January Transfer window

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

1 hour ago, Rover down South said:

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

£2.5 million? 

[Bbrovers2288]

Defence? Performing well, certainly no rush to break up hyam and batth, get a sub defender in

Centre mid? Starting pair are travis and sondre, yes we lose baker which wasnt ideal but we do still have options there to stand in until travis returns. Get a sub midfielder in.

Acted pronto to get cover in for positions we aren’t in dire straights in yet our two areas where we need improvement / starters , on the wing and up top we seem to be faffing about and digging our heels in. It’s so frustrating but has been the rovers way for over a decade. 
 

if we are keeping our powder dry so to spend on first teamers , surely the team receiving said finance would like some time to reinforce their our squad so it doesn’t make any sense to leave it until the final hours. We should have been ready to go on problem positions from the 1st of January, there is literally no excuses. 
its going to boil down to a deadline day where we either muck up again or we nearly got a decent signing in but time was against us 

Edited 16 hours ago by Bbrovers2288
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[Tugayisgod]

Just now, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:

£2.5 million? 

Had anybody actually seen this guy play live ?

 

[SuperBrfc]

I like the look of Asante and think he could be the next 'main man' for us in the way that Armstrong and Sammie became.

His numbers might not look impressive or his time at Coventry, but the eye test suggests to me that Asante is a player. He has looked dangerous whenever I have seen him, he's quick and he scored a cracker against us. Would bring something totally different to our frontline.

I get the 'why is x club getting rid of him if he's that good' argument, but every club has those cases in their history, where they don't see what they have.

Extreme examples, as Asante isn't anywhere near their levels, but Chelsea let Salah and De Bruyne leave once upon a time. Pep let Cole Palmer leave just recently. I just think Asante has that explosive look about his game based on watching him and it could click in a Rovers shirt. I'm not against it, but a side issue is that he is another former target which again questions what the recruitment team is doing.

Edited 16 hours ago by SuperBrfc

[Fraserkirky]

1 minute ago, Tugayisgod said:

Had anybody actually seen this guy play live ?

 

Yeah when he scored a screamer against us in the cup a couple of years back, when he was but a child.

Edited 16 hours ago by Fraserkirky

[J*B]

1 hour ago, Rover down South said:

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

We won’t spend 2.5M. Thats what we are waiting for. 

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

5 minutes ago, Fraserkirky said:

Yeah when he scored a screamer against us in the cup a couple of years back, when he was but a child.

His name has cropped up as a supposed interest in the last 2/3 windows.   We clearly can't afford the lad from the division below.  

[MarkBRFC]

Lampard saying nothing happening with Asante.

[roversfan99]

58 minutes ago, alex l said:

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. 

Exactly. If his sole focus was to make as much money as possible, as if any other manager comes purely for the love of it. Then promotion would have led to a considerable pay rise, maybe a bonus and maybe a new deal. If he was fearful that he would have been sacked upon promotion at some point. He would have then been paid up his contract and not had to work for it, "lining his pension fund" very nicely considering the pay rise, and had a far better CV as and when he then decided to go back to work.

This is exactly where peoples dislike of him causes their arguments to become illogical and if you question it you are deemed an apologist.

On purely football terms, his time here was clearly not horrid and him being manager would cause only the most unhinged of fan to have to stop following if he was in charge. He did a good job, promotion and 2 solid seasons, then 1 really poor season, then 1 when we overachieved considering we sold our best player and only really loaned players that season, albeit the way it unfolded clearly meant a change was best for everyone. He has his limitations and perhaps isnt the man to really push you on but West Brom have hardly appointed a bad manager, hes at least a steady pair of hands.

10 minutes ago, SuperBrfc said:

I like the look of Asante and think he could be the next 'main man' for us in the way that Armstrong and Sammie became.

His numbers might not look impressive or his time at Coventry, but the eye test suggests to me that Asante is a player. He has looked dangerous whenever I have seen him, he's quick and he scored a cracker against us. Would bring something totally different to our frontline.

I get the 'why is x club getting rid of him if he's that good' argument, but every club has those cases in their history, where they don't see what they have.

Extreme examples, as Asante isn't anywhere near their levels, but Chelsea let Salah and De Bruyne leave once upon a time. Pep let Cole Palmer leave just recently. I just think Asante has that explosive look about his game based on watching him and it could click in a Rovers shirt. I'm not against it, but a side issue is that he is another former target which again questions what the recruitment team is doing.

If you sign a player, another club has to let them go so I dont think him being let go is the primary concern.

We do need a goalscorer and he isnt a natural one by any means, hes not a natural finisher and his record in terms of goals shows that. He does offer other things notably pace and would probably be our best striker so he would offer something we need and also likely be some sort of upgrade, the question is whether he is the man to lead our attempt to score more goals and the jury is certainly out on if he is capable of that.

That being said, it doesnt feel like it is about to be done any time soon if at all anyway.

[Dreams of 1995]

Mowbray was a good manager but his time here came to an end. Such is life

I never got the whole "lining his pension fund" argument. If you aren't earning money or 'lining your pension fund' then why the fuck are you going to work? For the love of it? Did people expect Mowbray to work for free because he was in his 50s?

He was dealt a shoddy hand when he took over. A club in terminal decline with the worst employment seen in my time as a Rovers fan (Coyle - not just a poor manager, but a Dingle too "Agent Coyle") and a team that was disjointed, unbalanced and demoralised.

When Mowbray left, we had a number of academy players transition into senior squad members and a list of players who, with the right contract management from above, could have been sold and earned the club a tidy sum of money

We had good times with Mowbray, we had bad times but his integrity was never in question with me. His 'dumbing down of the club' was in poor taste at a time when he was under pressure - for me, that is the negative I take from his time. His comments were at times crass. Other than that, he left the club in a better state than when he found it and really that is all you ask from your manager

[Fraserkirky]

Everyone loves Mowbray, lovely guy and did a cracking job all things considered. Let’s move on

[KentExile]

13 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

Lampard saying nothing happening with Asante.

In fairness, that's nothing that Eustace didn't already say yesterday

"I don't think anything is imminent in the next few days, not that I'm aware of," "Brandon is another good player at this level. We have been linked with a lot of strikers already from the league. He's someone with good pedigree and someone who has done well over the last few seasons."I don't know if there has been a bid. I'm not aware if that's happened and if it has, ok, brilliant."

 

[roversinmyblood]

43 minutes ago, TheRevAshton said:

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

Think you mean Tyler Bindon hahaha

Yeah, sorry, too lazy to look him up. Close but no cigar. 😂😂 At least you knew who I was at about. 😊👍

[TheRevAshton]

1 minute ago, roversinmyblood said:

Yeah, sorry, too lazy to look him up. Close but no cigar. 😂😂 At least you knew who I was at about. 😊👍

Hahaha love it mate, keep them coming 🤣

[B16Rover]

I don't buy any of the Asante links

I think the reporters must've hear Waggot humming to himself after visiting the Venkys birthday party last weekend 

''Sylvester's never there when you call (Rovers, hah), always miss deadline

Gave it their all, will probably finish 9th''

 

[roversinmyblood]

38 minutes ago, Tugayisgod said:

Had anybody actually seen this guy play live ?

 

I think he has scored 10 goals in all competitions so far this season. He plays like a younger version of Cantwell but can shoot and head the ball (he’s 6’2”).

[Hasta]

1 hour ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Do a swap deal with Dolan or Hedges ? 

I'm sure Ty will jump at agreeing to that rather than let his contract run down.

[Rover down South]

Just infuriating to know Asgaard can potentially be bought for £2.5m (if that release clause is correct), yet we can't sanction spending that amount, despite the money generated from player sales in the last year. If he came here and did the job, the potential re-sale value could be huge, so I'd have thought that alone would interest the owners long term, plus his wage would be within our budget I'd assume. 

If you ever had to question the owners ambition for promotion then it's really being hammered home that they clearly have no interest in going up, because for the third season in a row, whilst lingering in the play-offs, they don't spend, yet clubs around us are pondering spending £13m on Cannon to help get the job done. 

For me, Eustace is the best manager we've had since Hughes and really got me buzzing for Blackburn Rovers again for the first time in a long time. It's still fairly early days for him really, but he's massively overachieved in a  season every one was predicting us for relegation. The improvement he's overseen in players like Brittain, Hyam, Travis & Pears, who we've all written off in the past, has been sensational.

Even if he didn't get us up this season, we should be building towards next season. Absolutely sick of these owners and their lack of ambition. I just don't understand why they don't sell up and let us have our club back.

[Exiled_Rover]

44 minutes ago, Fraserkirky said:

Yeah when he scored a screamer against us in the cup a couple of years back, when he was but a child.

You say screamer, I say massive GK error. 

[BankEnd Rover]

Here's how I think the rest of our window will go.

CF - Danns (loan)

LW - Kargbo - permanent 500k

LB - Fulhams 5th choice LB

 

Edited 15 hours ago by BankEnd Rover

[TheRevAshton]

8 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Here's how I think the rest of our window will go.

CF - Danns (loan)

LW - Kargbo - permanent 500k

LB - Fulhams 5th choice LB

 

Optimistic! I'll go...

LB - Coventry's 5th choice LB (Loan)
LW - Martial Godo (Loan)
ST - Lukas Jutkiewicz (Free)

Edited 15 hours ago by TheRevAshton

[neophox]

Matej Vydra maybe?

[RoversClitheroe]

17 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Here's how I think the rest of our window will go.

CF - Danns (loan)

LW - Kargbo - permanent 500k

LB - Fulhams 5th choice LB

 

Why loan?

Whens his contract expire?

[MarkBRFC]

1 minute ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Why loan?

Whens his contract expire?

Well he signed a new long term contract back in March, so not anytime soon I would wager!

[RoversClitheroe]

6 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

Well he signed a new long term contract back in March, so not anytime soon I would wager!

Ah no thanks then haha where's the £40m