2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[MarkBRFC]

10 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Those Clubs can afford to replace said players.

 

We can afford to replace them, we just choose not to.

[ruggles1995]

you need a good spine in a team. To lose Baath, tronstad\trav would be criminal imo. I get we need to deal in the cheap foreign unknown market, but you have to keep a core of experience of the level. Lets hope these rumours are just that, rumours. 
I find it hard to trust anything I read about this club, when someone says someone's close to leaving, signing or anything contract related in any way, I would ignore all of it until released by the club, and even then that might not even be true!

[JHRover]

9 minutes ago, ruggles1995 said:

you need a good spine in a team. To lose Baath, tronstad\trav would be criminal imo. I get we need to deal in the cheap foreign unknown market, but you have to keep a core of experience of the level. Lets hope these rumours are just that, rumours. 
I find it hard to trust anything I read about this club, when someone says someone's close to leaving, signing or anything contract related in any way, I would ignore all of it until released by the club, and even then that might not even be true!

We don't need to , we choose to. 

We could, if we wanted, use some of the £40 million+ to recruit ready made Championship quality players like other clubs do after selling assets.

The owners and their stooges have different plans. Their choice.

[RevidgeBlue]

15 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

We can afford to replace them, we just choose not to.

Agreed, point taken.

[Rogerb]

18 minutes ago, JHRover said:

We don't need to , we choose to. 

We could, if we wanted, use some of the £40 million+ to recruit ready made Championship quality players like other clubs do after selling assets.

The owners and their stooges have different plans. Their choice.

Sadly most of that £40 million is now gone with no owner input for the last two years together with Suhail comment of moving away from a benefactor model I see little prospect of meaningful investment in the first eleven.

[JHRover]

43 minutes ago, Rogerb said:

Sadly most of that £40 million is now gone with no owner input for the last two years together with Suhail comment of moving away from a benefactor model I see little prospect of meaningful investment in the first eleven.

Agreed, again their choice to use the money to prop up their disgraceful regime, they could have used it to improve the club/squad if they wanted to, but have made a conscious choice to try and avoid that.

Nothing to do with:

a) Low crowds, small town

b) Covid

c) FFP rules

d) Admin errors

e) The weather

f) Rogue secretaries

It has always been a choice for the owners and they have always been the issue

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I say invest in the women's team and put us in League 1 with new owners

[Leonard Venkhater]

7 hours ago, Forever Blue said:

Stats on a player being able to win a header are fairly meaningless if the player has limited technique and the ball ends up  travelling in a different direction than intended. 

Yeah. As we all remember, Dennis can win a header, but…..

[Tomphil2]

We can't re-invest because of the latest mess the ownership has created or concocted.

If they were willing and able to fund as they were then over the last few years there would have been no excuse not to use any sale proceeds or at least a nice big chunk of them towards investing in building a promotion seeking team.

It is the only way to do it without parachute money and of course the better the team the more the players are worth anyway so it ticks that box as well.

Conveniently though there is the excuse that somehow manifested itself a few years so they've even managed to balls up the best opportunity we've had since we actually had parachute money.

 

[Ricceh]

Someone left the safe unlocked and Swag stole the transfer budget on the way out. 

[Tomphil2]

1 hour ago, Ricceh said:

Someone left the safe unlocked and Swag stole the transfer budget on the way out. 

Or Swag finally gave his notice in because there isn't one.

[wilsdenrover]

1 hour ago, Ricceh said:

Someone left the safe unlocked and Swag stole the transfer budget on the way out. 

[Ricceh]

1 hour ago, wilsdenrover said:

A fake one too

[wilsdenrover]

2 minutes ago, Ricceh said:

A fake one too

I felt I was optimistic going with a tenner 😁