2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[KentExile]

2 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Maybe with the second one, first one, just play him in your own team then!

Until it happens as with all transfer rumours involving us I'll take it with a lorry load of salt.

If there's any mileage in it though, not for the first time this summer we seem to be seeking a deal completely different from what the selling Club want.

"£4m ? How does £1.5m sound?"

"We know we agreed a deal but our medical has uncovered a minor problem that might flare up in future. We'll offer a pay as you play arrangement."

"You'll ONLY willing to let him go out on loan? Can we have a loan with a view?"

Creates the impression of activity I suppose. 

Rovers will loan out several players this season with the intent of improving them rather than selling them, other clubs do the same

[RevidgeBlue]

Just now, KentExile said:

Rovers will loan out several players this season with the intent of improving them rather than selling them, other clubs do the same

Yes but generally to Clubs below us/them who think the loanee could improve them. Are this Club so far above our level  this guy could make a massive difference on loan?

[islander200]

22 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Story sounds fake.

Why would the selling Club prefer a loan to a loan with a view? You'd have thought it would be the other way round.

Because he is a young player and maybe they see a future for him there and only want to loan him to gain experience and playing time?

[RevidgeBlue]

2 minutes ago, islander200 said:

Because he is a young player and maybe they see a future for him there and only want to loan him to gain experience and playing time?

So why dont they play him in their own side if he's that good?

Let's see if it happens anyhow. You can be linked with anyone but it's irrelevant unless they actually end up here.

Im calling BS on that particular one with the mock up of him in last year's kit as well.

[islander200]

16 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

So why dont they play him in their own side if he's that good?

Let's see if it happens anyhow. You can be linked with anyone but it's irrelevant unless they actually end up here.

Im calling BS on that particular one with the mock up of him in last year's kit as well.

Iv not said he is any good I know the square root of fuck all about him.

The link probably is bullshit but your point that it makes the link less likely due to his club only wanting to loan him rather than with a view is what I'm disagreeing with.Why does any club loan a player rather than just selling them?

[Old Codger]

1 hour ago, Damien said:

Is it just me or is anyone else annoyed that Weimann elected to have surgery whilst being paid by rovers to be fit for the next season. Only then to fuck off to a rival?

CCL. Gone. End of.

Time to move on, even if he does rock up on our 150th birthday celebration game and piss on our chips.

[RevidgeBlue]

9 minutes ago, islander200 said:

Why does any club loan a player rather than just selling them?

Quite often when you want them off the wage bill but there's no takers on a permanent basis.

[KentExile]

10 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Quite often when you want them off the wage bill but there's no takers on a permanent basis.

"Quite often" is like asking "how long is a piece of string?".  I would envisage that your scenario more applies to senior and/or highly paid players rather than youngsters

But the majority of the time, (in well over half of cases), players are loaned out in order to develop and improve them

Edited 21 hours ago by KentExile

[Paul Mellelieu]

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[BankEnd Rover]

2 minutes ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

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😪🙃 at least it's not to Derby.

[wilsdenrover]

3 hours ago, joey_big_nose said:

Hmmm, I broadly agree but not as pessimistic. I think we probably are offering simlar to mid bottom half teams.

This is actually a question we can come up with a concrete answer for by looking at the published accounts I think? Which don't break down per player but do show overall wages. There must be site that shows the wage bills by club for the last accounting period? 2023/2024 I guess?

The below is from here https://www.matchdayfinance.com/post/championship-financial-results-season-2023-24

[RoversClitheroe]

4 minutes ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

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As mentioned by Mercer.

Terrible.

Duru and Ryan to step up.

I personally liked the look of Duru, but seems he had bad luck with injuries last season?

[Emerald Isle Rover]

Think sports Pete is awful although I think there could be some substance to this given the massive Hackney windfall pending 

 

[KentExile]

16 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

The below is from here https://www.matchdayfinance.com/post/championship-financial-results-season-2023-24

I would also hazard a guess that if we could use up to date figures (following the 2 years of cost cutting after the court case & bond etc became an issue), and then take out Rotherham, Plymouth, Huddersfield etc, and replace them with Wrexham, Charlton etc, we may slip another spot or two at least

Edited 20 hours ago by KentExile

[rovers11]

5 minutes ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

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He's going to go so get it done ASAP imo. If its left to later in the window then the club will claim they tried to get a replacement in but couldn't get it done in time. Then they hope, once again, it becomes yesterday's news and fans don't shout about the money not being re-invested.

We're still waiting for the Wharton and Szmodics money to be re-invested! We saw a top-ish level striker as a priority in Jan and were linked with some good names, yet come the summer we're not even targeting a new striker. How does that work?!

[roversfan99]

3 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

As mentioned by Mercer.

Terrible.

Duru and Ryan to step up.

I personally liked the look of Duru, but seems he had bad luck with injuries last season?

Im pretty sure that Mercer said Derby.

[MarkBRFC]

Covered this summers transfer business and then some in one fell swoop that Brittain deal.

Pasha and Gestede will be laughing there heads off.

[RevidgeBlue]

10 minutes ago, KentExile said:

"Quite often" is like asking "how long is a piece of string?".  I would envisage that your scenario more applies to senior and/or highly paid players rather than youngsters

But the majority of the time, (in well over half of cases), players are loaned out in order to develop and improve them

Ok.

We're going round in circles.

The fact that the Club want to loan him out suggests they dont feel he's good enough for their first team. In those circumstances I'd say "the majority of the time" the parent Club would prefer a deal where there's a good chance of selling for a realistic fee at the end of the deal than an out and out loan.

In fact maybe the story does ring true. We're probably wanting to loan him with a view to buying  him for a half eaten Mars Bar and an empty Coke can at the end of the loan in our usual style.

[KentExile]

1 minute ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Ok.

We're going round in circles.

The fact that the Club want to loan him out suggests they dont feel he's good enough for their first team. In those circumstances I'd say "the majority of the time" the parent Club would prefer a deal where there's a good chance of selling for a realistic fee at the end of the deal than an out and out loan.

In fact maybe the story does ring true. We're probably wanting to loan him with a view to buying  him for a half eaten Mars Bar and an empty Coke can at the end of the loan in our usual style.

I agree with your final paragraph

[RevidgeBlue]

13 minutes ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

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But but..... Chaddy said he was staying.

1st X1 further weakened.

Only ray of hope is it's O Rourke and he's been way off the mark for a long time concerning Rovers.

[roversfan99]

If Brittain goes as expected, then obviously a giant blow.

On Weimann, I said at the time that I personally wouldnt have offered a new deal considering his injury and he did start to slow down before picking it up, but he can be someone you wouldnt have renewed AND a big loss at the same time. He has to be replaced, would sum us up that we offered him a deal yet didnt see fit to bring in another player when he didnt sign it.

Holding a grudge over him having treatment for a couple of months is unfair. You cant expect him to sign a new deal just because he received medical treatment under contract.

Also, no thanks to loaning young Saudi players. Signing him long term to develop as well as signing some more ready made attacking players, then maybe.

[FE123]

3 seasons Brittain has been here - misses 15 games a season through injury, goes missing when we are up against it defensively and we are getting 3.5 million with a year left on his contract.

Normal circumstances good business, but these aren’t normal circumstances. Cheap or no replacement and weaker come the West Brom game.

[roversfan99]

I think O'Rourke has been off the mark for a while although did report the McLoughlin deal.

[DeeCee]

15 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

I have done a squad plan for you and I said which position I want to strengthen. 

Ismael wants another centre midfielder whilst I don't want another but another striker. Which is DIFFERENT to what Ismael wants. 

 

Does the transfer window end in just over a week? 

The time to judge whether we are weaker or stronger is by performances, plenty of people wrote us off last season and look how badly wrong they were

when Gestede said that comment I took it as the wide areas aswell not just striker area

 

There it is!

[roversfan99]

Just now, FE123 said:

3 seasons Brittain has been here - misses 15 games a season through injury, goes missing when we are up against it defensively and we are getting 3.5 million with a year left on his contract.

Normal circumstances good business, but these aren’t normal circumstances. Cheap or no replacement and weaker come the West Brom game.

Under Eustace he massively improved defensively and certainly doesnt go missing. Cant see a better right back in the league.