2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[DutchRover]

3 minutes ago, WacoRover said:

I know this won’t be a popular statement, but Rovers have been busier in the transfer market this summer, than they have since I began following them in 2013. IF Miller & Henriksson indeed sign. 

No, we do not know they guys are going to be great at this level, but imho, the club has worked to find players. 

However, we still need a forward. 

I said a few days ago, the scouting department is doing all it can with a budget of nothing and Pasha refusing to allow players to earn a wage.

But the long-term damage and reliance on cheap players over-performing expectations will not work in a league where everyone else is spending more and more money on better players.

[oneandycrawford]

15 minutes ago, Rogerb said:

This would be when Livingston and Dobson arrived from Coventry for £750,000.

And Bobby Mimms?

[M_B]

4 minutes ago, WacoRover said:

I know this won’t be a popular statement, but Rovers have been busier in the transfer market this summer, than they have since I began following them in 2013. IF Miller & Henriksson indeed sign. 

No, we do not know they guys are going to be great at this level, but imho, the club has worked to find players. 

However, we still need a forward. 

No reason it would be unpopular if it's true. It actually looks to have been a good pre season,like you say we'll just have to see now how good, or not,the new lads are. 

 

[Old Codger]

6 minutes ago, Penwortham Blue said:

I’m not keen on Travis leaving, purely because it is just further evidence of our club being dismantled, assets being sold and replaced by Poundland signings. From a purely football perspective, I’ve never thought he is much of a player, very limited ability wise.

Maybe limited, ability wise, but a big influence on a game, and when he isn't in the side we do seem to struggle. Perhaps it is time for a new broom though...and a new style of play to emerge from the chaos around the club.

[Ricky]

See Hull have picked up John Lundstrum on loan. Another good signing for a club with a transfer embargo. Probably done better business than us this summer. 

[BankEnd Rover]

9 minutes ago, WacoRover said:

I know this won’t be a popular statement, but Rovers have been busier in the transfer market this summer, than they have since I began following them in 2013. IF Miller & Henriksson indeed sign. 

No, we do not know they guys are going to be great at this level, but imho, the club has worked to find players. 

However, we still need a forward. 

Agreed, got to give Gestede credit for not messing around.
Must be difficult working with a shoelace. 

No sign of a loan either which is good.

[TimmyJimmy]

Buckley AND Pears!

Now I understand what RG was on about in his interview. He said exciting, I say taking a Hail Mary.

VI obviously made it a condition of joining that doing the same things over and again and expecting different results is not on. He's decided to bin most of the team and start again.

Brave man.

With the exception of Brittain I'm not going to miss any of the departures, DB maybe but as others have said - ageing and injury prone.

I doubted it before but I think Trav going may actually be on the cards given the clear out.

VI is taking his punt and for good or bad reasons RG is going along with it. We could be looking at a near completely new team this year. Someone somewhere is confident and backing themselves though I confess it's not me.

Good luck VI, you're going to need it I think.

[davulsukur]

11 minutes ago, Penwortham Blue said:

I’m not keen on Travis leaving, purely because it is just further evidence of our club being dismantled, assets being sold and replaced by Poundland signings. From a purely football perspective, I’ve never thought he is much of a player, very limited ability wise.

I'm not keen on Trav leaving at all either, although I do rate him ability-wise more than most. I think describing him as very limited is always a bit harsh. He's not the most technical of players sure, but I don't think he's as bad as people make out.

[WacoRover]

3 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

I'm not keen on Trav leaving at all either, although I do rate him ability-wise more than most. I think describing him as very limited is always a bit harsh. He's not the most technical of players sure, but I don't think he's as bad as people make out.

If there’s a way to keep both Trav & Tronnie, I hope it can be worked out. 

[bluebruce]

47 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Is that a version of Schrodinger’s cat?

Haha nice. Until we see him in a Rovers shirt, he both is and isn't a Rovers player. Even Schrodinger would have struggled to explain the third option of 'even then he might not be'.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

59 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

NEC really impressed me tbf. I expected them to be about as good as a bottom half Championship side, but they moved the ball really really well. I have a bit more respect for the Eredivisie outside of your PSV, Ajax and Feyenoord types now.

We were chasing shadows for 3/4 of the game. All their players were technically accomplished, fit and faster than us. Pass and move off either foot. Play in to runners. We play walking football, they played running football. 

[KentExile]

17 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Haha nice. Until we see him in a Rovers shirt, he both is and isn't a Rovers player. Even Schrodinger would have struggled to explain the third option of 'even then he might not be'.

ahem 😉 

Edited 2 hours ago by KentExile

[Tomphil2]

1 hour ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

Yeah. I was thinking of that season where Garner and Sellars were both out for the start of the season after their groin surgery had been delayed at the same time. I don't think they returned until January!

Didn't they sign an injured lad from City then, Beckford or something ?

Played about ten mins.

Difference is the club was truly skint then not just owned by clowns dripping in gold.

[Ferrit]

When is Pears off to Man United?

[Tomphil2]

Just now, Ferrit said:

When is Pears off to Man United?

When hes grown a mullet.

[bluebruce]

10 minutes ago, KentExile said:

ahem 😉 

Hence the rest of my post?

[alexanders]

Joe Newell, Lewis Miller and Rudi Molotnikov all miss out due to injury – along with Nicky Cadden who is also unavailable for this one.
 

hibs playing Dundee away @ 15 today

[Hasta]

57 minutes ago, TimmyJimmy said:

With the exception of Brittain I'm not going to miss any of the departures, DB maybe but as others have said - ageing and injury prone.

On what planet is Danny Batth injury prone?

He was out for 6 games last season. 3 the season before.
Going back through his career he hardly misses any games every season.

 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Hasta

[roversfan99]

Brittain, Batth, Beck and Dolan were all part of our best 11 last season and will be huge misses. Weimann will also be a miss as a squad player who can pop up with goals.

No point pretending otherwise.

[JBiz]

4 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Brittain, Batth, Beck and Dolan were all part of our best 11 last season and will be huge misses. Weimann will also be a miss as a squad player who can pop up with goals.

No point pretending otherwise.

At least two of those weren’t part of our best 11 for the year before so I would argue your point is moot. It’s just potential issues, as per.

[alex l]

4 minutes ago, JBiz said:

At least two of those weren’t part of our best 11 for the year before so I would argue your point is moot. It’s just potential issues, as per.

The year we nearly got relegated? 

[RevidgeBlue]

44 minutes ago, KentExile said:

ahem 😉 

Where's the picture of Broughton next to him, grinning like a Cheshire cat?

[briansol]

58 minutes ago, DutchRover said:

I said a few days ago, the scouting department is doing all it can with a budget of nothing and Pasha refusing to allow players to earn a wage.

But the long-term damage and reliance on cheap players over-performing expectations will not work in a league where everyone else is spending more and more money on better players.

Think this is spot on. For once it seems that there is a strategy and execution around the recruitment, targeting more athletic profiles in an age group where they have first-team experience but young enough for growth and resale value. Too bad the financials means it has to be a high degree of gambling. 

Given that it takes probably at least 6 months or more to adapt to the Championship, we're probably not going to see much impact from them before the latter part. That's if they are able to cope at all. 

Still I prefer this approach to scrambling around deadline for some second rate Premier League youngsters and some veteran cast-offs where the legs has gone. 

For the upcoming season I would be satisfied to avoid a relegation struggle with this squad, the ultimate bonus would be to finish above Derby

[roversfan99]

3 minutes ago, JBiz said:

At least two of those weren’t part of our best 11 for the year before so I would argue your point is moot. It’s just potential issues, as per.

The year when we nearly went down?

All I am saying is that there is no point downplaying that some of the players we have lost were important players for us. We have people even implying that Brittain wasnt as good as he was.

Most if not all teams will have lost players that were important to them last season. 

[simongarnerisgod]

1 hour ago, TimmyJimmy said:

Good luck VI, you're going to need it I think.

he sounded very frusrated with the brittain saga,basically saying in his interview with jackson that the contract  issue should have been sorted last year then brittain would still be here,thats part of the reason eustace legged it,i can see val doing the same tbh,you can`t manage with a board than wants to stop you succeeding