January Transfer window

[Penwortham Blue]

Come the end of this transfer window, if it ends how we all expect it to, we should have hundreds down at Brockhall personally targeting Pasha and Swag.

[lraC]

16 minutes ago, Gamst said:

The obvious question is why won’t they cough up the money for O’Brien for a few months? If they had even the slightest interest in the club surely they would do that for Eustace? We could have done it last week and he could have replaced Forshaw yesterday! It must be getting even tricky for the Snake oil salesman Waggot to explain this degree of negligence. They’ve brought in 40million quid in sales and he says they always sign a cheque when asked. Make it make sense! 

He thinks we are all thick and will accept the explanation that the money comes in slowly due to instalments. 
I have a degree in pure maths, but that doesn’t count, with their explanations. 

[Ossydave]

36 minutes ago, roverandout said:

1.2 million is alot of money for a player who has poor stats

You can read too much into stats, from the clips I've seen (yeah I know, deceiving too!) He looks strong, pacy and direct, basically a big Dolan upgrade.

I doubt Watford fans were buzzing to sign Chakvetadze as his stats didn't look amazing prior to him signing, he's a great little player though.

[roversfan99]

Its not the stats necessarily, its the standard. He has dropped out of the side since he moved up from Serie C to Serie B.

[CambridgeRover]

5 minutes ago, Ossydave said:

You can read too much into stats, from the clips I've seen (yeah I know, deceiving too!) He looks strong, pacy and direct, basically a big Dolan upgrade.

I think Dolan would be ripping apart the Italian third division

[sverrehh]

What are the chances Brittain and Trondstad sign new contracts? 0?

[Forever Blue]

3 minutes ago, sverrehh said:

What are the chances Brittain and Trondstad sign new contracts? 0?

That’ll only add to Eustace’s impression that he’d be better off out of it. It’s not just the players we don’t sign, it’s the players we’re going to lose. You can’t build a club, as Eustace said he wants to do, if you’re letting your best players walk away for nowt and not replacing them. 

[Inferi]

Kargbo is not even a regular starter for a midtable Serie B club. Serie B is a quite poor league, definitely worse than the Championship. It makes sense that he and his agent would want the move since he would significantly increase his wage. So underwhelming.

[JHRover]

Pretty unlikely anyone established in the first team will be signing new contracts.

There's no reason, other than the words of a proven liar, to believe that we are even offering new terms or making an effort to try and keep them here.

Even if we were there's even less reason to believe that we will be increasing wages or financial commitments to a reasonable Championship level.

And then there's the latest betrayal of the manager and squad which is likely to see the manager move on soon and I'm sure any player who could attract interest elsewhere will be asking themselves the same question as most of us.....is there any point in being at Rovers?

[Ossydave]

He seems to have featured in most games, starting in a fair number. Absolutely no idea what options Cesena have though or who he's competing against. Having watched a decent amount of Italian football though there's a good chance he's deemed TOO attacking to be starting every game....

[Ossydave]

10 minutes ago, CambridgeRover said:

I think Dolan would be ripping apart the Italian third division

I doubt it, he'd get bullied every game tbh

[Rover1984]

3 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

That’ll only add to Eustace’s impression that he’d be better off out of it. It’s not just the players we don’t sign, it’s the players we’re going to lose. You can’t build a club, as Eustace said he wants to do, if you’re letting your best players walk away for nowt and not replacing them. 

Completely agree. Players and manager have ambition. If your in an environment where mediocrity is the main goal and you’ve got something about you your jumping ship at the first opportunity. We are defeated before season starts, main goal is to stay in the division, you compete to win,the players have this mentality, the board does not. I can not be disappointed for players wanting to better themselves 

[Penwortham Blue]

12 minutes ago, Ossydave said:

I doubt it, he'd get bullied every game tbh

He still wouldn’t be able to put the ball in the net. Flatters to deceive, always has and always will, never delivers.

[RoversClitheroe]

As tweeted to @RoversTrust any chance you will be holding the board to account? This is an absolutely shambolic window. As there critical friend and as someone with contact with Pasha we need answers. We have missed out on so so many points due to inactivity in the window. 

Also have to add context. We've brought in £40m odd in the last 18 months? York City in the National league have spent £450k. We've spent absolutely nothing. Another season in the playoff positions, no investment in a asset stripped team. We need intervention and we need it now.

As there critical friend. The opportunity to put pressure on them is now. No just to wait until the end of the window. Waggotts statement is embarrassing and shows how dumb he thinks all us fans are. You are the one chance of pressure we have. Release a statement please 🙏🏼

[Waggy76]

2 hours ago, unleaded said:

Alan story is they have backed away so don’t understand how it can be still alive …. The guy is on 40k per month … most we would offer is 12 ! It will be an auction…. Likes of Hull will blow us away ….. 

Very true , and what is also true that is exactly what owners want to happen ..

'We tried but can't compete' 

Edited January 26 by Waggy76

[Tugayisgod]

Last paragraph from Elliott Jackson's column this morning

Says everything 

 

[Waggy76]

1 hour ago, Penwortham Blue said:

Come the end of this transfer window, if it ends how we all expect it to, we should have hundreds down at Brockhall personally targeting Pasha and Swag.

I doubt , they go to Brockhall much , in fact I doubt they attend  Ewood Park offices  much either .

No one to answer too , is there ?

All hiding away in India ...

They turn up at match days and probably sneak in through some side door ..

 

[lraC]

2 minutes ago, Tugayisgod said:

Last paragraph from Elliott Jackson's column this morning

Says everything 

 

Sounds like he might have grown a pair. He needs to really call them out. 

[47er]

52 minutes ago, JHRover said:

is there any point in being at Rovers?

Is there any point watching Rovers then?

[Forever Blue]

5 minutes ago, lraC said:

Sounds like he might have grown a pair. He needs to really call them out. 

Easy to criticise the local journo who has no emotional attachment to Rovers, but what exactly are Rovers fans collectively doing? Fuck all is the answer. It’s about time we grew some balls. 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

5 minutes ago, 47er said:

Is there any point watching Rovers then?

Good question. I ask myself that on a daily basis. We’ve been hijacked by the chicken chokers and the club is currently being held hostage. 

[Rogerb]

6 minutes ago, 47er said:

Is there any point watching Rovers then?

Exactly that but we still turn up in the forlorn hope things will get better.

[47er]

1 minute ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Good question. I ask myself that on a daily basis. We’ve been hijacked by the chicken chokers and the club is currently being held hostage. 

How they hell do they think they'll sell Season Tickets for next season?

[Mattyblue]

We’ll get a price hike for our troubles too..

[47er]

2 minutes ago, Rogerb said:

we still turn up

There will be a big drop in attendances I'm guessing---1st Div team with 1st Div gates.