The January 2026 Transfer Window

[davulsukur]

We still need to cut 2 players from the 27. Feels like it would be Hedges and 1 other.

Easy make a case for De Neve or Henriksson but I don't think it will be either of them. Henriksson was signed on a contract until 2029, so someone believes he'll come good at some point.

More likely to be Picks or Ribeiro, might even just pay them off and cut them loose, whichever is cheapest.

Edited 3 hours ago by davulsukur

[KentExile]

9 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

When do we have to announce who isnt being registered?

Are there one or two spaces to free up?

2 need to be left out (3 if we include Garrett)

7pm this eve is the deadline I think.  But I think that there is a potential workaround.  If Damien Johnson only names the 20 players (or less if we have some U21 players involved) who feature in tonight's squad in our 25,. then others can be added later, they just cannot be removed from the 25 man list unless they are sold or loaned elsewhere (there are still some windows open - Portugal, Netherlands, Turkey, Greece are some of the bigger ones

Edited 3 hours ago by KentExile

[RevidgeBlue]

Thanks both, should be Hedges plus one other obviously. I'd go for either Pickering or Ribeiro.

Wouldn't be averse to leaving another out if we thought there were any decent free agents we could land.

[Exiled_Rover]

29 minutes ago, bigbrandjohn said:

There is something baffling here that could sprout any number of conspiracy theories. 

Maybe he is our super sub that will catapult us into mid table obscurity. 

Amazing what a freshly ground single source Colombian medium roast coffee squeezed through an Aeropress will do for your optimism. 
 

 

Maybe we play him second half of the season, he scores a bagful of goals to keep us up, Pasha is fired and the Venky's sell the club and we sell him in the summer for big money to pay for our squad rebuild?

[KentExile]

13 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Thanks both, should be Hedges plus one other obviously. I'd go for either Pickering or Ribeiro.

Wouldn't be averse to leaving another out if we thought there were any decent free agents we could land.

 

If whoever the new guy is wants to play a back 4 (and isn't told he has to play Cashin there), Pickering & Ribeiro may come back into consideration

Probably also depends on how bad Pratts injury is, could be up to 8 weeks, so they may leave him out and then loan him to a National League team (non league loans out can still be done) for the final month or so of the season

Edited 3 hours ago by KentExile

[wilsdenrover]

24 minutes ago, KentExile said:

2 need to be left out (3 if we include Garrett)

7pm this eve is the deadline I think.  But I think that there is a potential workaround.  If Damien Johnson only names the 20 players (or less if we have some U21 players involved) who feature in tonight's squad in our 25,. then others can be added later, they just cannot be removed from the 25 man list unless they are sold or loaned elsewhere (there are still some windows open - Portugal, Netherlands, Turkey, Greece are some of the bigger ones

Additions outside of the window are subject to the EFL giving permission - I’ve no idea how often they grant this. 
 

 

[Tomphil2]

17 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Maybe we play him second half of the season, he scores a bagful of goals to keep us up, Pasha is fired and the Venky's sell the club and we sell him in the summer for big money to pay for our running costs.

Had to make a slight alteration.

[Exiled_Rover]

4 minutes ago, Tomphil2 said:

Had to make a slight alteration.

If the new administration used the term 'running costs' after buying us from the Venky's I'd lead the next boycott myself.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

Hedges Kargbo Henriksson de neve Tavares 

shouldn’t be an issue tbh 

[Tomphil2]

11 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

If the new administration used the term 'running costs' after buying us from the Venky's I'd lead the next boycott myself.

I could handle it if they weren't billionaires and were running the club correctly after cutting away the venky deadwood.

[Penwortham Blue]

57 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Thanks both, should be Hedges plus one other obviously. I'd go for either Pickering or Ribeiro.

Wouldn't be averse to leaving another out if we thought there were any decent free agents we could land.

For me, Pickering should be in the team or on the bench as a minimum, he’s a reliable and competent player at this level.

[KentExile]

38 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Additions outside of the window are subject to the EFL giving permission - I’ve no idea how often they grant this. 
 

 

Me neither, but they allowed us to add Pratt earlier this season

Edited 2 hours ago by KentExile

[Tom]

Hedges and Kargbo should be left out, they aren’t likely to be fit so makes it an easier decision

[RoversClitheroe]

41 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

Hedges Kargbo Henriksson de neve Tavares 

shouldn’t be an issue tbh 

This.

[philipl]

Cashin was saved by a blind referee missing a blatant penalty from one of the worst debuts in Rovers history. 

That said it is premature to write Cashin, Jorgensen and Dapo off as total disasters just yet.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

4 minutes ago, philipl said:

Cashin was saved by a blind referee missing a blatant penalty from one of the worst debuts in Rovers history. 

That said it is premature to write Cashin, Jorgensen and Dapo off as total disasters just yet.

One game cannot write a player off

been our best defender the last 2 

good against hull away in the cup

awful v Ipswich 

then the last two our best at the back 

[bluebruce]

2 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Nyambe was brilliant when he was here as the RB in a back four, his career fell off a cliff after he left here and he was briefly without a Club but there's no reason to suggest he couldn't have continued in the same vein had he stayed.

Saw him on TV playing for Derby as the wing back on the right of a   3-5-2. That doesnt suit him either.

 

Agree. He isn't a wing back, he doesn't have the ability in the final third. But he's a good strong defender with an incredible engine, who can carry the ball way up the pitch to hand off to more technical players, and can get back into position like nobody's business. He is a good full back, but anybody who plays him as a wing back is wasting him.

[DeeCee]

3 hours ago, aletheia said:

Not the Bolton that we could end up like if the Rao's disappeared? (Currently third).

The same Bolton that has a forward thinking policy on season tickets.

https://www.bwfc.co.uk/news/where-we-belong-wanderers-launch-202627-season-ticket-campaign

And post free, not £2 a pop.