In fact, Millwall seem to have had a net spend in the transfer market every season since 2018/19 (except the 2020/21 season where they neither spent nor received fees...well, 3 were signed for undiscloseds and 1 sold for undisclosed). In 2018/19 they received 7.8 million Euros for George Saville (and reinvested nearly half of it), which may be the only time in this period they've received more than the 670k Euros they got for Tyler Burey. Technically this might not be fully accurate, as there have been 7 for which the fees aren't known...1 to a then Championship Wycombe, and the rest to lower leagues or inferior foreign leagues (Irish Premier Division). Doubtful those were big fees.

But we can't compete with giants like Millwall, their attendances are *checks notes* about the same as ours! Plus in the summer they brought in...looks like nothing. And spent about 5 million. And last year they brought in 600k and spent about 6 million. Our tens of millions in surplus raised transfer revenue is nothing compared to that! God, I wish fans would stop being ungrateful and remember it's not 1995....

See 2nd post on this subject above from me. You'd have to be deaf, blind and dumb not to expect this game to be so keenly anticipated.

I feel like this season (and in stark contrast to recent years) through luck or design we have ended up with 2 decent players for every position on the pitch. So we've been able to ride out what seemed a catastrophic loss in Carter, and I am optimistic that we have the quality to replace Travis and Pickering, despite both being really excellent for us this season. Trav has been player of the season so far for me. Baker goes straight in, Beck to left back, and I guess Dolan or Hedges go on the left and that's the team pretty much. Still will have an okay bench assuming one of Ohashi or Geuye is on it with Wieman and Sigurdson if he's back from injury? Leonard as well. It's not galaticos but something there to influence a game in the second half. Where we are really vulnerable imo is if one of the two CBs are taken out. Pickering was our viable cover there really, so we will be forced to used Faz who really does not look mobile enough to me to play football at this level any more. We need a CB in first day of Jan.

Interesting that Millwall paid £3m for Mihailo Ivanovic in the summer. Isn't that more than our entire transfer budget AFTER selling Adam Wharton, Szmodics and getting £4m extra for David Raya?

City is such a bizarre one... An all conquering team going on this sort of run when they were the champions and clear favourites at the start of the season has never even remotely happened before. I LOVE it! And I hope it is sign of things to come. The Premier League had become way too predictable, but now Utd, City, Spurs, and Chelsea last season have all had really poor runs recently. Just hope some other clubs can really start muscling in on the CL places and put a cat among the pigeons. What the league needs. Godspeed Bournemouth and Forrest, would be hilarious if one of them made CL, and give us all hope.

We are 5th in the league at home against a team who have been in the lower half most season,Saturday was a pretty poor performance but its our only defeat in seven and we have only lost twice at home this season. We are 5th on merit Even Sunderland like someone else pointed out , they have one win in 5 away from home in the league We may get zero points.We may only get 2 but it will be a major disappointment if that is the case. It certainly wouldn't be outstanding

Yeah because who would loan out one of their best midfielders to another team in the same league…. Oh yeah, we did.

dont know how you work that one out,they are in the relegation zone

Should have been off got the ball and intentionally left a high foot in on the follow thru. 100% intent to hurt.

David Vincent knows...

There's more effort and research been put into this one post than what will be put into Rovers actual transfer list. As with every year, expect nothing and wait for them to disappoint you.

They won't go for Mowbray. They actually want to get promoted.

Merry Christmas everyone. Let's hope its a good one for the Rovers. Great to see the fans returning for Boxing Day, and the Burnley game.

That didn’t take much. So you expected us to sell the ground out because we drew with them earlier in the season, despite not coming close to shifting this many tickets for over 7 years? Maybe write it down next time. I don’t know what they’re playing at with the upper tier of the BBE and it’s a shame that a game with so much demand will still see 3-4k seats empty in the Darwen End, which is not a good look. Saying that, I dont think anyone expected the game to sell this well.

Don't agree. We had our best result for years against Burnley and were robbed of victory by a terrible off-side decision and we can ten men for a long period. Additionally we've just won 6 in a row! Plus its the New Year period when fans come back home from all over the place and want to recreate their childhood memories. The appetite for this game is immense and I think it was absolutely forecastable (if that word exists!). Anyway the Club should be creating a positive message about this game form the off not reluctantly opening up yet another area as the demand becomes apparent even to them.

New manager bounce and they have a better squad than we do.

Looking at City, the difference this season is that they are playing Pep ball too slowly. Passes are not zipped around in the way which made them so potent. Fractions of time simply give opponents to be in position anticipating Pep stylled attacks. And whether he is a luxury or not, Haaland is now well enough known that he is being neutralised by opponents. Then their great players have aged together. Walker, de Bruyne, Bernardo, Gundogan have all gone sharly past their best.

I'm sure Mark Robins, Tony Mowbray and Des Buckingham will be on WBA shortlist. All free agents. No compo

Thats very true! If it was after January im sure he'd be onto his agent in a flash.

Having just watched some Sunderland highlights they are very mobile up front and unlike us strike on sight. We will have to defend from the front much better than we did at Millwall. At the other end, their defence is not particularly secure. If we play Baker, I hope both he and Tronstad are encouraged to use their powerful shooting abilities.

It’s a chicken choker free zone.

Bar the location for him, why would he move? They're just as skint as we are.

Yeah great, until they come in for Eustace.

Hopefully knock them off track re play offs.