2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[M_B]

5 hours ago, TommyRovers said:

Our owners are disgustingly wealthy. Their wealth outshines most if not all of the other teams in our league.

But Rovers are well and truly barrel scraping paycheck to paycheck skint.

The money they spend to keep us afloat is down to their own incompetence. All you have to do is compare where we were as a club the day before they took over and where we are today. 
 

We have been lucky in who we have employed down at Rovers. Mowbray, Bowyer, JDT, Eustace, Broughton. And the fantastic players we have been able to pick up.

We have massively overachieved over the past few years where as other clubs with poor ownership have floundered. 

This is both a blessing and a curse. Rovers still exists playing at a decent level but the venkys are still here and those who don’t follow closely don’t realize their damage.

 

Please Tommy, not the luck thing again 🤦‍♂️

 

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5 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Weimann also announced by Derby.

2 down, 1 to go for them. 

Oh what? 😫 

[simongarnerisgod]

it`s looking to me that the chicken abusers and their pet pasha are doing to the mens team what they did to the womens,slashing costs to the absolute bone,that means everyone who is of any value is up for sale and there will only be cheap replacements to fill out the squad,come the start of the season there will be half a team of academy lads and the rest of the side will be the ones they could`nt sell

i hope im`e wrong,but all the thats happpened so far transfer wise,indicates disaster

Edited July 1 by simongarnerisgod
not finished

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2 hours ago, Tomphil2 said:

Derby and our ex head coach and players are going to ruin our 150th aren't they, you just know it !

That's why I say fill the gaff and drown them out that way

[Emerald Isle Rover]

Batth for one year is a criminal loss on rovers part - no excuses 

I defended and still do that I wouldn’t have offered him two years but losing him to sign one year elsewhere is disgraceful 

[RevidgeBlue]

36 minutes ago, rigger said:

I have no beef with Batth. What I am saying is that no-one can say what will happen in the future.

I think with players of that age you have to park the number for a moment and examine how well they've actually performed.

Someone cited examples earlier of players who'd been given two year deals in the past who shouldn't have been. I'd argue it was clear that Downing was slowing down mid way through his first deal and shouldn't have got another one and tbh I never rated Ayala in the first place. I wouldn't have given Weimann another deal either as I'm not sure his ability to pop up occasionally in the right place at the right time compensated for the fact his legs have gone. Edit: McFadzean was a lot older than Batth and again imo should never have been given a second deal

On the other hand although a similar age to Weimann, Batth's powers showed no sign of waning last season. As such on a one year deal he represents no more of a risk than any other player. Bloody hell, we've spent E3m on Kargbo and Tavares and it seems they can barely make it through a training session between them!

 

Edited July 1 by RevidgeBlue

[Tom]

Batth is a good signing for Derby, Weimann a handy back up but not too sad about that one.

I think as a Derby fan though you’d want to see a little creativity from the manager especially if he brings Sanderson in. 

[Mercer]

5 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I think with players of that age you have to park the number for a moment and examine how well they've actually performed.

Someone cited examples earlier of players who'd been given two year deals in the past who shouldn't have been. I'd argue it was clear that Downing was slowing down mid way through his first deal and shouldn't have got another one and tbh I never rated Ayala in the first place. I wouldn't have given Weimann another deal either as I'm not sure his ability to pop up occasionally in the right place at the right time compensated for the fact his legs have gone.

On the other hand although the same age, Batth's powers showed no sign of waning last season. As such on a one year deal he represents no more of a risk than any other player. Bloody hell, we've spent E3m on Kargbo and Tavares and it seems they can barely make it through a training session between them!

 

Downing - spot on.

Ayala - madness to give a player with his history a 3 year deal

Weimann - not a loss like Batth but we've no one else like him with an ability to make things happen from the bench.

Batth - I think of how good Kevin Moran and Tony Gale were for us as centre backs (in the PL as well!!!) and both older than Batth!!!!  IMO, Batth a massive loss and will be interesting to see how Hyam goes, that's if he isn't flogged!!!, without him.

As for Kargbo and Tavares, I'd be amazed if it's even cost half of the £3million up front but agree with you the omens, as to their physicality and ability to be available for 90% of games, aren't good.  As an aside what is Tavares' injury? 

[Tomphil2]

6 hours ago, TommyRovers said:

Our owners are disgustingly wealthy. Their wealth outshines most if not all of the other teams in our league.

But Rovers are well and truly barrel scraping paycheck to paycheck skint.

The money they spend to keep us afloat is down to their own incompetence. All you have to do is compare where we were as a club the day before they took over and where we are today. 
 

We have been lucky in who we have employed down at Rovers. Mowbray, Bowyer, JDT, Eustace, Broughton. And the fantastic players we have been able to pick up.

We have massively overachieved over the past few years where as other clubs with poor ownership have floundered. 

This is both a blessing and a curse. Rovers still exists playing at a decent level but the venkys are still here and those who don’t follow closely don’t realize their damage.

 

Probably in the top 7 in terms of wealthiest but the flip side is many clubs ownership wealth is between the 100/300 million mark which makes a mockery of the constant cry of needing billionaires just to keep modern day Blackburn Rovers in business.

Run the club properly, get the fans back onside and the town behind the club again and you do not need Billionaires nor do you need to lose more than 20 million every year.

They are either the stupidest pig ignorant dozy people on the planet or they are the cleverest pulling the illusion of a lifetime.

Edited July 1 by Tomphil2

[RevidgeBlue]

6 minutes ago, Mercer said:

Downing - spot on.

Ayala - madness to give a player with his history a 3 year deal

Weimann - not a loss like Batth but we've no one else like him with an ability to make things happen from the bench.

Batth - I think of how good Kevin Moran and Tony Gale were for us as centre backs (in the PL as well!!!) and both older than Batth!!!!  IMO, Batth a massive loss and will be interesting to see how Hyam goes, that's if he isn't flogged!!!, without him.

As for Kargbo and Tavares, I'd be amazed if it's even cost half of the £3million up front but agree with you the omens, as to their physicality and ability to be available for 90% of games, aren't good.  As an aside what is Tavares' injury? 

Tbf I'm not even sure if Tavares' injury has been confirmed - I've only seen it mooted he was out for 4 weeks by some bod on Twitter.

Edited July 1 by RevidgeBlue

[davulsukur]

 

[Blow-in]

2 hours ago, davulsukur said:

 

2 more than the fucking owners, pardon my French.

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1 minute ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Tbf I'm not even sure if Tavares' injury has been confirmed - I've only seen it mooted he was out for 4 weeks by some bod on Twitter.

Didn't someone put it in here out for 4weeks? Can't seem to find it

[simongarnerisgod]

6 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

 

oxford sold the club to him and matched the transfer fee,2 actions that we certainly could`nt or would`nt

[booth]

Both players are on their last legs and I'd be disappointed if I was a Derby fan, but I'd rather them doing a job for us as squad players than them. Baath is the one we'll miss the most but Weimann chipped in with some goals that won't be replaced. The likely replacements won't be very good and that's the main issue.

[booth]

12 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

 

We're below Oxford now... Why do Venkys keep the club?

[davulsukur]

1 minute ago, booth said:

We're below Oxford now... Why do Venkys keep the club?

Literally unable to compete financially with Oxford.

We're in trouble! 

[den]

2 minutes ago, booth said:

We're below Oxford now... Why do Venkys keep the club?

Huge question.

I haven’t got a scoobys.

[booth]

2 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Literally unable to compete financially with Oxford.

We're in trouble! 

We must be well past the stage that it would be cheaper to give us away than sell.

[simongarnerisgod]

if we get relegated we ar`nt coming back this time,though with gods will it might get rid of the indians

[Blow-in]

10 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

oxford sold the club to him and matched the transfer fee,2 actions that we certainly could`nt or would`nt

I wish the someone sold our club to him.

[lraC]

9 minutes ago, booth said:

We're below Oxford now... Why do Venkys keep the club?

In order to keep their secrets buried. 

[Tomphil2]

Weimann banged in 7 goals and a few assists in 30 appearances which isn't half bad for a 30 odd year old freebie whose legs are on the way out.

Considering the punts on so called development players to make money on like Ennis, Telo etc and a few of our own kids kind of puts into perspective the flaws of the way they keep trying to go.

[sharpysharps86]

You can guarantee Weimann will go back to scoring against us as he always used to. Will probably bag in the 150th anniversary game 🥲.

We can debate how much impact Batth and Weimann will have at Derby with them both being another year older, but the fact is I think most of us would've welcomed keeping them on. They've clearly gone to join up with Eustace, which goes to show how well liked he was. If Dolan goes there too....well that just sums it all up.

Absolutely no sign of Rovers doing anything at the moment either. Depressing and comical in equal measure.

[RoversClitheroe]

11 minutes ago, Tomphil2 said:

Weimann banged in 7 goals and a few assists in 30 appearances which isn't half bad for a 30 odd year old freebie whose legs are on the way out.

Better output than Dolan surely? And played half the season?

He's a bigger loss than Dolan for me.