I think we can all agree £9m is not enough, and that Szmodics owes Rovers just as much as we owe him.

It’s weird a Rovers fan would actively encourage a contracted Rovers player to shit on the club!

Yeah, I was serious about the Notorious B.I.G. thing🤣

Sammy’s career moves have been highly influenced by Notorious B.I.G. ‘Mo Money, Mo Problems’, his philosophical musings on the spiritual cost of excessive wealth.

I didn’t know you knew him. Maybe his daughters first words were ‘Szmodsy lad, please stay at Rovers’

We’re in good financial shape, we’ve just raked in £25m, spent nowt, and the billionaire owners can send money over whenever they want.

Maybe Sammy has had a change of heart, or maybe Rovers won’t sell?

Tyrese Campbell has signed for Sheffield Utd. I think he was on the wish list of some on here.

You’d think Siggy will be on a decent wage too.

I think there’s levels of fitness. JRC, Hedges and Mak were cooked at 30 mins. We looked far better when those 3 were subbed. We couldn’t get up the pitch at all from 30 mins to 60 mins. Agree on the resilience, that’s one thing Eustace has instilled since he took over.

Ah so Chaddy wasn’t necessarily accurate when he said we were after a British keeper. edit: actually he said ‘uk based’ rather than British. So it could mean a foreign keeper currently at a British club. Its like peeling an onion..,.and will probably also end in tears!

I was reading an article on Derbys manager and how much emphasis he puts on pace and athleticism. Bearing in mind how many players we had playing that weren’t anywhere near fit (Gueye, JRC, Hedges) it was a good result all told. That was probably one of the worst games Ive seen from JRC. He’s not the quickest at the best of times but he looked like he was running in treacle.

Did he mean the keeper could still be foreign, but qualify for a work permit? Or did he say the keeper is British?

In Broughton’s last interview in May, when he was explaining what he advised the board to do with the transfer fees we were getting this summer, mentioned the instalments thing. He said that he’d advised that even though we receive money in instalments when we sell, we also pay in instalments when we buy. So it’s essentially a non-issue. So you can imagine that Waggott had already told GB that the instalments theory only ever works in the clubs favour! As always, Venky’s Out.

Szmodics is in his prime years, Ipswich aren’t buying potential. His fee should reflect that. I think £9m for a goal scorer is cheap.

We aren’t getting a transfer fee or the chance to include sell-on clauses.

Works now. I’ve got it in incognito mode, but thanks anyway.

Ipswich really are a cheap, tinpot club if they’re quibbling over £500k

Would someone be good enough to paste the article, I just get an error message when I click on it.

Where’s the British keeper info from? If Buckley goes we need 2 CMs Good riddance to Siggy, he’s been a waste of space. This Ryo chap looks like a forward who plays centrally from the clips I’ve seen. We’re still quite a few players short, especially as the likes of JRC and Hedges are going to get injured at some point.

@booth has an admirer!

Bit harsh. Leonard has potential but needs a season of 1st team football.

Looking forward to seeing what the Nixon story is tomorrow. This is what the transfer window has done to me!

O’Riordan and Leonard both off to Posh?

So Szmodics was a Liverpool fan until he was 15, then became a West Ham fan. Glad that’s sorted, it was becoming quite the saga!