2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[chaddyrovers]

1 minute ago, Tomphil2 said:

That's what managers do that's why they are called managers not head coaches.

Do you see them selling their best players to pay their bills and fishing around for cheaper replacements to develop or do you see them putting in place a strong squad for this season then trying to add quality to take them to the next level ?

Meanwhile here - so far - 4 of last seasons best players have left and nobody has signed a contract extension.

Precisely what he new was going to happen.

He is called head coach there. 

No long term planning there, older aged Players signing which suits him. Nothing wrong with that but not with our plan. 

I don't see any of signings has next level signing. 

Before you asked about Rovers. Most signings we made I know very little about ours but let's see how they perform 

[oldjamfan1]

1 hour ago, Polky said:

Those poor Hibs fans, lost Miller and signed Hanley in the same week 😭

Joking aside he’ll probably be okay there.

Linked to this I work in the same sector as a lad from Manchester (Utd fan) whose son is on Hibs’ books and he goes to watch them a lot. He reckons Miller will become a cult hero at Ewood as long as he stays fit and isn’t suspended!

[Emerald Isle Rover]

13 minutes ago, islander200 said:

You wouldn't want Beck here?

Batth here?

Iv no idea about the American Lad they signed but the fee suggests he must have something about him 

Ozoh looked decent when he was fit 

Morris experienced and a good player at this level for me

Clark an unknown but like only 12 months ago a team paid 10 million euro for him 

They are having a decent enough window...maybe not for the longer term but for next season they don't look in bad shape 

An injured beck no 

an injured ozoh no 

fees don’t suggest too much we paid more for Gallagher 

Morris would def have here 

and batth id have liked to have kept 

[roversfan99]

Our "plan." 

Changes every year. Have to be pretty gullible to think we have one.

[NeilInBristol]

19 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Where the hell Is the swede? 

Sweden?

[SuperBrfc]

26 minutes ago, alexanders said:

Would we be happy with the transfers if it was to Rovers? Don’t think so 

I disagree. I think we would have been relatively pleased given the circumstances. If we put it down in writing, this is what Derby's activity would have looked like for us, had we carried it out.

Eustace stays as manager, plus:

Batth and Weimann sign new deals.

Sanderson and Beck return to us on loan for another year.

Ozoh and Clark sign on loan.

Brewster and Carlton Morris sign permanently.

Agyemang signs for a big fee. Excitement and intrigue around him.

Attacking options of Ohashi, Gueye, Brewster, Morris and Agyemang would give us real bite at this level. Even if we were to let Gueye leave, for example, we'd still have plenty of goal threat. Add Weimann to that too, despite his age. What we have at present isn't worth writing home about. Eustace would still be manager. Our best defender, Batth, would still be here. Our organised defensive structure would still be here. Add in all of the above and there would be some optimism about the season ahead.

As it is, we are taking punts on cheap, unknowns. It's a hit and hope policy.

These new lads might turn out to be good, but there's no way we can look at De Neve, Tavares and Co right now and claim our signings are better than club x, y and z and that we'd prefer these over certain other club's signings.

 

 

[chaddyrovers]

6 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Our "plan." 

Changes every year. Have to be pretty gullible to think we have one.

If we didn't a plan we wouldn't be making signings after signings that Ismael wants. We must had a plan to replace Brittain and who are targets were

But to be honest your post and comments is zero surprised. 

Edited 4 hours ago by chaddyrovers

[Tomphil2]

17 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

He is called head coach there. 

No long term planning there, older aged Players signing which suits him. Nothing wrong with that but not with our plan. 

I don't see any of signings has next level signing. 

Before you asked about Rovers. Most signings we made I know very little about ours but let's see how they perform 

Plan here ?

It's about time you held your hand up and admitted the ONLY plan here is we have to sell players and let players who want better contracts go in order to pay the bills.

That's it there is no other plan than that it's about keeping the lights on.

The same can't be said of Derby who no doubt sold Eustace a project of building year on year for promotion and that's why he went there.

Edited 4 hours ago by Tomphil2

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

12 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Our "plan." 

Changes every year. Have to be pretty gullible to think we have one.

Our plan changes every week.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

12 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

If we didn't a plan we wouldn't be making signings after signings that Ismael wants. We must had a plan to replace Brittain and who are targets were

But to be honest your post and comments is zero surprised. 

Can’t agree with this at all to have a plan you need the futures of your players sorted to move forward

as that isn’t the case currently with hyam tronstad and club captain Travis we don’t have much of a plan. We will continue to make signings based on need not an actual ‘plan’

a plan would be get the contracts sorted build a team around them so we know what we will have for the next 2/3 years but we don’t know that 

[RevidgeBlue]

15 minutes ago, SuperBrfc said:

These new lads might turn out to be good, but there's no way we can look at De Neve, Tavares and Co right now and claim our signings are better than club x, y and z and that we'd prefer these over certain other club's signings.

Come on -you know the law according to Chadster.

It's too early to judge any of our incoming players but it's never too early to d.ismiss every player everyone else signs as shite

[OnionBalaji]

To sum up where our club stand at the minute as if we are a local pub eatery with decent food & the plan 

and if you were a customer would you keep going to the local and trusting the plan?

 

 

the brewery get into legal trouble so can’t fund the pub, an ambitious danish head chef leaves because he’s told by the pub manager he can’t choose the ingredients or the menu any more and has to get cheaper ingredients and equipment despite adding some danish flair 
 

we sell our nice oven to a London pub for a price that keeps the bills paid for a month and bring in an ambitious chef who wants to buy nice ingredients, launch a new menu and the pub manager starts to see results, but worries about the margins - changes his order at the wholesalers for cheaper ingredients without telling the chef despite promising him the ability to craft his menu his way… invariably he walks out and joins a worse pub down the road but starts to take his sous chef and pot washer and front of house with him 

the long standing bar manager takes over in the kitchen, gets some results and is eschewed aside for an out of work French chef who’s last few kitchens have failed hygiene standards .. but he comes in and tries hard after a rocky start and agrees to buy unknown weird ingredients and work with the microwave 

he starts building a menu bringing in foreign untried ding ding meals on the hope the locals will like them 

the pub raise prices meanwhile without doing any decor or refurbishment in the establishment and the place starts to look and feel tacky 

the new menu launches with a load of unknown dishes from the microwave as the oven, the grill and the sous chef all gone to pay bills 

 

 

the locals ask for feedback at a village meeting and the minutes keep getting delayed as the pub manager wants to hide the shambles behind the scenes whilst advertising their exciting new microwave menu and watered down pints of fosters 

18 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

If we didn't a plan we wouldn't be making signings after signings that Ismael wants. We must had a plan to replace Brittain and who are targets were

But to be honest your post and comments is zero surprised. 

 

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

I wonder if the incoming Swede has led to a last minute change to more favourable terms for Baradji?  

[Southside Rover]

23 minutes ago, OnionBalaji said:

To sum up where our club stand at the minute as if we are a local pub eatery with decent food & the plan 

and if you were a customer would you keep going to the local and trusting the plan?

 

 

the brewery get into legal trouble so can’t fund the pub, an ambitious danish head chef leaves because he’s told by the pub manager he can’t choose the ingredients or the menu any more and has to get cheaper ingredients and equipment despite adding some danish flair 
 

we sell our nice oven to a London pub for a price that keeps the bills paid for a month and bring in an ambitious chef who wants to buy nice ingredients, launch a new menu and the pub manager starts to see results, but worries about the margins - changes his order at the wholesalers for cheaper ingredients without telling the chef despite promising him the ability to craft his menu his way… invariably he walks out and joins a worse pub down the road but starts to take his sous chef and pot washer and front of house with him 

the long standing bar manager takes over in the kitchen, gets some results and is eschewed aside for an out of work French chef who’s last few kitchens have failed hygiene standards .. but he comes in and tries hard after a rocky start and agrees to buy unknown weird ingredients and work with the microwave 

he starts building a menu bringing in foreign untried ding ding meals on the hope the locals will like them 

the pub raise prices meanwhile without doing any decor or refurbishment in the establishment and the place starts to look and feel tacky 

the new menu launches with a load of unknown dishes from the microwave as the oven, the grill and the sous chef all gone to pay bills 

 

 

the locals ask for feedback at a village meeting and the minutes keep getting delayed as the pub manager wants to hide the shambles behind the scenes whilst advertising their exciting new microwave menu and watered down pints of fosters 

 

Probably one of the finest posts I've read on here. Could have included a Swede to the theme if only a medical wasn't taking 3 days

[Torgeir]

The medical should be extra thorough considering his condition. 

[chaddyrovers]

42 minutes ago, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:

I wonder if the incoming Swede has led to a last minute change to more favourable terms for Baradji?  

We are signing both according to Jackson and Nixon. 

Jackson said in his podcast signing a right winger is a priority now. Nixon said the player is experience and play overseas. 

 

[roversfan99]

Didn't Elliott Jackson say today that we are NOT signing Baradji at the moment?

We cant. Not enough ESC slots.

Edited 2 hours ago by roversfan99

[ObiWhan8t7]

36 minutes ago, Torgeir said:

The medical should be extra thorough considering his condition. 

They would have to scan his whole body to check for damages in his digestive system. Also all joints in his body as they can be effected also. There’s plenty of issues that can go wrong with crohns. My first thought would be they are waiting on results pending delay in announcement 

Edited 2 hours ago by ObiWhan8t7

[RevidgeBlue]

5 hours ago, KentExile said:

I assume you mean Rosler & Baradji?  If so, them I would think something like below would be te 25 they might be aiming for.  If they get something like that is maybe a different matter

 

Toth NEW Barrett

Hyam McLoughlin Carter Wharton Rosler

Ribeiro Pickering

Miller Alebiosu

Tronstad Baradji Tavares Forshaw 

Cantwell De Neve Kargbo Hedges Henriksson NEW

Ohashi Gueye NEW

 

I cannot see beyond Travis being sold,

Hopefully extra competition being brought in (probably on loan) up top, wide and in goal

Assuming Leonard & Pratt are loaned out, Buckley & Pears sold/loaned, Garrett injured so doesn't need to be registered,

U21s (Montgomery/Tyjon etc) don't need to be registered

Interesting take. Thanks.

My post was based (with only three or four days to go before the new season) about what would be the situation if we brought in another midfielder and defender without selling anyone, we'd temporarily have no space left in the squad for a winger or striker.

To me we desperately need one or preferably two strikers and a right winger. I'd be bringing those players in first before piling players on top of more players in other areas.

Your post assumes we'll be able to easily offload Travis, Leonard, Pears and Buckley. I'd imagine Clubs would be queueing up to buy Travis if we gave them any encouragement but it might not be so easy to shift the other three.

Your theoretical squad actually  looks quite a bit better than what we have currently but I'd say it's still massively imbalanced - potentially ten midfielders but only two strikers plus either Leonard or A.N. Other if we did manage to bring someone in.

And of course all loans have to be registered so if we fill up the squad with more defenders and midfielders we still can't go down the loan route to bring strikers in without selling first. Unless they're under 21 which probably wouldn't be any upgrade on Leonard.

[chaddyrovers]

1 hour ago, Tomphil2 said:

Plan here ?

It's about time you held your hand up and admitted the ONLY plan here is we have to sell players and let players who want better contracts go in order to pay the bills.

That's it there is no other plan than that it's about keeping the lights on.

The same can't be said of Derby who no doubt sold Eustace a project of building year on year for promotion and that's why he went there.

So if no plan why have made 5 signings to fit the profile of player Ismael wants? If no plan why have we scouted and signed players from overseas? 

If we had no plan why was Brittain's replacement line up, deal agreed and at Brockhall set to sign before Brittain transfer was confirmed? 

[chaddyrovers]

53 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Didn't Elliott Jackson say today that we are NOT signing Baradji at the moment?

We cant. Not enough ESC slots.

Did I say we are signing right now? 

 

[RevidgeBlue]

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

So if no plan why have made 5 signings to fit the profile of player Ismael wants? If no plan why have we scouted and signed players from overseas? 

If we had no plan why was Brittain's replacement line up, deal agreed and at Brockhall set to sign before Brittain transfer was confirmed? 

Come on chaddy - there was no "plan" to sell Brittain.

We wanted him to sign a new contract and at one time apparently thought it was close. He didn't and therefore we we forced by necessity to bring in a cheaper and probably inferior alternative.

(Although Im sure some posters will be jumping up and down about labelling him "nferior" without having seen him play etc.)

To the extent there is a "plan" it appears to consist of replacing the better paid players with cheaper ones. If we were going through the first X1 one by one and improving the quality of player in each position, that would be an actual plan.

Edited 46 minutes ago by RevidgeBlue

[roversfan99]

We must have had a plan every season because we always sign players.

Next season we will have a different plan.

Wheres the plan in terms of keeping our better players long term and renewing contracts?

Wheres the plan in ensuring that our crowds dont continue to dwindle?

Wheres the plan in having a compent and stable team off the pitch running the club?

[RevidgeBlue]

23 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Wheres the plan in having a compent and stable team off the pitch running the club?

Talking of which, how IS the search for a new "CEO" going?