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If Still wants to completely ruin his prospects of managing in this country then he'll be in the dugout soon enough.

Nixon also said Ismael is a good manager.

First off it'll be someone who's available. No chance of Mark Robins. Even George Boetang is in a job at the moment, although it is a Belgian club and we know Rovers love a Belgian club these days. Lee Grant, sacked from Huddersfield. I could see that for sure.

Hopefully De Neve and Tavares...and then I guess Hedges due to his injury.

Perhaps I'm being harsh but I think it largely comes down to the fact that the squad is a lot weaker than the one we had going into January 2025. Despite a woeful window last year, they still came very close to the playoffs. This time round the window has been so weak to go on top of an already very poor summer window.

Ismael leaving aside, this has been a very bleak transfer deadline day.

It absolutely is worse than last year.

It absolutely shouldn't make a difference given how recruitment works at Rovers. I doubt Ismael had all that much input into players signing.

Crikey, he's actually going!? Presumably a way to mask no other incomings.

I just think the players will think they can just stroll by comfortably in this one, and it'll be their undoing. Wouldn't be at all surprised if they find themselves 1 or 2 nil down at half time due to poor attitude and application.

We're not bringing anyone in are we 😂

Rovers 1 - 1 Sheffield Wednesday. Gudjohnsen. Predicted team: Toth Miller O'Riordan McLoughlin Cashin Tronstad Forshaw Jorgensen Cantwell Morishita Gudjohnsen Would honestly much prefer us to go 442, but we don't have the players to play that system.

Aren't Genoa on the verge of selling their right back? Inter and Everton strongly linked. Surely they'll be back in with another offer for Alebiosu.

I was really hopeful about Henriksson, thought he'd be what we needed. Sadly he's clearly not at Championship level...not yet anyway. Maybe he'll be ok in League One, but I think that would be his limit. I do have some sympathy with the player, as he's more often than not been played out of position. Another square peg signing. Too many of 'em.

Fully expected after Ismael said yesterday that Alebiosu wouldn't be leaving 😂

This is a very valid point. The lack of chances created is horrendous. Gudjohnsen we know can put chances away, but he is a poacher, a Jordan Rhodes type forward. If you're not creating chances then it doesn't matter who is playing up front. Equally, Gudjohnsen has had his good goalscoring run when playing alongside another forward, so having him as a lone striker is not ideal. The players brought in have created more problems than solutions in that there is no clearly correct system to play.

I completely agree on that last line. The problem is that any manager or head coach who has that ability will simply get fed up of the lack of ambition, as we have found out in recent years.

Mowbray would be a huge upgrade on Ismael, but I think he's probably done now after the poor return to WBA last year.

Neither Kean or Coyle had a run like this.

I've had enough of Cantwell. He is absolutely a con artist.

Nah, not for me, the squad is nowhere near that thanks to the awful recruitment. There are some League Two standard lads in there in De Neve and Henriksson...but a proper head coach who knows what they're doing wouldn't persist with some of those players and would have had the team closer to mid table.

I was going to ask if there was any sort of response from the crowd. I imagined it would just be mostly apathy at this point.

Doesn't he already have a worse record than Kean as well?

I'm resigned to relegation...but please for the love of god, Ismael needs to go.

He's got to go