2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[Somersall Ram]

40 minutes ago, DE. said:

Fair play to Trav if he can get that kind of money - frankly even if it was only a few thousand difference it'd make sense for him to pursue a move to a genuinely ambitious club where he knows (and presumably gets on well with) the manager. I've always found it difficult to blame any player (or manager) for wanting to leave the club under the current ownership. As long as they're professional about it until they leave, it's not a problem for me. 

I can assure Rovers fans that if Travis came to Derby he would be on a MAX 18 k 

all the rhetoric from your management is quite frankly just to cover up their inability to fund the team. 
 

and you’re manager throwing him under the bus is disgusting for a long serving academy player

[Old Codger]

24 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Good lord.

Rats deserting a sinking ship.

Err no. Wankers steering it.

[CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber]

23 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Good lord.

Rats deserting a sinking ship.

Sadly it ain't the rats that are deserting

It's players who can see the writing on the wall with our ownership structure, and are quite rightly trying to better themselves via a wage increase and/or with a club that has ambitions 

It's all going wrong for you isn't it Suhail you slippery cunt 

[Kjell]

2 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

If he could move to Hull he’d be handy for the ferry.

Since we're playing Hull away on the 23rd of August, he could probably get a lift there with the team bus, unless Waggot did not receive it as his parting gift.

[TugaysMarlboro]

So who exactly are we building a team around? 

[TugaysMarlboro]

5 minutes ago, Somersall Ram said:

I can assure Rovers fans that if Travis came to Derby he would be on a MAX 18 k 

all the rhetoric from your management is quite frankly just to cover up their inability to fund the team. 
 

and you’re manager throwing him under the bus is disgusting for a long serving academy player

Thank you for the insight. 

It's no surprise that Trav is being portrayed as the villain, it's been in the playbook for anyone who wouldn't agree a new contract and has subsequently left.

We'd like to think people are catching wise to it, but sadly, there's more sand in the Blackburn area than I'd originally accounted for...

[MarkBRFC]

2 minutes ago, TugaysMarlboro said:

So who exactly are we building a team around? 

Whoever is cheap.

[pick32]

Don’t think Hyam would be hard to replace, never stood out to me as anything but an ok cb, need a real leader a captain at the back 

[TimmyJimmy]

As I've said a few times already Rudy wants an entirely fresh start, new team, new management, new behind the scenes loyal folk - everything everywhere.

Won't work. It will finish the club off.

Lunatics in charge of the asylum. Buckle up.

[TugaysMarlboro]

Just now, MarkBRFC said:

Whoever is cheap.

Sounds like we can build a team around everyone at the club then. Why were we panicking? it's all under control.

[Polky]

If we’re only matching players salaries then I’m not surprised their heads are turning when clubs like Boro and Derby are offering more.

Fair play to them and rightfully should be telling Venkys to fuck off.

[Ghost7]

2 minutes ago, pick32 said:

Don’t think Hyam would be hard to replace, never stood out to me as anything but an ok cb, need a real leader a captain at the back 

The problem is, again, they aren't willing to pay the fees required for players that are an improvement.

[RevidgeBlue]

12 minutes ago, Somersall Ram said:

I can assure Rovers fans that if Travis came to Derby he would be on a MAX 18 k 

all the rhetoric from your management is quite frankly just to cover up their inability to fund the team. 
 

and you’re manager throwing him under the bus is disgusting for a long serving academy player

Thanks for the response. You seem more clued up on us than a large section of our fan base.

Could you also please contact Mr E. Jackson at our local excuse for a newspaper/media outlet (the Lancashire Telegraph and educate him on that?)

Edited August 14 by RevidgeBlue

[DE.]

10 minutes ago, TugaysMarlboro said:

So who exactly are we building a team around? 

A bunch of cheapos from relegated clubs in minor foreign leagues. I'm sure that'll work out just fine. 

[DE.]

Hedges might be a decent pickup as a squad player for a team at the lower end of the division. Probably wouldn't be able to afford him until his contract expires next year though, as one imagines whatever he's getting at Rovers are unlikely to be matched by the type of club he's likely to attract. 

[KentExile]

2 hours ago, Somersall Ram said:

I can assure Rovers fans that if Travis came to Derby he would be on a MAX 18 k 

all the rhetoric from your management is quite frankly just to cover up their inability to fund the team. 
 

and you’re manager throwing him under the bus is disgusting for a long serving academy player

Whilst I do not disagree with most of your post, I think you probably need to reconsider what Derby are offering in wages these days.  Fans of all clubs like to think that their that their club runs a tight ship when it comes to wages and  that people people in charge of their club couldn't possibly be silly enought o pay such high wages.  However, the wage bills in the clubs accounts show a different story.

Derby posted a wage bill of £19.6M in their latest accounts, this would have been covering your stay in League 1, and if you think that wage bill will will not have gone up by a minimum of 50% since your promotion, then Derby must be unique... spoiler, they are not.

https://www.matchdayfinance.com/post/championship-financial-results-season-2023-24

Morris was a premier league player recently, he will not be on less than £20K/week.  The American who you brought in for big money will also be on more than you suspect

None of which means that Rovers are not lowballing their own players & behaving in a disgraceful way towards their own players staff & fans though,all facts of which we are all (well most of us) painfully aware

Edited August 14 by KentExile

[alexanders]

Would you increase your wage budget if employees were not achieving goals and the costs were increasing?

Combined with lack of funds to "plug a hole" this ownership is becoming extremely difficult and will end in misery. 

[SpaceBarSlam]

What worries me about this managed decimation of our team is that we are going to be losing a hell of a lot of experience, for all of the shortcomings of the various players involved.

Struggling to see anything but relegation as it stands. 

[DE.]

1 minute ago, alexanders said:

Would you increase your wage budget if employees were not achieving goals and the costs were increasing?

Combined with lack of funds to "plug a hole" this ownership is becoming extremely difficult and will end in misery. 

I would take a look at the senior leadership and wonder why costs were increasing but our goals were not being achieved.

With that said, this assumes the goal is to get promoted. Waggott already said during JDT's time that the aim is to develop players and plod along in the division. 

[superniko]

I'd bet my last dollar that when the next yearly financial statements roll around we'll still have wages around ~£25m, a wage to turnover ratio of ~130% and a magical yearly loss of "£20m".

Could have our under 5s as our starting 11 and the above wouldn't budge.

[RevidgeBlue]

1 minute ago, DE. said:

I would take a look at the senior leadership and wonder why costs were increasing but our goals were not being achieved.

With that said, this assumes the goal is to get promoted. Waggott already said during JDT's time that the aim is to develop players and plod along in the division. 

Yeah "no pressure on results" was the phrase wasn't it?

[roversfan99]

9 minutes ago, DE. said:

Hedges might be a decent pickup as a squad player for a team at the lower end of the division. Probably wouldn't be able to afford him until his contract expires next year though, as one imagines whatever he's getting at Rovers are unlikely to be matched by the type of club he's likely to attract. 

I dont see how he would offer anything to any Championship club.

[RevidgeBlue]

2 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

I dont see how he would offer anything to any Championship club.

No.

Complete waste of money. no matter how little he is or would be on.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

29 minutes ago, Somersall Ram said:

all the rhetoric from your management is quite frankly just to cover up their inability to fund the team. and you’re manager throwing him under the bus is disgusting for a long serving academy player

Welcome to the World of Shit we are having to live through,Blackburn Rovers 2025.

Circus Ewood.

[alexanders]

11 minutes ago, KentExile said:

Whilst I do not disagree with most of your post, I think you probably need to reconsider what Derby are offering in wages these days.  Fans of all clubs like to their that their club runs a tight ship when it coms to wages and couldn't possibly be that silly.  The wage bills in the clubs accounts show a different story

Morris was a premier league player recently, he will not be on less than £20K/week.  The American who you brought in for big money will also be on more than you suspect

None of which means that Rovers are not lowballing their own players & behaving in a disgraceful way towards their own players staff & fans though,all facts of which we are all (well most of us) painfully aware

Carlton Morris's wage at Luton Town is £520,000 annually. This translates to roughly £10,000 per week. This salary was for the 2023-2024 season, when Luton Town was in the Premier League.