January Transfer window

[roverandout]

3 hours ago, bluebruce said:

Armstrong is only 5 ft 8.

Kevin Gallagher 5'8

[simongarnerisgod]

1 minute ago, roverandout said:

Kevin Gallagher 5'8

he`ll be cheap but his age may be a factor,don`t think he`ll be able to do 90 minutes🙂 and there is the cost of buying him out of his contract from radio lancashire,might be to much for us to pay

[47er]

Pretty obvious isn't it that this transfer window is like every other recent one. No decent fee to be paid, sign numbers in the hope that one or 2 pay off and continue to expect Eustace's team to perform miracles.

 

[Torgeir]

Cian Hayes looks like Peterborough's best player.

[roverandout]

46 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

he`ll be cheap but his age may be a factor,don`t think he`ll be able to do 90 minutes🙂 and there is the cost of buying him out of his contract from radio lancashire,might be to much for us to pay

Still better in the air than his namesake sam

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[simongarnerisgod]

don`t think the coventry lad will be coming,they want a fee for him and we are trying to cadge a loan till the end of the season with a possible buy option for  next season,typical cheapskate ***** who run our club,i wish they`de all expire

[yankfan]

1 hour ago, 47er said:

Pretty obvious isn't it that this transfer window is like every other recent one. No decent fee to be paid, sign numbers in the hope that one or 2 pay off and continue to expect Eustace's team to perform miracles.

 

Job done….enough points earned to avoid relegation. It’s now time to sell off assets and clear wages.  That’s how it works. 

[Penwortham Blue]

22 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

don`t think the coventry lad will be coming,they want a fee for him and we are trying to cadge a loan till the end of the season with a possible buy option for  next season,typical cheapskate ***** who run our club,i wish they`de all expire

Won’t spend a dime and desperate for cash but they withhold tickets from sale for home supporters, work that one out 🤷‍♂️

[RevidgeBlue]

3 hours ago, Andy said:

Pretty sure they did, I just couldn't be bothered searching online for the article, to be honest.

I'm quite sure it's not permissible, saying you'll definitely play a player if he's available, irrespective of form or ability.

Agreed. I don't see how it can be.

What happens in practice is the big Clubs have loan managers who monitor the progress of their loanees and recall them if they're not happy with their progress or lack of game time.

People just said that about Morton because they couldn't believe how he'd been so shite and was still starting every week and/or how he was keeping Adam Wharton out of the side.

And given how Wharton has excelled in whatever environment he's been in when playing those people were right I'd say.

Morton also looked like he'd had enough of being here last time by about December imo.

Hopefully just a random suggestion that's gained legs and got everyone aereated unnecessarily. 

Edited January 9 by RevidgeBlue

[Ghost7]

So far it's starting to reek of a disorganised scouting department, incredibly no financial backing (AGAIN) and an overall lack of direction... Let's see what next week brings but 4 - 5 players are needed in this window and we shouldn't be scraping the barrel with them either.

[RevidgeBlue]

27 minutes ago, Ghost7 said:

So far it's starting to reek of a disorganised scouting department, incredibly no financial backing (AGAIN) and an overall lack of direction... Let's see what next week brings but 4 - 5 players are needed in this window and we shouldn't be scraping the barrel with them either.

What I don't get is, regardless of size of budget, why are we never ready to go on January 1st?  We never seem to have any specified targets and the argument that the owners are the problem by being slow in getting back is nonsense. If you know they normally take say 2 months (for the sake of argument) to respond then do your leg work early and put any requests in at the appropriate time.

Instead it comes over like it catches us by surprise that there's a winter transfer window every year and like we only start looking once we're into January at which point we've already missed out or we're taken aback by how much players actually cost.

It's all the recruitment department have to do all year. There's no excuse. 

There's still time to get John Park back before the end of the window I guess.

Edited January 9 by RevidgeBlue

[Scoobydo]

4 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

What I don't get is, regardless of size of budget, why are we never ready to go on January 1st?  We never seem to have any specified targets and the argument that the owners are the problem by being slow in getting back is nonsense. If you know they normally take say 2 months (for the sake of argument) to respond then do your leg work early and put any requests in at the appropriate time.

Instead it comes over like it catches us by surprise that there's a winter transfer window every year and like we only start looking once we're into January at which point we've already missed out or we're taken aback by how much players actually cost.

It's all the recruitment department have to do all year. There's no excuse. 

There's still time to get John Park back before the end of the window I guess.

Or… it’s mid season. Clubs situations change constantly due to injury, form, change of management etc… so might our needs change from say October to when January begins. We aren’t the only club who “struggle” in January. It’s common knowledge that it’s a tricky time to get things done, prices are inflated, clubs don’t particularly want to sell players - unless they’re surplus, which we’d then all moan that we’re scraping the barrel. 
In an ideal world we’d have signed the 4/5 players we want before the end of week 1. It’s not an ideal world though is it? I don’t doubt we’re not the greatest at getting deals done. But all this sensationalising on every other post on here is downright boring to read. It’s the 10/1. Just see what happens and then moan / praise. Absolutely none of you have any clue what is going on and what’s not. 

[RevidgeBlue]

3 minutes ago, Scoobydo said:

Or… it’s mid season. Clubs situations change constantly due to injury, form, change of management etc… so might our needs change from say October to when January begins. We aren’t the only club who “struggle” in January. It’s common knowledge that it’s a tricky time to get things done, prices are inflated, clubs don’t particularly want to sell players - unless they’re surplus, which we’d then all moan that we’re scraping the barrel. 
In an ideal world we’d have signed the 4/5 players we want before the end of week 1. It’s not an ideal world though is it? I don’t doubt we’re not the greatest at getting deals done. But all this sensationalising on every other post on here is downright boring to read. It’s the 10/1. Just see what happens and then moan / praise. Absolutely none of you have any clue what is going on and what’s not. 

Don't bother reading the thread then if it offends you!

To be fair if you'd been patient and taken the "wait and see" approach every other January under this regime they'd virtually all still qualify as a disaster.

The only decent signing I can recall in January off the top of my head was Armstrong - and to be fair he was a stonker.

There's a lot of points to play for in January. A good or bad month could make all the difference. Same every month I guess although at least in January you have the opportunity to try and do something about it.

[rigger]

9 minutes ago, Scoobydo said:

Or… it’s mid season. Clubs situations change constantly due to injury, form, change of management etc… so might our needs change from say October to when January begins. We aren’t the only club who “struggle” in January. It’s common knowledge that it’s a tricky time to get things done, prices are inflated, clubs don’t particularly want to sell players - unless they’re surplus, which we’d then all moan that we’re scraping the barrel. 
In an ideal world we’d have signed the 4/5 players we want before the end of week 1. It’s not an ideal world though is it? I don’t doubt we’re not the greatest at getting deals done. But all this sensationalising on every other post on here is downright boring to read. It’s the 10/1. Just see what happens and then moan / praise. Absolutely none of you have any clue what is going on and what’s not. 

What I do know , is that nothing happens with reference to incoming players, at the Rovers ,on a regular basis. If you find it boring to read, then don't read it.

[Ghost7]

You can make an educated guess on what's going on based on the past 5 - 6 transfer windows and that's the problem.

[roversfan99]

Even if you plan months in advance and even if the owners have given the initial go ahead, you still have that final approval needed right at the end which clearly is what causes issues. Look at the attempt of signing Batth in 2023, the owners changed their mind last minute and it fell through. Deals failing to get over the line cant be attributed to any individual employee, remember when we tried to sign DJ Campbell and the deal failed to go through and that was long before Waggott and co. We eventually signed him at a later date.

But crucially, the main thing is money. Of the deals that have been done, Oxford, Burnley, Plymouth and Preston have all spent 7 figures on players and got them in early. Even though weve made so much in sales, Venkys are not willing to reinvest any so you are forced to rely on loaning players and they are the deals that drag towards the end of the window for every team.

[wilsdenrover]

8 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Agreed. I don't see how it can be.

What happens in practice is the big Clubs have loan managers who monitor the progress of their loanees and recall them if they're not happy with their progress or lack of game time.

People just said that about Morton because they couldn't believe how he'd been so shite and was still starting every week and/or how he was keeping Adam Wharton out of the side.

And given how Wharton has excelled in whatever environment he's been in when playing those people were right I'd say.

Morton also looked like he'd had enough of being here last time by about December imo.

Hopefully just a random suggestion that's gained legs and got everyone aereated unnecessarily. 

Why wouldn’t it be?

Surely the parent club can propose any conditions to the loan they wish* and it’s up to the loanee club as to whether they accept them?

* subject to not breaching the rules, and I can’t see any reference to guaranteed minutes not being permitted.

Edited January 10 by wilsdenrover

[Forever Blue]

I’m old enough to remember Rudy being touted as a great communicator who was going to keep fans in the loop. 

[KentExile]

25 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Why wouldn’t it be?

Surely the parent club can propose any conditions to the loan they wish* and it’s up to the loanee club as to whether they accept them?

* subject to breaching the rules, and I can’t see any reference to guaranteed minutes not being permitted.

At the very least, it would be very easy to include loan clauses with a sliding scale of loan fee paid and/or percentage of wages covered based on percentage of available minutes the player features in.

Therefore the player is not being guaranteed minutes (and therefore one club is at least technically, not dictating how another team play/set up), but there would be a heavy financial incentive that he does feature more often 

Edited January 10 by KentExile

[MB Rover]

8 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Agreed. I don't see how it can be.

What happens in practice is the big Clubs have loan managers who monitor the progress of their loanees and recall them if they're not happy with their progress or lack of game time.

People just said that about Morton because they couldn't believe how he'd been so shite and was still starting every week and/or how he was keeping Adam Wharton out of the side.

And given how Wharton has excelled in whatever environment he's been in when playing those people were right I'd say.

Morton also looked like he'd had enough of being here last time by about December imo.

Hopefully just a random suggestion that's gained legs and got everyone aereated unnecessarily. 

It was a very popular random suggestion amongst the players too.

[Exiled_Rover]

8 hours ago, Scoobydo said:

Or… it’s mid season. Clubs situations change constantly due to injury, form, change of management etc… so might our needs change from say October to when January begins. We aren’t the only club who “struggle” in January. It’s common knowledge that it’s a tricky time to get things done, prices are inflated, clubs don’t particularly want to sell players - unless they’re surplus, which we’d then all moan that we’re scraping the barrel. 
In an ideal world we’d have signed the 4/5 players we want before the end of week 1. It’s not an ideal world though is it? I don’t doubt we’re not the greatest at getting deals done. But all this sensationalising on every other post on here is downright boring to read. It’s the 10/1. Just see what happens and then moan / praise. Absolutely none of you have any clue what is going on and what’s not. 

Even the manager is getting visibly frustrated by it all. He's mentioned the need for reinforcements at every media interview for months.

He's now distanced himself from the WBA job, but reiterated that he's ambitious (and so are his players) and they're not here just to survive. 

[B16Rover]

Just now, Exiled_Rover said:

Even the manager is getting visibly frustrated by it all. He's mentioned the need for reinforcements at every media interview for months.

He's now distanced himself from the WBA job, but reiterated that he's ambitious (and so are his players) and they're not here just to survive. 

What year is this comment written about 

[davulsukur]

 

Was mentioned a couple of times but looks like we can forget it now.

[TheRevAshton]

Look at this line from the latest LET article (the one with Eustace distancing himself from the WBA job);

"Obviously, the football club are doing very well at the moment and we are being linked with players coming here who are maybe 'too good' for us. Because we are doing well, that is happening."

I'm sorry... what? Have I missed articles linking us to Declan Rice, Nico Williams and Alexander Isak or something?

Players we've been linked with this window...

Kwame Poku
Jeffrey Schlupp
Ryan Kent
Tyler Bindon
Augustus Kargbo
Grant Hanley
Liam Kitching
Mohamed Farsi

Who on earth, out of those players, could be considered 'too good' for us?! Ryan fucking Kent I assume? Behave.

It's just the usual lowering of expectations. Forget about proper backing, they want us to be buzzing when we sign some cheap, young, inexperienced tosser on loan.

Edited January 10 by TheRevAshton