MarkBRFC

Could still be "sold" to be fair, a club might offer us a fee to save it going to tribunal.

Cryptic as always.

Topi Keskinen is a name recycled from last summer. 3 years left on his contract, you aren't getting him for £1m.

To be fair we don't as nothing official has come out. There's one really well connected twitter poster who said it, Nixon also reported it. Elliot said he had heard the same but couldn't do a piece on it as he wasn't 100%.

I don't think so. I think that him and Tavares were probably identified, and that Tavares was cheaper so we went for him. Injured for a month within 2 days of being here. Just a hunch, but I dont think Taveres will impact the first team at all this season.

This article on the retained list says that they were offered new contracts. https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/may/19/retain-list-2025/

A Batth masterclass in defence as they keep a clean sheet, Weimann popping up off the bench to score the winner, all while Eustace pisses himself as we slip into the bottom 3. Happy Birthday Rovers.

Yeah I think there's something like that to it too. Also the fact that we don't have to register him this coming season as he isn't 21 yet so won't take up a squad place.

If we're relying on Carter and Hyam as a partnership next season then we won't be keeping many clean sheets. We didn't keep one last season until Batth came into the side, and I think our only clean sheet without Batth in the side last season was against rock bottom Plymouth at Ewood.

Nobody is my guess.

I have seen the "closer to home" argument already on social media since the announcement. Usually when a player leaves a club at the end of there contract, both the club who he is leaving and the club they are joining release confirmation at the same time to announce the move. Nothing from Rovers side. Be interesting to see what they do when Dolan signs for someone.

Jake Batty done. Only a 1 year contract (with an option) which I think is a bit odd. https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/july/01/jake-signs-new-rovers-deal/

That was in 2017, not far off a decade ago. Surely you can see that a lot has changed since then?

Maintained it all along that League One is the end goal. Hence only a handful of players contracted past June 2027 as things stand. They want a third division side run on 90% academy players on very low wages, complimented by the odd loan and foreign second/third division prospect topping the squad up. Loads more redundancies at the club to cut costs more, less fans around to complain about things. Eventually we disappear even more out of the spotlight. All depends for me when we actually get there, if they keep the lads out of contract next summer and just let them walk away for free I think we can be fairly competitive again at this level next season, sell them and replace with more cheap, young foreign imports and I think we could be in a lot of trouble this season.

We're not even in the market for good free transfers at this level. Wages/signing on fee rules us out. Only players we are signing are like the ones already done 100-400k over the course of a 3 year deal Transfer fee made up of add ons that will never come to fruition Willing to accept wages of 5k per week Players that nobody else wants They will be complimented by a few loans of premier league kids and Cauley Woodrow types.

When Venkys took over this club, Oxford has just been promoted back to the football league after 4 years in the Conference. Now 15 years later, we can't even compete with them when it comes to signing/buying players. Sums up this regime perfectly.

The football club is skint. The owner's aren't. We are skint by choice, the owners could change that at any point.

Can only quote what you said, which was "no contact". Quite plausible that you're scenario has happened.

I think loans are usually until the end of May, aren't they?

On Dolan, I wonder if someone will try and agree a fee with us to stop it going to tribunal like Peterborough/QPR did with Poku recently. Tribunals can take months to sort out.

Probably not true in Dolans case. We have to offer Dolan a new contract on at least the same terms as he's on now to trigger compensation in case he moves to somewhere else in this country. Surely we have at least managed to do that!

Eustace came out within days of moving there seeing that it had been claimed that he moved for those reasons, and that it wasn't true.

At a normal club you would think so. Here? Who knows.

My prediction is that it gets moved to the Friday night for TV, and Yasir and co will make it a category A game. Everything possible to try and keep the numbers down.

I'm fully of the opinion that our 11 on the opening day won't have one new signing involved.