The January 2026 Transfer Window

[KentExile]

9 minutes ago, Tomphil2 said:

It looks like Venkys were totally clueless owners who made a mess of everything they've tried and had no idea how to rebuild it.  So then decided to go the managed decline route and reduce the club and its expectations to a level they are capable of running.

We obviously haven't even reached that level of capability yet.

 

I dread to think where that level may be

I am not sure such a level exists

 

Before someone points out that they built a successful business they didn't, their parents did.  The idiots who own Rovers, are entitled muppets who inherited that business

 

Edited 14 hours ago by KentExile

[RoversClitheroe]

Man Utd now in the race to sign Igor Tyjon.

[Penwortham Blue]

15 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Man Utd now in the race to sign Igor Tyjon.

If he was any good, he would have made the breakthrough into our first team, irrespective of his contract situation. My bet is that if he makes a move to a big club, he will never get a game in their first team. Notwithstanding that, the contract will no doubt set him up for life and so not sure that we can blame him, more especially given current state of our club ! 

[Hasta]

5 minutes ago, Penwortham Blue said:

If he was any good, he would have made the breakthrough into our first team, irrespective of his contract situation. My bet is that if he makes a move to a big club, he will never get a game in their first team. Notwithstanding that, the contract will no doubt set him up for life and so not sure that we can blame him, more especially given current state of our club ! 

I’m not sure he’s that good, but I’m also adamant if he was under contract longer he would have featured at some point instead of Henriksson and Diamini up front. If we did go down it would be more mismanagement.

[47er]

3 hours ago, Tomphil2 said:

I actually saw some comments from other clubs fans on a Rovers article recently and one of them - think it was an Arsenal fan actually - said..

It looks like Venkys were totally clueless owners who made a mess of everything they've tried and had no idea how to rebuild it.  So then decided to go the managed decline route and reduce the club and its expectations to a level they are capable of running.

We obviously haven't even reached that level of capability yet.

He's more aware than plenty of our own fans.

[Tomphil2]

3 hours ago, KentExile said:

 

I dread to think where that level may be

I am not sure such a level exists

 

Before someone points out that they built a successful business they didn't, their parents did.  The idiots who own Rovers, are entitled muppets who inherited that business

 

Yet half our own fanbase remain oblivious to or just shrug the shoulders 'well if everyone turned up every week..' type stuff.

Well they did didn't they for the first few years of this bollocks and it didn't  make a jot of difference.

[simongarnerisgod]

if you get rid of players because you won`t pay them the going rate then replace them with ones who arn`t as good ,you will go down the leagues,it matters not if the crowd is 30000 or 300,i can`t understand why some of our fans can`t see the fact that venkys have continually dismanted the playing staff from the moment they arrived

 

[Tomphil2]

2 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

if you get rid of players because you won`t pay them the going rate then replace them with ones who arn`t as good ,you will go down the leagues,it matters not if the crowd is 30000 or 300,i can`t understand why some of our fans can`t see the fact that venkys have continually dismanted the playing staff from the moment they arrived

 

They remain convinced that big crowds under this lot would automatically mean better players, wages payable and form.

Somehow they chose to miss the rather obvious correlation that wages cuts,player sales, doubling of losses and managed decline began the min they took over with gates of 25k and Prem/Parachute income.

Ok a lot are too young to remember or maybe grasp these very basic facts but  the others ... ?

They are in their own world of denial for some reason.

[Upside Down]

5 hours ago, Tomphil2 said:

Yet half our own fanbase remain oblivious to or just shrug the shoulders 'well if everyone turned up every week..' type stuff.

Well they did didn't they for the first few years of this bollocks and it didn't  make a jot of difference.

That's not half of the fanbase, it's a quarter at the most. 

The majority have washed their hands of this ridiculous charade many years ago.