2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[MarkBRFC]

1 minute ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Any credible links to him other than someone sat in their bedroom posting links on X?

Looks like it's from this link.

https://bolavip.com/futbol-ecuador/campeon-de-premier-league-estaria-interesado-en-john-yaboah-como-su-nuevo-fichaje

Not in English though so who knows how credible it is.

 

[BankEnd Rover]

https://hayters.com/leicester-and-west-brom-among-championship-clubs-keen-on-winger-exclusive/
 

 

[Tomphil2]

1 hour ago, joey_big_nose said:

Well, I sincerely disagree. If it was known Travis was available for £2M he would have gone a long time ago. I am sure lots of enquiries have been made, but not gone further as we are valuing him much higher.

We will see what happens in the next few weeks.

Millwall bid about 900k for him when he had plenty contract left and Ipswich took him, barely used him and didn't follow it up.

It's been known over a year he wants his next contract as security be it here or anywhere else yet no concrete bids we know about.

So yes we'll see in the next few weeks although we are unlikely to see 2 or 3 million but strange things occasionally happen.

Edited 6 hours ago by Tomphil2

[TurkishDelight]

9 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Any credible links to him other than someone sat in their bedroom posting links on X?

John Yeboah asomaría como opción para el Blackburn Rovers de la Premier League

Credible? Don't know

[Penwortham Blue]

4 hours ago, roverblue said:

Travis on his day is a top championship player, can be average on his bad days like Saturday.

Would be a big miss, especially when replaced by Gustavo Anonymous from some relegated Romanian team for 50k.

Average on the vast majority of appearances, sometimes downright poor.

[alexanders]

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25380672.blackburn-rovers-boss-clarifies-stance-transfer-exits/

[MarkBRFC]

8 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

https://hayters.com/leicester-and-west-brom-among-championship-clubs-keen-on-winger-exclusive/
 

 

I wonder who will win that race.

[Theaxe15]

Just now, MarkBRFC said:

I wonder who will win that race.

Hi Dapo, it’s Rudy, we’ve set aside £3k per week for you, how does that sound?

Dapo?

Dapo?

[RevidgeBlue]

6 minutes ago, alexanders said:

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25380672.blackburn-rovers-boss-clarifies-stance-transfer-exits/

Made offers to "at least 3" of the 4 players.

As we know one of them was Hedges, wonder who was the odd one out?

Edited 6 hours ago by RevidgeBlue

[alexanders]

1 minute ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Made offers to "at least 3" of the 4 players.

As we know one of them was Hedges, wonder who was the odd one out?

Would imagine Tronstad. 

[RevidgeBlue]

9 minutes ago, TurkishDelight said:

John Yeboah asomaría como opción para el Blackburn Rovers de la Premier League

Credible? Don't know

Err.....Cheers- I think!

🤣

[bluebruce]

1 hour ago, wilsdenrover said:

Yes, I mentioned he’d be an exception panels case yesterday but omitted to do so this time - my mistake.

I’m not sure whether he’d get through that way as the regulations are very subjective on this - all they say is it must be demonstrated that the player only failed to get to 15 points because of ‘exceptional circumstances’.

There’s also the £5,000 + VAT fee the club would need to pay (up front) which needs to be considered - would Pasha sign off on that????

 

 

What I meant is I outlined in the other post (dunno if you saw it) why I think we'd have a very good case at an appeals panel. I think it would constitute exceptional circumstances personally. As for Pasha, the more likely we are to not be able to do the purchase after dragging it out, the more 5k will look like a bargain to him 😂🤡

1 hour ago, wilsdenrover said:

Yep (for as long as we’re in The Championship).

I guess the idea is to reward club’s for giving youth a chance - but you’d have thought they’d have set that chance a bit higher than a minute!

Youth player for this season is anyone born on or before 1st January 2004.

You would have thought that. I'd also have thought they'd be interested in protecting domestic youth players getting their own opportunities.

[wilsdenrover]

4 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

What I meant is I outlined in the other post (dunno if you saw it) why I think we'd have a very good case at an appeals panel. I think it would constitute exceptional circumstances personally. As for Pasha, the more likely we are to not be able to do the purchase after dragging it out, the more 5k will look like a bargain to him 😂🤡

You would have thought that. I'd also have thought they'd be interested in protecting domestic youth players getting their own opportunities.

Yes I did read it - I think your points are very good - it’s just impossible to know from the regs whether the panel would think the same.

Agree on your domestic youth player comment, I was just trying to work out their thinking regarding giving so many points for a debut. 

[bluebruce]

31 minutes ago, Tomphil2 said:

Millwall bid about 900k for him when he had plenty contract left and Ipswich took him, barely used him and didn't follow it up.

It's been known over a year he wants his next contract as security be it here or anywhere else yet no concrete bids we know about.

So yes we'll see in the next few weeks although we are unlikely to see 2 or 3 million but strange things occasionally happen.

He was demonstrably out of favour and a bit out of form, so we got lowballed by a club who had no money anyway and probably scared them off with our asking price. Then he had a very good season after. Think we would have no issues getting 2 million. 3 might be a more drawn out and potentially unsuccessful affair, but that would be my asking price. If we were actually going to reinvest a bit.

[Exiled_Rover]

1 hour ago, TimmyJimmy said:

Mafoumbi isn't selectable for a matchday squad because he’s not registered. To move him from an ESC slot to a GBE the club have to first update their squad registration with the EFL before he meets matchday eligibility rules.

We need the slot back so it's good for us to do this, but think of the lad. Comes in as an 'exceptional talent', doesn't get played, doesn't get registered then gets made a humiliating laughing stock appearance as an injury time sub to enable the paperwork for someone else to join.

Pretty ruthless to do that to the kid. I'd cringe for him as he walked onto the pitch.  Could have been planned better IMHO

I mean we run Hedges out there every week.

I consider that cruel too.

[RevidgeBlue]

7 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

I mean we run Hedges out there every week.

I consider that cruel too.

On the fans.

[rovers11]

1 hour ago, TurkishDelight said:

John Yeboah asomaría como opción para el Blackburn Rovers de la Premier League

Credible? Don't know

Cheap, low wages, no championship experience, and no other clubs in for him. I'd say it's a very credible link on that basis. 

Although he does look like a decent player tbf. 

[Angry_Pirate]

If Ryan Hedges ends up being the first "significant" contract renewal in +2.5yrs...

[Exiled_Rover]

This is what I hate the most about the transfer window.

We've dropped one point already because we've gone into the season with an incomplete squad and seem in no rush.

Anyone arriving now will take weeks to get up to speed (see Henriksson), if they're even match fit.

We'll rue these dropped points at the end of the season - as we always do.

[RevidgeBlue]

27 minutes ago, Angry_Pirate said:

If Ryan Hedges ends up being the first "significant" contract renewal in +2.5yrs...

If Carlsberg did contract renewals........

It sure as hell wouldn't be that one!

As things stand - we can't even get Ryan Hedges to sign a new deal. Chew on that!

[KentExile]

30 minutes ago, Angry_Pirate said:

If Ryan Hedges ends up being the first "significant" contract renewal in +2.5yrs...

5 year deal 😉 

[Darwen Rover 007]

Not sure where to post this but we definitely need a laughing emoji when we click on the like

[KentExile]

6 minutes ago, Darwen Rover 007 said:

Not sure where to post this but we definitely need a laughing emoji when we click on the like

Up vote/like Darwin Rover 007 comment above for a laughing reaction to be added

Can we also have a sarcasm emoji?

Edited 3 hours ago by KentExile

[Eddie]

3 hours ago, TimmyJimmy said:

Mafoumbi isn't selectable for a matchday squad because he’s not registered. To move him from an ESC slot to a GBE the club have to first update their squad registration with the EFL before he meets matchday eligibility rules.

Under-21s don't need to be registered, so he can play in any league match at any point. 

[rigger]

6 hours ago, bluebruce said:

I think we're comfortably at the point where I put credence in Wilsden confirming what Jackson says, more than Jackson confirming what Wilsden says.

He's also missing the third option of going to the appeals board. One thing that doesn't seem to have been discussed here...I'd expect even if Miyoshi's game in the second tier knocks his points down, it shouldn't be too hard to argue to an appeals board that he would have qualified a week ago and isn't any worse a player now. Japan international, experience in the Bundesliga, Championship, Belgian top flight. Prime years. In his recent season at Brum he played 43 Championship games which would have auto qualified him if it had been applied for but obviously he had a release clause so that didn't happen. Seems a no brainer for a panel to me.

I doubt the Rovers even knew of the options, I hope someone informs them. You never know they might act.