2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[Craigman]

Callum leaves.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/august/04/callum-completes-middlesbrough-move/

Edited 3 hours ago by Craigman
Link added

[M_B]

41 minutes ago, ObiWhan8t7 said:

Anyone seen the list of loans spurs have put out? Some quality players in it

I think it's where the forward/s will come from. 

[Tom]

6 minutes ago, Craigman said:

Callum leaves.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/august/04/callum-completes-middlesbrough-move/

Always thought he had a shit hairband anyway 

[roversfan99]

Gigantic blow to lose Brittain. Makes us much weaker and a team competing supposedly in the same area of the league much stronger.

In the LT article, none of the others are close to new deals either. Suspect Ismael might soon grow frustrated with that.

[B16Rover]

Thank you Cal! 

Don't let the door hit you on the way out 

That's the spend sorted for this year 

[Bohinen1983]

Didn't like him anyway...

[yellowsubmarine]

In a blink of an eye, we lost some of our most senior and core players of the squad within a month - Batth, Weimann, Dolan and now Brittain. Who's next?

[KentExile]

Just now, yellowsubmarine said:

In a blink of an eye, we lost some of our most senior and core players of the squad within a month - Batth, Weimann, Dolan and now Brittain. Who's next?

Travis

[Angry_Pirate]

Callum Brittain is easily a top 6 right back in this league, lets hope Miller is at least a top 12. 

Wonder what we'll do with the net £2.5m profit...

[KentExile]

1 minute ago, Angry_Pirate said:

Callum Brittain is easily a top 6 right back in this league, lets hope Miller is at least a top 12. 

Wonder what we'll do with the net £2.5m profit...

keep the lights on

Edited 3 hours ago by KentExile

[Craigman]

2 minutes ago, KentExile said:

keep the lights on

Just!

[pick32]

1 minute ago, KentExile said:

keep the lights on

Lights are already on with the millions robbed from Szmodics, Wharton, Raya etc

[philipl]

Miller has some big boots to fill if he ever arrives...

[BankEnd Rover]

He will be missed! Did struggle at times especially defensively in his first 2 years but the last 12 months, yes, he was arguably one of the best RWB in the league.

I wouldn't go as far as it making us significantly weaker, I've confidence that Miller and Alebiosu will be good enough replacements. 
 

At least he's not walked for free...

[davulsukur]

15 minutes ago, Craigman said:

Callum leaves.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/august/04/callum-completes-middlesbrough-move/

Another total clusterfuck by the club. As usual, we just wave goodbye to any of our better players year on year, with absolutely no desire from anyone at the club to retain them and try progress/build anything. 

Just get the players out the door and replace with cheaper, inferior players in order to save some money on wages.

Fucking fed up of this shit.

[Neal]

Shame with Callum. Only really showed us what he was all about last season, before that was so stop start with injuries even though I knew how good he could be. If we'd have sold for 5 million then would have been fair business. Travis is probably next.

 

No way can we replace the quality he has with the budget we have so let's hope big Lewis Miller comes in and offers something different. Perhaps some nastiness and physicality. 

[BigHoz]

Brittain is a huge loss, very concerning letting all this championship experience leave the club and replacing with unknown foreigners on the cheap. Let’s hope the new guys have some dog in them as I predict a very hard season ahead. Forward and defence have been significantly weakened. Hope I’m proved wrong. 

[lraC]

Why an undisclosed fee and what is it likely to have been?

[KentExile]

11 minutes ago, lraC said:

Why an undisclosed fee and what is it likely to have been?

When was the last time you saw any fee (which wasn't £0) actually confirmed by either club?

£3.5M after add ons according to Jackson

The real question is how much of that is guaranteed? and how much of the guaranteed amount is up front?

Edited 2 hours ago by KentExile

[B16Rover]

To lose the technically gifted Brittain in exchange for what Scottish football fans are describing as more an athlete than a footballer is inspiring 

[RevidgeBlue]

1 hour ago, Eddie said:

Why? I mean, I get it because of how the club is run, but we need more central midfield options.

Our season was derailed last season because of injuries to TWO central midfielders. Adding three this summer would be sensible. 

As with the argument for more CB's I dont get the argument for more midfielders either.

We have 4 senior CB's and 2 young lads who could deputise at a push. 6 options.

If Henriksson signs we then have four main senior options in midfield plus as things stand Buckley and Forshaw. Should we have signed Forshaw? Of course not. But we did therefore VI presumably thinks he can contribute. Again 6 options - this time all senior ones.

Conversely up front we only have 2 senior strikers and no RW worthy of the name. 

If one of Baradji or Henrikssen and also Millar sign to replace Brittain then forget any more defenders or midfielders, get some bloody firepower in!

Edit: Seven in midfield. Forgot about Cantwell.

Edited 2 hours ago by RevidgeBlue

[Trinidad Rover]

All the best Callum, good player and I hope he does well for himself.

Players voting with their feet and can you blame them?

Absolutely obvious the players that are leaving/not signing contracts are not convinced of the future direction of the club. 

Expect Travis to go next.

Replacing them with cheaper, inferior players will lead to one outcome. The squad is incredibly thin as it stands.

Bleak.

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Trinidad Rover

[rovers11]

Telling words from Brittain on his move to Boro. In reference to why he joined: "It's clear everyone is pulling the same direction". A subtle dig at how things are run at Rovers I suspect.

Not the first time a player has said that upon joining a new club.

[RevidgeBlue]

27 minutes ago, Craigman said:

Callum leaves.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/august/04/callum-completes-middlesbrough-move/

Is this the point where we find an issue with Miller's medical and that deal collapses?

Lol.

[bluebruce]

1 hour ago, Ossydave said:

He wasn't very useful in his last 2 championship seasons - 66 appearances and 13 goals? Those are worse than Sam Gallagher stats 

They're not. In his last 2 Championship seasons with us, Gallagher scored 11 in 58 appearances. A goal every 5.27 games. The stats you just gave are a goal every 5.07 games for McBurnie. If you take Gally's actual last 2 Championship seasons, so that's his one with Stoke and his last with us, he scored 6 in 46, or a goal every 7.66 games.