January Transfer window

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1 hour ago, TheRevAshton said:

Yup, here's a visual on that squad "depth" but with Garrett added in since I reckon he'll have to stay;

What on earth are they waiting for? We're screwed if practically any of those players pick up an injury or illness, especially the likes of Tronstad, Batth or Beck.

Side note , that squad layout how you've done it dead simple and shows the full squad as a whole, I like it 👌 

Could you do one and add the injured players to positions in Red thankyou!! 

Edited January 9 by ...

[TheRevAshton]

2 minutes ago, ... said:

Side note , that squad layout how you've done it dead simple and shows the full squad as a whole, I like it 👌 

Could you do one and add the inured to positions in Red thankyou!! 

Cheers bud, yeah course here;

[islander200]

28 minutes ago, Rover down South said:

Morton I’d take back, but Kitching?? How do we expect to get promoted taking ‘out of favour’ players from teams below us 🤷🏼‍♂️

Edit: We are Blackburn Rovers….its what we do. It’s not worked before, so we’ll do it again.

Danny Batth wasn't wanted by Norwich but he has been one of our best players this season

I know little of Kitching but just because things ain't working out for him at Coventry doesn't mean he can't be an asset for us 

If he can play cb and lb then it would be a position filled in the squad and probably wouldn't be expensive 

If there is any money which I seriously doubt then the "big" signings need to come in forward areas

[roversfan99]

If anyone is "DM-ing" Nathan Jones for transfer gossip then they should have a look in the mirror at themselves!

[Emerald Isle Rover]

Just now, islander200 said:

Danny Batth wasn't wanted by Norwich but he has been one of our best players this season

I know little of Kitching but just because things ain't working out for him at Coventry doesn't mean he can't be an asset for us 

If he can play cb and lb then it would be a position filled in the squad and probably wouldn't be expensive 

If there is any money which I seriously doubt then the "big" signings need to come in forward areas

Beat me to it 

different environment different manager different set up etc we can’t just automatically write players off until they ultimately fail with us

my issue with the kitching link/signing is that for me the first players through that door should be a striker and/or a winger - no excuses it’s been made clear from early November those positions were key and being looked at

cb/left side cover would be great but surely our limited budget should be targeted on the higher priority positions and if we can still do this deal after brilliant

I’m not having it needs done now or we won’t get the opportunity for kitching again because ultimately carter is back soon o’riordan is now back hedges can cover lwb we simply aren’t super stuck there  

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6 minutes ago, TheRevAshton said:

Cheers bud, yeah course here;

Excellent defo need to keep throwing these about on here it's a good tool 👌👌👌

[Rover down South]

16 minutes ago, islander200 said:

Danny Batth wasn't wanted by Norwich but he has been one of our best players this season

I know little of Kitching but just because things ain't working out for him at Coventry doesn't mean he can't be an asset for us 

If he can play cb and lb then it would be a position filled in the squad and probably wouldn't be expensive 

If there is any money which I seriously doubt then the "big" signings need to come in forward areas

Consensus on the CC board is that he can be trouble. Similar said when he was at Barnsley.

Positively though, they think there’s a decent defender in there and he gets on really well with Fadz so if he stays and can keep him in check, it could be a decent signing I guess.

[rigger]

2 hours ago, islander200 said:

Yeah he isn't as good as Wharton I'm not disputing that. And eventually Wharton did take his place in the team.

But he isn't terrible and if he was he wouldn't be on the bench for Liverpool. 

Did England under 21s also have to pay Liverpool a fee if he didn't play for them.Iv already named 4 decent managers who have given him minutes we can add the England under 21 manager 

Morton would not be a pro footballer if he was terrible. But he was terrible for the Rovers.

[RevidgeBlue]

Reserve defender from Coventry, Tyler the crab Morton - this is all getting extremely depressing.

[TheRevAshton]

5 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Reserve defender from Coventry, Tyler the crab Morton - this is all getting extremely depressing.

Probably only gonna get worse...

- Siggy will be sold.
- Dolan likely to have bidders, so he'll be sold.

Then it's also very possible that there'll be interest in the likes of Tronstad, Brittain and Cantwell.

Edited January 9 by TheRevAshton

[islander200]

17 minutes ago, Rover down South said:

Consensus on the CC board is that he can be trouble. Similar said when he was at Barnsley.

Positively though, they think there’s a decent defender in there and he gets on really well with Fadz so if he stays and can keep him in check, it could be a decent signing I guess.

Like I say mate I don't really know him 

But noticed they paid £4 million for him in 2023 so they must have saw something in him.Pickering being out we need someone back there 

[DeeCee]

14 hours ago, BankEnd Rover said:

If he's gained a few pounds and learnt not to give the ball away (which I partly blame for JDTs style) then I'm okay with it.

If not then no thank you! 

And grown a pair.

[Torgeir]

6 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Reserve defender from Coventry, Tyler the crab Morton - this is all getting extremely depressing.

Morton will be backup for Trav and Tronstad hopefully. 

I have no issues with us grabbing a defender Coventry paid £4m for not too long ago, but what we need are goalscorers and/or pace.

[sharpysharps86]

10 minutes ago, TheRevAshton said:

- Dolan likely to have bidders, so he'll be sold.

History tells us that he's probably more likely to run his contract down. We've been here before several times over the last few seasons.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

13 minutes ago, TheRevAshton said:

Probably only gonna get worse...

- Siggy will be sold.
- Dolan likely to have bidders, so he'll be sold.

Then it's also very possible that there'll be interest in the likes of Tronstad, Brittain and Cantwell.

Highly doubt cantwell has done enough to warrant any interest 

Brittain not this month

tronstad would be my main concern but comes across as a character that would be happy to stay (depending on the bidder)

[TheRevAshton]

6 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

Highly doubt cantwell has done enough to warrant any interest 

Brittain not this month

tronstad would be my main concern but comes across as a character that would be happy to stay (depending on the bidder)

There's a (almost certainly BS) rumour on X that Sunderland are "frontrunners" to sign Brittain.

It's gonna be painful when someone comes in for Tronstad, it'll probably be a team like Leeds who'll be able to offer him a bumper pay rise.

Edited January 9 by TheRevAshton

[Emerald Isle Rover]

4 minutes ago, TheRevAshton said:

There's a (almost certainly BS) rumour on X that Sunderland are "frontrunners" to sign Brittain.

It's gonna be painful when someone comes in for Tronstad, it'll probably be a team like Leeds who'll be able to offer him a bumper pay rise.

Tanaka has been one of Leeds best players I can’t see tronstad displacing him

as for Brittain to Sunderland something similar - Trae Hume one of their better players seems a pointless buy 

[ruggles1995]

1 hour ago, Exiled_Rover said:

We all thought O'Riordan and Garrett would play in L1.

If Barrow are promising him game time in L2 at 19 we should bite his hand off. He's not developing sat on the bench / running out for the U21s.

I agree he needs to develop, but in our current situation, if Brittain gets injured, who goes right back? = Costello does.

Which then leaves you with tronstad and buckley in cm, then after 60 mins when one is knackered who comes on in cm?...... nobody available currently. 
I just think we need to have someone coming in if hes going out. Id rather have him there as cover than us being bare bones, as he looks very promising. He also has something we lack - pace.
If the option was keep Garret as a backup cm, then Id rather not. I would rather have Costello as a cm option playing Duru right back than Garret in cm. I think Duru looks like he will be a player, where as I dont see a world where Garret does, plus trying to learn a trade in cm is a hell of a lot harder than learning it at full back in the championship. IMO. 

Edited January 9 by ruggles1995

[BankEnd Rover]

Got a feeling we will end up with someone along the lines of Andre Gray up top.

Free agent, experienced, still has the ability...I'd like to see us spend, whatever budget we have, on a young foreign winger.

[Dreams of 1995]

1 hour ago, islander200 said:

What was he 18/19 when he was first here?

The Hull matches I watched last season he was excellent. 

I'm not having that he is a terrible player when he was a regular here finished 7th , regular at Hull finished 7th and both Klopp and Slot have given him premier league and champions league minutes.Plus he involved with England under 21s,starting for them in the main 

Plus like leftwinger making the comparison with Braintwaithe, Braithwaite was useless and would never make a Premier league player according to some on here, now he is an England International with a transfer valuation of £50+ million.

We where Mortons first loan ,to be expected he wouldn't have been the complete player ffs 

Morton was and is a good player

You are right - vastly experienced people are giving him game time, whilst he also seems to be present in top-half finishing Championship teams

He will give us more than Buckley. And if he is matured since he was here then I am expecting him to be a good loan, should it materialise

[roverandout]

3 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Got a feeling we will end up with someone along the lines of Andre Gray up top.

Free agent, experienced, still has the ability...I'd like to see us spend, whatever budget we have, on a young foreign winger.

Gray would be a massive upgrade 

[joey_big_nose]

1 hour ago, TheRevAshton said:

Cheers bud, yeah course here;

Tin hat on - that's a first team squad of 24 players (not included Gilsenan as I would view him more as a U21 player). That's near the maximum for a Championship team I think? Indeed the maximum squad size for the Championship is 25 players + as many non-loaned Under-21 players as you like (only Leonard could come under that I think from the above diagram). So we are only two under the limit, and it would have been one before Baker left.

From  https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/what-are-the-efl-squad-rules-for-202425-loanee-limits-home-grown-players-and-how-many-subs-are-allowed : 

" Championship clubs can have squads of up to 25 players, of which a minimum of 8 need to be home grown [see below]. you're allowed an unlimited amount of under-21s on permanent contracts without registering them, but you would need to register any loanees among your 25 players, even if they're under-21s. 

 

For home grown : a player to be considered home grown by the EFL, they don't necessarily need to be British (they can be any nationality) or to have been trained by that specific club. All that is required to qualify as home grown is to have been registered with any club affiliated to the FA or the FA of Wales for at least three seasons or 36 months prior to their 21st birthday (or the end of the season they turn 21). We can't see anything to say loanees are excluded from counting as home grown players."

[joey_big_nose]

Based on the above I wonder if we are looking at moving players on to create space in the squad as we literally don't have the room to sign the 3-4 players we want.

Until I just looked that up I had no idea that squad sizes are so tight.

Edited January 9 by joey_big_nose

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Nobody in for Gueye?

[sharpysharps86]

5 minutes ago, roverandout said:

Gray would be a massive upgrade 

Well he's already got more Championship goals this season than Gueye 😂.

Would not be at all surprised if this happened.