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[Ossydave]

Ffs are we in for a full summer of Chaddy chasing RVRVRS round for transfer news like he knows what's going on 🤣

[Upside Down]

32 minutes ago, Ossydave said:

Ffs are we in for a full summer of Chaddy chasing RVRVRS round for transfer news like he knows what's going on 🤣

Surely this is a rhetorical question as we all know what the answer is.

[Torgeir]

8 hours ago, tomphil said:

Well i said that days ago an it ain't rocket science of ITK it's bloody obvious.

This imo will be the toughest window in a long time, pin it.

Clock is ticking, we bare scraped through last season and really need reinforcements. How long has it taken us to earmark a striker? A few years now...

[martonrover]

9 hours ago, bluebruce said:

Three freshly promoted teams plus ourselves in that race. What's the betting we finished last out of the 4?

Yes, get ready for weeks of this type of scenario.

Not forgetting, of course, deals agreed in principle, but falling through whilst waiting to be rubber stamped in Pune.

[MarkBRFC]

Remember Eustace also said the squad doesn't need much adding.

If we have more than one player in before the season starts I will be amazed.

[RoversClitheroe]

9 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

???

I never said they were 7m budget just shown how they could be. Sadly many of you have read it wrong as per usual 

You said that you believe that we will spend at least £7m no?

[Forever Blue]

11 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

Remember Eustace also said the squad doesn't need much adding.

If we have more than one player in before the season starts I will be amazed.

He didn’t say that. He said that we only needed additions in a few areas iirc. Forwards is an ‘area’ so we might bring in 5 forwards. Defence is an ‘area’ so we might bring in 3 defenders etc etc

[TheRevAshton]

Burnley away on August 31st... they'd better get signing some fecking players!

[tomphil]

1 hour ago, Torgeir said:

Clock is ticking, we bare scraped through last season and really need reinforcements. How long has it taken us to earmark a striker? A few years now...

We spent millions on BBD and it took him years to get up to speed but he stepped up when ready, we spent over a million plus add ons on Sammie and it took him a season to step up so really a similar signing to himself should be coming into the building now.

Building for the future seems to have gone out the window in favour of a return to cobbling together whatever they can 1 season at a time.

Can we really not find a million or two for a proven lge 1 fwd who's ready to try and step up !

[DackDackGoose]

Apparently missed out on Murphy to pompey.. isnt he a local to the area? Pretty tragic if so. Doubt we'd had our stuff together to be in for anyone at this point though

[RoryRoversIreland]

39 minutes ago, DackDackGoose said:

Apparently missed out on Murphy to pompey.. isnt he a local to the area? Pretty tragic if so. Doubt we'd had our stuff together to be in for anyone at this point though

Believe the length of contract was the factor on this. 

[neophox]

You would have liked to have new signings in by now with time to bed in....but that would had been unlike Rovers.

[KentExile]

51 minutes ago, DackDackGoose said:

Apparently missed out on Murphy to pompey.. isnt he a local to the area? Pretty tragic if so. Doubt we'd had our stuff together to be in for anyone at this point though

Not unless you consider London (where he was born) or Norwich (where he spent his youth career) to be local to the area

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Murphy

Not sure we missed out on much there, he scored 1 goal more than Siggy (making this comparison because both are right footed players who played wide left) from 1 game less (in the division below), and for a team fighting for promotion rather than relegation.

Edited Wednesday at 09:13 by KentExile

[FE123]

Are we really gutted we haven’t sign Murphy (who turns 30 this season). A championship/ league one journeyman who had a decent season in League 1 and will be looking for one big last pay day. Done well to avoid.

[TheRevAshton]

5 minutes ago, FE123 said:

Are we really gutted we haven’t sign Murphy (who turns 30 this season). A championship/ league one journeyman who had a decent season in League 1 and will be looking for one big last pay day. Done well to avoid.

Agreed. No better than Dolan, Siggy or Hedges.

We need to aim higher.

[chaddyrovers]

5 hours ago, Ossydave said:

Ffs are we in for a full summer of Chaddy chasing RVRVRS round for transfer news like he knows what's going on 🤣

I've asked a question. FFS! What a crime 🤣🤣🤣. 

 

[MatthewShaw97]

46 minutes ago, neophox said:

You would have liked to have new signings in by now with time to bed in....but that would had been unlike Rovers.

It’s been the case across the championship to be honest. 

[martonrover]

31 minutes ago, FE123 said:

Are we really gutted we haven’t sign Murphy (who turns 30 this season). A championship/ league one journeyman who had a decent season in League 1 and will be looking for one big last pay day. Done well to avoid.

No, we’re not gutted, but that isn’t really the point.

We can’t persuade players that we are the best option.

[Upside Down]

If you were a professional football player and you had the choice between another club and this absolute cesspool what would you choose? 

[chaddyrovers]

3 minutes ago, martonrover said:

No, we’re not gutted, but that isn’t really the point.

We can’t persuade players that we are the best option.

He is decent player..if he sign here he would have been squad player at best here. 

[Exiled_Rover]

9 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

If you were a professional football player and you had the choice between another club and this absolute cesspool what would you choose? 

Whoever pays me the most. 

[FE123]

15 minutes ago, martonrover said:

No, we’re not gutted, but that isn’t really the point.

We can’t persuade players that we are the best option.

Or we offered a contract on the basis he’s a squad player for one or two years and Portsmouth want him playing regularly and agree to sign him for 3 with the possibility of 4 years.

 

Totally agree with the club not doing that. Totally understand why he would choose Portsmouth, nothing to do with us being unable to attract a league 1 player.

[KentExile]

33 minutes ago, martonrover said:

No, we’re not gutted, but that isn’t really the point.

We can’t persuade players that we are the best option.

To be honest, If I was Murphy, you would struggle to convince me that I would be first choice ahead of Dolan and Sigurdsson (assuming at least one of them is staying for at least this season), but he might fancy his chances of being in the first 11 more against the likes of Callum Lang, Paddy Lane and Gavin White at Portsmouth.

Edit - Not saying Dolan and Siggy are world beaters, just that they are better than the options Portsmouth have in wide positions

Edited Wednesday at 10:26 by KentExile

[martonrover]

42 minutes ago, FE123 said:

Or we offered a contract on the basis he’s a squad player for one or two years and Portsmouth want him playing regularly and agree to sign him for 3 with the possibility of 4 years.

 

Totally agree with the club not doing that. Totally understand why he would choose Portsmouth, nothing to do with us being unable to attract a league 1 player.

Okay, that’s a very positive take.

Let’s see how the next few weeks pan out when we go for other players who have multiple suitors.

[Polky]

Murphy had a very fruitful February - May last season, but didn’t do much before then.

Quite a few Oxford fans were ready for him to be released and see the back of him.

He would have only been a squad player and I’m sure Portsmouth will have promised him regular minutes. With the current players in the squad such as Dolan, Sigurdsson and Hedges we would be unable to convince him that he’d start most games.