January Transfer window

[Exiled_Rover]

1 hour ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I'd rather give him his chance than sign Kargbo tbh.

Put the money saved towards an even more stellar striker than the one that was already coming in..........

He's had his chance. He's far too slow and unathletic to play out wide at this level.

You'd HAVE to play him as a #10, which there's a queue for. 

[chaddyrovers]

9 hours ago, Ricky said:

I’d be asking about a loan for Johnstone 

Should have sign him or Liam Millar. Both would have added quality for low cost

9 hours ago, KentExile said:

You are discounting that we have probably spent less than £3M in total on all incoming transfers this season,  No chance of them shelling out that much on one player

We looked at him and I remember Nicko doing an article on him.

We should spent more money in the summer

8 hours ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Just looking on Coventrys forum...Alot of their fans saying that we've gone in for an improved bid on Assante. Explains why they are going for grimes as they needed to sell before buying.

(If you type in Blackburn on the search bar you can see all the posts)

If true, get on with it Rudy. 6 days to go. 

8 hours ago, JHRover said:

I think when people see Luton Town and Plymouth Argyle, both fighting to survive in this division and certainly not what would be described as big or affluent clubs in this league, comfortably outspending and making more effort than us, it might make one or two realise what depths these vile owners are dragging us to. 

Then again maybe not. 'Punching above our weight' in the top 10 of the Championship I keep on reading.

Luton have the PL parachute money to spend. 

 

[Torgeir]

Richard Kone with a brace for Wycombe tonight versus Barnsley.

[Exiled_Rover]

23 minutes ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

Heard osula on a loan is a possibility 

What we definitely need is more assets we don't own. 

[Rovers1875_]

1 minute ago, Torgeir said:

Richard Kone with a brace for Wycombe tonight versus Barnsley.

Luton just put a £6M bid in yesterday…

[vinotherover]

We should put a bid in for Semir Telalovic

9 goals in 15 appearances in the bundesliga 2 

[RevidgeBlue]

Just now, Exiled_Rover said:

What we definitely need is more assets we don't own. 

Wonder how long it will be before we don't own ANY senior players?

[Torgeir]

8 minutes ago, Rovers1875_ said:

Luton just put a £6M bid in yesterday…

Should be in our price bracket then.

[JHRover]

They want the club to be 'self sufficient' yet:

• have allowed countless assets to walk away for nothing, costing them millions
• have chosen to not employ a single proven experienced operator at executive level in 15 years
• continue to employ a used car salesman / spiv ex-agent to run it for them
• have no commercial director and haven't for years
• have a laughably bad commercial setup to the extent you can't even buy shirts or tickets from the club shop
• make zero effort to sell tickets or engage people from beyond the narrow confines of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
• Are refusing to follow the 'sell and reinvest' model that many clubs, ourselves included, have profited enormously from in recent years (Armstrong, Szmodics, should have been Dack, Rothwell and Diaz)

So once again what they claim to want and what is actually happening are two very different things. People wanting to own a football club and for it to be self-sufficient would address all the above as a matter of urgency.

[chaddyrovers]

12 minutes ago, Torgeir said:

Richard Kone with a brace for Wycombe tonight versus Barnsley.

Is he what we need up front or would Thomas-Asante be a better option?.

What are Kone's qualities? 

[JHRover]

16 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

 

Luton have the PL parachute money to spend. 

 

Indeed. Which might explain one or two things but they were a non-league club when we were bought by the scum as a Premier League side. Parachute money can't explain that one away nor does it make it acceptable that they are spending millions and we are going with a begging bowl to Plymouth and Birmingham for cast offs. 

[onlyonejackwalker]

8 minutes ago, Rovers1875_ said:

Luton just put a £6M bid in yesterday…

Burnley, Sheffield United and Luton as newly relegated clubs qualify for 49 million in parachute payments in the year following relegation.

The year just gone the three parachute payment teams in Leicester and Southampton went up and Leeds finished third. 

Although they have struggled this season, Luton are flush with cash.

[simongarnerisgod]

9 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Is he what we need up front or would Thomas-Asante be a better option?.

What are Kone's qualities? 

he scores goals

[chaddyrovers]

Just now, JHRover said:

Indeed. Which might explain one or two things but they were a non-league club when we were bought by the scum as a Premier League side. Parachute money can't explain that one away nor does it make it acceptable that they are spending millions and we are going with a begging bowl to Plymouth and Birmingham for cast offs. 

Very true JH. 

We haven't reinvested in the squad..even just the Szmodics's money where you could have used that money to sign 3 or 4 quality signings that would be assets now but also for the future..

Plus we haven't renew the contracts yet of Hyam, Tronstad, Travis, Brittain, Pickering, Pears and what the hell is going on with them and why haven't they been sorted it? Question for the fan forum to asked at the next meeting @K-Hod @only2garners please

[chaddyrovers]

Just now, simongarnerisgod said:

he scores goals

Obviously but can he at championship level? 

BTA is the one for me we should be going for.

Can Rudy deliver a quality striker and wide left attacking player before the deadline? 

[JHRover]

2 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Very true JH. 

We haven't reinvested in the squad..even just the Szmodics's money where you could have used that money to sign 3 or 4 quality signings that would be assets now but also for the future..

Plus we haven't renew the contracts yet of Hyam, Tronstad, Travis, Brittain, Pickering, Pears and what the hell is going on with them and why haven't they been sorted it? Question for the fan forum to asked at the next meeting @K-Hod @only2garners please

A good point to raise Chaddy and perhaps more than the non-existent transfer activity this is the biggest clue as to their true intentions.

They can of course make up plenty of excuses for not signing players in January - Waggott listed about 10 in his 'update' last week - its hard, we tried, everyone else has more money somehow, blah blah blah - I'm sure we're all tired of hearing it but excuse maker in chief came out with them all again.

But they can't really make up excuses for the TOTAL lack of ANY senior contract renewals. Not one. Not even ones that should be an absolute doddle (e.g. Hedges if they want him) or absolutely essential (Tronstad, Travis, Carter). 

The FACT that NONE of these people even sound remotely close to ANY extended or improved terms gives the game away - it's got nothing to do with 'A difficult January' or 'other clubs' - we're just not at the races and not remotely interested in doing anything that is going to increase costs or expenses including offering deserved new terms to our own players.

It is disgusting.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see Eustace head to a real club in the summer and promptly snap up 2-3 of our best performers this season. They've worked their socks off for him this year and have been totally let down. 

[Forever Blue]

5 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Very true JH. 

We haven't reinvested in the squad..even just the Szmodics's money where you could have used that money to sign 3 or 4 quality signings that would be assets now but also for the future..

Plus we haven't renew the contracts yet of Hyam, Tronstad, Travis, Brittain, Pickering, Pears and what the hell is going on with them and why haven't they been sorted it? Question for the fan forum to asked at the next meeting @K-Hod @only2garners please

And the scales did fall from his eyes.

[chaddyrovers]

1 minute ago, JHRover said:

A good point to raise Chaddy and perhaps more than the non-existent transfer activity this is the biggest clue as to their true intentions.

They can of course make up plenty of excuses for not signing players in January - Waggott listed about 10 in his 'update' last week - its hard, we tried, everyone else has more money somehow, blah blah blah - I'm sure we're all tired of hearing it but excuse maker in chief came out with them all again.

But they can't really make up excuses for the TOTAL lack of ANY senior contract renewals. Not one. Not even ones that should be an absolute doddle (e.g. Hedges if they want him) or absolutely essential (Tronstad, Travis, Carter). 

The FACT that NONE of these people even sound remotely close to ANY extended or improved terms gives the game away - it's got nothing to do with 'A difficult January' or 'other clubs' - we're just not at the races and not remotely interested in doing anything that is going to increase costs or expenses including offering deserved new terms to our own players.

It is disgusting.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see Eustace head to a real club in the summer and promptly snap up 2-3 of our best performers this season. They've worked their socks off for him this year and have been totally let down. 

I wouldn't be surprised if Eustace left in the summer if we aren't going to back in the summer..

If we sign quality striker then I think we get playoff place. 

Eustace has done a great job, his connection with the players and fans is great. 

We just be doing renewal of contracts regularly. Not good enough Rovers. Simple as

But you also need to reinvest the money you receive for player sales but also to keep improving your squad

[...]

Bit of perspective.

We know more about what's happening with other clubs January shopping sprees and what they are aiming to achieve than our own club.

What the fuck has happened. 

We'll all wake up any minute to Shearer banging one in... 

[Cherry Blue]

4 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Obviously but can he at championship level? 

BTA is the one for me we should be going for.

Can Rudy deliver a quality striker and wide left attacking player before the deadline? 

Obviously as you've already implied there's not a lot going on behind closed doors. One certain truth is club has lost respect even more so now and this will effect current players.

Any signings now will take weeks to bed in 

[roverandout]

Chaddy is like jekyll and hyde

[...]

1 minute ago, Cherry Blue said:

Obviously as you've already implied there's not a lot going on behind closed doors. One certain truth is club has lost respect even more so now and this will effect current players.

Any signings now will take weeks to bed in 

Literally could be a pivotal time in our club. 

[Ricky]

7 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

I wouldn't be surprised if Eustace left in the summer if we aren't going to back in the summer..

If we sign quality striker then I think we get playoff place. 

Eustace has done a great job, his connection with the players and fans is great. 

We just be doing renewal of contracts regularly. Not good enough Rovers. Simple as

But you also need to reinvest the money you receive for player sales but also to keep improving your squad

I know you’re quite keen on the idea of Thomas-Asante as a striker. I don’t see that signing him will get us a play off place. We need so much more. Do you think he has the quality to get us that play off place or are you thinking him plus a quality striker? 

[wilsdenrover]

16 minutes ago, JHRover said:

A good point to raise Chaddy and perhaps more than the non-existent transfer activity this is the biggest clue as to their true intentions.

They can of course make up plenty of excuses for not signing players in January - Waggott listed about 10 in his 'update' last week - its hard, we tried, everyone else has more money somehow, blah blah blah - I'm sure we're all tired of hearing it but excuse maker in chief came out with them all again.

But they can't really make up excuses for the TOTAL lack of ANY senior contract renewals. Not one. Not even ones that should be an absolute doddle (e.g. Hedges if they want him) or absolutely essential (Tronstad, Travis, Carter). 

The FACT that NONE of these people even sound remotely close to ANY extended or improved terms gives the game away - it's got nothing to do with 'A difficult January' or 'other clubs' - we're just not at the races and not remotely interested in doing anything that is going to increase costs or expenses including offering deserved new terms to our own players.

It is disgusting.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see Eustace head to a real club in the summer and promptly snap up 2-3 of our best performers this season. They've worked their socks off for him this year and have been totally let down. 

Unless I’m forgetting someone I think we’ve gone over a year since a senior player signed a new deal.

 

[Torgeir]

38 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Is he what we need up front or would Thomas-Asante be a better option?.

What are Kone's qualities? 

I haven't seen too much of him. Looks quite quick, technical and scored with a header tonight. Asante is good but not the best finisher, but would definitely strengthen our starting eleven.