2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[Emerald Isle Rover]

4 minutes ago, alexanders said:

The list of players from Belgian league to PL who has been a success is long. Same with Scandinavians. 

What about the list from them same leagues to the championship 

[roversfan99]

1 hour ago, alexanders said:

I agree with this. Focus on the players that are there and want to play, not the other ongoings. 
 

all clubs have these issues, look at Newcastle with Isak or even Liverpool with Trent. 

 

26 minutes ago, alexanders said:

Stop twisting my words. What about Bournemouth then, lost Huijsen, Kerkez and Zabarniy? 
Brentford lost their Talisman Mbeumo to a team lower on the table. 
wolves have lost their talisman each season, Raul, Neves, Jota, Cunha 
 

These examples are totally missing the point.

There are plenty of isolated examples of players running down their contracts. We cant get ANY of our better players to sign new deals. Some arent even being actively courter by other teams.

Also, selling players again is natural to clubs higher in the food chain. All the clubs you mention reinvested decent chunks on replacements.

[alexanders]

6 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

What about the list from them same leagues to the championship 

 

• Anthony Knockaert (fra Standard Liège til Leicester, 2012

🤣

[Polky]

57 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

The fact we have fans defending the current situation shows you that a full boycott just ain't ever going to happen with this fanbase.

Bizarre we can't all Unite.

Look at the Sheffield Wednesday fans at Leicester.

Planned protest to stay out of their seats for the first 5 minutes, 100 or so were in their seats and even a few interviewed not happy with the protests 🙃

[alexanders]

I don’t get it though. 
 

you love this club. I would hate my wife if I called her ugly, fat and useless couple of times a day 

[TugaysMarlboro]

4 minutes ago, alexanders said:

I don’t get it though. 
 

you love this club. I would hate my wife if I called her ugly, fat and useless couple of times a day 

I used to, I don't love what it currently is.

If I've read the minutes right, the wife's told me she'd rather let me lapse and get someone younger instead.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

7 minutes ago, alexanders said:

I don’t get it though. 
 

you love this club. I would hate my wife if I called her ugly, fat and useless couple of times a day 

It’s Friday evening it seems you may have had a few drinks so sleep it off 

[DutchRover]

Tbh its pretty funny that Suhails plan to quell fan unrest at Trav/Tron/Hyam no deals is that we might try re-up Hedges 😄 

 

 

 

Or wait, is it a threat 🤔 

[aletheia]

12 hours ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

I’m glad to see a manager tell us what’s happening and exactly how it is 

I look forward to that…

I didn’t want Trav to leave but it’s such a shitshow here, he had to really….
The 30k a week story is a lie to make us look like we tried…
I’d like a striker but there’s no chance here with these lunes in charge….
Ditto a winger….
I know like everyone else in football that this club is a joke but I need the money and they will never sack me because they won’t pay up….
The transfer strategy is garbage but I have to publicly say otherwise…
I’ve got to play youngsters irrespective of ability to get my bonus and because Rudy says so…
Rudy is a knob and everybody here hates him…
Rudy is underqualified for his role at this club….
I say what Rudy or Pasha tells me to say….
The squad is threadbare….
I’d like some more experienced players but am not allowed them….

 

[BankEnd Rover]

Could mean absolutely nothing, seeing as the managers said we're no closer to a RW, but Koji is in England with his former Birmingham team mates...Looks like a leaving meal for Bielik.

Edited 3 hours ago by BankEnd Rover

[chaddyrovers]

8 hours ago, Tomphil2 said:

What the local journo's should do is quite simple 'Ok Mr Ismael fair enough' then turn straight to the club and say right where is Mr Gestede he is director of these operations and these questions are for him to answer, if he doesn't we'll have to concoct our own headlines and he may not like it'.

Makes me boil that just casually batting things off means that nobody is accountable, someone is always accountable for every action.

Get after the root of it.

You know that wouldn't happen. Ismael answered the questions over transfers apart from Travis and the game against Birmingham. Ismael was honest, straight and direct with his answer over the Lewis Travis situation. It was the right approach to be honest with the media and Supporters base

6 hours ago, rob_of_the_rovers said:

Ben Doak going for £25m, what a world we live in

Played for Liverpool in the PL and Scottish international. Similar to the fees that Forest are paying for McAtee and Hutchinson

2 hours ago, sharpysharps86 said:

According to Nixon Rovers have let Mafoumbi go to make space for a new signing.

Feel for Mafoumbi...was probably never going to make it but the club have absolutely wasted his time. Hope he gets himself a club very quickly.

So who's it going to be...Baradji or unnamed right winger?

I think its will be new player off the radar. 

[Emerald Isle Rover]

16 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Could mean absolutely nothing, seeing as the managers said we're no closer to a RW, but Koji is in England with his former Birmingham team mates...Looks like a leaving meal for Bielik.

Would make sense if mafoumbi has been shipped off 

then baradji for Travis and that’s our lot 

[Theaxe15]

15 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

Would make sense if mafoumbi has been shipped off 

then baradji for Travis and that’s our lot 

Can only get one of Baradji or Miyoshi

[roversfan99]

18 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

You know that wouldn't happen. Ismael answered the questions over transfers apart from Travis and the game against Birmingham. Ismael was honest, straight and direct with his answer over the Lewis Travis situation. It was the right approach to be honest with the media and Supporters base

Played for Liverpool in the PL and Scottish international. Similar to the fees that Forest are paying for McAtee and Hutchinson

I think its will be new player off the radar. 

Is it the right approach to shut down certain questions by the club? Not good "stakeholder communication."

Ismael said today we are no closer. Unless hes...lying?

[Emerald Isle Rover]

10 minutes ago, Theaxe15 said:

Can only get one of Baradji or Miyoshi

Not if baradji isn’t available to Jan - then I believe a space becomes available  

[Upside Down]

9 hours ago, JHRover said:

Like full on Soviet Union. Any topics the Regime isn't comfortable with are banned. Any comments at the Fans Forum they don't like simply omitted from the minutes. 

So much for Gestede and his 'communication' spiel. Sounds good but no real intention of delivering it.

Or the UK arresting people who disagree with their government being complicit in a holocaust. 

It just shows what these people are really about.

[chaddyrovers]

20 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Is it the right approach to shut down certain questions by the club? Not good "stakeholder communication."

No. It's a strange decision so it will interesting what Ismael says post match and whether Travis is there tomorrow 

Ismael has told the Supporters based the Travis situation and he wants out. 

It's was a board decision from what Jackson reported. 

 

20 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Ismael said today we are no closer. Unless hes...lying?

Or something has happened in the last few hours over a target 

[47er]

2 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

a full boycott is a great  of protesting,but it`s totally unrealistic,sadly,you can`t expect everyone to suddenly stop going to matches,it will never happen

i suspect the protests will mushroom this season if as expected we keep losing every week,whatever shape they take we just don`t know but there is nobody more cantankerous than a football fan who sees his team at the bottom of the league and losing every week

You could organise for fans to miss the first 10 minutes say. as a start or 15 minutes representing the time Venkys have been owners. Plenty would get behind that I'd think (apart from the LT's Happy Clappers).

[JHRover]

15 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

No. It's a strange decision so it will interesting what Ismael says post match and whether Travis is there tomorrow 

Ismael has told the Supporters based the Travis situation and he wants out. 

It's was a board decision from what Jackson reported. 

 

There is no board to make such a decision. 

Let's have a look at our 'board' of directors:

Robert Coar, Gandhi Babu, Sreenivasa Rao, Steve Waggott

Those are the only four active directors of the club, according to Companies House.

Which one or more of that bunch do you reckon has interfered in a pre-match press conference and decided what questions can be asked/answered?

Gestede / Pasha are not directors and therefore not board members, if they have made the decision it is a lie to say the board has.

[bluebruce]

2 hours ago, alexanders said:

The margins between being a success or a failure are extremely tight. 
 

heard a story today about a player (x) who had a gentlemen’s agreement with a PL club, then when x flew over to sign he had a phone call from his friend who played for Rovers who wanted him to sign for us. X met our manager at the time and really wanted to sign for rovers, but stayed loyal to the gentlemen’s agreement. 
 

X made a huge mistake in his PL debut. The manager never spoke to him again and he never got to fullfill his potential. 
 

It could have beeen completely different if he hadn’t made that mistake or signed for Rovers 

Why not just name the player?

[chaddyrovers]

13 minutes ago, JHRover said:

There is no board to make such a decision. 

Let's have a look at our 'board' of directors:

Robert Coar, Gandhi Babu, Sreenivasa Rao, Steve Waggott

Those are the only four active directors of the club, according to Companies House.

Which one or more of that bunch do you reckon has interfered in a pre-match press conference and decided what questions can be asked/answered?

Gestede / Pasha are not directors and therefore not board members, if they have made the decision it is a lie to say the board has.

I know who is on the board and on the companies house website. 

Sreenivasa Rao was at Tuesday's game. Could it be him? 

Elliott Jackson says Rovers board.

Question for people who know much more then myself about this sort of thing than a novice like me. Can other people can been on that board without be director of the company? 

Do Rovers have a football board made up of 4 or 5 officials from key positions at the club? 

Edited 1 hour ago by chaddyrovers

[Angry_Pirate]

So we released a statement:

"The club limited media questions at today’s pre-match press conference on matters relating to individual players."

During the same press conference:

Edited 1 hour ago by Angry_Pirate
Apparently it is permitted to talk about individual players when it is within the context and BS parameters acceptable to the board..

[yankfan]

Can’t prohibit a question on any topic, but you can decline to answer or comment. The optics matter 

[JHRover]

4 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

I know who is on the board and on the companies house website. 

Sreenivasa Rao was at Tuesday's game. Could it be him? 

Elliott Jackson says Rovers board.

Question for people who know much more then myself about this sort of thing than a novice like me. Can other people can been on that board without be director of the company? 

Do Rovers have a football board made up of 4 or 5 officials from key positions at the club? 

Yes I know what Elliott Jackson says. I've just pointed out that it seems unlikely to say the least that this board of 4 active directors has made that decision. That's what I suggest people do - ask questions and scratch beneath the surface rather than just accepting and repeating what other people say. 

I've seen a photo of a man sat next to Rudy Gestede on Tuesday. Who says it is Sreenivasa Rao? I've never seen him or a photo of him before.

Maybe it could be Bob Coar, Gandhi Babu or Steve Waggot. One has admitted he has no involvement in decision making, one has never been seen or heard of in 14 years and the other was removed from the club 3 months ago. Some board of directors there. 

[Upside Down]

1 hour ago, Angry_Pirate said:

So we released a statement:

"The club limited media questions at today’s pre-match press conference on matters relating to individual players."

During the same press conference:

That statement they put out completely contradicted itself.

Only someone who is totally brain dead would take anything this club says seriously. I know double speak is the standard for large organisations but they're not even good at doing that. 

I think we've got a chance to cause them some real problems at the minute as they are so totally inept there's no way they'll be able to deal with it. We need to take this chance and give them a good slap.