2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[Herbie6590]

1 hour ago, Forever Blue said:

What’s this about? Just a picture on its own isn’t very informative.

Read the post directly underneath…👀

[Mercer]

15 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

Thanks. Why is he out though? Is it infected? Or he just can’t take being ridiculed so won’t play?

Side effects from cosmetic surgery are not uncommon ranging from pretty minor stuff to much more severe stuff.

For elective surgery, I certainly wouldn't be going to Turkey!  Also, heard some horrendous stuff about folk who have had dental work done in Turkey.

Edited 6 hours ago by Mercer

[OsloRover]

15 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Sorry, disagree with your post completely.

In January the squad was running on absolute fumes and needed a major refresh to keep us in play off contention. I'd say the window was nothing short of a disaster. The marquis signing Kargbo went down with a serious injury after 2-3 games, barely anyone else who came in was match fit, only Ribeiro made any sort of contribution whatsoever and the manager walked out on the back of it.

This window we've lost Batth and Dolan who were first team staples, Weimann who was a  decent squad player and Brittain is likely to go as well. Mcloughlin might be an adequate replacement for Batth, other than that the guys who have come in are completely unproven. And that's the best case scenario, assuming neither Travis or Tronstad leave.

As it stands at this precise moment I'd say it's another near disaster but Im sure Tommy will be along in a minute to remind me "It's a good job it's not the end of the window then!".

Sorry, but you misunderstood the point of my post completely.

I was asking the question if the previous transfer windows left our squad stronger or weaker, not if the windows got us what we needed or not. 
We can all agree it is too early to judge the current window.

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18 minutes ago, Mercer said:

Side effects from cosmetic surgery are not uncommon ranging from pretty minor stuff to much more severe stuff.

For elective surgery, I certainly wouldn't be going to Turkey!  Also, heard some horrendous stuff about folk who have had dental work done in Turkey.

Turkey teeth that need replacing every two years lol

[roversfan99]

Bit of a strange twist. Yverdon Sport are playing right now, guess who is starting in midfield...

[RevidgeBlue]

13 minutes ago, OsloRover said:

Sorry, but you misunderstood the point of my post completely.

I was asking the question if the previous transfer windows left our squad stronger or weaker, not if the windows got us what we needed or not. 
We can all agree it is too early to judge the current window.

Ok then, to summarise, Summer 24 was imo quite a good one given we had limited funding. However I think you can largely disregard that for future purposes as John Park was still here then.

I would still maintain January 25 was a disaster. We needed major reinforcements and got none. I'd even argue Ribeiro is quite a downgrade on Beck.

[Theaxe15]

3 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Bit of a strange twist. Yverdon Sport are playing right now, guess who is starting in midfield...

John Buckley?

[BankEnd Rover]

1 minute ago, roversfan99 said:

Bit of a strange twist. Yverdon Sport are playing right now, guess who is starting in midfield...

Classic rovers, can't be that badly injured if he's starting. 

[roversfan99]

7 minutes ago, Theaxe15 said:

John Buckley?

If only.

[Gamst]

15 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Bit of a strange twist. Yverdon Sport are playing right now, guess who is starting in midfield...

I do wonder whether this could be the latest Venky strategy to save some money. Agree a fee and then negotiate down based on something incidental and clinically irrelevant picked up on a medical. 

[MarkBRFC]

I thought at the time that the Baradji medical had picked up an issue that could be an issue rather than him being injured right now.

See how he comes through today, but if he gets through unscathed i cant see his club dropping the fee or axceptinf an alternative deal for him.

[Ossydave]

You could still play with a stress fracture, with pain meds and/or a supportive brace, it won't do you any good like but it's possible.

[alexanders]

Think that was the case. Something underlying which could mean injury in the future. Quite risky to transfer in someone you know can become more on the injury table than the pitch. 

[Ossydave]

The game is viewable on Bet365 if anyones at a loose end and wants to see if he's any good BTW

[RevidgeBlue]

23 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

I thought at the time that the Baradji medical had picked up an issue that could be an issue rather than him being injured right now.

See how he comes through today, but if he gets through unscathed i cant see his club dropping the fee or axceptinf an alternative deal for him.

Yes, I mean it must have been something he was unaware of which hadn't been causing him any problems.

Albeit, it was the close season.

Think most of us will agree this one ain't happening despite Jackson desperately trying to keep it alive.

[davulsukur]

2 hours ago, B16Rover said:

Allegedly a championship player has had a dodgy hair transplant in Turkey (according to Nixon) due to some ridicule from team mates. 

It's gone a bit Pears shaped and he's out for the start of the season.  Nixon won't say who, but has said for all team photos he's had a cap on

Nixon also said that the players in question didn’t travel abroad with the rest of his team for their training camp.

Pears went to Spain.

[alex l]

Members of a certain vintage will remember being stung by Martin Dahlin, who we did sign, and had a pre-existing issue which ended up as a bigger matter when playing for us. Given our limited finances, can't blame the club for being very cautious with the approach to Baradji

[philipl]

Forgotten his name, but back in the late 60s or early 70s we blew our entire transfer budget on a player who retired from football without kicking a ball for us.

I believe that resulted in the introduction of transfer medicals in the English game.

[Tugayisgod]

6 minutes ago, philipl said:

Forgotten his name, but back in the late 60s or early 70s we blew our entire transfer budget on a player who retired from football without kicking a ball for us.

I believe that resulted in the introduction of transfer medicals in the English game.

 

[Mercer]

1 hour ago, philipl said:

Forgotten his name, but back in the late 60s or early 70s we blew our entire transfer budget on a player who retired from football without kicking a ball for us.

I believe that resulted in the introduction of transfer medicals in the English game.

 

1 hour ago, Tugayisgod said:

 

Jimmy Kerr was a phenomenal talent who joined Rovers for £60,000 from Bury at the age of 20.  He'd already played over 100 games for Bury with something like a 1 in 4 goal record - some record for a midfielder.

A knee injury did for him after just about a dozen games for Rovers - a crying shame for a terrific talent.

Edited 2 hours ago by Mercer

[RoversClitheroe]

3 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Bit of a strange twist. Yverdon Sport are playing right now, guess who is starting in midfield...

Strange twist?

Hairline fracture that we were told to believe he would be out for 6 weeks.

Yet here he starts.

Sounds like a player we couldn't afford again.

Lies after lies in the media? Or no?

Edited 1 hour ago by RoversClitheroe

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 hour ago, philipl said:

Forgotten his name, but back in the late 60s or early 70s we blew our entire transfer budget on a player who retired from football without kicking a ball for us.

I believe that resulted in the introduction of transfer medicals in the English game.

The player that caused the introduction of medicals was Alan Gilliver. A big centre forward who came from Huddersfield to Rovers with an on going back injury. We actually got £18,000 of the £32,000 fee back. We’d already had our fingers burnt when we signed another centre forward in  Martin Britt from West Ham who came with a bad knee injury. He retired from the game after playing about a dozen games for us. Both looked really good signings before the injuries emerged.

We should have paid Fred Pickering the money, We spent twice as much as we got for his fee trying to replace him.

Jimmy Kerr was top class. I saw him play quite a few times for Bury at the time and he was a good ‘un. In the style of David Dunn. He also played about a dozen games before having to call it a day. Steve Agnew was another big signing that got injured immediately he signed for us. A classy midfielder,  I think he played 1 game ! Another very good player who’s career was over right away.
 

All of them were very promising young players who had to retire early. Such a shame

[RevidgeBlue]

Before my time but Britt was the one that rang a bell on this for me having read about it.

Who was the player we bought and sold on immediately for a profit?

[roversfan99]

13 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Strange twist?

Hairline fracture that we were told to believe he would be out for 6 weeks.

Yet here he starts.

Sounds like a player we couldn't afford again.

Lies after lies in the media? Or no?

Where have you seen that he was supposed to be out for 6 weeks?

I am not going jump into conspiracy theories and suggest that there is no injury. If there was a medical question mark, a medical is more like a risk assessment as players sometimes sign for clubs with an injury. Not saying there is not some gamesmanship but it would make no sense to even bother flying him over for a medical if it was all some sort of masterplan to make it appear like we had more money than we do. Maybe the issue was that any injury concerns could come back in the future.

My question marks around this deal still surrounding why it may be rumbling on, if it is, and whether trying to spend a decent chunk of our limited budget on what would be 3rd and 4th choice central midfielders was a wise plan.

[MarkBRFC]

Just now, roversfan99 said:

My question marks around this deal still surrounding why it may be rumbling on, if it is, and whether trying to spend a decent chunk of our limited budget on what would be 3rd and 4th choice central midfielders was a wise plan.

3rd and 4th choice as things stand right now, but will be 1st and 2nd choice before too long.