RevidgeBlue

That should knock £50 off the price!

Tronstad maybe. Travis is the beating heart of the team. We were nearly relegated without him in 23/24 and the season de-railed last season after he got injured at Millwall. Even with Tronstad, although I'm not a particular fan, if he goes I'd still expect any replacement to be a cheaper downgrade

What bill?

Notice also that Jackson has done another puff piece for the Club saying basically there's no reason for concern because we struggle to get players in early every year so this is nothing new. Great logic Elliott. The LT must have had their knuckles rapped by the Club at some point last season, they really are in full on PR mode.

If this Mannsverk dude is any cop whatsoever he'll be an upgrade on Tronstad BUT if his Club rate him at around £3m I've little doubt it'll be the usual stand off situation with us bidding around half that and then screaming and stamping our feet about how unfair it is the parent Club won't even entertain the bid. Whilst Travis Tronstad and Brittain sail serenely out of the door to get away from the madhouse.

We've bid around 50% of the fee Kapaudi's Club want for him and enquired about Pye but didn't even bother submitting an offer when we were quoted £3m. I think that about covers it for the time being.

So predictable isnt it - if we couldn't even tempt Batth and Weimann to sign new one year deals, how the hell are we going to persuade the likes of Brittain and Travis to commit to long term contracts? So much for Jackson's claim that talks with Brittain were at an "advanced stage" a month or two ago as well. I know the LT dont want to bite the hand that needs them but they really need to stop being a PR mouthpiece for the Club and tell things how they are. We're in extremely dangerous waters.

Didn't he say to Alf Roberts (Coronation St) in finest Michael Caine "You were were only meant to blow the bloody doors off" style: "You're a big man but you're out of shape!" 😂

Probably because it's naive to think that if anyone came in with a realistic cash bid for Carter the Club wouldn't entertain it. Then try to replace him for about one third of the cost, our current sort of E1m range.

Ive no idea really but arguably not much given his recent form? At one stage id have had him in the £5m plus bracket. Now I think we'd be lucky to get £2m for him. It's very subjective so I'd be interested to know what others think.

You'd think they'd be quite keen to comply with all technicalities at the moment given that not doing things by the book has already attracted the attention of the Authorities over in India.

For me his presence at the Club gets curiouser and curiouser by the day. I can't accept that all this would be a complete surprise to him after what happened to the TWO previous head coaches. Nor can I accept that anyone rational would think that RG's supposed model of either buying cheap or trying to develop Academy products then not reinvesting any proceeds could possibly work. The only possibilities I can think of are that like Lambert years before he's concluded it's easier to get another job whilst in employment as opposed to being on the scrap heap and has one foot out of the door before he's even arrived. Or, after a year out of work, perhaps he is simply willing to work under whatever conditions the three (or temporarily now two) stooges are prepared to throw at him as long as he can draw £600k p.a.

"Quick, there's a manager at this Club who might be leaving so in the mean time there'll be no transfer activity in or out. Let's pretend we're interested in one of their players so it makes it look like we're doing something." "Also get Jackson to put out another puff piece about Kapaudi being our main centre back target and us also being interested in Pye even though we've no intention whatsoever of paying the required fee for either of them".

So, if he ends up on the same career path as Nyambe that'll be playing for another Championship Club on more money?

Nah we've HAD (past tense) 2 extremely capable head coaches over the last 2-3 seasons who've by and large proved extremely adept at making a silk purse out of a How's ear. Not sure we have that now.

Entirely down to having an exceptional head coach (Eustace) who like Thomasson we drove away.

Suspect you're spot on unfortunately.

You're on form today! Need something to lighten the mood after the latest round of unattainable targets we're only prepared to offer 50% of the asking price for, or not even make a bid at all.

Oops, sorry.

Used to post absolute garbage on here, including the fact he thought the Jack Walker legacy was somewhat over-rated in his opinion and was also quite supportive when Waggott floated the phantom proposals to sell half of Brockhall and build a brand new super duper training complex. Also quite obviously a disciple of analysis and data. One question he never seemed able to answer was your army of analysts spend all their time feeding in your requirements to the computer and come up with suggestions that either ,are out of reach fee wise or in terms of wages. What use is that? Be interesting to see how he does and whether the data led approach works at the lowest level.

Because your point makes no sense. You're assuming he'll have a bad season next time out due to his age and there's no evidence to date to suggest that will be the case. I'm guessing then, you'd didn't like Kevin Moran or Tony Gale either?

Lol. At least he's being honest and isn't giving it the " I saw them on TV when I was a kid and have been a Rovers fan all my life" spiel.

No guarantee anyone will be any good next season. Still dont see your point.

Tbf I'm not even sure if Tavares' injury has been confirmed - I've only seen it mooted he was out for 4 weeks by some bod on Twitter.

I think with players of that age you have to park the number for a moment and examine how well they've actually performed. Someone cited examples earlier of players who'd been given two year deals in the past who shouldn't have been. I'd argue it was clear that Downing was slowing down mid way through his first deal and shouldn't have got another one and tbh I never rated Ayala in the first place. I wouldn't have given Weimann another deal either as I'm not sure his ability to pop up occasionally in the right place at the right time compensated for the fact his legs have gone. Edit: McFadzean was a lot older than Batth and again imo should never have been given a second deal On the other hand although a similar age to Weimann, Batth's powers showed no sign of waning last season. As such on a one year deal he represents no more of a risk than any other player. Bloody hell, we've spent E3m on Kargbo and Tavares and it seems they can barely make it through a training session between them!