January Transfer window

[Gav]

5 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

If Adam Wharton didn’t want to leave rovers he wouldn’t have 

he left the right way

Tripe.

He was sold to keep the lights on, because our billionaire owners are inept.

[JHRover]

Groundwork being laid by the club for no additions to central midfield with JRC and Forshaw challenged to 'stake their claims' 

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/january/19/injury-update--sondre-tronstad/

They simply have to act and quickly yet they will do nothing. We only need 3 wins in 19 for Waggott to achieve his season's objectives.

[Ricky]

1 hour ago, RevidgeBlue said:

By the same token Forshaw couldn't get in the side that was bottom of the table. At the time Forshaw  was signed Tronstad wasn't injured so at that pont it looked like we needed cover for 2-3 weeks until Travis was fit.

Not that much in it.

Not denying we ideally needed DECENT cover after Baker went back but Forshaw was never that.

Why do we need decent cover for a player who you’ve spent half of the season slagging off as bang average?? Surely we just need a bang average player to replace the bang average Tronstad? 

[aletheia]

6 hours ago, CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber said:

Release some names we have no chance of getting to keep the masses happy 

Fat cunt CEO 101 

Scatalogical but succinct.

More narratives than Hans Christian Anderson. 🙂

[K-Hod]

17 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

I see Ayari has just run the midfield at Old Trafford.

Thought he looked a player last year - we didn't play him nearly enough.

That’s not quite the accolade it once was, tbf….

[roversfan99]

2 hours ago, RoversClitheroe said:

If we aren't reinvesting then Jake Garrett will start surely?

Fresh from failing to make the team and sometimes bench of League 1 Bristol Rovers?

[booth]

18 hours ago, Torgeir said:

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.

He's scored 10 goals so far in L1, can play in the middle, left or right. 22 years old. Aside from a serious injury of a Matt Jansen magnitude he'll go up in value. I imagine it'd be him and Cantwell battling it out for the CAM position and Cantwell needs some competition.

But you're kind of right, the club is ran without imagination. Under normal running conditions we'd get those players + Aasgard but now we desperately need an out and out striker.

Edited Sunday at 16:52 by booth

[booth]

24 minutes ago, Gav said:

Tripe.

He was sold to keep the lights on, because our billionaire owners are inept.

He definitely wouldn't have left if he had his own way. He wanted to get promoted with Rovers and still lived at home with his parents.

He'd have flourished under Eustace.

[garner1971]

10 minutes ago, booth said:

He definitely wouldn't have left if he had his own way. He wanted to get promoted with Rovers and still lived at home with his parents.

He'd have flourished under Eustace.

He could simply have refused to go. And brought the whole shit-show crumbling down with his refusal to be sold. 

[booth]

3 hours ago, davulsukur said:

Adam Forshaw, come on down!

"He's only a squad player"

"He'll get like 5mins off the bench"

"He's an experienced head to guide the younger lads in training"

"He's not coming as a starting player"

Laughable planning by the clubs hierarchy.

Worth noting, he was brought on in centre midfield, ahead of JRC yesterday. JE clearly doesn't rate JRC in CM.

He'll rate him a lot higher now he's seen Forshaw.

 

On 13/01/2025 at 10:12, chaddyrovers said:

and? Its a short term signing needed to replace Baker. That's its FFS

Our season target won't be determined by signing Forshaw

Dear me.

[bluebruce]

1 hour ago, SpaceBarSlam said:

My concern right now is that circumstances are going to force Travis back early from injury, along with his own eagerness to get back out there. I remember him coming back from knee surgery a couple of years ago, clearly too soon and he was well off the pace for weeks. 

It's one of many concerns about the club tbf, but certainly something that worries me over the next week or so. 

Yep, I've been worried about this since Trav got injured, and even moreso once Tronstad got injured. He'll almost certainly be rushed back in. I'm confident most of Travis' bad patches or indifferent form over the years have come when he was rushed back or his body was overworked, or he was carrying an injury. Rushing him back will mean not only will he not be the Trav we saw first half of the season, but he'll be more prone to getting injured again. I know we are a bit desperate but I'd strongly consider giving him an extra 2 weeks from when he's back before starting him. Like you say, he'll be chomping at the bit and probably make out he is ready well before he is.

[callumrovers]

O’Brien

BTA

Dennis 

happy with that? 

[Old Codger]

1 hour ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

Yea I’m calling bs on this tbh

likely to be the outcome no doubt but I doubt anybody on this forum knows or has any inside contact with any of the players 

I know someone who travelled back to the North West with players yesterday, on the train, no less.

[Forever Blue]

3 minutes ago, callumrovers said:

O’Brien

BTA

Dennis 

happy with that? 

Why, are we signing them?

Edited Sunday at 17:20 by Forever Blue

[RevidgeBlue]

43 minutes ago, Ricky said:

Why do we need decent cover for a player who you’ve spent half of the season slagging off as bang average?? Surely we just need a bang average player to replace the bang average Tronstad? 

It's Travis we've been missing. That's why our form has fallen off a cliff.

You've missed the point I was trying to make anyway. I wouldn't have bought in a player (Forshaw) who isn't good enough as cover. No point. Just money down the pan.

[bluebruce]

55 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

I doubt it, he didn't even make the bench yesterday.

He will have been kept off the bench as the plan was to loan him back out for regular football, and if we brought him off the bench we can't do that. I very much doubt he is considered to be behind O'Grady Macken and Isaac Dunn in the pecking order.

I'll not be surprised if that plan changes now. We brought in Forshaw because Baker left and Travis is injured for a bit longer. Now Tronstad is out we may decide we'd rather use Garrett ourselves. The budget is clearly a bit shit and being prioritised for a couple of attackers. I doubt we will take another chunk out of it to get a solid CM.

For me we shouldn't have bothered with Forshaw, we should have been looking for a better CM in the first place. A good quality 3rd choice was what was needed, not a crap 4th/5th choice. All season, injury to Travis or Tronstad has loomed as a potential achilles heel, an area that can quickly go from being our strongest to our weakest position. Yes Travis was only going to be out a few more weeks when we got Forshaw, but injury to Tronstad, or recurrence to Travis, was always going to be a risk. It didn't need a top tier replacement, I accept the budget is poor. But we did need to bring someone in that was as good as Baker or ideally a bit better, and that should have been do-able.

[booth]

9 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

Why, are we signing them?

I think they are just the 3 main players we've been linked to recently.

Edited Sunday at 17:29 by booth

[booth]

9 minutes ago, callumrovers said:

O’Brien

BTA

Dennis 

happy with that? 

Add Thelo Aasgaard and I'll believe the good times are coming back.

If they can smooth things over with O'Brien it would be fantastic though. Eustace and our league position may help with that.

[RevidgeBlue]

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

Sonny’s just tweaked his hamstring and I’m not sure how long it’ll be. He’s been a huge influence for us this season, one of our top players and performers, and to lose him will be disappointing, but it’s an opportunity for someone else to step up.

“He’s been the captain of the team whilst Trav [Travis] has been away because of his performances and he’s going to be a miss. I don’t think Trav will be too far away now - I think he’ll be a week or so.

Eustace's comments Injury update: Sondre Tronstad | rovers.co.uk

That doesn't make it sound like there'll be another CM coming in.

Much like him saying the other day that someone had to step up in the scoring stakes didn't make it sound certain that any more firepower would be arriving either.

[bluebruce]

9 minutes ago, Old Codger said:

I know someone who travelled back to the North West with players yesterday, on the train, no less.

Why would the players be travelling on the train? Has our lease ran out on the much-lauded coach?

[chaddyrovers]

57 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Groundwork being laid by the club for no additions to central midfield with JRC and Forshaw challenged to 'stake their claims' 

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/january/19/injury-update--sondre-tronstad/

They simply have to act and quickly yet they will do nothing. We only need 3 wins in 19 for Waggott to achieve his season's objectives.

It's Eustace's comments post match. Reading too much into it

41 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Fresh from failing to make the team and sometimes bench of League 1 Bristol Rovers?

Do you know the reasons why? Didn't someone posted on here their head coach was told to pick permanent players at the club. 

[bluebruce]

2 hours ago, Exiled_Rover said:

He was one of their best players, per their fans. 

The HC was instructed to play (and develop) their own players over loanees.

Is there proof the Head Coach was instructed to do that, or is that just the theory from the fans?

[Emerald Isle Rover]

11 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

It's Travis we've been missing. That's why our form has fallen off a cliff.

You've missed the point I was trying to make anyway. I wouldn't have bought in a player (Forshaw) who isn't good enough as cover. No point. Just money down the pan.

Travis has been a revelation this season and we’re better as a team with him in it but he played near every minute of our first bad run in October starting Coventry away we lost 5 of 7 drew one won one

again to reiterate we’re better with him in but the difference maker we’re missing and the key is a number 9 and a winger it’s so glaringly obvious 

now with baker and tronstad now gone along with trav out cm again has become a position we need to recruit well in

but make no bones about it - attacking is our shortfall 

[booth]

2 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

Travis has been a revelation this season and we’re better as a team with him in it but he played near every minute of our first bad run in October starting Coventry away we lost 5 of 7 drew one won one

again to reiterate we’re better with him in but the difference maker we’re missing and the key is a number 9 and a winger it’s so glaringly obvious 

now with baker and tronstad now gone along with trav out cm again has become a position we need to recruit well in

but make no bones about it - attacking is our shortfall 

We're playing with ten with Forshaw though. He was a liability yesterday and lost us a point.

[Upside Down]

8 hours ago, Forever Blue said:

You don’t know what the budget is. 

There isn't one.