roversfan99

When TV money keeps going up (with added disdain shown to the match going fan) yet losses and owner reliance keep going up and up, you really see how the pyramid is fucked.

It feels like the Championship transfer window is starting to get quite active. On top of some of the deals recently completed, including Riis to Bristol City (a handy pick up rather than a gamechanger) it looks like Coventry will spend a decent fee on Kesler Hayden, Hull on Louie Barry, Oxford on the Heracles midfielder we wanted, Charlton on Kaminski and Derby on that MLS striker as well as the couple of freebies from us. The average number of signings is about 2 per team so far but thats not really reflective of how some teams (Boro/Leicester/Sheff United/Ipswich/Sheff Wednesday) have been inactive mainly down to manager changes, division changes or embargoes. Whereas some have really made a big start. QPR have made a couple of very strong signings and Swansea, Norwich and PNE have all started to overhaul their squad.For us, the amount of activity we have done isnt necessarily the issue although Ismael clearly will disagree. The whole situation is built on no foundation with our core of key players being allowed to run their deals down. So we are left in limbo.

Kapuadi has come on for Legia in their game today. So that deal clearly hasnt escalated.

One to strike off the list.

Theres no way that those wage estimates are right.

Of course we will miss him. He is our best wide man and possibly our best attacking player, although that isnt saying much. Put it this way, if we signed a player of his level from another Championship club, our fans would be excited. Even if we signed a player showing similar numbers in an inferior foreign league but with an exotic name, they would.

He clearly isnt "shit." Hes a decent Championship wide man.

You are literally just an echo chamber for what comes out of the club without the ability to develop your own opinions on what is said. Suhail and Gestede both said £4-5m was spent so you are happy with that. Gestede literally used that 10s of millions line that you are now parroting. No one is asking for that, its an attempt by Gestede to make people seem unreasonable for expecting more reinvestment by gaslighting people into thinking theyve demanding a massive warchest. As has been said, the club is skint. Look whats gone out, look whats come in. And crucially, look at the core of proven Championship players we have. Brittain, Travis, Tronstad, Hyam all going into their last year. Dolan, Batth and Weimann all out the door. We clearly are not offering reasonable, competitive Championship wages. Your usual line is to say "well our wage bill hasnt gone down from 5 years ago." Purpoesefully or otherwise dismissing inflation, £1 today doesnt equate to £1 then. Our wage bill now will be higher than our title winning side in 1995, if we are just dismissing the time value of money. Its all well and good spending small fees on players from lesser leagues abroad because their wages wont be high.

Perhaps the deal he was offered was not befitting of a player of his level. So many players here dont sign deals put in front of them (or the ones we even bother to do that) and his last contract was signed a good while ago when he has just broke through so it wouldnt be a surprise if it was a wage offered that was not reasonable and we havent bothered to offer one since. I still cant see him going to Derby personally.

Kaminski made a couple of mistakes in those last games before the injury he had that was hindering him finally became impossible to play with. Prior to that, he had been excellent in that season. And had already got a previously earnt player of the season. Recency bias makes people talk about him as if he was constantly making mistakes.

Im not overlooking it. Im well aware of it. I dont think we should be making stupid changes to our game to try and appease foreign viewers. Although I still dont see the benefit that people get from hearing what a substituted player has to say or getting a glimpse into the changing room. Eventually they will move our kick off times to suit foreign fans, I have no doubt.

We shouldnt be pandering to foreign coverage wants and needs. But either way, still to see why anyone would want to see these proposed changes. Gimmicky shite.

He is miles better than Pears and Toth hasnt proven to be better than him just yet, Kaminski is a very good Championship keeper. But it wasnt about Rovers anyway.

Everton have Branthwaite and Tarkowski who are a solid and established pair for them, plus O'Brien who they spent big money on but couldnt dislodge them so played at right back. Forest have Milenkovic and Murillo who were right up there with the best pairings in the league. So yes. Obviously considerable drops of form and injuries are what causes back ups to come in.

Kaminski going to Charlton. Very good signing for them.

https://weszlo.com/2025/06/29/kapuadi-otrzymal-od-legii-oferte-nowego-kontraktu-wszystko-jest-mozliwe/ Needs translating but appears that Kapuadi might renew his contract at Legia.

Quansah has always looked jittery whenever I have seen him for Liverpool. Maybe the move is what he needs to push on. If Cresswell went to either Forest or Everton then he would be a back up.

I meant specifically because of the club world cup.

Wont he be too old, in which case he would be very lucky to get more caps. The purpose of this tournament is development though. The club world cup feels like overkill and unnecessary but understandable why players choose to play in that over under age football. Who is missing, Delap, Gittens and Bellingham or are there more?

I think it is partly due to the age cut out where you have 23 year olds playing, but its strange in that very few of those players I look at and expect many if any caps in the senior team. Our stand outs at those ages have already bypassed this age group. Livramento should get a decent amount of caps but even then, Trent is ahead. Elliott has a lot of competition and he is stand out for the under 21s. One or two others might such as Anderson, but equally the likes of Stansfield, Beadle and Cresswell would do well to get any caps.

The main area that needed work coming into the summer was the attack. We dont have enough goals in the team, we didnt even with Dolan and Weimann. If the next one in is a centre back, I hope it doesnt leave very little to strengthen the attack. We badly need a right winger, a striker and a number 10.

That account when it comes up with its own #exclusives" tends to be full of shite.

Still nonethewiser as to what watching the players in the dressing rooms or post substitute interviews add or why a single person would have any interest in either, but there you go.

Even beyond an understandable additional skepticism around Rovers, I don't get why you would assume that everything said is 100% accurate. They wouldnt come out and say if they werent aligned. But they said that before the summer had begun, and before any transfers. So obviously at that point they were aligned. Whether they agree on every signing that has since happened and will happen in the future, remains to be seen.

Why would anyone want to see inside the dressing room? Sky will broadcast players taking a shit soon enough. VAR at least has a purpose. Decisions are more accurate now.