In the wake of their heroic victory over Partizan Belgrade, Rovers find themselves with a raft of new problems to contend with, not least how best to spend the £1m windfall which is guaranteed as a result of their qualification for the Europa League group stages. Under existing Uefa regulations, the club could be forced to stage their home games at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium, although the cheaper and more romantic alternative is to install the seats that would bring their own ground up to the required standard. Of more pressing concern is the small matter of the Irish domestic football season played through the summer these days, with fiscal necessity dictating that the contracts of Rovers’ players expire in November. It is a state of affairs that is less than ideal, not least because their European campaign will last until the middle of December at the earliest.
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