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I know its only Tuesday but you can tell this week is a stinker when the only news is Brittain supposedly having talks with Boro and Elliott's coverage in the LT is an interview with Bradley Dack 😂. No disrespect to Dacky, love the guy...but it's not the news I want to see right now 😅.

Crazy that a lot of their fans seemed to want him gone at one point or another last season. Chelsea fans aren't used to giving a manager / head coach time I suppose.

I think there was a general expectancy, wasn't there? Last summer I'm pretty sure we were all definitely anticipating Hyam and Carter being first choice paring, which is how the season started as well with Batth initially making sub appearances and started in the League Cup games. It was quite clear Batth came to be backup because that Hyam / Carter partnership was already well established. Batth ended up being more of a key player than I think any of us thought he would, and that's great. Its a real shame we couldn't keep him for another year and ease the need for signing another CB.

Agree. Expect any talk of the deal quietly dissipating over the next few days with Jackson posting a one linear in an article saying Rovers have moved on from it. Better to not pursue it though. We need someone to hit the ground running, not someone who isn't ready and then takes months to bed in. Can't afford to have any passengers in the squad given how the club operate. As we found out after January with Dennis and Kargbo both failing to make an impact.

I thought they'd said they weren't looking to bring in two CBs, just one. Assuming that's why they've been trying for Kapuadi from Legia Warsaw...? Would he (or someone else) not essentially be Batth's replacement?

Carter's injury proneness has become a real problem. I feel for him, but the team needs someone more reliable to partner Hyam. We also can't expect Scott Wharton to just fill the void after his own long term injury. The club desperately needs a replacement for Danny Batth.

With the way Rovers are run its no surprise that players tend to want out when another club shows interest. Sadly there just isn't any loyalty in football anymore, but even if there was, why would some of these players want to hang around at a club that's clearly being run into the ground through sheer negligence...especially when those other clubs will offer better pay. So when Brittain goes I won't be bitter about it towards him, although I don't agree with him saying no to playing. The only saving grace is that the club will get some money in for him...whether that money is spent on a new player or two I'm very doubtful, as I'm sure we all are. Shame about Baradji. Of the players we've signed or have been close to signing, he looked like one of the better ones. On to the next one I suppose....is it now time to look at who got relegated from the Austrian Bundesliga last season 😂

Those quotes from Ismael in the LT read like just the beginnings of the next head coach to fall foul of the way Rovers is run as a club. Before too long he'll be just as fed up as JDT and Eustace became in the end....it wouldn't be at all a surprise, and I'm not even that fond of Ismael. It feels like every season its a messy summer followed by a new years implosion.

That is quite the weak looking team. So many players already with knocks is concerning.

Amazing isn't it how people are so easily swayed to hate on a player when we all know the club is about as functional as a chocolate teapot. Quick get the snake inflatables out again.

My bad. I only find genuinely funny things humorous 🙂

This. A club run by proper football people that know what they're doing get these contracts sorted. Instead we've got Cirque du Suhail handling it.

I don't see too many downsides for Derby. They survived relegation and would be strengthening on what they had whilst weakening another side in the same league.

That is the saving grace. Conference League is entirely winnable for most premier league teams if they commit to it as Chelsea and West Ham have done previously. Palace the last two seasons as well have been really strong in the latter part of seasons, so you could imagine them going on a bit of run in a competition like the conference league. Who takes their place in the Europa League?

Oh dear. Just when things were looking slightly better. Can't imagine Brittain staying now that official bids have been lodged, unless he's really settled at the club. Imagine if both he and Dolan end up at Derby. Pretty embarrassing stuff.

All the best to JRC. At one point under JDT he was immense, if only he had been able to kick on and become a key player. If Charlton can get a tune out of him then they've got a decent player, but it was definitely time for him to move on from Rovers. Things had gone very stale for him at the club. Same with Buckley, he needs a fresh start elsewhere.

The point on unproven players at Championship level is key for me and undeniable. I am hopeful that Rovers will still bring in a couple with more proven experience as they did with Batth and Weimann late last summer, but I am very fearful that we start the season with a bunch of Rudy randomers and some young premier loans that are too raw and lightweight for the rough and tumble of Championship football. Some of them might be like Ohashi and take to it very quickly, while others might be more Gueye and really struggle to settle, or not settle at all.

Agree although Dennis was so ineffective in his loan spell that he may as well have not been at the club at all.

Might have been a few of us, but I will happily take credit 😂 I believe Mercer was also correct on the call that two players would be announced before the Stanley friendly. I hope that also means Brittain's contract is sorted too.

If the supposed 2nd player is from a Swiss club then it'll probably be from Yverdon Sport FC who were relegated last season 😂

Can we perhaps sign a player from one of the other relegated sides in Belgium? You know, just for a bit of variety. 🙃 Alebiosu sounds on paper like an even less inspired signing than De Neve, who was at least a starter in that side. Any more players from Belgium this summer and it's going to become the new version of all the Portuguese players that signed in summer 2012. That being said, if JRC is indeed out the door then this feels like a straight replacement and backup to Brittain (hopefully). Maybe Rovers will use the rest of the supposed JRC money to finally laund Kapuadi, who is the only player we've been linked with that seems like he would actually, genuinely improve the team. It all seems a bit desperate, doesn't it? Granted we've not seen any of these new players kick a ball yet, but none of them make me think "yeah that'll improve the starting 11". It feels much more like squad fillers ahoy while Rudy spins his wheel of fortune / misery on who we bring in next. I suppose compared to last summer it's still early days on Rovers recruitment. Wasn't it the last week of pre-season when they signed a bunch of players over the course of a week? I remember Ohashi and Gueye played 45 mins each in a friendly the week before the first game of the season.

I hope so. He's not good enough. Had one purple patch in the second half of JDTs first season, but other than that he's been pretty awful. I wish him well, but he's not good enough for the Championship right now, or possibly ever.

Or maybe he just wants out because those running the club are an utter embarrassment. Either way, the way Rovers go about things Tronstad will end up walking for nothing next summer.