Great Day ...best signing of the summer

[champs95]

Our most important signing this summer has now been made. Bradley Dack is a class act. Simple as that. We couldn't hope to buy anyone like that off the shelf.
Fantastic effort by the club in tieing up one of the hottest properties around onto a long term deal.
He is very important to our future.

And shows everyone in football how serious we are. No clubs will be coming in now to steal our best players.
It was always about keeping the really strong core of players Mowbray has built up, together, alongside a few signings (perms) and quite a few loans.

Meanwhile our good youngsters also secured on long term deals, can continue to develop.

A cretin who doesn't understand football wouldn't understand all this. It would go his/her head.

Now to get some more signings through the door. And get the loans moving.

Its probably been our best summer for years upon years upon years.

Really looking forward to seeing what Brad and the lads can do in the Champ.

Well done everyone at Rovers for doing such hard work behind the scenes. A brilliant effort.

And another reminder to everyone (and the one cretin) that we could not ask for a better manager to keep driving us forward.

[robinrover]

My phone has had a moment I will delete my thread on this
Great bit of news,a key player this season in the championship.

[champs95]

My phone has had a moment I will delete my thread on this
Great bit of news,a key player this season in the championship.

Ah no worries, I think we posted at the same time.
As we knew, the business will start to get done now. Loads of time.
But this one is HUGE for us.

So now when Stoke come in on deadline day with a big offer to steal our best player, they will need to put at least another £10m ontop .......

Dack will be the scource of goals for us next season. And Armstrong once he is confirmed.

[robinrover]

Armstrong is the one that will make a difference
Not sure how you feel but we need at least 2 decent quality players at this level if not 3 otherwise it might be a long season
No taking away this deal with dack was crucial.

[champs95]

Armstrong is the one that will make a difference
Not sure how you feel but we need at least 2 decent quality players at this level if not 3 otherwise it might be a long season
No taking away this deal with dack was crucial.

Agreed. We do need maybe one or two more. I think we will get a few loan signings in, and Armstrong. It will all fall in place over the next week or so.

To show how long these things take, we have been discussing this with Dack and his agent since 8th of June when negotiations opened. It took a while. And that is for a guy who already plays for us, and is happy to stay.
So deals take time to do. So much (hard)work is going on behind the scenes.

But yeah, lets try get Armstrong in now, things will start to happen now. We are no different to all the other clubs, who have also done no real business before now.

[AucklandRover]

This IS really good news. One other aspect of it we need to think about: I wonder what valuation has been pegged to any "escape clause". I would guess it's at least 12 million - especially after he performed well against Liverpool.
As for other imports, I'd love to see Armstrong, Gallagher and Chapman. To be honest, I am lukewarm, at best, about extra PL youth-players. Would they get in the team? If not, what's the point?
Slightly different if one of them is instead of one the three mentioned. Otherwise, how good would the newcomer have to be to step in ahead of one of our seasoned seniors? I think about Hart and Harper, and I can't get excited.
Champs - I know you think it's important to have the cover, but it can be taken too far. I see there is still talk of an extra keeper. Really? WHY?
There are places with obvious gaps, but they are all up front now - as long as Bennett and Travis are trusted to cover Nyambe. Do we really need any more midfielders - a winger like Chapman excepted?

[AucklandRover]

I've just looked at Transfermarkt. Dack is valued there at less than a million. Ludicrous!