Neal

I'm sorry... ONE POINT FIVE MILLION for a relegated Swiss player? Where the feck are these numbers coming from this summer? 😂😂 BULLSHIT

I'm starting to presume that what they've done is scrap most of the scouting folk and implemented some sort of AI protocol to identify players based on age/speed/estimated value using a filter function... I think there was talk of Sheffield United doing this. Genuinely being serious because it certainly looks that way to me.

And almost 15 years on we're still in the same league under the same fucking owners being run as the same old circus... So excuse my pessimism.

This is the strangest bunch of summer signings I've witnessed so far and are no doubt absolutely dog shit.

Roll up and buy your season tickets eh? Stick your season ticket up your arse. Twats.

To see a celebration of our 150 years and their fucking logo makes piss boil. Fuck off you disgusting twats.

I get the sentiment but what would it change? They aren't bothered. The club isn't important to them. We're just something that exists on their balance sheet that they have to discuss with their financial advisors once every quarter, maybe longer. Nothing more.

Cracking little player and an absolute no brainer.

He's a free? I thought he was brilliant every time I watched him.

They're asking over a million... Forget it.

To be fair, Derby need to have ambition because they almost got relegated. Most Rovers fans would ideally want us to be more ambitious than re-signing the likes of Weimann, Batth and Dolan. It's unlikely we will improve on those given our lack of financial support of course.

To be fair, there's probably a few more reasons that that. He was never fully appreciated here and probably wanted a fresh start with a new set of fans. Busier stadium aswell. Probably chucked a few extra quid at him. More stability around the club. I see the why he'd want to move.

Got to be honest... If we were looking to spunk 8 million on a striker from the MLS I'd be pretty concerned. It just simply doesn't look like sensible business. Whilst I'd like Rovers to be showing more ambition I certainly wouldn't want them to be gambling big money on unproven players from shite leagues. Picking up players for 2-3 million I would argue is the way most championship clubs should be operating, with the exception of yoyo clubs. How many players are you going to sign in the championship that you can sell for massive money? Not many. If they sign this guy for 8 million what are the chances they could sell him for double? Not great IMO.

Poku going to QPR for 900k... Whilst we're scouring Europe for weird unproven players... Christ.

These transfer targets are weird and there's something I'm just not grasping. We're looking at a 27 year old unproven CB from a shit league for 2-3 million? What I'm guessing is its another Tavares type approach where we've likely offered about 800k upfront with the rest heavily dependent on add-ons. I'm not buying that we're spending this much up front for any of our targets. As much as Gestede will probably try to dress it up that way.

Been irrelevant since we got relegated from the prem and a zombie club ever since.

There no way most of us are buying that they're ever going to pay anything close to 2 million. This also seems like poor journalism because I think is supposed to mean euros. We will never find out the initial fee but I refuse to believe they bought a player for over a million quid.

With all due respect... I'm not sure how you can say that unless you've watched him play numerous times.

I would imagine AI is a tool being used to identify targets.

Has to be. Wouldn't be surprised if Gestede has been using just missing out on the playoffs as a bargaining chip. Then dressing up to the press that it cost us 1.7m as if we're spending big money.

Agreed. To me it seems like a cheap signing in the thousands not the millions. On top of that they're trying to dress it up as some sort of coup for us. He was a squad player in a team that would probably struggle in the championship.

I can't wrap my head around signing this lad for this quoted fee. He played half the games for a small club in Portugal last season... I know inflation has driven the price of players up but 1.7 million for a lad who only started 15(?) games last season. Something feels off.

So he says "around 2 million euro" in English thats £1.7 million. I think we could probably round that down to more likely 1.5 mill including add-ons. He'll probably initially cost about 800-900k. Which sounds more like us tbh.

Can't imagine Tavares is costing us 2 million. A smaller Portuguese club where he played half the games... Sounds more like a cheap pick up.

He'd need to have an unbelievable pre season fitness wise because last season the lad just couldn't move, his legs had gone. I don't know if it's injuries catching up to him or whatever but I watched him walk through games almost. Shame because he has some leadership qualities and is a really strong lad, he bullies people in most duels. At his peak, a really useful player for us. Thing is, the game requires so much more from players now and last season it looked like he was running in treacle. I hope he comes back as the old JRC but I doubt it.