The Summer Transfer Window (Press Submit)

[roversfan99]

15 minutes ago, Torgeir said:

Weimann can play out wide though. Great at holding the ball up and drawing freekicks, but if he's a regular then that's a bad sign in my eyes. I would start him ahead of JRC tomorrow as he's looked a lot sharper and has experience and the intensity we need. 

Rather than having players who "can play there" though, and with the transfer window open and considering the money we have brought in, it shouldnt be an unrealistic expectation to sign a couple of players who could not only naturally play in a position that we are lacking natural players in, but also in a way where we can speed up an otherwise snail like squad.

Weimann said when he joined that he prefers to play "as a number 10." We only have Dolan there so theres the competition.

[47er]

8 hours ago, JHRover said:

We could have taken Luton's place in 2022/23 and got past Coventry to get promotion.

Or the year before we might have got past Huddersfield / Forest.

On both occasions sat comfortably in the top 6 and even with a sniff of the top 2 until our owners and board sat back in January, did nothing and cost us.

All true but we're still effectively chasing one spot not 3. No argument whatsoever about the culpability of the owners and those running the club.

[Leonard Venkhater]

4 hours ago, aletheia said:

Tyrone

Ian Hutchinson

Ah, such a bygone era. Got himself two broken legs, a broken arm, a broken toe, persistent knee trouble and retired at 27.

Good old day, bad old days –sure we have done that debate before now.

No, the Blackpool winger, who troubled Keith Newton that night, was Tommy Hutchinson. I think Ian was the Chelsea player with the weird throw-in technique.

[47er]

4 hours ago, KentExile said:

All is sunshine and roses

 

So they could support us but they won't?

[47er]

1 hour ago, roversfan99 said:

Utterly bizarre to write off Johansson as dodgy based on highlights of one game.

We shouldn't come to any conclusion on the basis of highlights of one game should we?

[Ricky]

1 hour ago, superniko said:

Was sick in mouth reading some of the replies on social media to that statement. 
I sometimes think we deserve everything we get when you see these bootlickers. 
Almost £40m income over the last 6 months with Wharton, Szmodics and Raya and the other small ones. 
 

Edit: that was Facebook. Twitter seems surprisingly critical (as it should be)

You probably spotted my reply to one of the clowns on that basis! 

[Torgeir]

31 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Rather than having players who "can play there" though, and with the transfer window open and considering the money we have brought in, it shouldnt be an unrealistic expectation to sign a couple of players who could not only naturally play in a position that we are lacking natural players in, but also in a way where we can speed up an otherwise snail like squad.

Weimann said when he joined that he prefers to play "as a number 10." We only have Dolan there so theres the competition.

I fully agree with you. Just pointing out that Weimann is a very useful utility player. We definitely need a few more players with pace. I'll settle for a new GK and three outfield players who can slot right into the first eleven. That shouldn't be too difficult to do.

[Gordon Ottershaw]

4 hours ago, alexanders said:

This forum is such an echo chamber. I can’t understand why it’s possible to get slagged off to be positive to your football club.

This is home to tin foil hat wearing doom mongers. It's the counter balance to the boot licking Venky toadies elsewhere.

[roversfan99]

Swansea are close to signing a keeper from America. They were reported to want Rushworth back.

[Iceman]

5 hours ago, Exiled_Rover said:

PL clubs are in for him?

Neeeeeeeeeext.

We were in the bottom third of the league on salaries last season, I shudder to think where we are this. Cost cutting after cost cutting. We want Rangers to pay a portion of Rabbi Matondo's wages too - they want to get him completely off the books for £1m (or somewhere around that mark) and we're cheekily asking for a cut-price loan instead.

We're such a joke of a club. Absolute paupers. 

I thought Wankys said they have no issues, supporting us financially. Whatever the manager needs, yada yada yada 

[Iceman]

1 hour ago, 47er said:

So they could support us but they won't?

We have seen, plenty of those statements released before.

[chaddyrovers]

2 hours ago, MarkBRFC said:

I did to be fair.

I also said all the other links wouldn't sign, and they haven't.

So that must put me on a pretty good success rate.

I'm going to stick my neck out and say that Stansfield won't happen too.

Fair play to you. 

It's going to interesting last 7 days of transfer window. 

Its probably won't happen but I hope it does. 

50 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Swansea are close to signing a keeper from America. They were reported to want Rushworth back.

Tyler Miller? 

Maybe Rushworth has decided he doesn't want to go there and go elsewhere(hopefully us)

[roversfan99]

I doubt he would reject a club that not only he is familiar with, but a club that has shown far more ambition, for us.

Swansea signed a number 1 earlier in the summer from Burnley. Maybe at the time they didnt think that Rushworth was likely to happen and/or they just wanted a permanent keeper.

[chaddyrovers]

21 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

I doubt he would reject a club that not only he is familiar with, but a club that has shown far more ambition, for us.

Have they shown more ambition? Really? 

Maybe he doesn't want to back there. He is from Halifax so maybe we are more appealing from that's point of view  

21 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Swansea signed a number 1 earlier in the summer from Burnley. Maybe at the time they didnt think that Rushworth was likely to happen and/or they just wanted a permanent keeper.

Yes they signed a keeper but was he sign as number 1 or signed as a squad keeper 

Edited August 23 by chaddyrovers

[roversfan99]

Not many clubs have sold their biggest talent for a club record fee, had their manager leave due to cut backs, survived on the last day and subsequently sold their only goalscorer, spending barely a million pound in the process.

The benchmark for ambition is very low. If we do get Rushworth, the main reason will be because other contenders have filled the position with a permanent signing before it became clear that Rushworth could be loaned out.

[bluebruce]

2 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Have they shown more ambition? Really? 

Is Swansea's objective just to stay in this league? Because Swag has made it pretty clear that's ours.

[chaddyrovers]

25 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Is Swansea's objective just to stay in this league?

No idea

25 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Because Swag has made it pretty clear that's ours.

In his latest interview, he said something like mid table finish pushing top 10. Or words to that effect

Edited August 24 by chaddyrovers

[Armchair supporter supremo]

3 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

No idea

In his latest interview, he said something mid table finish pushing top 10. Something like that

Wow the ambition 10th in the championship 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[bluebruce]

19 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

No idea

In his latest interview, he said something like mid table finish pushing top 10. Or words to that effect

Swansea's owners have been clear for years now their ambition is to return to the Premiership.

So yes, they have shown more ambition. Return to the Premiership versus 'pushing' top 10. Night and day.

[bluebruce]

6 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Cos he would be very good signing here. Thought that was obvious tbh. 

You said Gueye wouldn't happened but it did very quickly and we signed him.

Mbappe would be a very good signing too. But much like Stansfield, he's not a realistic target either so nobody is talking about us signing him.

[Ossydave]

9 hours ago, M_B said:

I didn't "write him off", I said he had a shocker against Watford, which he did. 

As shaky as Pears sometimes is, I can't remember him costing 3 in one game. 

In fairness the defence around him were also awful/static

[Iceman]

8 hours ago, 47er said:

So they could support us but they won't?

We have seen, plenty of those statements released before.

[Iceman]

Once again, we are leaving this to the very end, and once again, we might be disappointed. We have learned nothing from previous transfer windows. There is no reason why we need to wait until the end, even if there are some premier league loans to be had. 

[OsloRover]

3 hours ago, bluebruce said:

Swansea's owners have been clear for years now their ambition is to return to the Premiership.

And what have they accomplished with that ambition?

[Ossydave]

14 minutes ago, Iceman said:

Once again, we are leaving this to the very end, and once again, we might be disappointed. We have learned nothing from previous transfer windows. There is no reason why we need to wait until the end, even if there are some premier league loans to be had. 

With regards to the loans, the vast majority I've seen go through already are players that would be nowhere near matchday squads. There's probably decisions to be made on the 'better' ones that are on the brink right up till deadline day. Doesn't necessarily mean we'll be in the running like, but we can live in hope...