The Summer Transfer Window (Press Submit)

[rigger]

1 hour ago, TheRevAshton said:

Preston have bid for Harrison Burrows... likely around £3m.

Preston, who like us, usually have an operating loss between £15m-£20m every year.

Preston, who have somewhat similar attendances to us.

Preston, who unlike us, haven't had £29m in players sales since last summer. (with probably another ~£15m on the way this summer)

They're tabling decent bids on top talents. We're looking at cheap freebies.

Our Owners are a joke.

The most important word in your statement is"Bid". Make the point once the player has signed. I agree with your statement about our owners.

[Forever Blue]

6 minutes ago, rigger said:

The most important word in your statement is"Bid". Make the point once the player has signed. I agree with your statement about our owners.

Yea, it is important, because despite raking in £25m less than us in transfers in the last 6 months, PNE can still bid more than us.

Edited July 5, 2024 by Forever Blue

[JHRover]

4 minutes ago, rigger said:

The most important word in your statement is"Bid". Make the point once the player has signed. I agree with your statement about our owners.

Difference is that other clubs bid for players with a genuine intention and capacity to get the deal done.

Of course many won't and bigger or richer clubs will come in and outbid, but nevertheless ownership down want it to happen.

Here I'm increasingly convinced that a large portion of our transfer 'efforts' consist of chasing players we aren't ever going to be willing to pay or at prices that clubs aren't willing to do business at, or that we are going around trying to sign players but without the crucial sign off needed from the owners to actually get the deals done.

Our reputation for doing business with must be in the gutter. Fitting when owned and run by people who belong there but have ended up in positions of wealth and power

 

[rigger]

1 minute ago, Forever Blue said:

Yea, it is important, because despite raking in £25m less than us in transfers in the last 6 months, PNE can still bid more than us.

Again it is only a bid, has it been excepted,has the player signed , has money actually been exchanged ?

[Forever Blue]

2 minutes ago, rigger said:

Again it is only a bid, has it been excepted,has the player signed , has money actually been exchanged ?

None of that is relevant to the point being made. 

[JHRover]

41 minutes ago, TugaysMarlboro said:

The biggest reason we lose £15m a season is due to the league we're in, something which Venkys oversaw.

It's almost as if there's some memory loss from some about that.

Plus that we have no commercial department and a bloke running the club with no track record of anything in the game save for trying to sell training grounds off for housing. 

[tomphil]

38 minutes ago, ABBEY said:

day before the first pre season game.... how's the 7 million spend working out @chaddyrovers

The owners would invest in a promotion drive if it wasn't for......

FFP

Indian Tax levy

Tax Fraud Investigation

Family Squabbles

A Snowball

They couldn't care less

..... which one are we up to now this season ?

[Herbie6590]

1 hour ago, tomphil said:

The owners would invest in a promotion drive if it wasn't for......

FFP

Indian Tax levy

Tax Fraud Investigation

Family Squabbles

A Snowball

They couldn't care less

..... which one are we up to now this season ?

Cost Control

Efficiency Drive 

[Hasta]

1 hour ago, tomphil said:

The owners would invest in a promotion drive if it wasn't for......

FFP

Indian Tax levy

Tax Fraud Investigation

Family Squabbles

A Snowball

They couldn't care less

..... which one are we up to now this season ?

Needing funds for Balaji's celebrity bunga bunga parties.

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

No whiff of a first team transfer yet?  I don't believe it. 

Edited July 5, 2024 by Wing Wizard Windy Miller

[wilsdenrover]

1 hour ago, tomphil said:

The owners would invest in a promotion drive if it wasn't for......

FFP

Indian Tax levy

Tax Fraud Investigation

Family Squabbles

A Snowball

They couldn't care less

..... which one are we up to now this season ?

It might be none of these, they might just have mislaid their chequebook 

[KentExile]

13 minutes ago, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:

No whiff of a first team transfer yet?  I don't believe it. 

I do

[MarkBRFC]

Nixon just tweeted "Slow, very slow" when asked about incomings for those of you that take his word as gospel.

[levi]

I look at this thread every night after work

It makes me depressed and i tell myself i'm not looking tommorow

I do and the same happens..

[yankfan]

27 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

Nixon just tweeted "Slow, very slow" when asked about incomings for those of you that take his word as gospel.

It doesn’t take anyone in the know to come to that conclusion 

[chaddyrovers]

https://the72.co.uk/2024/07/05/blackburn-rovers-winger-targets/

3 free agents Blackburn Rovers should target including Mat Ryan (the72.co.uk)

[Forever Blue]

The problem with not showing any ambition in the transfer market is that the good players we do have will start looking elsewhere. 

[MarkBRFC]

19 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

https://the72.co.uk/2024/07/05/blackburn-rovers-winger-targets/

3 free agents Blackburn Rovers should target including Mat Ryan (the72.co.uk)

All pointless waffle.

[simongarnerisgod]

13 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

The problem with not showing any ambition in the transfer market is that the good players we do have will start looking elsewhere. 

you can`t blame them,can`t be much fun going into games knowing you are going to lose,which is what will happen unless we spend some money

[chaddyrovers]

21 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

All pointless waffle.

dont read them

[RoversClitheroe]

We really missed out on a fantastic player in Jack Currie at AFC Wimbledon, just gone to the more ambitious club Oxford United, great LB and an immediate upgrade on Pickering.

[KentExile]

5 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

We really missed out on a fantastic player in Jack Currie at AFC Wimbledon, just gone to the more ambitious club Oxford United, great LB and an immediate upgrade on Pickering.

or we already have a promising young left back who has done well at at lower level but is currently unproven at Championship level in Gent?

Not much difference between League 2 and Scottish Prem for me

Edited July 5, 2024 by KentExile

[Devon Rover]

4 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

We really missed out on a fantastic player in Jack Currie at AFC Wimbledon, just gone to the more ambitious club Oxford United, great LB and an immediate upgrade on Pickering.

"The more ambitious club Oxford United". 

What a statement. Utterly depressing and totally correct. What we've been reduced to. How anyone can't see the direction we are going in needs to open their eyes. 

Transfers in needed urgently or this is a relegation season. We will pass the likes of Oxford United on our way down.

[Devon Rover]

2 minutes ago, KentExile said:

or we already have a promising young left back who has done well at at lower level but is currently unproven at Championship level in Gent?

Not much difference between League 2 and Scottish Prem for me

Perhaps. But an upgrade on Pickering is years overdue.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

6 hours ago, TheRevAshton said:

Preston have bid for Harrison Burrows... likely around £3m.

Preston, who like us, usually have an operating loss between £15m-£20m every year.

Preston, who have somewhat similar attendances to us.

Preston, who unlike us, haven't had £29m in players sales since last summer. (with probably another ~£15m on the way this summer)

They're tabling decent bids on top talents. We're looking at cheap freebies.

Our Owners are a joke

We are  left fighting for our survival yet again...enjoy!