2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[Emerald Isle Rover]

So back to mercer being wrong again 

[islander200]

No wonder the rb was so happy, coming in as first choice ffs.Brittain will be a huge loss

[Tomphil2]

It ain't Mercers fault the 'nearly there' talk has been doing the rounds all week but they'll have known full well serious bids were imminent.

As most of us were expecting.

[JHRover]

We aren't a club that signs competition for places or solid back ups. If we spend money and make signings it is to go into the first XI and replace departures.

So I think anyone expecting Brittain and the new signing to compete for a place was highly optimistic. Of course they will dress it up as this with the fiction, spread via friendly journos, that a good contract extension was on the table. But that doesn't cost anything.

[Paul Mellelieu]

Mercer’s not even right twice a day

[Forever Blue]

I called Mercer the ITK Daddy yesterday.

I’ve never felt more violated.
 

 

[rob_of_the_rovers]

To be fair Mercer said Brittain was close to agreeing a contract, which he was, just not with us

[Forever Blue]

Eustace can fuck off as well

[Tom]

It’s all very predictable; sign a ‘back up’ right back, leak that we are close to agreeing terms with out first choice one then:

who would have thunk it?

[BigHoz]

It’s not the clubs fault brittain is leaving

the club used its initiative bringing a RB before hand and have managed to pocket 2+ million in doing so. Great deal for the venkys.
 

we’ve brought in 3 unknowns for peanuts and most of the fans didn’t expect us to sign anyone yet so it’s all good even tho we have lost Dolan bath weimann and more than likely brittain. 
 

I’ve heard brittain has an uncle up north and wants to be close to him so it makes sense for him to go to boro. 
 

saved you a job chaddy, kick back, relax and enjoy the hate. 

[yankfan]

Losing Brittain would be a blow but I’d much rather see us get a few million quid for him then watch him leave for free in a years time. 

[Forever Blue]

9 minutes ago, rob_of_the_rovers said:

To be fair Mercer said Brittain was close to agreeing a contract, which he was, just not with us

We need someone to blame and Chaddy’s not logged on yet. 😉

[BigHoz]

1 minute ago, yankfan said:

Losing Brittain would be a blow but I’d much rather see us get a few million quid for him then watch him leave for free in a years time. 

I’d rather us have our key players tied down much before they enter into their final year, been going on for years now it’s become a joke. But hey ho welcome to Blackburn. 

[yankfan]

24 minutes ago, JHRover said:

We aren't a club that signs competition for places or solid back ups. If we spend money and make signings it is to go into the first XI and replace departures.

So I think anyone expecting Brittain and the new signing to compete for a place was highly optimistic. Of course they will dress it up as this with the fiction, spread via friendly journos, that a good contract extension was on the table. But that doesn't cost anything.

Way back when I signed my first contract in Germany I was told by the football director, “congratulations you’ve broken in. My job is to now go sign someone better than you.  Your job is to prove whoever I bring in isn’t.”  Competition is what drives player to be better. I think the lack of competition in the team often leads to the complacency and underwhelming performance of the past 10 years 

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[Gamst]

If you don’t pay your best players their market value and play hard ball they will leave and rightly so. Travis, Batth, Brittain and Tronstad should have had their contracts renewed last summer! Pasha et al deserve all the hard luck they get. The fans don’t deserve it  and are the victims as usual. 

[Exiled_Rover]

22 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

Eustace can fuck off as well

Sanderson, Batth, Weiman, Brittain - do Derby have a scouting network or is it just Eustace's contacts book?

[John]

We seem incapable of keeping our better players, even if it’s to teams in the Championship? On the assumption Brittain / Travis leave.
 

Confirms our “ambition” and clearly our financial challenges are maybe worse than being reported. 

[roversfan99]

No one should fall for the shite that will peddled about him being about to sign a new deal before we was blown out of the water.

This should have been sorted months ago. We may well have got close to an agreement but in the summer with a year to go, always a risk of this. If he was about to sign a new deal, that makes it worse because had we offered it previously he would have signed without this risk.

[RoversClitheroe]

I can already predict a key person saying"

"Yeah but at least we tried to sign him up, not our fault he's gone. £2.5m is fantastic for a player in his last year"

Absolute bollocks to that, class player, should be in the prem for me.

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

Dream window for venkys so far. 

3 cheap players for peanuts. Linked with a few good players but unable to get the signings done. (shock).

Baath/Weimann wages off the books.

JRC out the door.  His fee will cover the 3 signings. 

No contracts agreed with the main players and happy to accept offers.

 

On a sidenote.  The offer of £2.5mil for arguably the league's best right back ...shows how laughable the suggestion is that we paid £2million for the ex Leicester lad. 

 

[NJRover]

We’ll have to hope the pull of working with his ol’pal Dishy Ishy keeps him here.

[Exiled_Rover]

7 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

I can already predict a key person saying"

"Yeah but at least we tried to sign him up, not our fault he's gone. £2.5m is fantastic for a player in his last year"

Absolute bollocks to that, class player, should be in the prem for me.

I like him a lot, but he's not a good enough defender for the Premier League. 

[K-Hod]

Any other club would push the boat out to keep their best players.

Down Ewood, a shrug of the shoulders and on to some cheap Belgian league plodders.

Sound.

[simongarnerisgod]

if you were callum.lets be honest,you would run to middlesborough if it meant getting out of the cesspit that is our club.i think the same applies to travis and sonny

the move for the baradji has hit the skids,what a surprise,he must be quite good hence he wants a decent wage

[Exiled_Rover]

2 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

Any other club would push the boat out to keep their best players.

Down Ewood, a shrug of the shoulders and on to some cheap Belgian league plodders.

Sound.

Most other clubs are trying to compete with a competitive budget. 

We're clearly just happy to survive and minimise the amount of money the Venkys have to put in every year.