[Archived] Transfer Window Part 3

[Mercer]

Good...don't let the door hit you on the a**e on the way out.

I've got a valium with your name on it too if you fancy it.

Being personal again! Perhaps, you need professional help to overcome that trait of vindictiveness and inferiority complex. I wish you well.

[JAL]

Hoilett HAS to play on the wing, he's an Aaron Lennon-type player... he'll just be average playing centrally or in attack.

Got to stop you there Miker, Junior shouldnt be shoe horned into playing out wide alone, as he has so much to offer from further in field aswell, as the winner against QPR showed on saturday.

Juniors position in the team should fit to whatever team we play against some teams hes going to more effective in field as opposed to out wide other games or moments in particular games yes out wide.

Junior has shown lots of versitility in his game recently which can only be good for Rovers.

[Valois]

Stalking you, now that would be a full time job.

I know lots of posts the last few days, but I'm working from home at the minute, so any excuse not to crack on with work, still I dont mind been pulled up on a post, but something such as writing "I would of thought" twice, and someone actually noticing, thats just weird.

[nicko]

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Transfer-news-Blackburn-boss-Steve-Kean-has-won-the-race-for-Birmingham-winger-Sebastian-Larsson-and-will-also-bring-striker-Roque-Santa-Cruz-back-from-Manchester-City-today-in-a-2m-deal-article672209.html

Say Cruz is signing for 2million? Nicko?

It's the cost of the deal in terms of wages.

[yeti-dog]

Being personal again! Perhaps, you need professional help to overcome that trait of vindictiveness and inferiority complex. I wish you well.

I'm just bored of your constant negativity is all Mercerman..anyhow,shouldn't you be in bed,you're in work soon!

[novella]

RSC coupled with good deliveries from seb larsson would be great a great combo.

But unless we sign RSC, they wont play together.

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

No his agent is Adam Davis,or was.

Whilst this is a very immature way to judge a footballer, this Jones guy looks and sounds like a knob.

He's been injured for ages, broken contract agreements and had a pop at fans for getting on his back.

We'd be better off with Grella.

[Hughesy]

Do we really need Larsson? And if we needed a similar style of player why didn't we go for the superior one i.e. Bentley? I think most would agree that Bentley is a far better player than Larsson.

I'm sure we could get by this season with Hoilett who looks really promising, Emerton and Diouf as right wing options. Focus the efforts on the area that really needs investment, the central midfield area.

Thats why we wait till summer, we can 'get by' - but why not improve our right side for free in summer? Diouf is on his last legs (big wages) and Emerton is hit & miss. Dunn has to be coming to an end too.

As for your 1st question....EVERYBODY knows that David Bentley has a very big ego & thinks very highly of himself...do you therefore believe he would come back with his tail between his legs if he had other options? Also your comparing a £8m fee ish with a FREE signing, who will more than likely be on much smaller wages 30k compared to around 50k

[Tris]

Kentaro have signed Nicko, controversial yes, but good for Nicko...

Don't joke - this is probably exactly what has happened! All ''alledgedly'' of course!

Kentaro can see that Nicko has an audience on the MB ... and that this thread also gets lots of attention from other media and agents.

So give him a story about one of their clients - a half decent player - bids from Newcastle and Sunderland which are supposedly to be ignored in favour of a summer move to Rovers on a free.

It's the three club rule come home to roost! Everyone's a winner!!

Rovers fans are told a reasonable PL player will turn down PL rivals to come to Ewood (look at Hughsey's reaction just above ) ... Nicko gets a nice ''exclusive'' story and another feather in his Kentaro cap ...

... and Kentaro have let the entire football world know at what price their client is up for a transfer - roll up, roll up!! One Seb Larsson ... 2 million ... anyone, anyone ... going, going - gone!!

And if there's no taker in the next fortnight, the story will be neither right nor wrong until September 1st - by which time it will be ancient history and totally forgotten anyway, because we'll be back in for Maradona and co. Genius.

I hear from my best Swedish contact that Seb Larsson is the proverbial done deal for Rovers.

"My best Swedish contact" hahaha - class - how are people still taking you seriously?

[herbergeehh]

Larsson has always looked like a good signing to me, in his younger years especially.. perhaps particularly when Bentley left, seeing as he is a very similar type of player. Good signing at 26 - for free - with Emerton, Diouf, Dunn all entering the thirties. Free in the summer sounds good, simple as that. Not a spectacular signing, but solid - we need some of them.

Now get Charlie Adam here, for christ sake. I don't think I've wanted a signing to be completed more since.. no, can't remember. 4 million, 6 million, who cares - he'd give us back the midfield we've been lacking since Savage stopped running and Tugay retired.

As for the whole Nicko debate, I think I've stopped caring. I appreciate any info I can get, and as long as the info checks out in the end I am happy.

[Mercer]

I'm just bored of your constant negativity is all Mercerman..anyhow,shouldn't you be in bed,you're in work soon!

So sorry about that. Suggest you just skip-by those posters who bore you! In the technological world of the 21st century, I work without leaving the house and with a bit of luck will be in bed by 7am with a day's work done.

Moving away from your 'negativity', would be interested in your views on where you think Rovers are going and who you would be looking to sign.

Have a good weekend and let me know where you'll be at The Bridge on Saturday.

[Hughesy]

"My best Swedish contact" hahaha - class - how are people still taking you seriously?

Perhaps its based on how often he is correct, unlike some?!

[JoeBlueWhite]

So we are getting a young, premiership quality player on the cheap and some people here are ###### off about that.

Bizarre but not particularly surprising atm.

[BuckyRover]

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[BPF]

Based on all that I've heard I will be AMAZED if we spend £5,000,000 on fees before February.

[Fife Rover]

No thanks, Hoilett will be a better play IMO

Hoilett is already a better player than SWP ever was or will be........IMO of course.

[AggyBlue]

Based on all that I've heard I will be AMAZED if we spend £5,000,000 on fees before February.

You're starting to sound like Philipl BPF:lol:

[deftangel]

Just catching up. There were plenty of people talking about Larsson before Nicko's story so getting him in is fair enough. Would VASTLY prefer it to be now, however. We are in need of reinforcements to see us in good stead for the rest of the year. Maybe Birmingham's apparent dilemma will prompt a renegotiation on the price and a mutual agreement to be had.

I don't see Hoillet as a long term centre-mid proposition. We need a box to box type player there in this window, in my view.

January is a difficult time to a deal where the club don't get mugged off but reading between the lines, Adam is obtainable for a significant but not ludicrous fee so I will be disappointed if reasonable efforts to sign him are not made. We paid £7.5m for Ferguson back in the day. That one would seem one to drag on till February by the looks of it though.

[XLM]

Based on all that I've heard I will be AMAZED if we spend £5,000,000 on fees before February.

At least try and rephrase your constant posting of the same thing.

You might be right. I don't care. We wouldn't have spent 5 million under the trust either. What difference does it make? Something is better than nothing.

[Majiball]

Based on all that I've heard I will be AMAZED if we spend £5,000,000 on fees before February.

Are Venky's planning on signing a central midfielder???

Do you know if we can expect to see a number of ins and outs this month then? Or will it be just a couple of 1st teamers?

[JAL]

Based on all that I've heard I will be AMAZED if we spend £5,000,000 on fees before February.

So have Rovers not got any top quality players lined up then ?

[herbergeehh]

Hoilett is already a better player than SWP ever was or will be........IMO of course.

a bit early for that, no? Consistancy IS part of becoming a good player, a rather big part of it too. Let's hope he can get to that, we will have some player on our hands..

[magicalmortensleftpeg]

Based on all that I've heard I will be AMAZED if we spend £5,000,000 on fees before February.

We know what you think. You've been repeating this for the past week. We understand that you hear we have very little money. No one will know how much we'll spend before the end of January until.. THE END OF JANUARY. Lets wait until then.

Don't joke - this is probably exactly what has happened! All ''alledgedly'' of course!

Kentaro can see that Nicko has an audience on the MB ... and that this thread also gets lots of attention from other media and agents.

So give him a story about one of their clients - a half decent player - bids from Newcastle and Sunderland which are supposedly to be ignored in favour of a summer move to Rovers on a free.

It's the three club rule come home to roost! Everyone's a winner!!

Rovers fans are told a reasonable PL player will turn down PL rivals to come to Ewood (look at Hughsey's reaction just above ) ... Nicko gets a nice ''exclusive'' story and another feather in his Kentaro cap ...

... and Kentaro have let the entire football world know at what price their client is up for a transfer - roll up, roll up!! One Seb Larsson ... 2 million ... anyone, anyone ... going, going - gone!!

And if there's no taker in the next fortnight, the story will be neither right nor wrong until September 1st - by which time it will be ancient history and totally forgotten anyway, because we'll be back in for Maradona and co. Genius.

"My best Swedish contact" hahaha - class - how are people still taking you seriously?

The amount of effort here is admirable. The content is cr*p. Please be quiet.

[Hughesy]

Based on all that I've heard I will be AMAZED if we spend £5,000,000 on fees before February.

Based on things like £8m for Charlie Adam I wouldnt be too suprised either....loans (not domestic) at this time of the season might make more financial sense.

[J*B]

Charlie Adams price will only be higher in summer, in my opinion. If we've got RSC until summer, and he performs, offer 3.5m like Lazio agreed in summer. Striker issue sorted.

Play Olsson left back and tell him not to be scared of going forward - play Givet as left centre back and tell him to be prepared to cover. Hoillett left wing, tell him to look to come inside on his right foot. Look for Olsson who should be flying up the left wing. Seb Larson right wing, hit Roques head. Go for goal or knock it down for Nico Kalanic the Croatian Hitman.

Nzonzi holding midfielder, he's going to need to be prepared to drop to centre half if Givet is covering left back.

Blow the entire budget on Adam, or O'Hara, now.