2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[lraC]

7 hours ago, Tomphil2 said:

Punishment for the snowball is the craziest theory on here the rot was well and truly set in way before that.

The 30 million a season black hole they'd created which lead to a fire sale and relegation was less snowball and more Anderson/Kean,

And Venkys own ignorance.

 

You align with me on that. I am convinced they are still here too, only keeping a low profile, or disguised with other connections.

[Waggy76]

7 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

im`e leaning towards the theory that they are punishing us for the snowball incident,it must have really hurt their pride to disembark their rolls royces,expecting plaudits and cheers,only to be met by a hail of hatred and frozen snow🙂they hav`nt been back since and have systematically ground us down

ironically if it was`nt for swags enlightened appointments of mowbray,jdt and eustace,we`de have been floundering long ago

Don't think Waggott appointed Mowbray, more vice versa. 

[47er]

20 hours ago, Blue blood said:

Any thoughts on the difference between then and now, those doing the spotting? 

Maybe, just maybe, that might have a y'know influence on the liklihood of these signings being successful. 

Chaddy in yet another attempt to convince us we're doing OK. We are  signing dross in the hope that one or two come off.

They can then be sold for a healthy profit allowing us to continue to play night games!

[G Somerset Rover]

48 minutes ago, lraC said:

You align with me on that. I am convinced they are still here too, only keeping a low profile, or disguised with other connections.

Glen was sure that Suhail is the last of that lot. The guy needs ridding once and for all.

[47er]

14 hours ago, imy9 said:

And this would be my massive issue with Eustace, it’s short term thinking and we cannot survive on this model. I’m actually excited by the pace and power that appears to be coming into the side!

Derby are broke though like us, that's why he's making the sort of signings he is. Focus on staying up next season and building. Always freebies available from us!

[47er]

13 hours ago, davulsukur said:

Derby apparently lining up Owen Beck on loan as well.

Thought he was Wrexham-bound?

[47er]

11 hours ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

Well of course he won’t re sign him Travis and tronstad on more than 10k as it stands so who in their right mind would accept lower

im sceptical that its true….but as ever with venkys nothing would surprise me  

Yet we'll still have fans blaming the exits on greedy players and their agents!

[MarkBRFC]

9 hours ago, Forever Blue said:

Nicko’s got a story for us all tomorrow.

I’m quite moist.

Something to do with the CEO i think.

[Ricceh]

Just now, MarkBRFC said:

Something to do with the CEO i think.

It's Pasha wearing a Noel Edmonds mask from a Halloween party in 1996.

[islander200]

10 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

Something to do with the CEO i think.

Martin Bain the fella who was Ceo  at Sunderland during their relegations is the favourite

[Damien]

12 hours ago, cesus said:

I couldn't help be baffled that Weimann had a surgery before the end of the season, "to be fit and ready for next season". I scratched my head at the time wondering how we knew he wasn't using our medical department to get ready for somebody else, turns out my fears were correct.

I thought exactly the same. It pissed me off because everyone knew we’d lost a good player just so he could f*ck off somewhere else. 
For that reason, I hope he gets crocked in his first game for Derby.

[alex l]

28 minutes ago, 47er said:

Yet we'll still have fans blaming the exits on greedy players and their agents!

It'd be nice to find a squad full of Santi Carola's - playing for minimum contract at his first club, just got them promoted back to La Liga. 

[DutchRover]

14 minutes ago, islander200 said:

Martin Bain the fella who was Ceo  at Sunderland during their relegations is the favourite

God help us if that is the case, he nearly bankrupted them and they were on prem revenue

[alex l]

18 minutes ago, islander200 said:

Martin Bain the fella who was Ceo  at Sunderland during their relegations is the favourite

Hardly a ringing endorsement to be compared to David Brent...

 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/whats-happened-former-sunderland-chief-21780987

[London blue]

19 minutes ago, islander200 said:

Martin Bain the fella who was Ceo  at Sunderland during their relegations is the favourite

The Scottish fella?

He seemed competent but exactly the kind of guy you'd turn to manage a club with close to zero money.

[TimmyJimmy]

Do we know who it was who threw the snowball? Did it ever get claimed? Whatever your view on the 'incident' anyone who understands Indian pride and dignity will know that it had an effect.  It was shit here pre-snowball and treble shit post-snowball.

[JHRover]

11 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Aren't most of those players you listed on higher wages than 10k. 

Hyam and Cantwell are probably our biggest wage earners, Travis, Brittain and Tronstad on higher than 10k. 

Those players got their deals years ago, Cantwell the only recent exception.

Reports not long ago suggested Eustace was set to resign last summer and it was only the club relaxing it's ridiculous approach and signing Cantwell, Batth and Weimann that persuaded him to stay.

So the wage cap thing makes complete sense, it explains the inability and unwillingness to sort out new contracts for our best players because we are choosing to let them go due to our own wage policies.

Our choice. Not FFP, not COVID, not the weather, not a player wanting PL football, not a project, not a player wanting to go and live down South.

Just plain old fashioned cost cuts. Eventually that catches up with everyone and will do here very soon.

Absolutely ridiculous the reaction from some online to the two foreign signings whilst we see the cornerstones of last season's relative success depart, again due to our failings and policies nothing more.

It was these policies and refusal to sort out the contracts that led Eustace to jump ship mid season at the first opportunity, an unprecedented step that the head in sand gang have managed to erase from their consciousness.

This is project 4 since 2022. We had Mowbray's project, we had the Broughton and JDT project, we had the Eustace and Park project and now it's the Gestede and Ismael project. This time next year it will be another one. They're winging it from one year to the next masquerading as a professional outfit.

[chaddyrovers]

17 minutes ago, DutchRover said:

God help us if that is the case, he nearly bankrupted them and they were on prem revenue

How did bankrupt them when he wasn't the owner? Ellis Short had decided not to invest another penny anymore. 

Venkys will know Bain from his time as CEO of Indian Super League  

The job is just administrative role at best with very little power to make key decisions 

[TimmyJimmy]

Elliott Bennett gives a good insight into contract negotiations under Venkys in todays Telegraph. Good bloke. Loves the club.

[roversfan99]

6 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

How did bankrupt them when he wasn't the owner? Ellis Short had decided not to invest another penny anymore. 

Venkys will know Bain from his time as CEO of Indian Super League  

The job is just administrative role at best with very little power to make key decisions 

What a healthy setup. Suhail with the power and this cretin just doing the admin for him.

[davulsukur]

48 minutes ago, islander200 said:

Martin Bain the fella who was Ceo  at Sunderland during their relegations is the favourite

Sunderland fans think he was a fucking disaster

😂 Venky's at their finest.

[K-Hod]

51 minutes ago, islander200 said:

Martin Bain the fella who was Ceo  at Sunderland during their relegations is the favourite

He sounds like he’s got the credentials 😅.

[Tomphil2]

2 hours ago, lraC said:

You align with me on that. I am convinced they are still here too, only keeping a low profile, or disguised with other connections.

Hypothetically speaking just imagine if someone - in return for running the ship from the shadows or an initial stake or even a contract that is impossible to break without a massive payout - was entitled to just 5 or 10% of every buy or sale deal.

That might not sound much but over 15 years it's a very handsome return and the kind of investment or involvement a very crafty clever snake would include in their deal with clueless mega rich new ownership.

Remember how they were all in bed together at first and under scrutiny in the early days the Matriarch said 'Jerome's role will diminish as time goes by' she didn't say his involvement would end.

There may well be a 5th member around that farmhouse kitchen table when dealing with Rovers. A member perhaps represented on the board by a duel agent who's worked for both companies.

The sheer number of players who are seeing out their contracts here now is also interesting when considering this.

[Tomphil2]

12 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Sunderland fans think he was a fucking disaster

😂 Venky's at their finest.

Cheapest.

[Mercer]

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

How did bankrupt them when he wasn't the owner? Ellis Short had decided not to invest another penny anymore. 

Venkys will know Bain from his time as CEO of Indian Super League  

The job is just administrative role at best with very little power to make key decisions 

If the advert we've seen is correct, no self respecting individual would take this job.

A C-suite level job my arse.

Edited 6 hours ago by Mercer