The Bristol Rovers Courier
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 14 in, 1 out at Bristol Rovers
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 14 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Reading tell Bristol Rovers: Charlie Savage is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Bristol Rovers go back to the board over Favour Fawunmi
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $166.9K — a club that wants Favour Fawunmi enough to be asked twice.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Bristol Rovers
Jacob Brown and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Too dear: Bristol Rovers walk away from Favour Fawunmi
$160.0K was the most the club would pay and Stoke City were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Bristol Rovers training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dan Butler is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Myles Roberts gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market7 Sep 2026
Talks stall between Bristol Rovers and Jacob Brown
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Luke Southwood
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Luke Southwood has come out of that comparison in the side, and Bristol Rovers have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
In brief
- Squad Bristol Rovers have started building around Millenic Alli
- Looking ahead Brad Young goes back to face Notts County
- The dugout Alfie Kilgour knocks on the manager's door