Don't worry if Waggot can convince someone to take Eustace in January, he can blame the lack of transfer activity on trying to find his replacement 😇

Whittaker hadn't scored or assisted in 12 consecutive games... Cue Rovers to break that duck

Agreed there were both great, completely different type of player. One could score a goal and had a decent pass on him the other worked his arse off and turns out he could score a goal too 👍. Don't think Dack will ever be back in the Championship though, shadow of his former self and honestly think he is in the end stages of football and this is his last throw of the dice to see if he can even do it anymore.

A few on here said we overpaid and they preferred Dack to be fair...

Look at his hair though... So much longer & full than Sammie's, that's gotta be woth £5m alone right? 😆

Nah suits Waggott & Venkys, that way the money stays where it is paying the bills so they don't have too

Not going to be able to afford him... he has played in Champions League and played in a Top League in Scotland, that adds £5m+ to the transfer fee if some are to be believed on here 😂

Oh don't worry we sell them on the cheap also... see Adam Wharton 😏

Ok quite simple... He went to the Premier League which pays higher fees on avaerage the Eredivisie. He had 3 years left on his contract. 2 years worth of Inflation and increased money in the English Leagues. Szmodics has more letters in his name so increased revenue on club shop shirts name sales 😉 £15m guaranteed money player in 2024, no other championship club would have sanctioned a £9m sale of that i'm sure.

so around the 30% increase in line with inflation and let's also factor in Akpom was also in the last year of his contract... yeah £9m sounds really good for us doesn't it?

8 years ago... ever heard of inflation?

Like I said most are nearly a decade ago, Pope is a goalkeeper who naturally are the lowest value area of the pitch, even at the highest level. A 29 year old top Championship scorer named in the Team of the Season for the Championship is worth more in 2024 than 2015 thats just basic economics. His age is meaningless Ipswich gave him a 4 year deal, spread the £9m over the 4 years and you are saying his value to us is £2.25 a season (which is infact less as we have to pay Peterborough a cut too) Would you have loaned him out for £2m this season? The fee once again deemed acceptable by the board is piss poor.

Most of those are pushing a decade ago... the only one of recent times in there is Akpom, and he was in last year of contract so again proves the point we had our pants pulled down over the fee. It should have been £12m with another £3m in add-ons, that I would say is a fair enough deal. As it is our directors have shafted us once again

Or if he shows he is worth the initial outlay he could sit out his contract and leave on a free à la Brereton. Now if Idah signs a 10 year contract then your point will hold more weight than if he signs for under 5 years...

Personally believe that the theory behind parachute payments is a good one, keep the club stable while they readjust to new lower income after relegation, but when they are spending this kind of money on players the money is clearly not needed for the intended purpose and they should forfeit the money and it should get spread across the rest of the Football League. Let the pee with the willy they got like the rest of us

depends, if we are the only ones interested we could get him for a bag of expired peanut M&M's 😂

If my Dad was my brother i'd be a Burnley fan... It's all conjecture from your side. The fact is it's a sellers market, simple as that, Rovers set his value nobody else

No it's not, it's debt. Until they write it off it's money owed by the club to another party. All they are losing out is interest on the money that would otherwise be sat in a bank

Taking £30+ million from player sales while reinvesting minimal amounts and using it to cover the running costs of the club (that they are responsible for, btw) is pocketing the cash as they don't cover it themselves. That £30m should be coming from them, are they raking in millions in cash from the club via sales to spend in India? No but has anyone said they are? They essentially get all the benefits of owning an English Football Club, while spending nothing for the privilage and running us into the ground as a consequence.

The debt is as high as it is because of the owners! The owners don't get a free pass from me because they have spunked millions up a wall with unnecessary expenditure putting the future of the club at stake. They are the cause and the solution but they are not covering the costs they have incurred thus they are pocketing the cash to cover themselves

Agreed. I don't care who it is, nobody should be left out of a squad or training no matter what. However we do it every single time.

Sorry but Sammie signed his contract. Someone wants to buy it out either Sammie should have had it put in his contract before signing it or they pay the requested amount by Rovers. Sammie himself could put in a transfer request to forgo his % to help the deal along but he wont do that... why is it always on the club to compromise?

As is their prerogative, until the money is transfered both sides have the ability to pull out or change the terms. If this is the case then Ipswich clearly don't want Szmodics as much as Rovers... Move them on and get on with the show, they know the updated terms if they want him

"We" don't need to sell him at all. "We" have a player under a long term contract with value, you know the one time they should be sticking to thier guns value wise. Fact is Szmodics under last seasons form is worth more to us than £9m that "WE" will never see again. The amount of people on here wanting to let our star player leave for under market value is quite shocking... especially after the Wharton situation in January

Agreed, however the way they have pulled him from all pre season action is not something they should ever do... But we do it with every sodding transfer out... even League Games which is something that needs to be nipped in the bud and stopped immediately