[Archived] Summer Transfer Window

[stuwilky]

Reason would be that we don't want to spend anything on new players, if so Hughes must be frustrated. Could also be that we are unable to attract high quality players, if thats the case then I hope we don't spend anything, no use trowing good money after average players.

Or, Hughes cant find anyone who adds to our squad that is worth buying?

[krislu]

Or, Hughes cant find anyone who adds to our squad that is worth buying?

Reason would be that we don't want to spend anything on new players, if so Hughes must be frustrated. Could also be that we are unable to attract high quality players, if thats the case then I hope we don't spend anything, no use trowing good money after average players.

It's still early days, and for the record I believe we will buy at least one big name player this summer.

[stuwilky]

Thanks Krislu,I read that first time round, but thought Id attempt to play the optimist for once. Your emboldend requote doesnt add anything to my alternative suggestion.

[krislu]

I see, but that's too much optimism I reckon...

[herbergeehh]

Or £10 Million on a kid. after lumping £20 Million on Torres.

Quality prospect, exciting winger - just what they need.

[Roar of the Rover]

Quite suprised Fulham are splashing the clash, i'm still worried about our central midfield, we still need someone who gets inside the oppositions box alot more.

[herbergeehh]

Steven Reid.

[greggyk]

Or, Hughes cant find anyone who adds to our squad that is worth buying?

Exactly! I mean, i dont think we desperately need to sign anyone in a certain position. I think the squad we have IS good enough for a top 6 place and a good run in the Uefa Cup. Having Reid and Savage back (as long as they are able to get back to their best) along with our new star Dearbyshire all season, is a big boost!

[herbergeehh]

We need players who can really strenghten our starting eleven, as mentioned, it's as simple as that.

[Roar of the Rover]

Steven Reid.

Like i said, someone from our midfiled needs to commit more, i don't think Riedy does that and if he does , it's not enough.

[RevidgeBlue]

In Hughes interview on Sky Sports News, there is a suggestion we may not sign anymore players this summer.

There's a surprise.

Not.

Sparky must be getting desperately frustrated with the lack of financial backing he's seemingly getting. Can't honestly see him being here beyond this season unless there is a change of ownership or a distinct sea change in policy from the current ones.

[Blueboy Downunder]

i agree RB. firstly i think we all realise that the current ownership want shut of rovers a.s.a.p so in their minds, why would they offer even greater financial backing than what they are at present . so that leaves us with a possible take over, from a guy that we have heard nothing from in the best part of a month, which doesn't exactly fill our shoes with confidence. sparky is banking on the roberts sale at 4M and that of franny as well as toddy to raise the majority of the cash to fund a bid for santa cruz, so the club have to put in as little as possible. to add to this and something that made me sit up and read it again, was when he was interviewed for the first time by andy neild, this daniel williams guy said "these people are not the kind to go out and spend 10M on a player"...which i find amazing. if this really is the case, then they might aswell not bother .

[Exiled_Rover]

There's a surprise.

Not.

Sparky must be getting desperately frustrated with the lack of financial backing he's seemingly getting. Can't honestly see him being here beyond this season unless there is a change of ownership or a distinct sea change in policy from the current ones.

I'd argue that if Hughes was adamant about a player the funds would be made available - we have an excellent board. There's no way, however, that splashing £25m on an injury prone, temperamental 28 year old makes financial sense. He knows the board has full confidence in him, and that is a great position to be in as a manager.

If anything I suspect he takes a lot of pride out of being frugal with his money. A £3.1m return for Jeffers and Kuqi when we spent nothing on them (and very little in wages), along with turning bargain basement players into a quality Premiership team would have me beaming from ear to ear. I'd imagine Hughes is the same.

[USABlue]

HEre we are again, off with the assumptions. Sparky MUST be brassed off, no money, blah blah, he's packing his bags, blah blah.

Mark Hughes strikes me as a rather intelligent man. He took this job, I have no doubt in my mind he knew EXACTLY what the haps was and was going to be. Bloody hell. How do we know it's not HIM refusing to spend cos he doesn't want to be one of these sheep plonkers spending top money on mediocre players.

Yeah I'm as frustrated as anyone about the apparent lack of movement but let's not start all the damn drama queen stuff again. Tell me again when you have heard Sparky say how frustrated he is with the lack of cash.

What's the worry we've all known he's not here for the long haul anyway, right you all had him at Man Yoo since the day he was hired so what's the deal. Oh how some of us were all hot and bothered for Mido, oh how quick we were to want to run and WASTE the clubs money on that loser.

Remember the cries of pain as we had to SETTLE for second best Benni McCarthy. Lad done a bit better than Mido heh heh.

All will be well be the time Sparky's and JW are done.

[USABlue]

I'd argue that if Hughes was adamant about a player the funds would be made available - we have an excellent board. There's no way, however, that splashing £25m on an injury prone, temperamental 28 year old makes financial sense. He knows the board has full confidence in him, and that is a great position to be in as a manager.

If anything I suspect he takes a lot of pride out of being frugal with his money. A £3.1m return for Jeffers and Kuqi when we spent nothing on them (and very little in wages), along with turning bargain basement players into a quality Premiership team would have me beaming from ear to ear. I'd imagine Hughes is the same.

Hey!!! You said it how I wanted to say it, and you did it while I was going off on the keyboard with my rant. You canucks are so cool

[RevidgeBlue]

He knows the board has full confidence in him, and that is a great position to be in as a manager.

Unfortunately not enough to back him with hard cash it seems.

Incredibly Sparky has a nil net transfer spend since taking over nearly three seasons ago. If it really was the case he'd had money available to him each summer but he'd somehow managed to prosper without spending any of it, he'd be in the fortunate position now of being able to spend 15-20m on a player. Even without the new TV deal.

That quite obviously isn't the case so realistically it seems that he hasn't had any net funding at his disposal since taking over and, it seems, he quite possibly has none this summer, despite the extra TV money coming in.

If he was told when he came "Sorry Mark, you are under no pressure whatsoever to sell anyone but if you want to buy you'll have to raise the money by wheeling and dealing within the existing squad" I suppose it's fair enough to the extent he knew the score.

Until now, after which with the new TV deal you'd have thought he might get considerably more leeway, especially with his track record to date.

(Saying this partially in the hope that we will make an outstanding signing for 10m plus tomorrow and I'll end up with egg on my face) :ph34r:

[bluebruce]

Strange to give a trial to this guy, hasnt exactly done well in a easy league and hes what 24 now. His scoring record here:

http://www.vi.nl/vi/show/id=40053/dbid=343...40054/sc=f4d108

Unless 'wedstrijden' means goals and 'doelpunten' means appearances. In which case his record is phenomenal and I'm especially impressed by the 2 goals in 0 appearances in 2001/2002, and his 29-goal appearance for Brussels

[Ricky]

There's a surprise.

Not.

Sparky must be getting desperately frustrated with the lack of financial backing he's seemingly getting. Can't honestly see him being here beyond this season unless there is a change of ownership or a distinct sea change in policy from the current ones.

Unfortunately not enough to back him with hard cash it seems.

Incredibly Sparky has a nil net transfer spend since taking over nearly three seasons ago. If it really was the case he'd had money available to him each summer but he'd somehow managed to prosper without spending any of it, he'd be in the fortunate position now of being able to spend 15-20m on a player. Even without the new TV deal.

That quite obviously isn't the case so realistically it seems that he hasn't had any net funding at his disposal since taking over and, it seems, he quite possibly has none this summer, despite the extra TV money coming in.

If he was told when he came "Sorry Mark, you are under no pressure whatsoever to sell anyone but if you want to buy you'll have to raise the money by wheeling and dealing within the existing squad" I suppose it's fair enough to the extent he knew the score.

Until now, after which with the new TV deal you'd have thought he might get considerably more leeway, especially with his track record to date.

(Saying this partially in the hope that we will make an outstanding signing for 10m plus tomorrow and I'll end up with egg on my face) :ph34r:

Right. First things first Rev, have you actually seen the interview? from your comments I'm guessing the answer is no.

At no stage during the interiew does he coe out and say we are not buying anyone. What he does say is how much he's looking forward to the new season and how it's took him 3 years to build the current squad which e sees as the best he has had during his time at Rovers.

He then goes on to say that Benni is a Rovers player and they expect big things of him this season, Franny needs football and has been edged out by the performances of Derbs.

He finishes off by saying Toddy needed to be playing games at this stage in his career and thats why they agreed to let him go.

It's actually a very positive interview about how well things have progressed, I just can't believe that you've actually seen it from your comments, either that or we have watched two different interviews.

[John]

It is actually the summariser who says as the interview starts "there are unlikely to be any new faces for Blackburn".

[philipl]

Thanks John and Ricky.

I wasn't going to post the corrections because some would consider me too optimistic and a lacky of the Ewood Park management.

[den]

SSN reporting that Jeffers move to Ipswich is off. Can't agree personal terms.

Found a link.

Ipswich reckon they offered him a deal that could have seen him earning more at Portman Rd, than he was at Ewood.

[Lathund]

I wonder how it is that people don't seem to realise that there are other expenses at a football club than transfer fees. It's a balancing act between using the new found TV money to buy new players, or using it to keep hold of the old. So far it's more of the latter. But I believe that if Sparky wanted a certain player, he'd get the money. Had there not been West Ham inflating the price for Bellamy I'm sure we'd have been there trying to sign him. Not matching West Hams fee and salary is a good decision, whoever made it. He's an excellent player, one I'd be glad to see back at Ewood, but not for that kind of money.

Again, if Hughes wants a certain player he'll have the money for him, I'm convinced of that. But why should he buy for the sake of buying? Look at our first eleven, player for player (And keeping in mind that it'll be a very settled squad this season) it's good enough to challenge anyone outside the top 4. We don't desperately need to strengthen any area, and thus we can play it cool. Perhaps we're waiting for prices to settle down; because even if you *can* sign a player for £15m, why would you do that if you could sign him for £10m six months later and sign another quality player as well? Perhaps we're waiting for some transfers to go through, making other players available. I don't at all think that the fact that we haven't spent £6m on Kamara means that the board isn't backing Sparky. It means that the club is acting prudely. Like I said, just because we can spend £6m on him doesn't mean it'd be a good idea.

[Daremz]

Back from a week holiday and we bought another fellow countryman. Maceo Rigters! I think Hughes can make him huge and in a 4-4-2 with attacking wings like we play (and Holland did at the under 21 cup) he can be a very useful striker next to mr. Benni!

[Perth_Rover]

SSN reporting that Jeffers move to Ipswich is off. Can't agree personal terms.

Found a link.

Ipswich reckon they offered him a deal that could have seen him earning more at Portman Rd, than he was at Ewood.

I guess we can say he isn't just after money i guess. maybe he thinks he can work his way into the team?

[Hughesy]

I still think that we need to be looking to sign 2 players who can be in our 1st team squad and soon be pushing for places. We need to sign a Creative midfielder (someone young and who is going to improve – unless there is someone in the youth?!) to take over from Tugay and to push Reid, Savage, Mokoena & Dunn.

Personally I think Alan Smith is the man who can do a job for us and he gives us options as he can play in the middle, upfront or even on the wing. He can also mix it up when we need to and he can cover for the likes of Savage if ever suspended. He has a desire to win and he always gives 110%. I think in terms of the market, he is one of, if not the best player available for the prices being banded about.