2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[Bbrovers2288]

So guess we are now less appealing than Wrexham. Mind we brushed them aside with ease a few years back in the cup, how the tables can turn rapidly in football 

[Mike Graham]

Just now, Mike E said:

When I was told about that around the time Waggott left, I was told it was a verbal agreement between Rovers (Waggott) and Adidas/Gary Aspen himself.

When Rovers (I would guess Pasha?) kaboshed it, I supposed it broke the proverbial straw with Waggott because he resigned about 2 weeks later.

SW left because the final straw was he was not prepared to take the bullets for someone else’s decision to drop the Women’s team into oblivion.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

They will announce Hickman deal alongside or after the hyam announcement thinking it will take the edge off what they have actually done 

then we won’t hear from the puppet masters for 2/3 weeks 

and then they will come out with the usual nonsense of ‘let’s get behind these new players’ ‘it’s a new era at the club’ bla bla I doubt any media will give them any grilling at all

[bluebruce]

2 minutes ago, NeilInBristol said:

So that’s 9pm ? We should know by now-

if we have sold him this makes ‘venkys ‘sense- sell all our best players and buy cheaper players on *even less* wages 

 

Elliott Jackson in LT live feed:

9:26pm

Reliably informed there's no hiccups in the Dom Hyam deal but might be a little wait for official confirmation. But all going through.

[MB Rover]

10 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

Arguably been our best defender bar that moment of madness 

Like winning an award for being the worlds tallest midget. 

[Jimmy612]

Christ, I can’t be bothered with an English flag being draped over that chair and ‘Now we write the next chapter’, for this utility player from Brum reserves. 

[DutchRover]

Just now, bluebruce said:

Elliott Jackson in LT live feed:

9:26pm

Reliably informed there's no hiccups in the Dom Hyam deal but might be a little wait for official confirmation. But all going through.

Hate that he types that update as if we should all be happy that we didn't c*ck up the sale of one of our key players without bringing in a replacement...

[neophox]

What's the plan ? Gestede fock off

[yankfan]

1 minute ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

So guess we are now less appealing than Wrexham. Mind we brushed them aside with ease a few years back in the cup, how the tables can turn rapidly in football 

Certain they are offering higher wages than us. The club has been eroding for 10 years, they’ve been on the ascendancy for 4 years. 

[Emerald Isle Rover]

2 minutes ago, MB Rover said:

Like winning an award for being the worlds tallest midget. 

Irrelevant because it means when missing we are likely to be even weaker than we already are so strange take 

[Theaxe15]

1 minute ago, neophox said:

What's the plan ? Gestede fock off

Did you just respond to your own question 3 minutes later?

[OnionBalaji]

Have a feeling the atmosphere at ewood will be more than simmering very soon… it’s gonna be painful for VI, Pasha and Gestede after this window 

 

well done chaps… core team dismantled 

[superniko]

4 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Elliott Jackson in LT live feed:

9:26pm

Reliably informed there's no hiccups in the Dom Hyam deal but might be a little wait for official confirmation. But all going through.

I know its part of his gig and he’s essentially a Rovers yes-man, but surely to fuck he ought to be the voice of the supporters and ask what the bloody thinking behind this one was.

[Valconite]

Absolute madness what Pasha and Gestede have done.

[Ricky]

You know it’s bad when even Chaddy is calling it out as a shit decision!! 

[Herbie6590]

2 hours ago, Mike Graham said:

In my humble opinion Castore are dreadful shirts, cheap looking.  Shirt sales will fall off the cliff. 

We’ll be in Umbro though if that’s the brand they are pushing…not sure if they’re made in the same factory mind you 😆

[bluebruce]

2 minutes ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

So guess we are now less appealing than Wrexham. Mind we brushed them aside with ease a few years back in the cup, how the tables can turn rapidly in football 

Only one and a half seasons ago. January 2024. Drubbed them 4-1 even though we went 1-0 down early.

Difference is they're properly ran. Their owners also came over knowing fuck all about football, but there were 2 key, massive differences, evident from the documentary:

1) They appointed good football people to run the club for them (whereas ours immediately ostracised possibly the best operator in English football at the time)

2) They gave a shit. This meant they paid attention, they learned, they had ambition.

End result?

Blackburn Rovers - relegated promptly, stagnated and declined. Not even reached the playoffs to take us back to where they found us, not once in 15 years of ownership despite having the basis of a proper stadium, history, training centre etc.

Wrexham - 5 years of ownership, started 4 whole leagues below where we started in Venkys' reign, or 3 leagues below us when the Americans took over. Have caught us up and are now snatching our best CB on deadline day, leaving us fucked. Probably finish above us this season. Despite run-down tiny stadium, fuck all history and just being (relative to us) a tinpot outfit when they took over.

Proper ownership is EVERYTHING.

[KentExile]

2 minutes ago, superniko said:

I know its part of his gig and he’s essentially a Rovers yes-man, but surely to fuck he ought to be the voice of the supporters and ask what the bloody thinking behind this one was.

 

I have a pretty good idea

[Waggy76]

6 minutes ago, yankfan said:

Certain they are offering higher wages than us. The club has been eroding for 10 years, they’ve been on the ascendancy for 4 years. 

15 years !

[RTM08]

1 minute ago, Valconite said:

Absolute madness what Pasha and Gestede have done.

Honestly it's like Gestede did all his training playing Football Manager. Flogged all his high earners and thinks he's picked up some bargains on the continent. 

Unfortunately, this is real life and we're now screwed. Not content with just doing it as a player, he's followed it up with a doozy.

[neophox]

7 minutes ago, Theaxe15 said:

Did you just respond to your own question 3 minutes later?

I did

[DE.]

3 minutes ago, RTM08 said:

Honestly it's like Gestede did all his training playing Football Manager. Flogged all his high earners and thinks he's picked up some bargains on the continent. 

Unfortunately, this is real life and we're now screwed. Not content with just doing it as a player, he's followed it up with a doozy.

It really does feel like if somebody whose only experience was Football Manager was given full control of the transfer strategy. Unfortunately in real life you can't download a tactic that breaks the game engine.

Edited 3 hours ago by DE.

[neophox]

Well they had to get rid of maggot first to do this clear out.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

Iv said this for a while elliot Jackson is too nice just does his job and no more he isn’t a rovers fan he just reports so it’s no odds to him

[Lancaster Rover]

6 minutes ago, OnionBalaji said:

Have a feeling the atmosphere at ewood will be more than simmering very soon… it’s gonna be painful for VI, Pasha and Gestede after this window 

 

well done chaps… core team dismantled 

Be more painful for us watching us get whalloped all over and paying for the privilege. They don’t care, they’ll still get 15k a month in their bank from rovers, which is all they care about