January Transfer window

[thegrumpyman]

1 hour ago, ... said:

Just gets better and better.

So the two crucial positions you need to win games in its basic form. Someone to score goals, we don't have, and someone to stop them, looking to sell.

Brilliant all we need now is owners not to care..... wait 

We’re not in the business of winning games. The club is done. Come back when the venkys are gone.

[roversfan99]

25 minutes ago, neophox said:

Think young Nic Michalski is very highly rated so it could be that it's time for pastures new for Pears. Toth is an Hungarian international and don't want to sit on the bench week in and week out.

He might be highly rated but hes a kid who hasnt played a minute of proper football. Toth stepped in v Coventry and looked shaky. Pears has gone from a liability to a steady keeper, I dont see how it is time for pastures new.

[neophox]

Could Luton attackers Adebayo or Woodrow be available? 

[neophox]

6 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

He might be highly rated but hes a kid who hasnt played a minute of proper football. Toth stepped in v Coventry and looked shaky. Pears has gone from a liability to a steady keeper, I dont see how it is time for pastures new.

Hopefully he will keep being steady.

[thegrumpyman]

Just now, neophox said:

Could Luton attackers Adebayo or Woodrow be available? 

Seriously? What do you think? More chance of Lord Lucan riding Shergar into Ewood to deliver the matchday ball.

[LDRover]

Just now, neophox said:

Could Luton attackers Adebayo or Woodrow be available? 

Not a chance we'd even think about trying to sign him but Carlton Morris is exactly what we need up front. I wonder how much Luton would take for him as I can see him moving on soon?

[Polky]

1 minute ago, neophox said:

Could Luton attackers Adebayo or Woodrow be available? 

Adebayo is too wasteful, put him in the same striker group as Bamford - terrible!

[Emerald Isle Rover]

4 minutes ago, Polky said:

Adebayo is too wasteful, put him in the same striker group as Bamford - terrible!

Terrible lol my god 

[roversfan99]

8 minutes ago, neophox said:

Hopefully he will keep being steady.

You suggested to sell him partly because of a keeper who is 17.

[Forever Blue]

1 hour ago, Herbie6590 said:

I think it’s really simple…Suhail has said we don’t need to spend.
 

Where’s this come from?

[simongarnerisgod]

very fanciful i know but can you imagine if eustace does manage to keep us in the top six,it will be panic overdrive in venkyland and in swagland,though after the transfer window closes there is very little they can do about it😆

[Bethnal]

I’ve read in this thread that Suhail was crowing in the lounges about Thomas-Asante due to do a medical with us during the Portsmouth game.

Don’t know if that’s true, but how a Rovers fan could hear that guy utter a word and not launch him through the lounge windows is beyond me.

Suhail Pasha is - from as far as I can tell - about 80% responsible for where we are. The guy appears to have sourced and facilitated the deal via Kentaro. I think our owners are abhorrent, but I think he’s really the root cause of the drawn out death that’s happening to the club.

@Herbie6590 very much right that he’s the one telling the owners not to spend. We’ve got a glorified orange juice salesman eyeing up a further 10+ years of salary, bonuses and basking in the reflected “glamour” from (in his own words) his “work in the M&A side of the Sports Business.” Reader, he brokered one deal and he’s still running the operations of that failed endeavour, hitting a distinctly mediocre note for over ten years of direct involvement. 

The guy shouldn’t feel welcome at Ewood and for each fan rubbing shoulders and listening doe-eyed to whatever fantasy he’s regaling you with, consider yourself redundant, you’re an enabler.

[B16Rover]

Another day gone.  Boy am I glad there's no time sensitivity to football matches or the transfer window, imagine the trouble we'd be in if there was!

[roversfan99]

Suhail is a bigger problem than even Waggott in that he is essentially an extension of the owners.

Venkys are the root problem though. Its not as if Venkys would spend but are being told not to. Its clear they just dont care. 

[dingles staying down 4ever]

43 minutes ago, Polky said:

Adebayo is too wasteful, put him in the same striker group as Bamford - terrible!

Its OK we'll cut the number of chances he'll miss....we wont create that many for him to miss

[CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber]

3 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Suhail is a bigger problem than even Waggott in that he is essentially an extension of the owners.

Venkys are the root problem though. Its not as if Venkys would spend but are being told not to. Its clear they just dont care. 

We can't get at Venkys, we can get at Pasha

He should be the full focus of the ire to make him as uncomfortable as possible 

[Old Codger]

49 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

very fanciful i know but can you imagine if eustace does manage to keep us in the top six,it will be panic overdrive in venkyland and in swagland,though after the transfer window closes there is very little they can do about it😆

That would be my dream scenario - the obvious team spirit and togetherness that JE has harnessed to good effect, comes good as players regain fitness, and we go on another mazy run of ground out good results! Yesss! I can imagine the phone lines from Brockhall to Pune suddenly going white hot with expletives and threats to Waggott's goolies... If I'm honest, that would be my preferred scenario for this season - JE gets to show he is an alchemist of the finest pedigree, the players get the satisfaction of shoving their employer's disdain for them and the fans up their jacksy, and we my friends, get a trip to Wemberlee!! 

If there are any players reading this, or even the mighty JE, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do your best to get and stay fit, give the Venksters and the rag-salesman from Coalville a double digit salute and reap the rewards for being the best bunch of committed caring capable team-mates we have seen for many a year. Luton slogged their way out of the division the season before last - team spirit is alchemy, and if you've got a magic formula - DRINK THE FECK OUT OF IT LADS!

COYB!!!

[RoryRoversIreland]

Doesn’t really matter about Pears. Makes sense if something needs to be paid for.

That is the situation now. For me anyway. There are countless players that would have improved us snapped up. It’s over three weeks into the window and we are worse. Out fixtures have been kind this month, and only beat Portsmouth at Ewood. There is no ambition to go up. There never will be with these owners. And we all know that. It’s the hope that convinces you otherwise, which I understand. We will get some players this week, and they will probably be very very underwhelming. Adjusting the mentality now to avoid disappointment. We will never get promoted with Venkys. 

[simongarnerisgod]

5 minutes ago, Old Codger said:

JE gets to show he is an alchemist of the finest pedigree, the players get the satisfaction of shoving their employer's disdain for them and the fans up their jacksy, and we my friends, get a trip to Wemberlee!! 

35000 rovers fans singing steve waggot is a w*****r and f**k of venkys get out of our club at wembley🤣,that would be the ultimate protest

[Waggy76]

Another day passes and no signings! 

[booth]

2 minutes ago, Waggy76 said:

Another day passes and no signings! 

Not like we’ve got a chance of the play offs or anything important on Friday is it…

[chaddyrovers]

6 hours ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

If the window to this date hasn’t been a failure as you stated what has it been? Because something that’s not a failure tends to mean it’s a success or working as expected

I judge a window at the end of it. 

5 hours ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

If we do sell, assuming we are priced out of johannssen at stoke my next choice would be mitov at Aberdeen , stands out in the spl, Bulgarian international 

I look at Wigan Sam Tickle

[Exiled_Rover]

1 hour ago, RoryRoversIreland said:

Doesn’t really matter about Pears. Makes sense if something needs to be paid for.

That is the situation now. For me anyway. There are countless players that would have improved us snapped up. It’s over three weeks into the window and we are worse. Out fixtures have been kind this month, and only beat Portsmouth at Ewood. There is no ambition to go up. There never will be with these owners. And we all know that. It’s the hope that convinces you otherwise, which I understand. We will get some players this week, and they will probably be very very underwhelming. Adjusting the mentality now to avoid disappointment. We will never get promoted with Venkys. 

8 games in a month is not kind.

[Mashed Potatoes]

9 hours ago, K-Hod said:

Have you been napping each time they've sold all our best players over the last 18 months and then not replaced them?

Asset stripping is where those responsible enrich themselves. Selling players to make sure the bills are paid is not the same thing.

[Mashed Potatoes]

9 hours ago, SuperBrfc said:

You seem a bit rattled, Mashed. Is everything ok?

Yesterday you told us that the owners have "run the club very poorly". That's about as far as your 'criticism' of the owners goes. Today "we are better at decision making" than Hull.

Make your mind up.

Our decisions in recent years regarding managerial appointments have clearly been better than Hull's. That doesn't leave me rattled in the slightest - but thanks for your concern for my welfare.