The January 2026 Transfer Window

[RevidgeBlue]

5 minutes ago, TommyRovers said:

In a normal football club yes the buck would stop with him. 

But when you work at Rovers under the grip of Pasha, no.

He left because he could no longer work under that regime. Just like Lambert. Just like JDT. Just like Eustace. Just like Park. Just like many others.

Blaming Broughton for the transfer mishaps is naive at best.

Not disagreeing necessarily, but why didnt Pasha step in and block the purchases of Hyam, Szmodics, Brittain then?

[Emerald Isle Rover]

10 minutes ago, TommyRovers said:

Yeah it was stupid to promise that. 

He should have known better and sadly he has been made a scapegoat by many fans (including some on here) to the delight of Pasha.

Part of he problem but not the main problem 

[TommyRovers]

10 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Not disagreeing necessarily, but why didnt Pasha step in and block the purchases of Hyam, Szmodics, Brittain then?

Who knows what happened

[KentExile]

18 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Not disagreeing necessarily, but why didnt Pasha step in and block the purchases of Hyam, Szmodics, Brittain then?

We could also ask why/how Broughton managed to complete those purchase during this first summer without a hiccup, but then suddenly "forgot" how to do his job

As an additional (and unrelated to the above)

- Pretty sure that whenever he was allowed to spend more than £1M on a player, they were a success (those he bought for under a million were much more hit and miss)

- He at least knew how to get contracts signed

Edited 2 hours ago by KentExile

[Paul Mellelieu]

One of Rev's perennial baddies is our Greg.  Brought in some great players and god knows how the mistakes were made.  Not a baddie in the scheme of things.

[RevidgeBlue]

2 minutes ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

One of Rev's perennial baddies is our Greg.  Brought in some great players and god knows how the mistakes were made.  Not a baddie in the scheme of things.

Crewe Alexandra vibes from the second Broughton was "brought in" for me. Absolutely full of BS as well.

If he's as good as everyone says he is however, no doubt he'll re-appear over here again at a decent level at some point and then we can judge him in a Venky's/Pasha/Waggotless environment.

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50 minutes ago, Tom said:

Our negotiation skills are poorer than this blokes 

 

HAHAHAHA  literally our transactions 

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52 minutes ago, Tom said:

Our negotiation skills are poorer than this blokes 

 

 

 

Or selling mahktar gueye and asking for more than he's worth

[RevidgeBlue]

4 minutes ago, ... said:

HAHAHAHA  literally our transactions 

Nah, in the above example where the price was £1.50, we'd only be offering 20 or 30p.

[Paul Mellelieu]

8 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Crewe Alexandra vibes from the second Broughton was "brought in" for me. Absolutely full of BS as well.

If he's as good as everyone says he is however, no doubt he'll re-appear over here again at a decent level at some point and then we can judge him in a Venky's/Pasha/Waggotless environment.

You haven't mentioned how much was paid.

[RevidgeBlue]

Just now, Paul Mellelieu said:

You haven't mentioned how much was paid.

Who for?

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28th January.

1x loan

1x permanent 

[sharpysharps86]

I still believe Rovers will sign a striker...but it'll either be the lad from Wednesday, a completely unheard leftfield Telalovic type, or Paul Mullin.

🥲

[TommyRovers]

23 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Crewe Alexandra vibes from the second Broughton was "brought in" for me. Absolutely full of BS as well.

If he's as good as everyone says he is however, no doubt he'll re-appear over here again at a decent level at some point and then we can judge him in a Venky's/Pasha/Waggotless environment.

One of the reasons Bodø Glimt have risen from relatively unknown to Norway's best team and regular European side is partly due to Gregg Broughton's role.

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What's our chances of signing Cleary? 

[Emerald Isle Rover]

5 minutes ago, ... said:

What's our chances of signing Cleary? 

Zero

[davulsukur]

So it's very much looking like another January failure under this circus.

Jorgensen looks to be a decent pick up tbf but should have been signed in the summer. And his signing alone isn't enough.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Elvis Costello says “ Less Than Zero “.

[ROVER_N_OUT1978]

We have upped our bid to £800k according to a SW local reporter. An increase of £50k 
 

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Just now, davulsukur said:

So it's very much looking like another January failure under this circus.

Jorgensen looks to be a decent pick up tbf but should have been signed in the summer. And his signing alone isn't enough.

I just feel like the singular players get burnt out because there's no one around them to play with. Instead they end up running themselves into the ground and ultimately wanting to leave

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24 minutes ago, TommyRovers said:

One of the reasons Bodø Glimt have risen from relatively unknown to Norway's best team and regular European side is partly due to Gregg Broughton's role.

Their other striker looks 👌 should ask for him too

[Andy]

2 hours ago, RossendaleBlue3 said:

In no way do I think this is ITK transfer guru know-how... 

But I fully believe every reported fee that we've paid is with every bonus and add on possible included

How much did we "pay" for Sidnei, I know he hasn't played much, but the small sample size (and the fact he hasn't played anywhere consistently for his whole career) says he's tripe and not worth the apparantley fee

((Happy to be proved wrong, but he doesn't exactly exude the high energy front foot football that we've been promised)) 

I suspect Jorgensens up front fee isn't anywhere near what's been said either. Another way for them to appear as though they are trying, and not cost cutting at every opportunity 

Agreed - though we have been doing this for a long time.
We never got near to paying £5m for Gallagher, or £6m/£7m for BBD, as that would have required promotion / etc.

The same way that our outbound transfers are add-on or clause heavy.

And, for the record, I think Broughton had a strategy and it was clearly hamstrung by interference within the club.
Szmodics, Hyam, Brittain, Tronstad are all significantly better than anything we've signed since.
As someone else has already said: O'Brien and Undav arrive in that transfer window and we're probably still a Prem club now.
 

Edited 1 hour ago by Andy

[Angry_Pirate]

On a positive note... my £50 August bet (5-1) on Rovers to be relegated is already offering an early payout of £100.

[RevidgeBlue]

1 minute ago, Angry_Pirate said:

On a positive note... my £50 August bet (5-1) on Rovers to be relegated is already offering an early payout of £100.

Wish Id had a do at the 10/1 on offer only a few weeks ago.

I didnt as it felt too disloyal.

[Tomphil2]

Yet again the desperation to buy cheap with cheap wages and pray they get a few goals so that value quickly increases is trumping the common sense approach. 

Invest in someone more proven and the returns will take car of themselves in the next few years, that's a proven method here.

This lad must have good running stats is all i can say.