2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[bluebruce]

24 minutes ago, TimmyJimmy said:

You and Wilsden clearly have a better handle on the process. My weakness is a permanent overload of emotional intelligence rather than the garden variety type (tongue in cheek) of process intelligence. Just seems harsh on a young lad whose hopes and dreams of making it as a pro end with being wheeled out for a ritual humiliation. Ignore me, I'm just a softy.

It's not that I don't see your point, I just think it could as easily viewed as a plus for the lad as for us. And maybe he gets lucky and it lands at his feet in the 6 yard box for a chance to make his name. Ideally you do it in a game where we are winning convincingly and you can afford to give him 5 or 10 minutes to make his mark, but since this needs doing ASAP and the next game is Brum...probably not! I think Tyjon's debut was only about 30 seconds and it will have been a proud moment for him anyway. Admittedly his wasn't to clear an administrative problem.

What I know about the process btw, I probably learnt about 70-80% of it from talking to Wilsden.

Edited 10 hours ago by bluebruce

[bluebruce]

5 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

How old do players have to be to count as youth players in the ESC/GBE context? Don't tell me they made that fuzzy too 😂 I'm assuming it's the same as squad registration with players under 21.

[wilsdenrover]

4 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

How old do players have to be to count as youth players in the ESC/GBE context? Don't tell me they made that fuzzy too 😂 I'm assuming it's the same as squad registration with players under 21.

No, they’ve made that nice and simple 😁:

[bluebruce]

16 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

No, they’ve made that nice and simple 😁:

I wonder what came over them 😂

[B16Rover]

Pululu's chairman actively shopping him about and hasn't received a formal offer yet

 

£2 million solves all our woes 

[KentExile]

6 hours ago, bluebruce said:

I wonder what came over them 😂

The wording looks like its been lifted straight from the "who counts as being an U21 player" from the 25 man squad rules for each season

Edit - just noticed you said that earlier

Edited 3 hours ago by KentExile

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

59 minutes ago, B16Rover said:

Pululu's chairman actively shopping him about and hasn't received a formal offer yet

 

£2 million solves all our woes 

Really like the look of that lad.  He'll need an ESC slot though I assume,  so dead in the water. 

[KentExile]

57 minutes ago, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:

Really like the look of that lad.  He'll need an ESC slot though I assume,  so dead in the water. 

Just imagine if Rovers had brought in close to £50M in transfer fees in recent years, giving them wriggle room with FFP/PSR, so could buy him now, loan him back to his current club until January & then bring him in once Toth/Henriksson/Kargbo had qualified for a GBE

But I must have dreamt that first part 😉 

* assuming they don't already have plans for Mafoumbis esc slot

Edited 2 hours ago by KentExile

[Torgeir]

1 hour ago, B16Rover said:

Pululu's chairman actively shopping him about and hasn't received a formal offer yet

 

£2 million solves all our woes 

Been mentioned several times in this thread, but yet to see that he's been linked to us.

 

[MarkBRFC]

1 hour ago, B16Rover said:

Pululu's chairman actively shopping him about and hasn't received a formal offer yet

 

£2 million solves all our woes 

Another one that would need a ESC.

[RoyWegerlesLeftToe]

59 minutes ago, KentExile said:

Just imagine if Rovers had brought in close to £50M in transfer fees in recent years, giving them wriggle room with FFP/PSR, so could buy him now, loan him back to his current club until January & then bring him in once Toth/Henriksson/Kargbo had qualified for a GBE

But I must have dreamt that first part 😉 

* assuming they already have plans for Mafoumbis esc slot

I had a similar dream except we were allowed to pay in chickens. 

[B16Rover]

22 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

Another one that would need a ESC.

 

1 hour ago, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:

Really like the look of that lad.  He'll need an ESC slot though I assume,  so dead in the water. 

GBE calculator shows him as exceptions, is that just for Scottish teams 

[davulsukur]

Missed most of the day Sunday & yesterday, what did I miss? Trav gone yet? 

[Emerald Isle Rover]

54 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Missed most of the day Sunday & yesterday, what did I miss? Trav gone yet? 

Travis not gone but seems very likely to get done this week

Koji Miyoshi played the second half for Bochum meaning he lost points for ESC slot meaning

mafoumbi needs sold or as some have found needs to make his debut for rovers in a league game to give him enough points so he doesn’t require a slot 

bar that nothing really new a tentative link to John yeboah but not a credible source 

[Neal]

Bit of ashame we didn't get Miyoshi in for Birmingham. Would've been destined to score. 

[BankEnd Rover]

3 minutes ago, Neal said:

Bit of ashame we didn't get Miyoshi in for Birmingham. Would've been destined to score. 

Yep, we've another exciting game of watching Hedges bomb up and down the wing. I hope their full backs are ready. 
 

 

 

 

[Neal]

6 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Yep, we've another exciting game of watching Hedges bomb up and down the wing. I hope their full backs are ready. 
 

 

 

 

Play miller RB and push Alebiosu up.