2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[yellowsubmarine]

Is it a record for any manager signing 5 players from your ex-club the very next season?

[Eldirk]

Just now, yellowsubmarine said:

Is it a record for any manager signing 5 players from your ex-club the very next season?

I dunno about it being a record but it’s certainly a bit weird. Screams of a lack of imagination to me. 

[BigHoz]

Glad the travis saga is done with, really liked him on and off the pitch. Certainly feels like a new era has begun on the pitch. I’ve been very critical but feel the squad is starting to take shape with some exciting unknown additions. Hopefully add a striker and they can do the fans proud. 

[RevidgeBlue]

11 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Greedy for not accepting a sub par contract here like everyone else? But a crap player moving to Saudi Arabia is emotional?

My thoughts exactly. Wrong way round.

Travis always put it in for us on the pitch.

Buckley didn't.

[Polky]

Farewell Trav, you shall be missed.

[aletheia]

36 minutes ago, aletheia said:

1 hour ago, JHRover said:

Would anyone consider anything below 7th this season to be a success? If so, and in view of last season's finish, why?

So 7th with a manager not backed in January, behind the scenes arguing and power battles.

Surely, now that we are all aligned we would expect at least the same or above.

[Leonard Venkhater]

4 minutes ago, pick32 said:

Buckley message made me feel emotional, listening to that I just thought greedy ****, hope Eustace is sacked by Christmas and you all get rooted to the foot of the table 

Hmm...I think there is a lot more to this than we know..

As  well as "life changing money", I am also smelling a trail of bad feeling e.g...Gestede, Suhail, Eustace, Leslie Fielding's "redundancy" etc..

Looks like a clear out of all those, who challenged the new orthodoxy or were not "aligned"...

[Exiled_Rover]

2 minutes ago, aletheia said:

So 7th with a manager not backed in January, behind the scenes arguing and power battles.

Surely, now that we are all aligned we would expect at least the same or above.

Y'all love your straw men.

Setting expectation at Playoffs or bust is hilarious. We're clearly not that club under these owners - look at the money Wrexham and Birmingham have spent. We also have 3 parachute payment teams and Sheffield United hanging around too.

We'll be mid table, adrift of the automatic promotion spots by Christmas and just generally making up the numbers unless Gestede is a genius and all of these new signings are excellent. 

[Paul Mani]

54 minutes ago, aletheia said:

How do you know this? Another non-judgement that is a judgement. You should be in PR 🙂

For the manager to call him out like that? I don’t know what’s gone on, but why would you choose those words if you weren’t making a point?

[M_B]

40 minutes ago, norwichblue said:

Makes me feel a bit ill seeing him in that shirt.

All the best to him, but not Derby.

He’s going to have the game of his life back at Ewood for the 150th celebration game isn’t he.

Sad to see him go, great player who always put 100% in for the badge.

Let’s hope Barajdi is just as good if not better.

Travis v Tronstad be weird, and that's just for us watching. 

[pick32]

1 minute ago, M_B said:

Travis v Tronstad be weird, and that's just for us watching. 

Very one sided battle, Travis v Cantwell should be good 

[Herbie6590]

44 minutes ago, norwichblue said:

 

He’s going to have the game of his life back at Ewood for the 150th celebration game isn’t he.

 

...or a Red Card 😉

[RevidgeBlue]

6 minutes ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

Hmm...I think there is a lot more to this than we know..

As  well as "life changing money", I am also smelling a trail of bad feeling e.g...Gestede, Suhail, Eustace, Leslie Fielding's "redundancy" etc..

Looks like a clear out of all those, who challenged the new orthodoxy or were not "aligned"...

I think anyone who uses the word "aligned" from now on should be fined £10.

Money to go to charity!

[aletheia]

3 minutes ago, Paul Mani said:

but why would you choose those words

To keep fans onside -we did the best we could yada yada, it was the player's fault, nothing to do with us guv..

[aletheia]

1 minute ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I think anyone who uses the word "aligned" from now on should be fined £10.

Depends how you use it. 😉

[RevidgeBlue]

4 minutes ago, Paul Mani said:

For the manager to call him out like that? I don’t know what’s gone on, but why would you choose those words if you weren’t making a point?

If he's that annoyed about it - why doesn't he say why he thinks Travis has let him down and say

""Lewis has let us down because he did X,Y,Z"  etc etc then everyone can make their own mind up.

Bit of a coward's trick to chuck a hand grenade in and leave it at that.

[rob_of_the_rovers]

More Rovers appearances in the Derby squad than in our first choice XI

[aletheia]

I'm not setting expectations at anything (RG does that I think-he suggested promotion is not of interest to him). I'm suggesting that in difficult circumstances JE got the team to 7th. 

Given that those difficult circumstances seem to have gone ie. everybody is working to the same plan (not getting fined by Rev), optimism is high, we have younger, speedier, more athletic giants, then you would expect to equal or improve on 7th. 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by aletheia

[aletheia]

13 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

..or a Red Card 😉

Run a book on how many players left on the pitch? How many minutes on the clock before Trav gets a yellow?

[TimmyJimmy]

A whole bunch of metaphors leap to mind.

VI has his plan. The board have backed him totally. Virtually the whole team have been replaced. So:

- No more "square peg round hole" excuses like JDTs possession style and players who couldn't play that way.

- He's got his players so "all the wood is behind the arrowhead", he's defo going for it

- the board are going to "sink or swim" by this decision (taking us with them)

- VI has "no hiding place" now and with this level of bravado risks being "hoist with one’s own petard”

You've got to admire this "Billy Big Bollocks" show, or does it "all end in tears".

I'll stop, it's really not that funny. We're walking a tightrope without a net (damn it!).

[RevidgeBlue]

7 minutes ago, aletheia said:

. everybody is working to the same plan (not getting fined by Rev)

🤣

👍

[davulsukur]

A lot of pressure on Baradji actually being decent.

I'd start Trav over Taveres any day, so big shoes for the new guy to fill. (if he's even fit to play)

[wilsdenrover]

I wonder if Eustace even considered going for other players rather than just picking them up from us.

I appreciate the ‘he knows them’ point but it just smacks of laziness to me. 

[Christopher]

1 hour ago, JHRover said:

Would anyone consider anything below 7th this season to be a success? If so, and in view of last season's finish, why?

Success would be a consistent season without long losing streaks, averaging a minimum of 1.3 points per game and new players cementing themselves at Championship level.

 

Whether it's 14th or 7th is pretty irrelevant. 

[rob_of_the_rovers]

5 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

I wonder if Eustace even considered going for other players rather than just picking them up from us.

I appreciate the ‘he knows them’ point but it just smacks of laziness to me. 

Alternatively it's going for proven Championship experience over gambling on cheap European punts to come good