The Summer Transfer Window (Press Submit)

[chaddyrovers]

  On 10/08/2024 at 14:25, Emerald Isle Rover said:

Experience first 

strikers next which we got

goalkeeper 

then full back positions 

if you think before selling szmodics we have another 1.5 to spend because Steve ‘always honest’ waggott says we just need to ask then your very very naive 

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I'm talking about now. Eustace highlighted the wide position where he wanted to strengthen and why we linked with Dembele from Birmingham 

Our priorities for the rest of the window should be:- 

1st - commanding experience keeper

2nd - winger with pace

3rd - box to box midfielder 

4th - back up left back.

 

[Emerald Isle Rover]

  On 10/08/2024 at 14:43, chaddyrovers said:

I'm talking about now. Eustace highlighted the wide position where he wanted to strengthen and why we linked with Dembele from Birmingham 

Our priorities for the rest of the window should be:- 

1st - commanding experience keeper

2nd - winger with pace

3rd - box to box midfielder 

4th - back up left back.

 

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So again I refer back to the price tag ‘without an outgoing’ do you think rovers will pay 1.5 million (3million from venkys) for a player?

[bluebruce]

  On 10/08/2024 at 14:04, chaddyrovers said:

by doing what Waggott said in his interview ask the owners to fund it

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Oh poor, sweet, naive Chaddy. He's lying mate. That's what he does. If we could get money from the owners just by asking, we wouldn't have had so many windows scraping by, and we wouldn't have done fuck all in two January windows where promotion was realistic.

If Waggott asks Venkys for 1.5 mill, they're going to say 'Fuck off Steve, that would cost us 3 million'.

[alexanders]

  On 10/08/2024 at 12:35, B16Rover said:

The sun will rise in the east.  

No doubt Szmodics is definitely gone and we definitely maybe potentially possibly have someone lined up 

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Are you saying we are going Big in Japan and taking a closer look at Ryo ? 

[chaddyrovers]

  On 10/08/2024 at 14:50, Emerald Isle Rover said:

So again I refer back to the price tag ‘without an outgoing’ do you think rovers will pay 1.5 million (3million from venkys) for a player?

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Sadly I don't crystal ball that can predict the future or the lottery number. 

We were bidding for De Lange last week without a sale but wouldn't up to what Marseille paid for him. 

[Penwortham Blue]

  On 10/08/2024 at 12:47, Aqualung said:

Just had a message from an Ipswich supporter who  I know. 

 

Mate, I could write a book on the Smodicz "transfer".

I'm actually involved with the club, have been for years, so I get to know the inside tracks, who we're after, etc.

Can't say too much obviously, but let's just say the Blackburn owners aren't the easiest to deal with. Totally unrealistic valuation for a player who is 29 in September. While he was top scorer in the Championship last season he's never kicked a ball in the Prem. Huge over-valuation and not sure the gap in what we feel he's worth will close enough to make this happen.

Smodicz is a total pro though. He wants to come, he's from the Ipswich area as are his family. He's desperate to come in fact . . 

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But Liam Delap with no EPL experience and hardly any Championship goals is worth £20m ! Sammy is from Colchester, Essex not Ipswich, even Suffolk, although admittedly not too far away.

[Penwortham Blue]

  On 10/08/2024 at 15:21, chaddyrovers said:

Sadly I don't crystal ball that can predict the future or the lottery number. 

We were bidding for De Lange last week without a sale but wouldn't up to what Marseille paid for him. 

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Didn’t he go for £1m, nothing at all for a quality keeper.

[KentExile]

  On 10/08/2024 at 15:25, Penwortham Blue said:

Didn’t he go for £1m, nothing at all for a quality keeper.

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€2M apparently, so somewhere between £1,7M and £1.8M

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jeffrey-de-lange/profil/spieler/315253

Edited August 10, 2024 by KentExile

[chaddyrovers]

  On 10/08/2024 at 15:25, Penwortham Blue said:

Didn’t he go for £1m, nothing at all for a quality keeper.

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above @KentExile has posted the fee and I agree its nothing for a quality keeper with his best years should be ahead of him. 

[Beanie01289]

  On 10/08/2024 at 12:47, Aqualung said:

Just had a message from an Ipswich supporter who  I know. 

 

Mate, I could write a book on the Smodicz "transfer".

I'm actually involved with the club, have been for years, so I get to know the inside tracks, who we're after, etc.

Can't say too much obviously, but let's just say the Blackburn owners aren't the easiest to deal with. Totally unrealistic valuation for a player who is 29 in September. While he was top scorer in the Championship last season he's never kicked a ball in the Prem. Huge over-valuation and not sure the gap in what we feel he's worth will close enough to make this happen.

Smodicz is a total pro though. He wants to come, he's from the Ipswich area as are his family. He's desperate to come in fact . . 

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while I can totally see they would be a nightmare to deal with that's up to them the valuation they have for a player who is contracted to blackburn is completely up to them and should not budge his 30 goals last season kept us up and we would need to replace those goals it's not incumbent upon our board to see that Ipswich get the deal on their terms. 

[Ianrally]

  On 10/08/2024 at 12:47, Aqualung said:

Just had a message from an Ipswich supporter who  I know. 

 

Mate, I could write a book on the Smodicz "transfer".

I'm actually involved with the club, have been for years, so I get to know the inside tracks, who we're after, etc.

Can't say too much obviously, but let's just say the Blackburn owners aren't the easiest to deal with. Totally unrealistic valuation for a player who is 29 in September. While he was top scorer in the Championship last season he's never kicked a ball in the Prem. Huge over-valuation and not sure the gap in what we feel he's worth will close enough to make this happen.

Smodicz is a total pro though. He wants to come, he's from the Ipswich area as are his family. He's desperate to come in fact . . 

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If they think it’s unrealistic then don’t buy him then, simples. Oh you better send your Ipswich mate an atlas as his knowledge of geography is crap. 

Edited August 10, 2024 by Ianrally

[Hasta]

  On 10/08/2024 at 12:46, islander200 said:

He has got nearly everything he has written about rovers this summer correct 

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Has he? I stopped paying attention when he said the Japanese lad was in the UK and having a medical, and then it turned out a day later he was still in Japan.

Edited August 10, 2024 by Hasta

[chaddyrovers]

  On 10/08/2024 at 12:47, Aqualung said:

Just had a message from an Ipswich supporter who  I know. 

 

Mate, I could write a book on the Smodicz "transfer".

I'm actually involved with the club, have been for years, so I get to know the inside tracks, who we're after, etc.

Can't say too much obviously, but let's just say the Blackburn owners aren't the easiest to deal with. Totally unrealistic valuation for a player who is 29 in September. While he was top scorer in the Championship last season he's never kicked a ball in the Prem. Huge over-valuation and not sure the gap in what we feel he's worth will close enough to make this happen.

Smodicz is a total pro though. He wants to come, he's from the Ipswich area as are his family. He's desperate to come in fact . . 

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I would asked him why is £12m a totally unrealistic valuation for Szmodics who is in prime years and great form when they have spent a fortunes on Delap and Muric who aren't proven PL players? 

Szmodics is from Essex and big West Ham Fan. 

[islander200]

  On 10/08/2024 at 15:58, Hasta said:

Has he? I stopped paying attention when he said the Japanese lad was in the UK and having a medical, and then it turned out a day later he was still in Japan.

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Nixon never claimed the Japanese guy as one of his exclusives.He was taking his info from the Japanese guy on twitter molla and nixon referenced as much 

He was right and first In with all the backroom staff changes, the interest in De Lange,Bathh and Weimann ,the big Mak bid 

 

[simongarnerisgod]

  On 10/08/2024 at 15:58, chaddyrovers said:

Can't say too much obviously, but let's just say the Blackburn owners aren't the easiest to deal with. Totally unrealistic valuation for a player who is 29 in September. While he was top scorer in the Championship last season he's never kicked a ball in the Prem. Huge over-valuation and not sure the gap in what we feel he's worth will close enough to make this happen.

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sound like typical venkys,who are after 15 million and won`t budge,they did the same with rothwell,brereton and lenihan and we ended up giving  them away for nothing,only reason we got 20 million for armstrong is because soton were stupid enough to pay it

[islander200]

  On 10/08/2024 at 16:05, simongarnerisgod said:

sound like typical venkys,who are after 15 million and won`t budge,they did the same with rothwell,brereton and lenihan and we ended up giving  them away for nothing,only reason we got 20 million for armstrong is because soton were stupid enough to pay it

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Ipswichs first bid was £6 million .

Venkys or whoever are not in the wrong holding out for a much bigger fee than that.

He is well under contract.

[Aqualung]

  On 10/08/2024 at 15:58, chaddyrovers said:

I would asked him why is £12m a totally unrealistic valuation for Szmodics who is in prime years and great form when they have spent a fortunes on Delap and Muric who aren't proven PL players? 

Szmodics is from Essex and big West Ham Fan. 

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I know he's from Essex which isn't too far away from Suffolk compared to Blackburn. 

[Neal]

Ryo Germain scored 2 the other day... 3 shots, 2 goals. He's certainly the sort of player we would likely be looking at at the moment. 

 

Goals here... 

 

https://www.google.com/amp/story/s/stories.jleague.co/games/421296-20240807-Albirex-Niigata-vs-Jubilo-Iwata.html

Edited August 10, 2024 by Neal

[Aqualung]

  On 10/08/2024 at 15:46, Ianrally said:

If they think it’s unrealistic then don’t buy him then, simples. Oh you better send your Ipswich mate an atlas as his knowledge of geography is crap. 

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His geography isn't crap I can assure you. But Suffolk is a damn site closer to where he comes from originally. 

Thats what my mates point was. 

Any roads... I'm with others that I'd love Smodizc to stay and venkys/Waggot get what they want. We won't see much of it anyway. 

I just don't want our player to be messed about or become unhappy at thought of having to stay at Rovers. 

[Mattyblue]

He’s from Colchester, it’s less than twenty miles to Ipswich, so yes pretty local compared to here.

[chaddyrovers]

  On 10/08/2024 at 16:09, Aqualung said:

I know he's from Essex which isn't too far away from Suffolk compared to Blackburn. 

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Firstly, can I say thanks for sharing what he did. 

I understand that but it's down to Ipswich to agree a deal for our key player. I'm pleased Rovers are playing hardball. Ipswich have spent big on players who aren't PL proven

[tomphil]

He obviously didn't give a crap about Ipswich when he was supporting Wet Spam.

[MarkBRFC]

Looks like Kaide Gordon is going Swansea on loan.

[Forever Blue]

  On 10/08/2024 at 16:14, Neal said:

Ryo Germain scored 2 the other day... 3 shots, 2 goals. He's certainly the sort of player we would likely be looking at at the moment. 

 

Goals here... 

 

https://www.google.com/amp/story/s/stories.jleague.co/games/421296-20240807-Albirex-Niigata-vs-Jubilo-Iwata.html

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They love a dink over the keeper these Japanese lads.

[islander200]

  On 10/08/2024 at 16:30, MarkBRFC said:

Looks like Kaide Gordon is going Swansea on loan.

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Good had too many injuries