2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[BankEnd Rover]

8 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Id be quite happy if Leonard stayed, we'd still need one more striker though and have all 4 competing.

If Pasha has blocked this deal Mcguire style you can't imagine VI  will be all that happy no matter how "aligned" ( fined myself £10) they were previously.

Leonard stays there no chance we bring in a striker...Can't see why anyone would want to keep hold of a player who has been injured for the last 18months and clearly can't cope in the championship. 

[ihateburnley]

Definitely time to move Leonard on in my opinion. I'm personally loving the freshening up feeling we've had this summer, and a new striker would top that off, especially if it's one that would potentially be our first choice.

[RevidgeBlue]

7 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Leonard stays there no chance we bring in a striker...Can't see why anyone would want to keep hold of a player who has been injured for the last 18months and clearly can't cope in the championship. 

Impressive if you can deduce that when he's never been given a chance.

[M_B]

4 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Impressive if you can deduce that when he's never been given a chance.

Most of this summer's signings were written off before they'd even flown in . 

[roverblue]

Pasha needs to leave asap. A man who knows literally nothing about football or rovers making decisions is a joke. 

[BankEnd Rover]

4 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Impressive if you can deduce that when he's never been given a chance.

He has been given a chance though. He had a spell under JDT and got bullied...He has some good attributes but he's just not physical enough for the champ...League 1 is his level, for now anyway....Madness if we keep him here this window if you ask me. 

[Emerald Isle Rover]

7 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Impressive if you can deduce that when he's never been given a chance.

Hard to give someone a fair chance when after 2/3 games they always pick up an injury 

being available is extremely important 

[islander200]

Surely we can't be letting Leonard out anyway until another striker is brought in 

[Exiled_Rover]

8 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Impressive if you can deduce that when he's never been given a chance.

It's a bit chicken and egg.

He was given the chance, but he couldn't stay fit. Someone said he's started 8 games total for us - that's nothing. 

Now it seems like he's been written off. 

[yeti-dog]

Of all the players to dig your heels in about it seems strange to me that you'd choose Leonard...

[RevidgeBlue]

2 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

Hard to give someone a fair chance when after 2/3 games they always pick up an injury 

being available is extremely important 

Like Baradji you mean?

[Waggy76]

Have we actually signed a forward this window ?

I fear a re run of previous years , deliberate failures ..

[RevidgeBlue]

1 minute ago, yeti-dog said:

Of all the players to dig your heels in about it seems strange to me that you'd choose Leonard...

It is a bit odd.....maybe we know we're coming up short on our other targets (unsurprisingly)

Maybe also he didn't stick up for the lady who's left. If he had, you wouldnt have thought Suhail would be stepping in to block it.

It'll probably go through with a raft of add ons taking the fee to a sum that "could" reach an eye watering £1.5m.

If Peterbrough reach the Champions League and Harry gets his 10th Cap for England etc etc

[Mercer]

1 hour ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

He wasn’t actually a giant, he just played like one.

He was one big unit!

You would run from this guy in your boozer!

In the early 1960s, before becoming a cult hero at Newcastle, he, John Kurila and John Cushley formed a trio of rugged defenders at Celtic who were nicknamed “the Big Bad Johns” after a hit song in 1961.

In his autobiography Ferguson recalled facing McNamee – “the worst of these three frighteners”

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Mercer

[Tomphil2]

22 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Leonard stays there no chance we bring in a striker...Can't see why anyone would want to keep hold of a player who has been injured for the last 18months and clearly can't cope in the championship. 

We are in danger of being too misty eyed over these academy lads and obviously it's only because we want to see them do well here for our mutual benefit.

However a lot of them have been around a while and have stuttered to make the necessary grade one way or another so as long as they get a fee and good add on/sell on, maybe even a buy back, then i'm not too bothered anymore.

As long as it opens the door for bringing fresh blood in and isn't just a cashing out exercise.

[Hasta]

Leonard is like most of them. If he goes and we bring in a better replacement great. But if we bring in another Telalovic it’s pointless. All depends on who comes in.

The signing of Morishita, who looks a level or two above most we have brought in for the last few years, gives me faint hope that somehow we bring in a quality striker. But we should aim for him to be first choice, not some third choice squad replacement.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Hasta

[Exiled_Rover]

1 minute ago, Hasta said:

Leonard is like most of them. If he goes and we bring in a better replacement great. But if we bring in another Telalovic it’s pointless. All depends on who comes in.

The signing of Morishita, who looks a level or two above most we have brought in for the last few years, gives me some hope that somehow we bring in another striker. But we should really aim for him to be first choice, not some third choice squad replacement.

 

The concern around Morishita for me is that it looks like he's just had his Szmodics season. 

An unbelievable year that coincided with him playing further forward that's a massive outlier to the rest of his career. 

[Old Codger]

1 hour ago, Crimpshrine said:

I heard exactly the same story. Gestede happy with the deal, Leonard said his farewells but Pasha blocked it. 

Cue the power struggle.

Bestriding Ewood like a colossal twat in a onesie, Big Suhail shares his football wisdom with all who dare to listen..

 

COLOSSAL TWATS OUT!!

[Hasta]

5 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

The concern around Morishita for me is that it looks like he's just had his Szmodics season. 

An unbelievable year that coincided with him playing further forward that's a massive outlier to the rest of his career. 

Maybe. But at least its ‘exciting’, as if he reproduces it he should be a success.

I don’t get that vibe from most of the others.

Edited 1 hour ago by Hasta

[alcd]

1 hour ago, aletheia said:

In
Ryoya morishita 28 midfield-legia warsaw euros 2.1m
Sidnei Tavares 23 –midfield –Portugal   euros 2m
Axel Henriksson – 23- euros 860k
Lewis Miller 24 - right back –Hibs (Australian)   euros 860k
Dion de Neve 24-midfiled –euros 759k
Ryan Alebiousu 23 right back – euros 576k
Sean McLoughlin-28-centre back-Hull euros 575k
Moussa Baradji – 24 –loan 

Total expenditure  = Euros 7.73m   

Out
Travis  Euros 3.5m?
Joe Rankin Costello 25 Charlton  euros 870k
Callum Brittain 27 Middlesborough     euros 3.5m????
John Buckley   25 Al-Kolood   euros 1m????
Tyrhys Dolan 23 Espanyol –free (wages saved)?
Andreas Weimann 33 Derby free (wages saved)?
Danny Baath 34 Derby free (wages saved)?
Jordan eastham 23  free (wages saved)?    
Jalil saadi-free transfer
Cauley Woodrow end of loan
Jack vale-without club
O’riordan-loan
Dilan markandy -free
ACD – end of loan
Beck – end of loan
Dennis –end of loan
Sanderson – end of loan

Total Income = euros 8.87m

So thus far, spend = circa euros 1.14m

 

That's not a "spend" it's an income of 1.14m Euros

[AJW]

Just heard a former hero is on his way back but not in a playing capacity, anybody else heard this ?

[Old Codger]

3 minutes ago, AJW said:

Just heard a former hero is on his way back but not in a playing capacity, anybody else heard this ?

Fuck me, the bastards have dug Jack up 😞 

[aletheia]

1 hour ago, AspRover said:

JRC widely reported as £1m, which would be €1.15m - if it were reversed and he'd gone for €1m then it would be £870k  so I think you have them backwards, and I think you might have done it a couple of times in that list.

Wouldn't dispute your figures -just going off transfermarket (yes I know)..

[aletheia]

1 hour ago, Crimpshrine said:

Cue the power struggle.

Crikey- thought we were all alig.. I mean er, moving in the same direction.

[Waggy76]

28 minutes ago, islander200 said:

Surely we can't be letting Leonard out anyway until another striker is brought in 

Why ??

In Suhails world it saves a wage !