2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[sharpysharps86]

1 hour ago, MarkBRFC said:

Had to laugh at Ismael saying he wants 90% of incoming business done by the first day of pre season.

More like 90% of it not done a week before the season starts. The 10% that is done will be the Markanday extra year option 😂

[bluebruce]

2 hours ago, MarkBRFC said:

Had to laugh at Ismael saying he wants 90% of incoming business done by the first day of pre season.

He hasn't been here long. Or, apparently, asked around much before joining. He'll learn. It will break him. He'll leave. They'll find the next naive out of work manager and the joyous cycle will repeat.

[AvRover]

1 hour ago, bluebruce said:

He hasn't been here long. Or, apparently, asked around much before joining. He'll learn. It will break him. He'll leave. They'll find the next naive out of work manager and the joyous cycle will repeat.

In a strange way its consistency - which is keeping us in the Championship!

[AvRover]

It's the same old same old. If we find a real gem - we get Play Offs. If the signings are duds and we get injuries - we go down. The likely scenario is recruitment is ok and we finish about 10th. This has been the recipe largely for 7 years.

With PSR and parachute payments automatic promotion is not attainable for a club in our position. The club's best shot of getting back to the PL is to get a bit of luck and sneak into the Play Offs like Huddersfield or Blackpool did.

With the poor ownership and current climate, buying another season in the Championship with our recruitment model year after year isn't actually that bad. Yes it's frustrating, yes I want to see more vision and development of the club. However, it's better than being where Wigan and Reading are atm.

It's unambitious - but let's just just get a squad together for next season that's capable of comfortably staying up.

Edited Saturday at 23:32 by AvRover

[Forever Blue]

2 hours ago, AvRover said:

It's the same old same old. If we find a real gem - we get Play Offs. If the signings are duds and we get injuries - we go down. The likely scenario is recruitment is ok and we finish about 10th. This has been the recipe largely for 7 years.

With PSR and parachute payments automatic promotion is not attainable for a club in our position. The club's best shot of getting back to the PL is to get a bit of luck and sneak into the Play Offs like Huddersfield or Blackpool did.

With the poor ownership and current climate, buying another season in the Championship with our recruitment model year after year isn't actually that bad. Yes it's frustrating, yes I want to see more vision and development of the club. However, it's better than being where Wigan and Reading are atm.

It's unambitious - but let's just just get a squad together for next season that's capable of comfortably staying up.

How did Luton and Ipswich manage to go up if promotion isn’t attainable for a club ‘like ours’ without parachute payments? 

[bluebruce]

4 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

How did Luton and Ipswich manage to go up if promotion isn’t attainable for a club ‘like ours’ without parachute payments? 

That isn't what they said, and they also gave examples of such clubs going up.

[Forever Blue]

14 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

That isn't what they said, and they also gave examples of such clubs going up.

They said automatic promotion isn’t attainable for a club without parachute payments. Ipswich did it. 

[Ricky]

Ipswich spent big to get out of League 1. They would have been caught up in financial issues had they not gone up. 

[Ricky]

Just checked. They had lost £30.8m of their £39m allowance over the two previous years. Had they not gone up they would have exceeded the £39m.

[bluebruce]

4 hours ago, Forever Blue said:

They said automatic promotion isn’t attainable for a club without parachute payments. Ipswich did it. 

Then they immediately said a bit of luck would do it and quoted two clubs who did it that way without parachute payments. It clearly wasn't a literal statement but an emphasis on the difficulty. 

[Damien]

You’ll always have a team that goes up against the norm. It could easily be us one year… but due to law of averages, it’s more likely it won’t.

It was Ipswich and Luton last year and could be Coventry this year (if they turn around the first leg).

[chaddyrovers]

11 hours ago, MarkBRFC said:

Had to laugh at Ismael saying he wants 90% of incoming business done by the first day of pre season.

wasn't his comments actually he wants 90% of the transfer business done by time they travel to Spain in late July for pre season training camp and 2 friendlies? 

his actual comments 

"Yes, the training camp is already booked, it's all arranged and organised.

"The time will be later in the pre-season because we want to have 90 per cent of the squad there. That will help us to create that connection between the players and the staff and others working at the club.

"We want everyone to be together and that will create the feeling that we are all together for the season ahead."

Blackburn's pre-season plans after talks with two opponents | Lancashire Telegraph

Edited yesterday at 06:57 by chaddyrovers

[MarkBRFC]

4 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

wasn't his comments actually he wants 90% of the transfer business done by time they travel to Spain in late July for pre season training camp and 2 friendlies? 

his actual comments 

"Yes, the training camp is already booked, it's all arranged and organised.

"The time will be later in the pre-season because we want to have 90 per cent of the squad there. That will help us to create that connection between the players and the staff and others working at the club.

"We want everyone to be together and that will create the feeling that we are all together for the season ahead."

Blackburn's pre-season plans after talks with two opponents | Lancashire Telegraph

No. He said he wants 90% done by first day of pre season

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25136731.blackburn-post-mortem-delivers-optimism-frustration/

[Ossydave]

That just says 90% of the squad? I haven't read all the articles but surely that just means 90% of what we have regardless of new signings, 10% for injuries etc, or is the 10% the new signings? 🤔 

[KentExile]

16 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

wasn't his comments actually he wants 90% of the transfer business done by time they travel to Spain in late July for pre season training camp and 2 friendlies? 

his actual comments 

"Yes, the training camp is already booked, it's all arranged and organised.

"The time will be later in the pre-season because we want to have 90 per cent of the squad there. That will help us to create that connection between the players and the staff and others working at the club.

"We want everyone to be together and that will create the feeling that we are all together for the season ahead."

Blackburn's pre-season plans after talks with two opponents | Lancashire Telegraph

 

On 08/05/2025 at 19:54, Herbie6590 said:

 

 

Herbie, is it possible for us to have a countdown timer added at the top of the site?

Days, hours, minutes & seconds until 90% of our transfer business should be done

First friendly in Spain is scheduled for 22nd July

Edited yesterday at 07:11 by KentExile

[MarkBRFC]

The first friendly will be earlier than the 22nd July.

[KentExile]

5 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

The first friendly will be earlier than the 22nd July.

well, whichever date Ismael said, can we have a countdown timer on site?

And bingo cards for us to play once the timer has got down to zero, made up of excuses why 90% of our business has not been done by the stated date

Would make a nice change of pace from us talking about cakes & biscuits for half the summer 😉 

Edited yesterday at 07:15 by KentExile

[Forever Blue]

30 minutes ago, Ricky said:

Ipswich spent big to get out of League 1. They would have been caught up in financial issues had they not gone up. 

not that simple. In L1 owner investment counts as club income, which is why Brum were allowed to spend £20m on transfers last summer. That was also why Ipswich were allowed to spend big. Basically the owners put in as much money as they want and there’s no restriction. Think they changed it since Brum went on their spending spree so now the L1 rules are stricter about owner investment. 
 

It gets interesting now they’re in the  championship as the 3 year rule applies….but does it apply retrospectively? Some finance experts say that the owner investment in L1 should not be counted as income, but others say that could be challenged. 

As for Ipswich they were only in the Championship for 1 season so they never fell foul of the rules. 
 

 

[Forever Blue]

39 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Then they immediately said a bit of luck would do it and quoted two clubs who did it that way without parachute payments. It clearly wasn't a literal statement but an emphasis on the difficulty. 

You need to read it again. 

They made a clear distinction between automatic and play off promotion. I was talking about automatic, which they literally said wasn’t possible without parachute payments. Ipswich literally got promoted automatically without parachute payments. Hope that assuages your confusion. 

Edited yesterday at 07:34 by Forever Blue

[chaddyrovers]

Nicko reporting we are considering signing Sanderson for £1m and we have end of the month to decide whether we will or not. We want to tied down Batth still. Scott Wharton won't be ready for pre season. Also Dolan is considering offers from overseas. 

23 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

No. He said he wants 90% done by first day of pre season

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25136731.blackburn-post-mortem-delivers-optimism-frustration/

Rovers are aiming for six or seven new faces, with Ismael hoping for '90 per cent' to be signed by the first day of pre-season. 

Hoping is the word Jackson used in this article. 

16 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

The first friendly will be earlier than the 22nd July.

yes true but Ismael did say for the pre season camp in Spain as my quotes says

[Forever Blue]

I thought Sandersons end of season  interview was quite gushing about his time here, and the fact he said a couple of times that ‘who knows I might be back one day’. 
 

That explains it if we are interested in doing a deal and he wants to come. Probably a good investment at £1m 

[MarkBRFC]

10 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Rovers are aiming for six or seven new faces, with Ismael hoping for '90 per cent' to be signed by the first day of pre-season. 

Hoping is the word Jackson used in this article. 

Yes, which is what i said the first time.

Ismael wants/hopes 90% done by the first day of pre season.

Which i find laughable.

[Tugayisgod]

5 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

I thought Sandersons end of season  interview was quite gushing about his time here, and the fact he said a couple of times that ‘who knows I might be back one day’. 
 

That explains it if we are interested in doing a deal and he wants to come. Probably a good investment at £1m 

Not for me at that price. If the budget is limited, as we expect, then we have bigger priorities elsewhere.

[MarkBRFC]

I'll be honest I saw nothing to suggest that Sanderson is worth parting with £1m of our paltry budget for.

[Forever Blue]

3 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

I'll be honest I saw nothing to suggest that Sanderson is worth parting with £1m of our paltry budget for.

He’s young with potential so £1m seems reasonable. He was apparently very good in the Championship at Brum under Eustace. 
 

But yeah we didn’t see enough of him to make an judgement either way.