January Transfer window

[TugaysMarlboro]

1 minute ago, wilsdenrover said:

Just found this:

https://jobs4football.com/job/chief-football-scout/

An absolute word soup of modern day bollocks.

Also seemingly posted a day after the closing date for applications...only at Rovers.

[Upside Down]

1 minute ago, wilsdenrover said:

Just found this:

https://jobs4football.com/job/chief-football-scout/

An absolute word soup of modern day bollocks.

I love how the ad closed the day before it opened.

Christ's sake.

[martonrover]

9 minutes ago, TugaysMarlboro said:

Also seemingly posted a day after the closing date for applications...only at Rovers.

They forgot to press “submit” 🙄

[Forever Blue]

Nixon has a Rovers story tomorrow. I live for these moments.

[ItsRoverZ]

2 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

Nixon has a Rovers story tomorrow. I live for these moments.

Probably an outgoing knowing these lot

[martonrover]

1 minute ago, Forever Blue said:

Nixon has a Rovers story tomorrow. I live for these moments.

Burning torches and giant wicker basket on standby 😉

[Ossydave]

5 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

Nixon has a Rovers story tomorrow. I live for these moments.

Thomas-Asante deal is no longer an option after he scores winner today and we weren't prepared to go above 5k a week in wages is my bet

[davulsukur]

1 hour ago, pick32 said:

Garrett and Buckley at cm next game, wonder what the new lad from Birmingham's like at dm Mokoena mk2

I was thinking earlier if Sanderson could play in CM temporarily.

Eustace has built this team around being a string defensive unit and Tronstad is key to that, screening the back 4.

Sanderson, by his own admission, is a ball playing centre half, who loves to play a long "diag".

Him playing as a CDM would allow Buckley to push forward more and allow us not to play Forshaw.

[alex l]

Unless Sanderson has experience of playing well I'm midfield, those suggesting it may want to watch what happened to Rio Ferdinand when it was tried. Hint - David Bentley scored a hat trick. 

[davulsukur]

1 minute ago, alex l said:

Unless Sanderson has experience of playing well I'm midfield, those suggesting it may want to watch what happened to Rio Ferdinand when it was tried. Hint - David Bentley scored a hat trick. 

The flip side is that John Stones was regularly playing CM successfully for City last season.

I haven't seen enough of Sanderson to know if he could do it but none of JRC, Buckley or Forshaw will provide the same level of defensive cover as Tronstad.

[Gav]

25 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

Nixon has a Rovers story tomorrow. I live for these moments.

£50 million war chest?

[neophox]

Break the bank and get Thelo Asgaard from Wigan.

[neophox]

And maybe Ollie Rathbone for some defensive steel...

Seriously....

What I can see Pelly Ruddock seems out of favour...maybe a loan?

Edited January 18 by neophox

[cesus]

There cannot be ANY football club in the land that has to deal with this shit year in year out. Players and manager busting their balls, January comes all of them desperate for help and they get the middle finger from the owners. Their shitbag mates making excuses for them in early Feb ... rinse and repeat.

[Cherry Blue]

40 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

Nixon has a Rovers story tomorrow. I live for these moments.

Wishing it to be venkys selling 

[Aqualung]

6 minutes ago, cesus said:

There cannot be ANY football club in the land that has to deal with this shit year in year out. Players and manager busting their balls, January comes all of them desperate for help and they get the middle finger from the owners. Their shitbag mates making excuses for them in early Feb ... rinse and repeat.

Been going on for season after season. Year after Year. Nowt will change until they are gone. 

[Ghost7]

26 minutes ago, neophox said:

Break the bank and get Thelo Asgaard from Wigan.

 

£2.5m is hardly breaking the bank. Fan expectations have been dumbed down by corrupt, uninterested owners. 

[Torgeir]

Aasgard is not what we need at this point in time. He's similar to what we have, we need pace/physicality and a striker that can score goals. Oh, and a LB and a CM.

[Torgeir]

1 hour ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

We love a making players find their way journey… 

alexis Beka beka on a free ?

Have you heard something?

[Upside Down]

38 minutes ago, alex l said:

Unless Sanderson has experience of playing well I'm midfield, those suggesting it may want to watch what happened to Rio Ferdinand when it was tried. Hint - David Bentley scored a hat trick. 

Rio was shit no matter where he played though.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

5 minutes ago, Ghost7 said:

 

£2.5m is hardly breaking the bank. Fan expectations have been dumbed down by corrupt, uninterested owners. 

Nothing but chump change these days.

[roversfan99]

We are probably going to end the transfer window in midfield having lost Baker, having lost Tronstad maybe long term but having gained a past it Plymouth reserve.

I cant see us getting one but we badly need one.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

The injury to tronstad will save waggott and the bluffers above

the narrative will be we didn’t expect to lose baker and we didn’t expect to lose tronstad so we had to react meaning our priority signings budget had ti suffer 

these things are unfortunate but it was out of our control 

something along those lines 

[Devon Rover]

7 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

We are probably going to end the transfer window in midfield having lost Baker, having lost Tronstad maybe long term but having gained a past it Plymouth reserve.

I cant see us getting one but we badly need one.

I'd say we badly need two. But obviously thats even more unlikely. I'm aware there have been some positive comments about Buckley's recent performances and I haven't seen the last couple of games but, for me, we only have two top 6 quality central midfielders at the club (obviously, Travis and Sondre). The signing of Forshaw remains baffling to the extent that, effectively, we haven't replaced Baker. It's a mess. It always is with this lot. And all of this is aside from the perennial issue of our lack of a good quality striker.

Hey, let's wait and see what great signings are made in a couple of weeks time though, huh?!

[roversfan99]

9 minutes ago, Devon Rover said:

I'd say we badly need two. But obviously thats even more unlikely. I'm aware there have been some positive comments about Buckley's recent performances and I haven't seen the last couple of games but, for me, we only have two top 6 quality central midfielders at the club (obviously, Travis and Sondre). The signing of Forshaw remains baffling to the extent that, effectively, we haven't replaced Baker. It's a mess. It always is with this lot. And all of this is aside from the perennial issue of our lack of a good quality striker.

Hey, let's wait and see what great signings are made in a couple of weeks time though, huh?!

I wasnt impressed by him midweek but he was certainly better today. That being said, his good play all came within a chunk of the middle of the game and he wasnt that impressive around that.

Either way, lets not fool ourselves into thinking that he is a player who should be a potential regular in a side with play off aspirations based on a solitary performance in a loss at Oxford.