Recruitment Team / Scouting

[Nic81]

So the players out of contract / going back to their parents clubs in 2025 are:

Sanderson / Beck / Cozier-Duberry / Dennis / Woodrow 

Hyam  / Batth / Ribeiro / Forshaw / Weimann / Dolan / Hedges 

We then have in 2026:

Brittain, Travis, Tronstad

2027:

Pears, Toth, Wharton, Carter, Pickering, JRC, Buckley, Cantwell, Gueye, Ohashi, Leonard and Kargbo 

We would have Garrett (2027), O'Riordan (2028) and Duru (2026) back.

I would;

Renew; Hyam, Batth, Ribeiro, Weimann and Dolan (and Brittain, Travis and Tronstad). Not renewing Forshaw or Hedges.

Who of the promising youngsters may make the step-up next season? 

I am not even considering what positions we may buy and sell in, until the expiring contracts are considered! Of the ones listed above, if we don't renew, we will have:

Pears and Toth

Duru, Brittain, Carter, Wharton, O'Riordan, Pickering

Travis, Tronstad, Buckley, Garrett, Kargbo, Cantwell, JRC

Leonard, Ohashi, Gueye

 

[islander200]

1 hour ago, Nic81 said:

So the players out of contract / going back to their parents clubs in 2025 are:

Sanderson / Beck / Cozier-Duberry / Dennis / Woodrow 

Hyam  / Batth / Ribeiro / Forshaw / Weimann / Dolan / Hedges 

We then have in 2026:

Brittain, Travis, Tronstad

2027:

Pears, Toth, Wharton, Carter, Pickering, JRC, Buckley, Cantwell, Gueye, Ohashi, Leonard and Kargbo 

We would have Garrett (2027), O'Riordan (2028) and Duru (2026) back.

I would;

Renew; Hyam, Batth, Ribeiro, Weimann and Dolan (and Brittain, Travis and Tronstad). Not renewing Forshaw or Hedges.

Who of the promising youngsters may make the step-up next season? 

I am not even considering what positions we may buy and sell in, until the expiring contracts are considered! Of the ones listed above, if we don't renew, we will have:

Pears and Toth

Duru, Brittain, Carter, Wharton, O'Riordan, Pickering

Travis, Tronstad, Buckley, Garrett, Kargbo, Cantwell, JRC

Leonard, Ohashi, Gueye

 

We have a year's option on Hyam and Hedges

Presume both will be activated 

[Nic81]

3 hours ago, islander200 said:

We have a year's option on Hyam and Hedges

Presume both will be activated 

Ah thank you 

[bluebruce]

6 hours ago, islander200 said:

We have a year's option on Hyam and Hedges

Presume both will be activated 

I'd like to release Hedges, but in all honesty with the amount of players we will lose this summer, and the puny budget we will have to replace them, there probably isn't much point. The less extra work we need to do in that window, given we also work at a glacial pace, the better.

You have to hope we are already in talks about extending Ribeiro, but probably not. The Hyam extension will obviously be triggered. Dolan and Batth should be given new deals, unless Batth's injury looks serious. I'd probably give Weimann one more year.

[AspRover]

All on the 98% chance we are still in this league next season.

Hedges is a utility player, assuming his wages are on the lower end of our structure he covers about four positions off the bench. If we manage the rest of our business he doesn't make the starting 11 with any regularity. It's not the end of the world if we keep him, it's one less player we have to sign in a summer window where we will need to sign a lot of players.

Batth's legs will go at some point, but he hasn't looked it this season. Hard to say no if he'll take a 1 year extension, again ideally he ends up as cover with Wharton and Carter coming back in.

Ribeiro looks a definite pick up if we can afford him. My fear is that we'll have competition. If Liverpool view Beck as one for the future we might have a chance of loaning him for another year - if they choose to cash in on him we can't afford him, in which case keeping Ribeiro looks even more of a priority.

I think there will be interest in Dolan and that probably takes the matter out of our hands - I think he'll choose to leave and whilst I would keep him I don't want us to get into a bidding war and end up with him as our highest earner.

Weimann is handy in as much as he knows where the goal is, but I do think he is noticeably slowing down at this point. Forshaw is surely out.

[islander200]

Are the club going to have another Nyambe, Lenihen ,Rothwell moment.Back then during the Mowbray era we didn't really sell players like Arma and Raya were the only 2 we really sold from the first team 

But now we need transfer income to pay the milkman 

Both Travis and Brittain will have interest in the summer and I think they will be cashing in on them .Tronstad and Hyam same ,the will activate the option on Hyam and sell him like they did Gallagher 

If we don't go up this season then next season we will have a squad made up of Academy, loans and 1 year deal coming to the end of the careers players 

[KentExile]

Not sure if this has been mentioned but we have a new "Senior Scout"

I am not sure if this is the much awaited "Chief Scout" to replace Park under a new title, or not

Normally you would look at someone who spent 7 years working for Man Utd as being a positive, but looking at their recent transfer business, I am not sure that is the case anymore

Either way, I look forwards to seeing him leave for better things in late May

 

Edited March 9 by KentExile

[chaddyrovers]

23 minutes ago, KentExile said:

I am not sure if this is the much awaited "Chief Scout" to replace Park under a new title, or not

Normally you would look at someone who spent 7 years working for Man Utd as being a positive, but looking at their recent transfer business, I am not sure that is the case anymore

his role is Football data and video scouting. Player analysis. Live scouting across the United Kingdom and Europe., so I would suggest this is 1st team scout whilst we appoint a 'Chief Scout"

[KentExile]

35 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

his role is Football data and video scouting. Player analysis. Live scouting across the United Kingdom and Europe., so I would suggest this is 1st team scout whilst we appoint a 'Chief Scout"

Never easy to tell with Rovers, if rumours were true of a power struggle between Park & either Gestede &/or Owen when he was Head of Recruitment, it may make some sense to employ someone with less seniority (Senior scout rather than a "head of" or "chief of" etc").

I may be putting 2 + 2 together to get 5 here, but also interesting to note that both Owen and Sadowski have worked in the past for Lech Poznan in Poland, albeit at different times

[chaddyrovers]

14 minutes ago, KentExile said:

Never easy to tell with Rovers, if rumours were true of a power struggle between Park & either Gestede &/or Owen when he was Head of Recruitment, it may make some sense to employ someone with less seniority (Senior scout rather than a "head of" or "chief of" etc").

I may be putting 2 + 2 together to get 5 here, but also interesting to note that both Owen and Sadowski have worked in the past for Lech Poznan in Poland, albeit at different times

Didn't Unleaded say that Park left cos of Eustace and not Gestede/Owen

[simongarnerisgod]

aparently we are skint or won`t spend any money,so it`s pointless appointing a scout unless he knows the lower leagues,as our new scout came from man utd i doubt he even knows there is a league one and two,as always,if he is good at his job and has contacts,he won`t last long here,parke did`nt take long to depart and he certainly knew his onions

[KentExile]

35 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

aparently we are skint or won`t spend any money,so it`s pointless appointing a scout unless he knows the lower leagues,as our new scout came from man utd i doubt he even knows there is a league one and two,as always,if he is good at his job and has contacts,he won`t last long here,parke did`nt take long to depart and he certainly knew his onions

He might know the Polish lower leagues 😉 

Edited March 9 by KentExile

[lraC]

9 minutes ago, KentExile said:

He might know the Polish lower leagues 😉 

He might need to polish a few from the lower leagues 

[islander200]

On 19/02/2025 at 14:52, Nic81 said:

So the players out of contract / going back to their parents clubs in 2025 are:

Sanderson / Beck / Cozier-Duberry / Dennis / Woodrow 

Hyam  / Batth / Ribeiro / Forshaw / Weimann / Dolan / Hedges 

We then have in 2026:

Brittain, Travis, Tronstad

2027:

Pears, Toth, Wharton, Carter, Pickering, JRC, Buckley, Cantwell, Gueye, Ohashi, Leonard and Kargbo 

We would have Garrett (2027), O'Riordan (2028) and Duru (2026) back.

I would;

Renew; Hyam, Batth, Ribeiro, Weimann and Dolan (and Brittain, Travis and Tronstad). Not renewing Forshaw or Hedges.

Who of the promising youngsters may make the step-up next season? 

I am not even considering what positions we may buy and sell in, until the expiring contracts are considered! Of the ones listed above, if we don't renew, we will have:

Pears and Toth

Duru, Brittain, Carter, Wharton, O'Riordan, Pickering

Travis, Tronstad, Buckley, Garrett, Kargbo, Cantwell, JRC

Leonard, Ohashi, Gueye

 

They will do what they did last summer bring in older players on 1 year deals  use our loans and sign 1 or 2 for an initial fee not exceeding £1 million.

It's going to be interesting what they do with Brittain, Travis, Tronstad and Hyam(we have a year's option which we will activate)

4 players who would have interest from other clubs that the club can get a fee for.

Let's be realistic they ain't signing new contracts here ,the club will have left them get into their final year if we don't sell them in the summer it will be Rothwell,  Nyambe, Lenihen and Brereton all over again.

If they decide to sell them the money will dissappear 

[martonrover]

6 hours ago, lraC said:

He might need to polish a few from the lower leagues 

He might need to polish a few turds 😉

[simongarnerisgod]

25 minutes ago, islander200 said:

They will do what they did last summer bring in older players on 1 year deals  use our loans and sign 1 or 2 for an initial fee not exceeding £1 million.

It's going to be interesting what they do with Brittain, Travis, Tronstad and Hyam(we have a year's option which we will activate)

4 players who would have interest from other clubs that the club can get a fee for.

Let's be realistic they ain't signing new contracts here ,the club will have left them get into their final year if we don't sell them in the summer it will be Rothwell,  Nyambe, Lenihen and Brereton all over again.

If they decide to sell them the money will dissappear 

i agree,we be f*****d next season,i can`t understand why some fans think eustace was out of order for leaving,the clue is leaving a club in the top six for one in the bottom three,he could see the mess we`ll be in come august

[chaddyrovers]

@unleaded, have you heard anything about a new head of scouting being appointing? 

what your view on the appointment of Piotr Sadowski as senior scout at Rovers? is this the new head of scouting or we still looking to appoint one? 

[TugaysMarlboro]

3 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

@unleaded, have you heard anything about a new head of scouting being appointing? 

what your view on the appointment of Piotr Sadowski as senior scout at Rovers? is this the new head of scouting or we still looking to appoint one? 

Didn't you answer this question yourself on Sunday in this exact thread or was that an assumption on your part?

[roversfan99]

Makes no difference who we appoint in recruitment. Theyll spend a window or two of cobbling together half a team on frees and loans and then move on.

[chaddyrovers]

2 hours ago, TugaysMarlboro said:

Didn't you answer this question yourself on Sunday in this exact thread or was that an assumption on your part?

Unleaded has good contacts on the recruitment side of Rovers, hence why I have asked him

[roversfan99]

[DE.]

Funny how it was less than a month ago that the recruitment team and players were being eulogised, yet here we are now with the same old pattern repeating. It's been quite the rapid downfall.

[Bohinen1983]

I don't think the recruitment has been that bad- relative to our budget..  Gueye looks a real player now.. 

[Hasta]

1 hour ago, Bohinen1983 said:

I don't think the recruitment has been that bad- relative to our budget..  Gueye looks a real player now.. 

You have to remember we had different personnel in the summer and now in the scouting side. From January, how can Forshaw, Woodrow, Sanderson, Dennis and Karbo look anything other than poor.

You are right that the budget is zilch, but I’d rather they had brought in 3 loans of better quality than those 5.

[davulsukur]

18 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

Yeah, that's pretty damned poor. Considering we needed to replace the leading goal scorer in the league last season, who kept us up almost single handedly, you'd think we'd have recruited better. 

Difficult task but it shows exactly why you need to reinvest a good chunk of the transfer money received and not just 10% (at best)