January Transfer window

[BankEnd Rover]

1 minute ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

So to be clear in his responses 

I think there’s been a bid for one player, I don’t know how that’s turned out 

wow - that sentence alone should ring some serious alarm bells to him and fans alike 

We've lodged 1 bid, 20 days into the window. Gestede is cooking!!

[roversfan99]

24 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

agreed here, I would have taken Dembele, Placheta, Goodrham and Brannagan 

JDT and GB couldn't get Undav over the line and didn't have a back up plan. 

The transfer committee wouldn't agree on Dembele signing here

how many more signings cos we make when we have only so many spaces within the 25 man squad rules? 

the squad already 

Pears, Toth, Hilton

Brittain, Hyam, Carter, Sanderson, Batth, Pickering, Beck, Wharton(do we include him?)

Forshaw, Travis, Tronstad, JRC, Buckley

Hedges, Dolan, Cantwell, ACD, Weimann, Sigurdsson, 

Gueye, Ohashi, Leonard(doesn't have to be register)

So that's 23 players so unless we sell Sigurdsson or someone else leaves? its max of 2 signings unless its a permanent signing under 21 signing. 

 

Cos they have just been takeover by new owners and have the money from the parachute payments. They are about to sign right back Kenny on 4 and half year contract

A new excuse. Dont register Wharton. Tell Sigurdsson if he stays he wont be registered. 

Youve always insisted that theres no possibility that the manager and the director of football will agree on everything and theres no risk of disagreement and the manager not getting what he wants.

[TheRevAshton]

Elliott Jackson: "Eustace says Rovers had made a bid for a player, presumably Thomas-Asante."

Mate... don't presume, make a few calls and find out - you're a fucking reporter 🤣

Edited Monday at 15:18 by TheRevAshton

[roversfan99]

Eustace sounds deflated and totally in the dark.

So weve made a bid presumably for a player that wont be available anymore. So no closer. 

[Emerald Isle Rover]

Just now, roversfan99 said:

Eustace sounds deflated and totally in the dark.

So weve made a bid presumably for a player that wont be available anymore. So no closer. 

But yet he goes on and says previous windows doesn’t change his mindset that he’s confident things will get done 

crazy

[martonrover]

1 minute ago, TheRevAshton said:

Elliott Jackson: "Eustace says Rovers had made a bid for a player, presumably Thomas-Asante."

Mate, don't presume... make a few calls and find out, you're a fucking reporter 🤣

Ten bob and a tube of Smarties.

Probably an attempt to unsettle the player ahead of tomorrow’s game.

[martonrover]

Just now, Emerald Isle Rover said:

But yet he goes on and says previous windows doesn’t change his mindset that he’s confident things will get done 

crazy

This is where he differs from JDT.

In public, he tows the party line.

In private I’m sure he speaks very differently.

[JHRover]

2 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Eustace confirmed we did made a bid for one player and that appears to Brandon Thomas-Asante. Just confirmed by Eustace in his pre match conference, so its look like we have some money to spend 

Eustace is new to this and by the tone of your posts it seems you are too.

We play this game and routine every transfer window. Talking about players, asking other clubs, telling Eustace we are trying, even getting players in the building at Brockhall and wearing the Rovers shirt are all irrelevant here because there is always the Venky factor which stops things getting over the line.

I have no doubt at all that people like Waggott and Gestede are telling Eustace all about how serious they are, about how hard they are working, it might even be true. In the end it matters not if players of sufficient quality don't arrive.

I will believe there is 'some money' to spend when we actually do it. And I am not accepting loans or another O'Riordan type punt as 'spending money' because that is totally unacceptable in the position we are and with such pressing need to strengthen. 

[Emerald Isle Rover]

Just now, martonrover said:

This is where he differs from JDT.

In public, he tows the party line.

In private I’m sure he speaks very differently.

Brings me back to him taking the position in the first place he’s been aware of our lack of ambition etc

so maybe he’s just accepting of the pay check trying to work wonders and hopefully his stock rises to move on in the summer 

[chaddyrovers]

1 minute ago, roversfan99 said:

A new excuse. Dont register Wharton. Tell Sigurdsson if he stays he wont be registered. 

I hadn't include Wharton in the 23 man squad. 

Does Sigurdsson have a club to go currently? 

Its not an excuse and its the fact of how the 25 man squad rule works 

1 minute ago, roversfan99 said:

Youve always insisted that theres no possibility that the manager and the director of football will agree on everything and theres no risk of disagreement and the manager not getting what he wants.

we don't have a manager but a head coach. Gestede has told you how the footballing structure works and Eustace picks off a 3 to 5 man shortlist complined by the recruitment. 

I take it mean that Eustace wanted Dembele but others on the committee doesn't want it. Abit like us people on the board who has different opinions on players and I was for Dembele signing here whilst you wasn't. I'm for Thomas-Asante but others on here aren't 

[Emerald Isle Rover]

2 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

I hadn't include Wharton in the 23 man squad. 

Does Sigurdsson have a club to go currently? 

Its not an excuse and its the fact of how the 25 man squad rule works 

we don't have a manager but a head coach. Gestede has told you how the footballing structure works and Eustace picks off a 3 to 5 man shortlist complined by the recruitment. 

I take it mean that Eustace wanted Dembele but others on the committee doesn't want it. Abit like us people on the board who has different opinions on players and I was for Dembele signing here whilst you wasn't. I'm for Thomas-Asante but others on here aren't 

If sheff u are buying 5 players this window how does it work with their 25 man squad?

Edited Monday at 15:26 by Emerald Isle Rover

[RevidgeBlue]

2 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

We've sold plenty of our best players and brought in loads of transfer fees over the last 18 months.

We've no excuse for at least trying for promotion and bringing in quality players to improve our squad.

However, I don't expect any of that to happen, because we've been here a few times before and we collapse, because we've no depth in the squad. As I've said time and again, it makes you wonder what the point is.

I don't expect us to get promoted, but I expect us to try.

Exactly this. 

If the incumbent manager isn't supported for a third time when we're in a promising position, you have to question what the point of it all is.

I thought the whole point was to win football matches and try and achieve as much success as possible. To me that applies to every competition we play in.

Even on here there are posters who want to make eleven changes in the FA Cup and so on an so forth. Whereas on the LT site there are posters who are happy we're not going to get relegated this season and think we should stick the kids in for developmental purposes. Others don't want us spending money and someone posted today that they're happy being a middling  Championship Club and didn't want to be like Burnley yo-yoing up and down and being an "embarrasment" to the Premier League.

Whether these accounts are real or plants such comments must be music to Waggott's ears but not to most of us who haven't forgotten that whilst  the game is now undoubtedly a business, at heart it is still essentially a sport and if you're not trying to be successful and win things you're left with nothing.

Plus, it's not even good business to either not invest in the playing side or to look a gift horse in the mouth every time a £100m + carrot is dangled in front of us for winning the play offs.

[B16Rover]

I can't believe the manager hasn't been backed, I can see him walking.  He's done so well to get the team where we are with the shoestring and injuries. All we needed this January was some investment.  The recruitment team have had since September to identify targets.  The prem loans we cobble together won't cut the mustard, we've done everything on the cheap.  The ticketing offer they've just announced is a slap in the face too.

 

I hope 20[insert year] is better.

Edited Monday at 15:27 by B16Rover

[Devon Rover]

Bringing in "top quality" players. Phew! There I was, angrily waiting for the next Forshaw to come in and fill a squad space vacated by someone better, when the club was, of course, just negotiating for Cole Palmer and Isak. 

Top quality players, my arse. The rubbish that comes out of the employees of this football club...

[cesus]

The Andy Bayes interview is bizarre, it has clarified that Eustace is "head coach not manager". I can with a degree of confidence assume that means he recommends players but it is then up to the fuckwits upstairs to agree then sign said players or generally sign who they want.

I'm not sure why anybody would want to be head coach here, as every January when it's somebody else's job to back us we fall apart.

[Neal]

Just now, B16Rover said:

I can't believe the manager hasn't been backed

 

Tickled me this 

[roversfan99]

2 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

I hadn't include Wharton in the 23 man squad. 

Does Sigurdsson have a club to go currently? 

Its not an excuse and its the fact of how the 25 man squad rule works 

we don't have a manager but a head coach. Gestede has told you how the footballing structure works and Eustace picks off a 3 to 5 man shortlist complined by the recruitment. 

I take it mean that Eustace wanted Dembele but others on the committee doesn't want it. Abit like us people on the board who has different opinions on players and I was for Dembele signing here whilst you wasn't. I'm for Thomas-Asante but others on here aren't 

Point being, you have faith in the club strengthening adequately. You said thats because of Eustace. You have an example from the summer of him NOT getting what he wants yet still have faith anyway. You are tieing yourself in knots to kid yourself into thinking that everything is ok.

We shouldnt avoid strengthening important areas like midfield and left back (you said left back too) out of obligation to register crap like Sigurdsson who offer nothing. It could force their hand to seek a new club.

[martonrover]

4 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

Brings me back to him taking the position in the first place he’s been aware of our lack of ambition etc

so maybe he’s just accepting of the pay check trying to work wonders and hopefully his stock rises to move on in the summer 

Perhaps, but when all is said and done, these head coaches / managers are paid professionals, not supporters, and all we can ask is he is does his best whilst he is here.

I don’t think anyone can argue that isn’t the case.

I’m very much of the opinion he did very well to keep us up last season, and he’s already virtually achieved that this season.

If and when he does leave, we are a Coyle type appointment from relegation.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

3 minutes ago, martonrover said:

Perhaps, but when all is said and done, these head coaches / managers are paid professionals, not supporters, and all we can ask is he is does his best whilst he is here.

I don’t think anyone can argue that isn’t the case.

I’m very much of the opinion he did very well to keep us up last season, and he’s already virtually achieved that this season.

If and when he does leave, we are a Coyle type appointment from relegation.

Oh yes 100% 

i wasn’t sold on him last year but this year he’s won me over and aslong as he continues to give all then that’s all we can ask

its just a shame he won’t get the backing he deserves 

[RevidgeBlue]

13 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

We've lodged 1 bid, 20 days into the window. Gestede is cooking!!

Ah yes - the phantom "bid" reported by 1 Sky journalist which seemingly neither manager was aware of', which our local press couldn't get confirmation of after the event, which seemingly hasn't prompted either an acceptance or a rejection from the parent Club and following which the target was recalled to Coventry's side by the new manager and scored.

Makes it look like we're doing something I suppose. We can't use any of the usual "the EFL are being pedantic with us/we forgot to press send/it was all Sylvester's fault" type excuses.

[RevidgeBlue]

13 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

I hadn't include Wharton in the 23 man squad. 

Does Sigurdsson have a club to go currently? 

Its not an excuse and its the fact of how the 25 man squad rule works 

This was discussed a week or so ago but as you now seem to be latching onto it as a belated excuse, according to Mark BRFC you resubmit your 25 man squad at the end of the January window.

I have no idea if that is correct or not but if it is then it's no excuse - you can sign who you want and leave out whoever you want.

[aletheia]

Einstein's defintion of insanity often comes to mind. 🙂

[chaddyrovers]

27 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

If sheff u are buying 5 players this window how does it work with their 25 man squad?

Not a Sheffield United fan. 

[chaddyrovers]

12 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

This was discussed a week or so ago but as you now seem to be latching onto it as a belated excuse, according to Mark BRFC you resubmit your 25 man squad at the end of the January window.

I have no idea if that is correct or not but if it is then it's no excuse - you can sign who you want and leave out whoever you want.

MarkBRFC is correct. You have to submit your squad of 25 players or less. Any player over 21's must be register, any player on loan must be regardless of age and for example Leonard or Tyjon doesn't cos of aged 21 or under..

[Mike E]

1 minute ago, chaddyrovers said:

Not a Sheffield United fan. 

*Head Desk*