2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[RevidgeBlue]

17 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Nope I was talking about Poku.

It was Mercer I thought was talking about the CB.

We've not been linked anywhere with Poku have we?

[MarkBRFC]

1 hour ago, Forever Blue said:

 No chance, perchance?😉

I'll give it a 5% chance incase Legia crumble and accept a low fee 

[DutchRover]

1 minute ago, MarkBRFC said:

I'll give it a 5% chance incase Legia crumble and accept a low fee 

Wagg's crisps and £5 million add on when we get promoted.

[Forever Blue]

The transfer thread has already broken a few and we’ve not even said goodbye to June. 

July will be epic 😉
 

 

 

[Forever Blue]

4 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

I'll give it a 5% chance incase Legia crumble and accept a low fee 

That’s quite optimistic for you. Welcome to the club, Steve! 

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Owt believable happening folks?

[Mercer]

3 hours ago, Neal said:

Poku going to QPR for 900k... 

 

Whilst we're scouring Europe for weird unproven players... Christ.

 

2 hours ago, Mercer said:

Add Randell to Bristol City for c£700k and Phillips to WBA for £1million and that's 3 very decent and proven players for £2.7million.

The players are out there but we simply aren't even prepared to modestly invest.

IMO, a totally useless feckin shambles with neither hope nor ambition.

 

 

33 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

It was Mercer I thought was talking about the CB.

We've not been linked anywhere with Poku have we?

For clarity @RevidgeBlue, had commented upon the fantasy pursuit of Kapuadi and then @Nealposted about Poku to QPR.  Followed up with post to state that 3 very decent and proven players had gone to Championship clubs for very modest investments.

[Dreams of 1995]

1 hour ago, RevidgeBlue said:

As I've said many times over the years, it makes it look as though we're doing something.

I've also (only half )oked the MO of the recruitment department goes something like this:

1) Lodge a derisory bid/bids for one or more players early in the window which have no chance whatsoever of being accepted. Leak to the press we have several bids for players in. ( It seems now the identities of said non targets are also being leaked)

2) Pick fluff out of your navel for a month or so.

3) After a while leak another mini story saying we still have several active irons in the fire.

4) When we eventually get gazumped by a Club willing to meet the asking price leak a sob story about how we did our best but couldn't compete with the financial might of whichever Club it is.

5) Job done! Go back to picking fluff out of your navel until the next transfer window.

As critical as I am of the Club and its senior management this just appears to be critique for the sake of it

Our recruitment team has continued to mould a squad that is far better than the pot of money they are given to work with. With a budget that is way down in the bottom 5, we have challenged for play offs more often than not

We do not have the wage or transfer budgets to gazump other teams in our league. Teams in the league below us could offer higher wages - Wrexham and Blues. That is not the fault of the scouting team, data analysts or other members of the recruitment department, it is the fault of Venkys.

Our recruitment team has to be one of the best in the league

[RevidgeBlue]

9 minutes ago, Dreams of 1995 said:

As critical as I am of the Club and its senior management this just appears to be critique for the sake of it

Our recruitment team has continued to mould a squad that is far better than the pot of money they are given to work with. With a budget that is way down in the bottom 5, we have challenged for play offs more often than not

We do not have the wage or transfer budgets to gazump other teams in our league. Teams in the league below us could offer higher wages - Wrexham and Blues. That is not the fault of the scouting team, data analysts or other members of the recruitment department, it is the fault of Venkys.

Our recruitment team has to be one of the best in the league

Oh do give over - George Hirst, Telalovic, Ennis, O Riordan, Wahlsted, Forshaw, Dennis, Woodrow,  to name but a few?

The only time I'd argue we excelled on a limited budget was last summer when John Park was here.

[Exiled_Rover]

1 hour ago, RevidgeBlue said:

It was Mercer I thought was talking about the CB.

We've not been linked anywhere with Poku have we?

Only by hopeful fans. 

[Exiled_Rover]

1 hour ago, Forever Blue said:

The transfer thread has already broken a few and we’ve not even said goodbye to June. 

July will be epic 😉
 

 

 

Joke's on you, I was broken years ago. 

A couple of seasons freezing your balls off in the Jack Walker Stand watching Hedges and Dolan as your wide men would break any man. The CIA should take notes. 

[davulsukur]

This saga might finally come to an end

[Exiled_Rover]

21 minutes ago, Dreams of 1995 said:

As critical as I am of the Club and its senior management this just appears to be critique for the sake of it

Our recruitment team has continued to mould a squad that is far better than the pot of money they are given to work with. With a budget that is way down in the bottom 5, we have challenged for play offs more often than not

We do not have the wage or transfer budgets to gazump other teams in our league. Teams in the league below us could offer higher wages - Wrexham and Blues. That is not the fault of the scouting team, data analysts or other members of the recruitment department, it is the fault of Venkys.

Our recruitment team has to be one of the best in the league

We're so dysfunctional that I think this club is powered by individuals. 

Broughton was very good. Park was clearly very good.

I have no faith in Gestede to pull a rabbit out of the hat. 

[Mercer]

21 minutes ago, Dreams of 1995 said:

 

Our recruitment team has to be one of the best in the league

A staggering opinion - had to double check that it wasn't a Chaddy posting.  Would be equally staggered if more than 10% share your opinion.

8 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Oh do give over - George Hirst, Telalovic, Ennis, O Riordan, Wahlsted, Forshaw, Dennis, Woodrow,  to name but a few?

The only time I'd argue we excelled on a limited budget was last summer when John Park was here.

Spot on.

[Exiled_Rover]

1 minute ago, davulsukur said:

This saga might finally come to an end

I liked Eustace a lot when he was here (I'm obviously indifferent about him now), but you do have to wonder.

He's bought Sanderson too. If he has Premier League ambitions he has to remove the crutch of relying on older / familiar players. 

[Exiled_Rover]

13 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Oh do give over - George Hirst, Telalovic, Ennis, O Riordan, Wahlsted, Forshaw, Dennis, Woodrow,  to name but a few?

The only time I'd argue we excelled on a limited budget was last summer when John Park was here.

Technically we washed our face or made a profit on Telalovic, Ennis and Wahlsted. 

I'm not ready to write off O'Riordan just yet. 

The Forshaw, Dennis / Woodrow signings are what I expect under Gestede. 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

10 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

I liked Eustace a lot when he was here (I'm obviously indifferent about him now), but you do have to wonder.

He's bought Sanderson too. If he has Premier League ambitions he has to remove the crutch of relying on older / familiar players. 

I’m not bothered about Weimann, this season could easily be a season too far for him. Baath is a loss. Sanderson was a handy bench player. 

[JHRover]

The reason we have done 'well' over the last 3-4 years is because we've had good managers and more importantly the left overs of a very good Championship squad.

The biggest credit I can give Tony Mowbray, and I believe it came at the expense of immediate results, is that he had a good eye for a player, patience and was able over 3-4 years to build a very good Championship squad. He was of course given time and resources to do that (way beyond the constraints the owners have imposed over the last few years) but he certainly left a legacy of a good Championship side capable of doing well in this league,

Despite a reckless and negligent approach to contracts and reinvestment, resulting in the departures of important players like Rothwell, Lenihan, Diaz and others on free transfers, we have managed to keep going with the others that have been left over together with good recruitment under Broughton with Brittain, Tronstad, Hyam and Szmodics, again when they were actually allowing some reinvestment in the club. 

That is going to come to an end soon as the last of Mowbray's and Broughton's signings are offloaded to rivals on the cheap, leaving us will little remaining in quality or experience. 

The reason we've done 'well' (is finishing 7th in the second tier doing well?) is because of the legacy of previous staff and players from a bygone era when the owners were of some use to the club by spending some money on it. 

Now that's all changed.

[Mercer]

6 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

I liked Eustace a lot when he was here (I'm obviously indifferent about him now), but you do have to wonder.

He's bought Sanderson too. If he has Premier League ambitions he has to remove the crutch of relying on older / familiar players. 

Won't necessarily disagree but don't you first have to have a solid foundation.

Appointed Rovers' manager in Feb. and kept us up.  Put a foundation in place for his first full season and I'm certain if club had backed him in last window then we would have seen a more 'ambitious' approach .

Exactly same happened/happening at Derby.  Come Jan. 2026, if he has Derby at  that point where he had Rovers, pretty certain he'll get the backing he deserves.

A pragmatic manager who has got results when really up against it.  To me, the future is bright for Derby 

 

 

 

 

[JHRover]

The fact that Eustace at Derby is shopping in virtually identical markets to what he was doing here last year is not to be taken as a positive. It shows that Derby are not in any great shape, and financially are hamstrung, so much so that he is having to turn to free agents and people he knows in a bid to solidify them.

He hasn't gone there to throw millions around on quality. He's working under tough financial constraints.

Yet despite those constraints, despite shopping for free agents and despite gambling his reputation on what appeared to be a probable relegation to League One, he still couldn't get out of the Brockhall exit quickly enough.

What does that tell the head in sand brigade about the state of things at Rovers?

[Ghost7]

17 minutes ago, JHRover said:

The fact that Eustace at Derby is shopping in virtually identical markets to what he was doing here last year is not to be taken as a positive. It shows that Derby are not in any great shape, and financially are hamstrung, so much so that he is having to turn to free agents and people he knows in a bid to solidify them.

He hasn't gone there to throw millions around on quality. He's working under tough financial constraints.

Yet despite those constraints, despite shopping for free agents and despite gambling his reputation on what appeared to be a probable relegation to League One, he still couldn't get out of the Brockhall exit quickly enough.

What does that tell the head in sand brigade about the state of things at Rovers?

 

"That he's a snake." 😂

[Ghost7]

I think the key to any successful sports team is having a setup that managers aren't desperate to walk away from......

Yet unfathomably inside the ground on a match day, some morons look confused by a Venky's out chant.

[roverandout]

Losing batth is a disgrace 

[Tomphil2]

Eustaces first remit is have a better season than last and bring Championship stability to another big club who've been out of it ages and nearly went again in their first season back.

He's doing it to another low budget backdrop Derby are scrabbling around for outside investment they have no real money so his second remit is bring their own players through and sign young loans, like here.

So all he's doing is following his own formula which has proven to work and it's common sense, they'll take anything beyond that as a bonus.

I'd say though that if they found themselves in the top 3 or 4 in January they'll suddenly find him some money from somewhere.

[davulsukur]

59 minutes ago, JHRover said:

The fact that Eustace at Derby is shopping in virtually identical markets to what he was doing here last year is not to be taken as a positive. It shows that Derby are not in any great shape, and financially are hamstrung, so much so that he is having to turn to free agents and people he knows in a bid to solidify them.

He hasn't gone there to throw millions around on quality. He's working under tough financial constraints.

Yet despite those constraints, despite shopping for free agents and despite gambling his reputation on what appeared to be a probable relegation to League One, he still couldn't get out of the Brockhall exit quickly enough.

What does that tell the head in sand brigade about the state of things at Rovers?

I actually thought Derby were going to back him with a reasonable amount (not crazy amounts) but as you say, the fact they aren't, just doubles down on how much of a circus things are at Ewood.