Think he is joining Hull. (Doak that is)

All seems very odd.

Generally we need a new centre back with pace regardless of the formation.

Money? What money? Ipswich signed Szmodics for free, a gentleman's type agreement, and Wharton was signed on an instalment plan that meant the only benefitting party was Crystal Palace. It was one of those transfers where you sell a player for a large agreed fee but the selling club simply doesn't get anything, and you can't agree the same type of transfer with another club when buying a player either. We simply have to have received all the cash first, even though Palace ended up with A. Wharton without spending their cash first that's just how it is and I know what you're going to say next... what about the "David Raya" money, well that doesn't really count either, a £4m bonus cheque, double what has been spent so far this summer but the reality is he was sold in 2019, and since then we thought we'd bought a new team bus. Anyway please keep clapping away on Saturdays 👍🏻

Hopefully they take Fleck too.

Cheap deal too... with too small a squad. Club is bonkers. Get it done and move on to the next!!

Maybe they just don't give a shit about it and want Venky's to sell the club either way? It's just the latest load of nonsense for me, we've had plenty of it in 15 years. I don't follow the details of the court case because I know it is a complete and utter waste of time.

It's bizarre more teams aren't in for him. Bournemouth could do with him too. He's a Premier League finisher, better than Diaz and Armstrong imo and his work rate is something else!

5-6 also makes you sound completely underprepared for the new season, which we are!

We are doing a great job of depreciating Szmodics' value and cornering ourselves into having to sell. Fantastic work again Steve W!

and no senior backup

PSV will fuck us. Might as well forget about it and crack on with bringing a 37 or 38 year old in on a free, that has no other options. Waggott's bread and butter 👍

Rovers can only sign players for a fee that there is no competition for. Other clubs are simply better, quicker to make a decision, quicker to get the cheque book out and a lot less convoluted higher up the chain. We need owners that are closer to home. The fans will turn on Waggott immediately this year. Probably right after Pears spills it.

This is what happens when your CEO is a neanderthal

People are missing the point. We are still operating on a one in one out policy when the squad was already too small.

Garrett too.

and the other issue is the squad isn't getting any bigger. Gallagher, Telalovic, Fleck, Wahlstedt, Ayari and Moran all out. That will be a major problem AGAIN over the course of the season. It was already too thin with them. We were overwhelmed by most teams benches ALL season!

I suspect he'd be better centrally. He has no pace to play out wide but is a neat finisher. I've been hugely disappointed by him though, like most have.

A club with no clear vision that will sadly never emulate the Brentford or Brighton model due to out of their depth, incompetent owners. They have had plenty of opportunity to do so. It works as further proof they have no clue and will never be able to execute a vision. God knows how they've kept their business running.

Szmodics had a season that he'll probably never have again in his life. It offered us a lifeline to invest in the squad, properly. Glad we are more active but so far we haven't spent the amount needed. Even with his form we desperately needed a better left and right winger, a quicker left back and most importantly a goalkeeper (or two they were that bad)! We also had a world class CM for half the season, a well ran club would replace him with another player that can play a pass, in theory we should be spending a mil or two on a central midfielder. Today was a start and we needed a flurry but we were so far behind anyway, that's all it is, a start. To progress we have to move away from the one in one out. The squad was already too thin and barely survived on Sammie's freak season.

Raya and Wharton!! We have done really well for fees in recently. If the owners were willing to spend a bit we could make a Gary Bowyer "good go" of it!

The lightning fast forward will initially join Rovers’ emerging talent group, where he will hope to impress for Mike Sheron’s side as he looks to make the next step in his career into first team football. Mafoumbi becomes the third new forward to arrive at Rovers in the last 24 hours. Confirmed. U23 signing. 👍🏻

and now deadline day all makes perfect sense 🐌 We are into added "India time"!

Gallagher is great at defending the front post on corners, he's also good at carrying the ball with strength from deep to relieve a bit of pressure from time to time. He also does seem to occupy defenders with his presence but we are starting to clutch at straws there. On the whole he's relatively useless and overpaid.

It was in relation to player sales. Not purchases. Please stop kidding yourself, it is coming across as intentionally provocative. You are completely ignoring the reality of what is happening at the club you love.