2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[superniko]

He’s probably on £15k ish isn’t he. 
JDT said we had to save his wage as a high earner when he went to Ipswich.

[alexanders]

According to this he is on 15k pw

 

https://salarysport.com/football/championship/blackburn-rovers/

[Tomphil2]

3 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

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.

Eustace knows all this that's why hes been after virtually every half decent players we had.

They have a budget and hes told them they can get cheap good standard Championship players from Blackburn due to low salaries.

[RevidgeBlue]

1 minute ago, alexanders said:

According to my link Trav is on 3.5k pw

Hyam and Cantwell the highest earners. 

Complete guess: Id wager he's on about £7-8k p.w. now and Derby have offered to double that.

I remember years ago when Trav was a kid a mate of mine who knew him a bit saying he was threatening to leave because 

a) He was on £2k p.w. which he thought was a shit wage

and

b) He was behind Evans and Smallwood in the pecking order and he thought he was a lot better than both of them.

He wasn't wrong on either count.

[Tomphil2]

2 minutes ago, superniko said:

He’s probably on £15k ish isn’t he. 
JDT said we had to save his wage as a high earner when he went to Ipswich.

That means bugger all the top paid player at the time was Gallagher on about 15k signed years before for 5 million from a Prem team where he took a big pay cut but was offered 4 years at Rovers instead of 3.

Then they extended his contract.

Trav as an academy graduate won't have been in the same ball park but 10k a week would still be in the higher end bracket.  Waggot and the other berk didn't want him sat on the bench every week on that money.

[roverandout]

Whoever we bring in isn't going to be up to standard as venkys want to do everything on the cheap.  The only thing we can do is force venkys out

[Emerald Isle Rover]

1 minute ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Complete guess: Id wager he's on about £7-8k p.w. now and Derby have offered to double that.

I remember years ago when Trav was a kid a mate of mine who knew him a bit saying he was threatening to leave because 

a) He was on £2k p.w. which he thought was a shit wage

and

b) He was behind Evans and Smallwood in the pecking order and he thought he was a lot better than both of them.

He wasn't wrong on either count.

Well that does happen coming through the academy you get paid an academy wage until your first ‘big’ contract 

most sites have him at 15k with hyam and cantwell at the top around 20k 

[all you need is duff]

The weird contradiction is that we “made mistakes” in the past by not renewing contracts. However JRC, Buckley and Pears seem to have  been frozen out because they have (or had in JRC’s case) long term contracts on a decent wages 

Edited August 12 by all you need is duff

[Emerald Isle Rover]

So tomorrow as does happen with rovers with bad news there will be a story or a link to try and soften the blow 

Who are we guessing 

I think baradji name will be put out in the morning again 

[Angry_Pirate]

Operation blame the player : Achieved.

[Exiled in Toronto Mk2]

Eustace is being somewhat unimaginative with his signings IMO. I’m struggling to see Travis (who couldn’t get in an Ipswich team just up from Div I) and two pensioners being the heartbeat of a promotion side

[Theaxe15]

Buckley back in from the cold today, coincidence? I think not.

[Tomphil2]

4 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

Well that does happen coming through the academy you get paid an academy wage until your first ‘big’ contract 

most sites have him at 15k with hyam and cantwell at the top around 20k 

Most sites are bollocks and in no realm do Venky Rovers throw kids on 2-3k a week onto double figure contracts.

Lets all have some common sense on this the cost cutting has been going on for years now.

Travis would have been gone years ago on a contract like that.

[RoversClitheroe]

2 minutes ago, Exiled in Toronto Mk2 said:

Eustace is being somewhat unimaginative with his signings IMO. I’m struggling to see Travis (who couldn’t get in an Ipswich team just up from Div I) and two pensioners being the heartbeat of a promotion side

Hot take.

Travis and Tronstad reason we got into playoffs.

The 2 injured coincided with our fall from grace

[JHRover]

I said it at the start of the summer that offloading these players like Travis, Brittain, Hyam and Tronstad was the only 'ambition' for the summer and between them they'd eke out another £5-6 million of cash.

They've obviously pocketed the season ticket cash first and brought in a few cheap and cheerful signings to hoodwink people into thinking all is well here but after dealing with the Brittain departure and banking that cheque they've moved on to the Travis offload and are really cranking it up now -using Ismael's post match press conferences to issue a 'come and get him' on Saturday after WBA and then tonight with his 'transfer request'.

Make no mistake there is as much pushing here from Rovers' end as anything else this has been priority #1 all summer long. 

Anyone thinking we've made serious efforts to keep him or that this has suddenly taken us by unfortunate surprise in mid-August I feel are being played for fools.

And once they've done this one they've another few weeks to get to work on the last couple. Maybe not so easy those though.

[Kjell]

4 minutes ago, Exiled in Toronto Mk2 said:

Eustace is being somewhat unimaginative with his signings IMO. I’m struggling to see Travis (who couldn’t get in an Ipswich team just up from Div I) and two pensioners being the heartbeat of a promotion side

I'd rather say we're a bit too imaginative with our signings. 

To believe that we don't need proven Championship players is plain stupidity from Rudy. If Ismael subscribes to the same view hi is simply not a very clever manager. 

Edited August 12 by Kjell

[JHRover]

3 minutes ago, Exiled in Toronto Mk2 said:

Eustace is being somewhat unimaginative with his signings IMO. I’m struggling to see Travis (who couldn’t get in an Ipswich team just up from Div I) and two pensioners being the heartbeat of a promotion side

Their aim this season won't be to get promoted. It will be to significantly improve on last years' near relegation and then crucially BUILD towards a future promotion push with a plan, philosophy and structure.

All we are building for is League One.

[DutchRover]

5 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

So tomorrow as does happen with rovers with bad news there will be a story or a link to try and soften the blow 

Who are we guessing 

I think baradji name will be put out in the morning again 

Oh Pasha will be fumbling for something to distract the "support the lads" types

[Emerald Isle Rover]

1 minute ago, Tomphil2 said:

Most sites are bollocks and in no realm do Venky Rovers throw kids on 2-3k a week onto double figure contracts.

Lets all have some common sense on this the cost cutting has been going on for years now.

Travis would have been gone years ago on a contract like that.

I can only go by what’s stated on the sites as Iv no other information elsewhere. 
 

 

[Exiled in Toronto Mk2]

4 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Their aim this season won't be to get promoted. It will be to significantly improve on last years' near relegation and then crucially BUILD towards a future promotion push with a plan, philosophy and structure.

All we are building for is League One.

Build with Baath and Weimann? They’ll be lucky to still be playing this time next year.

[Tomphil2]

2 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

I can only go by what’s stated on the sites as Iv no other information elsewhere. 
 

 

I'm under the impression due to bits said in the past by TM and bits in the press that Rovers contracts are heavily bonus related in order to incentivise.

Maybe some of those sites use that in their 'estimated' guesswork.

 

[MB Rover]

Only team in the world to finish 7th and on the verge of playoffs twice, and each time then sell/rip out the spine of that team rather than building on it. 

[simongarnerisgod]

judging by mahktars performance tonight,id`e be on the phone offering him to any side in saudi and then replace him with a 6 foot journeyman who can hold and head a football,he was truly terrible tonight

[Ghost7]

Replacement's already in the building. Forshaw. 😂

[Tomphil2]

5 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

judging by mahktars performance tonight,id`e be on the phone offering him to any side in saudi and then replace him with a 6 foot journeyman who can hold and head a football,he was truly terrible tonight

If Gestede and Ismael have any brains and backbone between them they'll be telling the chief bean counter we need to sell Gueye and put that with the Travis money and get a proven forward from somewhere, even if yes it's a bloody loan.