The January 2026 Transfer Window

[roverandout]

The plastic club are spending serious money this deadline day. Cadamatari and that lad from Barnsley who has 16 goals. Proper ambitious club 

[DutchRover]

2 minutes ago, Browjd said:

Can we stop using the word firing - he wasn't. Mutual consent conveniently... hence no pay out. Don't give them that credit. 

Yes but mutual consent also probably means we are going to keep paying his salary until he finds a new employer, why else would he agree, especially if he has signed a NDA too.

[Comfortably numb]

13 minutes ago, KentExile said:

No chat about our new signing? 😉 

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2026/february/02/rovers-sign-young-gunner/

The new Saka 😄 Good luck to the lad

[KentExile]

17 minutes ago, Browjd said:

Can we stop using the word firing - he wasn't. Mutual consent conveniently... hence no pay out. Don't give them that credit. 

 

13 minutes ago, DutchRover said:

Yes but mutual consent also probably means we are going to keep paying his salary until he finds a new employer, why else would he agree, especially if he has signed a NDA too.

 

It means they have come to an agreement about the terms & extent of his pay off.

Ismael has not just said "you know what, I am crap, I will leave without a pay out of any kind"

Edited 3 hours ago by KentExile

[LeftWinger]

4 hours ago, LeftWinger said:

Rovers' Deadline Day Betting:

4/6 - Alebiosu to be sold with less than an hour of the window remaining
EVENS - Ismael to leave the club within a week of the window closing
2/1 - Rovers to make a ridiculously low offer for a player that they've no intention of signing
5/1 - Rovers to somehow miss out on a player due to an admin error
16/1 - Rovers to sign a player that I've actually heard of

Well that's one down....

[Comfortably numb]

43 minutes ago, Ricky said:

Go for Ballard from Orient. Stockport are chasing play offs so more likely to want to keep players. Orient are well out of that race

If they have looked at Wootton you would imagine Ballard is also under consideration 

[alcd]

1 hour ago, Torgeir said:

Now what? It's deadline day...New excuse not to sign any new players until a new manager is in place. 

Transfer budget spent on Dismael's compensation. Also a great distraction from not signing a striker. Are we surprised? 

[booth]

1 hour ago, BankEnd Rover said:

 

Bullshit he's not for sale, he's 29 years old and it's likely his value will lower.

We'll have offered peanuts at a time when it would be difficult to replace him more like.

[KentExile]

Former Rovers loanee Andy Moran apparently signing for Preston for £1M

[rob_of_the_rovers]

Who's going to want to come here when they don't even know if the new manager will want them?

[Emerald Isle Rover]

Just now, rob_of_the_rovers said:

Who's going to want to come here when they don't even know if the new manager will want them?

Dapo did

[KentExile]

Not that I expect it to happen, but given Watford's manager has left, and Watford have a liking for re-employing old managers... is there any chance Ismael is off there to take them down instead of us?

Edited 3 hours ago by KentExile

[KentExile]

2 minutes ago, rob_of_the_rovers said:

Who's going to want to come here when they don't even know if the new manager will want them?

Given its Rudy, & not the manager doing the buying, that would still potentially be an issue for any player signed by Rudy et al, even if Ismael was still in situ

[Exiled_Rover]

10 minutes ago, KentExile said:

Former Rovers loanee Andy Moran apparently signing for Preston for £1M

He was crap.

[KentExile]

Just now, Exiled_Rover said:

He was crap.

I didn't say he wasn't

Edited 3 hours ago by KentExile

[Elrovers]

7 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

He was crap.

4 hours to go and still nothing. Seems like we won’t be getting a striker.

[jim mk2]

1 hour ago, Torgeir said:

Now what? It's deadline day...New excuse not to sign any new players until a new manager is in place. 

Correct

 Brilliant move by the club on deadline day to deflect from lack of signings 

[jim mk2]

2 minutes ago, Elrovers said:

4 hours to go and still nothing. Seems like we won’t be getting a striker.

We ain’t getting anyone

Focus now is on manager’s job

[CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber]

2 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

We ain’t getting anyone

Focus now is on manager’s job

More important than any striker signing I'd argue, but we'll likely fuck up both 

[bluebruce]

From the LT:

A reminder that the deadline shuts at 7pm tonight but clubs can now submit dealsheets for the first time. That allows a further two hours to complete the necessary paperwork. Something Rovers could've certainly done with in the last few years...

Erm hasn't this already been the case for at least last season and I think the season before?

[Waggy76]

Wasn't there something about Ismael having a clause in his contract after a few months ??

Maybe it was 12 months , mutual consent ? You cannot believe a word the club says but it seems convenient on deadline day !

[Ricceh]

Embarrassing really. No one coming in. Dog shit as always.

[AVE1875]

7 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

From the LT:

A reminder that the deadline shuts at 7pm tonight but clubs can now submit dealsheets for the first time. That allows a further two hours to complete the necessary paperwork. Something Rovers could've certainly done with in the last few years...

Erm hasn't this already been the case for at least last season and I think the season before?

No, deal sheets submitted between 17:00 and 18:59 allow a 2 hour grace period to finalise smaller aspects of the deal. Prior it was all paperwork needed to be submitted. Always been a thing in the prem and now officially the EFL.

[Tom]

47 minutes ago, KentExile said:

Former Rovers loanee Andy Moran apparently signing for Preston for £1M

Of all the players that existed, he is one of them. 
 

I honestly can’t remember anything he did here 

[KentExile]

1 minute ago, Tom said:

Of all the players that existed, he is one of them. 
 

I honestly can’t remember anything he did here 

He was very good v Cardiff in an early season league cup tie, then did next to nothing for the rest of his stay.  Seemed like very much a fair weather player