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The Baradji story is also credited elsewhere isn't it? (transferfeedcom)

we can sign him in a year or 2 when we get there then

report of yesterdays mullering https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2026/january/13/report--rovers-under-18s-1-6-blackpool-under-18s/

Its an old story from a month ago (the date is on the twitter post), to support the post I replied to that stated "But a story saying that we are "preparing" to sign a player for a pre agreed fee is a non story" The TGH permanent deal was obviously also a non story But for the record, Id not sign him either, I personally would have sent him back if the option was there

Surely not? 😉

over to you RoversXtra

Liam Feeney mk2 Very little end product at this level, is now 30 years old

I would class Kahn & Barrett as superfluous, neither should have been given new contracts Goddard & Honor are injured Each scholarship year group tend to have one or 2, Wolsoncroft & Thompson were last season, Holt came through in this years group. Next year will probably be Krajewski & Garside. That's not an issue at U18 level, but they do seem to be frightened of cutting them loose at U21 level, maybe in part as keepers tend to develop later than outfield players

At a normal club which had given him a contract extension on what he was worth and had him tied down for 3+ years, maybe somewhere in the £4M- £5M range Probably not in the summer with a year left on his contract and a known distressed seller, we are probably looking at circa £3M (similar level to what they managed for Brittain, Travis etc)

agreed, he is terrible

All of those, and a few more Honor in the U21s Wolsoncroft, Thompson, Holt in the U18s O'Leary is 29, he isn't being brought in as an academy player, most of those will be leaving within a year or 3 without making a dent in our first team

A few years ago he was being looked at by Bayern as a second/third choice if I recall

Toth will be sold by the summer They have already tried to shunt Pears out of the door, they may succeed in the near future. He hasn't been disastrous for us this season, so he may have done enough to earn himself an escape That would leave us with an 18 year old Michalski., so a cheap/free player would probably suit Rudy/Pasha perfectly From what I have seen, O'Leary is inferior to Toth, & a similar standard to Pears. On the bright side, he is better than Ethan Horvath, who I hypothesised earlier, that he may be on the shopping list

Pretty sure nobody is back at the moment There were training pictures of a few, but from memory Morishita Litherland, Gudjohnsen & Forshaw will be back in the team by the end of January, Carter, Wharton & Kargbo will be February, Tavares is further away, Montgomery is unknown, & Hedges may be the season. Alebiosu is away until next week

The scary part s I am pretty sure his replacement is in the building Pears for next season, and then when he leaves in the summer of 2027, Michalski will still have 2 years left + an option until 2030 If they manage to offload Pears earlier for a fee (I don't think they will get an offer high enough for them to think it is worth selling, so he will stay like Hedges has done this season) then we will probably get an Ethan Horvath esc journeyman to sit on the bench and promote Michalski a year earlier Edit - for clarity - I am of the opinion that Pears is a more than capable second choice at this level