12 minutes ago, ABBEY said:

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54 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

He barely played at all but he definitely at least played sometimes as a number 10. I remember watching the game in which he scored for them when the ball just hit him and he played behind 2 strikers and they played wing backs. 

Certainly didnt play as a 6 as that is a CB's number. Traditionally anyway.

But either way, gone off point. The original point was that teams might be less enthusiastic about loaning us players considering how poor our loan signings have been this season and how they have barely played.

No a 6 is defensive midfielder number. Klopp mentioned it alot. 4 and 5 are centre back numbers. 

Has Ayari played has a ten at Rovers? 

49 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Not really sure what relevance that has to the point I made. 

Plenty. You were totally wrong on the matter

49 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Johansson has a release clause so us trying to sweeten Rotherham up by loaning them a shit keeper wont make a difference, any team can activate that clause. And it almost certainly wont be us when he will likely have lots of interest and it would require Venkys authorising £1m to be spent especially on a position we have 2 keepers in already. They dont care how bad they are.

I've never mentioned loan them Wahlstedt did I? 

We will deffo strengthen the keeper area in the summer. 

11 minutes ago, ABBEY said:

Party line yet again ..  

Chaddy n maggot sitting in a tree

Boring Abbey. Same shit different day. 

29 minutes ago, arbitro said:

I was told yesterday that Ian Silvester has gone, in fact he went around two weeks ago. It was put down as 'early retirement' so read into that what you will. My educated guess is that he has been made the scapegoat and paid off. Perhaps there might be a snippet of information comes out officially from the club but I'm pretty sure there hasn't been an investigation. The assistant secretary has assumed his duties.

Ok. So Sarah Logan who was assistant club Secretary under Slivester has now taken over the club secretary duties? 

6 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

I suspect the second one. But, I’ll bring it up at July’s meeting.

Can you asked whether Slivester has gone and has Sarah Logan taken over his duties? 

2 minutes ago, lraC said:

The reason it won't affect the transfer window, is that it will be sales only.

They know this squad needs money to strength the team

2 minutes ago, lraC said:

We were told that the McGuire deal was down to an error and now it is being investigated internally, so can't be discussed.

why is an internally investigation taking so long?

9 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

Speaking of low blows!

Of course we do. Last meeting, he said he was unable to talk about that aspect of the last window, however.

what low blow? I asked a simple question which you answer and i'm pleased with you answer. 

5 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

They also confirmed we’d signed Duncan McGuire and Lewis O’Brien.

only McGuire was confirmed. 

You are on FF panel and in the room when Waggott is saying this to you all. Do any of the FF panel not challenge him on it if you don't believe it? 

10 hours ago, DE. said:

We've had two coaches now who seem extremely reluctant to put Telalovic on the pitch, which probably says something. Does make you wonder what the recruitment team were thinking spending any of our limited money on him though. Might as well have kept Vale around - from memory he didn't go out on loan until 01/09, so we could have just decided to hold onto him if Telalovic was our only other achievable target.

Rovers had a choice to make between a loan striker from la Liga aged 31 or Telalovic and JDT/GB picked Telalovic. I don't know who this 31 aged La Liga striker was. 

11 hours ago, JHRover said:

The only way we'll be looking at new goalkeepers is in the unlikely event either Pears or Wahlstedt attract cash bids from elsewhere and we manage to sell them. 

That will be a financially motivated decision depending on whether anyone entices us with cash.

Until that happens both will be under contract and they won't be worrying about that position in the transfer window.

I think Eustace already knows where we need to strengthen squad wise. You seen he doesn't want to play Markanday or Moran or Telalovic. 

Its clear we need a new first choice keeper and goalscoring striker plus some pace wide. 

11 hours ago, Ossydave said:

Just another thing to flag up at the moment, how much our attraction to loanees must have gone down the pan.

We've had some brilliant players last few seasons, lots of game time, making us an attractive proposition.

This season however, wtf is going on seriously. 

I think Chrisene is better than Pickering and Ayari offers promise too. The lad from Liverpool went from looking like a mad man to quality vs Newcastle in the space of 10 mins. Not a single one of these have benefited from their loan, ditto Moran. We're easily bottom of any lists for loans now too, especially when you factor in we're either a league 1 team or relegation plodders in the championship next season

Moran has 9 assists this season. 

10 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

He wouldnt come here I dont think anyway, he should get a better move on bigger wages elsewhere. Giving Rotherham a supposed sweetener in Wahlstedt would make no difference to negotiations as anyone can activate that release clause. Plus no way would Steve Evans want Wahlstedt anyway.

You said we would get what we did for Adam Wharton but guess what. we did. you were wrong on that

10 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Pickering is a solid left back at this level and was a key part in the teams that finished 7th and 8th. He is being hung out to dry at the moment under Eustace in a position that doesnt suit him. But Chrisene isnt better than him.

Pickering played the wing back role in Mowbray last season so its wrong he is being hung out to dry by Eustace. 

Chrisene is more attacking wing back than Pickering

10 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Ayari has had a mixture of ineffective cameos and ones where he has had somewhat of an impact, he was decent yesterday. But he came as a number 10 which was one position we didnt need, but with the shit show of a window we had losing Travis and then Wharton, the only place he has had a chance of getting game time in is deeper. I wonder if he could be trusted in that position.

who says Ayari came in as number 10 then? I'm sure JDT said he could play the 8 or 6 role aswell as the 10 role. 

1 hour ago, OldEwoodBlue said:

Sounds great, except the Wharton money will have been spent on the utility bills and HMRC by the time we get post Aug 20th.

Raya cash will come in after the window shuts.

Szmodics cash will need to be banked in case Aug 20 goes tits up and we need electricity for the new season.

There is no way they have funds to be cutting income. We are on our knees.

Rovers have said the case in the Indian court will not effect the Rovers summer transfer business we are told. Lets see what happens in the summer

10 hours ago, Bronzed A Donis said:

Is that in the other games? If so I agree, I don't think we'll beat Leicester. I'm going for 3-1 Leicester , but Brum and Plymouth to both only get a point.

Let's hope you're correct and we can take care of it ourselves, but I think that ship sailed in the last 2 home games.

I think we will get the result we need

10 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

I meant that chaddy wouldnt say a bad word about him and was fuming when he left. Now all of a sudden like with Mowbray before, he is happy to criticse him and shield the current manager from any sort of criticism.

I have criticised John Eustace so your comments is totally and utter BS. 

Criticise Eustace for his tactics and subs at Bristol City, his decisions in the second half against Sheffield Wednesday like his lateness of triple subs or not changing formation. Even on Saturday I thought Chrisene should have been on the same time as Ayari when they went down to 10 men.  

I did criticise JDT when it was right. 

Same starting 11 as the Coventry game. 

We will get the result we need to stay up

43 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Even McKenna won’t have seen Gally as much as I have.

His top scout would have seen enough of him. They already had Hirst who JDT couldn't get firing here

24 minutes ago, Hasta said:

No with Kaminski we got to the figure we thought Luton would pay and then sold. He was worth far more than £2.5 mill.

 

Luton made a number of offers below what we accepted for 2.5m. Source GB's comments 

With Thomas, it was different. We felt one of the goalkeepers would go this summer. The moment Luton came in, Thomas was clear that he wanted to play in the Premier League and Luton was a viable option to do that.

"We weren't prepared to bend our valuation on Thomas just because he said that. We had some difficult conversations with Thomas in Austria when Luton were insistent they wouldn't go above their bid. We wouldn't drop earlier.

"My only concern was we knew the others that were being tabled for Leo (Wahlestedt), who was our first choice as a replacement for Thomas or Aynsley (Pears). Luton eventually started to move closer to our number for Thomas 

6 minutes ago, Hasta said:

 But I thought once a Premier League team comes in there’s nothing you can do to keep a player who wants to move. Cos that’s what you’ve said about Kaminski all season.

 

and if you remember rightly we didn't accept their first bid but waiting till we got their asking price we wanted. same with other players like Wharton and BBD cos we rejected 3 bids that didn't meet our asking price 

1 minute ago, roversfan99 said:

Not the narrative you ran with when he was here, similar to Tomasson, and more importantly, not relevant to the point I was making.

I did complain how he used Ryan Giles and I did repeatedly he should have changed formation much sooner than he did. Maybe we got playoffs then 

1 hour ago, Exiled_Rover said:

I thought he was really poor for us, but maybe he just didn't fit our system.

When I've seen him play for Huddersfield he just seems to get his head down and whip balls into the box. Admittedly we only had Gallagher in the box for him to aim at, but he rarely did that for us. 

Maybe sign a good striker or 2 where Thomas can get the ball in the box quicker and we can score. 

We need 2 strikers signings in the summer

2 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

In the final season, he wasnt backed at all. He had to sell Armstrong and that summer was all loans and Edun for a nominal fee. Then in January, he spent another nominal fee on Hedges, a couple of loans and Markanday for 500k who instantly tore his hamstring and missed the rest of the season.

The death spirals are a result of us constantly having thin/young squads and never getting backed in January, regardless of manager.

Maybe Mowbray should have loan a striker or used Ryan Giles properly 

22 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Never said you said it would. Point is if he is fit enough to warm up with the first team but didn't play, he really should be in the u21s the next day. Not going to develop just doing training and warm ups.

It's a fair point

4 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I thought he did ok after a very shaky first 10 minutes. Has he been seen since ?

No. Just on the bench and warm ups. Pointless loan tbh

1 hour ago, tomphil said:

Not exactly a ringing endorsement then is it surely if you're pitching cheaper prices to Waggot and co it has to be justified by more than a shrug of the shoulders.

Lower prices makes it more affordable for people. Look at yesterday 15 pounds a ticket and people buy. Similar with ST plus get them on sale early around February or March time. 

2 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

I'd be happy starting Brittain, Hyam, Carter, JRC, Tronstad and Szmodics each week in a good Championship team.

So realistically you're looking for 6 new starters. 7, really, because you know Szmodics is being sold this summer. 

I think S. Wharton, Leonard, Buckley / Travis / Garrett (don't think you'd keep all 3), Hedges, Dolan and Pickering have value as squad players. 

That's why JDT struggled at the end and why Eustace hasn't been able to do more than stem the bleeding. 

I think Eustace rated about 16 players in this squad and you can see that when you look at his team selections and subs. It going to busy summer of transfers in and out for sure

15 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Not sure why that stopped him playing in the u21s.

never said it would

12 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

If someone offers £15m for Szmodics you'd be mad not to sell.

I think someone will offer £8m and we'll hurry him out the door.

if we set that valuation on him then we won't shift from that. 

1 hour ago, simongarnerisgod said:

i`de be looking at the lad from blackpool,dembele,looks a level above where he`s playing,though concern would be why he can`t seem to get a game at his parent club brest,in the french 2nd division

I would be looking Reading players Femi Azeez and Harvey Knibbs