January Transfer Window.

[J*B]

17 minutes ago, Shirley Crabtree Wrestler said:

FFS someone should lose their fecking job based on that level of serious professional incompetence in an organisation that is clearly hamstrung by a lack of working captial. Absolutely scandalous that the morons behind the scenes have let this happen. 

Much as I love the idea of BBD leading the Rovers to some kind of glorious end to this season, I can't think of a single reason why he should be allowed anywhere near the first team squad for the remaining games. As far as I'm concerned his disdain for the club is as loud and clear as it could possibly be, and therefore should be met with reciprocal disgust.

BASTARDS!

To be fair to Ben he’s told the club he won’t sign a new deal for over a 18 months now and the club have rejected numerous chances to sell him without him once kicking up a fuss. This isn’t his fault. 

[Theaxe15]

Diaz has scored less league goals than Will Keane this season. He’s never looked like downing tools as such but he’s been playing more like his younger self since the World Cup. I’d have even taken 3 million for him now 

[davulsukur]

22 minutes ago, ItsRoverZ said:

With Diaz confirmed, I really don't know if we carry on playing him? He's not going to give 100% his head is now firmly in Spain, such a shame we don't have a replacement or adequate cover 

It's the worst situation for us, again, just like Rothwell last season.

He'll be "the model professional" in training so he'll probably get played most weeks but his mind will be focusing on Spain. He's off form as it is and probably stay that way for the rest of the season. 

He's one of our better players though, so, guessing we need to keep playing him. 

Also, who could replace him and actually be any good?

[Herbie6590]

3 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

The wage budget is set at the start of the season. We shouldn't be overpaying for wages but when teams with parachute payments we dont stand a chance. Plus with these new rules coming into football about wages to turnover being 70%. 

A budget is a budget. The club may choose to “compartmentalise” notionally to track actuals against projected numbers but ultimately there’s not enough money coming in to pay out what we would like.

[yeti-dog]

The only way anything is now salvaged from the Brereton Diaz fiasco is if Diaz comes to the fore again and helps take us to the promised land.

If this did happen, and I appreciate it is very unlikely, then I'll wave him off, wishing him all the best and also say well done to Venky's for playing a blinder! 😁   

[SuperBrfc]

I'd like to take this moment to applaud Balaji Rao for his generosity. For bringing a Chilean superstar to the club to entertain us and for allowing him to leave for nothing, all so that Ben can fulfil a dream of playing Champions League football. There have been many smart operators in English Football over the years, but there aren't many who are as kind as him.

£7m spent on Ben, you say? Pah. Don't sweat it, small change. £8.4m offer to sell him in the summer? Don't be silly. £3m for Rothwell? Be serious now, we're talking pennies. We don't need to bring in transfer fees with "tiger" at the helm. It's all good.

Just let us know where the next party is at, Bala. It's a shame you will never host a "promotion party" (Google it), but we're all up for having a few selfies with Akon if you can sort that out for us one day. Top man.

[martonrover]

3 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

The wage budget is set at the start of the season. We shouldn't be overpaying for wages but when teams with parachute payments we dont stand a chance. Plus with these new rules coming into football about wages to turnover being 70%. 

We struggle to compete with teams who aren’t in receipt of parachute payments.

The system stinks, but we clearly don’t help ourselves.

It’s no good bringing in a DOF when the hierarchy above him are slow, unimaginative and incompetent.

[ItsRoverZ]

4 minutes ago, SuperBrfc said:

I'd like to take this moment to applaud Balaji Rao for his generosity. For bringing a Chilean superstar to the club to entertain us and for allowing him to leave for nothing, all so that Ben can fulfil a dream of playing Champions League football. There have been many smart operators in English Football over the years, but there aren't many who are as kind as him.

£7m spent on Ben, you say? Pah. Don't sweat it, small change. £8.4m offer to sell him in the summer? Don't be silly. £3m for Rothwell? Be serious now, we're talking pennies. We don't need to bring in transfer fees with "tiger" at the helm. It's all good.

Just let us know where the next party is at, Bala. It's a shame you will never host a "promotion party" (Google it), but we're all up for having a few selfies with Akon if you can sort that out for us one day. Top man.

You know he's the type of man to read this and see 0 sarcasm and just sit there smiling because of how nice your being 

[Paul Mani]

I’m not sticking up for Waggott, I don’t think a good CEO. You only have to look across the board at us commercially etc and you can see his limitations.

But he can’t be sacked for the reasons mentioned here because he wanted to sell Lenihan, Nyambe, Rothwell and Brereton before their contracts ran out. He told me so in a chat I had with him at Ewood. Something or someone must’ve blocked him because he was adamant they’d be sold if the wouldn’t sign.

[Guest]

If a saleable asset hasn't signed a contract renewal offered by the club within twelve or eighteen months of their existing contract ending, then open up to offers. We must have lost at least £20m worth of sales in the last couple of years due to inaction and allowing contracts of very good players run down.

Football transfers are two ways. We might have to sell players we don't want to, but doing so allows us to buy players that other clubs don't want to sell. It's a food chain.

The frustrating part for supporters is that we see these assets depreciating to zero due to the club not acting early enough on them, and then we are struggling to compete financially with other clubs in every transfer window. It needs to be sorted.

[ItsRoverZ]

3 minutes ago, Paul Mani said:

I’m not sticking up for Waggott, I don’t think a good CEO. You only have to look across the board at us commercially etc and you can see his limitations.

But he can’t be sacked for the reasons mentioned here because he wanted to sell Lenihan, Nyambe, Rothwell and Brereton before their contracts ran out. He told me so in a chat I had with him at Ewood. Something or someone must’ve blocked him because he was adamant they’d be sold if the wouldn’t sign.

Or he just lied to you?

[J*B]

5 minutes ago, Paul Mani said:

I’m not sticking up for Waggott, I don’t think a good CEO. You only have to look across the board at us commercially etc and you can see his limitations.

But he can’t be sacked for the reasons mentioned here because he wanted to sell Lenihan, Nyambe, Rothwell and Brereton before their contracts ran out. He told me so in a chat I had with him at Ewood. Something or someone must’ve blocked him because he was adamant they’d be sold if the wouldn’t sign.

Then it comes down to your level of self respect. If I was in that situation I give you my word I’d quit regardless of the money. He won’t. 

[davulsukur]

5 minutes ago, Paul Mani said:

I’m not sticking up for Waggott, I don’t think a good CEO. You only have to look across the board at us commercially etc and you can see his limitations.

But he can’t be sacked for the reasons mentioned here because he wanted to sell Lenihan, Nyambe, Rothwell and Brereton before their contracts ran out. He told me so in a chat I had with him at Ewood. Something or someone must’ve blocked him because he was adamant they’d be sold if the wouldn’t sign.

Pretty sure he went public with the same line as well?

[simongarnerisgod]

it does`nt look to be great player wise behind the scenes if numerous players won`t sign contract extensions,dack only has one year left at the end of the season,seeing as it would be his last big contract there is no doubt he`ll be off on a free as well

[arbitro]

14 minutes ago, Paul Mani said:

I’m not sticking up for Waggott, I don’t think a good CEO. You only have to look across the board at us commercially etc and you can see his limitations.

But he can’t be sacked for the reasons mentioned here because he wanted to sell Lenihan, Nyambe, Rothwell and Brereton before their contracts ran out. He told me so in a chat I had with him at Ewood. Something or someone must’ve blocked him because he was adamant they’d be sold if the wouldn’t sign.

He has form for telling people what they want to hear. Check out any FF minutes for evidence.

[Mercer]

4 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

The wage budget is set at the start of the season. We shouldn't be overpaying for wages but when teams with parachute payments we dont stand a chance. Plus with these new rules coming into football about wages to turnover being 70%. 

Yes we DO STAND A FECKIN CHANCE.

Other teams WITHOUT parachute payments have done in the recent past eg Brentford, Sheffield United.

I've said on a number of occasions, IMO, we are SEVERELY UNDERMANAGED from top to bottom.

As I've said before Chaddy, stop trying to defend the indefensible - wake up and finally smell the coffee.

[Gav]

13 minutes ago, Paul Mani said:

I’m not sticking up for Waggott, I don’t think a good CEO. You only have to look across the board at us commercially etc and you can see his limitations.

But he can’t be sacked for the reasons mentioned here because he wanted to sell Lenihan, Nyambe, Rothwell and Brereton before their contracts ran out. He told me so in a chat I had with him at Ewood. Something or someone must’ve blocked him because he was adamant they’d be sold if the wouldn’t sign.

Waggott tells everyone what they want to hear, you should know that by now.

If I was in his shoes I'd resign to be honest Paul, what is the point of being in that position when you're got little or no influence over arguably the most important aspect of the job. 

Armatures the lot of them.  

[Tugayisgod]

4 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

it does`nt look to be great player wise behind the scenes if numerous players won`t sign contract extensions,dack only has one year left at the end of the season,seeing as it would be his last big contract there is no doubt he`ll be off on a free as well

We have pretty much everybody tied up for a couple of years at least so don't get your post. Dack is the only one now whose contract runs out in the summer but we have a 12 month option on that as well

[jim mk2]

So here we are, 3 days until the window closes and we've got one player in on loan until the end of the season

He can't get in Huddersfield's team at present and is out of form but hey, let's hope he does well

In this any different to the last window and most of the others in recent years - and is it a wake-up call for Tomasson as to how this dysfunctional club operates?

I'm sure he was expecting some better players to be coming in and would have been promised such by the management when he took over. Maybe he's about to become as disappointed and disillusioned as the rest of us

Edited January 28, 2023 by jim mk2

[simongarnerisgod]

4 minutes ago, Tugayisgod said:

We have pretty much everybody tied up for a couple of years at least so don't get your post. Dack is the only one now whose contract runs out in the summer but we have a 12 month option on that as well

rothwell,nyambe,lenihan and brereton have all refused to sign contracts,if that does`nt indicate things are not to cosy at brockhall i don`t know what does,like i said,it will be dacks last big contract as he`s coming up to thirty,he`ll be off no doubt

[Mercer]

25 minutes ago, Paul Mani said:

I’m not sticking up for Waggott, I don’t think a good CEO. You only have to look across the board at us commercially etc and you can see his limitations.

But he can’t be sacked for the reasons mentioned here because he wanted to sell Lenihan, Nyambe, Rothwell and Brereton before their contracts ran out. He told me so in a chat I had with him at Ewood. Something or someone must’ve blocked him because he was adamant they’d be sold if the wouldn’t sign.

If correct, and personally I don't trust Waggott, what self respecting CEO would put up with that cr@p.  You should have asked him why he hadn't therefore resigned!

[Exiled_Rover]

13 minutes ago, Mercer said:

Yes we DO STAND A FECKIN CHANCE.

Other teams WITHOUT parachute payments have done in the recent past eg Brentford, Sheffield United.

I've said on a number of occasions, IMO, we are SEVERELY UNDERMANAGED from top to bottom.

As I've said before Chaddy, stop trying to defend the indefensible - wake up and finally smell the coffee.

You might want to remove Sheffield United from your list seeing as they're being handed a transfer ban for failing to pay fees they owe.

[Mashed Potatoes]

2 minutes ago, Mercer said:

If correct, and personally I don't trust Waggott, what self respecting CEO would put up with that cr@p.  You should have asked him why he hadn't therefore resigned!

What difference would it make if he did ? He'd simply be replaced by somebody who would put up with it.

[Exiled_Rover]

4 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

rothwell,nyambe,lenihan and brereton have all refused to sign contracts,if that does`nt indicate things are not to cosy at brockhall i don`t know what does,like i said,it will be dacks last big contract as he`s coming up to thirty,he`ll be off no doubt

I assume that's why Mowbray was let go - he alienated players.

Brereton-Diaz's head has been turned for a while, not sure what JDT and Broughton could do about that.

[Tugayisgod]

4 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

rothwell,nyambe,lenihan and brereton have all refused to sign contracts,if that does`nt indicate things are not to cosy at brockhall i don`t know what does,like i said,it will be dacks last big contract as he`s coming up to thirty,he`ll be off no doubt

In the past yes, not unusual at any club and not Broughtons fault as minds were made up.What he does deserve credit for is tying as many as he could down to longer contracts, including Phillips and batty who everybody assumed were on their way. The point now is to try and make sure it doesn't happen again, but with the odds so much in favour of the player we know it will, not just here but all over the country