2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[KentExile]

4 minutes ago, pick32 said:

Surely we could afford Jamal Lowe decent championship RW

The thought of him being our big hope on the wing makes me sick

He is far better as a central striker, and even then has numbers which rival Gallagher

 

 

Gallagher -  287 Championship Appearances,  57 Goals,  27 Assists

Lowe -  210 Championship Appearances,  42 Goals,  14 Assists

Edited 4 hours ago by KentExile

[RevidgeBlue]

3 minutes ago, roverblue said:

Totally agree about the two centre mids. One of them has to get forwards and run behind otherwise it’s just so easy to play against. Travis and Tronstad were the two biggest disappointments for me yesterday.

Without wishing to set everyone off on a rant about how I should never be allowed to darken the doors of a football stadium again because I dont rate Tronstad, I didn't see much different from him yesterday to how I perceive him in general. I just see him as a bit of a nothing player.

[RevidgeBlue]

13 minutes ago, KentExile said:

Thank you

Although its entirely possible that we are reading it wrong, lol

Some sort of ESC related Dunning-Kruger effect

(RB looks up Dunning - Kruger effect)

[wilsdenrover]

I’ll ask this here as I can’t be bothered finding the correct thread for it…

To what date are our fixtures now ‘set in stone’?

I’m thinking of attending a match (first one since the Oxford promotion one!) but my wife would need to make a rota request so I can have our car for the day.

Ta in advance. 

[chaddyrovers]

3 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Can you please point out where I said that I dont rate him? You are literally making things up now.

Pot kettle black with that one aren't

3 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Our dallying makes it much more difficult to sign him. At a push, we could pay off Mafoumbi, a further delay, and then bring him in and use a last ESC slot totally unecessarily.

You are at a peak of parroting everything the club does. For one, we dont know how much Ismael rates Baradji. But yes, he did have a medical here, which he failed! So just to clarify, you would be happy to replace Travis with Baradji even if he was out for months due to surgery, simply because Ismael must rate him? No concerns?

And no concerns as to the quantity of proven players we are replacing with players playing in (and often relegated from) inferior foreign leagues? Do you still think we will be top half/top 6?

Same old boring comments again and again RF99, Its getting tiresome to be honest with you. 

In regards to your questions, I'm not scout and have no knowledge of the Swiss League on Baradji's quality or what he could be here. 

Maybe given the new signings a proper chance, whilst they weren't outstanding yesterday its one game. 

I have given you my prediction before the season started, Have I said I have changed my mind anywhere? if I had I would have posted it. 

2 hours ago, BigHoz said:

These players we’ve brought in, ismael doesn’t sign them for any other championship club if he’s in charge bar maybe the CB.  He’s been given a list of 2-3 players worth peanuts and he’s prob picking best of a crap bunch. You keep saying he wants these players 😂 he has no choice with the funds he has been given. 

Well Ismael has signed them and he sounds happy with what he signed but now is the time to get them settle, used to the league and he has signed off on these players fitting the profile of players he wanted . 

 

[KentExile]

16 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

I’ll ask this here as I can’t be bothered finding the correct thread for it…

To what date are our fixtures now ‘set in stone’?

I’m thinking of attending a match (first one since the Oxford promotion one!) but my wife would need to make a rota request so I can have our car for the day.

Ta in advance. 

Looks like Sky have made their selections up until at least 1st Jan. 

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25350080.six-blackburn-rovers-games-moved-sky-sports-tv-picks/

But don't take that's as gospel, I just have a trip to Northern Italy for each game on Rovers TV, which isn't nearly as difficult as getting to Ewood 😉 

Edited 4 hours ago by KentExile

[Emerald Isle Rover]

14 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Without wishing to set everyone off on a rant about how I should never be allowed to darken the doors of a football stadium again because I dont rate Tronstad, I didn't see much different from him yesterday to how I perceive him in general. I just see him as a bit of a nothing player.

He was poor yesterday no denying that but a nothing player is frankly an awful take won out player of the year last season 

[RevidgeBlue]

6 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

He was poor yesterday no denying that but a nothing player is frankly an awful take won out player of the year last season 

When the entire team has imploded in the 2nd half of the season maybe it's not quite that much of a badge of honour.

Hyam won it a couple of years ago and I dont rate him either.

Edit: Genuine question - why do you think Tronstad never seems to attract much outside interest? It doesn't surprise me but it must be a major surprise to everyone else  who seem to rate him so highly?

Edited 4 hours ago by RevidgeBlue

[Emerald Isle Rover]

1 minute ago, RevidgeBlue said:

When the entire team has imploded in the 2nd half of the season maybe it's not quite that much of a badge of honour.

Hyam won it a couple of years ago and I dont rate him either.

But that’s the thing just because ‘you’ don’t doesn’t make it correct. 

[RevidgeBlue]

10 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Same old boring comments again and again RF99, Its getting tiresome to be honest with you. 

You could always put him on ignore?

🙂

[simongarnerisgod]

there must be a centre forward somewhere in the 2nd divisions of europe that we can afford

[RevidgeBlue]

1 minute ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

But that’s the thing just because ‘you’ don’t doesn’t make it correct. 

It doesn't make me right or wrong.

It's an opinion on a player.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

Just now, RevidgeBlue said:

It doesn't make me right or wrong.

It's an opinion on a player.

Opinions in general can’t be wrong but when his peers and staff recognise their worth to the team with the award it would suggest otherwise but each to their own 

[Ossydave]

12 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

You could always put him on ignore?

🙂

He's pretty much the only person who gives Chaddy the time of day, most can't be arsed anymore 

[RevidgeBlue]

1 minute ago, Ossydave said:

He's pretty much the only person who gives Chaddy the time of day, most can't be arsed anymore 

I know t'was a joke, they're like Hinge and Bracket, but they'd be lost without each other.

🙂

[KentExile]

12 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I know t'was a joke, they're like Hinge and Bracket, but they'd be lost without each other.

🙂

mirror images of each other

 

Edited 3 hours ago by KentExile

[alexanders]

They have to be brothers

[DeeCee]

37 minutes ago, alexanders said:

They have to be brothers

Twins, separated at birth?

[Old Codger]

41 minutes ago, DeeCee said:

Twins, separated at birth?

No, one bloke, just a bit schizo.

Any news about comings or goings, amongst the intra-cranial bickering?

[ewoodnews]

Travis has been offered 30k a week by another championship club.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

4 minutes ago, ewoodnews said:

Travis has been offered 30k a week by another championship club.

They mustn’t have been watching yesterdays game then.

[Ossydave]

5 minutes ago, ewoodnews said:

Travis has been offered 30k a week by another championship club.

Bollocks

[JHRover]

7 minutes ago, ewoodnews said:

Travis has been offered 30k a week by another championship club.

All part of Rovers 'layering' this.

Trying to hoodwink fans into believing that other clubs are throwing around ridiculous amounts of money and to try and persuade fans that we are doing the right thing by not matching that.

They need to come up with a convincing reason for his departure at this juncture, so grossly exaggerated figures will fit will with the 'poor little Rovers can't compete with that' narrative. 

[pick32]

30k must be Wrexham

[roversfan99]

Another club may well be offering well above what we can afford. 

Which is why we should have offered these players deals far sooner, if we even have at all.

No excuse. 

At least we can replace another proven Championship experienced player with a no mark from some backwater.