2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[KentExile]

2 hours ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Once again I ask the question: why do they own us?

What can they possibly get out of it?

Evidently they can't afford to run us properly.

[Forever Blue]

1 hour ago, FE123 said:

Looks like we are still haggling with Legia over a fee for Kapuadi, polish press reporting he wants to move and is refusing to sign a new deal with them.

Fully expect rovers to try and hold their nerve until the end of the window to try get him on the cheap.

Apparently the new offer is 300k more than the last one.

 

If true it suggests he wants to come here or we wouldn’t be putting numerous bids in. 

[simongarnerisgod]

1 hour ago, DavidMailsTightPerm said:

Season ticket sales - when people realise it is most likely our saleable assets of Brittain and Travis are likely to be sold. 

However - people can't complain too much - as Venky tactics of holding onto players rather than cashing in before the end of contract got lots of criticism. Lets see if selling before players finish contracts gets similar ire.

Of course the easy thing would be to extend players contracts in good time. However, my own suspicion is that they haven't renewed the contracts of some of our bigger earners as there is no guarantee of revenue stream from our owners (despite what they say in the accounts) - so we can't commit beyond a certain level. 

we are the only ones  who consistenly refuse to  renew contracts,there are lots of other clubs with financial constraints,it does`nt stop them operating properly,they go by the mantra," we`ve made you a decent offer,either sign or be sold" this lot just let players walk out of the door and when they actually sell someone no money reaches the manager,ffs you can`t run a football club like this and expect to stay in the division

[Tomphil2]

36 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

we are the only ones  who consistenly refuse to  renew contracts,there are lots of other clubs with financial constraints,it does`nt stop them operating properly,they go by the mantra," we`ve made you a decent offer,either sign or be sold" this lot just let players walk out of the door and when they actually sell someone no money reaches the manager,ffs you can`t run a football club like this and expect to stay in the division

Who benefits from such a consistent turnover of players and staff i wonder ?

Because it seems club policy again here now.

[neophox]

Seems were going the youth way... Expect Montgomery, Duru, Tyjon , Leonard , Atchesson all being in and around the first tea

..rovers are gash....and cash strapped strangely though as mega rich owners don't want to part company...why do they still persist to own rovers...

[RoversTilliDie]

8 hours ago, bigbrandjohn said:

Not surprising with Tavares. "It only takes a minute 

I Remember the group from the 70s, showing my age.

[RoversTilliDie]

1 hour ago, neophox said:

Seems were going the youth way... Expect Montgomery, Duru, Tyjon , Leonard , Atchesson all being in and around the first tea

..rovers are gash....and cash strapped strangely though as mega rich owners don't want to part company...why do they still persist to own rovers...

Fortune favours the brave, remember a certain Alex Ferguson, half his team were teenagers, the rest is history.

[RoversTilliDie]

4 hours ago, Forever Blue said:

If true it suggests he wants to come here or we wouldn’t be putting numerous bids in. 

Hold there nerve and hold there nerve, and another chance gone.

[Tomphil2]

1 minute ago, RoversTilliDie said:

Fortune favours the brave, remember a certain Alex Ferguson, half his team were teenagers, the rest is history.

Promoted into the first team because they'd grown up together and formed a great youth team.

Not thrown in because the first team was so short on numbers and skint.

It'll be a different kind of history this club writes.

[RoversTilliDie]

9 hours ago, Rover84 said:

 Callum would be a massive loss. He’s the cog that gets us going. We lose Brittain and we lose our attacking identity. We can not afford to replace a player like that 

Blackburn Rovers will be playing Blackburn Rovers if Brittain joins the other 2.

[RevidgeBlue]

7 hours ago, MB Rover said:

I have never rated Gallagher 🤣🤣🤣Think you have me confused for someone else. 

Oops, sorry.

[simongarnerisgod]

4 minutes ago, RoversTilliDie said:

Fortune favours the brave, remember a certain Alex Ferguson, half his team were teenagers, the rest is history.

that was a once in a generation group.you can hardly compare our current academy players with those🤣

[...]

Another week comes to a close, fed up of this shite now.

It has to be out of spite now doesn't it. Was it the snowball? Are Burnley paying them something?? 

What the fk do they want with us

 

SELL UP NOW

[Armchair supporter supremo]

Britain shouldn't be for sale to another championship club. 

 

And anything less than 10mill should be laughed at. But hexsim0ly shouldn't be sold 

[joey_big_nose]

From a financial perspective where we are going makes sense... Only way to make the numbers work is with players coming from leagues where a 5-10k tops a week wage offer is attractive. A question i have is has anyone done that in the Championship? I can't think of one, but my knowledge of other clubs is not the best.

Plenty of promoted club have given it a go with League One players, but I cant think of any who have brought over lots of cheap overseas players with no British experience. But its such an obvious thing to do financially presumably someone has? Closest I can come up with is the loan models of clubs like Wolves but that was usually with partnerships with clubs for loans. I guess Brentford 5-6 years ago was maybe something similar? But feel they were probably offering more cash and buying from further up the food chain abroad?

A lot resting on the scouts really making good calls.

[roverblue]

9 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

From a financial perspective where we are going makes sense... Only way to make the numbers work is with players coming from leagues where a 5-10k tops a week wage offer is attractive. A question i have is has anyone done that in the Championship? I can't think of one, but my knowledge of other clubs is not the best.

Plenty of promoted club have given it a go with League One players, but I cant think of any who have brought over lots of cheap overseas players with no British experience. But its such an obvious thing to do financially presumably someone has? Closest I can come up with is the loan models of clubs like Wolves but that was usually with partnerships with clubs for loans. I guess Brentford 5-6 years ago was maybe something similar? But feel they were probably offering more cash and buying from further up the food chain abroad?

A lot resting on the scouts really making good calls.

A few years ago they talked about a new rule where wages had to be 70% or less of income (something like that). Seems to have gone quiet but appears we are moving to that sort of model.

Will end in relegation as our income is pants vs other clubs.

[Tomphil2]

We have been supplemented by still having players brought in on decent wages like Cantwell etc but no doubt that will go out of the window now.

Its been rather counter productive when they started this policy seemingly by not paying others the going rate which they'd proven to earn, so we lose them without fees.

[Forever Blue]

 

[booth]

11 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

 

How could anyone be less influential than Steve Waggott? The only thing that toad ever influenced was money into his account.

[JHRover]

Fascinating 'news' there from Nixon. So a club that has lost about 8 players and signed only 2, one of which is injured, is trying to sign some more but success depends on whether other clubs accept our offers.

And our next 'CEO' is going to be even less influential than the last one, which we've been saying from here for weeks is basically just a figurehead/human shield so that Chief Venky Stooge can continue running the show from the shadows whilst hoodwinking the deluded into believing that things are going to change under the new bloke. 

[Emerald Isle Rover]

The next signings depend on club responses - this is peak journalism right there 

[Exiled_Rover]

1 hour ago, joey_big_nose said:

From a financial perspective where we are going makes sense... Only way to make the numbers work is with players coming from leagues where a 5-10k tops a week wage offer is attractive. A question i have is has anyone done that in the Championship? I can't think of one, but my knowledge of other clubs is not the best.

Plenty of promoted club have given it a go with League One players, but I cant think of any who have brought over lots of cheap overseas players with no British experience. But its such an obvious thing to do financially presumably someone has? Closest I can come up with is the loan models of clubs like Wolves but that was usually with partnerships with clubs for loans. I guess Brentford 5-6 years ago was maybe something similar? But feel they were probably offering more cash and buying from further up the food chain abroad?

A lot resting on the scouts really making good calls.

Brentford did it with data scouting before Brexit and the clampdown on unknown foreign players happened.

They have to be established players (with 4 exceptions) which is incredibly hard to do.

[K-Hod]

52 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

 

Obviously not a pop at you, Forever Blue, but it mustbe a tragic existence being a Twitter account re-posting Nixon ☠️.

[Jimmy612]

1 hour ago, Forever Blue said:

 

The pitch looks nice. I don't think there's anything else worthwhile in that tweet. 

[Ricceh]

1 hour ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

The next signings depend on club responses - this is peak journalism right there 

Hahaha, what do you mean clubs are allowed to say no? That's not fair..!