2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[TheRevAshton]

Just now, KentExile said:

15% of any profit

Not sure if that will be on the original fee (£18M), or whatever it has risen to by the time he is sold

This, so if he goes for £100m we'd get about £10-12m.

[MarkBRFC]

Seen the club employee is back on X.

Baradji back in the building.

Travis "not been seen for seven days".

[Emerald Isle Rover]

Baradji has been rudys top target all summer which means that the Travis saga has now come to an end 

awful way for someone like him to go and likely we won’t get the right story 

anyhow still no further on with this right winger which is quite frankly draining 

[roversfan99]

Whoever it is on the inside again trying to turn people against Travis.

Wonder who it is. Whoever it is, grossly unprofessional.

Net effect for us. Replacing our captain with an injured player.

[MarkBRFC]

Waste of time Baradji.

Clear we need players to come in and impact the side now.

Think of the savings though!

[sammie]

5 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Whoever it is on the inside again trying to turn people against Travis.

Wonder who it is. Whoever it is, grossly unprofessional.

Net effect for us. Replacing our captain with an injured player.

completely agree, we need players ready now, we’re not in a position of Southampton/Ipswich/Birmingham to sign players injured for 3 months. 

Edited 3 hours ago by sammie

[RoverKyle]

2 hours ago, DeeCee said:

Go on?

Mowbray received an honour cap as part of the 150th anniversary.

[roversfan99]

For the next few months, our immediate midfield cover will likely be someone clearly not ready who was playing in the 9th tier last season.

In goal, we might have a season where our immediate cover is an 18 year old who isnt ready.

And our sub par attack from last season is now far worse with no sign of being strengthened.

Edited 3 hours ago by roversfan99

[KentExile]

9 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

Waste of time Baradji.

Clear we need players to come in and impact the side now.

Think of the savings though!

Does anyone know if Baradji had his operation?

He played that one game for his current club at the start of August, & hasn't featured again since

Edited 3 hours ago by KentExile

[TugaysMarlboro]

22 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

Seen the club employee is back on X.

Baradji back in the building.

Travis "not been seen for seven days".

No surprise about Trav, he's been training on his own (entirely away from the club) with a coach of some kind.

He posted a short clip on Instagram a couple of days ago training in what looked like a small park somewhere. 

Surprised it wasn't mentioned more.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

If we weren’t in desperate need I think in isolation baradji looks a decent signing 

but with a pending period out whether that’s injury / rehab or just needing to catch up it makes no sense as the right wing position needs filled with greater priority 

as for the account it is 100% unprofessional there is one name doing the rounds of who ‘she’ is 

[BRFC.]

16 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

For the next few months, our immediate midfield cover will likely be someone clearly not ready who was playing in the 9th tier last season.

In goal, we might have a season where our immediate cover is an 18 year old who isnt ready.

And our sub par attack from last season is now far worse with no sign of being strengthened.

Tronstad (May still leave) then Tavares and Montgomery.. and an injured Forshaw and Baradji.. the exciting summer commences!!

[Exiled_Rover]

32 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

Baradji has been rudys top target all summer which means that the Travis saga has now come to an end 

awful way for someone like him to go and likely we won’t get the right story 

anyhow still no further on with this right winger which is quite frankly draining 

In my opinion we needed both Travis and Baradji. 

We're, at best, treading water replacing one with the other. 

At the moment we're still reliant on Forshaw / Montgomery to come off the bench to play significant minutes. 

[Inferi]

1 minute ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

Baradji has been rudys top target all summer which means that the Travis saga has now come to an end 

awful way for someone like him to go and likely we won’t get the right story 

anyhow still no further on with this right winger which is quite frankly draining 

Still feels unreal that Gestede has managed to slither into a position of power. No experience. No credentials except for a playing career during which he showed how unprofessional he is when he refused to play for the club.

This transfer window has been shocking so far. Our squad depth isn't good enough for us to sign an injured player in a key position and wait for him to get fit. We can't start Montgomery, for now he is nowhere near good enough and should not even be considered a bench option. Forshaw is past it and I have no idea why he was given a new contract. When we get more injuries our starting eleven will be extremely weak. We need to sign proven quality players but it won't happen because it's cheaper to just gamble. 

[Polky]

I wish Rudy’s data driven approach would focus on some bloody attackers.

Our current attackers couldn’t unlock a door with the key in the lock. I’m looking at you Ryan Hedges 🫵

[Exiled_Rover]

53 minutes ago, Neal said:

Not that a penny will be reinvested like...

I hope he goes.

I'd be sick to get any further compensation for him (thereby easing the burden on the Venkys and prolonging their toxic stay), but what an opportunity for the lad.

[B16Rover]

1 hour ago, Neal said:

Not that a penny will be reinvested like...

Christ alive, heir to Kroos AND Modric. 

You'd think even in poultry terms they'd understand a golden goose when they see one

[simongarnerisgod]

1 hour ago, TheRevAshton said:

This, so if he goes for £100m we'd get about £10-12m.

it won`t make any difference to us whatever he goes for,the sell on fee won`t be invested in the squad,i hope he decides to stay at palace for the rest of his career🙂

[BRFC.]

35 minutes ago, Polky said:

I wish Rudy’s data driven approach would focus on some bloody attackers.

Our current attackers couldn’t unlock a door with the key in the lock. I’m looking at you Ryan Hedges 🫵

I wish Rudy’s data driven model would tell him and Suhail to resign 

[bluebruce]

1 hour ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

If we weren’t in desperate need I think in isolation baradji looks a decent signing 

but with a pending period out whether that’s injury / rehab or just needing to catch up it makes no sense as the right wing position needs filled with greater priority 

as for the account it is 100% unprofessional there is one name doing the rounds of who ‘she’ is 

I've seen it said that Baradji also plays right wing. So I'll not be 100% surprised if we don't get a separate right winger.

What Baradji definitely can't do is come straight into the team (assuming the reason he isn't playing for his club is that he has had the surgery as believed).

[Crimpshrine]

1 hour ago, TugaysMarlboro said:

No surprise about Trav, he's been training on his own (entirely away from the club) with a coach of some kind.

He posted a short clip on Instagram a couple of days ago training in what looked like a small park somewhere. 

Surprised it wasn't mentioned more.

It seems like there is no way back for Travis at this point.

I can see Derby sticking to their original offer and Rovers will be so desperate by the end of next week that they will have to accept it. If Gestede digs his heels in then we are left with a player who doesn't want to be here and Derby will get him for free at some point anyway.

[JHRover]

1 hour ago, roversfan99 said:

Whoever it is on the inside again trying to turn people against Travis.

Wonder who it is. Whoever it is, grossly unprofessional.

Net effect for us. Replacing our captain with an injured player.

I've been accused several times of being a 'conspiracy theorist' for suggesting that the Club/Regime makes an effort to paint a picture and false narrative of events in a bid to get the media and fanbase on side and against the departing player/staff member.

I think after what we have witnessed the last few weeks with Travis we can see what this Regime is all about. Vile, despicable, cowardly. A disgraceful way to conduct business and treat anyone let alone the club captain who has been with us for over a decade and made over 200 senior appearances.

But only to be expected these days from this Regime. They belong in the gutter. I'm past the point of caring yet still feel embarrassment and shame to be even linked to this Club these days. 

And the only thing worse than that is still, after all these episodes and all this time, dozens of fans line up like obedient dogs to swallow the club narrative whole and be taken for another ride. 

[JHRover]

8 minutes ago, Crimpshrine said:

It seems like there is no way back for Travis at this point.

I can see Derby sticking to their original offer and Rovers will be so desperate by the end of next week that they will have to accept it. If Gestede digs his heels in then we are left with a player who doesn't want to be here and Derby will get him for free at some point anyway.

Rovers in their wisdom have ensured no way back by deliberately making him the problem for 'wanting' a move to Derby and the manager publicly announcing this in his press conference. 

Had he not done so there would have been a chance of keeping this behind closed doors and rescuing the situation if an appropriate offer didn't materialise.

But then again they've known for 12+ months he was getting offloaded and his wages off the books. All deliberate. I suspect he was high on the list for removal last summer and it was only the presence of Eustace and his unwillingness to accept what they were doing that led to him staying last season. 

All we are seeing is their long term plan being carried out with increasing desperation as we approach deadline day and other than a relatively low bid from Derby probably haven't got the sort of offer that Suhail and his underlings want for their figures.

[London blue]

Seems like being "open and honest" at all times, without a lick of guile or tact isn't quite the positive plenty thought it would be. 

As @JHRover says, this is a situation entirely of our own doing, and I'm pretty confident it's by design. 

One thing you can say about the scum who own us is they're masters of spinning narrative and getting a lot of our fans eating out of their hands.

I've seen people deride Travis for being leggy, having a low xG and not having an engine. Thick as mince, the lot of them.

[TugaysMarlboro]

2 hours ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Privvy saying Baradji back on.

Posted just as a few were saying it's getting a bit quiet on the incoming transfer front.

 

Hi Privvy 👋