2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[ROVER_N_OUT1978]

Baradji in on loan with an option to buy

[davulsukur]

Well he's joined on loan instead 😂

[TugaysMarlboro]

You would only talk about the potential fee, if you thought people would be pissed off about the guaranteed fee. Otherwise (like most other transfers around) you would mention both. Can we please not pretend otherwise.

[RevidgeBlue]

Also if Baradji's arrival is imminent it would tend to indicate the only real reason we couldn't sign him before now is financial and we had to offload Travis first.

[rovers11]

A loan makes no sense at all. He flops, we don't sign him. He excels, a bigger club snaps him up. Either way, he won't be here next season.

[simongarnerisgod]

did`nt val mention he is`nt a fan of loans

[BRFC.]

His club must want him so badly if they’re willing to loan him out then….

9 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

 

[KentExile]

Right winger confirmed 😉 

"The French-Malian, who can operate in a range of midfield roles"

[RevidgeBlue]

2 minutes ago, ROVER_N_OUT1978 said:

Baradji in on loan with an option to buy

Christ - while that makes sense to a degree, Travis has gone and we haven't actually properly replaced him.

When was the last time we exercised an option to buy?

[RevidgeBlue]

2 minutes ago, rovers11 said:

A loan makes no sense at all. He flops, we don't sign him. He excels, a bigger club snaps him up. Either way, he won't be here next season.

100%.

[KentExile]

4 minutes ago, rovers11 said:

A loan makes no sense at all. He flops, we don't sign him. He excels, a bigger club snaps him up. Either way, he won't be here next season.

The article states there is an option to buy, so if he flops, we send him back, if he does great, its a legally pre agreed fee

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/august/22/rovers-make-moussa-move-/

I criticise the club for a lot but this actually looks sensible

Edited 4 hours ago by KentExile

[roversfan99]

So just to clarify.

We are replacing our captain who the local journalist is bigging up the fee of.

With an injured player on loan?

[BRFC.]

Just now, roversfan99 said:

So just to clarify.

We are replacing our captain who the local journalist is bigging up the fee of.

With an injured player on loan?

Right winger will 1000% be an unwanted prem loan

[simongarnerisgod]

when you see the likes of charlton,qpr and millwall spending cash on proven players,something is very wrong with the state of this club,we can`t now seemingly manage to pay for a player from the swiss 2nd divison

[RevidgeBlue]

1 minute ago, KentExile said:

The article states option to buy, so if he flops, we send him back, if he does great, its a legally pre aggreged fee

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/august/22/rovers-make-moussa-move-/

Can we enforce the deal against the player's wishes, if by that time the player has other interest and doesn't want to join us permanently?

[ROVER_N_OUT1978]

Some talk of him having signed a 2 year contract extension with Yverdon before the loan move which is totally bizarre

[RevidgeBlue]

3 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

So just to clarify.

We are replacing our captain who the local journalist is bigging up the fee of.

With an injured player on loan?

Pretty much.

Happy times.

[KentExile]

1 minute ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Can we enforce the deal against the player's wishes, if by that time the player has other interest and doesn't want to join us permanently?

Yes, he will have signed the contract

In those sort of cases, the player is "flipped" like a house, for a profit

Edited 4 hours ago by KentExile

[wilsdenrover]

‘His career really got going in Italy…’

… at clubs I, and no doubt many others, have never heard of.

Edited 4 hours ago by wilsdenrover

[RevidgeBlue]

Just now, ROVER_N_OUT1978 said:

Some talk of him having signed a 2 year contract extension with Yverdon before the loan move which is totally bizarre

If he did, they must have ripped it up which would suggest they think the injury problem is worse than let on.

[RevidgeBlue]

1 minute ago, KentExile said:

Yes, he will have signed the contract

In those sort of cases, the player is "flipped" like a house, for a profit

Ah, ok.

Always wondered about that.

[rovers11]

5 minutes ago, KentExile said:

The article states there is an option to buy, so if he flops, we send him back, if he does great, its a legally pre agreed fee

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/august/22/rovers-make-moussa-move-/

I criticise the club for a lot but this actually looks sensible

We know how this club operates. They won't want to pay the sort of fee required for the player on a permanent deal and there's no way the player comes here permanently if a bigger club comes in and offers him higher wages.

What a shame as I think he's our most talented player signed this summer. 

[Neal]

Am I misunderstanding what the manager is saying? Was he talking about us being close (ish) to signing an attacker or is Beradji the player he's talking about? 

[Valconite]

Haven’t really been following anything club related for over a week but see it is still a shit show. Weird that I literally feel nothing about Travis leaving. Cretins well and truly have destroyed any passion & love that I have had left for this club. Been a lot more enjoyable spending time on hobbies and not watching the last game / following rovers news.

Cherry on top has be that their main target all summer is injured and has signed on a loan deal 😂😂😂😂

To those of you that are still fighting a non winnable battle for change I salute you. To the happy clappers that suffer from stockholm syndrome it is time to return to reality.

I for one will enjoy spending my time on non Rovers related activities as I have noticed that I have been a lot happier the past week. Will occasionally still check in for the ongoings. 
 

I envy supporters of other clubs with competent people in charge 😔

[rovers11]

4 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Can we enforce the deal against the player's wishes, if by that time the player has other interest and doesn't want to join us permanently?

Bingo! And that's exactly what Rovers are hoping for so we don't have to pay the transfer fee.

It's so obvious how the club operates these days when it comes to players requiring higher transfer fees.