January Transfer Needs

[joey_big_nose]

20 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

he wants to go back to norway next season,family reasons i think

If he doesn't sign another contract in the EFL where he can easily get 15k a week, and instead chooses to earn a quarter of that in Norway hats off to him.

But im fully expecting him to sign a pre contract with Derby, Watford, QPR, Middleborough in feb.

The family thing I am sure is right but no one walks away from a million quid extra on a two year contract.

We really are absolute specialists in giving our best players away for free. Must be the best the division has ever seen?

[KentExile]

2 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

If he doesn't sign another contract in the EFL where he can easily get 15k a week, and instead chooses to earn a quarter of that in Norway hats off to him.

But im fully expecting him to sign a pre contract with Derby, Watford, QPR, Middleborough in feb.

The family thing I am sure is right but no one walks away from a million quid extra on a two year contract.

We really are absolute specialists in giving our best players away for free. Must be the best the division has ever seen?

He cant (legally speaking at least) sign a pre contract with another English side until the final month of his deal (its the final 6 months of his deal if he went to any other country)

Not that I am disputing that he may well end up at another English side

 

[JHRover]

'Family reasons' all rather convenient at the club that won't extend the contract of anyone and cuts/reduces/offloads wherever possible.

Proof will be in the pudding but I'd be surprised if he's playing in the Norwegian league come next year.

[chaddyrovers]

53 minutes ago, JHRover said:

'Family reasons' all rather convenient at the club that won't extend the contract of anyone and cuts/reduces/offloads wherever possible.

Proof will be in the pudding but I'd be surprised if he's playing in the Norwegian league come next year.

He said during a podcast during the summer with the Norwegian press. 

[simongarnerisgod]

5 hours ago, NeilInBristol said:

Reading a set of quotes from VI where he refers to “helping to develop” taveres

there is no other point to us buying these types of players other than to sell them on for a small profit to continue to fund the club to sustain itself

there will be little transfer activity unless we sell players first

jdt said wahlstadt needed to develop,it`s manager speak for "he`s useless and not good enough for this level",you can apply what jdt  said about our former calamity keeper to what val has said about sidnei,he is`nt good enough,even the diminishing number watching at ewood can tell you that

it`s always an indication of a player out of his level when they get rid of the ball as quickly as possible and then you don`t notice they are actually on the pitch,i,e vale,telalovic,sidnei,jason lowe,goulon,hope akpan

[Hasta]

43 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

He said during a podcast during the summer with the Norwegian press. 

Do we have a link to that?

Because I remember after that was said, @Kjell posted this post, which said that in another Norwegian podcast Tronstad said:-

• I want to stay abroad for as long as possible.

• I’d really like to stay at Rovers, I enjoy it a lot there.

• I have NOT received any contract offer from Rovers, there have only been some informal conversations.

Now I can’t find links to any podcast so don’t believe either view over the other, but the Elliot Jackson article about Tronstadt over the summer quotes Rudy as saying he wants to leave for personal reasons, and I don’t believe Rudy.

Edited yesterday at 13:24 by Hasta

[chaddyrovers]

37 minutes ago, Hasta said:

Do we have a link to that?

I have posted it earlier in the summer, but can't find the post now

[sharpysharps86]

Tronstad will go. There is no reason to think otherwise based on how the club dealt with Travis, Hyam, Brittain, Dolan, Brereton Diaz, etc. He may well fancy sticking around but the club more than likely won't offer him some deserved improved terms.

[aletheia]

Who is leaving in January?

Who is leaving in the summer?

[KentExile]

Can we change the thread title, to "The great many needs, & even greater disappointments of the January transfer window"?

[Upside Down]

44 minutes ago, KentExile said:

Can we change the thread title, to "The great many needs, & even greater disappointments of the January transfer window"?

Can the thread title be changed so it's at least grammatically correct?

@Herbie6590

[TugaysMarlboro]

There'll be an aptly timed report in a paper tomorrow of mooted interest in players for the Jan window.

[Hasta]

7 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

I have posted it earlier in the summer, but can't find the post now

Looks like it has become a bit of an urban myth.

[wilsdenrover]

 

On 15/09/2025 at 12:48, 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

is this 👆the post you were thinking of?
 

7 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

I have posted it earlier in the summer, but can't find the post now

 

[Torgeir]

On 12/12/2025 at 15:05, simongarnerisgod said:

he wants to go back to norway next season,family reasons i think

FAKE NEWS

[Mattyblue]

Of course he’ll walk away from a million quid he’ll already be loaded,  I mean, those fjords!

[neophox]

Gueye earns alot seems they want him rid and made a mess with him. Can see Pickering also go in January. Pears too if Toth gets fit.

[neophox]

Gueye earns alot seems they want him rid and made a mess with him. Can see Pickering also go in January. Pears too if Toth gets fit.

[chaddyrovers]

5 minutes ago, neophox said:

Gueye earns alot seems they want him rid and made a mess with him. Can see Pickering also go in January. Pears too if Toth gets fit.

Gueye has to go. Has no impact on games anymore. Has he had a positive impact on any game this season? 

Using Hindsight, we should have got rid in the summer. 

[sharpysharps86]

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

Gueye has to go. Has no impact on games anymore. Has he had a positive impact on any game this season? 

Using Hindsight, we should have got rid in the summer. 

No he hasn't. If anything he's been a hindrance every time he's stepped foot on the pitch. I imagine they were trying as Ismael clearly hasn't fancied him since he came in.

Aside from a brief spell last season that peaked with WBA away, Gueye has been a woeful signing who simply hasn't developed any sort of intelligence to play at this level. He's also the type of player who clearly needs an arm round his shoulder and I'm not sure Ismael is the type.

Ohashi and Gudjohnsen desperately need decent competition so that when substitutions happen it doesn't completely derail the team in an attacking sense. Shame we flogged Leonard to Peterborough really as he would've been a better option than Gueye IMO.

[B16Rover]

I like the look of Pointon from Bradford in the limited highlights I've seen.  Similar care the O Riordan in that he's a young player who's played loads of games.  Can't be on loads of money currently and in good form having stepped up from league two to league one.  Added bonus of when we go down, we know he can play in that league too. 

[Tomphil2]

Recent share allotment at companies house, 3.9 million.

Doubt it'll make any difference in January though.

[chaddyrovers]

5 minutes ago, Tomphil2 said:

Recent share allotment at companies house, 3.9 million.

Doubt it'll make any difference in January though.

SH01 Return of Allotment of Shares

[roversfan99]

30 minutes ago, Tomphil2 said:

Recent share allotment at companies house, 3.9 million.

Doubt it'll make any difference in January though.

It wont.

For years, people have taken these issues as the owners proactively investing in the club, expecting transfer business.

They are merely to cover the losses incurred. Other Championship owners do the same.