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.

Also - I personally like the idea of Myoshi, who would be a great addition, but I just don’t see it, unless it’s much cheaper than £2m. We wouldn’t drop that money on a 28yr old with no resell potential. I have no doubt, he’s ’on The list’ but it wouldn’t surprise me if the story has been leaked from his camp to flush out buyers. The only way I see it happening is for a much reduced fee. I’m also dubious about the way this has come out, because players we sign don’t tend to come out like this. We don’t seem to court them publicly, it usually goes from 0-100 fast. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Paul Mani

[yankfan]

Could you beam Trav for not signing a new contract?  Sure he’s our captain and came up through our academy, but it was just 2 years ago we sent him out on loan to save on wages. Basically telling him he’s not good enough, then a year later he started nearly every match and was our captain. Doesn’t exactly make you feel like the club truly values him

[KentExile]

18 minutes ago, yankfan said:

Could you beam Trav for not signing a new contract?  Sure he’s our captain and came up through our academy, but it was just 2 years ago we sent him out on loan to save on wages. Basically telling him he’s not good enough, then a year later he started nearly every match and was our captain. Doesn’t exactly make you feel like the club truly values him

Or it could have been that JDT didn't rate him, but others at the club did, which is why he was loaned rather than sold so that he was still here for when JDT (who was unhappy & had already apparently offered to resign at least once at this point) left 

The main issue for me was once JDT did leave & once Championship football was secured on the last day of the season, that contracts were not immediately offered (at decent Championship pay rates) for Travis, Tronstad & Brittain in the summer of 2024.  But as ever, Rovers tried to kick the can down the road for an extra year to save a few quid.  That is what will have told those players that they were not valued as highly as perhaps they should be