Summer Transfer Window

[Herbie6590]

Next level analysis from Andy Watson & @JoeH here

 

https://www.yumpu.com/s/jh1eUcfN2baru5YC

[darrenrover]

1 minute ago, JoeH said:

 

I hope there's no truth in this but it wouldn't surprise me. The last place we should be looking is midfield.

Stating the bloody obvious but we need a keeper and a centre half Tony!!

 

[Stuart]

1 hour ago, Miller11 said:

We have 5 players who would command any sort of transfer fee.

Lenihan - we have a tendency to think he is better than he actually is, but the prospect of a defence without him is frightening.

Nyambe - no talk of a new deal, and I imagine his agent telling him not to sign if one was forthcoming. Lose him and we all know who plays right back.

Travis - lose him and our midfield looks woefully short.

Dack - won’t be going anywhere til he’s fit. Would likely command the biggest fee. Up until his injury was far and away out most important player... although we coped better than expected without him.

Armstrong - really stepped up to the plate and proved to be our only regular source of goals. Stock will continue to rise.

While losing one or more of these looks inevitable, it’s not going to be pleasant. We lack quality replacements for any of them. In fact only Dack has anything approaching an adequate replacement within our current squad. Lose a couple and we are fucked.

We don’t need to break the bank, but we need to sign a goalkeeper. We could muddle through in other areas, providing we don’t lose any of the above, and we’d have to keep our fingers crossed for no injuries. Mowbray is going to have to put a lot of faith in the academy graduates with those who broke through last season becoming key members of the squad.

This last minute approach is standard. Look how long it took to get Adarabioyo over the line last year. He was “on the verge” for months and in the end we started with Mulgrew against Charlton because of how long we dithered. Walton, by Mowbray’s own admission, “fell into our lap” after we missed out on our real targets. When we wasted money on Brereton we did so after the window had shut. I remember in the Kean days N’Zonzi started at centre half against Wolves before we signed Scott Dann... there’s never a rush with Venky’s.

Good summary.

I just wish they would get it over with so we know where we stand.

I remember when Keegan sold Andy Cole to United in 1995. Newcastle fans were so incensed they confronted him at St James. He told them to trust his judgement and they did. He repaid their faith by finishing second, just 4 points behind United. Could Cole have made the difference in the title race? Possibly. But the previous season they finished 6th, 17 points behind CHAMPIONS BLACKBURN ROVERS so possibly not. 

Oh for a manager with such decisiveness and ruthlessness, and then with the passion and drive, and charisma, to take the club forward. Yes, the pressure told but at least he got them there.

Of course, it’s different strokes and he could replace players but when you consider our current situation, apparent dithering, punctuated with comments warning fans and players alike about how tough the League Cup first round game against Doncaster is going to be! Crimes! Maybe Downing will stay, maybe not. It’s probably in Downing’s hands. A contract offer with a validity for acceptance until deadline day (just in case he can’t find a better offer) would be my guess.

So much change is required this Summer, the lack of any first team goalkeepers is a mere cameo reflecting, and yet deflecting from, our real problems - owners, “CEO”, manager, coaching staff, even the figurehead on the field, the captain, is the wrong choice. Continuity over progress the strap line. Papering over the very obvious regression that we are watching in real time.

All the hallmarks are of very real existential problems behind the scenes. And yet somehow we will just plod on. Promotion not an aim, relegation not a concern, mid-table mediocrity the main aspiration for even the most optimistic fans.

What is going to change?

[Bbrovers2288]

Our foreign market scouting network seem to have stopped at Germany and only Germany. Every name I’m getting is a German division player - most pretty unheard of 

[RoversClitheroe]

Just now, Bbrovers2288 said:

Our foreign market scouting network seem to have stopped at Germany and only Germany. Every name I’m getting is a German division player - most pretty unheard of 

Any names? 

[Russ]

Just now, Bbrovers2288 said:

Our foreign market scouting network seem to have stopped at Germany and only Germany. Every name I’m getting is a German division player - most pretty unheard of 

And surely we wouldn't need a scouting network for that - I'm sure Holtby knows German football inside and could recommend a few??

[Lancs Rover]

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Edited August 20, 2020 by Tabula Rasa

[Wegerleswiggle]

4 minutes ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

Our foreign market scouting network seem to have stopped at Germany and only Germany. Every name I’m getting is a German division player - most pretty unheard of 

I'm happy with unheard of, seems to work for Norwich and Brentford.

[Stuart]

Just now, Russ said:

And surely we wouldn't need a scouting network for that - I'm sure Holtby knows German football inside and could recommend a few??

This is the recruitment equivalent of a grassroots manager asking players to “bring a mate to training next week”!!

Maybe the full title is European Scouting Players Network...

 

[Hoochie Bloochie Mama]

1 hour ago, unleaded said:

He could be right ...  Rumblings Deff ... 

I hope you didn't just spell Delfouneso wrong!!

[LeftWinger]

2 minutes ago, Hoochie Bloochie Mama said:

I hope you didn't just spell Delfouneso wrong!!

Unless he meant Damien Deff.

[G Somerset Rover]

19 minutes ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

Our foreign market scouting network seem to have stopped at Germany and only Germany. Every name I’m getting is a German division player - most pretty unheard of 

That's a long way from Middlesbrough. They'll get nosebleeds.

[Prelude]

48 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

Next level analysis from Andy Watson & @JoeH here

 

https://www.yumpu.com/s/jh1eUcfN2baru5YC

Wow incrediable very in depth! Awesome! From that We need to offer what ever Downing wants 48 assists! (Obviously a typo lol) 

[Tugayisgod]

... http://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/1043634878?-11198:839

[A Northern Horde...]

4 hours ago, JHRover said:

Stalling tactics to calm the masses.

Or convenient, ready made excuse for stagnation...we're in the 'rebuilding phase'?

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[LeftWinger]

1 hour ago, Herbie6590 said:

Next level analysis from Andy Watson & @JoeH here

 

https://www.yumpu.com/s/jh1eUcfN2baru5YC

That is very in depth. Good work guys.

I'd not heard of about 85% of the names suggested.

[Exiled in Toronto]

4 hours ago, Mercer said:

The point is if that transfer and wage commitment had been spent more wisely we might have achieved promotion, been in the play-offs or, at the very least, been a far stronger football team.

Instead, IMO, a £20million+ transfer and wage commitment has been spunked up the wall.

That is not fantasy but stone cold reality.

And one that applies to every other club that didn’t get promotion and made signings that didn’t work out. Preston made a raft of signings and finished lower than the previous year - better ones would’ve got them in the playoffs. It was ever thus.

[chaddyrovers]

Rovers remain in the market for two new additions in their goalkeeping department, with their search for a first-choice set to intensify in the coming days.

Mowbray would prefer a permanent addition and Bond would fit that category, and his demands would fit Rovers' wage structure. However, Rovers are also open to potential loan options, having been priced out of a move for Daniel Iversen but are still keeping tabs on Manchester City's Arijanet Muric. Wages are a stumbling block in that regard, with City holding out for a deal that would see Muric become one of Rovers' highest-earning players, although Rovers are hoping to sight the successful loan of Tosin Adarabioyo as a bargaining chip if they were to enter negotiations.

Links to Aynsley Pears have simmered and murmurs of a European goalkeeper have since surfaced as of late. Anton Mitryushkin, a 24-year-old Russian who left FC Sion this summer, has attracted interest from across Europe, including Ligue 1 side Monaco, and the goalkeeper would tick the right boxes in a young, developing goalkeeper with ball-playing capabilities.

https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/transfer-news/blackburn-rovers-goalkeeper-transfers-bond-18800543

[blue_n_white99]

Difference is PNE didn't spunk £12M on misfits firing blanks, nor are they in a massive financial black hole, additionally they don't have key positions with gaping holes due to the transfer policy

 

Edited August 20, 2020 by blue_n_white99
bad typing

[roversfan99]

@chaddyrovers anything in the Lancs Live will very much be a junior journalist rehashing what is already in the public domain. Wouldnt pay too much notice in that. I mean, that Russian keeper is a rumour from here!

[Richard Oakley]

6 minutes ago, Exiled in Toronto said:

And one that applies to every other club that didn’t get promotion and made signings that didn’t work out. Preston made a raft of signings and finished lower than the previous year - better ones would’ve got them in the playoffs. It was ever thus.

That only applies to other clubs that have had £20m+ to spend and not secured promotion.Preston haven't spent that.If there is one other than us,pray, please tell.

[Crimpshrine]

3 hours ago, LDRover said:

Ah, so we've seamlessly gone from 'slow build' to 'rebuild'. 

We are actually 10 years into the demolition phase.

[Ewood Ace]

1 minute ago, chaddyrovers said:

Rovers remain in the market for two new additions in their goalkeeping department, with their search for a first-choice set to intensify in the coming days.

Mowbray would prefer a permanent addition and Bond would fit that category, and his demands would fit Rovers' wage structure. However, Rovers are also open to potential loan options, having been priced out of a move for Daniel Iversen but are still keeping tabs on Manchester City's Arijanet Muric. Wages are a stumbling block in that regard, with City holding out for a deal that would see Muric become one of Rovers' highest-earning players, although Rovers are hoping to sight the successful loan of Tosin Adarabioyo as a bargaining chip if they were to enter negotiations.

Links to Aynsley Pears have simmered and murmurs of a European goalkeeper have since surfaced as of late. Anton Mitryushkin, a 24-year-old Russian who left FC Sion this summer, has attracted interest from across Europe, including Ligue 1 side Monaco, and the goalkeeper would tick the right boxes in a young, developing goalkeeper with ball-playing capabilities.

https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/transfer-news/blackburn-rovers-goalkeeper-transfers-bond-18800543

What a genius idea to step up our search for a goalkeeper given we have no keeper and the new season starts in 3 weeks. Does this crap really pass as journalism these days. 

[JacknOry]

While a CM should be bottom or our priority list, that tweet about Whiteman sums us up perfectly.

Three clubs have bid while Blackburn are looking at him. 

[Exiled in Toronto]

Just now, Richard Oakley said:

That only applies to other clubs that have had £20m+ to spend and not secured promotion.Preston haven't spent that.If there is one other than us,pray, please tell.

Brentford. 

And I didn’t even make that up.