Trossard off to Arsenal by the looks, might put an end to them loaning out Undav, in the short term at least.

No I don't rate him either tbh, he's also 36, so would make sense to get someone like Raya in with a view to replacing him.

Would Chelsea be looking to sign him? They've already got Kepa and Mendy, that's like £100m spent on the 2 keepers they already have. Man Utd might be looking more long term for a successor to De Gea but he's only 32. I could see Spurs going for him though to replace Lloris.

Bournemouth signing a winger/attacker for £27m. Might free up Dembele for a move/loan.

Looks like that guy is off somewhere!

Good move for him and if it happens I'll be happy for him. But it's the worst outcome for Rovers, another valuable player walking for nothing.

James Brown has now joined Donny on loan. https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2023/january/17/brown-makes-doncaster-switch/

Yeah, they'll be able to offer better wages you'd assume, especially if he signs for them and gets loaned to Watford, avoiding any FFP restrictions.

Good bit of forward planning tbf, if he's a good player that it is. Don't think Carter will make the step up, so getting him and Ayala off the books leaves us a bit short.

Bonkers the amount of potential money we've let walk out of the door. And for what? Only chance we have now, unless he's off to Spain in the summer, is a desperate Prem club like Everton or West Ham hitting the panic button and giving us £5+ and tempting him into the prem with silly money. We invested so much money and time into him, the aim was always to make a profit on what we paid for him, surely? And yet we just let him walk for nothing but still complain about the restrictions FFP put on us 🤷🏻‍♂️

He'll likely fall into the category of achieving excellent things with a smaller club but not able to cut it at the higher level.

Not trying to defend anything here but in that podcast with GB, he also stated that they wanted to have Wharton, Garrett and Phillips in a similar position to Morton by the end of the season. As in, they train with the first team and by the season ends, have made a handful or so number of appearances. This with the intention they play a bigger role next season. We had a few injuries at cb and they discussed the possibility of loaning in another one but JDT decided to play Phillips instead. By all accounts, all 3 are ahead of where they expected them to be by now. Morton was brought in as temporary player, he had more experience at first team level than Wharton and Garrett and was always brought in to play more games, as the other 2 are integrated into the team more. assume the idea was Trav, Buckley and Morton would be the 3 main players in CM and the other 2 would be integrated over the course of the season. Injuries, form and suspension have pushed them a bit closer than expected though. Morton goes back in the summer and we have 2 players ready to step up more next season, is the plan I guess.

Rovers twitter account posting it's "goal of the day" about Dacky scoring past Rotherham back in 2018. Went down so well, they've had to delete it 😂

That is exactly the plan. It's been said several times already, bring players like Garrett, Phillips and Wharton into the first team and sell them for good money. The aim is to be "self sustainable". This isn't a class of 92, we are developing them to sell.

Absolutely unacceptable result and performance. JDT best be apologising for this post game.

It was never sustainable. Just like the losses column. The retort was always "but we're 3rd!" We are unlikely to be 3rd come 5pm today though. Probs not out of the playoffs but that will follow soon after.

Again, I agree. It all goes hand in hand.

Agreed. The ambition for the club is to get academy players into the first team and sell them for good money. Blood a new batch and do the same. GB has already stated that signing a more experienced player, on good money, on a 3 year deal, wasn't an option because it would block the young players in our team. He also mentioned the cost of running the academy is going to be around £4m per year, so assume we need to cover that cost through sales as well. Winning football matches? Secondary I guess.

We're not getting any midfielders. Have a listen to the podcast posted in the transfer thread. Wharton & Garrett are the ones we want to blood into the team and sell in the future. Morton was loaned because he was further developed than those but wouldn't block their pathway. This is what we have for the rest of the season.

"It's a young team,so we will see inconsistencies this season, in that way" 😴

2 down at Rotherham. Jesus.

I mean, we absolutely have to banish that today. We've basically got all game to come back from a goal down.

FFS! 1min in.

Yep he's played for both Watford and Forest already, so this rumour is bullshit.

Where did the draw come from?