2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[ruggles1995]

58 minutes ago, KentExile said:

I think you are right and that is what will happen

I just do not think that this is what should happen, whilst on paper we have the numbers, it looks light on quality

PS - Young Keeper?  Do you mean 18 year old Michalski? or 21 year old Goddard?

Michalski, i couldnt be assed to google the name. 

[BankEnd Rover]

1 minute ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Are we talking about the same Dennis ? The one we had on loan last season ? He was beyond shite. A complete waste of money. And we want to do it again ? Crazy.

Okay, what other options do we have? Relying on an untested kid? An inured crock in Bamford?...Crazy.

[MarkBRFC]

11 minutes ago, toogs said:

When the injuries kick in mid season, we really are knackered. 
 

 

8 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Too risky to lean on Tyjon.

Yuki pulls his hamstring, out for 2 months.

Gudjohnson blowing his arse out playing his 15th game straight with a kid as backup???

Madness if you ask me.

 

It's only a bad thing if football results are the main priority.

Here, they aren't. So it doesn't matter to anyone above us peasants.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 minute ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Okay, what other options do we have? Relying on an untested kid? An inured crock in Bamford?...Crazy.

Don’t sell Gueye, simple.

[BankEnd Rover]

4 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Don’t sell Gueye, simple.

Well we are selling him so, again, what options do we have? 

[MarkBRFC]

Looks like we're just loaning Gueye.

Any option to buy will be discarded when they have seen him run offside for the 20th time.

[rigger]

9 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

Looks like we're just loaning Gueye.

Any option to buy will be discarded when they have seen him run offside for the 20th time.

More work for Jordan.

[Exiled_Rover]

Every other team in the league has multiple attacking options.

We've decided 2 CF is enough and we can sell the other one. Injuries? Loss of form? Nah, we don't account for those.

It's criminal what these people are doing.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

16 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Well we are selling him so, again, what options do we have? 

None, that’s why it’s crazy.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

9 minutes ago, rigger said:

More work for Jordan.

I hope his boots are still in the loft. We’ve sold the paintings off the wall. Now we are selling the carpets off the floor.

Edited 3 hours ago by Tyrone Shoelaces

[NeilInBristol]

4 hours ago, Tomphil2 said:

Thing is the court case has been used as largely the reason this is happening now but way before it came to light we had the Lenihen, Nyambe, Rothwell saga's.

Perhaps we are paying in a way for that now i'm sure if the owners were aware of it they can't have been happy with that at all, then there was BBD and 7 million and 4 years of coaching and wages flushed down the bog.

Why is the shadowman still anywhere near the club ?

Is this his way of trying to pay them back and atone for his errors ?

If we listened back to some of Mowbray's hints in interviews towards the end of his reign they knew this was coming. 

Yes you are spot on

this has been going on for too long

they need to be removed 

[Tom]

2 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Gueye is a waste of space, always has been. Would be losing a really poor striker.

We could have done with a third striker but we have like at CB missed our chance there to get a reasonable option.

Dennis though, did people watch the same player as me? Rubbish.

He’s clearly not a ‘waste of space’ at worst he’s a poor forward that bagged a few goals and assists.

Admittedly he’s been bad more than good and exclusively bad so far this season (and I’d say since the manager came in)

I’ve said all summer I expected him to go so not too surprising but would rather we had another option to replace him rather than nobody, as I still think chasing a game he can be an option with Millers long throw 

Edited 3 hours ago by Tom

[Bbrovers2288]

I understand selling him, but really what are we getting by loaning him 

[MarkBRFC]

Just now, Bbrovers2288 said:

I understand selling him, but really what are we getting by loaning him 

Wage saving, every little helps our poor billionaire owners.

[roversfan99]

14 minutes ago, Tom said:

He’s clearly not a ‘waste of space’ at worst he’s a poor forward that bagged a few goals and assists.

Admittedly he’s been bad more than good and exclusively bad so far this season (and I’d say since the manager came in)

I’ve said all summer I expected him to go so not too surprising but would rather we had another option to replace him rather than nobody, as I still think chasing a game he can be an option with Millers long throw 

It was hyperbolic but he is certainly nowhere near good enough for a Championship club.

He came in with the advantage of replacing Gallagher who had stayed too long and become unpopular. It was assumed that we couldnt get worse, we managed it, but combined with his clearly infectious character, people werent and many still wont have it.

The goals and assist thing is a good example of the above. He wasnt scoring goals so people used the goal and assist stat. So its including him missing open nets and the ball hitting his heel, or winning headers 30 yards out as the equivalent to a goal.

Bringing him on late in theory can cause carnage but more often than not he just totally spoils any attacks standing offside or losing the ball. Starting games, our record was far worse last season when he started.

I would have liked another striker but I would happily shift Gueye.

[superniko]

36 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Every other team in the league has multiple attacking options.

We've decided 2 CF is enough and we can sell the other one. Injuries? Loss of form? Nah, we don't account for those.

It's criminal what these people are doing.

Who becomes our "Bradley Johnson / John Buckley False 9" when Ohashi and Gudjohnson get injured? Not sure I fancy rolling back to those comedy moments.

[Tim Southampton Rover]

I keep reading comments on social media saying we shouldn't play Tyjon over Gueye because he isn't ready, and I understand that, however, i'd rather Tyjon come off the bench and earn experience and given a chance as well as potentially signing a new contract than playing Gueye, who isn't good enough, and then see Tyjon walk out the door.

Ideally, we wouldn't be relying on a recently turned 17 year old or a league one level forward but that's the cards we have. I'd gamble on Tyjon because I don't think he'd give us any less than Gueye would playing V.I's system. Even at 17, he's a smarter player and we've seen in pre-season that he is able to time his runs and can hit the net. 

 

 

[Torgeir]

1 hour ago, Exiled_Rover said:

"Hi mate fancy taking a 70% paycut to play at a team where you put no effort in for 6 months? No? No bother then, have a good weekend".

He was poor but had a bid of bad luck as well. A rash challenge and a red card, and then injured for a while so never really got going. If he had put that header away I think fans would think differently about him.

[Tomphil2]

29 minutes ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

I understand selling him, but really what are we getting by loaning him 

Agent gets commission for bringing him in then a bit more for loaning him out, then a bit more the next time he moves.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

3 minutes ago, Torgeir said:

He was poor but had a bid of bad luck as well. A rash challenge and a red card, and then injured for a while so never really got going. If he had put that header away I think fans would think differently about him.

Apart from getting himself sent off I can’t remember one thing he did.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

Fans: we are so short up top

we have no depth no plan b unproven players

fans: yes get rid of him 

makes no sense to me at all….start gudjohnsen play tyjon more absolutely fine but letting him go leaves us incredibly short and is a huge huge gamble 

[Exiled_Rover]

21 minutes ago, superniko said:

Who becomes our "Bradley Johnson / John Buckley False 9" when Ohashi and Gudjohnson get injured? Not sure I fancy rolling back to those comedy moments.

17 year old Tyjon.

[Exiled_Rover]

21 minutes ago, Tim Southampton Rover said:

I keep reading comments on social media saying we shouldn't play Tyjon over Gueye because he isn't ready, and I understand that, however, i'd rather Tyjon come off the bench and earn experience and given a chance as well as potentially signing a new contract than playing Gueye, who isn't good enough, and then see Tyjon walk out the door.

Ideally, we wouldn't be relying on a recently turned 17 year old or a league one level forward but that's the cards we have. I'd gamble on Tyjon because I don't think he'd give us any less than Gueye would playing V.I's system. Even at 17, he's a smarter player and we've seen in pre-season that he is able to time his runs and can hit the net. 

 

 

The ball couldn't come back any quicker than it does with Ohashi upfront - which is the only merit we'd have in playing the equally slightly Tyjon as the 9.

Edited 2 hours ago by Exiled_Rover

[roversfan99]

22 minutes ago, Tim Southampton Rover said:

I keep reading comments on social media saying we shouldn't play Tyjon over Gueye because he isn't ready, and I understand that, however, i'd rather Tyjon come off the bench and earn experience and given a chance as well as potentially signing a new contract than playing Gueye, who isn't good enough, and then see Tyjon walk out the door.

Ideally, we wouldn't be relying on a recently turned 17 year old or a league one level forward but that's the cards we have. I'd gamble on Tyjon because I don't think he'd give us any less than Gueye would playing V.I's system. Even at 17, he's a smarter player and we've seen in pre-season that he is able to time his runs and can hit the net. 

 

 

Not connected to Gueye. But I really dont like this idea of giving game time to a 17 year old purely for the purpose of trying to convince him to sign a new deal.

Its likely a futile gesture anyway, I suspect the odd start and some minutes off the bench would sway him from taking a big offer from a big club should it come up. But if that is the primary objective, then whats best for the team becomes of secondary importance. Its not even as if hes signed a deal and we know we are developing our own player.

He has always played off the striker in his rare minutes too.

[Tom]

26 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

It was hyperbolic but he is certainly nowhere near good enough for a Championship club.

He came in with the advantage of replacing Gallagher who had stayed too long and become unpopular. It was assumed that we couldnt get worse, we managed it, but combined with his clearly infectious character, people werent and many still wont have it.

The goals and assist thing is a good example of the above. He wasnt scoring goals so people used the goal and assist stat. So its including him missing open nets and the ball hitting his heel, or winning headers 30 yards out as the equivalent to a goal.

Bringing him on late in theory can cause carnage but more often than not he just totally spoils any attacks standing offside or losing the ball. Starting games, our record was far worse last season when he started.

I would have liked another striker but I would happily shift Gueye.

He’s not worked out how I wanted, when the balance of ‘he’s been awful today’ to ‘actually maybe there’s something there when it clicks’ was more like 70/30 I was thinking we had a real chance of getting the most out of him. 

Sadly that balance is now more like 90/10 (being kind), when he’s good he’s really good but it seems more and more a case of his physicality working rather than much more.