2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[KentExile]

3 minutes ago, 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

 

2 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

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

Again, this makes sense, in case Rovers send him back, its the Swiss club protecting themselves against potential loss as his current contract expires next summer

[KentExile]

3 minutes ago, rovers11 said:

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. 

If another club offers more wages, he will be signed for Rovers at the pre agreed fee & wages, and then immediately sold at profit

[Bbrovers2288]

Has someone mention the st Pauli rw we are looking at?

[K-Hod]

29 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Well done those two guys.

EJ floundering like a fish out of water when subjected to any actual scrutiny.

In fairness, he did swear on his daughter’s life 😅.

[DutchRover]

Loan with an option makes sense for Baradji. We apparently think he is injured and needs surgery and who knows how that goes, while Yverdon and presumably Baradji are happy to play matches. Medical team get to monitor him properly now over a season and then can make informed decision on permanent signing next summer.

Other posters have commented on the risks associated with the injury he allegedly has as well, so it protects club. We'd all be slamming them if we paid up and then he was a crock.

(Also it saves money up front for us to back out next year and sign someone cheaper..)

Edited 3 hours ago by DutchRover

[rovers11]

2 minutes ago, KentExile said:

If another club offers more wages, he will be signed for Rovers at the pre agreed fee & wages, and then immediately sold at profit

I think you're going to be very disappointed if you think that is what will happen 

[wilsdenrover]

Rather random question but does Baradji speak English?

Edited 3 hours ago by wilsdenrover

[davulsukur]

2 minutes ago, DutchRover said:

Loan with an option makes sense for Baradji. We apparently think he is injured and needs surgery and who knows how that goes, while Yverdon and presumably Baradji are happy to play matches. Medical team get to monitor him properly now over a season and then can make informed decision on permanent signing next summer.

Other posters have commented on the risks associated with the injury he allegedly has as well, so it protects club. We'd all be slamming them if we paid up and then he was a crock.

(Also it saves money up front for us to back out next year and sign someone cheaper..)

Baradji needs to come in and make a real difference. We've just sold our club captain and replaced him with this bloke. 

Him being constantly injured isn't an option, in fact, if he is, it's catastrophic.

[DutchRover]

What I would say is that it makes me even more sceptical about his injury, we must think it is a risk worth not signing him permanently for, yet he has been our top target.

And I've never understood the hype from one YT video and Swiss league relegation battle, but happy for him to prove me wrong for us. 

Edited 3 hours ago by DutchRover

[KentExile]

1 minute ago, rovers11 said:

I think you're going to be very disappointed if you think that is what will happen 

The most likely outcome is he has his operation, and spends the majority of the season injured playing a few games off the bench before being sent back next summer

[Tomphil2]

5 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

In fairness, he did swear on his daughter’s life 😅.

Comes to something when a journo feels he has to do that.

This club is relentlessly toxic.

[DutchRover]

Just now, davulsukur said:

Baradji needs to come in and make a real difference. We've just sold our club captain and replaced him with this bloke. 

Him being constantly injured isn't an option, in fact, if he is, it's catastrophic.

Oh I agree, I don't think the signing makes sense, and I don't get the hype he's got. But since we have been so desperate to sign him this way at least protects us in the event he's a crock.

[Paul Mellelieu]

They're all left-wingers at St. Pauli.

 

https://www.thepeoplesgame.org/2014/06/16/hooligans-of-the-world-unite-fc-st-pauli/

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Paul Mellelieu

[Tomphil2]

7 minutes ago, KentExile said:

If another club offers more wages, he will be signed for Rovers at the pre agreed fee & wages, and then immediately sold at profit

He's on loan so given the nature of this deal i'd say his handlers plan is get him here, get him fit, showcase his talents whilst costing Rovers not much then get him as good a club/deal as possible next summer.

Agents vehicle again.

[RoyWegerlesLeftToe]

10 minutes ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

Has someone mention the st Pauli rw we are looking at?

Dapo afolayan? There was a story a few weeks back. Is there new news? 

[bigbrandjohn]

600 up.

I think a wicket is about to fall but at the moment the bails are just teetering precariously. 

[RevidgeBlue]

9 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

In fairness, he did swear on his daughter’s life 😅.

You can't really see if that comment relates to a specific question about the size of the fee.

He does say his "information" is that the fee "will" exceed £3m.

Which makes it seem extremely odd that he earlier wrote online that it "could" do so.

Also relies on his "information" being truthful as well I suppose.

[DutchRover]

Just now, bigbrandjohn said:

600 up.

I think a wicket is about to fall but at the moment the bails are just teetering precariously. 

Wicket that brings in the footballing equivalent of Woakes in the 5th test...

[Bohinen1983]

Selling players for a couple of million then investing jack-shit in cheap shite from the continent.

Wouldn't be surprised if we sold Leonard and Tyjon and brough Fode Koita back.

[KentExile]

11 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Rather random question but does Baradji speak English?

Suppose we will find out when they post the obligatory social media interview

and if they don't post one, then the answer is "no" 😉 

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21 minutes ago, Neal said:

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? 

Baradji looks like an AM looks a big lad strong but can run at players it seems

 

 

 

[Emerald Isle Rover]

What I don’t understand is if he has been their top target all summer why not sign him early July and get the minor surgery then? On the same deal we have now encase it doesn’t work out?

Seems like pretty much 2 months wasted on what was clearly our top target 

[Theaxe15]

3 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

What I don’t understand is if he has been their top target all summer why not sign him early July and get the minor surgery then? On the same deal we have now encase it doesn’t work out?

Seems like pretty much 2 months wasted on what was clearly our top target 

All that would make too much sense

[RevidgeBlue]

Just now, Emerald Isle Rover said:

What I don’t understand is if he has been their top target all summer why not sign him early July and get the minor surgery then? On the same deal we have now encase it doesn’t work out?

Seems like pretty much 2 months wasted on what was clearly our top target 

The fact that it's been done simultaneously with Travis's expected departure would indicate we couldn't bring him in any earlier for financial reasons.

But you're right, it would have made a lot more sense to get him in earlier and sort out any medical issues then.

If he needed any surgery why wouldn't his current Club have had it done?

[miqaayil]

36 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

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

At rate we going ...can we pay the lunch lady and groundsman