January Transfer window

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

12 minutes ago, Rover down South said:

If that’s true and it’s £2.5 million, what are we waiting for?

Do a swap deal with Dolan or Hedges ? 

[TheRevAshton]

13 minutes ago, Rover down South said:

If that’s true and it’s £2.5 million, what are we waiting for?

Would be an amazing bit of business, and make so much sense.

Unfortunately, there a 2.5 million reasons why our Owners won't allow this to happen...

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

7 minutes ago, rob_of_the_rovers said:

I'm sure getting promoted with us would have been a lot better for his CV than mid table mediocrity

And then get fired in the following January when we are bottom of the Prem ? Err, no. Let’s hang around a bit longer at Ewood.

[BankEnd Rover]

How is it deemed acceptable that we still havnt brought an attacker in? We're heading into the 3rd week of the window with 2 more games coming up and still looking at the same attacking line...Useless! 

Edited Friday at 11:55 by BankEnd Rover

[Emerald Isle Rover]

Just now, BankEnd Rover said:

How is it deemed acceptable that we still havnt brought an attacker in? We're heading into the 3rd week of the window with 2 more games coming up and still looking at the same attacking line...Usless! 

My concern also 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

35 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

How is it deemed acceptable that we still havnt brought an attacker in? We're heading into the 3rd week of the window with 2 more games coming up and still looking at the same attacking line...Usless! 

We should have had our ducks in a row as soon as we knew Ohashi was going to be out for a while. No excuses. They just couldn’t care less.

Edited Friday at 12:24 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[DE.]

If WBA want to keep a steady position in this division that falls somewhere between 7th and mid-table then TM is probably a shrewd appointment. If their plan is to get promoted then probably less so. Depends what their aim and general situation as a club is. Mowbray did some good here and he did some bad, as any manager would after 5 years or so. Ultimately he simply stayed on past his best before date and we didn't have anyone in a higher position to make the correct call to move on and try something new. 

Anyway, as far as transfers are concerned, if we fail to bring in a decent attacker in this window then Eustace will deserve manager of the season if we finish in the top half. 

[roverandout]

10 minutes ago, RoverDom said:

Best club on that list, good relationship with Liverpool in terms of loans, Beck here already, he'll get plenty of minutes as we desperately need a striker. I'd say if we were serious about it we'd be in a very strong position to win it. 

But like you said, probably not true. 

Also isn't his dad Neil Danns?

[sharpysharps86]

34 minutes ago, BigHoz said:

Ah just with it being a Blackburn rovers transfer thread and all that. 

Pretty standard for this place isn't it? If its not going off topic then its Chaddy and someone else having a pop at each other 😂

[Exiled_Rover]

14 minutes ago, RoverDom said:

Best club on that list, good relationship with Liverpool in terms of loans, Beck here already, he'll get plenty of minutes as we desperately need a striker. I'd say if we were serious about it we'd be in a very strong position to win it. 

But like you said, probably not true. 

He's 19 and has played like 3 times for Liverpool - he needs a run of games so they'll definitely be loaning him out.

A loan fits our business model of not committing serious spending to any assets too, so I'm sure we're well in the hunt. It'll probably be up to Danns to choose where he goes. 

[Exiled_Rover]

5 minutes ago, roverandout said:

Also isn't his dad Neil Danns?

Yes, but I don't know whether that helps or hurts us. 

[alex l]

26 minutes ago, roverandout said:

Agree with most of that but if we'd have gone up in his mind he could have thought the club would go for a bigger name plus if we had gone straight back down his position could have been under threat. Sailing along nicely in the championship would have suited him

If we'd have gone up you'd have thought he'd have had a substantial bonus built into his contract, along with wage increase. It would also have improved his ability to negotiate elsewhere by having another promotion on his CV. The argument it was financially better for him for us to stay in the second tier never made sense. 

[Fraserkirky]

Sell Dolan for any amount and put towards Aasgard 

given Danns lineage and our success with Liverpool loans we should be the top choice for the boy

Edited Friday at 12:11 by Fraserkirky

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Strikers needed asap.

Echo Chamber.

[roversinmyblood]

If we could get Danns on loan, a loan or cheap left winger(must be decent though, obviously) and put all our resources into getting Asgard then I would be delighted. He is a top player now with plenty of potential. 
Icing on the cake would be to sell Dolan and get Assanti. £300k would also secure Pinder Binson from Reading who is supposed to be a real top class prospect. 

Edited Friday at 12:17 by roversinmyblood

[Emerald Isle Rover]

3 minutes ago, roversinmyblood said:

If we could get Danns on loan, a loan or cheap left winger(must be decent though, obviously) and put all our resources into getting Asgard then I would be delighted. He is a top player now with plenty of potential. 
Icing on the cake would be to sell Dolan and get Assanti. £300k would also secure Pinder Binson from Reading who is supposed to be a real top class prospect. 

Your not asking much are you lol

[den]

Our needs for a striker have been known for many months. The head of football operations has known for months. Here we are middle of Jan and I do wonder what he’s been doing.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

15 minutes ago, Fraserkirky said:

Sell Dolan for any amount and put towards Aasgard 

given Danns lineage and our success with Liverpool loans we should be the top choice for the boy

Get Beck to have a word with him. He’s thrived at Ewood.

[SuperBrfc]

On the Mowbray topic, Firstly, it's good to see him back in the game and hopefully well enough to take on another managerial role. I don't wish ill on the guy.

However, let's not forget the role Mowbray played in further lowering expectations at this club in order to save his own back. "The owners wanted a double promotion. I had to calm them down and I told them we need to build gradually". Why?

I also think some of his comments have had a profound impact on large parts of our fanbase. The effects of which are still being felt/heard today.

Talk about going for promotion under JDT and even today, and you are met with "be realistic, ffp, parachute clubs" etc by a lot of our fans. Some of it based on reason, but a lot of it IMO, due to Mowbray saying "you need £100m in order to go up", him talking about "doing it the right way" and labelling Luton and such similar promotions as 'miracles'.

Our fanbase has lapped this up in the main and has taken to blaming other Rovers fans for "being negative" and "spoilt" for not accepting any of the above.

Then we have another scenario whereby, any fan/poster who calls out this hierarchy and its lack of ambition is met with "you're stuck in the 90s, we don't have Shearer and Sutton anymore" yada yada. This is happening across social media (not so much on here) and in the real world.

Somebody please point me towards one Rovers fan that is unhappy with Venky's because they are not seeing a repeat of 1995. It's nothing but a false, cheap shot, IMO, fuelled by Mowbray's "it's not 1995 anymore" comment. A comment that was made to save his own skin.

Did anybody hear barbs about 1995 from some of our own fans towards unhappy fans under Bowyer, Lambert, Coyle? I don't remember hearing such back then. This 1995 nonsense has taken hold since Mowbray said it, IMO.

Let's not even get on to him likening Rovers to a small car and Sunderland a huge tanker as he was departing. Good that he is back in the game and ok health wise, but I would never want him back at Rovers.

[MarkBRFC]

Just now, den said:

Our needs for a striker have been known for many months. The head of football operations has known for months. Here we are middle of Jan and I do wonder what he’s been doing.

Hoping something as cheap as possible drops into his lap at the last minute.

I don't think we'll have anything sorted before we play Preston, we'll be scrapping around on deadline day.

[roversinmyblood]

8 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

Your not asking much are you lol

I can dream. 😂😂

[Old Codger]

33 minutes ago, roversinmyblood said:

If we could get Danns on loan, a loan or cheap left winger(must be decent though, obviously) and put all our resources into getting Asgard then I would be delighted. He is a top player now with plenty of potential. 
Icing on the cake would be to sell Dolan and get Assanti. £300k would also secure Pinder Binson from Reading who is supposed to be a real top class prospect. 

Sign this man up as Chief Scout pls, give him a cheque book (or GPay) and GET ON WITH IT FFS ROVERS!!

COYB!

[CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber]

48 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

How is it deemed acceptable that we still havnt brought an attacker in? We're heading into the 3rd week of the window with 2 more games coming up and still looking at the same attacking line...Useless! 

Who is deeming it acceptable?

Because we certainly ain't.

Venkys ain't as they have no idea what a transfer window is.

Rudy & Co? The Facebook lot?

 

[TheRevAshton]

25 minutes ago, roversinmyblood said:

If we could get Danns on loan, a loan or cheap left winger(must be decent though, obviously) and put all our resources into getting Asgard then I would be delighted. He is a top player now with plenty of potential. 
Icing on the cake would be to sell Dolan and get Assanti. £300k would also secure Pinder Binson from Reading who is supposed to be a real top class prospect. 

"Pinder Binson" has me giggling at my desk right now 😅

Think you mean Tyler Bindon hahaha

Edited Friday at 12:41 by TheRevAshton

[Ghost7]

40 minutes ago, Fraserkirky said:

Sell Dolan for any amount and put towards Aasgard 

given Danns lineage and our success with Liverpool loans we should be the top choice for the boy

Personally I'd just use the Gallagher and Ennis money....... then spend the Szmodics..... Raya and Wharton money on some others that are even better...........

Oh Venky's.... of course. Forgot.

👀

Edited Friday at 12:47 by Ghost7