2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[SuperBrfc]

2 hours ago, miqaayil said:

Nobody ...i mean NOBODY can and will boot him... not even Venkys ... its pasha's PROJECT ...Venky's are on for the ride

It's up to us fans to put the scrutiny and spotlight on him. He's already rattled and things haven't even got started yet. He is reaching Steve Kean territory for me with the way he is behaving. The irony and coincidence being, both of them having the same agency connections.

In my opinion, it's somebody's project, with him being the face of it. He knows f@#k all about the game. See his latest nonsense comment about "nobody knew Adam Wharton would be a good player".

No chance is he going to implement a Brighton or Brentford model and oversee such a thing here, especially when he thinks spending doesn't guarantee anything.

There is no Brighton or Brentford model here anyway, never has been. It's just fluff that buys a bit of time with those still sleeping.

The thing that I always come back to is this...if I'm the sole owner of a business, what I say, goes. There are no power struggles. There are no conflicting ideas. There are no opposing camps. I decide what's happening, as the owner. You piss about, you're out. You lose me money, you're out.

So why are we not seeing such authority?

[RevidgeBlue]

9 minutes ago, jny said:

Which is why continuing (even now in 2025) to make statements about the club being not for sale is so baffling 🙄

I took that article to read "The Club is for sale at the right price" as opposed to the definitive "It's not for sale" we had in the past.

The problem is if they continue to be completely unrealistic about what they can achieve price wise it will be a position of constant stalemate.

[paullarrygher]

If it's true about suspending Trav, Val's honesty has probably cost the club 500k-1m.

Now we've either got a pissed off player on £15k per week training with the reserves until Jan or we sell him to Derby for much less than they wanted.

It's beyond amateur.

[jny]

4 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I took that article to read "The Club is for sale at the right price" as opposed to the definitive "It's not for sale" we had in the past.

Yeah true, just have my full conspiracy gear on today

[RevidgeBlue]

14 minutes ago, Tom said:

It would be legal as potentially gross misconduct if he has refused to play. 

If he refused to play, we could simply refuse to pay him.

If he has refused to play (which Im not sure I belive anyway ) and we suspended him for a fixed period and then he said he wanted to play again but we said "No you're suspended" we'd be the ones in the wrong.

Edited 15 hours ago by RevidgeBlue

[Tom]

1 minute ago, RevidgeBlue said:

If he refused to play, we could simply refuse to pay him.

If he has refused to play (which Im not sure I belive anyway ) and we suspended him for a fixed period and then he said he wanted to play again but we said No you're suspended" we'd be the ones in the wrong.

I severely doubt it’s true to be honest but o think (as a HR guy) that we’d be covered legally 

[RevidgeBlue]

2 minutes ago, Tom said:

I severely doubt it’s true to be honest but o think (as a HR guy) that we’d be covered legally 

The bit about Travis refusing to play is probably bollux anyway  -  but If we suspended him for say a month and in the meantime he said he was willing to play again and we refused Id say that would be a fundamental breach on our part entitling Travis to treat his contract as null and void and to walk out for nothing.

[Old Codger]

5 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

If he refused to play, we could simply refuse to pay him.

If he has refused to play (which Im not sure I belive anyway ) and we suspended him for a fixed period and then he said he wanted to play again but we said "No you're suspended" we'd be the ones in the wrong.

If I was a (relatively) well paid professional footballer and my employer was pissing around with my career like this, I would be instructing a well paid legal professional, a well paid PR person and speaking freely to anyone who would listen about the facts in the matter. End of. 

The club has already constructively dismissed Travis by stating publicly that he is available for the highest bidder. He has nothing to lose and a lot to gain by adopting an aggressive stance on this.

Go Trav. Let's see some VENKY shifting shithousery please!

VENKYS AND YOUR STOOGE PASHA & WORK EXPERIENCE GOBSHITE FECK OFF!

[Herbie6590]

1 hour ago, USABlue said:

Rev, when you were scribing for the Telewag did you get "suggestions" in what you should write or get negative feedback from any official entity for what you had written.  Are you sworn to secrecy?  Just curious if you had a knowledge if it.  Different regime at the time but did you experience anyone trying to guide what you wrote?

My columns last season were printed verbatim with zero interference. 

[RevidgeBlue]

4 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

My columns last season were printed verbatim with zero interference. 

Good to hear it.

Mine were never substantially altered as I recall but there was a strong Burnley influence on the Sports Desk at the time and I think they deliberately edited in some mistakes to make them read badly.

Burnley counterpart Stephen Cumming's columns always read perfectly and were mistake free.

I was also rebuked by e-mail once off someone on the Sports Desk for cracking an "obtuse reference" to relaxing with a can of 7 up (on a weekend when Burnley had coincidentally lost 7-0) which I took great exception to.

They might have actually meant "obscure" but hey ho.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

28 minutes ago, Old Codger said:

If I was a (relatively) well paid professional footballer and my employer was pissing around with my career like this, I would be instructing a well paid legal professional, a well paid PR person and speaking freely to anyone who would listen about the facts in the matter. End of. 

The club has already constructively dismissed Travis by stating publicly that he is available for the highest bidder. He has nothing to lose and a lot to gain by adopting an aggressive stance on this.

Go Trav. Let's see some VENKY shifting shithousery please!

VENKYS AND YOUR STOOGE PASHA & WORK EXPERIENCE GOBSHITE FECK OFF!

But he won’t…none of them ever do 

[BRFC.]

1 hour ago, paullarrygher said:

If it's true about suspending Trav, Val's honesty has probably cost the club 500k-1m.

Now we've either got a pissed off player on £15k per week training with the reserves until Jan or we sell him to Derby for much less than they wanted.

It's beyond amateur.

Won’t be reinvested anyway 

[sammie]

this whole travis situation is a complete shitshow, I guarantee you this doesn’t happen at any other football club in the country. 

[Tom]

5 minutes ago, sammie said:

this whole travis situation is a complete shitshow, I guarantee you this doesn’t happen at any other football club in the country. 

To be fair I think we see similar stand offs quite often, Isak is out of the Newcastle team at the moment for similar but rarely it’s because the club is as tight as we are 

[pick32]

100% correct, refuse to play get suspended, it’s your job that you get paid well to do. Shut up and do it 

[JHRover]

1 hour ago, sammie said:

this whole travis situation is a complete shitshow, I guarantee you this doesn’t happen at any other football club in the country. 

Not many other serious football clubs actively want to force out / offload all proven quality players due to a cost cutting regime to the extent that they refuse to even discuss deserved new contracts causing managers to walk out mid-season.

It doesn't happen elsewhere because no other owners/board would allow it. 

Only the freak show at Ewood and the chickens will soon be coming home to roost.

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

Less than 2 weeks till deadline day.  Threadbare, unbalanced squad. Captain not being selected. Yet this thread has died on it's arse 

Such is the exciting summer we were promised. 

[Tugayisgod]

[Tomphil2]

12 hours ago, jny said:

Which is why continuing (even now in 2025) to make statements about the club being not for sale is so baffling 🙄

I notice it was Pasha making this statement, but assume Venkys are aware in some capacity.

What gives? It's not like keeping us is doing their reputation or finances any good (should we be suspecting fowl play here? 🐔)

 

I'd say it's him and other middlemen who have decided there's no point approaching the owners with a plan to buy the club unless there is 1/200 million on the table.

Because they are terrified the owners might just engage in a serious conversation and then his and his mates gravy train ego trip is over.

Only way to do anything with that lot is get to them directly and by them i mean the two head honchos not the siblings.

Edited 2 hours ago by Tomphil2

[Leonard Venkhater]

12 hours ago, SuperBrfc said:

It's up to us fans to put the scrutiny and spotlight on him. He's already rattled and things haven't even got started yet. He is reaching Steve Kean territory for me with the way he is behaving. The irony and coincidence being, both of them having the same agency connections.

In my opinion, it's somebody's project, with him being the face of it. He knows f@#k all about the game. See his latest nonsense comment about "nobody knew Adam Wharton would be a good player".

No chance is he going to implement a Brighton or Brentford model and oversee such a thing here, especially when he thinks spending doesn't guarantee anything.

There is no Brighton or Brentford model here anyway, never has been. It's just fluff that buys a bit of time with those still sleeping.

The thing that I always come back to is this...if I'm the sole owner of a business, what I say, goes. There are no power struggles. There are no conflicting ideas. There are no opposing camps. I decide what's happening, as the owner. You piss about, you're out. You lose me money, you're out.

So why are we not seeing such authority?

In a previous era, I reached the conclusion that there must have been some kind of a joint ownership scenario with the likes of Agnew, Shaw, Kean et al representing the reptilian "agency" and the hapless Shebby Singh, representing the stated owners in a faraway continent.

I seemed as if the conflict between the two was being visibly played out around appointment/dismissal of managers, especially Appleton.

Given The Shadow Man's previous agency connections and his depressing longevity, it is beginning to look like the reptilians really are "still here".

The Shadow Man's demeanour in the recent supporters' meeting clearly betrays an awful, Trumpian narcissism. Coupled with the sudden departure of SW, it may also imply a  belief that his position is unassailable?

Time to turn up the heat...just a thought, though...how many fans know him as Pasha?

[TheKitGuy]

Anyone else feel sorry for Mafoumbi? A young French lad sold a dream who had the world at his feet at his previous club now cast away so his current club can potentially sign a crocked midfielder from Switzerland. 

[Emerald Isle Rover]

5 minutes ago, TheKitGuy said:

Anyone else feel sorry for Mafoumbi? A young French lad sold a dream who had the world at his feet at his previous club now cast away so his current club can potentially sign a crocked midfielder from Switzerland. 

Yes it’s awful player management again and there’s another option too which is giving him his debut which would free up the slot but that would likely mean still paying him a wage

just another player to add to the list that we have messed about with 

[Old Codger]

6 minutes ago, TheKitGuy said:

Anyone else feel sorry for Mafoumbi? A young French lad sold a dream who had the world at his feet at his previous club now cast away so his current club can potentially sign a crocked midfielder from Switzerland. 

Yes, that is a scandal and as much an indicator of the corruption and ineptitude now endemic at the club as any other symptom we have seen in recent times. Good luck to the lad - the irony is that he will probably go on to much bigger and better things away from the club, than if he'd stayed under its wing.

VENKYS OUT! PASHA SHADOW SKANK OUT!

[pick32]

11 minutes ago, TheKitGuy said:

Anyone else feel sorry for Mafoumbi? A young French lad sold a dream who had the world at his feet at his previous club now cast away so his current club can potentially sign a crocked midfielder from Switzerland. 

We took a gamble he wasn’t good enough, it’s a shame but that’s football, kindest thing to do is release him let him find his level and a fresh start.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

10 minutes ago, pick32 said:

We took a gamble he wasn’t good enough, it’s a shame but that’s football, kindest thing to do is release him let him find his level and a fresh start.

How do we k la if he’s good enough he hasn’t played a minute for the first team and was bought for the future. Strange take