The Summer Transfer Window (Press Submit)

[Emerald Isle Rover]

1 hour ago, Mercer said:

No one is saying we immediately accept £500k less for SS or pay £400k more for de Lange - it's a negotiation but my goodness it always seems at a snail's pace by Rovers.  Where two parties are minded to do a deal, as they are in these two transfers, then you sit down, hammer it out and get the feckin deal closed.

With SS - clearly, the lad wants to go and almost certainly wont play for us again.  Not only is this unsettling for the lad but for the group as a whole.  He needs to be out the building.

With de Lange, all protracted negotiations do is alert other potential suitors and you risk losing the player.  Who can ever forget us losing Roy Keane to United because Rovers' offices were closed on a Sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Snooze and you lose - it's that simple.

If it was as easy as that all clubs would have transfers done within 24/48 hours. Reality is clubs are businesses and they will penny pinch in every way possible until they find middle ground. Happens in every single club long drawn out transfer sagas isn’t just rovers look at Conor Gallagher transfer for example been on going few weeks now too. It’s football

[Paul Mani]

1 hour ago, Mercer said:

No one is saying we immediately accept £500k less for SS or pay £400k more for de Lange - it's a negotiation but my goodness it always seems at a snail's pace by Rovers.  Where two parties are minded to do a deal, as they are in these two transfers, then you sit down, hammer it out and get the feckin deal closed.

With SS - clearly, the lad wants to go and almost certainly wont play for us again.  Not only is this unsettling for the lad but for the group as a whole.  He needs to be out the building.

With de Lange, all protracted negotiations do is alert other potential suitors and you risk losing the player.  Who can ever forget us losing Roy Keane to United because Rovers' offices were closed on a Sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Snooze and you lose - it's that simple.

Honestly, I don’t think we’re any faster or slower than anyone else. The speed of deals comes down to money.

When clubs are flush - they go in, pay the money and take the player. Most times there’s a considerable amount of negotiation behind the scenes. But to put this in context, Palace negotiated for around two weeks on Adam Wharton to do a deal for £18m. A player who was being courted nationally and is now worth 3 or 4x what they paid.

The agreement in principle / interest in JDL wasn’t even broken until this weekend. Let them get on with it…no need to swallow an extra £400k loss on what they want to pay, or bow to Ipswich re SS. It needs sorting but the main thing is that the 5/6 signings made last week means we can now field a decent team on Friday night.

FWIW - I still see the SS and JDL thing being resolved this week.

Edited August 6, 2024 by Paul Mani

[Leonard Venkhater]

Just now, Ricky said:

But it’s the same if we buy a player. It’s no different, we don’t pay the fee all in one go so it’s exactly the same. We could buy a £5m player with the £5m Raya sell on as we wouldn’t pay for that player all in one go. 

But.....the Premier League clubs have so much more money ...

[riverholmes]

The Premier League have got it down to a fine art. They even use varying sell-on percentage clauses within a transfer to incentivise buying clubs not to later sell on to a rival.

[B16Rover]

What is the Rovers credit rating.  I wonder if that makes a difference to installments both loaning against future incoming and paying in outgoing 

[neophox]

Galatasaray interested in Szmodics

[wilsdenrover]

31 minutes ago, Leonard Venkhater said:

Yes.

This is the awful thing about the Raya add-ons...A Premier League club with all its riches, dragging out the payments over several years...

That’s our fault for not insisting it would become payable immediately upon a future sale.

[BankEnd Rover]

[Torgeir]

10 minutes ago, neophox said:

Galatasaray interested in Szmodics

Source?

Seen links from a few days ago but anything fresh?

[Torgeir]

8 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Will probably favour the Blades but seems we have cast a wide net in our search for a new GK. Unless we want two......

[RevidgeBlue]

9 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

So from allegedly being ready to spend £2m on a keeper (Ha!) to bringing in a loanee.

Normal service has been resumed

[RevidgeBlue]

2 hours ago, Craigman said:

So Nixon is suggesting we want guaranteed £9million for SS, with extras to take up to £12million.

If Nixon is correct that's more than reasonable on our part.

It's Ipswich who are tyrekicking and not interested enough to pay a realistic fee imo.

We SHOULD tell them to do one until they're prepared to take negotiations seriously.

But.........

[sharpysharps86]

4 minutes ago, Torgeir said:

Will probably favour the Blades but seems we have cast a wide net in our search for a new GK. Unless we want two......

Wouldn't be at all surprised if we do want 2 GK's. For all we know JE doesn't rate Pears, but he simply has to play him because Hilton is nowhere near the required ability.

[Ricky]

Just have to hope that there’s some scouts who watched the game against Newcastle at Ewood BUT NO OTHERS!!

May be able to get a few quid for Pears based on that. 

[roversinmyblood]

14 minutes ago, Torgeir said:

Will probably favour the Blades but seems we have cast a wide net in our search for a new GK. Unless we want two......

Hopefully it is because if we sign JDL Pears will want to leave. 🤞

[islander200]

9 minutes ago, sharpysharps86 said:

Wouldn't be at all surprised if we do want 2 GK's. For all we know JE doesn't rate Pears, but he simply has to play him because Hilton is nowhere near the required ability.

Rushworth wouldn't come on loan to play second fiddle 

The club won't pay a couple of million on Lange to bench him 

Maybe we are looking for 2 keepers,but it wouldn't be both those keepers 

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

1 hour ago, M_B said:

That's how I see it.

Pears will play on Friday and if he does well should keep his place there on in. 

Till the first howler. 

[Theaxe15]

11 minutes ago, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:

Till the first howler. 

Well he saved his last three for games that were on sky…

[M_B]

31 minutes ago, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:

Till the first howler. 

If we're changing keepers every time they cock up, they're going to be in and out like a fiddler's elbow. 

[roversfan99]

So have we moved on from De Lange for the sake of a few hundred grand to try and borrow someone?

[London blue]

5 minutes ago, M_B said:

If we're changing keepers every time they cock up, they're going to be in and out like a fiddler's elbow. 

And if we're accepting that Pears is the required standard then we've fallen so very far.

[Exiled_Rover]

7 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

So have we moved on from De Lange for the sake of a few hundred grand to try and borrow someone?

Or we're exploring our options.

The last thing you want to happen is to come to an impasse with De Lange and not have a backup plan.

[roversfan99]

3 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Or we're exploring our options.

The last thing you want to happen is to come to an impasse with De Lange and not have a backup plan.

I would want a longer term goalkeeper. Wasnt there a second goalkeeper at PSV who we apparently wanted? Not that £1.25m should be beyond us.

Assuming that some of the rumours about goalkeepers this summer have been true, small cash buys, aging freebies, loanees, it doesnt scream of a club with a plan. 

Edited August 6, 2024 by roversfan99

[MarkBRFC]

If Nixon is linking us to another keeper it tells me that De Lange isn't going to happen.

Edited August 6, 2024 by MarkBRFC

[roversfan99]

And if we do want Rushworth, Sheffield United and his old club Swansea will be far more likely, so that wont happen.