2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

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28 minutes ago, London blue said:

Foreshaw signed on for another year.

Forgive my excitement, it's hard to control myself.

Wooooah there tiger calm yourself down you can't have champagne with your chippy tea mate settle it down yea?

[Exiled_Rover]

28 minutes ago, JBiz said:

Re Pears - just adding my thoughts, it was never simply the Wigan gaffe that caused my own dislike of him, it is the constant nervousness he passes on to the defence, especially under pressure. Especially when JDT made him have the most touches per game after dropping Kaminski, a horrible time to watch rovers. I had empathy with Pears, he should’ve never been in that situation but that might also be down to my hatred of this modern trend in football for the keeper to be basically a sweeper.

The run of games with the fuckup vs Sheffield Wednesday. Seasons all blend into one for me nowadays, so I’m not sure what season it was - I particularly remember that goal he concedes vs Preston at home was just typical weak arse goalkeeping. 
 

No personality and I can’t see him getting better. It’s early days with Toth but Id go that way as I personally see far more potential.

Given access to the Rovers media archive I could easily put together a 10 minute lowlights clip for Calamity.

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29 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

As we all expected, probably after realising that actual quality costs money, we give Forshaw another year.

A player we released but all predicted would return. Not good enough.

I did enjoy this line, playing us for fools:

He becomes Rovers’ second signing of the summer, following the arrival of Belgian winger Dion De Neve earlier this month.

Why do they keep Waffling on about this Belgian player.... 🙄🙄

[Exiled_Rover]

27 minutes ago, Hasta said:

 

I'll start.

Absolute fucking joke. The one area where we probably should be looking at academy players (4th or 5th choice backup) and we are signing up a guy who was generally piss poor after being brought in off the Plymouth scrap heap.

He wasn't piss poor, I thought he read the game quite well, but his legs have clearly gone. 

[K-Hod]

10 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

We didn't want him originally, what's changed?

We didn't want to pay him for an additional 7 weeks?

[Exiled_Rover]

25 minutes ago, TommyRovers said:

Bit early to start panic buying

On the plus side at least it's not a Downing situation again - where we dallied with his renewal, he missed all of pre-season and simply never got up to speed

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Forshaw is a ridiculous signing

 

 

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[Exiled_Rover]

19 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

even the lemons on facebook and the let can`t defend resigning forshaw,it`s an act of a club in it`s death throes and a confirmed indication that there won`t be any money spent on anyone

i wonder if val is aware about it????

He signed a 3.5 year contract at a club where the previous manager walked out because he wasn't backed financially.

He's not daft. We'll have to pry Ismael out of here - he's here until every penny of that contract is paid. 

[RevidgeBlue]

5 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

We didn't want to pay him for an additional 7 weeks?

Wouldn't be surprised.

This has to be a(nother) line in the sand moment surely.

Enough is enough.

[RevidgeBlue]

5 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

He signed a 3.5 year contract at a club where the previous manager walked out because he wasn't backed financially.

He's not daft. We'll have to pry Ismael out of here - he's here until every penny of that contract is paid. 

Yup.

[JBiz]

10 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

We didn't want to pay him for an additional 7 weeks?

His contract would’ve run till 30th of June 

[Emerald Isle Rover]

3 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Wouldn't be surprised.

This has to be a(nother) line in the sand moment surely.

Enough is enough.

To do what exactly? The owners simply don’t care 

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Is Val pushing for these signings or is it a "well Val it's that or nothing pal" situation?

 

 

[Polky]

On 05/06/2025 at 22:14, Polky said:

Adam Forshaw to return as the Travis replacement 👀

I was only joking Pasha!

[RevidgeBlue]

10 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

The owners simply don’t care 

I mean I've always thought that in the past but it's been so blatant for quite a while now it's coming over as malicious.

[Tugayisgod]

13 minutes ago, ... said:

Is Val pushing for these signings or is it a "well Val it's that or nothing pal" situation?

 

 

 

[Tugayisgod]

Just now, Tugayisgod said:

 

"He accepts his role"

Obviously going to be a bit part player by the sounds of it

[JHRover]

'Great human being' claxon.

Is Mowbray back?

[simongarnerisgod]

im`e expecting harry chapman to rock up next week as dolans replacement😁

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

25 minutes ago, ... said:

Forshaw is a ridiculous signing

 

 

Get used to it ...

[RoversClitheroe]

3 minutes ago, Tugayisgod said:

"He accepts his role"

Obviously going to be a bit part player by the sounds of it

Surely if he isn't going to get a game then why not just sign a coach?

I don't get this signing.

Terrible terrible signing

[Tomphil2]

No real problem with Forshaw re-signing he'll just do the job he did before although we'll probably lose Batth now and the need for experience has pushed this.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

Iv already made my peace with the pending season ahead and the circus that is the venkys/pasha run rovers. Buckle up going to be a very bumpy off season 

[rovers11]

A league 1 player, most probably where we're heading soon. 

[Tomphil2]

The most interesting thing now will be not who we sign but who we manage to keep and how long Ismael will stick around before he starts engineering his exit.