January Transfer window

[martonrover]

1 hour ago, den said:

I was just going to post the same Arbitro.

There really isn’t any excuse. The manager has been saying for months that he needs “quality” bringing into the squad. It’s undeniable that we do. Waggott tells us there’s money available. To be scrapping around in the last hour of the transfer window having waited again to see if anyone’s available on loan from the big clubs would be just inexcusable but I wouldn’t bet against it. I doubt Eustace would tolerate that.

I know it's not easy, but how badly we could've done with a quality attacking player being signed in time to play today.

What unfolded was entirely predictable.

[Waggy76]

1 hour ago, G Somerset Rover said:

Waggott is probably delighted that we’ve slipped out of the play-offs. All being well for him and the owners we’ll be further out of the race by the end of the month so shoulders can just be shrugged, ‘we were only mid-table when the window ended anyway’.

Very true ..Won't get relegated , Waggotts attitude will be don't need any new players then..

[sharpysharps86]

Never has it been clearer what Rovers need to do in this transfer window than it was today. Absolutely shocking offensively.

Gueye has his critics and rightly so, but the man was absolutely starved of any service, and the one time he did get service it was from an offside Cantwell. Some players who can actually create chances are just as important as someone who can score them it seems at this moment in time.

[den]

38 minutes ago, martonrover said:

I know it's not easy, but how badly we could've done with a quality attacking player being signed in time to play today.

What unfolded was entirely predictable.

There was nothing between the two sides today. Both teams defended excellently but Burnley just had that one goal in them. We didn’t.

[roversfan99]

Even when players get down the sides, Gueye has no intelligence and no desire to get into goalscoring positions.

We badly need a striker and a winger as a minimum, plus defensive cover. I wouldnt hold your breath under these owners, certainly no one of much use.

[Tom]

He had a tap in today had Cantwell done the basics of staying onside 

[sharpysharps86]

14 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Even when players get down the sides, Gueye has no intelligence and no desire to get into goalscoring positions.

We badly need a striker and a winger as a minimum, plus defensive cover. I wouldnt hold your breath under these owners, certainly no one of much use.

Do any of Rovers attacking players have the hunger to get on the end of chances to make them top players? I'm not so sure they do.

We probably will get a striker and a winger, but it'll likely be young loans from the likes of Fulham, Bournemouth and Brighton, and they probably won't improve the first team whatsoever.

[Tom]

For me Gueye is a sub, a battering ram to bring on against weary defenders, problem is where does the talisman come from?

I can’t see us even being linked with anyone to fit the bill 

[roversfan99]

It would say a lot if we cant find a striker to score more than 1 goal in half a season. 

The thing with Ohashi is that even though he has offered so little goal threat since an early burst of goals that at least makes his tally semi respectable. The team looks so much more fluid with him in it. Rather than a big cumbersome lump who couldnt hit a cows arse with a banjo.

[aletheia]

6 minutes ago, Tom said:

For me Gueye is a sub, a battering ram to bring on against weary defenders

Agreed. But then who do you start up top given Ohashi is injured? Leonard was unpickable really after the game against Leeds (evidenced by JE subbing him in short order after he had used him as a sub). Dolan and shift around elsewhere?

[RevidgeBlue]

1 minute ago, roversfan99 said:

Rather than a big cumbersome lump who couldnt hit a cows arse with a banjo.

He's at Stoke.

[roversfan99]

1 minute ago, RevidgeBlue said:

He's at Stoke.

He is a cumbersome lump replaced somehow by an even more cumbersome and far more goal shy lump.

[simongarnerisgod]

7 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

It would say a lot if we cant find a striker to score more than 1 goal in half a season. 

The thing with Ohashi is that even though he has offered so little goal threat since an early burst of goals that at least makes his tally semi respectable. The team looks so much more fluid with him in it. Rather than a big cumbersome lump who couldnt hit a cows arse with a banjo.

he`s a tidy footballer but he`s lightweight in the english game,better player than gueye all day long though,hence we look more dangerous with him in it

[Displaced Rover]

11 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

He is a cumbersome lump replaced somehow by an even more cumbersome and far more goal shy lump.

Gueye is crap but I’d still have him over Gallagher every day of the week. He’s 6ft 4 and can actually win headers for a start and hold the ball up.

[roversfan99]

Just now, Displaced Rover said:

Gueye is crap but I’d still have him over Gallagher every day of the week. He’s 6ft 4 and can actually win headers for a start and hold the ball up.

Its a grim choice and because of Gallagher's injury record its hypothetical.

Then again, if Gallagher is injured he cant play. Gueye usually is fit to play so at least if you pick Gallagher you likely have neither in your side.

If he is fit, he at least gets more than 1 goal every half season and a ball isnt quite as alien a concept.

[NeilInBristol]

1 minute ago, Displaced Rover said:

Gueye is crap but I’d still have him over Gallagher every day of the week. He’s 6ft 4 and can actually win headers for a start and hold the ball up.

Agreed..Big Sam was not as reliable in his latter Rovers years so I'm glad we replaced. Another season with him would have been frustrating. Big Gueye isnt having the best season but it's his first in the championship so he has a grace period but let's see. 

Any firm striker options available? 

[Tom]

He’s shown his worth recently thrown on against Sheff Wednesday and got the winner, thrown on against Leeds and set up the winner, it’s the chaos he causes from the bench. 
 

We’ve also seen the flip side in struggling to affect games as much when starting such as Hull, problem is Ohashi is out and Leonard is a poacher who doesn’t seem up to much outside of that.

Result is we need a main man in; and sharpish 

[chaddyrovers]

Nicko has a story tomorrow about a target we after. 

Its clear what we need a striker, left winger with pace and tricky and centre back/left back. Lets hope we can make our moves this next 10 days. Would be interesting to know who Eustace put forwards in terms of names. 

1 hour ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Latest Championship transfers.

thanks. No one I would have signed on that list that would improve us

[RevidgeBlue]

4 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

thanks. No one I would have signed on that list that would improve us

What a surprise!

Lol.

Keep the faith chaddy. Someone has to.

 

[chaddyrovers]

4 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

What a surprise!

Lol.

Keep the faith chaddy. Someone has to.

 

We need players who will improve us and make a difference. I see no one on that list who does. Do you? 

[alcd]

2 hours ago, G Somerset Rover said:

Waggott is probably delighted that we’ve slipped out of the play-offs. All being well for him and the owners we’ll be further out of the race by the end of the month so shoulders can just be shrugged, ‘we were only mid-table when the window ended anyway’.

Waggott will be disappointed that the objective of dropping to L1 to reduce the losses has been frustrated this season by Eustace's over-achievement. Losing valuable players out of contract is just further evidence that this is Venkys objective.

[Gamst]

If he’s not suitably supported this transfer window then Eustace will leave at the first reasonable opportunity and I wouldn’t blame him. His stock is high and it’s unlikely to drop much even if we plummet down the league as suitors are well aware of his pitiful budget. He and we deserve so much better and every transfer window I have a slither of hope that our owners will take notice and do their duty. For some reason I will no doubt be invested in the window and then be left exasperated. How can they top O’Brien and Dunc-gate? It is ever thus. 

[chaddyrovers]

If we want a striker with championship experience, I would moved for Nashville's striker Sam Surridge. Played for Swansea and Forest, Stoke and Bournemouth at this level. Scored 7 goals in 17 games for Forest in their promotion season

[Moptop1]

I’m sure the owners and their merry men will do something that will fuck us up.

They always seem to outdo themselves with each new thing they attempt.

And yet  we’re let to believe, they have been taken advantage of, yet the same question needs asking, what have they learned by the mistakes and how are they going to sort them?

Everything has always been on the owners. Yet, they never take responsibility for anything THEY’VE done./created.

[Moptop1]

2 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

If we want a striker with championship experience, I would moved for Nashville's striker Sam Surridge. Played for Swansea and Forest, Stoke and Bournemouth at this level. Scored 7 goals in 17 games for Forest in their promotion season

But we need someone who creatively for him to actually score. Don’t think whoever the forward we get, with the creativity in the side we won’t score.