2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[MarkBRFC]

7 minutes ago, ruggles1995 said:

I dont know anything about this miller, but I dont think hes played recently. According to what i can see online, he last played on the 9th july, for 32 minutes... Cant see him being a starter anytime soon. Unless thats wrong. A month without any minutes. Has he even done a preseason or has he been injured? players missing pre season tend to have poor seasons. 

He got injured in that game he played 32 minutes, and hasn't trained since.

[Waggy76]

18 minutes ago, Tugayisgod said:

"However, he is a replaceable player. This isn’t a Sammie Szmodics moment"

Correct, there isn't a single player in this current Rovers side that isn't replaceable imo. We even managed without Szmodics goals when everyone (including myself) thought we would struggle.

Travis and Tronstad are both good players but limited in their abilities and hopefully the new midfield players will bring a different dynamic to the team.

For what it's worth, I have only ever seen one irreplaceable player in my time watching Rovers and that of course was Shearer, simply because there was nobody better at the time.

Or since !

[Ghost7]

Yeah looks like a hostage situation, "you can go but tell everyone it was fine."

[John]

2 minutes ago, Tomphil2 said:

Brittain now getting the Dolan 'not that good anyway' treatment now 🤣

What you need to wake up to is we are a development club that;s why these lads were here this club never bought them to build a promotion team they couldn't care less about that.

So..Sammie, BBD before him and now Dolan and Brittain all been developed by us, all entering their peak years, ALL leave in search of ambition and decent wages.

They are all good top 10 championship players and the problem has never been with them.

I can’t comment too much on the new signings, as I don’t know enough about them.

Batth and Brittain have been two of our better players, though — we can’t keep losing key players without replacing them adequately.

There are still clear question marks over Travis as well, and it doesn’t look like we’re close to a positive resolution there either. All we can do now is hope the new signings are as good as those who have left.

[G Somerset Rover]

Another in an extremely long list of decent players and managers who believed that their future was better suited away from the club and it’s shambolic ownership.

Edited 2 hours ago by G Somerset Rover

[roversinmyblood]

30 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

It sounds like Miller can cover ground quickly, yes. But it also sounds like he has nowhere near the attacking ability of Brittain. So we may well get up there with him, but if it leads nowhere there isn't much point. Hopefully he's better at putting a cross in that it sounds like.

As long as he’s a good defender, which he’s supposed to be, very good 1 vs 1, then signing a good right winger will make us better overall. 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

40 minutes ago, Dreams of 1995 said:

Last season was Brittains best season he had for us. With that memory still fresh, it seems a bad loss

However, he is a replaceable player. This isn’t a Sammie Szmodics moment

Brittain was very good going forward and proved a reliable outlet. He allowed us to play out from the back as if we managed to spread it to him in space he’d cover ground very quickly. By all accounts, they’re the same attributes Millar has

Where Brittain let himself down is his defending. He got beat quite a bit and allowed too many crosses in for me. Millar is supposedly better at that aspect of the game. If we do manage to get that deal over the line then the blow of losing him is softened 

I remember that cup tie at Leicester JRC had that Harvey Barnes in his back pocket and we were cruising. JRC comes off, Brittain comes on in his place and Barnes ran him ragged. Leicester were shovelled the ball out to his wing. Another 5-10 mins and that game would have gone. A good attacking player who could usually  put in a good ball, but for that he wouldn’t have been seen as good enough to get in the team as a pure defender. Keith Newton he wasn’t. Or Henning Berg or Kevin Hird etc etc.

Edited 2 hours ago by Tyrone Shoelaces

[den]

29 minutes ago, rigger said:

I cannot remember an occasion when a team losing a right-back has been a major blow. 

Hardly the point though, is it?

If it was just the right back you could argue the point - especially if there was money made available to the manager to replace him.  when the club are selling absolutely anyone and everyone who can bring in a fee, and investing virtually nothing back into the squad it IS a problem.

[Gamst]

Brittain leaving is not mismanagement. It’s deliberate. Everyone at the club knows the contract status of the players and I’m sure if he offered to sign on a contract on the same or worse terms then he would have done it already. The issue is penny pinching and the goal is to always do things as cheaply as they can get away with. The same applies for Dolan, Travis, Batth and Tronstad. The club aren’t stupid, they just won’t stump up the money required to seal the contracts. If we are unwilling to pay the going rate for these players then they won’t sign and nor should they. I see it differently with Sammie and Adam Wharton who deserve to leave for a higher standard club. Brittain et al will make horizontal moves to teams who pay the going rate. 

[RTM08]

22 minutes ago, yankfan said:

The best part of downgrading the roster is no one is irreplaceable because no one is good enough to be considered as such. Job well done Venkys! 

On the flip side, everyone is irreplacable because we're bin dipping for players and refuse to replace them with the same quality.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

3 minutes ago, Gamst said:

Brittain leaving is not mismanagement. It’s deliberate. Everyone at the club knows the contract status of the players and I’m sure if he offered to sign on a contract on the same or worse terms then he would have done it already. The issue is penny pinching and the goal is to always do things as cheaply as they can get away with. The same applies for Dolan, Travis, Batth and Tronstad. The club aren’t stupid, they just won’t stump up the money required to seal the contracts. If we are unwilling to pay the going rate for these players then they won’t sign and nor should they. I see it differently with Sammie and Adam Wharton who deserve to leave for a higher standard club. Brittain et al will make horizontal moves to teams who pay the going rate. 

Wouldn’t put Dolan in that category but agree with the rest 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

7 minutes ago, roversinmyblood said:

As long as he’s a good defender, which he’s supposed to be, very good 1 vs 1, then signing a good right winger will make us better overall. 

That really is the issue. Get a very solid back four and two wingers who can make things happen and we’ll be no worse off. The secret is in getting those players in.

[Waggy76]

12 minutes ago, John said:

I can’t comment too much on the new signings, as I don’t know enough about them.

Batth and Brittain have been two of our better players, though — we can’t keep losing key players without replacing them adequately.

There are still clear question marks over Travis as well, and it doesn’t look like we’re close to a positive resolution there either. All we can do now is hope the new signings are as good as those who have left.

Unfortunately, since the Venkys appeared it has been a constant dumbing down of the playing staff .

I see no reason to believe it will be any different , this season .

3rd deliberate relegation is a racing certainty !

Edited 2 hours ago by Waggy76

[Tomphil2]

12 minutes ago, John said:

I can’t comment too much on the new signings, as I don’t know enough about them.

Batth and Brittain have been two of our better players, though — we can’t keep losing key players without replacing them adequately.

There are still clear question marks over Travis as well, and it doesn’t look like we’re close to a positive resolution there either. All we can do now is hope the new signings are as good as those who have left.

It's the sheer amount of changes all at once that has me worried now even if some of these coming in turn out to be decent.

They need time to gel as any new players and systems do but there's going to be a lot trying to get used to the English championship as well.

[Leonard Venkhater]

24 minutes ago, rigger said:

We lost a great player in Newton, but how was it a major problem for the team losing the right-back ?

 

24 minutes ago, rigger said:

We lost a great player in Newton, but how was it a major problem for the team losing the right-back ?

Embarked on a long losing run that saw us sink from top of the old 2nd division to relegation...

[roverblue]

It's really hard to predict how the team will perform this year as I have never heard of any of the replacements we have brought in. You can only assume they will be worse than the experienced pros that have left.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

34 minutes ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

Well, I can. Keith Newton Christmas 1969…. Just saying 

It was like losing two players in one. He’d have been perfect for the modern game.

[ObiWhan8t7]

Experience is getting sold/walking on a free and this will have an impact on rest of squad. Just get the feeling that majority of squad squad want out. Dolan, Batth,Brittain, Weimann were all big personalities in the squad and it’s got to turn a few more heads to believe they’re futures lie somewhere else 

[Emerald Isle Rover]

Strap in rovers fans the next month is going to be mayhem lol

can see more players going 

more coming in 

and the reaction towards the above will be determined by on field results

[Waggy76]

33 minutes ago, lraC said:

Can I remind everyone we need to agree with everything the club does or risk a stadium ban or warning.

To be clear, you fucking imbeciles have totally fucked up again.

I would have thought the Venkys running of the Club , this last 15 years , as brought the Club into disrepute far more times than the fans have altogether !

Anuradha J Desai, the Chairperson of Venky’s, said: 19/11/2010

“We are delighted, proud and humbled to be associated with Blackburn Rovers, a team with whom we share many values and ambitions. Going forward we plan to focus on leveraging the global influence in establishing Blackburn Rovers as a truly global brand. We will absolutely respect the Jack Walker legacy and will be actively supporting the organisation to ensure that Blackburn Rovers remains one of the best run Clubs within the Premier League. We are particularly pleased that the deal has full support of the Walker Trust, the Chairman and the management team who will of course remain in place with our full support.”

I rest my case !

[Theaxe15]

6 minutes ago, roverblue said:

It's really hard to predict how the team will perform this year as I have never heard of any of the replacements we have brought in. You can only assume they will be worse than the experienced pros that have left.

I think I can predict - shite

[Neal]

1 minute ago, Theaxe15 said:

I think I can predict - shite

Probably, I'm as pessimistic as anyone but you never know... We're bringing in 2 big hard lunatics, we might just end up bullying our way into a half decent season if we can bring a couple of useful attacking players. 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Watching him playing against Kargbo will be interesting.  Kargbo will be faster running backwards.

[rigger]

14 minutes ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

 

Embarked on a long losing run that saw us sink from top of the old 2nd division to relegation...

And all that due to losing a right-back ? I think it is more likely that the rest of the team not playing at the required level was more of a deciding factor.

[SuperBrfc]

It's not the end of the world guys, Brittain was shit anyway. He's actually a greedy tosser, if we think about it. I'm sure Suhail did all he could to get him to stay, but we forget that we have to run the club as business and can't be blowing our wage structure and putting the club's future at risk. No player is bigger than the club and it's actually a good deal when looking at it from a business point of view. £3.5m in and £750k spent on a replacement. If we didn't have a replacement lined up, I'd be worried, but I have to give credit to Suhail for once. He's getting the hang of this, I feel. Maybe Rudy being here is what he needed to come out of his shell?

The Hibs lad looks a good 'un any road. A unit and has the Neill/Emerton vibe about him. I suspect that this signing was an Adam Owen recommendation. He'll likely know all about Miller from his time at Hibs. If so, fair play Mr Owen. Let's see some more of this, please.

An unrelated fun fact, though meaningless regards his playing ability and the signing, is that Miller came from playing in Australia and joined Hibs in 2022. A year earlier, a Mr Kean trod a similar path. Leaving work in Australia to join Hibs in 2022. It must be something in the water in Scotland. The world is so big, yet so small at the same time. A truly global game. I love all the different stories and seeing how people's careers pan out in the football world.

Anyway, let's see if Suhail and Co can somehow get Rovers back to where we belong. It is exciting, as Rudy said. A part of me also wants Boro to go up with us. I miss the days of Ravanelli, Juninho and Emerson. Those were the days eh, Honeyman! How we would both love to be back there. We were also side by side as clubs in the 2000's for a time too. I quite like Boro and it's sad to see where we both are today. Let's bring those days back, Suhail. Come on. Time is ticking.

Good luck to Callum, but we keep moving.