2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[Exiled_Rover]

2 hours ago, Tomphil2 said:

This is our future under reduced funding.

They'll assume bigger gates than Barnsley and bigger income in league 1 but offset by a bigger more costly academy, however that will be used to supply almost the entire first team squad.

Who owns Barnsley - are they elusive billionaires that everyone hates too?

[MarkBRFC]

20 minutes ago, Andy said:

I'm not convinced on this - from watching him live and looking at his stats, he works harder off the ball that most in the team.

This improved moreso when VI came in.

It's been his decisions on the ball that have been inconsistent so far, though the quality of players around him have played a part in this.

Was going to say same thing, think it's a myth that has followed Cantwell around a bit because he's seen as a luxury playmaker kind of player.

He also gets caught on the ball quite a bit, but so think his team mates being statues has contributed to that.

[chaddyrovers]

6 hours ago, harryhealless1928 said:

If you didn`t say "Pathetic" Chaddy how come you have edited your own comments?

I meant to right Patience as I said before hence why I amended the post. 

2 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Other Championship teams have really started to get busier this week as they get into pre season.

Stoke have today added that Talarevov from Plymouth and also Mubama on loan from City to add to Sorba Thomas. Preston have signed a 6th player of the window, a defender theyve bought who did well at Blackpool last year. Birmingham have had a really busy week that looks like ending with spending over £10m on two Japanese players including Kyogo and Charlton have also brought a few in. Seems there are a few others close to being done too.

Its a good point you make, teams seem to be getting on with it. Offiah is a very decent signing for PNE and he can right back and centre back, surprised we weren't interested in. 

Maybe we are close to signing players but will Jackson being away this week and Nicko does have some news tomorrow, so lets wait I see. 

2 hours ago, Tomphil2 said:

This is our future under reduced funding.

They'll assume bigger gates than Barnsley and bigger income in league 1 but offset by a bigger more costly academy, however that will be used to supply almost the entire first team squad.

what Barnsley got to do with anything? seem obsess with comparing us to them

26 minutes ago, Andy said:

I'm not convinced on this - from watching him live and looking at his stats, he works harder off the ball that most in the team.

This improved moreso when VI came in.

It's been his decisions on the ball that have been inconsistent so far, though the quality of players around him have played a part in this.

Cantwell needs pace and movement around him to be big influence on the games. His work rate is deffo there but I think a full pre season here will help

[roversfan99]

5 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

I meant to right Patience as I said before hence why I amended the post. 

Its a good point you make, teams seem to be getting on with it. Offiah is a very decent signing for PNE and he can right back and centre back, surprised we weren't interested in. 

Maybe we are close to signing players but will Jackson being away this week and Nicko does have some news tomorrow, so lets wait I see. 

what Barnsley got to do with anything? seem obsess with comparing us to them

Cantwell needs pace and movement around him to be big influence on the games. His work rate is deffo there but I think a full pre season here will help

Ultimately where Jackson is and what Nixon says is irrelevant. The manager wanted 90% in 2 weeks ago, but like with contracts, you either have signed or you haven't.

Cantwell is going on about how he has a full pre season under his belt. All but 1 of our new signings wont now so I presume theyll be the ones coming out with the same interviews next season.

[alex l]

3 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

you have to ask yourself

was the failure or unwillingness to extend key players contracts a reason eustace walked away

why wer`nt the deals for travis,tronstadt and brittain extended last season

why has dolan been in negotiations for the last 18 months

 

For this alone, I'm thankful of what Broughton did. Yes there were some almighty fuck ups under his watch, but I doubt directly by him, but for that tenure we actually saw some future stability through long term planning. 

[chaddyrovers]

4 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Ultimately where Jackson is and what Nixon says is irrelevant. The manager wanted 90% in 2 weeks ago, but like with contracts, you either have signed or you haven't.

I addressed the Ismael wanted 90% of signings done about 3 or 4 weeks RF99. What more do you want me to say tho I do think/hope we will sign a couple of signings in the couple of weeks

Both provides players links instead of you keep going on about the same old issues that was discussed weeks ago. 

4 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Cantwell is going on about how he has a full pre season under his belt. 

Depends what type of pre season he had at Rangers last season and how much involved was in in training and pre season games

[roversfan99]

I don't want you to say anything.

Although maybe just say, we have failed to give the manager anything close to what he asked for and are in a far weaker position that he or indeed we would have wanted.

No contract renewals, 2 players having left that we didnt expect and only 2 signings, one of whom will miss most of pre season. 

We need contracts to be signed and new players in to get them fit and bedded in, not speculative links.

[Ossydave]

Logically how hard can it really be to finalise a contract with a player? I mean seriously? 
 

Make an offer, player rejects it and says what he wants, make a counter offer meeting him half way, maybe a bit more. 
 

I mean no disrespect to him it’s Callum Brittain, it’s not like negotiating with someone like Salah. 
 

But we’ve been through this really shit pantomime countless times now an 9 times out of 10 it doesn’t end well for us. The only time we’ve had any competence at all was when GB was here, he had his critics but had a much better idea when it came to contracts than anyone else under this regime. 

[chaddyrovers]

40 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

I don't want you to say anything.

Although maybe just say, we have failed to give the manager anything close to what he asked for and are in a far weaker position that he or indeed we would have wanted.

so why keep mentioning it every time like a broken record. 

We are 5 weeks away from the season starts and last season, we made a number of signings in a bulk and we didn't anyone for 3 more weeks. Lets show some patience and lets see what happens

40 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

No contract renewals, 2 players having left that we didnt expect and only 2 signings, one of whom will miss most of pre season. 

Its a disappointed that Taveras got injured but we are overload in that area 

40 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

We need contracts to be signed and new players in to get them fit and bedded in, not speculative links.

so lets show some patience and lets see in a few weeks time, it didn't affect us last season when we only signing players in Late July

[sharpysharps86]

53 minutes ago, Ossydave said:

Logically how hard can it really be to finalise a contract with a player? I mean seriously? 
 

Make an offer, player rejects it and says what he wants, make a counter offer meeting him half way, maybe a bit more.

The thing that makes it even more frustrating with Rovers is that they'll offer the player peanuts, player rejects and asks for more, club don't follow through, ok, we know the club are cheapskates....but then they never seem to try and cash in on the player either so that player ends up leaving for nothing. Rothwell, Brereton, Lenihan, Dolan....I'm sure I've missed one or two off the list.

It's literally insane.

[simongarnerisgod]

4 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

so why keep mentioning it every time like a broken record. 

We are 5 weeks away from the season starts and last season, we made a number of signings in a bulk and we didn't anyone for 3 more weeks. Lets show some patience and lets see what happens

Its a disappointed that Taveras got injured but we are overload in that area 

so lets show some patience and lets see in a few weeks time, it didn't affect us last season when we only signing players in Late July

😝🤥😰🤡

[sharpysharps86]

5 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

so lets show some patience and lets see in a few weeks time, it didn't affect us last season when we only signing players in Late July

I must admit its easy to forget how late we signed players last summer...that one week were there was a new player every day was certainly interesting.

I'm really hoping that the club pulls another Ohashi style signing or two out of the hat, but I won't hold my breath.

[M_B]

4 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Other Championship teams have really started to get busier this week as they get into pre season.

Stoke have today added that Talarevov from Plymouth and also Mubama on loan from City to add to Sorba Thomas. Preston have signed a 6th player of the window, a defender theyve bought who did well at Blackpool last year. Birmingham have had a really busy week that looks like ending with spending over £10m on two Japanese players including Kyogo and Charlton have also brought a few in. Seems there are a few others close to being done too.

I'm guessing a lot on here will be relieved we didn't get any of them, given that O'brien, Mcburnie and Brereton were deemed not good enough. 

[Lucimo]

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

I meant to right Patience as I said before hence why I amended the post. 

Its a good point you make, teams seem to be getting on with it. Offiah is a very decent signing for PNE and he can right back and centre back, surprised we weren't interested in. 

Maybe we are close to signing players but will Jackson being away this week and Nicko does have some news tomorrow, so lets wait I see. 

what Barnsley got to do with anything? seem obsess with comparing us to them

Cantwell needs pace and movement around him to be big influence on the games. His work rate is deffo there but I think a full pre season here will help

My guess is the nicko news will be about the Btec CEO we want to employ.

[JHRover]

1 hour ago, Ossydave said:

Logically how hard can it really be to finalise a contract with a player? I mean seriously? 
 

Make an offer, player rejects it and says what he wants, make a counter offer meeting him half way, maybe a bit more. 
 

I mean no disrespect to him it’s Callum Brittain, it’s not like negotiating with someone like Salah. 
 

But we’ve been through this really shit pantomime countless times now an 9 times out of 10 it doesn’t end well for us. The only time we’ve had any competence at all was when GB was here, he had his critics but had a much better idea when it came to contracts than anyone else under this regime. 

I think because there's no serious intention or appetite on Rovers' part to do it. It's just for show and games are being played.

Rovers want everyone to believe that they are serious, trying really hard, doing everything they can, so that when they inevitably lose these players for nothing or decide to sell them to a rival they can point to their 'efforts' to keep the players and instantly turn the focus onto unreasonable players/agents.

This is something they've got quite good at over the years. Excuses. Reasons why things aren't done. We tried and failed.

Like you say, if Rovers were serious the likes of Brittain, Travis and Tronstad would not be difficult or complex deals to sort out. There are no complicating factors. They will not be demanding big money by the standards of established Championship players at an established Championship club. None of them have ever been anywhere where they will have commanded big money and will probably never even reach the top division to command that sort of cash.

 

[islander200]

17 minutes ago, Lucimo said:

My guess is the nicko news will be about the Btec CEO we want to employ.

I'd say its about players aswell as he put on his bluesky as an answer to a question by someone "offers in. Bit of cash about"

[BigHoz]

Lots of teams making some solid signings now and spending some serious money. While some of our fans are happy we’ve spent 30p whilst losing 2-3 key players for nadda 🤣🤣🤣

[roversfan99]

1 hour ago, simongarnerisgod said:

😝🤥😰🤡

No way can the club be criticised.

Not the end of the world that we dont have more signings in, more problematic that we still havent managed to get any contract renewals sorted. But we are not even close to what the manager said, its hardly scathing criticism to say we are not where we want to be.

A lack of pre season really does impact players, ask Todd Cantwell.

[OnionBalaji]

Think the new kit promo says a lot based on the safe players in the images who will be part of the key plans this season. 
 

2 players in who don’t show any sign of intent or ambition. Just warm bodies to fill gaps on the pitch when needed. 

The links to players we have seen, we have no hope of having come to Ewood. We won’t spend  but the stories as many point can paint a nice story of how we’re trying with this ‘project’ and are brilliant scooby snacks to feed Chaddy and Co’s boundless optimism and distract. 

Meanwhile even bloody Charlton show more ambition and desire going into the season. 

If we do get any players before the Everton friendly in, I will bet it will be more cheap punts out of Europe who nobody has seen anything of apart from a YouTube highlight reel. But I won’t be holding my breath. 
 

oh well - Patience eh 

 

 

[sharpysharps86]

1 hour ago, islander200 said:

I'd say its about players aswell as he put on his bluesky as an answer to a question by someone "offers in. Bit of cash about"

That quote alone is the most Alan Nixon defining fluff that's ever existed. He's become a parody of himself.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

3 minutes ago, OnionBalaji said:

Think the new kit promo says a lot based on the safe players in the images who will be part of the key plans this season. 
 

2 players in who don’t show any sign of intent or ambition. Just warm bodies to fill gaps on the pitch when needed. 

The links to players we have seen, we have no hope of having come to Ewood. We won’t spend  but the stories as many point can paint a nice story of how we’re trying with this ‘project’ and are brilliant scooby snacks to feed Chaddy and Co’s boundless optimism and distract. 

Meanwhile even bloody Charlton show more ambition and desire going into the season. 

If we do get any players before the Everton friendly in, I will bet it will be more cheap punts out of Europe who nobody has seen anything of apart from a YouTube highlight reel. But I won’t be holding my breath. 
 

oh well - Patience eh 

 

 

Buckley and jrc were prominent in last years promo and both got very limited minutes 

[roversfan99]

Yeah I dont think theres too much to read into kit launches.

They tend to have say 4 or 5 players per shoot, so youve got to find 12 to 15 players. Obviously they will lean towards players they know will be here. But 4 key players are all still (ridiculously) sat on 1 year left on their deal, and you couldnt just not include them. Am I right in that Travis and Brittain were in the home kit shoot?

[Emerald Isle Rover]

3 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Yeah I dont think theres too much to read into kit launches.

They tend to have say 4 or 5 players per shoot, so youve got to find 12 to 15 players. Obviously they will lean towards players they know will be here. But 4 key players are all still (ridiculously) sat on 1 year left on their deal, and you couldnt just not include them. Am I right in that Travis and Brittain were in the home kit shoot?

Think I seen them somewhere in it think jrc Buckley Leonard and pears where the ‘main’ ones bit like cantwell Tavares picks in this one 

[OnionBalaji]

17 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

Buckley and jrc were prominent in last years promo and both got very limited minutes 

Some slight relief here

thank you EIR

[JCRovers]

Teams that are flying past us in the transfer window:

Birmingham (signed Kyogo Furuhashi for reportedly a fee worth up to £10 million and Demarai Gray for an undisclosed fee). Add Jay Stansfield from last season and you're looking at a side who is more than capable of scoring plenty of goals in the Championship. Has also loaned in two talented PL-youngsters in Tommy Doyle and James Beadle.

Derby (signed Carlton Morris from relegated Luton and are on the verge of completing a £5,8 million move for Patrick Agyemang). Also had the "audacity" to sign our best centre back from last season (Batth) on a free.

 

Teams that already have strong squads and will look to challenge for automatic spots: Leicester, Sheffield Utd., Ipswich, Southampton

Teams that are stronger that us and will be challenging for playoff spots: Coventry, Norwich, Middlesbrough

Teams that are considered to be just behind the top sides: Millwall, West Bromwich, Swansea, Bristol City

Teams that have struggled of late but could bounce back this season due to some quality in the squad: Watford

Teams that have not spent any considerable amount yet in the transfer window but could end up signing a few quality players due to spending power of owners: Wrexham

Teams that have become stagnant and looking for mid-table finish at best: Stoke, QPR, Rovers

Teams looking to be struggling next season and are likely to be in a relegation fight due to weak squad or financial trouble: Charlton, Portsmouth, Oxford, Preston, Sheffield Wed., Hull

 

The way Birmingham is spending, the owners seem willing to achieve back-to-back promotions so I would at least put them in contention for playoff spots. Derby will be a mid-table side or even higher. 

It wouldn't therefore take much for us to get dragged into a relegation battle next season. Many teams that have gotten promoted over the last few years have shown ambition and willingness to spend to achieve results (Derby, Birmingham, Ipswich etc.). If this continues, it won't take long before a majority of the Championship teams will have stronger squads that ours and the inevitable outcome that follows with it will take place.