2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[JHRover]

12 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Some of that money covered Rovers losses whilst Venkys couldn't send money over..

We spent 10m this summer. Some left over for January window. 

Yet again I don't have all the answers why dont get Josh to ask these questions at the next fans forum

Pointless asking questions at the Fans Forum. Even if they answer them we have good reason to believe that they won't be genuine honest answers and even if they are won't be accurately minuted so that everyone can read them. 

I have zero interest in whatever fanciful figures you want to throw out there for what we spent in the summer. I do not for one minute accept or believe that we spent that amount and whatever we did spend was comfortably covered by what we brought in. Some might call that astute, but if it means we finish 10 places lower than last year where's the benefit?

Venkys could send money over, they chose not to. Choice.

Difference being the owners of Wrexham, Derby and Middlesbrough were willing to put money in. 

[JHRover]

21 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

What interview? 

I gave you the link last week over Tronstad interview with Norwegian media last summer..plus link Gestede's interview last week. 

That's it blame your own club

depends on what we talking about? 

Sondre Tronstad makes Blackburn Rovers contract admission | Lancashire Telegraph

This interview. April 2025. 

Yes I will blame the club. They are responsible and the one constant in years of shambolic activity.

[47er]

24 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

That's it blame your own club

Are you saying it's an act of disloyalty to criticise your Club? Even when its in the wrong?

That's just plain stupid.

[chaddyrovers]

15 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Sondre Tronstad makes Blackburn Rovers contract admission | Lancashire Telegraph

This interview. April 2025. 

Yes I will blame the club. They are responsible and the one constant in years of shambolic activity.

Tronstad's interview was Summer 2025 with Norwegian media

https://www.brfcs.com/forums/topic/37711-2025-summer-transfer-thread-😂/page/413/#findComment-2735208

[wilsdenrover]

Perhaps Tronstad does want to go back to Norway.

If that is the case, maybe just maybe we should be trying to persuade him to change his mind.

 

Edited 8 hours ago by wilsdenrover

[frosty]

2 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

so instead of looking back and back why not look forward to the players here and will actually be playing in Rovers shirt this season. 

These are the same players you'll be hating on in a couple of years when they leave for the same reasons as those this summer, by the way. 

[JHRover]

33 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Tronstad's interview was Summer 2025 with Norwegian media

https://www.brfcs.com/forums/topic/37711-2025-summer-transfer-thread-😂/page/413/#findComment-2735208

Almost as though between April and summer he concluded that staying here beyond next summer was no longer an option.

Perhaps linked to the fact the club has been unwilling to extend any senior contract and has sold off everyone else of quality.

[Tomphil2]

1 hour ago, Tricky said:

ignorance is bliss tbf

well i hope Saturday's win eased some of your misplaced anxiety

One swallow doesn't a summer make but obviously to you clappers one good win justifies everything that has gone on.

We'll revisit this in a few months and see if genuine concern is indeed misplaced or being a mushroom wins the day.

 

[Exiled in Toronto Mk2]

The BRFCS Law of Entropy: every thread, over time, descends into posters arguing with Chaddy.

While the budget has clearly been cut, I’m struggling to believe that our road to the promised land was going to be paved with improved 4-year contracts for Travis, Dolan and Hyam, plus Ba’ath and Weiman creaking another season out.

[Leonard Venkhater]

44 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

some can of PL money and some can of their commercial and sponsor money intake. 

Some owners don't want spend big on wages and some do. 

Had Rovers offered new contracts during Eustace early reign, some of them might have sign them. 

People are still fixation on these 4 players who have gone. 

No the "fixation" is on what seems to be Suhail and Gestede's dumbing down agenda and the fact that we will be here again in less than two years. Endless fresh start syndrome....

[bluebruce]

2 hours ago, wilsdenrover said:

Perhaps Tronstad does want to go back to Norway.

If that is the case, maybe just maybe we should be trying to persuade him to change his mind.

 

I don't buy this at all. Who in Norway is going to pay him what he could earn in the Championship at another club? I'd be amazed if he goes back to Norway in the summer.

[joey_big_nose]

4 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

I don't buy this at all. Who in Norway is going to pay him what he could earn in the Championship at another club? I'd be amazed if he goes back to Norway in the summer.

Yes agreed... probably worth £250k a year at least for him to stay in the Championship. No one at the end of their career, when you are literally talking about two or three years, walks away from that amount of money.

[bluebruce]

17 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

Yes agreed... probably worth £250k a year at least for him to stay in the Championship. No one at the end of their career, when you are literally talking about two or three years, walks away from that amount of money.

Yep, not like he has earned mega bucks in his career so far. I'd imagine his contract with us will be the most lucrative one he has had so far, and now he's proven himself in this league he'd earn more in his next one (at another club).

[miqaayil]

i understand this is a transfer thread and we're all arguing , could a better contract hold our proven players? are we on self imposed wage cap? is gestede a dickhead ? (definitely yes) , did the groundsman change his lucky underwear ? did the tea-lady serve coffee ? 

but we forget the important question , nobody is asking 

WHAT IS OUR AMBITION THIS SEASON ? or next season 

this question answers everything ... so many interviews ... gestede,VI,suhail and even the data guy.. not even LT asking ...  or is the answer TRANSITION PERIOD FOR 3 YEARS the restart TRANSITION 

for some weird reason ...current set has skillset for playoffs ( i know many disagree ) ...just my opinion 

Edited 4 hours ago by miqaayil

[Tomphil2]

18 minutes ago, miqaayil said:

i understand this is a transfer thread and we're all arguing , could a better contract hold our proven players? are we on self imposed wage cap? is gestede a dickhead ? (definitely yes) , did the groundsman change his lucky underwear ? did the tea-lady serve coffee ? 

but we forget the important question , nobody is asking 

WHAT IS OUR AMBITION THIS SEASON ? or next season 

this question answers everything ... so many interviews ... gestede,VI,suhail and even the data guy.. not even LT asking ...  or is the answer TRANSITION PERIOD FOR 3 YEARS the restart TRANSITION 

for some weird reason ...current set has skillset for playoffs ( i know many disagree ) ...just my opinion 

The sole ambition is to do enough to finish comfortably above relegation whilst growing the new assets into profitable saleable players.

Then there'll be a repeat of the recent scenario in a couple of years time where players will be sold with contracts ticking down, perhaps the odd bigger sale or two of a few good strikers and the wage cap will remain (reduced in real terms) or even reduced to 8k a week !

Agents will fill their boots again and Suhail will be a couple more years wages better off.

Maybe even Val and Rudy have loftier ambitions themselves but they know the score here so if they over achieve fair enough but the stall is set now for a repeat performance of this summer, probably forever more.

You might not be familiar with Dario Grady's Crewe Alexandra but maybe look them up because we are a bigger version of them now.

Forget this Brentford model talk.

[chaddyrovers]

4 hours ago, frosty said:

These are the same players you'll be hating on in a couple of years when they leave for the same reasons as those this summer, by the way. 

What utter and totally rubbush Hate them? Give over. FFS, they are footballers who will move clubs plenty of times. 

Never hated Rovers legends like Alan Shearer, Brad Freidal or Tim Sherwood when they moved on to other clubs. So why am going to hate Brittain for moving to Boro. FFS. 

[Tomphil2]

Tronstad knows full well if he's offered anything at all it'll just be a one year extension on present terms so he's just setting his own stall out for the future,

Edited 3 hours ago by Tomphil2

[TimmyJimmy]

1 hour ago, miqaayil said:

i understand this is a transfer thread and we're all arguing , could a better contract hold our proven players? are we on self imposed wage cap? is gestede a dickhead ? (definitely yes) , did the groundsman change his lucky underwear ? did the tea-lady serve coffee ? 

but we forget the important question , nobody is asking 

WHAT IS OUR AMBITION THIS SEASON ? or next season 

this question answers everything ... so many interviews ... gestede,VI,suhail and even the data guy.. not even LT asking ...  or is the answer TRANSITION PERIOD FOR 3 YEARS the restart TRANSITION 

for some weird reason ...current set has skillset for playoffs ( i know many disagree ) ...just my opinion 

The ambition is to tread water and stay afloat. No appearance of flapping around and grabbing straws. Look like we're perpetually setting up for next season without actually having to achieve anything.

In this window we bought a lottery ticket. The winning numbers are being read out and so far some of our numbers have come up (Morishita & Alebiosu, possibly Gudjohnsen).

Long way to go. RG might get lucky and claim credit but as always with these things it's dumb luck.

So, ambition??! mmm, let me think.

[miqaayil]

2 hours ago, Tomphil2 said:

The sole ambition is to do enough to finish comfortably above relegation whilst growing the new assets into profitable saleable players.

Then there'll be a repeat of the recent scenario in a couple of years time where players will be sold with contracts ticking down, perhaps the odd bigger sale or two of a few good strikers and the wage cap will remain (reduced in real terms) or even reduced to 8k a week !

Agents will fill their boots again and Suhail will be a couple more years wages better off.

Maybe even Val and Rudy have loftier ambitions themselves but they know the score here so if they over achieve fair enough but the stall is set now for a repeat performance of this summer, probably forever more.

You might not be familiar with Dario Grady's Crewe Alexandra but maybe look them up because we are a bigger version of them now.

Forget this Brentford model talk.

Bro i believe exactly what ure saying and i agree 1000% ... my question is reporters , fan podcast and even fans arguing here not asking this ? 

which i find as the best PR WOOL of suhail & kentaro over us...

[KentExile]

3 hours ago, bluebruce said:

I don't buy this at all. Who in Norway is going to pay him what he could earn in the Championship at another club? I'd be amazed if he goes back to Norway in the summer.

I think Gestede let  the cat out of the bag with this one, He said Tronstad wants to go back to "a Scandinavian country", (he didn't specifically mention Norway), It is possible that either a Malmo, or a Copenhagen who "regularly" qualify for the Champions League might be able to rival Championship wages (or at least the Championship wages that Rovers are offering), if there is no fee to pay

"Going forward, his future is not in the country so he doesn't want to discuss an extension or anything, as he has a personal reason to go back to a Scandinavian country."

Edited 2 hours ago by KentExile

[TurkishDelight]

Tronstad wants to go back to Norway. When? I don't know. His wife is from Haugesund and SHE want to settle down there. 

[lraC]

Dolan starts for Español tonight, for anyone looking for their football fix. 

[lraC]

[aletheia]

34 minutes ago, miqaayil said:

my question is reporters , fan podcast and even fans arguing here not asking this ? 

Most do and know all about what you are saying. Others, are apologists or deluded ot useful idiots.

Edited 1 hour ago by aletheia

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

9 minutes ago, lraC said:

Dolan starts for Español tonight, for anyone looking for their football fix. 

At least he’s playing in his best position. None of this playing a right footed player on the left wing bollocks.