top division. It basically nullifies his main weakness and turns it into a potentially exploitable benefit (being physically overwhelmed while shielding the ball to win free kicks in wide positions). He’s got a lot to learn and his pace without the ball is questionable but I can absolutely see him becoming a Premier League player.

We already are with the three idiots running the club so it isn't surprising!

jason roberts,or jigsaw as we used to call him🙂

think you are being very kind to him,for me,he did`nt to anything to suggest he could play at this level let alone the top league,he looks a mirror image of adam moran,lightweight,unwilling to his body into tackles and a typical academy product,i suspect premier league full backs would have an easy afternoon with him ayari always looked a decent player,he never got an extented run to show himself here,was a bit of pointless loan imo,we certainly never got the best out of him

If that ends up being the case it would still be disappointing because with a halfway decent negotiator on our end, it should have been 40+ million. Although as has been pointed out it seemingly doesn't matter anymore anyway.

A lot of people wrote Ayari off here and he’s made 32 appearances in the league this season Brighton. I think ACD has a lot of qualities that will serve him well at Premier League level, he’ll win a lot more fouls up there than he did with us and not be burdened with defensive work as much.

Crucial point miss is that Huijsen has those PL games and played very well.. Wharton only had championship experience.

Putting aside the fact that none of it goes into improving the squad so its all made redundant. He would have to be sold for £120m for us to then earn £35m which is a hell of a presumption. But that wouldnt make it a good deal for us because it still assumes that had we got a better initial deal, that we wouldnt have got a sell on. Say if we had waited and sold him for £30m + 15% sell on and he still went for this wishful £120m. Instead of £20m + (15% x £100m profit) which equals £35m, we would have got £30m + (15%? x £90m) so £44.5m. Im always wary of basing a transfer fee on sell ons anyway. Its contingent, you cant bank on it coming in.

He's done here. Didn't even make the squad for the last 2 games, didn't feature much under Ismael at all really. RG is on record as saying we're looking for a box to box centre midfielder and Ismael is on record as saying he wants to keep Forshaw. Trav and Tronstad are the starting 2, Forshaw comes on to see games out, Montgomery will get more game time this coming season, plus the new CM puts Buckley 6th in line. I'd be very surprised if he's a Rover by the close of the window. Possibility he gets loaned to a League One club for the season but I suspect we'll be hawking him around for about £500k to anyone who'll listen.

Oh how I miss these days, I'd even have Roberts back, as frustrating as he could be.