2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[47er]

1 hour ago, joey_big_nose said:

 

Confusing.

ie the new normal.

[RoverLad04]

Come on exciting times ahead. Players shipped off who don’t want to be here the snakey rats and getting young and hungry players. Excited for the season with a top manager in charge 🔵⚪️

[roversfan99]

Will give the benefit of the doubt and assume sarcasm. New poster so otherwise, a club plant.

[RoversClitheroe]

It's scary to see some Instagram comments from ex players I've seen.

One in particular scared me slightly:

"Well done for getting out"

I think the club is ABSOLUTELY TOXIC RIGHT NOW

[sammie]

4 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Will give the benefit of the doubt and assume sarcasm. New poster so otherwise, a club plant.

it’s the exact same generic username as twitter.  

[BRFC.]

6 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

It's scary to see some Instagram comments from ex players I've seen.

One in particular scared me slightly:

"Well done for getting out"

I think the club is ABSOLUTELY TOXIC RIGHT NOW

We’re have you seen this? 

[roversfan99]

6 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

It's scary to see some Instagram comments from ex players I've seen.

One in particular scared me slightly:

"Well done for getting out"

I think the club is ABSOLUTELY TOXIC RIGHT NOW

Who said that and to who?

[lraC]

[Ossydave]

Suspended? By their own club?

Sounds legit.

[wilsdenrover]

4 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

Reference to October now removed:

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/august/20/leo-heads-to-san-diego-/

 

[Stunned Mullet]

2 hours ago, Glosrover said:

also quite handy on crosses…..

 

 

I think he’s a nailed on signing.

[KentExile]

8 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Reference to October now removed:

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/august/20/leo-heads-to-san-diego-/

 

It feels like Rovers tried to announce his departure via the back door, and had it not been flagged up, they wouldn't have bothered saying anything, being content that they had pulled the wool over our eyes

Similar to the minutes from the fans forum

Everything about the club we all love now just feels scummy & underhanded

Edited 4 hours ago by KentExile

[CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber]

2 hours ago, Eddie said:

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

Which in German means "a whales vagina"

[lraC]

3 hours 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?
 

He would fit in nicely, if we could sign, Ian Bishop, Christian Erikson,  Ian Saint John, Chris Priest (Look him up, quite famous), Nick Pope, Julien Le Cardinal (One for Gestede) Angel Rodriguez, and Alfie Devine.

[Miller11]

17 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

I don't thing we have struggling at all this summer in terms of the type of player we want. 

On Miyoshi, without knowing what has actually what gone on there. 

Is that type of player we want ‘not as good as the ones that have left’? If so, you have a point.

[wilsdenrover]

3 minutes ago, Miller11 said:

Is that type of player we want ‘not as good as the ones that have left’? If so, you have a point.

skill irrelevant, cost crucial. 

[Tim Southampton Rover]

39 minutes ago, CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber said:

Which in German means "a whales vagina"

Which still sounds a better holiday destination than Burnley.

[Blow-in]

3 hours 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?
 

Edited - People beat me to it

Edited 3 hours ago by Blow-in

[Old Codger]

17 minutes ago, Tim Southampton Rover said:

Which still sounds a better holiday destination than Burnley.

..or Blackburn, for that matter.

[K-Hod]

1 hour ago, RoversClitheroe said:

It's scary to see some Instagram comments from ex players I've seen.

One in particular scared me slightly:

"Well done for getting out"

I think the club is ABSOLUTELY TOXIC RIGHT NOW

Who was this and who did it relate to?

[RoverCanada]

Travis is the obvious / already rumoured suspension, but can maybe imagine Pears... depending on insurance/contract stipulations, it can't have gone down well if he's unable to play (or be sold!) due to rumoured (voluntary...) cosmetic surgery...

That allrovers account suggesting Crystal Palace is after one of our u21s, who apparently isn't keen to leave. Twitter randos suggesting it's either O'Grady-Macken or Isaac Dunn.

A 'promising' young forward is also being threatened with banishment to the u21s if he doesn't go out on loan. Can guess that's Leonard. Sounds odd. Can usually guess there are financial motives with this regime, but perhaps Leonard is refusing to agree to a loan thinking he should be in our first team picture.

While I'm at it with chasing silly rumours (work procrastination babyyyyy), Tom Bloxham (still unattached) commented "Made it out *heart eyes emoji*" on Duru's Insta post about his move to San Diego. (Further insta creeping: Duru went to Ibiza with Georgie Gent and Bloxham this past summer, oooo)

5 hours ago, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:

Had to chuckle at the LT article where it said "There is an option for Dan Diego to buy Duru"

Huh. Dan Diego's the same pseudonym I use when I procure prostitutes..

Edited 3 hours ago by RoverCanada

[BankEnd Rover]

The comment in question is Tom Bloxham to Duru on instagram.

[ObiWhan8t7]

5 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

The comment in question is Tom Bloxham to Duru on instagram.

Was just going to post this. Very telling, Even youth players who haven’t made a name for themselves yet wanting out

[RoversClitheroe]

I couldn't find it @roversfan99 but found in a tweet above.

 

[Neal]

Fair enough, the club is a shambles but my primative tribal self seeing former kids who haven't made it giving it large about "making it out" of the former premier league champions is thinking... Get to fuck you entitled prick, football owes you NOTHING.