2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

On 14/08/2025 at 22:48, Tomphil2 said:

I did wonder if he was on commission or working for someone who is it wouldn't surprise me if he disappeared once all the wheeling and dealing is done.

And it turns out he was hired on a short term consultancy basis, like Senior was.

Extremely odd how he parachuted in from nowhere then next news he's running the whole football operation.

Highly unusual and suspect.

Never been questioned enough.

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

6 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

It was a poorly directed header tho - completely unchallenged.

A weapon when you're drifting in at the back post (as if we cross it!) but he'd win zero duels against CBs.

I'd still give him an hour up top. The ball doesn't stick with Ohashi so he's worth a punt.  

[bluebruce]

2 hours ago, wilsdenrover said:

I think,  if he remains first choice, we should be able to convert Toth to a non ESC in January.

The point I was trying to make was that  playing fewer and fewer English players will eventually result in us only being able to have 2 ESC players at a time. 

English qualified players is different to English players though right? So someone like Tavares would contribute to the minutes I think?

[Upside Down]

2 hours ago, Old Codger said:

I have a sinking feeling that this is going to be a long season of us chanting regularly from the sidelines, "You don't know what you're doing..." and not, as is the tradition, directing the remark at the ref 😞 

WTF happened to a 'normal' set up of a 'manager' setting the agenda for the players he needs in his side to play a style and system that is his brainchild and operating within the financial constraints specified by the Board? Seems to me that all the sophistry, subterfuge and slight of hand that comes with a set up where an inexperienced and unqualified patsy uses his naive and paper thin judgment to dance to the tune of a thick as pigshit no-mark (also, by the way, dancing to someone else's tune) hiding behind a poorly constructed and intentionally impenetrable barricade, leads us nowhere but to a dead end.

Dead end.

Dead,

End.

What. The. Actual. Fuck????

 

VENKYS OUT!

UNQUALIFIED AND DELUDED TEA-BOY PATSIES OUT!

HIDING BEHIND SHITE BARRICADES MORONIC GOBSHITES WITH NO FOOTBALLING CREDENTIALS OUT!

GRR!

I must admit, I do enjoy a good Old Codger rant

[wilsdenrover]

39 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

English qualified players is different to English players though right? So someone like Tavares would contribute to the minutes I think?

An English Qualified Player  is someone who is eligible for England senior team when he first permanently registers with the club in question. 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by wilsdenrover

[Tim Southampton Rover]

3 hours ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Jesus Christ 

First Ronaldinho, then Beckham, and now Jesus Christ. At least the club isn't afraid to dream big.
 

Pros:

- Creative

- Produces miracles - and we need a few!

- Lots of followers - will be good for the socials

- Should qualify for a Minister of Religion visa to keep the ESC slot open

Cons:

- Not a right winger

- Can only play on Sundays

- Is he as good as his Dad?
 

[Glosrover]

2 minutes ago, Tim Southampton Rover said:

First Ronaldinho, then Beckham, and now Jesus Christ. At least the club isn't afraid to dream big.
 

Pros:

- Creative

- Produces miracles - and we need a few!

- Lots of followers - will be good for the socials

- Should qualify for a Minister of Religion visa to keep the ESC slot open

Cons:

- Not a right winger

- Can only play on Sundays

- Is he as good as his Dad?
 

also quite handy on crosses…..

 

 

[B16Rover]

On a serious note, if Buckley does go to Saudi we may see levels of languid football up to now thought impossible.  A relaxed play style in 40 degrees heat.  A pivoting central midfielder who literally stands on one spot and pivots 

[B16Rover]

9 minutes ago, Tim Southampton Rover said:

First Ronaldinho, then Beckham, and now Jesus Christ. At least the club isn't afraid to dream big.
 

Pros:

- Creative

- Produces miracles - and we need a few!

- Lots of followers - will be good for the socials

- Should qualify for a Minister of Religion visa to keep the ESC slot open

Cons:

- Not a right winger

- Can only play on Sundays

- Is he as good as his Dad?
 

Rubbish in goal though, ball goes straight through his hands.  

[Old Codger]

42 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

I must admit, I do enjoy a good Old Codger rant

Thank you! Much appreciated! I'm sure it's not just me and my curmudgeonly self that feels this way about the way the club is run!

All the best!

[Old Codger]

1 hour ago, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:

Old Codger's rants are becoming my favourite daily read! 

Too kind sir. I wear my heart on my sleeve - snotty and broken these days, from all the trauma at Ewood!

[wilsdenrover]

1 hour ago, KentExile said:

RE Duru

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25406730.clarity-blackburn-rovers-deal-transfer-confusion/

initial loan does run until December, which is when the MLS play-offs end. However, there is an option to extend that loan deal until June and there is every expectation that will be taken up.

The agreement also includes an option for Dan Diego to buy Duru at the end of his deal, understood to be a six-figure sum. The 20-year-old signed a new contract with Rovers in 2024, which runs until the summer of 2026 with the option of a further 12 months.

 

So all in all, San Diego had it right (not Rovers, big surprise),  although there is what essentially amounts to a break clause in December

Doesn't sound like a great deal for Rovers unless Duru has made it abundantly clear that he will not be signing another contract, which in turn would explain why Dury was not used with the first team in pre/early season

I’m not sure many  fans were confused, I expect most assumed Rovers had got it wrong.

[Roverthechimp]

3 hours ago, Old Codger said:

I have a sinking feeling that this is going to be a long season of us chanting regularly from the sidelines, "You don't know what you're doing..." and not, as is the tradition, directing the remark at the ref 😞 

Could we make it a game where for each ”verse” we add a name…?

You don’t know what you’re doing Val

You don’t know what you’re doing Val, Rudy

You don’t know what you’re doing Val, Rudy, Pasha 

And so on. Might be a long list by the end…

[Rogerb]

Six figure sum ? for Duru £100 k ?

[ruggles1995]

Just now, Rogerb said:

Six figure sum ? for Duru £100 k ?

I hope he stays, I feel theres a player in there. Hopefully has a decent loan and returns in december. 

[KentExile]

13 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

I’m not sure many  fans were confused, I expect most assumed Rovers had got it wrong.

That was my initial thought too

[KentExile]

15 minutes ago, ruggles1995 said:

I hope he stays, I feel theres a player in there. Hopefully has a decent loan and returns in december. 

Sadly, the only chance he comes back in January is if his loan is a disaster

Edited 4 hours ago by KentExile

[Eddie]

San Diego is also a wonderful place (my favourite city in the US). Can't blame anyone for choosing to make that move. 

[joey_big_nose]

2 hours ago, KentExile said:

RE Duru

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/25406730.clarity-blackburn-rovers-deal-transfer-confusion/

initial loan does run until December, which is when the MLS play-offs end. However, there is an option to extend that loan deal until June and there is every expectation that will be taken up.

The agreement also includes an option for Dan Diego to buy Duru at the end of his deal, understood to be a six-figure sum. The 20-year-old signed a new contract with Rovers in 2024, which runs until the summer of 2026 with the option of a further 12 months.

 

So all in all, San Diego had it right (not Rovers, big surprise),  although there is what essentially amounts to a break clause in December

Doesn't sound like a great deal for Rovers unless Duru has made it abundantly clear that he will not be signing another contract, which in turn would explain why Dury was not used with the first team in pre/early season

Well we have an option so in effect he is contracted to us to 2027 if we want him. So we have voluntarily pre-agreed a transfer value with San Diego.

It's a bit of a puzzling one - what is there in it for us to pre-agree a transfer fee? His wages won't be massive so it's not like we would be desperate to get him off our books? If he goes and has a stormer and his value goes into 7 figures we have to accept the lower fee. If he has a bad time he gets sent back.

Confusing.

[KentExile]

2 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

Well we have an option so in effect he is contracted to us to 2027 if we want him. So we have voluntarily pre-agreed a transfer value with San Diego.

It's a bit of a puzzling one - what is there in it for us to pre-agree a transfer fee? His wages won't be massive so it's not like we would be desperate to get him off our books? If he goes and has a stormer and his value goes into 7 figures we have to accept the lower fee. If he has a bad time he gets sent back.

Confusing.

I think it probably comes down Rovers being distressed seller again, and the puttaince in the pre arranged fee is probably a few pennies more than the compensation if he moves to the states at the end of his contract

[wilsdenrover]

18 minutes ago, KentExile said:

I think it probably comes down Rovers being distressed seller again, and the puttaince in the pre arranged fee is probably a few pennies more than the compensation if he moves to the states at the end of his contract

It does feel like we’re scrambling around for every single penny.

[yankfan]

35 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

Well we have an option so in effect he is contracted to us to 2027 if we want him. So we have voluntarily pre-agreed a transfer value with San Diego.

It's a bit of a puzzling one - what is there in it for us to pre-agree a transfer fee? His wages won't be massive so it's not like we would be desperate to get him off our books? If he goes and has a stormer and his value goes into 7 figures we have to accept the lower fee. If he has a bad time he gets sent back.

Confusing.

While baffling seems about right. 

[Exiled_Rover]

16 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

It does feel like we’re scrambling around for every single penny.

If that was the case we'd have fast-tracked Duru to the first team and not bothered with Alebiosu. 

For whatever reason they just don't seem to fancy Duru. 

[oneandycrawford]

1 hour ago, Glosrover said:

also quite handy on crosses…..

 

 

Genius!

[rigger]

1 hour ago, B16Rover said:

Rubbish in goal though, ball goes straight through his hands.  

Five of loaves, three of fish.

feeds five thousand, piece of piss.