1 minute ago, Rover1984 said:

No doubt we had to sell keeper earlier to pay the 30% wages for this Dennis Deal

Apart from the keeper's wages would have been low and the transfer fee hardly anything. More likely it was to free up a squad space. 

If Dennis was on the cards at lunchtime no wonder Eustace was smirking when asked in the presser. Bit of a coup for us, if we get this through. 

2 minutes ago, rovers11 said:

Transfer dealings so far:

Forshaw (free)

Sanderson (loan)

Kargbo (£1m) 

Ribero (free) 

I hate to continually be negative about our transfer window but I'm appalled by it. Will the LT be brave enough to ask the tough questions to the club after yet another transfer window shambles?

Eustace will leave in the summer and I don't blame him for doing so. We're building a midtable league 1 team at present. 

 

Could be asked at the fans forum. "How do you explain to fans recouping £30-40m in transfer fees and spending perhaps 10% of that, at the absolute most?

14 minutes ago, MB Rover said:

Still paying Mowbray’s missus off for the lemon drizzle

Speaking of Mowbray, and apologies this is completely off topic, I read Utd played Mainoo has a false 9 yesterday. Memories of Bradley Johnson doing the same...

1 minute ago, booth said:

If true could be good.

His form really took a dive this season though. Makes you wonder what went wrong.

Only came back from injury this weekend apparently 

23 minutes ago, Penwortham Blue said:

Danns surely can’t be on more than £10k, he’s a kid and even at elite clubs they not paying academy kids more than that. If we had an interest, I just don’t see how we can have failed on this one, makes no sense whatsoever, you would think it would have been the perfect loan for all concerned 🙈

Not sure of accuracy but by comparison, Scarlett at spurs is apparently on £12k a week. This is change to established prem clubs. 

https://salarysport.com/football/player/dane-scarlett/

Nixon has responded to me saying owing to how the day has gone, a lot of pressure on landing Danns. If you believe him, it's not looking good for the last 24 hours of the window. 

5 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

That’s just Bruno Ribiero using his alias. We’re on to you, Steve🤡👀. 

Ah, the Brazilian Denis Irwin, never gives the ball away. The golden age of signings with the Scottish Rooney and a young Batistuta. 

3 minutes ago, ... said:

He play for forest 20/21?

7 minutes ago, Ghost7 said:

The teams around Rovers are putting Waggott and the club to shame.

Or arguably is it the team and Eustace are putting other teams to shame, especially in view of Waggott et al?

3 minutes ago, Penwortham Blue said:

Yep, if it got us promoted.

So where do you draw the line, or does promotion trump decency? If we could sign a Greenwood or a Goodwillie, and it guaranteed promotion, would you be fine with that? 

58 minutes ago, J*B said:

I really hope not. He’s taken that stance for religious reasons, are we going to start taking that into consideration when signing a player? Where do we draw the line on personal beliefs? Far more reasonable to accept if you want to sign him, he isn’t going to play in LGBT/Pride promoting fixtures. Ideally, you’d hope you’d be able to make him see things from a different point of view via education on the matter, but he’s here to score goals not personally develop. 

We've a first team squad of circa 25 men. A youth squad. A women's squad. And then all the staff who support them and others around the club. You think none of them are gay or bi? Statistically there will be, and they'll have friends around the club. Is it worth signing someone who offends that group, and the impact that could have on performance and results?

54 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

It's incredibly hard to be patient in this sport...Szmodics, Brereton, Gueye etc, all showing why, it does take time.

It will be the same for Kargbo and others who come in. Scouts will of been impressed by Gueyes performance last night...It was a, almost, perfect number 9 display.

Absolutely. Even Tronstad had a slow start and I'm not sure Brittain had really impressed anyone in his first season. Further back - MGP got taken out of the first team squad for half a season before becoming a cult hero. Of course everyone would love signings to hit the ground running but surely it does nobody any good to dismiss them so quickly. 

Gueye was lucky not to give away a pen at the end but glad to see another reasonably good performance. Maybe he shouldn't have been written off by some so quickly. I think the team have taken time to adapt to him too - it was noticeable we tend to put in low crosses in open play and clearly he's more threatening attacking the ball with his head than his feet 

Kargbo a done deal according to Nixon 

4 minutes ago, J*B said:

Not until I’m getting paid a 350K / year salary. 

You didn't specify the currency 

45 minutes ago, SuperBrfc said:

 

Is it possible the Court in India has discovered something else during its investigation and has now decided they can't send anything here at all?

Hence the desperate actions on the ground here as they try to make room for one or two cheap incomings, using club raised funds?

 

If the court has decided they can't send funds at all, surely there would be a court order?

4 minutes ago, rob_of_the_rovers said:

Not enthused about Kargbo as our striker signing. Doesn't have a particularly great goalscoring record so would just be another body.

Whilst you are correct about his record, neither did Armstrong, BBD or Szmodics. The last time we signed a striker with a proven scoring record I think was Rhodes? And we're not spending anything like that fee these days 

27 minutes ago, ruggles1995 said:

come one then, what have we got left:
Toth
 RB: ??? anyone fancy it ?
dion
Hyam
Beck
Guess we dont have enough players for a right back... good start

Buckley Forshaw
  Dolan  Cantwell Duberry
            Gueye

Leonard
Weimann
Hedges

Guess Hedges slots into right back? just throwing a name there tbh, maybe he can play half ok in that position, because he isnt a winger. 
Leonard and Weiman arent subs, its just showing whats left in numbers if you were to put what names are fit on a sheet. Looks pretty depressing for options. 

If I had to throw a team together out of that for Saturday think I would go:

Hedges dion Hyam beck
        buckley cantwell
Weiman Leonard Dubbery
                Gueye

And I wouldnt sit as I dont think we have the personal for it. It still gets beat either way lol!

 

currently out:
Pears
Britain
JRC ?
Mcfadzean - GONE
Garrett - going
Bath ?
Pickering
Duru - ON LOAN - great timing 
Siggy - sick note, smoking cigars chilling
Trav
tronstad
Yuki

 

Carter and Wharton. 

12 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Pete o'rourke (take his word as you wish) reckons BBD will sign on loan for Sheff Utd on loan in the next day or so.

BBD has confirmed it on his social 

9 hours ago, Upside Down said:

Rio was shit no matter where he played though.

I hope you're either baiting or never actually watched him play. How good he was is debatable but to write him off as shit? You don't become a main stay in a dominant Man U team and win 80 England caps if you're shit. 

Unless Sanderson has experience of playing well I'm midfield, those suggesting it may want to watch what happened to Rio Ferdinand when it was tried. Hint - David Bentley scored a hat trick. 

That was poor. Post match from Eustace will inevitably be, and rightly so, that we need quality at the attacking end. 

26 minutes ago, roverandout said:

Agree with most of that but if we'd have gone up in his mind he could have thought the club would go for a bigger name plus if we had gone straight back down his position could have been under threat. Sailing along nicely in the championship would have suited him

If we'd have gone up you'd have thought he'd have had a substantial bonus built into his contract, along with wage increase. It would also have improved his ability to negotiate elsewhere by having another promotion on his CV. The argument it was financially better for him for us to stay in the second tier never made sense.