[Archived] Right Wing..

[Faz_Rover]

we need a new right winger or we will score no goals and i'll be angry

I make that 9 goals in 4 games.

Defence needs sorting out. That should be our main priority not RW. Conceding way too many goals and failed to keep a clean sheet as of today this season. Not good enough. It's where our main problem lies and people need to stop banging on about us needing a right winger. The likes of Samba, Nelsen, Ooijer and Warnock need to sharpen up. Warnock had a shocker today. Ooijer cost us against Hull. Samba was awful today. Neslen looks the only decent defender we have in our team.

[Darwen Rover]

anyone mentioned valencia from wigan??

£7m should do it??

[joey_big_nose]

anyone mentioned valencia from wigan??

£7m should do it??

Why would he move to us from a team which actually looks better than ours at the moment?

And Bruce isn't a chump, he knows Valencia is quality and would never let him go for less than 12m+. He is on the radar of the likes of Man Utd.

[Cally]

Pennant is going to Stoke for 4 million, apparently. Sounds like we've had to lower the fee to cover his huge wage demands.

[joey_big_nose]

If that reakky is the fee I wouldn't be suprised if we came in and guzmped them.

We really need a right sided player, we offered 3.5m. 4m is do-able (looks like a bargain compared to 10m for Milner...). We might be scared by the wages I guess?

[Billy Castell]

Go for Kightly, unless the fee is something daft like £7m. Good, young, scores goals and wages shoud be reasonable.

[Cally]

Think if you were serious about him you would have signed him by now. Sky Andrew is involved, mind, so the wage demands could be an issue. Stoke are obviously desperate for any players of that calibre.

[waggy]

come across some very useful information yesterday,rovers had agreed a deal with liverpool for pennant,every thing was in place,but he would not take a drop in wages,apparentley he is a squad player at liverpool and if rovers had kept him on the same wage he would have become our highest paid player

[Billy Castell]

If that's true, then he can stay playing for the hubcap reserves.

[percy]

Sad reflection on the way the game's going / has gone if true, but it looks like we've dodged a bullet, so good news overall.

He must be doing something wrong if he can't get into the team in his specialised position in front of Dirk Kuyt. It's not even as if he's competing for the place, he's getting nowhere near the squad by the looks of it.

You'd think that every half decent English PL player would be desperate to get on the pitch and try and stake a claim for a place in the World Cup qualifiers and final squad....

He could easily have had the platform to do just that at Ewood.

[Claytons Left Boot]

A parasite of the highest order - stay well clear.

[Hughesy]

Pennant failed to agree terms

Looks like this was the deal that fell through around 10pm. Cant say we didnt try then!

[spencey7]

Pennant failed to agree terms

Looks like this was the deal that fell through around 10pm. Cant say we didnt try then!

PHEW! Talk about dodging a bullet! (Assuming that story is true, which I severely doubt.)

I'm glad we signed no-one if this was the alternative, I just cannot foresee any circumstances where Pennant would be a good recruit for Blackburn. The next few months with no recognised right-winger will certainly be "interesting", but I reckon that Emerton can do a job there.

[philipl]

I thought it had been established it was the bid for Valdo that didn't work out on transfer deadline day?

[artemorethanlabore]

The only official post I've seen was Lee commenting on the official board, that he was at Ewood Park waiting for a player that decided not to come. I interpreted that as Pennant.

[T4E]

Which if true is hard to take, considering that Pennant had been available all Summer. How did it get to within 2 hours of the deadline before we actually found out he wouldn't come?

[philipl]

Which if true is hard to take, considering that Pennant had been available all Summer. How did it get to within 2 hours of the deadline before we actually found out he wouldn't come?

Not having a search facility doesn't help but if nicko called it right, Pennant was dropped some days before the end of the window and Rovers were after Valdo on the last day.

See pages 150 or thereabouts onwards on the now closed nicko thread.

However, Liverpool were told on Friday 29 August that RBoS were calling in their £350m loan in January 2009 and not 2010 which they had hoped so a late push for any Liverpool player, if it happened, made sense.

[Iceman]

Im stil not at all happy, that we were trying to do a deal for a key area at the last hour. It just has to be a balls up, and the impression i get, is that pennant didnt agree terms, and we were then forced to react to finalise another last min deal. The mere fact that we waited until the final day, is just pure rubbish and highly unacceptable.

[John]

It is just the way the transfer market is though. Many clubs were still trying to get players in on the last day. I doubt it was out of choice.

[Iceman]

I agree with those that say, the transfer window should close before the season starts.

[DP]

The transfer window makes it much more a game of cat and mouse. Clubs biding their time will usually pick up a better deal at the last minute. Had we have got Pennant, it probably would have saved us a few quid in transfer fees.

Saying that, I do think he would have fitted in well to our set up and been a high impact player with his pace. He must really have not wanted to come as usually these things are sorted out with the player getting a chunk of the transfer fee.

I'm sure he'll look back one day and regret his time in the Anfield reserves.

[philipl]

Games are not just played between clubs. Remember the player has an interest in seeing whether the selling club is willing to drop his fee to clear him off the wage books at the last moment and creating an opportunity to syphon off some of the bargain price into higher wages for himself at the new club. On that basis, the player can be instrumental in pushing things right to the last minute as well.

A final point is that there were deals being done in the course of the last week of August which were inevitably taking players off the market but putting the ones they were likely to displace into serious play for the first time on the last day.

[CrazyIvan]

Guess who set up a goal and scored this weekend? Joaquin. Looks like he's playing well for the league leaders.

[LeChuck]

Wilfried Dalmat looks an excellent player for Standard Liege (playing against Everton at the moment). I actually thought it was Stephane Dalmat (the one who played for Spurs and Inter), but it turns out be his younger brother. I noticed him when they played Liverpool too...again, I just assumed it was his brother.

He's quick, works had, seems to have good quality on the ball as well. Could be a good option for us, I'm sure we can tempt players from the Belgian league.

[den]

He's quick, works had, seems to have good quality on the ball as well. Could be a good option for us, I'm sure we can tempt players from the Belgian league.

I'm sure we can Le Chuck. That's a worry.

[actually, I thought he looked crap [that wont surprise a few on here]]