January Transfer window

[neophox]

Sigurdsson a player who is a rover and not an loan...feeling bad leave him out...the loan players must be re.ady then...surely Sigurdsson will Excell at another club ..a bit strange this.

[bluebruce]

1 hour ago, Trinidad Rover said:

There is no chance Siggy offers less from a footballing perspective than every player on that list.

There's every chance if he's never fit.

[RevidgeBlue]

4 hours ago, unleaded said:

It’s easier to manage that if a coach leaves then players are still their for the next manager to work with .. Imagine every coach having his favourites or his types the turn over of players would be too much …Some choices are just too hard to move on cause the length of their contracts  JDT would have his choices clogging up the squad for Eustace ie He didn’t rate Travis luckily the club held on to him … Coach has his say but not Fully..If they take on the job am sure they do their homework on what the current squad is before applying for it …

To be fair that might be a problem at any normal Club but is becoming less and less of a problem here with more and more players on loans or short term deals and less and less players tied down for any significant length of time.

[neophox]

4 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

There's every chance if he's never fit.

Siggys got an better scoring record than Gueye...it's another cost cutting shame hes only 25 years old....another wasted talent 

[neophox]

And better than Hedges

[bluebruce]

5 minutes ago, neophox said:

Siggys got an better scoring record than Gueye...it's another cost cutting shame hes only 25 years old....another wasted talent 

Whilst the cost cutting here is a joke, shifting out our highest paid contracted player when he hasn't played pretty much all season and is still out, and is far from our most effective player when he is fit, makes perfect sense for most clubs. Especially when there's a spot needs freeing up.

Edited yesterday at 16:38 by bluebruce

[Polky]

For those that care…

[bluebruce]

11 minutes ago, Polky said:

For those that care…

Not taken it well then. Hopefully we can get a deal done for him to leave, don't want him stinking the place up.

Personally I think the squad registration rules are a load of old bollocks, but it is what it is and he probably wasn't gonna feature in more than a smattering of games. I'm curious if the rumour earlier in the season about him refusing to play in the u21s is true. If so he only has himself to blame really.

[cesus]

50 minutes ago, Polky said:

For those that care…

In terms of playing, it's the end of his career at Rovers so the chapter is over. A few weeks of posturing over money then he goes elsewhere with a pay off most likely.

[Waggy76]

1 hour ago, neophox said:

Sigurdsson a player who is a rover and not an loan...feeling bad leave him out...the loan players must be re.ady then...surely Sigurdsson will Excell at another club ..a bit strange this.

He won't in England, no appetite for the physical side of the game, a very lazy player who probably has an inflated  opinion of his talents... 

The guy had talent but his attitude here stunk the place out! 

Good riddance! 

[J*B]

Smells to me like Eustace was only allowed a striker if Sigurdsson’s high wages where coming off the books. 

[islander200]

31 minutes ago, J*B said:

Smells to me like Eustace was only allowed a striker if Sigurdsson’s high wages where coming off the books. 

But they haven't come off the books?

Even if gets a move now before summer he won't be getting a deal like he got here, so we will most likely have to pay him off to facilitate a move, otherwise he will just continue to pick his wage up here and wait until the summer 

[J*B]

14 minutes ago, islander200 said:

But they haven't come off the books?

Even if gets a move now before summer he won't be getting a deal like he got here, so we will most likely have to pay him off to facilitate a move, otherwise he will just continue to pick his wage up here and wait until the summer 

He’ll get sold to a country whose window is still open you’d suspect. MLS, Sweden…

[DeeCee]

7 hours ago, KentExile said:

Fleck Had a fit and was taken to hospital after being named on the bench last night

Surely we knew that and still signed captain crock? 🤔

[DeeCee]

Posted this ages ago but I'm still waiting to see what Siggy can do.

[Bohinen1983]

Too slow .. Perhaps would have been better playing centrally...   

[Bohinen1983]

1 hour ago, Waggy76 said:

He won't in England, no appetite for the physical side of the game, a very lazy player who probably has an inflated  opinion of his talents... 

The guy had talent but his attitude here stunk the place out! 

Good riddance! 

He didn't strike me as having an attitude. Rather, he was a wide man without pace, that could finish..  I think Siggy would have been better off playing centrally in a midfield three roaming a little bit..  

[joey_big_nose]

1 hour ago, Bohinen1983 said:

He didn't strike me as having an attitude. Rather, he was a wide man without pace, that could finish..  I think Siggy would have been better off playing centrally in a midfield three roaming a little bit..  

Yeah, Szmodics had his role last season and Cantwell this season.

Mind you Cantwell has been so poor maybe if Sigurdsson was fit he could have challenged him... But hes been crocked.

Not surprised we've left him out. He just hasn't played nor looks like he could be relied to in future.

[Andy]

6 hours ago, Polky said:

Just done some quick sums…

Sigurdsson’s stats in all competitions:

Appearances - 41

Starts - 22 (53.65% of games available)

Minutes played - 2023 (49.34 minutes on average)

Goals - 8 (goal every 5.1 games)

Assists - 5 (assist every 8.2 games) 

That's definitely preferable to Hedges and probably holds up against Dolan, Cantwell, Weimann, ACD.

Keeping him fit is the main issue.

But hopefully a move can be sorted out, so he's not sat around picking up a wage for doing the square root of bugger all.

[J*B]

31 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

Yeah, Szmodics had his role last season and Cantwell this season.

Mind you Cantwell has been so poor maybe if Sigurdsson was fit he could have challenged him... But hes been crocked.

Not surprised we've left him out. He just hasn't played nor looks like he could be relied to in future.

I’m not sure I buy into this Cantwell has been poor theory. He’s a playmaker, but he’s playing with Dolan, Hedges and Gueye. A playmaker relies on having options to play off. 

[neophox]

What type of injury occured to Siggys? Is he really injured?

[davulsukur]

2 hours ago, J*B said:

He’ll get sold to a country whose window is still open you’d suspect. MLS, Sweden…

I imagine we'll be giving him away.

Gestede will be hawking him around on a free to anyone and everyone just to free up the wages.

[chaddyrovers]

9 hours ago, den said:

The days when the manager told the club which player he wanted seem to be gone, at Ewood at least. It appears that he has no input at all and it’s left to others to go find players who might fit his requirements. Is it exactly like that at all the other clubs. Does the manager not get included in the player search at all. Does Guardiola just sit back and wait for his players to turn up? I doubt it but that seems to be what happens here.

If it’s the case that rovers managers have no, or virtually no input into player recruitment then either the system is failing or Gestede and his team is failing. If players are regularly turning up who are nowhere near what the manager requires or are simply below the standard needed, then someone has to take responsibility for this. 
 

Of course that must be Waggott. He’s running the show.

That cos Football cubs don't have managers any more, they have director of football with head coach in charge of coaching the players, tactics and winning games with head coach having an input into signings, whilst the club with the director of football and head of scouting find the players the head coach wants. 

who says that the signings of Sanderson, Ribeiro, Dennis, Karbgo and Woodrow aren't of the required standard for Eustace? 

Klopp didn't wanted to sign Salah but instead he wanted Brandt instead but Klopp was convinced by his scouting staff Salah was the one and Klopp trusted his scouting staff and they signed Salah. 

[chaddyrovers]

20 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Its the sort of window you expect when again the owners have refused to reinvest any of the considerable sales proceeds.

Loads of desperate temporary bodies at the end of the window when their parent clubs had little choice but to accept minimal wage contributions. They are only available for 15 games and will eat into that getting up to speed.

Dennis is understandably the most eye catching but its easy to lose focus of the fact that since a decent season 3 seasons ago, hes done nothing since. He has scored 6 goals in that time. There are also question marks about his attitude and he certainly isnt the ruthless goalscorer that the manager wanted.

Expectations drop as the window goes on to the point where we start to expect no one at all. So when you bring 2 strikers on deadline day, regardless of any likely impact, people get excited.

Its all down to the owners. Could £1m and probably not that much in combined wages have been spent more efficiently? Perhaps, but we needed so many positions simultaneously and we havent adequately filled them all, notably in midfield. 

I would suggest that the players that Eustace is most keen to get into the 11 arent any of the new signings, its the likes of Tronstad, Carter and Ohashi who will all be rusty themselves.

where are these question marks over Dennis's attitude coming from? 

We needed a left back cos Pickering is injured and Beck is looking tired and shattered every game, so do we not sign a left back in this window? 

And Can I asked how many signings you would have made and which positions they were? 

[Penwortham Blue]

3 hours ago, J*B said:

He’ll get sold to a country whose window is still open you’d suspect. MLS, Sweden…

Unless Rovers pay him up, in full, why would he go as there is nothing in it for him 🤷‍♂️