Summer Transfer Window

[Ruaney]

2 minutes ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

Yes but we don’t want to blow our budget and Cardiff won’t let him go without a fee agreed, currently a bit apart 

But when would we be buying him then? Crazy to pay a fee next summer when he'd cost nothing

[pick32]

1 minute ago, Ruaney said:

But when would we be buying him then? Crazy to pay a fee next summer when he'd cost nothing

Guessing it for the January window 

[tomphil]

5 minutes ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

At least we tried!

To be followed by just missed out headlines.

[bluebruce]

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

 

plenty of clubs and managers have comments on this. You seen Warnock on lack of signings, then there is PNE's owner rep Risdale's comments on the striker they want, Clubs like Norwich or Brentford who have money either from PL relegation or from selling players for over inflated prices. 

So those clubs are fucking it up too, and? There are also clubs getting their business done and not throwing excuses around.

If we got relegated (we won't) would you be saying 'well x and z got relegated too'?

Other clubs failing isn't an excuse for us to fail.

[K-Hod]

29 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

wait and see after the transfer window has close

But we’ve got points to play for before then.

[Waggy76]

Just now, bluebruce said:

So those clubs are fucking it up too, and? There are also clubs getting their business done and not throwing excuses around.

If we got relegated (we won't) would you be saying 'well x and z got relegated too'?

Other clubs failing isn't an excuse for us to fail.

I would not  be to sure on us not getting relegated ...

Porous defence , needs strengthening very quickly !

[DE.]

You would think with the amount of massively disappointing transfer windows we've had under TM the old "wait until the window has closed" phrase would have been quietly retired. It's practically guaranteed at this point that the window will end in disappointment with few if any of our glaring issues addressed in a future-proof way.

Only really decent window we've had under Mowbray, from memory, was summer '17 when we signed Dack, Arma, Smallwood etc.

[Leonard Venkhater]

Just now, DE. said:

You would think with the amount of massively disappointing transfer windows we've had under TM the old "wait until the window has closed" phrase would have been quietly retired. It's practically guaranteed at this point that the window will end in disappointment with few if any of our glaring issues addressed in a future-proof way.

Only really decent window we've had under Mowbray, from memory, was summer '17 when we signed Dack, Arma, Smallwood etc.

"Another window slams shut on depleted Rovers".....

[chaddyrovers]

1 minute ago, DE. said:

Only really decent window we've had under Mowbray, from memory, was summer '17 when we signed Dack, Arma, Smallwood etc.

Didnt Sign Armstrong then. 

We signed Dack, Smallwood, Downing, Gladwin, Antonsson, Whittingham, Hart, Samuel plus some other that summer

[Paul Mani]

20 minutes ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

No it’s what we are working on 

I’ve noticed he’s commenting a lot on Rovers players posts etc recently...felt he was a shoe in anyway before the window opened.

[chaddyrovers]

7 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

But we’ve got points to play for before then.

And most clubs still have players to sign like most windows. 

[Leonard Venkhater]

Just now, chaddyrovers said:

Didnt Sign Armstrong then. 

We signed Dack, Smallwood, Downing, Gladwin, Antonsson, Whittingham, Hart, Samuel plus some other that summer

..and four of them were shit!

[LDRover]

Just now, Leonard Venkhater said:

..and four of them were shit!

I'd go with 6 Len.

[Paul Mani]

5 minutes ago, DE. said:

You would think with the amount of massively disappointing transfer windows we've had under TM the old "wait until the window has closed" phrase would have been quietly retired. It's practically guaranteed at this point that the window will end in disappointment with few if any of our glaring issues addressed in a future-proof way.

Only really decent window we've had under Mowbray, from memory, was summer '17 when we signed Dack, Arma, Smallwood etc.

I can’t remember a single “Massively disappointing” summer window under Mowbray. January is usually horrific though...

[DE.]

1 minute ago, chaddyrovers said:

Didnt Sign Armstrong then. 

We signed Dack, Smallwood, Downing, Gladwin, Antonsson, Whittingham, Hart, Samuel plus some other that summer

You're right, I thought we loaned Armstrong in the summer but it was January. I was probably thinking of Downing.

Either way it was arguably the only good window we've had under TM. Good signings made quickly and decisively, ready for the first game of the season. We seem to have regressed massively since then in terms of recruitment, despite claims from the club to the contrary.

[RovingRover]

23 minutes ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

No it’s what we are working on 

No it isn't.

21 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

isn't he out of contract in next summer?

Indeed. June 30 2021.

[DE.]

Just now, Paul Mani said:

I can’t remember a single “Massively disappointing” summer window under Mowbray. January is usually horrific though...

The January window may as well not exist for us. We signed Arma on loan in Jan '18... can't think of any other decent signings we've made in that window since TM took charge.

I find every summer hugely disappointing as far as transfers are concerned, but YMMV depending on your expectations and ambitions for the club I suppose.

[Ewood Ace]

1 minute ago, chaddyrovers said:

And most clubs still have players to sign like most windows. 

More excuses. Anyway I thought that you weren't bothered about what other clubs are doing?

[Ewood Ace]

1 minute ago, Paul Mani said:

I can’t remember a single “Massively disappointing” summer window under Mowbray. January is usually horrific though...

How about last summer.

[nbdrovers]

23 minutes ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

No it’s what we are working on 

anything else of note going on at the mo do you know? seems there are bits happening we never know about (positive) but they almost universally fall through (negative). sounds like this window's a bit of a concrete wall. most clubs need players, most clubs need money, most agents want money, but the agents won't budge with their demands. seems we're being left behind as a club with principles regarding agents and their fees and it's costing us dearly. 

[JHRover]

I'm just dreading deadline day.

Obvious issues that need to be addressed, the eternal optimists expecting incomings up to the last minute, Mowbray and Rovers claiming to be busy and confident of deals and then the crushing blow from Rich Sharpe at about 6pm telling us that nothing is going to happen and that our business is done.

[Mercer]

Mowbray in LT:

Jackanory, jackanory, jackanory.....................

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/18711672.rovers-transfer-latest-european-defender-deal-collapses/

Some real pearlers in there.

Despair, despair, despair.

 

 

[LDRover]

1 minute ago, Ewood Ace said:

How about last summer.

Indeed, last year was a shocker. Ended up with half a defence and goalkeeping department with a 12 month sticking plaster on it. 

[chaddyrovers]

4 minutes ago, Ewood Ace said:

More excuses. 

?

4 minutes ago, Ewood Ace said:

Anyway I thought that you weren't bothered about what other clubs are doing?

Well when people make comments then need comparing to other clubs officials making similar to ours I will compare. Oki doki ?

[DE.]

1 minute ago, JHRover said:

I'm just dreading deadline day.

Obvious issues that need to be addressed, the eternal optimists expecting incomings up to the last minute, Mowbray and Rovers claiming to be busy and confident of deals and then the crushing blow from Rich Sharpe at about 6pm telling us that nothing is going to happen and that our business is done.

I go into transfer windows nowadays with zero hope as I have no faith in the system we have in place to produce anything worthwhile. I don't think the manager or his team have a remotely solid grasp on recruitment, and they have no help from the owners - in fact, if anything they are a further hindrance to an already questionable setup. At best we may get a decent loan or two but that's all I expect now. If we splash money it always seems to be on overpriced players like Gallagher or Brereton who don't even fit our system. 

TL;DR: The recruitment structure is a mess and I have no hopes to be crushed in the first place, so I'm generally quite zen about the transfer window itself.