January Transfer Window.

[Polky]

7 hours ago, superniko said:

Proper doom and gloom stuff over on the PNE board. Talk of asset stripping, bad relationship between fans and Ridsdale, even someone saying a League 1 club had a bid accepted for Riis which I find hard to believe. Obviously some fear in the post-Hemmings world over there.

No harm in us looking there for a good deal though similar to Hyam at Coventry.

It’s been kicking off all day. Peter Risdale has revoked one their ITK’s tickets due to ‘leaking’ the Whiteman news and threatened legal action. Can’t see that going down well with their fan-base.

[tomphil]

4 minutes ago, BRFC_Polky said:

It’s been kicking off all day. Peter Risdale has revoked one their ITK’s tickets due to ‘leaking’ the Whiteman news and threatened legal action. Can’t see that going down well with their fan-base.

I thought they'd sold 12/13l season tickets ?

Only 11 thousand on on Saturday i believe, typical Preston they can't even get more than us when they are giving them away. 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

38 minutes ago, yankfan said:

The time to sell Diaz was in the summer but the club was a captainless ship. With only 6 months on his deal no one is going to offer anything near what we value him at or what value he provides the side. He’s going to cash in as a free in the summer. Get to choose where to go…good on him he deserves it and our fault for not tying him down 18 or 24 months ago. 

24 months ago he wasn’t worth a carrot.

[Sparks Rover]

11 minutes ago, BRFC_Polky said:

It’s been kicking off all day. Peter Risdale has revoked one their ITK’s tickets due to ‘leaking’ the Whiteman news and threatened legal action. Can’t see that going down well with their fan-base.

Ye I've looked into this.  It's a non story from the players point of view.  Totally made up by some naughty bugger. Although to be fair he wouldn't not be open to a move.

Edited January 16, 2023 by Sparks Rover

[roversfan99]

A few people on here seemed very aggrieved that Mowbray didnt use Davenport more and subsequently we released him. Lincoln have also released him after barely featuring.

[simongarnerisgod]

2 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

A few people on here seemed very aggrieved that Mowbray didnt use Davenport more and subsequently we released him. Lincoln have also released him after barely featuring.

i was more aggrieved that he used to pick corry evans and elliot bennett every week tbh,on the rare occasions he did appear davenport looked ok

[CambridgeRover]

9 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

A few people on here seemed very aggrieved that Mowbray didnt use Davenport more and subsequently we released him. Lincoln have also released him after barely featuring.

More annoyed we spent money on him

[47er]

4 hours ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

I don't think you've really answered my question - namely what level of funding from the owners do you think is required in addition to what they have usually provided ?

All depends on why they bought the club in the first place. If it was to continue where we were when they bought it, obviously they have spent inadequately and on the wrong targets.

If they want to just limp along in the Championship year after year and they have no plans or ambition for the club, then it really doesn't matter.

My ideal answer is "whatever it takes" but I care and they don't.

[47er]

1 hour ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

This doesn't makes sense. Have you been on the bottle ?

Makes sense to me.

[AllRoverAsia]

16 minutes ago, 47er said:

Makes sense to me.

It did indeed make perfect sense.

[Sweaty Gussets]

10 hours ago, BRFC_Polky said:

It’s been kicking off all day. Peter Risdale has revoked one their ITK’s tickets due to ‘leaking’ the Whiteman news and threatened legal action. Can’t see that going down well with their fan-base.

It gets better. PNE denied the above legal action threat to the LEP and that the ticket had been revoked. The LEP ran the denial.
Preston North End have their say on revoked ticket rumours ahead of Tottenham Hotspur FA Cup clash | Lancashire Evening Post (lep.co.uk)

 The ITK (or someone he knew) posted the screenshots on twitter which had Risdales mob number on supposedly confirming the threats. Other ITK's confirmed it was Risdales number as he likes to contact people apparently. PNE have now just released the following. 🙂 

CONFIRMED - Club Statement - Whats App Message | PNE-Online

Proud Preston!

Edited January 17, 2023 by Sweaty Gussets

[Sparks Rover]

9 minutes ago, Sweaty Gussets said:

It gets better. PNE denied the above legal action threat to the LEP and that the ticket had been revoked. The LEP ran the denial.
Preston North End have their say on revoked ticket rumours ahead of Tottenham Hotspur FA Cup clash | Lancashire Evening Post (lep.co.uk)

 The ITK (or someone he knew) posted the screenshots on twitter which had Risdales mob number on confirming the threats. Other ITK's confirmed it was Risdales number as he likes to contact people apparently. PNE have now just released the following. 🙂 

CONFIRMED - Club Statement - Whats App Message | PNE-Online

Proud Preston!

All for nothing too...the power of t'internet

[Polky]

I’m sure a few on here would love to WhatsApp Mr Waggott 🤣

[Armchair supporter supremo]

30 minutes ago, BRFC_Polky said:

I’m sure a few on here would love to WhatsApp Mr Waggott 🤣

Then just politely ask chadders to add you to their WhatsApp group

[Mike E]

Re: the BBD pre-contract with Villarreal...

Could we tempt them with a few £m to take him now? Similar to how we brought in Hedges last Jan. To me the money is more important than the player in his current barren spell.

Although he goes with my best wishes for giving us a hell of a story. Even if it was a marketing freebie left in the drain by Paul 'I can't market my own club to my own son' Fielder.

Edited January 17, 2023 by Mike E

[yankfan]

6 hours ago, Exiled_Rover said:

You'd have lynched everyone if we'd tied him down to a contract 18 months ago. He was persona non grata.

Sure but it would be a favorable contract and wage if we had

[yankfan]

6 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

24 months ago he wasn’t worth a carrot.

Would have great wage to have him on…TM would go on and on about how he will come hood and scored loads in training. 

[bluebruce]

8 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

we don`t need any defenders,ffs has everyone at brockhall finally completely lost the plot,we need midfielders and a centre forward,as for diaz,if it`s true,what a way to run a business,buy someone for 7 million and then let him go for peanuts,this must be the new regime that has a definative plan for the future🤣

Wrong, I'm afraid we won't even be receiving any peanuts for Ben.

[Upside Down]

The Diaz mania is really something unique and I can’t think of anything else like it.

It was enormous from a marketing perspective yet Rovers did absolutely nothing at all. 

It really shows what a bunch of cretins there are working down at Ewood. 

[joey_big_nose]

5 hours ago, Mike E said:

Re: the BBD pre-contract with Villarreal...

Could we tempt them with a few £m to take him now? Similar to how we brought in Hedges last Jan. To me the money is more important than the player in his current barren spell.

Although he goes with my best wishes for giving us a hell of a story. Even if it was a marketing freebie left in the drain by Paul 'I can't market my own club to my own son' Fielder.

If we get less than £5m for him we may as well keep him tbh. He may spark into life.

[Danny O.Brien]

Yeah we wouldn't get much if anything for bbd from abroad. The only ones we'd get a decent amount off would be a desperate premier league side. Can't see it at the minute.

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

21 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

If we get less than £5m for him we may as well keep him tbh. He may spark into life.

Most likely disappear on the pitch - like Rothwell.

[G Somerset Rover]

6 hours ago, Mike E said:

Could we tempt them with a few £m to take him now? Similar to how we brought in Hedges last Jan. To me the money is more important than the player in his current barren spell.

I can’t see him upping sticks to Spain just as his first kid has been born. Give it six months and then head over? Absolutely. 

Afraid it’s going to have to be another bitter pill for us to swallow. Four on the bounce now with this being the most costly.

[davulsukur]

49 minutes ago, Gavlar Somerset Rover! said:

I can’t see him upping sticks to Spain just as his first kid has been born. Give it six months and then head over? Absolutely. 

Afraid it’s going to have to be another bitter pill for us to swallow. Four on the bounce now with this being the most costly.

Bonkers the amount of potential money we've let walk out of the door. And for what? 

Only chance we have now, unless he's off to Spain in the summer, is a desperate Prem club like Everton or West Ham hitting the panic button and giving us £5+ and tempting him into the prem with silly money.

We invested so much money and time into him, the aim was always to make a profit on what we paid for him, surely? And yet we just let him walk for nothing but still complain about the restrictions FFP put on us 🤷🏻‍♂️ 

[JHRover]

No club can ever rely on FFP as an excuse when it has watched £20 million+ worth of players walk for nothing in the space of two transfer windows.

Apparently the way around this inconvenient reality is that we should forget everything that happened prior to this season and that now we have Broughton in place this sort of thing won't happen again. Not sure how or why I should believe that when fundamentally it remains the same ownership and board with the same financial approach running things

 

Edited January 17, 2023 by JHRover