The Summer Transfer Window (Press Submit)

[B16Rover]

10 minutes ago, KentExile said:

I would  imagine he may have more lucrative offers (Rangers or Celtic would be my guess) and his wages are probably out of reach, but Scott McKenna is out of contract at Forest this summer, left footed CB, Championship promotion on his CV, and obviously not quite Premier League standard (been on loan at Copenhagen this season while his contract runs down), decent age at 27

 

Out of our price range but agree we need a left footed centre back.  Would be after Tom Isherwood.  6ft 5 so covers some of McFadz duty, left footed and has been promoted in Germany.  Came through at Bayern Munich but has also played at Bradford. Out of contract too

[AllRoverAsia]

Duncan McGuire is out of contract on 31 December 2024.

I cannot visualise us paying a fee for him this summer when our planning will be to get him for nowt in January.

In the MLS this season he's scored 4 in 9, so there could be other bidders.

I'm sure our shenanigans were not unnoticed by others.

Maybe it's just that I never heard that the hierarchy took that freebie to Florida already to sign that pre contract.

 

Edited May 5 by AllRoverAsia

[bluebruce]

4 hours ago, Mercer said:

Suspect you wont be far wrong.

Fadz - worth a 12 month contract

Gally - huge wages for a waste of space, get him out the door

Dolan - get shut, we can do better

Disagree on all 3 counts.

McFadz I'd be ok with 6 months and a 6 month extension option. His legs will go by January I suspect. 

Gally isn't good enough, but January showed we could probably extend and sell for a million. Even so, any wage savings will likely vanish and we won't get the funding needed to sign a bog standard forward, which is what he is.

Dolan is good enough for us at this level and whilst he frustrates at times is criminally underrated. Can we do better? Probably, with more money and/or better scouting, but we don't have those things. Even if we did sign someone better, he's still perfectly good enough to be a squad player.

[Bbrovers2288]

McKenna- god no

connor Barron would be decent but we are probably down the food chain on that one 

[Torgeir]

On 04/05/2024 at 00:20, tomphil said:

He wasn't sold for millions but for a couple of hundred grand Craig Conway has to be one of the best bargain bits of business this club has done under Vs.

Oooof no. He was really really poor, no attributes at all. Would slow up play all the time and didn't have a very good delivery.

[chaddyrovers]

2 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

It is as if the last 12 months havent happened. 

no but we have the reasons why that happened. The latest comments has said that the current court case would not affect its future operational plans relating to the day to day running of the club. Both SW and MW stated that the Owners had informed the club they see no issues to sending required funds across as and when needed.

[Torgeir]

23 hours ago, Ricky said:

Stansfield would be excellent and he’s worked with Eustace so could be interested. Will we go for Ruddy in goal? I didn’t think he’d had a great season at Birmingham but I could see him coming in. Pears was good again today but has too many mistakes in him. 

Ruddy is a poor keeper. We should look to sign someone better.

[Andy]

I'd take the GK and Rathbone from Rotherham.
Rathbone is a Rovers lad and almost joined under Mowbray (but the deal fell through for reasons I can't remember).
Is he any better than Garrett though?

As nice as it would be, there's no chance SS is here next season - his agent will have done all of the leg work already and he'll have a lot of options, even at his age.
We might play hardball for a while, but once the agent decides the boy is leaving, it's inevitable - as what happened with A.Wharton.

If the club has any ambition at all - and wants to shift any season tickets - we'll get some signings over the line as early as possible, like last season.
Waggott has made a public statement that the situation in India won't affect our transfer dealings this summer.
It's not like he'd intentionally mislead fans, is it...?

[Torgeir]

If Hull have to cut back on spending I would push the boat out for Noah Ohio. Looks a good prospect, and has the attributes we've been lacking. Liam Delap reminds a little bit of Gallagher, some weird decision-making going on there.

 

Chrisene, yes please. Wouldn't mind McFadz either. Need a RB if JRC wants to play in the middle. Johansson from Rotherham as first choice GK.

 

I would offload Buckley, Hyam, Wahlstedt, Markanday, Dolan and Gallagher. Need to build a stronger squad and I don't see enough consistency from those players to warrant a place in it.

[Exiled_Rover]

2 hours ago, bluebruce said:

Disagree on all 3 counts.

McFadz I'd be ok with 6 months and a 6 month extension option. His legs will go by January I suspect. 

Gally isn't good enough, but January showed we could probably extend and sell for a million. Even so, any wage savings will likely vanish and we won't get the funding needed to sign a bog standard forward, which is what he is.

Dolan is good enough for us at this level and whilst he frustrates at times is criminally underrated. Can we do better? Probably, with more money and/or better scouting, but we don't have those things. Even if we did sign someone better, he's still perfectly good enough to be a squad player.

He's 37, if his legs haven't gone now they never will. 

[Exiled_Rover]

13 minutes ago, Andy said:

I'd take the GK and Rathbone from Rotherham.
Rathbone is a Rovers lad and almost joined under Mowbray (but the deal fell through for reasons I can't remember).
Is he any better than Garrett though?

As nice as it would be, there's no chance SS is here next season - his agent will have done all of the leg work already and he'll have a lot of options, even at his age.
We might play hardball for a while, but once the agent decides the boy is leaving, it's inevitable - as what happened with A.Wharton.

If the club has any ambition at all - and wants to shift any season tickets - we'll get some signings over the line as early as possible, like last season.
Waggott has made a public statement that the situation in India won't affect our transfer dealings this summer.
It's not like he'd intentionally mislead fans, is it...?

I don't know if you saw the post-match interview with Pickering, JRC and Szmodics yesterday on Rovers' Twitter account. At the end JRC talked about building for next year - it was clear from Szmodics' reaction that he doesn't plan to be here next year (albeit it was subtle). 

[Ewood Ace]

The area of the pitch we have to sort out first is the centre of midfield, for me the most important area of the pitch and we are weak there in both depth and quality. The Travis situation needs sorting personally I would move him on, him jumping ship when he did as club captain was unbecoming in my opinion. Garrett is no way near good enough for the Championship, he is League 2 standard at best. Buckley was going to be the saviour when he returned if you listened to some but it was another false dawn, time for people to accept that he is not good enough at this level. Obviously we shouldn't be offering Fleck any sort of extension and the other option in JRC is for me a better right back than midfielder and he is also our best right back.

Just now, Exiled_Rover said:

He's 37, if his legs haven't gone now they never will. 

His legs have already gone that is why he has to play in a back 3/5. Which significantly limits us as a team.

[roversfan99]

28 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

no but we have the reasons why that happened. The latest comments has said that the current court case would not affect its future operational plans relating to the day to day running of the club. Both SW and MW stated that the Owners had informed the club they see no issues to sending required funds across as and when needed.

Theyve said similar throughout, all hot air. Nothing in reality has changed, the same court case has yet to be resolved and the same disinterested owners remain.

[roversfan99]

1 minute ago, Ewood Ace said:

The area of the pitch we have to sort out first is the centre of midfield, for me the most important area of the pitch and we are weak there in both depth and quality. The Travis situation needs sorting personally I would move him on, him jumping ship when he did as club captain was unbecoming in my opinion. Garrett is no way near good enough for the Championship, he is League 2 standard at best. Buckley was going to be the saviour when he returned if you listened to some but it was another false dawn, time for people to accept that he is not good enough at this level. Obviously we shouldn't be offering Fleck any sort of extension and the other option in JRC is for me a better right back than midfielder and he is also our best right back.

His legs have already gone that is why he has to play in a back 3/5. Which significantly limits us as a team.

Jump ship? He had likely fallen out with JDT and wasnt playing.

[Ewood Ace]

2 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Jump ship? He had likely fallen out with JDT and wasnt playing.

And he went to Ipswich and hardly played. I don't expect the club captain to jump ship as soon as he is faced with a bit of adversity, just knuckle down, get on with it and set an example.

[chaddyrovers]

10 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Theyve said similar throughout, all hot air. Nothing in reality has changed, the same court case has yet to be resolved and the same disinterested owners remain.

We see in the summer. Interesting few weeks ahead. A couple of good signings is needed in early summer. Just settled everything down

[J*B]

This thread is going to go long and I’m looking for fun games to try and liven it up.
What about this: I’ll make a new thread, we all have to simply post the name of a player (not currently linked) and the first person to guess a player that we sign gets a 12 month BRFCS adfree membership.

Any good? Any better ideas?

[JustARover]

6 minutes ago, J*B said:

This thread is going to go long and I’m looking for fun games to try and liven it up.
What about this: I’ll make a new thread, we all have to simply post the name of a player (not currently linked) and the first person to guess a player that we sign gets a 12 month BRFCS adfree membership.

Any good? Any better ideas?

When Graham left and Dack got his injury Armstrong stepped up, then Brereton Diaz when he left and Szmodics did last season when Brereton Diaz left, so maybe we could guess who steps up if Szmodics leaves 

[B16Rover]

2 minutes ago, JustARover said:

When Graham left and Dack got his injury Armstrong stepped up, then Brereton Diaz when he left and Szmodics did last season when Brereton Diaz left, so maybe we could guess who steps up if Szmodics leaves 

Markanday is the cleanest striker of the ball, Gilsenan has a good youth record and Leonard has found space not quite catching the finish 

 

Unfortunately don't any scoring 15+

[Andy]

31 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

I don't know if you saw the post-match interview with Pickering, JRC and Szmodics yesterday on Rovers' Twitter account. At the end JRC talked about building for next year - it was clear from Szmodics' reaction that he doesn't plan to be here next year (albeit it was subtle). 

Yeah, I caught that.

This is what I mean, he'll already have a good idea of where he's heading, even if the whole club-to-club negotiations haven't been sorted yet.

Shame for us, but he completely deserved a big move.

[JustARover]

3 minutes ago, B16Rover said:

Markanday is the cleanest striker of the ball, Gilsenan has a good youth record and Leonard has found space not quite catching the finish 

 

Unfortunately don't any scoring 15+

I don't think he will but I'm hoping we find a way to utilise Sigurdsson

But he's been dreadful and seems to have no confidence when he's playing. 

He doesn't commit or run at his fb and he barely crosses it into the box

Maybe we should try him through the middle but would that even work

[Rogerb]

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

 Both SW and MW stated that the Owners had informed the club they see no issues to sending required funds across as and when needed.

Chaddy the owners cannot send any money from India to the club without obtaining approval from the Indian courts. The next court hearing is not until August 20th. The only money is what is left from trading once all the bills are paid.

[danger19_80]

17 minutes ago, JustARover said:

I don't think he will but I'm hoping we find a way to utilise Sigurdsson

But he's been dreadful and seems to have no confidence when he's playing. 

He doesn't commit or run at his fb and he barely crosses it into the box

Maybe we should try him through the middle but would that even work

Don't think he's been dreadful, he's scored 8 goals-ish, right? Second behind SS. Definitely has something about him. With a proper pre-season and played correctly I could see him being an important player for us.

[joey_big_nose]

55 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

He's 37, if his legs haven't gone now they never will. 

Im pretty sure after seeing him run Fadz legs went a long time ago. But as long as we play deep with three at he back its not a problem for him as he doesnt get exposed.

My main issue with Fadz is if he plays we have to play that way to accomodate him. I guess the plan would be have him on the bench and bring him on to close out games. Sort of makes sense... But hes a specialist effectively, dont think we can rely on him as a core starter.

 

[simongarnerisgod]

24 minutes ago, Andy said:

Yeah, I caught that.

This is what I mean, he'll already have a good idea of where he's heading, even if the whole club-to-club negotiations haven't been sorted yet.

Shame for us, but he completely deserved a big move.

sammie off to everton i think,celtic were interested but i doubt they could afford the transfer fee,west ham apparently interested as well,though they will wave goodbye to moyes and their new manager might have his own targets,have no issues with sammie joining a really big club,he deserves it