That *was* the January Window

[RoversClitheroe]

1 minute ago, Tim Southampton Rover said:

If it's true and we have pulled out of the deal for the American then for all we know there could be a good reason that benefits our club i.e. someone better, terms were unrealistic, Wharton deal off. I'll wait for some clarification before assuming the worst. 

As I've posted @TheKitGuy said Laurence Shankland.

Imo offers no resale value, McGuire would have (hopefully)

[SpaceBarSlam]

Rovers are making it really, really hard for apathy not to set in right now. 

[jim mk2]

2 minutes ago, Andy said:

The window closes at 11pm on Thursday night, not tonight.

Will anything have changed by this time tomorrow? I doubt it

[bluebruce]

9 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Apologies. I'm equallyconfused why you think that's important.

I think it's rather more important that he would appear to be fucking useless. The only way in which we can salvage a bit of self respect  from this is if someone better has suddenly become available AND we land him.

Still leaves a sour taste though.

I never suggested it was important. I just thought it was very weird and a bit amusing to put "Greg" in that punctuation as if you thought it was only allegedly his name.

We don't even know if this random Twitterati is right about the deal being off, and if he is, we don't know if it's because Wharton is off, or there's another target. So whilst this doesn't look good at this moment, I'll wait til the deadline has gone before I vent my spleen (which I'll certainly do if it stays this shit).

Edited January 31, 2024 by bluebruce

[Exiled_Rover]

5 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

He'll walk as will GB as a fuck you to the board and owners.

Let's see how it plays out in the wash.

It's an awful look changing our mind when the lad has flown half way around the world. If the money is being used for other positions that's another story.

If the owners have kiboshed any plans to spend the A. Wharton money (cos you KNOW that transfer will still happen) and cut Broughton's knees out from under him again then he'll leave. His reputation is being destroyed by these owners. 

[JHRover]

Hopefully now people start to re-evaluate the O'Brien debacle and realise that the scumbags in India were ultimately behind that one not happening too.

[Andy]

1 minute ago, jim mk2 said:

Will anything have changed by this time tomorrow? I doubt it

You're probably right, but it's the hope that kills you.

[JamieUK]

Re Lawrence Shankland...

 

[Tom]

If I was JDT and this was against my wishes I’d be walking.

Tomorrow is a big day now, if you sell Wharton you have to back the manager 

[wilsdenrover]

2 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Will anything have changed by this time tomorrow? I doubt it

Wharton will have left.

[J*B]

9 minutes ago, Miller11 said:

Collapse all the deals please Gregg. I’d happily go with what we’ve got and keep Wharton.

I know, I know, he’s gone… but this is giving me a sliver of false hope that Adam is now staying. I know I’m setting myself up for a fall, but I can’t help it. I know it’s just our usual incompetence that causes nothing but misery deep down.

This is bigger than that for me now Duncan. 

The OBrien disaster was last season was embarrassing enough - not least the legal case which we didn’t have a leg to stand on. 

If we have made a commitment to Orlando and McGuire then as a football club we should honour it. If we’re in the business of giving back word and messing clubs and players around, then truthfully I’m out. I can’t condone that. I’d quit my job if the management behaved like that, so I must honour my own moral compass. 

I’ll give them a short period of time too clarify it - I’ll accept Orlando changed the finances or McGuires demands changed. If it comes out that we are at fault, have ‘changed our minds’ or decided we can’t commit the finances, I’ll be arranging a meeting with Waggott, telling him how embarrassed I am at the way he has operated and that I cannot support the club until all those responsible are sacked or leave the club.

“We promise to honour Jack Walker's legacy” - incredible. 

[roversfan99]

1 minute ago, JamieUK said:

Re Lawrence Shankland...

 

Not that it makes any difference to us but thats not a real account.

[Andy]

1 minute ago, Tom said:

If I was JDT and this was against my wishes I’d be walking.

Tomorrow is a big day now, if you sell Wharton you have to back the manager 

Likewise with GB - if things collapse due to influence outside of his control, I can't see him not walking.

[Southside Rover]

Surely if true his Mum would have ended her following?

[CD_93]

Goodnight.

 

[RevidgeBlue]

8 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

 

 

Right OK, I'm wondering if this is right now - just say you give GB the benefit of the doubt for the O Brien deal and he assumed he was ok to go ahead but the V's pulled it at the last minute. (Not what I reckon happened but let's go with it)

What are the odds that if that happened 12 months ago  GB would set up another deal and fly someone over from the US  without authorisation? Pretty slim I'd have thought.

What are the odds of the V's vetoing 2 deals after sanctioning them in the first place? Equally slim.

Unless of course Adam is chugging back up the motorway in his mk1 Fiesta for a few more months oop in the frozen North before moving to the metropolis of the South?

We can but hope on the last part.

[Tim Southampton Rover]

Maybe we were signing his Mom (makes sense, she followed us). 

Rovers found out she wasn't on the plane so they ended the deal. 

[Herbie6590]

1 minute ago, Southside Rover said:

Surely if true his Mum would have ended her following?

She’s followed Sheff Weds 😆

[superniko]

Liked by his Mum, unless she’s just basing it on that mls journey tweet too. 

I’d say that’s another all mighty cock up by the shambles that is our club. 

[BRFCethan]

[Bethnal]

This is proper amateur hour nonsense.

Can anyone with better links than me substantiate the “Venky’s sprog running around Ewood playing Championship Manager in real life” whisper that came around about a year ago?

What other than the whimsy of an entitled, trust fund brat would facilitate such fucking ineptitude?

O’Brien was supposed to be a freak occurrence, this is currently form.

[Oldgregg86]

2 minutes ago, Southside Rover said:

Surely if true his Mum would have ended her following?

His mom will be getting her own deals after this window with all her new followers 😂

[booth]

5 minutes ago, JamieUK said:

Re Lawrence Shankland...

 

Parody account.

2 minutes ago, CD_93 said:

Goodnight.

 

Not a parody account.

[tomphil]

The dominoes aren't falling and this time tomorrow we could be going bust again.

[roversfan99]

Why would that cause the deal to collapse?