January Transfer window

[Emerald Isle Rover]

16 minutes ago, islander200 said:

Why aren't we in the same league financially as Sheffield Wednesday?Surely Stoke can't pay a permanent transfer fee without getting into bother with ffp with all the money they have spent and no big sales?

I know we won't be in for him but we should be.We have plenty of room with Ffp have made a transfer profit of 35+ million over the last 2 seasons .

What is stopping us from offering more money than Stoke are now and agreeing to pay the money Leicester want if we get promoted. The thing stopping us is our useless owners and their lack of ambition.

It wasn't so long ago they paid out a similar fee on Brereton who barely made a start in his first 12 months. 

P.S the club would have us believe that the owners signed off on a similar deal when they agreed to O' Brien only coming here and that was before bringing in millions from player sales

 

You’ve answered the question - the owners are stopping us hence why we are dipping in the lower league ponds

should we be? Nope 

but I deal in reality and the reality is that venkys will NOT pay big bucks for any player especially in Jan and with a guaranteed bond attachment

they are always have been and will always be the problem 

[DeeCee]

5 hours ago, Torgeir said:

He's cut out for the Swedish league because it's a level or three below the Championship. He has shown glimpses here, but too many injuries and has struggled to nail down a spot here. Good finisher but that's about it.

Give him a start against Boro, if he's not injured. Still waiting to see what he can do 😕

[Upside Down]

11 hours ago, Exiled_Rover said:

O'Brien? Yeah he wasn't the one that got away that January, good player but nothing special - that was an embarrassing story because of how we handled the whole debacle.

Undav was the one that would have changed our season. 

And what's the bet that they did their usual and pulled the rug when he was in the building and that's the reason he didn't sign?

[MB Rover]

1 hour ago, islander200 said:

Dolan does start for  some other championship clubs .

Dolan started plenty of matches when we finished 8th in the league,Hedges and Dolan started plenty of matches when we finished 7th in the league. Hedges and Dolan have started plenty of games this season when we are 7th in the league

 

Hedges cost us a play off spot at PNE and should’ve been sold the next day 

[MB Rover]

Dolan won’t get a championship deal at another top club, he’ll panic and sign for someone like Cardiff on the last day of a window. The same was said for Nyambe when he was here and he ended up at Wigan. All bite and no bark, we seem to judge players here on their ability to work hard when it’s the bare minimum, if you want to get out of this league you have to have quality. None of our attacking players have any. I’ve lost count of how many wingers we’ve played against this season where I’ve thought ‘how have these got better wingers than us?!’ 

[islander200]

4 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

You’ve answered the question - the owners are stopping us hence why we are dipping in the lower league ponds

should we be? Nope 

but I deal in reality and the reality is that venkys will NOT pay big bucks for any player especially in Jan and with a guaranteed bond attachment

they are always have been and will always be the problem 

Its not even a guaranteed bond, it would only come into play if we got promoted the 6 or 7 million tiny in comparison to the riches on offer 

I'm agreeing I know they won't do it but the club should definitely be questioned as to why the club were adamant the owners had signed off on such a deal in January 23 when they apparently agreed to pay Nottingham Forest £10 million for Lewis O'Brien if we got promoted, but yet this January won't explore similar deals.With the money received over the last 2 years we should be in a position to pay decent fees for players but failing that at least explore ways of getting much better quality in by offering loans to buy upon promotion and paying a decent loan fee 

I mean what is their long term plan here.You can't keep on getting into decent positions and then just letting it  pass you by,and the level of spending will only lead one way eventually and that is league one. 

I'd say more than any other season in a while promotion is there for the taking by an unfancied club, the top 3 ain't as good as seasons gone by,top two is gone but 5th and 6th is up for grabs and anything can happen in the play offs 

 

 

[Emerald Isle Rover]

Just now, islander200 said:

Its not even a guaranteed bond, it would only come into play if we got promoted the 6 or 7 million tiny in comparison to the riches on offer 

I'm agreeing I know they won't do it but the club should definitely be questioned as to why the club were adamant the owners had signed off on such a deal in January 23 when they apparently agreed to pay Nottingham Forest £10 million for Lewis O'Brien if we got promoted, but yet this January won't explore similar deals.With the money received over the last 2 years we should be in a position to pay decent fees for players but failing that at least explore ways of getting much better quality in by offering loans to buy upon promotion and paying a decent loan fee 

I mean what is their long term plan here.You can't keep on getting into decent positions and then just letting it  pass you by,and the level of spending will only lead one way eventually and that is league one. 

I'd say more than any other season in a while promotion is there for the taking by an unfancied club, the top 3 ain't as good as seasons gone by,top two is gone but 5th and 6th is up for grabs and anything can happen in the play offs 

 

 

Same could have been said 2 seasons ago

but they won’t provide or at least didn’t then and a further 2/3 windows of failure since then doesn’t bode well for this one either

should they be held accountable yes

will they be held accountable no

until they are going we can only hope for mid table whilst we might often flirt with top6 we will never get it 

[AJW]

Based on absolutely no facts or truth whatsoever I can confirm that Brewster to Rovers is ON as soon as BBD to Blades confirmed 

[DeeCee]

3 minutes ago, AJW said:

Based on absolutely no facts or truth whatsoever I can confirm that Brewster to Rovers is ON as soon as BBD to Blades confirmed 

I've just seen Harry Kane on the M65 Ewood turn off.

[simongarnerisgod]

16 minutes ago, MB Rover said:

Dolan won’t get a championship deal at another top club, he’ll panic and sign for someone like Cardiff on the last day of a window. The same was said for Nyambe when he was here and he ended up at Wigan. All bite and no bark, we seem to judge players here on their ability to work hard when it’s the bare minimum, if you want to get out of this league you have to have quality. None of our attacking players have any. I’ve lost count of how many wingers we’ve played against this season where I’ve thought ‘how have these got better wingers than us?!’ 

dolan can go wherever,im`e certainly not concerned if he leaves,zero football intelligence and one good game in ten

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2 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

dolan can go wherever,im`e certainly not concerned if he leaves,zero football intelligence and one good game in ten

Breaking my heart here man 🥺

[RoversClitheroe]

8 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

dolan can go wherever,im`e certainly not concerned if he leaves,zero football intelligence and one good game in ten

Agreed 

[Polky]

Jeez, I thought we were bad with summer signings…

PNE signed a winger for £1.7m in the summer and he’s just been loaned to Aberdeen for the rest of the season.

[JHRover]

23 minutes ago, islander200 said:

 

I'm agreeing I know they won't do it but the club should definitely be questioned as to why the club were adamant the owners had signed off on such a deal in January 23 when they apparently agreed to pay Nottingham Forest £10 million for Lewis O'Brien if we got promoted, but yet this January won't explore similar deals.With the money received over the last 2 years we should be in a position to pay decent fees for players but failing that at least explore ways of getting much better quality in by offering loans to buy upon promotion and paying a decent loan fee 

I mean what is their long term plan here.You can't keep on getting into decent positions and then just letting it  pass you by,and the level of spending will only lead one way eventually and that is league one. 

I'd say more than any other season in a while promotion is there for the taking by an unfancied club, the top 3 ain't as good as seasons gone by,top two is gone but 5th and 6th is up for grabs and anything can happen in the play offs 

 

 

I think the answer to that one is quite simple. There's no money, not to make serious signings, I don't think there ever has been which is why we have at no stage in the last decade made a serious season changing/defining signing in January. The only one you could point towards was Adam Armstrong, but that was in different circumstances with us being a league below and the 'big boys' financially at the time, and he was only on loan.

The 'loan with a view to buy' plan is instead a brainchild of people like Broughton, who know full well there is no money to do immediate business so attempt to overcome that problem by offering other clubs jam tomorrow to tempt them to agree to let quality players come here.

The O'Brien one of course the biggest and most famous example due to the disgraceful way the club went about business and the no doubt huge damage done to our reputation and credibility, but I suspect there are many, many more. It sounds like after the owners refused to fund the McGuire deal it was again restructured on a 'borrow now might pay later' basis but even then they managed to scupper it.

'Jam tomorrow' is the perfect motto for Venky Rovers - there's never any money NOW - when we desperately need it to make a serious difference to our season - but they keep on stringing people along that there will or might be money in a few weeks/months/years. So people like Broughton just try to be imaginative with the extreme restrictions. 

They are just utter lowlife and will never change their ways, we need them gone and I've got zero expectations of anything positive coming from this window. If we get to the end of it without selling any assets and Eustace not resigning I'll be positively surprised given their track record.

[chaddyrovers]

8 hours ago, Exiled_Rover said:

LOL Eustace is taking this 'experience' suggestion a bit far. Everyone is bloody 30. 

That's the second CB we've been linked to though, which suggests Carter isn't coming back this season. 

carter will be back within a month I believe given the timeline given when it announce he was out injury for a period of time. Jackson said similar on his podcast yesterday

4 hours ago, islander200 said:

If the club had any ambition they would go to Leicester City and offer them more money than Stoke City are paying for Cannon. 

Stoke are going nowhere so Cannon could very well be tempted to join a club with a chance of at least making the playoffs 

I said similar last week and that what I hope we are doing. We see in 4 weeks time

2 hours ago, islander200 said:

Offer them a loan to buy if promotion happens.Leicester won't Care if Stoke are unhappy.There season is going nowhere.

i suggested this last week

[BankEnd Rover]

1 hour ago, Tom said:

I think there is some word of a lie there personally - I think all 3 would get games in a lot of clubs. 
 

There’s no chance we are 7th in the league regularly starting 3 players that nobody else would play.

Hell we probably said that about Amari’i Bell at one point then he was a mainstay in a promoted team, we always think ours are worse (or better depending on viewpoint) due to confirmation bias 

I said 'start' games...cause all 3 would get games, they are good subs but for me none of them should be starting for us if we're wanting to push forward.

Dolan maybe but he isn't good enough offensively.

[AVE1875]

So, has anyone seen anything solid/reputable about the names being thrown around???

Mohammed Farsi?

Ryan Kent?

Jeffrey Schlupp?

Grant Hanley? (No thanks)

[Waggy76]

It is highly unlikely, we will get relegated... So we play on with the Status Quo.. 

Somehow these Indians have to be removed.. 

SAS rogue heroes perhaps? 

[bluebruce]

11 minutes ago, AVE1875 said:

So, has anyone seen anything solid/reputable about the names being thrown around???

Mohammed Farsi?

Ryan Kent?

Jeffrey Schlupp?

Grant Hanley? (No thanks)

Reading between the lines, the LT article suggested there was something in the Schlupp one. But I'd imagine too much (any) competition will rule us out.

[RevidgeBlue]

Well one week of the window (nearly) gone and so far no signings but we've been linked with loan moves only for two players who want loans with a permanent deal guaranteed at the end of them and a move for a former Rangers winger who's played 8 games in 2 seasons for his current Club.

Sterling work.

Absolutely outstanding.

[Blow-in]

2 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

 

Sterling work.

 

Raheem?

Yes...he just might work perfectly.

[simongarnerisgod]

11 minutes ago, Waggy76 said:

It is highly unlikely, we will get relegated... So we play on with the Status Quo.. 

Somehow these Indians have to be removed.. 

SAS rogue heroes perhaps? 

not this year but sooner or later it`s coming,you stand still in football,don`t invest in decent players and sell everyone of value then you will go down eventually

[Waggy76]

20 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Reading between the lines, the LT article suggested there was something in the Schlupp one. But I'd imagine too much (any) competition will rule us out.

That's why the club leaked it to the press.. 

[Mike E]

On 06/01/2025 at 19:18, Dreams of 1995 said:

Schlupp has had near enough 300 apps in the Premier League and has won a promotion from the Championship

He is an international footballer 

Oh and he won the Premier League

“Utility man”…whatever. He’s obviously a good player and better than we have so if the opportunity is there to bring him, do it 

As much as I appreciate that (and even agree), the likes of Danny Murphy have me ever-cynical.

[Waggy76]

36 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

not this year but sooner or later it`s coming,you stand still in football,don`t invest in decent players and sell everyone of value then you will go down eventually

I couldn't agree more.. Waggotts aim is to safe money, when it really starts going wrong he will be off on his retirement.. 

Edited January 7 by Waggy76