The Summer Transfer Window (Press Submit)

[arbitro]

It appears from the interview that Eustace has bought into the Raos/Waggott/Pasha tactic of dumbing down any expectations the supporters might have.

Just what any prospective season ticket buyer wanted to hear.

[Torgeir]

If we take up the options on Dolan and Gallagher but can't agree fresh terms, then we need to offload them both this summer. Dolan perhaps we can let expire due to his age, as we will get a fee anyway in 12 months time, but Gallagher is sign or go.

Squad needs a serious shake-up. Wonder how long it will take before Szmodics is gone...delay it until late August and then not spend would be classic Rovers.

[Moptop1]

23 minutes ago, sverrehh said:

When Sammie Smzodics leave we will need an open heart surgery to get goal scorers in. If he does not leave the squad still needs an open heart surgery.

The rehash-article from LET is abit lazy click-bait journalism. Those quotes from Eustace are from the post-match interview at the end of the season. I have said it a few times, but LET needs to be much more brave in their reporting and continually ask for interviews with the owners, Waggot et.al.

If there is a DOF incoming, I hope he is a persona that knows what he wants and has high standards.

If a new DOF comes in with high ambitions, he’ll be soon be damped down and basically told to “toe the line”. 

The high standards will not be tolerated by our owners.

He’ll be like the rest before him and shipped out soon enough.

[Exiled_Rover]

4 minutes ago, Torgeir said:

If we take up the options on Dolan and Gallagher but can't agree fresh terms, then we need to offload them both this summer. Dolan perhaps we can let expire due to his age, as we will get a fee anyway in 12 months time, but Gallagher is sign or go.

Squad needs a serious shake-up. Wonder how long it will take before Szmodics is gone...delay it until late August and then not spend would be classic Rovers.

Szmodics will be on his own timeline. 

He'll be pushing for a move as soon as possible.

Like selling A. Wharton days before the January transfer window slammed shut, they'll be happy to oblige because they'll only be bothered about the money coming in.

[tomphil]

58 minutes ago, Moptop1 said:

Under these owners it’s always going to be a re-building job. Every season we’ll lose players and have to replace them.

We won’t build a team for promotion. They will always sabotage us.

Tony Mowbrays 'journey' was the last chance we'll ever have under this lot of doing anything remotely resembling  trying to assemble a top 6 squad .

Albeit on a limited budget but no forced sales, initial big investment and allowed expansion of the wage bill at times.

[Moptop1]

12 minutes ago, arbitro said:

It appears from the interview that Eustace has bought into the Raos/Waggott/Pasha tactic of dumbing down any expectations the supporters might have.

Just what any prospective season ticket buyer wanted to hear.

Did anyone really expect anything different. Oh yes, a certain poster in here was expecting about 10mil spent. Yeah right!!!🙄

Edited May 15, 2024 by Moptop1

[JustARover]

Unless the younger players on the fringes step up and impress during pre season he's wrong

We have 2 players potentially leaving we don't know yet those 2 being Szmodics and Travis

I feel Szmodics will go for the right price and Travis has the potential to stay as I feel he suits how we play under Eustace

If the players on the fringes like Guru, Gent, Batty, Garret, Gilsenan can't step up and improve our 1st team squad then we need major surgery if we're being honest

Let's say Guru, Gent and Gilsenan can step up and impress that saves 1 attacking signing as then we don't need to sign a back up player just Szmodics replacement if he does leave if the other 2 can step up then all we need is a cb regardless of O`Riordan stepping up

But we need 2 in midfield a striker, 2 wingers and a gk

So the squad does need surgery just to improve the match day squad 

[davulsukur]

10 hours ago, DackDackGoose said:

Clarke-harris released, would take as a cheap experienced backup CF option to fill squad.

Could be this summer's Niall Ennis.

Edited May 15, 2024 by davulsukur

[Forever Blue]

1 hour ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Does he know what his record was? How many wins was it? We don’t need major surgery???

Joker!!! 

That’s just a re-hash of his end of season interview. 

I wouldn’t read much into his comment. He’s just backing the current players he’s got and saying only a few areas need improving. He’s probably right. A GK, LB, CB, 3 x attackers would be a reasonable summer as long as those players are first team quality and not like some of the shite we signed last summer. 

Eustace has showed he can set the team up to keep clean sheets. If he can get a few quality attackers I’d be fairly confident of having a team that can get results.

The question is whether he’ll get the players he wants.  
 

 

[Torgeir]

Imagine three centre backs with Travis and Tronstad in the middle....how on earth are we gonna score?

[Forever Blue]

5 minutes ago, Torgeir said:

Imagine three centre backs with Travis and Tronstad in the middle....how on earth are we gonna score?

By having better forwards than we’ve got now. Szmodics was a  1 man band last season. 
 

I think one of the players said that Eustace puts a lot of emphasis on keeping clean sheets. We won’t need to score many to get results. It won’t be pretty under Eustace if the last few months are anything to go by, but it might be effective. 

Edited May 15, 2024 by Forever Blue

[ABBEY]

2 hours ago, cesus said:

If we weren't going to struggle for season ticket sales before .... roll up Mr Eustace's corporate words of wisdom!!

whats theses mythical season tickets you speak of?

the guy is so much up maggots arse its embarrassing

Edited May 15, 2024 by ABBEY

[chaddyrovers]

Eustace's comments are over a week old and it's what he said post Leicester game. Depends what he means by areas. It could be as simple as Keeper, defenders and attacking areas. 

I still think we only need 7 or 8 players this summer transfer window. We like 3 or 4 in before Pre season stats in mid to late June. 

[Norbert Rassragr]

As if we'll get 7 or 8 players. If we do, none will be of any quality. Half will be crap 20 year old premier League players 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 minute ago, Norbert Rassragr said:

As if we'll get 7 or 8 players. If we do, none will be of any quality. Half will be crap 20 year old premier League players 

Nothing new there, he comes out with that line every close season. The manager has done great, we’ve signed some really good players blah, blah, blah. Oh, by the way we just need another 7 or 8 players to have a competitive team.

[Norbert Rassragr]

I know, there's optimism but this is madness.

[chaddyrovers]

I reckon we will get 7 or 8 players in this summer. 

If you don't fine no problem 

Edited May 15, 2024 by chaddyrovers

[BigUts]

I see the dumbing down has already begun. "Small tweaks and not major surgery". 

Club is an absolute shambles from the very top to the very bottom.

[ABRAM ROVER]

He's hardly going to come out and say everyone is sh*t we need a complete squad overhaul, 10-15 players because the rest aren't good enough and we are going to spend quite a bit of money this summer on a new team. 

[K-Hod]

3 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

I reckon we will get 7 or 8 players in this summer. 

If you don't fine no problem 

What makes you think that we will, just out of interest?

I hope we do, but nothing that’s happened in recent times suggests we will make that many signings, nor does the manager himself?

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

I don’t know why everyone is so pessimistic. In the Chicken Chokers we trust ! If we move quick we may be able to hijack Mbappe’s move to Real Madrid.

Isn’t it time somebody restarted the ” Optimism “ thread ?

Edited May 15, 2024 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[chaddyrovers]

23 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

What makes you think that we will, just out of interest?

I hope we do, but nothing that’s happened in recent times suggests we will make that many signings, nor does the manager himself?

What we need in my opinion. Given the players leaving either after their contract ends or loan ends..

[K-Hod]

7 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

What we need in my opinion. Given the players leaving either after their contract ends or loan ends..

Well yeah, I agree we need that at the very least, but that wasn’t my question.

So I’ll ask it again:

What makes you think that we will, just out of interest?

I hope we do, but nothing that’s happened in recent times suggests we will make that many signings, nor does the manager himself?

[TheRevAshton]

We really do need to make ~7/8 good signings, but there's no way we will... if we sign that many players, they'll mainly be useless tossers who nobody else wants.

Edited May 15, 2024 by TheRevAshton

[Tricky]

how are we not raiding Brum, Huddersfield or Rotherham's finest yet?

yep, struggling to think of any...

Edited May 15, 2024 by Tricky