2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[Kjell]

2 minutes ago, TommyRovers said:

Completely agree.

I think we might have ran out of miracles this season.

You are probably right. Come January, which manager will look at our squad and think, "I can save this lot from relegation"? 

[cesus]

For all the shite these owners have brought I refuse to let myself get drawn into a "Derby County" pile on, I refuse to gasp at the might of Wrexham and Birmingham being in the league.

I know what I've had supporting my club for 40+ years, this at the moment isn't my club.

[Torgeir]

1 minute ago, JHRover said:

Careful everyone - watch out - the Club and Regime are going to be working overdrive this next week in making Travis out to be the villain of the piece. They've started it already with the 'rejection' of their new contract offer and this is cranking it up a notch with him 'asking to leave' to join Derby. 

All part of the game being played - not Rovers fault, it's the player - just get your plastic snakes out and give them a wave.

Poor old Elliott Jackson is - unwittingly I suspect - central to this - the club using him to get their narrative out in a late bid to pacify the fanbase.

Sadly I fear the majority of our fanbase are that thick they will fall for it. They've done it so many times now that they are quite skilled at it and each and every time the twitterati and Venkygraph readers are pointing the finger of blame at those leaving and not the rancid parasites that infest Ewood.  

I liked Ismael speaking the truth. Just wish it wasn’t all bad news…

[JHRover]

Just now, Torgeir said:

I liked Ismael speaking the truth. Just wish it wasn’t all bad news…

Ismael is being given his information by the Regime he works for. I doubt even he knows if that is the truth or not. 

[G Somerset Rover]

2 minutes ago, Polky said:

Trav to be stripped of captaincy after those comments from Val.

Thank god we have Dominic Hyam to step in…

Jesus wept. A leader of men he is not.

[Kjell]

1 minute ago, Torgeir said:

I liked Ismael speaking the truth. Just wish it wasn’t all bad news…

There seem to be at least some differences between what Tronstad and Ismael recon the truth to be. I would also not be overly shocked if Trav did not feel that Rovers have done everything they can to keep him (even in the last couple of weeks).

[Ghost7]

Heard after the game Sreenivasa Rao personally offered Travis 1 million rupees to stay tonight.

Venky's don't think this one is over and are prepared to double it.

[roverblue]

Hyam is probably off as well if he won’t sign his ‘deal’

Edited 17 hours ago by roverblue

[superniko]

If we were a normal run club, then I’d have absolutely no qualms selling Travis at all, knowing that a normal club would reinvest that money properly.
He is the epitome of the Rovers rubber dinghy boys, goes hiding in any crucial match, praised for being a ‘shithouse’ but lacking in the basics (see the goal on Saturday). People will say we can’t sell as he’s an academy lad (so was Jason Lowe)

He’s a solid Championship midfielder, but he’s not dragging you over the line to promotion (he barely played at Ipswich).

That said, the money just goes into the black hole so what on earth would be the point of selling him at all. We’ve already shown that Rudy, Suhail and co aren’t up to the task of replacing players properly.

Given we’re looking like relegation fodder right now, I’d much rather keep hold of him!

Edited 17 hours ago by superniko

[Tomphil2]

So the anonymous director was there tonight, Venkys finance man surely no coincidence.

No doubt instructing Gestede he must seek offers for anyone he can get a fee for.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

I’m just tired of it all and we’re 10 days in just get rid of Travis tronstad and hyam now so we don’t have to keep talking about it 

actually draining 

[alcd]

3 hours ago, paullarrygher said:

You can see with every interview that Ismael does that he realises he's been stitched up. 

He's got a 3 year contract so he can cry all the way to the bank.

[Tricky]

1 minute ago, alcd said:

He's got a 3 year contract so he can cry all the way to the bank.

An absolute journeyman 

[alcd]

2 minutes ago, Tomphil2 said:

So the anonymous director was there tonight, Venkys finance man surely no coincidence.

No doubt instructing Gestede he must seek offers for anyone he can get a fee for.

The club is run by bean-counters whose only remit is to cut costs. Certainly the costs will be much less in L1 ... and below.Job done.

[ewoodnews]

6 minutes ago, pick32 said:

Valerian basically just confirmed Derby have made a bid well below Rovers valuation and that Derby are willing to double his wages

 

Yes to 30kpw like I suggested the other night... Travis is probably on around 15 to 20kpw at Rovers. We don't pay anyone more than 20kpw and never will do with Pasha and Ruddy in charge.

We should have had Adam Wharton as captain for a season getting us into the Prem and selling for 50m to reinvest for a whole new squad... instead we have yellow stickers 50p buys from relegated sides around Europe.

[JHRover]

Ismael playing the 'club have done everything they possibly can but rival club is putting an offer on the table we just cannot compete with' line

I'm struggling to work out at this early stage whether he genuinely believes this or is just happy to play the game his bosses are instructing him to.

It is nonsense - of course - we are talking Derby County here not a PL club or even a Leicester/Southampton. 

I think he probably knows this but is still learning what mugs his bosses take people for. 

[alcd]

6 minutes ago, Ghost7 said:

Heard after the game Sreenivasa Rao personally offered Travis 1 million rupees to stay tonight.

Venky's don't think this one is over and are prepared to double it.

What's a million rupees worth? 

[RevidgeBlue]

2 minutes ago, alcd said:

What's a million rupees worth? 

I took it as a joke.

[alexanders]

According to this Cantwell has 30k pw. 
 

https://www.capology.com/club/blackburn/salaries/

[Gamst]

Just now, JHRover said:

Ismael playing the 'club have done everything they possibly can but rival club is putting an offer on the table we just cannot compete with' line

I'm struggling to work out at this early stage whether he genuinely believes this or is just happy to play the game his bosses are instructing him to.

It is nonsense - of course - we are talking Derby County here not a PL club or even a Leicester/Southampton. 

I think he probably knows this but is still learning what mugs his bosses take people for. 

If Derby are willing to pay him twice his salary then that is the going rate. It’s not a coincidence that none of our established players are signing contracts. We are not paying people what they deserve and why on earth would they sign for inferior terms? It’s not like Derby are Al Ittihad. 

[Tomphil2]

There is no way Travis is on 15k pwk here, non and he isn't trousering 30k pwk at a club like Derby, no chance.

He'll be on about 10k here ( anybody on that amount or more will be nudged towards the door).  At Derby he'll get a bit more, a signing on fee plus offered a 3 or 4 year deal.

No way was he offered that here either.

[RevidgeBlue]

4 minutes ago, ewoodnews said:

Yes to 30kpw like I suggested the other night... Travis is probably on around 15 to 20kpw at Rovers. We don't pay anyone more than 20kpw and never will do with Pasha and Ruddy in charge.

We should have had Adam Wharton as captain for a season getting us into the Prem and selling for 50m to reinvest for a whole new squad... instead we have yellow stickers 50p buys from relegated sides around Europe.

When did Travis last sign a deal at Rovers?

I seriously doubt he's on anything like £15k -£20 k p.w. currently.

If Derby are prepared to "double his money" it probably shows what a poor wage (relatively speaking) he's currently on.

[alexanders]

According to my link Trav is on 3.5k pw

Hyam and Cantwell the highest earners. 

[Emerald Isle Rover]

Just now, alexanders said:

According to my link Trav is on 3.5k pw

Hyam and Cantwell the highest earners. 

That link is wrong 

[JHRover]

3 minutes ago, Gamst said:

If Derby are willing to pay him twice his salary then that is the going rate. It’s not a coincidence that none of our established players are signing contracts. We are not paying people what they deserve and why on earth would they sign for inferior terms? It’s not like Derby are Al Ittihad. 

If we'd have offered him a pay rise and another 3 years on his deal 12 months ago, even in December/January, he'd have snapped our hands off.

The liars and shysters running the club won't mention that to Jackson when they claim to have tried really, really hard to keep him (lie) and will be patting themselves on the back though for 'saving' that wage increase.

Only it has led to his departure, a manager's departure and probably will end with relegation to League One.