davulsukur

He's 32 and scored less goals than Sam Gallagher last season. Avoid.

Aye, it's a only a link but that's how the summer goes. Gotta discuss something!

He was released. He also had a heart issue in the summer and didn't play till boxing day. 26 year old who's spent the last 5 seasons in non league. He was at Burton Albion so has played a few times in championship/league one but this is a barrell scraping. He's an attacking mid as well, so could be Szmodics replacement 😂

Or, it's the simplest, cheapest, most convenient solution to a problem, so that's the route our senior management operate.

Being in discussions with Fadz and Fleck pretty.much confirms we have 0 budget to play with. As good as Fadz was, he was a short term sticking plaster and we won't move on if we are retaining players of his age. Signing Fleck back up is beyond barrell scraping and comfortably one of the biggest waste of wages/budget we could do.

Retained list: https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/may/18/retain-list-confirmed/ Confirms we have taken the 1 year option on Gally and Dolan (sigh) and we are in discussions with Fadz and Fleck (why the fuck would we be?) Also, thought Charlie Weston was highly rated?

An unbelievably pathetic statement. We're a fucking shambles from top to bottom.

Hawking Szmodics around to anyone and everyone right now then I'd imagine.

For McGuire to give that interview, say what he said and reject a contract at his current club, I'd imagine he has enough potential options on the table for him to burn any bridges with us.

Actually think if JDT was still here, this deal would be still on. I'm sure he'd be able to impress McGuire in a few meetings/phone calls, in that way. Now it's Waggott and JE, it's dead in the water.

Can't blame McGuire for not wanting to join us. We must have looked like a real amateur outfit with the January balls up. We need to move on, heads have rolled it seems (Broughton, Silvester). Who knows if they were the ones culpable for this but we know Venkys/board pulled the plug on the first deal. Just a shitshow all round basically.

As always, comparisons to K**n & Coyle are way wide of the mark. He's got some distance to go before he reaches those levels.

They won't want to play in league 1 but Birmingham will still want good money for them. Not sure on the financial situation at Birmingham (historically has always been a mess?), but if they are under no pressure, they'll get closer to market value which will rule us out immediately. If they have a fire sale, the players will have better options than Rovers in the championship.

I expect Birmingham will be his first port of call. However, any decent ones will command a higher fee than we have monies available, so it will be any players League 1 Birmingham don't want/release.

Could be this summer's Niall Ennis.

Duru signs a new contract. First team material? He's 19, so shouldn't be out of the question.

Can't see McGuire signing for us, he must be sick of the sight of us by now. Plus, I imagine he'll cost good money, which we are unlikely to spend.

We'll be lucky to spend £700k - £1m this summer. We are absolutely not spending £10m+ this summer. People need some serious re-evaluation of their expectation levels.

Playing him in one of the wide attacking roles is borderline criminal, not only does he offer nothing as a winger but it means we'd be neglecting to buy an actual one as we'd be just dumping Gallagher out there.

Giving Gallagher a new deal, dreadful stuff. Absolutely sums up this regime, just the easiest, laziest solution to any problem.

He'd probably play better in a JE setup, as opposed to JDT's as well, tbh.

100%. We are set for a summer of further cutbacks and no money to spend. Probably why the rumours of signing Fleck and Fadz back up are swirling. Looks like we'll get the job done proper next season, bottom 3 no doubts. FFS the season finished a week ago and we are already a fucking shambles.

Broughton has been on borrowed time for a while now. After ballsing up 3 (3!!) transfers under his watch it was only a matter of time till he was sacked. As others have said, a clear (and clever) power grab move by Waggott. If they replace him, it'll probably be a Waggott recommendation, which will undoubtedly be lower in the food chain than he is.

I've not watched the interview but saying he'd jump at a prem move sounds like a come and get me plea, probably his last/only chance of a move to a PL club. The point about Eustace is a concern as these types of managers tend to start well and end badly, over a reasonably short period of time.

Didn't even know he joined Reading