O'Riordan recalled & Duru loaned to Barrow in League 2

16 minutes ago, Lucimo said:

Liam Kitching linked

I'm assuming that would be a loan (Coventry paid £5M for him not so long ago) to play the Pickering role as a more tucked in full back (allowing Beck to play further forward) and also cover centre back

5 hours ago, rigger said:

Everyone we sign, we get a pudding.

Maybe that's a ploy to tempt Waggott into opening the purse strings?

15 minutes ago, RoverInverness said:

Perhaps in a similar way, I used to think Kenny was deliberately indecipherable in front of a microphone. I don’t think he cared for being interviewed and that was his way of getting his own back on having to do all that bollocks.

This is something I always thought too.  

8 hours ago, bluebruce said:

That gives us a total 42.9% chance of finishing in the top 6. Which would probably be a fair shout based purely on the data from the season so far. What Opta of course can't factor in is Venkys fucking us in this window whilst other teams strengthen.

Opta need a better supercomputer then, if it cannot predict an annual certainty, then it isn't much of a supercomputer in my eyes 😉 

3 minutes ago, neophox said:

Didn't Brittain do well as a cm for Barnsley?

No

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/callum-brittain/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/416368/plus/0?saison=&verein=349&liga=&wettbewerb=&pos=&trainer_id=

Although apparently the only game he did play in midfield was against Rovers

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/callum-brittain/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/416368/saison//verein/349/liga/0/wettbewerb//trainer_id/0/pos/6

2 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

How did his loan go? I think he joined on a month's loan initially and then it was extended through to Jan.

https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/macclesfield/appearances/james-edmondson/977878

3 goals in 14 games playing mainly in the Tronstad role.  Macclesfield top of the division by some distance

5 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

I think he was called Jastin and hasnt really broken through since.

This one?

Looks like he has been injured all season

edit - and last season

7 minutes ago, B16Rover said:

What happened to the Portuguese left winger from Getafe/Girona who did well in a friendly Vs us 

Girona's wingers were Viktor Tsygankov & Savinho

If its a Girona player then he is likely playing in the Champions League these days

Savinho is at Man City

https://www.sofascore.com/football/match/girona-fc-blackburn-rovers/WsoKj

14 minutes ago, ... said:

What's the source of this one?  Reliable or no?

Not a clue how reliable the source is, I just did a bit of quick digging on the player after someone else posted the link to him

12 minutes ago, Rover1984 said:

Apparently he is a fast, left footed wide player, 22 years old, French/Egyptian.  Still has 2.5 years left on his contract, so would probably cost more than Rovers are offering

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/haissem-hassan/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/620164/plus/0?saison=&verein=&liga=&wettbewerb=&pos=&trainer_id=

Just now, ... said:

Haha 😄  anyway back to waiting for transfer news 👀 

we probably have more chance of Bertha producing that army 

1 minute ago, ... said:

And all it makes is sub par players that break after half a season 🤣

An army of Sam Gallaghers? 😉 

1 minute ago, ... said:

Big Bertha 

3 minutes ago, Displaced Rover said:

In 0.2% of their simulations we go up automatically and in 0.2% the dingles finish 7th. Sign me up!

If its the same 0.2% of simulations then I'm definitely there for it

1 minute ago, M_B said:

I always imagine the super computer looking like the one in Willy Wonka where Tim Brooke Taylor is asking it where the last Golden Ticket is.

Its more exciting than it just being essentially an excel spreadsheet 😉 

James Edmondson (midfielder) recalled from loan at Macclesfield

That's our Baker replacement sorted then 😉 

Edmondson recalled, confirmed by Macclesfield, not by Rovers

In other news, the Opta "supercomputer" is doing a Mystic Meg impression again

https://theanalyst.com/2025/01/championship-predictions-opta-january-2024-2025

9 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I think he's a really good player. Do you not?

Jones is another with little end product

Less goal involvements than Dolan in the 5 years he has been in the championship (from slightly more minutes than Dolan too), and none at all this season

Jones stats

Dolan stats

He has pace, which is useful, but that's about it

Starts this evening for

Vale drew 0-0 - Vale played the first 60odd minutes before being subbed off with the game at 0-0 in his first start since returning from injury.

Saadi - drew 2-2 - Saadi has now started the last 6 in all competitions, Its only Cyprus, and given that an aging Matt Derbyshire did "ok" there in his spell at AEK before moving to Bradford in League 2, I am guessing that it is probably on some sort of par with the 4th tier here, but he is doing ok for himself there by the looks of things.

5 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

They didn’t need to give permission for him to play in the FA cup.

 

Whilst I think you are correct as per rules and regs,  I would imagine there is essentially a "gentleman's agreement" that clubs check with the parent club before cup tying loan players, and whilst the club could technically (and legally) just play the player anyway, it may sour any future business relations between the 2 parties

2 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

We haven't got any Szmodics' or Wharton's left to sell.

New owners would still have to find that £10m (at least) plus cover annual operating losses for a while

Its what owners with a bit of gumption would have done last season.  Technically speaking Venkys could still do that now.  But they wont

4 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I think that's a fairly optimistic take.

Not at all,

Sell Wharton, Szmodics etc for close to £40M

Invest £10M of said £40M in new players with a bit of potential, use the rest of the profits to fund losses (so that the owners do not have to)

Sell some of the new players in a few years time

Rinse and repeat