2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[chaddyrovers]

9 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

I was going to ask whether as someone who predicted a mid table finish, whether surely 2 or 3 extra bits of quality on top of the 3 you would be happy with could potentially push us up and around the top 6.

But then I re-read. Just to clarify. You suggested that 3 signings would be enough including Miller who can cover centre back and right back. I and many others feel we need more.

You have then done yet another squad list, where you have added 5 new players, and continued with the same argument?

 

Where does that leave us in terms of squad registration if you get your 5 signings you want? 

[MarkBRFC]

1 minute ago, KentExile said:

If Baradji needs surgery and is out for a few months, then he wouldn't have to be registered in the squad if I am right?

By the January window, at least one of Toth & Kargbo should have qualified for a standard work permit, so we will have a free esc slot regardless of what happens with Mafoumbi

Great shout actually, maybe that is the plan.

[London blue]

Just now, chaddyrovers said:

Where does that leave us in terms of squad registration if you get your 5 signings you want? 

Obviously either selling or not registering some of our worse players.

[KentExile]

4 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

Great shout actually, maybe that is the plan.

Or, if that still falls foul of esc rules, If Rovers really want him, they could just agree a deal in advance to conclude on 1st Jan

[KentExile]

6 minutes ago, London blue said:

Obviously either selling or not registering some of our worse players.

It will more than likely be our better players on higher wages who are sold to make way 😉 

[ObiWhan8t7]

6 minutes ago, KentExile said:

Or, if that still falls foul of esc rules, If Rovers really want him, they could just agree a deal in advance to conclude on 1st Jan

Wouldn’t be allowed to train without ESC slot. Unless plan is for him to recover after surgery and get fit away from the club. But can’t see that happening. Better just to pay mofoumbi off

[Ossydave]

Not sure how Nixon can diagnose the requirement for surgery or quote recovery timescales unless he's VERY close to medical staff at the club.  I would have thought surgery is pretty rare, it isn't a serious injury, just an annoyance.

[MarkBRFC]

Just now, KentExile said:

Or, if that still falls foul of esc rules, If Rovers really want him, they could just agree a deal in advance to conclude on 1st Jan

Yeah I was wondering after posting if you can actually sign them and bring them over without having a ESC spot, would they be allowed to train etc?

Maybe like you say, do the deal now, send him for his op and tell him to stay in Switzerland until Jan 1st then maybe we could register him and give him an ESC spot then if someone can be converted by then.

[alexanders]

Sounds risky. Do the deal and the OP goes tits up, what then? 

[Inferi]

Henriksson is a hard working, physical central midfielder who had a very good season last year. He can look a bit clumsy but is quite quick. He was also the most booked player in the whole league with 12 bookings in 26 matches. This season he has started 7 matches and has 5 bookings. A lot of these bookings are from late tackles.

I think the main concern with Henriksson is that he's already had quite a lot of problems with injuries in his career. As previously mentioned, he also has Crohn's disease, which was diagnosed in 2022. Spring 2021 he tore his posterior cruciate ligament in training and missed the rest of the season. Last year he was able to play for most of the season, but this year he had some unspecified hip injury during pre-season and also missed a few matches recently because of a gluteal muscle tear. In an interview in autumn 2023 he said that Crohn's disease has made him more injury prone and that he cannot train as much as his teammates. 

 

[Emerald Isle Rover]

Nixon also said miller was out for two months the man literally makes stuff up and fires enough dung out eventually some of it sticks and then he claims he’s very much in the know 

[Tomphil2]

6 hours ago, Upside Down said:

Even if they'd have picked the best players instead of the ones that played for the 'biggest' clubs.

Overseas managers and their assistants clueless to anything but the big 4 - and West Ham - being paid absolute fortunes by an FA only interested in 'shirt selling' players and corporate sponsors favourites.

 

[alexanders]

5 minutes ago, Inferi said:

Henriksson is a hard working, physical central midfielder who had a very good season last year. He can look a bit clumsy but is quite quick. He was also the most booked player in the whole league with 12 bookings in 26 matches. This season he has started 7 matches and has 5 bookings. A lot of these bookings are from late tackles.

I think the main concern with Henriksson is that he's already had quite a lot of problems with injuries in his career. As previously mentioned, he also has Crohn's disease, which was diagnosed in 2022. Spring 2021 he tore his posterior cruciate ligament in training and missed the rest of the season. Last year he was able to play for most of the season, but this year he had some unspecified hip injury during pre-season and also missed a few matches recently because of a gluteal muscle tear. In an interview in autumn 2023 he said that Crohn's disease has made him more injury prone and that he cannot train as much as his teammates. 

 

This wasn’t reassuring. 

[Tomphil2]

Why are they so intent on signing players with known existing problems ?

Never ever underestimate the predictability of stupidity.

[KentExile]

1 minute ago, Tomphil2 said:

Why are they so intent on signing players with known existing problems ?

Never ever underestimate the predictability of stupidity.

Maybe the rationale is better quality for bargain prices?

Risky though

[Tomphil2]

1 minute ago, KentExile said:

Maybe the rationale is better quality for bargain prices?

Risky though

You want your quality on the pitch as much as possible not just through the door in the building so to speak.

[KentExile]

Just now, Tomphil2 said:

You want your quality on the pitch as much as possible not just through the door in the building so to speak.

I'm not endorsing it, just offering a viable explanation judging by the tight fistedness of our ownership

[Tugayisgod]

Got a hell of a goalscoring record for a midfield player.  25 goals in 63 games ?

Be delighted to get a striker with anything like those stats.

[MarkBRFC]

16 minutes ago, Tomphil2 said:

Why are they so intent on signing players with known existing problems ?

Cheap.

That's the only consideration that comes into play.

Folk are still thinking that anything this club does is for the best of the playing side, it isn't.

The side on the pitch is well down on priorities at this club, all about getting a side out on the pitch as cheap as possible.

Edited August 3 by MarkBRFC

[Upside Down]

30 minutes ago, Tomphil2 said:

Overseas managers and their assistants clueless to anything but the big 4 - and West Ham - being paid absolute fortunes by an FA only interested in 'shirt selling' players and corporate sponsors favourites.

 

Exactly the same with the domestic ones as well.

There's a reason they never gave the job to Brian Clough.

[Tomphil2]

26 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

Cheap.

That's the only consideration that comes into play.

Folk are still thinking that anything this club does is for the best of the playing side, it isn't.

The side on the pitch is well down on priorities at this club, all about getting a side out on the pitch as cheap as possible.

They also remain under the impression we are after these players to boost the squad and not prep the way for more sales.

[Mercer]

1 hour ago, Ossydave said:

Not sure how Nixon can diagnose the requirement for surgery or quote recovery timescales unless he's VERY close to medical staff at the club.  I would have thought surgery is pretty rare, it isn't a serious injury, just an annoyance.

A footballer is not 'Joe Average' and there is considerable 'stress' on the feet so if rest and immobolization haven't solved the original issue then surgery is the only alternative but can be problematical - didn't we have another player not too long ago who had at least two operations and he missed most of the season?

[roversfan99]

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

Where does that leave us in terms of squad registration if you get your 5 signings you want? 

That I want?

You are missing the point. You said we need 3 and then named your new squad showing our depth with 5 new signings in it.

[NeilInBristol]

1 hour ago, MarkBRFC said:

Great shout actually, maybe that is the plan.

Plan+ venkys???!

dont think it’s in the vocab 

[roversfan99]

Signing both midfielders would make no sense at all.