[Archived] Stop! Sambatime.

[RevidgeBlue]

Blackburn to hand Samba bumper new deal

...and NO clause, please!

If we do, it's not a minute too soon.

I'd give him a clause.

He can leave to the first club offering 30m.

Upfront.

[den]

Samba signs new 5 yr deal.

Fabulous news.

[Tris]

Samba signs new 5 yr deal.

Fabulous news.

Awesome news. The way he's developing he will be the best defender in the league before long, and to have a long term deal confirmed is the very best news.

[LeftWinger]

Great News! He's been an absolute bargain - real quality. I was expecting a giant donkey when we bought him - but he's only going to get better and better.

Samba 23

Santa Cruz 26

Bentley 23

Warnock 25

Reid 26

Derbyshire 21

Hughes has managed to get together the core of a team that could potentially play together for years. Can you imagine how much we'd have to pay for the 6 players above at todays prices?

[gazsimm]

great news, player of the season so far, the guy is getting better and better each game

[RevidgeBlue]

Brilliant news, I doubt we will get any better all season!

[den]

great news, player of the season so far, the guy is getting better and better each game

Well so far, we have these MOTM's:

Friedel 2

Dunn 2

Samba 1

Bentley 1

Santa Cruz 1

[roversmum]

With Stevie Warnock, Bert, Benni, Tugay, Ryan and hopefully Morten still to come. To say nothing of Derbs, Roberts, Ooijer and Reid. Happy days

[1864roverite]

What a fantastic start to the week, great news if your a Rovers fan.

Guarantees a five years stay or a bloody big tansfer fee

great business by Rovers

[tcj_jones]

Excellent news. I'm not naive, but I'm glad that, rather than try to attract another club's interest, he is looking to commit to Rovers for the long term. At least now if a club comes in for him in the next two seasons, he will command a huge fee.

[Cheeky Sidders]

This is genuinely excellent news as he's made the place in the starting line-up his own, he's great supporting the team going forward, opposition defenders are drawn to him at corners creating space for others and he's only 23! This contract should see him reaching professional maturity in his time at Ewood, or as a consolation if he does go to another team we should get a decent price for him. In the meantime, we've got years to enjoy watching him and Nelsen running the show at the back and he's going to be a bigger (literally and figuratively) than Colin Hendry. All the kids will be wearing Samba shirts next season.

How much did we pay? Something like £350,000 or thereabouts. Either Hughes is a genius or those lads at Hertha are a set of mugs. Compare Samba's impact to that of other defenders brought in over the last few years to the Premier League who have been transferred for huge sums and haven't been able to cut it.

Brilliant piece of business to sign the lad, even better to keep him for years to come.

[philipl]

Great News! He's been an absolute bargain - real quality. I was expecting a giant donkey when we bought him - but he's only going to get better and better.

Samba 23

Santa Cruz 26

Bentley 23

Warnock 25

Reid 26

Derbyshire 21

Hughes has managed to get together the core of a team that could potentially play together for years. Can you imagine how much we'd have to pay for the 6 players above at todays prices?

Not only those guys MGP is still a relative youngster (interesting how he has dropped out of the list of stars), Benni has another three years at the very top as a striker, Dunn and Bert are both 28 (I think), then there are Nelsen and Zura who can look forwards to many years as top defenders as well.

It all adds up to the Rovers not having just one vulnerable transfer target (such as Shorey at Reading), but at least half the team are looking like they will have the press whittering about transfers away by the time they sober up from Christmas. Which can only mean that a lot of our players are CL standard.

Anyway brilliant brilliant news about Christopher Samba.

Anyone else spot what happened to Tugay mid bow in front of the JW stand?

[Roar of the Rover]

Excellent news, he's been awesome from the first game and long may it continue.

[Baz]

Great news!!

Shame Grooby got in wrong on his texts - he said Samba has signed a new 5 year deal that ties him to Rovers till 2021!

[colin]

Anyone else spot what happened to Tugay mid bow in front of the JW stand?

CS picked him up like a rag doll and waved him about a bit?

[arrodblue]

His first contribution in a Rovers shirt, in the Cup against Luton last season, was a ball across the back four that was intercepted, or almost intercepted by a Luton striker (can't remember which) and a complete air-shot in the lead-up to MGP's goal.

It was hardly an auspicious start.

But, since then the guy has hardly set a foot wrong - in every sense of the word he is immense - and he's now ours for the forseeable.

Congratulations big man, you fully deserve the new contract, and well done Mr Williams for tying him to the club - excellent news for every Rovers fan.

[Fife Rover]

Great News! He's been an absolute bargain - real quality. I was expecting a giant donkey when we bought him - but he's only going to get better and better.

Samba 23

Santa Cruz 26

Bentley 23

Warnock 25

Reid 26

Derbyshire 21

Hughes has managed to get together the core of a team that could potentially play together for years. Can you imagine how much we'd have to pay for the 6 players above at todays prices?

No but I'll have a go!

Samba £10m

Santa Cruz £15m

Bentley £15m

Warnock £8m

Reid £6m

Derbyshire £7m

TOTAL £61m

[thenodrog]

Crikey with reports that Williams has offered 60 odd million then just how cheap are we intent on selling ourselves for?

[Presty On Tour]

well tidy news on the samba deal, happy days!!

[Oakland]

Samba: Team-mates helped me

[tony gale's mic]

No but I'll have a go!

Samba £10m

Santa Cruz £15m

Bentley £15m

Warnock £8m

Reid £6m

Derbyshire £7m

TOTAL £61m

gotta say i disagree with those. samba has been brilliant but he's no way a 10 million defender yet, and santa cruz has looked really impressive but to say he's worth anywhere near 15 million yet is laughable. both could prove to be one day, potentially...

Samba £6m

Santa Cruz £8m

Bentley £11m

Warnock £4.5m

Reid £4m (just been injured)

Derbyshire £5.5m

total 39 million

still impressive though.

[philipl]

I do think these arguments about valuation are hilariously ill-informed. My contributions as well.

If you look at the prices paid for Darren Bent, Michael Chopra, Dave Nugent and Yakubu this summer you can put a nought on the end of this first figure you think of.

[savage8]

Bet he wouldn't have any problems getting in the French squad (or first XI?) if he'd rejected playing for DR Congo!

Imagine that, a Rovers player in the French starting XI. Maybe then some of my mates would believe the hype.

[bluebruce]

gotta say i disagree with those. samba has been brilliant but he's no way a 10 million defender yet, and santa cruz has looked really impressive but to say he's worth anywhere near 15 million yet is laughable. both could prove to be one day, potentially...

Samba £6m

Santa Cruz £8m

Bentley £11m

Warnock £4.5m

Reid £4m (just been injured)

Derbyshire £5.5m

total 39 million

still impressive though.

If we sold Samba for 6 million I would actually break down in tears, and organise a protest outside Ewood. Anything less than 10 million and we're just stupid. Same with Bentley for 11m. I'd be very unhappy if we sold Bentley for 15 million frankly, when Darren Bent can be shipped around for 16.5 million. The other pricings I agree with more or less. Although I'd expect us to hold out for a bit more simply because we don't need to sell and it risks unbalancing the team to have to replace such players.

[tony gale's mic]

people talk about the likes of darren bent, but what of the prices of benjani, adebayor, elano, utaka and all the other players that are looking like good deals too? rovers arent the only side that make good deals although we seem to be making more of a habit of it than most. you cant just judge the market by the most extravagant transfers. right now samba is 6 million i'd say and rising. his profile isnt high enough for it to be higher, we know he's as good as many defenders who would fetch twice as much but a player's reputation and profile is a big part of the value too. and right now samba's isnt that high, although it will be soon enough i'm sure.