2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[roversfan99]

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

And another? How many do you want? 11 players for 4 positions. Woah

Again, you are fixated with numbers as if each of those "11" is equal.

Are there enough goals? No. Is there enough creativity? No. Is there enough pace? No. Our attack is nowhere near good enough. It shouldnt be a case of have we enough warm bodies, it should be do we have the necessary quality.

For the positions up to the attacking ones, roughly 2 for 1 position is sufficient. In attack, especially if we want to play a high press. Especially now you can name 5 subs from 9, so you are likely going through 7 or 8 a game, and more often than not at least 1 or 2 will be missing through injury. We never want to get to the stage where you dont have enough options on the bench to bring on fresh legs.

If we get a right winger and a striker that are good enough, fine. I fear that we wont even get 2, just 1. That wouldnt be enough, either bodies or crucially quality.

For what its worth, we have lost Dolan, Weimann, ACD, Dennis and Woodrow from last season. Obviously 3 of those 5 were crap, 2 are big losses. But even if we did sign 3 more attackers, we would only be back to where we were numerically, and even then at times with injuries we were light on the bench.

[Paul Mani]

FWIW I think the plan is to sign / have two senior or first team standard players for each position. Then back up with the academy where they have one ready:

GK - Toth, Pears (Michalski)

RB - Miller, Alebiosu (Montgomery)

Lcb - Wharton, McLauchlan 

Rcb - Hyam, Carter 

LB - Ribeiro, Pickering

DM - Sonny, Forshaw, (Montgomery)

CM - Trav, Tavares 

AM - Cantwell, Henriksson (Tyjon)

RAM - NEW, Hedges

LAM - De Neve, Kargbo

ST - Ohashi, Gueye, (Leonard) (Tyjon)

Based on this, the only glaring need is RAM, which is aligned to what Rudy / VI are saying. The rest will come down to any sales and replacements.

I reckon after the RAM, you’re looking at a loan to cover Carter, a keeper if / when Pears leaves, and Baradji if / when Trav leaves.

Fully expect Buckley and probably Garrett to leave permanently, with the likes of Duru and Batty to go out on loan. Will likely be a question of which of the other academy grads they believe are good enough to play out of Pratt? Edmondson? Mularkey Matthews? Let’s see.