2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[alex l]

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/august/20/mafoumbi-departs/

 

Departure confirmed. Would be typical of this regime to now not sign a player, let alone one who needs the ESC

[BRFC.]

34 minutes ago, roverblue said:

Have we ever had a worse transfer window than this one?

• Lost half our first team
• Losing our team captain
• Lost our 2nd and 3rd top scorers from last season and haven't replaced them.
• Lost all our loan based attackers leaving us with nothing squad wise in attack.
• Replaced championship experience for a cheap foreign legion.
• Replaced squad players with academy players that have either had no first team experience or failed to impress on loans to lower division sides.
• Still expected to sell several more first team squad members such as Pears, Buckley (maybe even Hyam and Tronstad). To be replaced by more unknowns if they are even replaced at all.

Thanks Rudy. I am sure our wage bill has somehow magically remained the same though.

Ismael talks about it being a transition season but what we are supposed to be transitioning to?

League one, Ismael is only here for 3 years of pay let’s be real.

[wilsdenrover]

2 minutes ago, alex l said:

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/august/20/mafoumbi-departs/

 

Departure confirmed. Would be typical of this regime to now not sign a player, let alone one who needs the ESC

I like the way we make it sound like we’re doing him a favour.

[Kjell]

41 minutes ago, roverblue said:

Have we ever had a worse transfer window than this one?

• Lost half our first team
• Losing our team captain
• Lost our 2nd and 3rd top scorers from last season and haven't replaced them.
• Lost all our loan based attackers leaving us with nothing squad wise in attack.
• Replaced championship experience for a cheap foreign legion.
• Replaced squad players with academy players that have either had no first team experience or failed to impress on loans to lower division sides.
• Still expected to sell several more first team squad members such as Pears, Buckley (maybe even Hyam and Tronstad). To be replaced by more unknowns if they are even replaced at all.

Thanks Rudy. I am sure our wage bill has somehow magically remained the same though.

Ismael talks about it being a transition season but what we are supposed to be transitioning to?

Could not agree more.

Guess Rudy and Adam picked up some ideas from their time with Steve Kean. 

[KentExile]

7 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

I like the way we make it sound like we’re doing him a favour.

Watch him sign for PSG next week 😉 

[BankEnd Rover]

So I'm guessing Baradji comes in now? Or are we going to drag it out till the last day? 

Also the pain in us not even securing a new RW is quite frankly embarrassing.

[simongarnerisgod]

13 minutes ago, alex l said:

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/august/20/mafoumbi-departs/

 

Departure confirmed. Would be typical of this regime to now not sign a player, let alone one who needs the ESC

probably got someone in mind,though lets not get excited,he`ll be cheap,not very good and from the 2nd division of wherever

[alex l]

7 minutes ago, KentExile said:

Watch him sign for PSG next week 😉 

Chuopo-Moting was awful and somehow played for PSG and Bayern. He had a genuine contender for worse miss of all time for PSG. 

[KentExile]

Duru loaned to San Diego in the MLS

Rovers state its a loan until mid October Edit - although they have now changed the wording, but still do not mention the full details of his loan which are as San Diego initially claimed

San Diego state "on loan through June 2026 with a permanent purchase option"

 

Wonder if someone messed up paperwork?

Edited August 22 by KentExile

[wilsdenrover]

16 minutes ago, KentExile said:

Duru loaned to San Diego in the MLS

Rovers state its a loan until mid October

San Diego state "on loan through June 2026 with a permanent purchase option"

 

Wonder if someone messed up paperwork?

An international loan must end during a transfer window of the parent club so October can’t possibly be right.

 

Edited August 20 by wilsdenrover

[KentExile]

8 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

An international loan must end during a transfer window of the parent club so October can’t possibly be right.

 

But likewise June sounds wrong also, surely it would be until the January window?

Edited August 20 by KentExile

[TugaysMarlboro]

So we've potentially loaned a player to a team and we don't know when he's due to return?

[wilsdenrover]

2 minutes ago, KentExile said:

But likewise June sounds wrong also

Our transfer window will be open then so doesn’t sound wrong to me.

The only other option would have been January ‘26 but presumably they want him for the start of their next season (February) too.
 

[Waggy76]

I take it our recruitment team have had another busy day ?

12 days to go !

Edited August 20 by Waggy76

[Damien]

The MLS season ends in October. Maybe that is why it’s stated until then. 
but why would San Diego say otherwise? Also, I think Leo will be a cracking RB.
God we are a mess.

[Ghost7]

56 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

So I'm guessing Baradji comes in now? Or are we going to drag it out till the last day? 

Also the pain in us not even securing a new RW is quite frankly embarrassing.

and the pretence that we only need one more signing if Travis stays. Astounding. 

[wilsdenrover]

12 minutes ago, Damien said:

The MLS season ends in October. Maybe that is why it’s stated until then. 
but why would San Diego say otherwise? Also, I think Leo will be a cracking RB.
God we are a mess.

Because they’re competent?

[KentExile]

8 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Because they’re competent?

I note that our intrepid reporter Elliott Jackson has not yet noticed that there is a discrepancy on how long for, and that the MLS team seem to be claiming there is an option to buy

He may not have noticed Duru has left on loan at all, it seems that his collegue Dan Barnes thought it only warranted a sentence at the end of his report on Mafoumbi's release

Edited August 20 by KentExile

[wilsdenrover]

1 minute ago, KentExile said:

I note that our intrepid reporter Elliott Jackson has not yet noticed that there is a discrepancy on how long for, and that the MLS team seem to be claiming there is an option to buy

You need to give him a bit longer to catch up on this thread. 😁

[Angry_Pirate]

Off topic (but this group gets the most traffic), not looking to discuss the chants from Saturday (which I didnt hear from the JW, W12).

But I see the club are now "Restricting Responses" on social media posts....

Not necessarily a bad idea on this occasion, but it is the first time I've seen them do it. Would it shock anyone if they used the tactic much more often, and I wonder if that'll become more and more the norm as they continue to strangle opportunities for the truth.

[B16Rover]

38 minutes ago, TugaysMarlboro said:

So we've potentially loaned a player to a team and we don't know when he's due to return?

He's surely on first deal terms still.  Do we have any duty of care for the lad once San Diego finish for the season.  Surely he can't afford to be living there on £500 a week.  

[Exiled_Rover]

1 minute ago, Angry_Pirate said:

Off topic (but this group gets the most traffic), not looking to discuss the chants from Saturday (which I didnt hear from the JW, W12).

But I see the club are now "Restricting Responses" on social media posts....

Not necessarily a bad idea on this occasion, but it is the first time I've seen them do it. Would it shock anyone if they used the tactic much more often, and I wonder if that'll become more and more the norm as they continue to strangle opportunities for the truth.

Are they painting us as racists again?

They're pulling out the old playbook.

[KentExile]

2 minutes ago, B16Rover said:

He's surely on first deal terms still.  Do we have any duty of care for the lad once San Diego finish for the season.  Surely he can't afford to be living there on £500 a week.  

Not quite

Durus first pro deal was 2023

He signed another deal a year later

[G Somerset Rover]

No need to worry about Duru leaving. We have Montgomery to slot in at RB…

[Waggy76]

3 minutes ago, Angry_Pirate said:

Off topic (but this group gets the most traffic), not looking to discuss the chants from Saturday (which I didnt hear from the JW, W12).

But I see the club are now "Restricting Responses" on social media posts....

Not necessarily a bad idea on this occasion, but it is the first time I've seen them do it. Would it shock anyone if they used the tactic much more often, and I wonder if that'll become more and more the norm as they continue to strangle opportunities for the truth.

I am not sure what 'Restricting Responses ' means /