January Transfer window

[BankEnd Rover]

Jackson's saying nothing imminent. What a sad sorry state of a club we are. 
 

 

[JHRover]

4 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Jackson's saying nothing imminent. What a sad sorry state of a club we are. 
 

 

We'd be better coming back here 3 weeks today as I reckon that's the absolute earliest we will have a confirmed senior signing.

[TheRevAshton]

Ideal Window
CB - Tyler Bindon (£500k)
CM - Lewis O'Brien (Loan)
RW - Kwame Poku (£2.5m)
LW - Ryan Kent (Free)
ST - Tom Cannon (£6m)

Realistic Window
CB - Grant Hanley (Free)
CM - No-one
RW - No-one
LW - Jeffrey Schlupp (Loan)
ST - Tom Bradshaw (£250k)

[RevidgeBlue]

26 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

If he's as good as everyone says he is you relegate Batth to the bench as cover (if you extend his contract) or you sell Hyam. 

If you stand still in this game you're dead. 

Fair enough.

Out of those options I'd sell Hyam. 

Just don't see us doing anything that bold.

[RevidgeBlue]

10 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Jackson's saying nothing imminent. What a sad sorry state of a club we are. 
 

 

It's like we get to January 3rd every year then start thinking about who we might bring in.

[RevidgeBlue]

26 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

I hope all of these links are just the Scouting team doing their due diligence and things being linked.

Absolutely nobody is getting excited for the likes of Hanley, Schlupp et al holding up a Rovers shirt in January.

Go buy that CB from Reading. Convince Kent that we can rejuvenate his career and go and loan a big, strong, fast CF from a Premier League team that we couldn't possibly afford. It's not rocket science. 

Hard pass on Kent for me but Quality striker and Quality winger permanently Schlupp and Hanley on loan and I think that'd be a very good window.

Expecting neither of the first 2 and maybe one of the second 2.

[wilsdenrover]

20 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

It's like we get to January 3rd every year then start thinking about who we might bring in.

As early as that?

[roversfan99]

28 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Fair enough.

Out of those options I'd sell Hyam. 

Just don't see us doing anything that bold.

Selling a centre back who has been outstanding this season in an area of no depth would be something else rather than bold.

[martonrover]

27 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

It's like we get to January 3rd every year then start thinking about who we might bring in.

Steve, Rudy and Adam will probably diary a meeting in for late January.

[MB Rover]

One I’d be after, Lankshear at Spurs.

[TheRevAshton]

Only 4 weeks of the window left and 4 key players injured... considering how long our lot take to wrap up deals they'd better get moving!

[RevidgeBlue]

9 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Selling a centre back who has been outstanding this season in an area of no depth would be something else rather than bold.

It was a suggestion from someone else only on the proviso the Reading lad comes in permanently.

Not happening In the first place I don't suppose.

[Exiled_Rover]

12 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Selling a centre back who has been outstanding this season in an area of no depth would be something else rather than bold.

I'm talking about making the decision in the summer - so the Kiwi would have 6 months to bed in / impress. 

[BlackburnEnd75]

2 hours ago, TheRevAshton said:

Saw that Villa are likely to recall Samuel Iling-Junior from his loan at Bologna since he isn't getting enough game time.

If we have any ambition, we should be looking to bring him in on loan for the rest of the season.

Would be one hell of a coup.

The lad isn't going to get a prem loan after his stint in seria A.

[davulsukur]

2 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

We did that with O Riordan and that went well. 

I can't see the problem with Hanley if it's a loan until the end of the season.

Until Carter gets back, who comes in if one of the 2 CB's get injured? I think with the benefit of hindsight extending Mcfadzean's deal was a poor decision.

Again, it all hinges on how well we do with the striker and winger positions. If we did well there then I'd be happy with Schlupp and Hanley on loan to bolster the squad.

I'm very skeptical whether we will do well with the 2 main positions but you see my point.

Good point about O'Riordan, can only assume we'll be looking to shift him.on in the summer.

I don't necessarily have a major issue with Hanley coming in for the remainder of the season but like Batth, Fadz and Weimann who all came in over the summer, it's short term thinking, again. 

If O'Riordan isn't good enough, we should still be bringing in some younger players, or promoting through the academy, for the longer term.

[chaddyrovers]

11 hours ago, Paul Mani said:

The board prepare everything in line with a standard directorship. But SW is only the CEO in name. EVERY decision goes past Suhail and this 100% explains some of those crazy scenarios.

The incident you’re talking about however was SW and Suhail pulling the plug on GB spending £5m on an MLS Striker as they had run out of confidence in the GB / JDT regime. JE was being lined up by SW, and his appt along with GB/JDT removal had been agreed with Suhail. The most notable U-turn is that, SW offered JE the £5m (From the American) to spend in the summer, if he took the job and kept us up. JE agreed, kept us up and then ‘the club’ (Suhail) decided against that spend in the summer and the manager subsequently offered his resignation on two occasions. All resolved in the end with a mid ground met, plus the Cantwell sweetener ar the end of the window.

Thanks for sharing your info and I trust your info. 

Eustace is in a strong position at the minute. Its does appears that Waggott and Suhail lost faith in GB and JDT quickly during the last 6 weeks of that reign and given what came out from certain players about JDT and fall out between them including Travis, Wharton and Brittain

10 hours ago, lraC said:

Interesting and given what has been said on here about Eustace taking no shit , it could be a battle of wits between  Suhail and Eustace in the next 3 weeks. 
Do you think Eustace will be brave enough to call him out(JDT style) in the press, if they start playing the games they have done, in the last 3 January windows, or will an admin error on deadline day be forgiven? 

Given the players we are being linked with and given Nicko's comments that its Eustace pushing these players he wanted. Looks like Rovers are backing him

4 hours ago, JHRover said:

Aha so the McGuire transfer breakdown might not have been an 'admin error' as claimed at the time but it seems now there is a story emerging that it was actually because the 'powers' had started or already lost faith in JDT / Broughton and refused to sanction it.

Who would have thought it?

I remember suggesting it was a deliberate refusal to sanction it and yet the Venkygraph and many supporters were out insisting that it was all because somebody forgot to press send, Ian Silvester was to blame and the evidence of that was his departure from the club.

All not as it seems perhaps.

Wasn't it a loan transfer that the admin error happened. Not the permanent transfer which the board withdraw Rovers from. I know GB and the recruitment team were keen on McGuire transfer but Waggott and Suhail appears from Paul Mani info keen on spending on that sort of money on him. 

3 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

I cant believe that all of that has just been taken as fact.

why shouldn't it and do you have any actual info to say the info @Paul Manihas shared is wrong? 

[Old Codger]

I see Chris McGuire is still stateside, despite having been touted as the next big thing for Rovers this time last year. If he was really all that great, surely there'd have been a queue of clubs clamouring for his signature in the wake of the Rovers debacle.  Just goes to show what a bunch of clowns we have behind the scenes at our once proud club.

Come on somebody, give us something to hang on to...

ANYTHING?

[chaddyrovers]

3 hours ago, CD_93 said:

Nixon reckons we want Hanley back

seems Eustace wants experience signings this week 

3 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

He backed the owners so he had the quite opposite reaction regarding Rothwell. At least now Mowbray has gone and like with Tomasson he went from agreeing with them to suddenly blaming them for many things.

I suspect he would back Eustace if the Dolan scenario happened. Until Eustace left when he would look back and decide to point the finger.

Hes linked us a few times to him I think in recent years and it didnt happen.

Rothwell and Dolan situation are different, given we will still received a fee for him even at the end of the season if he leaves, also factoring in Eustace wants Dolan to stay long term, Rothwell wanted out the last 2 years before he left the club. So your scenario was pointless in my opinion. 

2 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Its not about the individuals in question. Thats the main point.

You let the footballing people (manager and if you have one a director of football) make the decisions and the owners job is to provide the budget. They are better placed to make those decisions. If you dont trust them, get rid. If you do and their decisions are wrong, you get rid. 

The decision turned out to be the wrong one. It was compounded because if you go with the approach of keeping Rothwell, you provide reasonable funds without having to sell him. They didnt do that either. So we couldnt really strengthen, as we couldnt in the subsequent 2 winter windows, and each time our results dipped.

How did it turn out to be the wrong one? The board of the directors should be involved and have the right to veto if they don't believe it to be right for the club. I posted in the Championship thread how I would run the club around the transfers and the process involved. do you not agree with that or no? 

[chaddyrovers]

1 hour ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Jackson's saying nothing imminent. What a sad sorry state of a club we are. 

the window has been open for 6 days and barely anything has happened. Eustace and Gestede are on with transfers but we are talks with a couple of players from what we read from Nicko. 

19 minutes ago, MB Rover said:

One I’d be after, Lankshear at Spurs.

what would he bring to us if they sign here? Is he goalscorer? 

[cesus]

1 hour ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Jackson's saying nothing imminent. What a sad sorry state of a club we are. 
 

 

The owners phone is off the hook. Likely to be picked up in about 3 weeks for a few cheap loans. Said loans to play about 20 games between them, mostly off the bench.

I've seen this one before.

[Old Codger]

West Brom forums and local rags awash with Eustace for the Baggies stories... Hmmm....

[MB Rover]

Anyone know who this bloke is? Gone on a mini rant about what Rovers need over on Twitter and how he knows of multiple investors who’d buy the club at sensible prices but Venky’s want their £100m back in any deal to sell the club. 

[roversfan99]

15 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Thanks for sharing your info and I trust your info. 

Eustace is in a strong position at the minute. Its does appears that Waggott and Suhail lost faith in GB and JDT quickly during the last 6 weeks of that reign and given what came out from certain players about JDT and fall out between them including Travis, Wharton and Brittain

Given the players we are being linked with and given Nicko's comments that its Eustace pushing these players he wanted. Looks like Rovers are backing him

Wasn't it a loan transfer that the admin error happened. Not the permanent transfer which the board withdraw Rovers from. I know GB and the recruitment team were keen on McGuire transfer but Waggott and Suhail appears from Paul Mani info keen on spending on that sort of money on him. 

why shouldn't it and do you have any actual info to say the info @Paul Manihas shared is wrong? 

Eustace being backed would be the actual signing of players with a decent fee involved. Backing is not being linked to a couple of old players on loan by a journalist hack.

Again, the burden of proof isnt on me. But it reads like a load of all shit to me. Just like the owners never refuse to sign a cheque, teams are sniffing around £10m Buckley and Rothwell's dad telling people on a train that Mowbray had hatched a plan to get all of the players whose contracts were expiring to all wait and sign for his next club. Feel free to believe it.

Either way, point is that it is purely down to the owners as to how much money is made available. Thats the top and bottom of it.

4 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

seems Eustace wants experience signings this week 

Rothwell and Dolan situation are different, given we will still received a fee for him even at the end of the season if he leaves, also factoring in Eustace wants Dolan to stay long term, Rothwell wanted out the last 2 years before he left the club. So your scenario was pointless in my opinion. 

How did it turn out to be the wrong one? The board of the directors should be involved and have the right to veto if they don't believe it to be right for the club. I posted in the Championship thread how I would run the club around the transfers and the process involved. do you not agree with that or no? 

So compared to the Rothwell situation, we will actually get a fee for Dolan and he might want to stay more. Meaning that comparatively speaking, it made even less sense to keep Rothwell.

It turned out to be the wrong one because Rothwell couldnt be arsed with the rest of the season, left on a free and those players we could have had with the money we would have got never arrived. Self explanatory. And we ended up in the Championship.

What if Balaji Rao started telling Eustace to play certain players or that he wanted him to sign a specific player? Or that we are selling someone. Im guessing that would be ok if they felt it was right for the club. Nonsense. Give the football people the budget, let them make the footballing decisions. Simple as that. Dont need a long and laborious explanation.

[BankEnd Rover]

Just now, MB Rover said:

Anyone know who this bloke is? Gone on a mini rant about what Rovers need over on Twitter and how he knows of multiple investors who’d buy the club at sensible prices but Venky’s want their £100m back in any deal to sell the club. 

Interesting read, he's a rovers fan as well! 

[MB Rover]

5 minutes ago, Old Codger said:

West Brom forums and local rags awash with Eustace for the Baggies stories... Hmmm....

About to appoint Raphael Wicky