KentExile

By the end of next summer, we will wish we had a first 11 of players as good as Dion De Neve 🙂 The downgrade is ongoing

not just fees, Brighton/Brentford etc also used money in to increase the wage budget

The Brighton model (when they were promoted from the Championship) involved spending more than they received, which can be done under FFP rules as fees spent are divided over the course of a contract where fees received are counted as 1 singular payment, even then, I seem to recall (correct me if I am wrong) that Brighton would have been in trouble for breaching rules had they not gone up, such was the extent of their overspend Rovers do the polar opposite Brentford, Coventry, Middlesbrough etc operate/operated closer to a player trading model, although all invest a much higher proportion of monies from player sales than Rovers

far from perfect, but basically yes, obviously this is based on estimated/guessed fees, and is only transfer fees, no other income/expenditure https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/championship/einnahmenausgaben/wettbewerb/GB2/plus/0?ids=a&sa=&saison_id=2010&saison_id_bis=2025&nat=&pos=&altersklasse=&w_s=&leihe=&intern=0 # Club Expenditure Arrivals Income Departures balance 1 Swansea City €308.57m 345 €394.08m 351 €85.51m 2 Blackburn Rovers €91.02m 376 €163.26m 388 €72.23m 3 Bristol City €101.47m 384 €146.88m 381 €45.42m 4 Peterborough United €26.28m 473 €67.42m 479 €41.14m 5 Wigan Athletic €76.89m 445 €111.09m 439 €34.20m 6 Watford FC €400.63m 467 €434.47m 466 €33.83m 7 Barnsley FC €26.90m 469 €55.87m 466 €28.97m 8 Milton Keynes Dons €4.04m 429 €21.43m 429 €17.39m 9 Blackpool FC €13.39m 508 €28.42m 514 €15.03m 10 Oxford United €5.92m 433 €19.48m 421 €13.56m 11 Portsmouth FC €16.60m 478 €29.25m 479 €12.65m 12 Charlton Athletic €29.80m 488 €42.26m 485 €12.46m 13 Reading FC €71.14m 398 €81.90m 400 €10.76m 14 Plymouth Argyle €11.11m 411 €20.29m 413 €9.18m 15 Rotherham United €6.38m 476 €13.75m 471 €7.37m 16 Preston North End €26.12m 396 €32.47m 392 €6.35m 17 Bolton Wanderers €31.93m 429 €36.94m 438 €5.01m 18 Doncaster Rovers €1.78m 467 €6.79m 465 €5.01m 19 Birmingham City €136.20m 437 €140.90m 438 €4.70m 20 Wycombe Wanderers €1.92m 405 €5.78m 403 €3.87m 21 Scunthorpe United €2.11m 472 €5.88m 477 €3.78m 22 Coventry City €71.33m 366 €74.41m 370 €3.09m 23 Burton Albion €2.04m 482 €4.98m 477 €2.93m 24 Hull City €228.74m 436 €231.53m 438 €2.79m 25 Yeovil Town - 501 €760k 506 €760k

any chance you can post it and/or a link here? Edit - is this it?

I will take my commission for that set up later 😉

In that case, see the below post, and hoodies can be bought from numerous stores

buy different presents, this is not a boycott on Christmas, there are other places to acquire stocking fillers than the Roverstore

yep https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1345532503630904 No idea what the attendance was though, published figure was over 20K

Thanks as always for the report 🙂 What are your thoughts on Farkas & Khan? Farkas has struggled for game time at a couple of non league loans now, is it a physicality thing rather than ability?. He signed for us (leaving Liverpool) as Liverpool were not prepared to play him centrally, and saw him as a wide player, does he have a future centrally or is he too lightweight? Am I being too hard on Khan? I've seen him a few times and shots seem to go through him with alarming regularity, and the stats do not make good reading for him either

Khan record for Rovers U21 & U18 This season - played 2, conceded 6 24/25 - played 6, conceded 20 - they extended his contract after this season 23/24 - played 10, conceded 28 - they gave him a pro deal after this season 22/23 - played 8, conceded 19 TOTAL - played 26, conceded 73 He also made his international debut recently, lost 5-0 to Syria Last season he spent a month on loan in the 8th tier, made 2 appearances, conceding 6 goals in the process https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/match/2024-2025/northern-premier-league-west-division/mossley/city-of-liverpool/503500 https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/match/2024-2025/northern-premier-league-west-division/hednesford-town/city-of-liverpool/503830 I genuinely have no idea how he was given a pro deal, then an extension, and do not understand why he keeps getting games ahead of Honor who looks a far better bet at U21 level

match report from last night https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/december/16/report--rovers-under-21s-4-2-watford-under-21s/

his son https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/kristian-shevchenko/profil/spieler/1221607