2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[Tomphil2]

22 minutes ago, OsloRover said:

IF Hyam signs a new deal it means there is no 10k wage cap. One of our top earners supposedly at around 18-20k?

10-14k more likely, he came from Coventry who were skint.

Funny how no one is queuing up for him with bids seeing as only a year left so it could be a case of happy to extend current terms for a few years extra security.

As has been repeated many times the alleged 10k cap seemed to be aimed at new comers ....and academy grads....

Edited Sunday at 07:58 by Tomphil2

[chaddyrovers]

14 hours ago, DutchRover said:

Montgomery will be the back-up RB by look of it, can't see them bothering to sign Drameh

 

Montgomery look very good in the way he got high up the pitch and gave us the width wide right, similar to Brittain like. I would still like another right back bringing in like Cody Drameh with Championship experience and I would move him to midfield where he can be the box to box midfielder

12 hours ago, arbitro said:

A good, honest interview from Ismael. It sounds like he has resigned himself to Brittain going and goes in quite hard about the Travis and Tronstad situation.

It's really frustrating that history just keeps repeating itself with these morons running our club.

I thought his interview was very clear and straight to the point. Sounds like he wants Travis, Tronstad and Hyam contracts sorting out quick. He is right by the way. 

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

4 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

So hyam who played every minute last season you wouldn’t care if he was to go. So him gone batth gone carter and Wharton injury prone you’d be happy with that? Strange 

No. He's saying that if one out of Travis, Tronstadt Brittain and Hyam were to stay, he'd rather it not be Hyam.  

Which one ine would you keep?

[alex l]

Just now, Tomphil2 said:

12-14k

I'd be surprised if Cantwell is on 'only' 14k. One of the ladies team mentioned, when discussing the budget and pay the girls were getting, that a men's team player was supposedly on 20k a week

[Scotty1991]

Don’t blame Callum, he is a top lad and if his current employer won’t offer him a deal in line with his position in the squad, then he’ll go to someone who will. 
 

This happens every day on Indeed.com

 

We are properly stuffed like the proverbial Christmas turkey 😩

[Ossydave]

Have I completely forgotten someone, or has no player signed a new contract since Greg left? First team players not youngsters.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

9 hours ago, JBiz said:

@roversfan99 have you ever made a post that didn’t include “it’s worrying”?

Ever since the chicken chokers first rocked up it’s “ been worrying “. Even the dogs in the street know that. To be owned by people who thought putting £5 million into a Premiership club would be enough is worrying. Not knowing teams can get relegated is worrying. it’s been 15 years of worrying. And it goes on being worrying !

[JBiz]

Just now, Ossydave said:

Have I completely forgotten someone, or has no player signed a new contract since Greg left? First team players not youngsters.

Depends if you count new signings as new contracts! Ribeiro is the most recent to sign an extension though, from my limited memory! 

[RoversClitheroe]

Fuck sake the one player who I wouldn't offer a contract gets a contract offer.

[JBiz]

Just now, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Ever since the chicken chokers first rocked up it’s “ been worrying “. Even the dogs in the street know that. To be owned by people who thought putting £5 million into a Premiership club would be enough is worrying. Not knowing teams can get relegated is worrying. it’s been 15 years of worrying. And it goes on being worrying !

Yea I know all that already.

[alex l]

1 minute ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Fuck sake the one player who I wouldn't offer a contract gets a contract offer.

As has been noted already - Hyam played all league games last season. You'd be happy for him to go, leaving Carter and Wharton as our only senior CBs? I'd rather keep Hyam and get a transfer fee at some point. 

[davulsukur]

1 minute ago, chaddyrovers said:

Montgomery look very good in the way he got high up the pitch and gave us the width wide right, similar to Brittain like. I would still like another right back bringing in like Cody Drameh with Championship experience and I would move him to midfield where he can be the box to box midfielder

I thought his interview was very clear and straight to the point. Sounds like he wants Travis, Tronstad and Hyam contracts sorting out quick. He is right by the way. 

He’s already said previously that he wants to keep Brittain, Hyam, Travis,  Tronstad, Hedges, Dolan, Weimann, Batth and Forshaw.

how many of those is actually going to keep? Hyam, Forshaw and Hedges, probably. 

3 have already gone, 1 more in the next couple of days and there are more rumours of Trav and Tronstad leaving than staying.

[chaddyrovers]

9 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

It is worrying how we came into the window with our attack lacking in goals but our defence being solid, and now that is being pulled apart too.

Brittain is such a big and avoidable loss, I wonder if Montgomery is considered a right back now or its again just a case of filling in. Ismael called right back "not a priority" post match when suggesting that Brittain is moving and us having signed someone the other day, but I really hope he meant an urgent priority. We need a first choice.

Centre back is a huge issue too. Hyam is a good player at this level but Batth leaves a huge hole. Carter has fallen away and is made of glass (coming off again today) and Wharton is a huge question mark.

I feel like in attack, Ohashi isn't a top Championship striker but he is a decent one, Gueye less so, but the big concern is how few goals are around that, especially with Dolan and Weimann gone. We badly need a right winger and a more central one who can get us some goals. Hedges will do well to get 2, De Neve has no history of scoring, Kargbo is a huge question mark and Cantwell got 1 from open play. 

Another issue is it seems like Gestede in particular doesn't appreciate the importance of experience.

So much work to do, we need a centre back, right back and right winger all to come in our first 11 before even considering 2 potential midfielders. We also need a right winger, number 10 and another striker. I wonder how many corners they will try and cut.

what is top championship striker and can you give me some examples of that? 

Why is Ohashi only decent? 

I would still like to sign another attacking right back to replace Brittain if he is actually going 

Seems like we waiting to see if Legia go through their qualifier game before we sign a centre back, Kapuadi is their first choice. I would be moving on and go for someone who we can sign this week and play in our pre season games. 

still need another right back, centre back, another forward and right side winger. 

[Tomphil2]

4 minutes ago, alex l said:

I'd be surprised if Cantwell is on 'only' 14k. One of the ladies team mentioned, when discussing the budget and pay the girls were getting, that a men's team player was supposedly on 20k a week

That's the rumour and they've always seemed happy to chuck big wages at short term contracts i think millions have gone down the pan that way.

Yet they won't invest wages in young assets or good fees in proven potential.

One policy for one thing at Ewood and one for another .

 

[Forever Blue]

7 minutes ago, Ossydave said:

Have I completely forgotten someone, or has no player signed a new contract since Greg left? First team players not youngsters.

Ribiero but wouldn’t call that a contract renewal, they just made his short term contract longer. 
 

Maybe Rudy keeps forgetting. He’s had a lot on, what with watching teams involved in relegation battles all over Europe. 
 

 

 

Edited Sunday at 08:04 by Forever Blue

[Emerald Isle Rover]

7 minutes ago, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:

No. He's saying that if one out of Travis, Tronstadt Brittain and Hyam were to stay, he'd rather it not be Hyam.  

Which one ine would you keep?

That’s not relevant to my response - hyam goes your leaving two injury prone cbs as guaranteed starters meaning at least 2 new cbs required - hyam bags of experience and more than capable of holding his own in the champ

[MarkBRFC]

14 minutes ago, Ossydave said:

Have I completely forgotten someone, or has no player signed a new contract since Greg left? First team players not youngsters.

No first team players since December 2023.

The club and it's apologists will no doubt count Riberio and Forshaw though.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

8 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

what is top championship striker and can you give me some examples of that? 

Why is Ohashi only decent? 

I would still like to sign another attacking right back to replace Brittain if he is actually going 

Seems like we waiting to see if Legia go through their qualifier game before we sign a centre back, Kapuadi is their first choice. I would be moving on and go for someone who we can sign this week and play in our pre season games. 

still need another right back, centre back, another forward and right side winger. 

I thought we’d signed a right back ? Regarding the lad who played there yesterday - he got forward a lot but nothing came of it. He got into several good crossing positions and passed the ball back into midfield or to the centre backs.

[Tomphil2]

4 hours ago, bigbrandjohn said:

There is only one constant. Change. 

 A new manager brings a new way of playing and a new style of player to fit the model.

Gestede is a change in personnel and a change in contacts and approach. 

The strategy for keeping players until they are worth nothing has changed. Rothwell, Brereton and Dolan are unlikely to be repeated so anyone not signing contracts a year out will be off. 

The Indian Government is clamping down on foreign investments so a change in investment  approach is required.

If we make more good decisions than bad ones, we are winning. 

Brittain was solid but a sick note for  a good part of the season. Dolan was constantly criticized for chasing  up his own arse much of the time. I am happy to give the new signings  a chance  

It is what it is. Let's trust the process  If it goes tits up then we know what will happen.   

 

 

 

 

 

Then the policy of leaving serious contract renewals until barely 12 months or less left and trying to lowball will have to change. 

However with the financial restrictions, owner reluctance and court issues that you somehow chose to omit then it won't will it. 

Couple that with the fact so many have now left for nothing that is in itself having an impact because there is less to put back into the black hole. So this will keep happening and we will keep going around in circles as the change you describe isn't really change at all it's just re-arranging the people front of house and distracting from the core issue.

[Ossydave]

Hyam must be on a half decent contract as you assume we had to offer him a bit more than he was already on at Coventry, a new contract would presumably make him one of our highest paid players - if this new contract offer even exists of course.....

[Lucimo]

30 minutes ago, philipl said:

Derby can do us a favour by bidding competitively for Brittain.

Derby won't be doing Rovers a favour, just Venkys. No bidding war will increase the transfer pot as it remains unaffected by transfer dealings apparently.

[Christopher]

29 minutes ago, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:

No. He's saying that if one out of Travis, Tronstadt Brittain and Hyam were to stay, he'd rather it not be Hyam.  

Which one ine would you keep?

Hyam, just.

 

[roversfan99]

Seems like some of those "stories" are just filling lines to get something out for those loyal patreon subscribers.

Legia Warsaw were playing the team who finished 3rd in Kazakhstan. Obviously they are expecting to go through. If thats not a deal thats happening, move on to someone else.

Also with the midfielder who has failed a medical, why is that dragging on? Again, surely thats one that cant happen now

It would be good if Hyam signed a new deal but im sick of hearing that we will offer x a new deal. Until its done its irrelevant. Tronstad and Travis are the elephants in the room.

We need to get some new players in to fill those key positions ASAP. 

 

[RoversClitheroe]

27 minutes ago, alex l said:

As has been noted already - Hyam played all league games last season. You'd be happy for him to go, leaving Carter and Wharton as our only senior CBs? I'd rather keep Hyam and get a transfer fee at some point. 

I don't rate Hyam at all.

[sharpysharps86]

With the way Rovers are run its no surprise that players tend to want out when another club shows interest.

Sadly there just isn't any loyalty in football anymore, but even if there was, why would some of these players want to hang around at a club that's clearly being run into the ground through sheer negligence...especially when those other clubs will offer better pay.

So when Brittain goes I won't be bitter about it towards him, although I don't agree with him saying no to playing. The only saving grace is that the club will get some money in for him...whether that money is spent on a new player or two I'm very doubtful, as I'm sure we all are.

Shame about Baradji. Of the players we've signed or have been close to signing, he looked like one of the better ones. On to the next one I suppose....is it now time to look at who got relegated from the Austrian Bundesliga last season 😂

Edited Sunday at 08:29 by sharpysharps86