2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[JBiz]

Slightly rhetorical but a genuine question;

Is “The Rao’s, Venkys, whatever you call them’s” ambition the same as “the club” per se? 
 

I ask this on the basis that I believe the people incumbent of responsibility at Ewood work to a set budget. I appreciate that is a somewhat confusing aspect, however it does impact how you can assess the “club staff” and the “ownership”… that is if you differentiate between the two…

 

Edited 17 hours ago by JBiz

[M_B]

6 hours ago, Exiled in Toronto Mk2 said:

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.

Aka, "The Rubber Dinghy Men".

Edited 17 hours ago by M_B

[Upside Down]

2 hours ago, lraC said:

4-4-2 

👍 

[lraC]

Dolan got an assist for the second goal in a 3-2 win.

They went 2-0 up in 20 mins and looked to be cruising, but a pen for Mallorca and a red for español, just before half time, put the game back in the balance.

It was all square on 75 but a late winner for the ten men, meant they won, despite playing the whole of the second half a man short. 

[M_B]

9 hours ago, lraC said:

Dolan got an assist for the second goal in a 3-2 win.

They went 2-0 up in 20 mins and looked to be cruising, but a pen for Mallorca and a red for español, just before half time, put the game back in the balance.

It was all square on 75 but a late winner for the ten men, meant they won, despite playing the whole of the second half a man short. 

Dolan fouled for the winning penalty. 

[MarkBRFC]

13 hours ago, TurkishDelight said:

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

Mentioned before but we were over there in the summer and went to see the ground, my lad was wearing his Rovers shirt so it naturally sparked some chat with a couple of club officials.

They said that he has stated many times that he wants to go back to Haugesund one day as like you say his wife wants to settle down there, they knew all about his contract situation but don't expect it next summer as it's very likely they will be playing in the Norwegian second tier. (They had lost 14 and drawn twice in 16 games at the time of visit).

So a move to somewhere else in Scandinavia as a stop gap until the later years in his career seems likely.