2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[simongarnerisgod]

4 minutes ago, sharpysharps86 said:

So have we had any more links to players or are we now just debating Eustace and Derby again?

still concentrating on the lower intestines of european football,no doubt there will be links to someone this week

[JHRover]

You don't give up a secure job when sat in the top 6 in February, in with a shot of becoming a Premier League manager, and gamble your career and reputation on an uphill struggle to avoid League One at skint Derby unless you are desperate to get away.

Somehow I don't believe that the hours drive it saved was the crucial factor.

Something deeply, deeply wrong behind the scenes and has been for a while and 'alignment' isn't the word for it

Funny how travel keeps cropping up here as a reason for people leaving. Convenient because location is one thing the wretches cannot affect or control yet doesn't appear to be the issue at any other North West club. They make out like we are Plymouth, Norwich or some other distant backwater.

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Every time I see this topic as a "red hot thread" I think we've signed someone 😪

[Emerald Isle Rover]

4 minutes ago, JHRover said:

You don't give up a secure job when sat in the top 6 in February, in with a shot of becoming a Premier League manager, and gamble your career and reputation on an uphill struggle to avoid League One at skint Derby unless you are desperate to get away.

Somehow I don't believe that the hours drive it saved was the crucial factor.

Something deeply, deeply wrong behind the scenes and has been for a while and 'alignment' isn't the word for it

Funny how travel keeps cropping up here as a reason for people leaving. Convenient because location is one thing the wretches cannot affect or control yet doesn't appear to be the issue at any other North West club. They make out like we are Plymouth, Norwich or some other distant backwater.

There is your right my point was he would/should have known this before taking the job….as stated it is all for there to see and played out publicly by JDT 

[JHRover]

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25055813.blackburn-contract-talks-futures-three-key-players/

This was Gestede quoted on 1st April.

Nearly 3 months on and total and utter failure to do any of what he was talking about.

Giving Forshaw another year all he has managed.

 

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1 minute ago, JHRover said:

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25055813.blackburn-contract-talks-futures-three-key-players/

This was Gestede quoted on 1st April.

Nearly 3 months on and total and utter failure to do any of what he was talking about.

Giving Forshaw another year all he has managed.

 

Gonna rematch the 3 stooges video to see what else was promised

[wilsdenrover]

3 hours ago, Exiled_Rover said:

So we have no money for transfers and our most promising youngsters get picked off for pennies.

Don't you just love football?

I know this was a rhetorical question but I can’t say I love modern football one little bit.

[simongarnerisgod]

7 minutes ago, JHRover said:

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25055813.blackburn-contract-talks-futures-three-key-players/

This was Gestede quoted on 1st April.

Nearly 3 months on and total and utter failure to do any of what he was talking about.

Giving Forshaw another year all he has managed.

 

it`s all lies,spin and gravytrain riding,until the rotten core are overthrown it`s always going to be this way

[sharpysharps86]

31 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

still concentrating on the lower intestines of european football,no doubt there will be links to someone this week

Goodo. Looking forward to who the next Rudy Gestede randomer rocks up at Brockhall.

I'm surprised there haven't been any links with anyone else from the J-League, or was that John Parks work to get Yuki in last summer?

[Mercer]

42 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

So a well respected journalist had information that wasnt reported anywhere else and instead of publishing a story, he told you?

Yep!

You really don't understand journalism or have a clue how it works do you?

Do you really think John Eustace applying for a job at another club merited publishing a story in a serious publication?  Maybe there would have been a story if it had been Pep, Klopp, Arteta etc

Did you see reports anywhere about the other jobs we are given to understand Eustace was interested in (Coventry, PNE, Stoke, WBA)?  There are a number on this MB who pick things up from various sources who posted about Eustace applying for other jobs

There is a plethora of behind-the-scene activities and matters in a football club at any one time with very few of these seeing the light of day in media/press for various reasons.

Even at a local level, Bayes and, to a lesser degree, Jackson will have a knowledge of the many behind-the-scene activities and matters at Rovers but you will not see these in the LT or aired on BBC Lancashire, again for various reasons.

Edited 6 hours ago by Mercer

[wilsdenrover]

38 minutes ago, ... said:

Every time I see this topic as a "red hot thread" I think we've signed someone 😪

Set your expectations lower.

You’ll probably still end up disappointed but it won’t feel so bad.

[Andy]

6 hours ago, Mercer said:

That's us out the running then!

Trying to think of the last time Rovers signed a player when there were other clubs in for him?

Certainly Cantwell, around 12 months ago - he had a few options available to him, but JE sold him the club / role / etc.

[roversfan99]

13 minutes ago, Mercer said:

Yep!

You really don't understand journalism or have a clue how it works do you?

Do you really think John Eustace applying for a job at another club merited publishing a story in a serious publication?  Maybe there would have been a story if it had been Pep, Klopp, Arteta etc

Did you see reports anywhere about the other jobs we are given to understand Eustace was interested in (Coventry, PNE, Stoke, WBA)?  There are a number on this MB who pick things up from various sources who posted about Eustace applying for other jobs

There is a plethora of behind-the-scene activities and matters in a football club at any one time with very few of these seeing the light of day in media/press for various reasons.

Even at a local level, Bayes and, to a lesser degree, Jackson will have a knowledge of the many behind-the-scene activities and matters at Rovers but you will not see these in the LT or aired on BBC Lancashire, again for various reasons.

Fair enough. I just don't believe you.

Rohl at Sheffield Wednesday has been applying for other jobs and that has been all over the media.

I think this supposedly well respected yet mystery journalist would have published a story about a Championship manager applying for another Championship job much lower down the table rather than confiding in you who he happened to know. 

[Tomphil2]

It is possible Eustace's agent was enquiring about other jobs on the quiet not everything in football has a journo on the end of it.

Anyway i'm sure font of knowledge and truth Nixon could clear it up if someone asked and by the way enquiring about a job and sticking your cv in are two different things.

[chaddyrovers]

3 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

How is saying that we dont know for sure either way "negative?"

As a side note. Did they not say they were aligned before any players were signed and before the window had opened? In which case, everyone is aligned. 

Yourself are always looking for something not there between Gestede/Owen and Ismael aren't Align. 

 

57 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

So a well respected journalist had information that wasnt reported anywhere else and instead of publishing a story, he told you?

exactly, but 1000% wont name who this well respected journalist is there tho. 

Most journalists have a twitter account to post things online even if their news paper or other media to post the story 

56 minutes ago, Neal said:

Got to be honest... If we were looking to spunk 8 million on a striker from the MLS I'd be pretty concerned to be honest. It just simply doesn't look like sensible business. Whilst I'd like Rovers to be showing more ambition I certainly wouldn't want them to be gambling big money on unproven players from shite leagues. 

 

Picking up players for 2-3 million I would argue is the way most championship clubs should be operating, with the exception of yoyo clubs. How many players are you going to sign in the championship that you can sell for massive money? Not many. If they sign this guy for 8 million what are the chances they could sell him for double? Not great IMO. 

very good example points

Massive gamble for Derby playing that amount of money for an unknown striker from MLS

[Rover1984]

Transfers will happen soon. Just waiting on other agents to cross every other team off the list until they get to Rovers. Then the dross will flow in 

[simongarnerisgod]

9 minutes ago, Rover1984 said:

Transfers will happen soon. Just waiting on other agents to cross every other team off the list until they get to Rovers. Then the dross will flow in 

someone from the serbian 2nd division

[roversfan99]

16 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Yourself are always looking for something not there between Gestede/Owen and Ismael aren't Align. 

 

exactly, but 1000% wont name who this well respected journalist is there tho. 

Most journalists have a twitter account to post things online even if their news paper or other media to post the story 

very good example points

Massive gamble for Derby playing that amount of money for an unknown striker from MLS

You clearly arent reading what I am putting.

I never said they arent aligned. In fact my point is that we wont know either way.

[chaddyrovers]

19 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

You clearly arent reading what I am putting.

I never said they arent aligned. In fact my point is that we wont know either way.

They have told you they are align so why not believe it instead of this they not be but could be, we just don't know bollocks 

[Emerald Isle Rover]

23 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

They have told you they are align so why not believe it instead of this they not be but could be, we just don't know bollocks 

Well that’s an easy answer chaddy if you take everything at face value then more the fool you….behind the scenes at rovers over this last 15 years and even more so the last 2/3 years it’s been a shitshow so fans have every right to be sceptical and not take everything at face value just because someone says something

remember we had Maguire signed promo done and that was even failed 

[Mercer]

1 hour ago, roversfan99 said:

Fair enough. I just don't believe you.

Rohl at Sheffield Wednesday has been applying for other jobs and that has been all over the media.

I think this supposedly well respected yet mystery journalist would have published a story about a Championship manager applying for another Championship job much lower down the table rather than confiding in you who he happened to know. 

Your views and opinions matter not to me - you are an irrelevance with seemingly little knowledge about the real world.

If you don't think my postings are credible then I suggest you simply ignore.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

3 minutes ago, Mercer said:

Your views and opinions matter not to me - you are an irrelevance with seemingly little knowledge about the real world.

If you don't think my postings are credible then I suggest you simply ignore.

But fans do have a right to be sceptical any poster on this board could say the spoke to someone and make a story up (not saying you have) and then say sorry not saying who told me…without the source it’s always going to be debated 

[roversfan99]

20 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

Well that’s an easy answer chaddy if you take everything at face value then more the fool you….behind the scenes at rovers over this last 15 years and even more so the last 2/3 years it’s been a shitshow so fans have every right to be sceptical and not take everything at face value just because someone says something

remember we had Maguire signed promo done and that was even failed 

Even beyond an understandable additional skepticism around Rovers, I don't get why you would assume that everything said is 100% accurate. 

They wouldnt come out and say if they werent aligned. But they said that before the summer had begun, and before any transfers. So obviously at that point they were aligned. Whether they agree on every signing that has since happened and will happen in the future, remains to be seen.

[Mercer]

38 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

But fans do have a right to be sceptical any poster on this board could say the spoke to someone and make a story up (not saying you have) and then say sorry not saying who told me…without the source it’s always going to be debated 

Even when you are told something in confidence, you can't always 'use' that information at the time owing to obvious sensitivities. 

I think you will find I only posted about the link to the Plymouth job once Eustace had been appointed Derby manager even though I knew about the link back in January - interestingly, I don't recall one challenge to the post at the time.

I have not said "sorry not saying who told me" but did say 'I was not going to name him' for obvious reasons that anyone with an ounce of intelligence should understand!

[Forever Blue]

I’ve got loads of insider info on Rovers’ transfer targets. I’ll tell you about it after the window has shut. Maybe not even then. Sensitivities and all that.