January Transfer window

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 hour ago, Ghost7 said:

Can we please take a moment to remember that someone at Rovers, whether it be chief scout or at board level identified, approved and signed John Fleck last January, who had an erroneous metal plate in his leg, managed 17 minutes of football and can't play a minute at League Two Chesterfield.

The whole club should be ashamed about that signing and needs to do better this time around... but my god is the bar set low....

That was a shocker. Somebody doing a favour for a mate there I suspect.

[Ghost7]

Even worse when you realise it was the Adam Wharton replacement.

Laughable.

[Penwortham Blue]

Very quiet on any transfer links. In truth, that’s not a bad thing and we do seem to manage to keep things under wraps now until the player is in the building and signed with the notable exceptions of O’Brien, Maguire and the young Rochdale lad.

[davulsukur]

 

Taken from an LT article. Be surprised if he stays but you never know.

[DeeCee]

2 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

 

Taken from an LT article. Be surprised if he stays but you never know.

Cheaper than scouting a replacement.

[philipl]

Swag is reported as saying he is keen to follow the Brentford model.

As a Championship side Brentford sold Watkins for 20m then bought Toney for 12m from Peterborough.

Go on then...

Oh and Brentford built a new stadium while they were about it.

[RevidgeBlue]

10 minutes ago, DeeCee said:

Cheaper than scouting a replacement.

That's a really bad sign imo.

How long before we hear the well worn phrase "Having him available is like signing a new player".

[Forever Blue]

6 minutes ago, philipl said:

Swag is reported as saying he is keen to follow the Brentford model.

As a Championship side Brentford sold Watkins for 20m then bought Toney for 12m from Peterborough.

Go on then...

Oh and Brentford built a new stadium while they were about it.

Who did he say that to?

[neophox]

For me Hedges, Dolan and Buckley should be sold. Dolan for his invillingness to sign a new deal as he thinks he's better than he is. We need to replace then with better players.

[simongarnerisgod]

14 minutes ago, philipl said:

Swag is reported as saying he is keen to follow the Brentford model.

As a Championship side Brentford sold Watkins for 20m then bought Toney for 12m from Peterborough.

Go on then...

Oh and Brentford built a new stadium while they were about it.

brentford scrapped their academy and went for the data model,it takes a settled and upwardly mobile team of scouts and analysts to do that,we don`t even have a head of recruitment let alone a team of analysts

swags talks shite,it`s never going to happen here

[RevidgeBlue]

2 minutes ago, neophox said:

Dolan for his invillingness to sign a new deal as he thinks he's better than he is. 

How do you know that? Do you know how much he's on now and do you know how much we're offering him to stay?

[neophox]

I'm sure we will see a Belgian,  French or Italian player coming in January due to Gestede contacts there ie Austus Kargbo from Cesena.

[RevidgeBlue]

Yes, noticed the quoted target in the FF minutes of having a Park replacement in " before the end of the year" had been and gone.

No rush, we can always get someone comfortably installed by the end of the first week in February or something.

"What - what's that you say?"

 

[neophox]

5 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

How do you know that? Do you know how much he's on now and do you know how much we're offering him to stay?

Well he should had signed a new contract by now... A bit like Brereton...

[RevidgeBlue]

5 minutes ago, neophox said:

Well he should had signed a new contract by now... A bit like Brereton...

It all depends on whether we're offering him something realistic.

Brereton, Lenihan, Rothwell and Nyambe obviously didn't think so.

[Forever Blue]

What happened to Nyambe?

[RevidgeBlue]

1 minute ago, Forever Blue said:

What happened to Nyambe?

At Derby I think.

[simongarnerisgod]

3 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

What happened to Nyambe?

out for the season with a mangled knee,should never have left imo

[neophox]

Hope the bastards back JE as hes on his way taking Rovers up..

[MB Rover]

14 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

It all depends on whether we're offering him something realistic.

Brereton, Lenihan, Rothwell and Nyambe obviously didn't think so.

All now still (or soon to be) back in the championship! Funny how it all works out isn’t it 😆

[RevidgeBlue]

15 minutes ago, MB Rover said:

All now still (or soon to be) back in the championship! Funny how it all works out isn’t it 😆

Probably all  on a lot more money than they were here. As they are professional footballers and not fans, I'm guessing they're all really sorry they left!

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

1 hour ago, RevidgeBlue said:

That's a really bad sign imo.

How long before we hear the well worn phrase "Having him available is like signing a new player".

That was my immediate thought.  No money, so don't let anyone go.  Been there before. 

[B16Rover]

Not sure how to quite convey what I mean here but Ronnie Edwards to QPR on loan feels like business we should be doing despite not really needing him at the back 

[K-Hod]

2 hours ago, philipl said:

Swag is reported as saying he is keen to follow the Brentford model.

As a Championship side Brentford sold Watkins for 20m then bought Toney for 12m from Peterborough.

Go on then...

Oh and Brentford built a new stadium while they were about it.

Yeah, but you’ve gotta buy players with the proceeds from player sales. 
We clearly don’t fancy that.

[RevidgeBlue]

1 minute ago, K-Hod said:

Yeah, but you’ve gotta buy players with the proceeds from player sales. 
We clearly don’t fancy that.

If we keep our noses above water he might have people beating a path to his door wanting to copy the Blackburn "How to survive despite selling all your best players whilst spending fuck all on replacements" model though.