What a bizarre set of circumstances.

That’s the market we’re shopping in under the Chicken Chokers. We aren’t going to looking at any player over £1 million. Even thst is unlikely.

Because we have to think of the future too if we can get a midfielder in now and with one of or both trav/tronstad not renewing means we’re not chasing our tail (again) next summer

At a Q&A in October last year Eustace said he had never even spoken to them let alone met them

Forshaw was very good towards the end of the season at coming off the bench late on and calming the game down. The criticism of his game, as ever, is wildly exaggerated.

Is it unrealistic though? We wanted 6 or 7 before Batth, Weimann and even Dolan left. Ismael has also said that this summer is more of a re build than we had planned. Also, even if we arent and it is a case of prioritising. I cant understand why people are prioritising another midfielder over more attacking options. Thats my main point.

Par for the course. I reckon most people working for Rovers now have never met the owners.

Simply not good enough. Couldn't even hack it at a lower level when out on loan. At 22, time to say goodbye.

I think it's partly because most of us are realistic - we're simply not bringing in that many players so, as fans, we're prioritising.

It's not a shame if they are not good enough for our first team.

Another sub 6', slow CF? No thanks.

Any reason Garrett hasn't been involved in pre season for the first team? Could he be off again?

I think he'll have to drop down a level and will need to go to a team that doesn't ask him to run too much. I could see him being a big success in L1 and reigniting his career in the right set up.

Shame we may lose Garrett. I always liked him. Edmondson scored at Harrogate didn't he. Another one I hoped would make the first team.

Forshaw would be the same as Garrett / Montgomery for mine - a bloke you bring on for 15/20 minutes when the starter is tired. I wouldn't want to start him.

That would never have happened Tyrone. Coming back into the UK all you need is a UK passport that hasn't expired. Being more than 10 years old would be irrelevant.

This off season there’s seems to be a lot more transfer failings or delays. Can’t help but think agents are really starting to take control

I get where you're coming from but we've not seen Tronstad linked to another club, does that mean he's poor?

And the reason he has played so much is that we have failed repeatedly to successfully recruit wide players full stop.

Says a lot about the Forshaw signing that so many feel that even with one signing that we are still short. Pointless signing. Before acknowledging that Dolan and obviously Weimann were leaving, we wanted a right winger and a forward. We didnt score enough goals last season. I just cant get my head around why people think we just need a right winger now. We have no senior competition for Cantwell without Weimann and we also dont have a striker in. Gueye is not direct competition for Ohashi as he forces a total change in style. We need more than 1, that is for sure. We need more goals and more pace.

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It tells you all you need to know when he’s never ever been linked with a move to another club.

Can get into as many good positions as he wants, he doesnt do much in those positions, the fact that you are hyping up a pass in the build up to a goal in a friendly and one of only 2 assists (and one goal) he got last season suggests hes little use. You was very keen to say that hes fine as a squad player. I presume you still think we need a first choice right winger anyway. Hopefully we can finally get one as repeated failures to do so in the market have left us having to play him.

We saw it with Mulgrew. His legs were suddenly just gone, and he went from being a solid first choice to somebody you'd only want to bring on for the last 15-20 mins. A shame as he was by far the best player we had from dead-ball situations. Unfortunately he couldn't jump off the bench just to take free kicks and corners.

Swansea looking to offload Jerry Yates. I mean we could do a lot worse and his pressing style would suit our set up. He would offer good competition to and share the burden with Yuki.