I've worked it out. They're waiting for the planned downtime of this messageboard to announce its fallen through.

It's plain common sense that any type obligation to buy would need a contract to agreed with the player in question. Otherwise its not an obligation. The buying club could offer the player in question £1 a week as a means of backing out of any deal. Even if this does go through it points to people being grossly out their depth that this caught them off guard and needed to be rushed through at the last minute.

I've defender GB thus far. He's felt like a breath of fresh air. However if this has fallen through its a major failure on his part. Regardless of the above though, GB has preached on multiple platforms about the value of good communication and how he prides himself on this. Utter failure on this front over the last 18 hours or so.

Feels like we may not even have an answer by the end of the day at this rate

Sounds like a promising player. Happy for us to be completing these types of deals. It's just frustrating when we were chasing a striker ready to slot into the first team.

Moving Dack into a false 9 would be foolish. He's been our best players since the world cup break.

Even Rich Sharpe is getting twitchy. If O'brien has fallen through do the club not realise it would be better to just fess up rather than playing this waiting game. Even if there is some kind of appeal going on, communications 101 is to keep people in the loop. Sure people would be frustrated, but the deafening silence only makes things worse. If there's no announcement soon it's becoming very disrespectful to the fans. This is our club. We invest our money and time. We want to know what is going on.

Maybe Gregg is waiting until we hit 300 pages

Anybody starting to wonder if we've cocked this up. They were able to announce Markanday leaving. Why no announcements of incoming players....

Going to have to change the name of this thread to the February transfer window soon.

This wait is getting a bit silly now. Better be worth it.

Had a busy day. Only been able to check in on here sporadically. Its half 5. Really expected to have a couple of players in the door by now. The longer it goes on the more pessimistic I become.

What Sharpe has written is so contradictory. Playoffs isn't the aim yet Sorba Thomas loan deal wasn't cheap. As others have said, why not sell Brereton. If we're not aiming for the playoffs then why spend money on temporary deals. If we are aiming for the playoffs then spend some money, but you can't do it half arsed. Spending a little, enough to tread water without following that up with further quality signings just weakens us for next season. Almost strikes me as companies spending their yearly budget on something frivolous at the end of the financial year.

He's got a contract here. We put a silly clause in Lamberts contract allowing him to leave at the end of the season. It would be highly, highly unlikely we'd have done similar with JDT. If he becomes unhappy, that's fair, but it wouldn't look good on him trying to force an exit. It doesn't reflect well when looking for other jobs. If he did want to leave he'd have to perform well and another club buy him out of his contract or perform miserably and get the sack, risking him getting a decent job elsewhere.

With all the doom and gloom on the transfer thread (rightly so unless the final 24 hours are magical) it's worth noting that Dacky is like a new signing. With BBD shockingly out of form he looks like our only player capable of hitting the back of the net. If we could actually add some quality around him I'd have some confidence for the remainder of the season.

It'd be the medical for me.

If Diaz has signed a pre-contract with Villareal I think it's unfair to say he will coast for the rest of the season. You can see he has a lot of love for the club. More importantly, there is a big difference between his situation and Rothwells. Diaz would have signed a pre-contract, ink dried etc, so his future is secured, regardless of injuries. Rothwell knew of the interest and knew a contract would be on the table. A big injury would derail this. Still not ideal, but its worth considering.

I am truly hoping that there are multiple irons in the fire. The news of multiple missed targets is worrying. Was Kone the main target we were looking to bring in or one option of many. It's entirely plausible that he was a back up option and that has now fallen through. Either way, we are desperate to get a couple of quality additions over the line, otherwise I really see this season fizzing out. I imagine JDT will be very unhappy if we fail to add anybody of quality.

I don't think it will affect us at all given our current set up. However it is ridiculous games are being played on deadline day. I seem to remember in years gone by deadline day was shifted if it fell on a game day. It will certainly effect some clubs. And who's to say there isn't a club we're looking to sign a player from and it becomes difficult for them to sanction a deal because they are playing.

Diaz should have been sold in the summer. The 4 players leaving on free transfers represent a grand restart for Rovers. We're starting from square one. We're fortunate to have some good academy players. But we're going to have to be shrewd. In my honest opinion if this 'journey' is ever going to bear fruit, we really need to strike lucky with a player who can be sold for big money. Whatever the plan is, its difficult to achieve anything without an influx of cash. Hopefully Raya moves for big money in the summer which would provide some wiggle room.

I'd imagine it highly unlikely. Has played a few first team games for Juve this season. Watched a couple of clips on YouTube simply because there's nobody to really get excited about at the moment. Lad has pace. Got me thinking. We must be one of the slowest teams in the top two tiers of English football. Probably the slowest Rovers team I've ever watched.

Even though bids were reportedly around £8m in the summer I'm sure we could have got £12m. Those £8m bids were testing the water, lowball offers. We come back and say we want over £20m. It's not worth the buying clubs time as valuations are so far apart. As the window drew to a close we really needed to be more realistic with our asking price and I'm sure a compromise could have been found. There were multiple clubs reportedly interested. It shows he's a good player but the step up is big and would have been a gamble for any club. From the buying clubs perspective, the fee paid needed to reflect the gamble.

Am I concerned yes. The Undav and Porteous deals falling through add to that. Especially Undav. But I like to live in hope. Even if Rovers have given me 12 years of testing that hope. Time to judge will be when the window closes. I'm hoping there are options bubbling away that the media haven't had a sniff of.

All my mates are Pompey fans. They rate Bishop far higher than they did Hirst. Not a player who will forge his own chances but has a very good conversion rate with a decent supply.

Seems to me that Thomas just doesn't want to be at Huddersfield. There has been a lot of upheaval there, another poster said he's been singled out by fans as a bit of a scapegoat. Doesn't scream good attitude, but some players just have a shorter fuse than others and can actually be great to have around the place when the going is good. On Huddersfields part, a loan makes sense. If he's disillusioned with the club and manager then it's not worth him being there, however they obviously know he's a good player. Loan him out and if the situation changes again at Huddersfield it may be a fresh start for him at the end of the season. If it doesn't then his stock may have risen and they can sell for more. Its not as plain and simple as he can't get in a struggling side. For us, he looks like he'll be an asset and offers qualities we simply don't have in our squad. It's frustrating there is no option to buy in the deal. I expect he's a player we would want to make permanent.