2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[BRFC.]

19 minutes ago, KentExile said:

Maybe he has a Turkish idol?

With all due respect Tugay to Hickman. This is what 15 years of venkys does to a club 

Edited 3 hours ago by BRFC.

[joey_big_nose]

2 hours ago, Tomphil2 said:

Almost like we are comparing 10k+ a week players to 3-5k a week players......

Well that is the plan. Try to maintain or not lose too much overall quality while substantially cutting costs; alongside creating "saleable assets" for the future. 

It's a very very tricky plan to pull off. I will be very impressed with the recruitment team if we manage to steer clear of a relegation battle.

[roversfan99]

So we have to watch Gueye in a Rovers shirt again. Wonderful.

[chaddyrovers]

1 hour ago, roversfan99 said:

How do you know that there has been no in fighting?

my opinion

1 hour ago, roversfan99 said:

He was expecting to keep key players and only need to make 6 or 7 signings to build on that. 

He said other comments about the Rovers were making more of overhaul then we were expecting. 

1 hour ago, roversfan99 said:

Sure he is buzzing to lose all of the players we have and to see Hyam flogged without replacement on deadline day. If hes not had a moan about that behind closed doors then he really is all about not rocking the boat to stay on that nice long contract he wont get at another Championship club. 

Hyam shouldn't have been sold so late in the window and even more so without a proper replacement in. 

1 hour ago, roversfan99 said:

A strange one shrouded in mystery.

I get that he was clearly one that was wanted but if he isnt fit any time soon then it is such a bizarre bit of business.

Shrouded in mystery? how? over his injury? 

Hasn't he gone to see a specialist over the international break? sure I read that somewhere

Ismael and Gestede were big fan of him and wanted him all summer. Their top midfield target 

[roversfan99]

Be a big fan all they want, hes no use if hes not available. 

[chaddyrovers]

no point being over judgemental until we know what the specialist has said, exactly why Rovers did the loan to buy agreement? 

I take you aren't in favour of us doing this. 

[Leonard Venkhater]

1 minute ago, chaddyrovers said:

no point being over judgemental until we know what the specialist has said, exactly why Rovers did the loan to buy agreement? 

I take you aren't in favour of us doing this. 

Next, the club will be doing a deal with Scales funeral service

[Paul Mellelieu]

15 years of disastrous ownership and you still side of who's in charge.  

[NeilInBristol]

3 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

A strange one shrouded in mystery.

I get that he was clearly one that was wanted but if he isnt fit any time soon then it is such a bizarre bit of business.

Yeh it’s madness

i would rather they spent the money on offering Hyam travis and tronstad actual championship standard contract offers but not upto me 

[bluebruce]

2 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

A strange one shrouded in mystery.

I get that he was clearly one that was wanted but if he isnt fit any time soon then it is such a bizarre bit of business.

I don't find it too mysterious. It's a financially low risk gamble. We really wanted him, but the injury situation concerned us too much to pay and contract him for years. So now we get to have a look first, at both his injury status and quality. For probably the cost of covering his tiny wages and maybe a fee of about 200k I'd guess, which probably isn't too dissimilar to paying him for a year on an uplifted wage. If we did nothing and waited for his injury to sort itself his price would potentially go up.

The mystery is in the status of his injury, and why we thought it was appropriate to sell Travis and bring in an injured player as the replacement - but I expect the latter part is answered by the loanee from Birmingham. So if he isn't any good, or is suddenly needed at RB, it's a bit of a risk in a window of risks, but not that big of one and not that much of a mystery tbh.

[roversfan99]

53 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

I don't find it too mysterious. It's a financially low risk gamble. We really wanted him, but the injury situation concerned us too much to pay and contract him for years. So now we get to have a look first, at both his injury status and quality. For probably the cost of covering his tiny wages and maybe a fee of about 200k I'd guess, which probably isn't too dissimilar to paying him for a year on an uplifted wage. If we did nothing and waited for his injury to sort itself his price would potentially go up.

The mystery is in the status of his injury, and why we thought it was appropriate to sell Travis and bring in an injured player as the replacement - but I expect the latter part is answered by the loanee from Birmingham. So if he isn't any good, or is suddenly needed at RB, it's a bit of a risk in a window of risks, but not that big of one and not that much of a mystery tbh.

But we tried to sign him, he failed a medical, then 6 weeks later or whatever it was, he came in again, presumably had more checks, and still a couple of weeks later we were none the wiser regarding when he might be able to play.

The TGH loan seemed to be a desperate attempt to bring in another body on deadline day, contrary to Ismael having said 2 days prior that he didnt expect any loans. Maybe it with Hyam going and just feeling the need to get someone in, maybe Baradji had since been seen to and the news wasnt good.

Either way, its a bit of a mess. Tavares wasnt signed as a direct replacement for Travis and has not settled in well early on. Baradji maybe was but any sense in such a deal will lie in when he is actually fit, we need him now, we cant afford to wait ages and even when he recovers he will then need to get up to speed. And TGH seemed like a late desperate attempt to add an extra body.

[roversfan99]

Theres also no way that Ismael can claim to be happy about the summer window.

He said he only wanted 6 or 7 and to build on what we had. We signed 10 and still are short such are the players that left.

He wanted to keep Travis, Brittain, Hyam, Dolan, Batth and Weimann. None stayed.

He wanted to keep Hyam and wasnt concerned about him going 2 days before the deadline. He went and with no replacement.

He wanted 0 loans, we got 2.

[Hasta]

24 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Theres also no way that Ismael can claim to be happy about the summer window.

He said he only wanted 6 or 7 and to build on what we had. We signed 10 and still are short such are the players that left.

He wanted to keep Travis, Brittain, Hyam, Dolan, Batth and Weimann. None stayed.

He wanted to keep Hyam and wasnt concerned about him going 2 days before the deadline. He went and with no replacement.

He wanted 0 loans, we got 2.

He also clearly said any outgoings would be replaced, and then we sold Hyam at the last minute. 

Edited 34 minutes ago by Hasta

[M_B]

5 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

The blame undoubtedly goes above Ismael but I do also think that he is a far inferior manager to what has gone before.

Which just compounds the issue.

Be interesting to see if he can prove himself better than Eustace this season. 

[M_B]

50 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Theres also no way that Ismael can claim to be happy about the summer window.

He said he only wanted 6 or 7 and to build on what we had. We signed 10 and still are short such are the players that left.

He wanted to keep Travis, Brittain, Hyam, Dolan, Batth and Weimann. None stayed.

He wanted to keep Hyam and wasnt concerned about him going 2 days before the deadline. He went and with no replacement.

He wanted 0 loans, we got 2.

He also said we're paying for past managerial mistakes, we can't afford for players who aren't signing to walk away for nothing.