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When the fu*k was the last time we actually renewed a first team player's contract?!

Yes but that pales into insignificance when its not one, two or even three contracts but ALL of them. Not ONE of the first players that we wanted to keep, or the manager wanted to keep, whose deals were coming to an end (this or next summer) did we actually manage to extend the contract of. The only one we have kept is Tronstad who will leave on a free, dont delude yourself into your usual "well he might sign a new deal" crap. Thats Travis, Brittain, Hyam, Dolan, Batth, Weimann, all gone. As I said earlier in the summer and you shot me down for "banging on about it." The contract situation has predictably blown apart the whole transfer window. If its the odd player who wont re-sign, then sell and replace, agreed. But theres a considerable underlying pattern that will sooner rather than later lead to relegation. You are clearly lying when you say we are only short at centre back. You wanted and expected 2 before we had any idea that Hyam was going. Presumably one was an attacker, you also wanted a senior goalkeeper. You clearly wanted and felt that we needed more. Where do you see us finishing now with this squad and this manager? Just a prediction and no cliches or sitting on the fence.

It'd be more self sabotage if he doesn't. Not only is he better (or at least more proven and experienced) than Michalski, but if he isn't even sitting on our bench we drive down the price we can get for him in Jan or the summer.

Just can’t see Josh calling her out if he wasn’t sure.

Not being argumentative at all, yes the Hyam timing could see us short, but the point still stands on all 3.

Whether it was pornhub or Rovers transfer news, Mike was watching a shafting.

Aye, the Hyam one could bite them on the arse, got a feeling Pears wlil come back into the fold

It was porn wasn’t it.

I certainly don’t think the difference between Hyam and whoever fills his slot will be the difference between relegation or not - the difference-making will be at the other end of the pitch. He looked like he never wanted to be here from the off. Given he wanted to go, keeping an even more demotivated Hyam wouldn’t have ended well. I’m far more upset we are relying on one young Icelandic striker.

Wish I could, I was stupid enough to click onto something else. I’d be very disappointed if that’s actually Lyndsey.

The idea that clearing out the decks was necessary after comfortably finishing 7th or 8th in 3 of the last 4 seasons is very odd to me. I don't understand the idea that we needed an "overhaul" when we finished 7th last season, barely missing out on the playoffs. You keep your core players and build around them. You identify areas in the first 11 that can be improved and sign players who should be able to push the team on. It's what we haven't done well enough over the past five or six years. We've mostly just signed players who have kept us at the same level, or more recently had managers able to squeeze as much as possible out of an increasingly limited squad. You don't sell all of your Championship experience and replace it with mostly cheap gambles from lesser leagues. That's a plan which has a miniscule chance of actually being successful. Selling a first team centre back with no replacement, even worse. I understand people want to have hope, but I can't see this transfer window as anything other than a catastrophe.

‘Recent Rovers 11’: Kaminski Brittain. Hyam. Batth Beck Travis. Wharton A Dolan. Szmodics. Brereton Diaz Gallagher How many of those don’t get into our current starting line up?

We have excelled at receiving good fees for our players this summer! Wrexham are overpaying for a mediocre defender and if we had replaced him then it would have been no big deal. Instead we are now just really low on defensive numbers. It’s week 3 of the season and Wharton is the only available true centre back at Watford and he missed all of last season with injury. If any decision highlights where the owners/boards priorities lie then it’s this. Cash in and jeopardise the clubs chances on the pitch or protect the squad at all costs. Maybe we have a good freebie lined up, but I think we all know that won’t happen. The only positive I can see is that there is literally nobody else to sell and maybe that means the owners will sell up after a colossal summer asset strip. Probably wishful thinking.

I just can't see us surviving this season. This has to be one of the worst transfer windows ever. How can they be so irresponsible and gamble the clubs existence like that. These fuckers are in it for themselves and their pay checks / bonuses and back handed agent deals. We will go down and we won't come back up again under this ownership. It will take a miracle to avoid relegation as things stand.

But not all at once, and not allowing this ridiculous amount of them to run down all at once either so there is insane turnover. And certainly not without replacing them all.

He’s happy he’s picking a wage up for 3 years

Go support Liverpool yourself whilst you’re at it!

Transfer windows used to be exciting. Say goodbye to those days, there won’t be anymore under Venkys.

Im sure you're deliberately missing the point just to be argumentative. There'd have been no issue whatsoever selling Hyam earlier in the window and replacing him with similar or better. To sell him in the last few hours of the window with no replacement whatsoever is suicidal.

And in the case of goal and CB, whether their bodies hold up. You'd hope we'd be ok with Toth, but we are running a serious tightrope by having 2 of our 4 CBs be injury prone (and one not really a CB).

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For what????? Yes I think he will overall happy but not happy about Hyam going without being replacing him In a recent interview, he said they changed more of the squad and more of an overhaul of the squad. Only short at centre back for me. Baradji's loan is more of case of him proving himself. Smart move and wise. TGH is loan to buy. Maybe replacing Tronstad next season. You.and others wanted Rovers to sell players in the last 12 months of their contract like Rothwell, BBD. So we have done that with Brittain, Travis and Hyam. my biggest issue with selling Hyam is no replacement for him. If we spent 2m on replacing him then I would be still disappointed selling Hyam so late in the window but at least we would have a proper replacement Why wouldn't I? You losing key player and best CB without replacing him

Had to Google him 🙄

Top and bottom of it is, we've got enough players, it's just whether the new players prove good enough. They'll live or die by the results.

Absolute disgrace.. Hyam was the difference between survival and relegation. We’ve sold him and not even replaced him? Absolute shambolic but it doesn’t surprise me unfortunately