2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[FE123]

Taylor Gardner-Hickman is a decent player but we can’t afford to loose Hyam without someone to come in who can churn out 40 games in that position.

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

Shit end to a shit window.  

Relegation fodder. 

 

 

 

 

[JHRover]

10 minutes ago, aletheia said:

Shoulda seen it coming, really.

Tronstad in Jan?

Count yourself lucky that he's still here and the regime haven't seen him off. He will be the 'project' for January, expect Jackson to release stories about him being homesick and refusing to sign a new deal during November / December. 

I suspect the only real ambition at the start of the summer was to ensure that Dolan, Brittain, Hyam, Travis, Tronstad were all out of the door for as much money as possible. 

A normal functioning club would have moved heaven and earth to keep as many of them as possible after last season's efforts, but no, at Venky Rovers the only aim is to get them out asap. 

Deliberately and consciously breaking up the core and spine of the side that finished 7th last season. 

I've seen some classics on the delusion scale in my time following this club but the suggestion from some that the club are getting shut of all that lot because they failed to get us into the top 6 and we are trying to improve on 7th has to be the best one yet. Laughable. 

This is deliberate managed decline. It has been for the last 2 years and will continue for as long as the two stooges can get away with it. The chickens will be home to roost soon though.

[Ricky]

Friends who are blues fans rate him. Work horse, good honest pro.

[ROVER_N_OUT1978]

He's not a centre half though. Would have been half decent if we were keeping Hyam

[Herbie6590]

25 minutes ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

Somethings jist come back to me!..... What was the crptic post recently about a 'rovers legend' possibly returning? 

 

Was an explanation given for that? 

 

Because for some reason ive just had an image of MGP coming in in a coaching capacity of some sorts 🤷

Rumours i heard were Jordan Rhodes coming back as a coach…possibly fuelled by him being there on Saturday…

[AAK]

1 minute ago, Ricky said:

Friends who are blues fans rate him. Work horse, good honest pro.

Must be really good considering Birmingham want rid.

[AAK]

Just now, Herbie6590 said:

Rumours i heard were Jordan Rhodes coming back as a coach…possibly fuelled by him being there on Saturday…

Fuck me has deadline day amounted to this. 

[B16Rover]

27 minutes ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

Somethings jist come back to me!..... What was the crptic post recently about a 'rovers legend' possibly returning? 

 

Was an explanation given for that? 

 

Because for some reason ive just had an image of MGP coming in in a coaching capacity of some sorts 🤷

It's Shane Duffy, to replace Hyam, in a coaching player role 

[Mercer]

On 30/08/2025 at 18:58, Mercer said:

 

If I could get a bet on Hyam leaving before the window closes then I'd be on it!

 

 

7 hours ago, Mercer said:

Outs - one 'surprise' departure (Hyam) and Pears contract terminated by mutual consent.

 

The potential Hyam exit has been brewing for the last 48/72 hours.

Understand he wants to go.

[roverandout]

4 minutes ago, Ricky said:

Friends who are blues fans rate him. Work horse, good honest pro.

We have a squad full of those

[Roverite94]

Get Hyam to switch the lights off on his way out.

It's less of a managed decline and more of a plummet, the scariest thing is under this regime who knows where the bottom is.

 

[rovers11]

17 minutes ago, TommyRovers said:

Decent signing that to be honest.

But doesn’t replace Hyam.

I don't know too much about him but I think this shows how far we have fallen. We are fairly satisfied with a squad player from Brum who is deemed not good enough for them.

[Tugayisgod]

It's called hedging your bets 😂😂

 

[roversfan99]

We came into today thinking we might frustratingly not bring in anyone of note without factoring in major sales.

To sell our best centre back and to loan a cheap utility man aswell as not addressing pre existing issues would be a catastrophe.

[philipl]

Keep Hyam and land Garner-Hickman would be sensible.

So it won't happen.

[RTM08]

1 minute ago, philipl said:

Keep Hyam and land Garner-Hickman would be sensible.

So it won't happen.

The main issue for me is this has now given them an excuse for not dealing with the areas where we actually needed serious upgrades - "oh well we had to switch to trying to get a defender in s there was no time to look at midfield/forwards". 

[RevidgeBlue]

14 minutes ago, cesus said:

We have moaned for ages about selling players before their contract expire. I didn't realise we had to clarify said players would need replacing with players of the same quality to avoid relegation.

Spot on.

I can see it, you can see it, presumably everyone else can see it but Football Club Executives paid hundreds of thousands of pounds a year seemingly can't.

This scheme of Pasha and Gestede's to get rid of Eustace and repace him with willing patsy VI and then jettison the bulk of a squad that finished seventh last season has always had a whiff of deliberate sabotage about it.

Is it now starting to turn into an overpowering stench?

[Frederick]

no doubt brfcprivy will spin the narrative against Hyam. 

[SuperBrfc]

"Keep an eye out for Boro, Hibs, Charlton, Coventry, Birmingham and Sunderland" (a few months back)

*Looks at the state of play*

I'm quite excited about the lad from Birmingham. He's versatile. Could be a shrewd addition. Well done to the recruitment team, if they can get this over the line, that is.

[aletheia]

They got a nice gap now to get the PR agents on overtime.....

[Miller11]

Suhail wants Hyam gone.

Hyam will be going.

[AVE1875]

38 minutes ago, philipl said:

A different Genk forward whose scoring record is about the same as Gudjonsson has signed for Wolves for 24m..

We signed Gudjohnson from KAA Gent, not KRC Genk

[BankEnd Rover]

Just now, Miller11 said:

Suhail wants Hyam gone.

Hyam will be going.

I've heard that also, Suhail strikes again.

[BRFC.]

Birmingham fans and Bristol fans telling me he’s crap. Buzzing with this one