On 31/01/2024 at 20:39, Oldgregg86 said:

Look at that bench. I almost feel sorry for them 😂

Core of a World XI sitting on the subs bench on merit!

On 30/01/2024 at 10:14, BRFC4EVA said:

I cringe every time this thread come back to the top of the board..

Please start an underwhelmed and disappointed thread about each of the 5 signings in the January Window!

Adam leaves with great dignity. 

What an interview that is and I teared up never mind Adam's visible emotions.

Worth pointing out that not only were the current ownership limited in their spending in previous years by FFP (we will never know if they would have spent more in seasons past) but Rovers have been crippled by FFP in the PL. Both Everton and Newcastle would have scrapped it out for Adam's signature had both of them not been at the limit or over of what they do in the market this January.

So waiting for a big club could have been a wait in vain.

I just hope the emotional wrangler we all got put through on Wednesday night produced a sell on clause because Palace are not the most obvious candidates to give Adam Champions League football..

30 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

Do we have a disproportionate amount of fans with learning difficulties or are the majority of football fans totally void of the slightest shred of intelligence? 

I got banned for being far less disrespectful about our fans than this...

So we lost our future, gained two OAPs, got someone recognisable as a striker and unless we have another injury crisis with 10 players out, JDT can't use the lines "it is about the players we haven't got" or "we are a very young team" again.

5 loans and 2 six month deals mean GB and the 8 in the recruitment department will have a busy job between now and the end of the summer window.

Going to be weird looking for clips of Sheffield United and Crystal Palace because despite my aversion to both those clubs, that is where my favourite Rovers are...

1 minute ago, Rover8T4 said:

The lack of any info from Elliot or any local press suggests nothing is happening 

Or folks at Ewood and Brockhall are feeling very burned by yesterday's disclosures and have completely STFU ed

I am ITK to the extent nobody but nobody is talking today.

Seems we are back to Plan A on incomings if these rumours are true.

IF we played hard ball about getting one if not two Palace players in on loan they did not want to let out and on favourable terms, it would explain the near break down yesterday and Palace still not officially announcing Adam (unless I have missed something).

Could be heading towards all Rovers/Palace business being announced at once.

Meantime the dingles have raided Lowland League Albion Rovers for a 19 year old. 

15 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Absolute rubbish. He'd have had an even more life changing move to a bigger Club if he'd hung fire slightly until summer.

See the Venkys HMRC thread. It would appear he's been sold to keep the lights on until summer. 

Simple as that.

Disagree.

He is a professional sportsman who could suffer a serious injury at any time.

At Palace the millions are locked in even if he breaks his neck in his first training ground tackle. If he is as good as we think he is, he gets transferred to the bigger club anyway and his agent gets a second even bigger transfer cut.

Andy Bayes

The latest, as I understand it is that the Wharton transfer came close to collapse last night. That had a knock on effect to potential incomings at Blackburn.
The Wharton deal appears to be back on and close to completion & Blackburn can get on with recruitment

So now the American lad deal is back on according to some reports.

Rovers relaying a blip in the Adam deal (before it was resolved and the deal completed) to keep Orlando in the loop became blown up as a total breakdown according to the same reports.

GB too busy to do MacFazdean media yesterday or today.

Back to checking social media every ten minutes today.

Or maybe not...

All along I have had a nagging recollection of having slogged through the paperwork presented to the Indian Court last time.

To sum up, we have no alternative to protect the English asset except to transfer the 11m.

Selling Adam has provided an alternative.

I am speculating but a call from their lawyers along the lines of you don't expect us to prevail in March now do you???

And blocking all ins and outs is the only sensible option and we are totally screwed until losses have consumed the Adam cash and even then only losses can be supported.

Speculation as I said.

Speculation of them making the horrible but sensible decision when nothing of their funding Rovers losses has made sense.

Our team:

Anybody who is still here not on crutches

We slaughtered them at Loftus Road with a line up paradoxically not that different from the players available for Saturday.

They have had their post Ainsworth bounce and are back struggling again.

A must not lose for us but realistically a great chance to start rebuilding league and home form.

I almost expect Szmodics to move closer to a goal a game with this one...

Blast from the past. Liverpool apparently bidding for Tosin Aderobayo from Fulham.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/24084595.bolton-boss-provides-update-pursuit-blackburn-striker/

Bolton confirm they are chasing Ennis

One of Palace superstars must be on the move to a CL or big 6 club.

If not Adam better spend some of his 50k a week on bench bum ointment.

So our two Academy gems sign for London clubs within 6 months of each other.

As previously posted, the share of profit on sale should give us a decent chunk of 50 to 100 million in two or three years and selling him now means we can use 12m in the transfer market wisely with 2 days to deadline.

11m will inevitably be held back.

If I were Venkys lawyers I would be using March not to plead the case for operational costs to be covered but to get the shackles removed.

If the shackles are not removed, we really are in the land of wtf

The rumours shall I call them about what happened are hairy.

Anderson and Huber ended up acting for the Trust desperate to find a buyer and Venkys. Double bubble fees.

Venkys were apparently not their first choice. First choice informally failed fit and proper when name was bounced off the Premier League. Then it got extremely hairy unpicking that first choice...

Talking of rumours, Sir Frank Lowey of Westfield and if that was the case the way he was "discouraged" was rumoured to be shall we say unethical.

On 28/01/2024 at 23:28, Mike E said:

I seem to remember Rothschilds had a hand in our sale somehow?

Rothschilds acted for the Trust

6 to 7 weeks sadly.

Add at least 4 weeks to that for Hayden Carter.

25 minutes ago, alex l said:

So in short, we're really busy behind the scenes, but it could result in nothing or something. 

Is that you Nicko?

Apologies for the sarcasm. I fully get things don't always fall into place when work towards transfers is done but aside from those who believe we're not even trying to do anything transfer-wise, I'm not sure what this tells us that isn't known or would be common sense. 

Aargh being confused for Nixon

Ok back from my shower.

If nobody at Rovers is showing common sense we will all need to take a shower..

Back into the public domain. 

Scott Wharton talking about two coming in and JDT answering transfer questions without saying "ask Gregg" suggests the club is pretty close to signings.

As for a different comment about Jerry Yates scoring penalties for Blackpool, how many of our recent in game penalties have we missed?

From what I understand...

Thursday is probably going to be manic.

Multiple ins and outs currently in the pipeline - mostly loans.

Gally will not get a new deal so we probably said goodbye tonight. Ipswich can go higher if they want to gamble on hanging onto 2nd place.

I am saying manic because there are no done deals and a few chains of X happens if Y and/or Z which is why I am suggesting Thursday. So could easily be crazy behind the scenes with zero transactions completed come Friday morning.

Two completely different scenarios in play depending if someone (Everton but particularly Newcastle looking at you) hits Venkys magic Adam number and I have no idea what it is today. The hearing in March is complicating  mattees. The FA Cup draw gives Newcastle the added need for insurance against Adam dumping them out...

The cash restrictions are really hurting our ability to take a risk and be first movers to break a chain...

Watched it on the feed for the US which TN puts into pubs in Malta.

Commentary praising the academy but completely omitted JRC as an academy product. They sounded desperate to see Adam Wharton on the pitch...

An amazing stat given how old both clubs are, that was the first ever Rovers Wrexham FA Cup game.

Wrexham knocked top division Rovers out of the League Cup in its inaugural 1960 season in the only other cup tie between the two.

JRC and Dolan weren't perfect but made a big difference.

I thought a lot of things didn't come off for Szmodics tonight - he could easily have had 6 goals and that is not an exaggeration. Struggling to think of another player with quite the same mindset of being totally unaffected in performance by set backs during the game. He just keeps going and getting into positions to hurt opponents.

Gallagher physicality completely ruffled their defence but familiar wrong decision in third minute when he didn't move for a tap in and lack of control 8n 15th minute passed it to the Wrexham full back when he would have scored if he had given himself of a second touch if his first touch hadn't been so heavy...

The 5 minutes they were cutting through us were scary but otherwise we were very good and a pleasing watch.

Sigurdsson and Moran frustrated at times and Garrett had a poor game by his recent standards. 

Stat appeared on scrén around 70th minute showing passes 500-200 in Rovers favour and completion % 93 -73. That was the gulf in class. Sure they could have freaked a win but we could more easily have Harrogated them.

Looking forward to seeing us against Newcastle. Obviously odds favour them but expect JDT ( whom the commentary were lavashing praise on) will set us up well.

Tronstad's joy when the 4th went in was worth the two hours in the pub on its own.

Very good performance and if those final balls come good we are going to murder a much better opposition than Wrexham.

Pears has come back as a real keeper by the look 9f things so far. Ok a PL level keeper stops the Wrexham goal but Pears looks to have used his lay off to good effect.

Another home tie as reward for beating Wrexham.

That must put a few onto the crowd to support us surely.

On 26/01/2024 at 20:00, Upside Down said:

Fucking disgrace. 

Appropriate name for Brum