January Transfer window

[RoversClitheroe]

4 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Fode Koita

How dare you!!!

[RevidgeBlue]

6 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Same old boring comments just a different day. 

You are getting angry over what might not happens.

If we cant our first choice targets then surely you moved on to other targets. That's how football recruitment works. 

Sanderson one is logical to me 

On Kargbo, why can't you judge him in Rovers shirt not before he signed here given you never seen him play live. Take it you had similar opinions on Samba and Nelsen when Hughes signed there from B Team at Hertha Berlin and DC united. 

Clearly Eustace hasn't personally scouted just like Ohashi signing  

You're getting very shirty with people in your responses Chaddy.

It's not their fault it-s been such an abysmal window that similarly looks set to end in underwhelming fashion.

Nor that your faith in the owners and management to bring in the quality we needed was so badly misplaced. Earlier in the window you were defending the bringing in of "Championship experience" because you claimed it was what the manager wanted.

Now it seems we can't even manage that.

[islander200]

Wednesday signing Stuart Armstrong a player with good experience and better than what we have probably if he hadn't gone too downhill 

Not acceptable that near every club in the division is having a better window than us 

[den]

23 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

 

 

Let's see who we sign first. 

and then it will be “well we tried, what else could we do “.

[47er]

4 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Sanderson one is logical to me 

Everything the Club does is logical to you. Plymouth cast-off --how low can we sink before you wake up?

 

[wilsdenrover]

Well that’s ten minutes of my life I won’t get back.

[TommyRovers]

It’s been a crap window, there’s no two ways about that. Lewis Travis backing the boys and leading the charge in his interview doesn’t change that. He’d be a pretty poor captain if he didn’t do it.

Kargbo is an underwhelming signing because he’s an unknown and Rovers were a side screaming out for players who can hit the ground running and solidify our top 6 credentials. Our injury crisis only made us more desperate. kargbo could be fantastic and we could sneak one or two more signings through the door in the next three days but this window has still been expectedly underwhelming.
 

I don’t think playoffs are beyond us. This squad has proved they can win and compete with the best in this league and I have far more belief in them and this manager than I have in our last few capitulations. A win tonight can spark some much needed momentum but the teams around us have strengthened and the trailing pack behind us have caught up. We could easily finish 5th or 16th. That’s what’s disappointing. Once again we didn’t take advantage of our great Christmas league position. There’s no chance Eustace isn’t peeved of by that ala JDT.

Edited Friday at 10:53 by TommyRovers

[CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber]

26 minutes ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

Me trying to catch up on this thread a few times a day and slalom around a certain village eediots many many many many tedious posts. 

Today's special - many, many people trying to convince someone with chronic confirmation bias that there is a different narrative 

 

[TruRover]

So Kargbo in on the left side. 
 

Still would expect 2 signings on top of that. A striker and a CM/LB. 
 

Any credible links to a striker? I don’t believe we’ve actually bid 4m for that Geubbels fella.

[Torgeir]

2 minutes ago, TommyRovers said:

It’s been a crap window, there’s no two ways about that. Lewis Travis backing the boys and leading the charge in his interview doesn’t change that. He’d be a pretty poor captain if he didn’t do it.

Kargbo is an underwhelming signing because he’s an unknown and Rovers were a side screaming out for players who can hit the ground running and solidify our top 6 credentials. Our injury crisis only made us more desperate. kargbo could be fantastic and we could sneak one or two more signings through the door in the next three days but this window has still been expectedly underwhelming.
 

I don’t think playoffs are beyond us. This squad has proved they can win and compete with the best in this league and I have far more belief in them and this manager than I have in our last few capitulations. A win tonight can spark some much needed momentum but the teams around us have strengthened and the trailing pack behind us have caught up. We could easily finish 5th or 16th. That’s what’s disappointing. Once again we didn’t take advantage of our great Christmas league position. There’s change Eustace isn’t peeved of by that ala JDT.

Kargbo seemed like a backup solution in the summer and a backup solution now. I think we're lowballing offers for targets.

Everything seems to revolve around the wages to turnover ratio, meaning we renew contracts (pay rises) as late as possible, and sign players that command low fees and therefor usually low wages. The odd exceptions are there, like Cantwell, but I'm sure they will try and get rid of him again if they can make a profit. As soon as we enter 'established Championship players' area, we can't compete with our rivals. 

The only established players we get are the over-established ones that are on a downward spiral. Doesn't mean they can't make a contribution to the group but at this point we need to strengthen our starting eleven with a few new faces.

[47er]

Just now, Torgeir said:

Kargbo seemed like a backup solution in the summer and a backup solution now. I think we're lowballing offers for targets.

Everything seems to revolve around the wages to turnover ratio, meaning we renew contracts (pay rises) as late as possible, and sign players that command low fees and therefor usually low wages. The odd exceptions are there, like Cantwell, but I'm sure they will try and get rid of him again if they can make a profit. As soon as we enter 'established Championship players' area, we can't compete with our rivals. 

The only established players we get are the over-established ones that are on a downward spiral. Doesn't mean they can't make a contribution to the group but at this point we need to strengthen our starting eleven with a few new faces.

Cantwell came here to rebuild his career----somewhere else.

[47er]

Here's a new thought----in his recent matches Guaye has improved and Ohashi will soon be back-----so we don't need another striker! 😭

[RevidgeBlue]

2 hours ago, OnionBalaji said:

Travis interview with the LET setting the groundwork for underwhelming window / possibly no additions

 

“I was speaking to the gaffer, even if nobody comes in, we've got enough. I believe we've got enough in the dressing room to finish in that top six, so it doesn't really matter to us, to be honest.”

Lol.

Yeah I'm sure that was EXACTLY how the conversation between them went and not:

"What an absolute fucking shit show gaffer. I'm off at the earliest opportunity."

"Can't say I blame you Trav. Me too, me too."

[DavidMailsTightPerm]

26 minutes ago, 47er said:

Everything the Club does is logical to you. Plymouth cast-off --how low can we sink before you wake up?

 

Don't think Sanderson ever played for Plymouth.

[Lancaster Rover]

Gueye has certainly improved in his work off the ball and build up play, his ability to hit the target and/or test goalkeepers is sadly not improving

 

Edited Friday at 11:15 by Lancaster Rover

[wilsdenrover]

Tick tock 

[KentExile]

Jackson so confident of Rovers doing next to no transfer business that he has gone off on a jolly until the QPR game next week

 

[TheRevAshton]

2 minutes ago, KentExile said:

Jackson so confident of Rovers doing next to no transfer business that he has gone off on a jolly until the QPR game next week

 

Correct me if i'm wrong, but hasn't Jackson done something like this towards the end of every transfer window over the last couple of years? 😅

Edited Friday at 11:24 by TheRevAshton

[Tugayisgod]

2 minutes ago, TheRevAshton said:

Correct me if i'm wrong, but hasn't Jackson done something like this towards the end of every transfer window over the last couple of years? 😅

No loss, not like he's first with any transfer news

[rigger]

27 minutes ago, 47er said:

Here's a new thought----in his recent matches Guaye has improved and Ohashi will soon be back-----so we don't need another striker! 😭

Same as the keeper situation, that's gone away.

[RoversClitheroe]

Apparently after a striker and midfielder still.

O'Brien who can play LB and CM.

Then assume the Egyptian being the ST?

[Torgeir]

7 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Apparently after a striker and midfielder still.

O'Brien who can play LB and CM.

Then assume the Egyptian being the ST?

Name your sauce

[TommyRovers]

I don’t think I could handle another deadline day O’Brien scramble

[Hasta]

If we sign Kargbo, it will be telling how long before he is getting serious minutes.

We are desperate for quality. Eustace has said that all along.

If he's on the bench and featuring for 20 minutes here and there, it's clear all we will have done is bought another limited squad player. He's obviously not the quality we have been crying out for.

If he is in the starting XI in one of the first couple of games available, and stay there, then Eustace clearly thinks he will be an improvement.

From what I've seen, read and his stats I'm heavily leaning towards being the former. Had we got the Egyptian lad who was unrealistically linked yesterday it would have been the latter.

 

 

Edited Friday at 11:43 by Hasta

[roverandout]

5 minutes ago, Torgeir said:

Name your sauce

Ketchup