2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.

[Risso]

Take My Breath Away, not Takes. It was from the Top Gun soundtrack. 4 weeks at number one.

[Brazilian Villain]

I think 'Takes my Breath Away' as I think it was by Tpau. It wasn't. Quite clearly my Pau thought process is all over the place and I've briefly been to the Pyrenees town Pau many years ago.

It's also (Brazilian) Portuguese for 'cock' but we can save that thought till he leaves for Citeh.

[Lastfootstamper]

Take My Breath Away, not Takes. It was from the Top Gun soundtrack. 4 weeks at number one.

China In Your Hand had 5.

I take it we've still not bought anyone, then?

[Brazilian Villain]

I take it we've still not bought anyone, then?

Put it this way, we're still discussing the crest and the lion now has a mullet.

[Risso]

Not even a shit Football Insider rumour.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I take it we've still not bought anyone, then?

At the rate we're going, we'll have to start looking at the market outside of Spain. We've pretty much exhausted the list of players that formerly worked with Emery.

[LeonW]

This is one of the summers where there’s flux and it’s an opportunity for us to potentially take a big step up. It is a bit concerning that we’ve only made one free transfer so far. Pre-season is only a couple of weeks away and Emery would want players to join up for it. We didn’t spend much in January because we were apparently going to have a ‘big summer.’ Let’s see if that happens.

[Drummond]

This is one of the summers where there’s flux and it’s an opportunity for us to potentially take a big step up. It is a bit concerning that we’ve only made one free transfer so far. Pre-season is only a couple of weeks away and Emery would want players to join up for it. We didn’t spend much in January because we were apparently going to have a ‘big summer.’ Let’s see if that happens.

It's not concerning. It's that thing where someone, somewhere starts to panic and everyone else joins in. Hardly any team has signed anyone, and the piece of business we have done is very smart indeed.

Everything we've heard is rumour, there's no other football, like a World Cup, to focus minds so everyone is clamouring for news.

Every club is jockeying for position right now, and they are all, agents included, testing the waters and working out what could happen. It'll all kick off in the next couple of weeks I reckon, when teams start returning from holidays etc. The young players are still at their tournament and the senior players are on holiday after the stupid international games.

[ADVILLAFAN]

I think 'Takes my Breath Away' as I think it was by Tpau. It wasn't. Quite clearly my Pau thought process is all over the place and I've briefly been to the Pyrenees town Pau many years ago.

Takes My Breath Away was by Berlin

And it was bloody awful and if I remember rightly, was number one for ages.

I like it, but always reminds me of 'Walking on the Moon' now

[LeeB]

Also, the fact there's only a couple of weeks before everyone is back is not taking into account that the season ended much later thanks to the World Cup

[Toronto Villa]

Also, the fact there's only a couple of weeks before everyone is back is not taking into account that the season ended much later thanks to the World Cup

Coupled with internationals having just ended, the U21s competition still going on. Lots of posturing as is expected and I still contend a lot will happen for us as soon as Monchi takes control. The optics are better that way also.

[LeonW]

This is one of the summers where there’s flux and it’s an opportunity for us to potentially take a big step up. It is a bit concerning that we’ve only made one free transfer so far. Pre-season is only a couple of weeks away and Emery would want players to join up for it. We didn’t spend much in January because we were apparently going to have a ‘big summer.’ Let’s see if that happens.

It's not concerning. It's that thing where someone, somewhere starts to panic and everyone else joins in. Hardly any team has signed anyone, and the piece of business we have done is very smart indeed.

Everything we've heard is rumour, there's no other football, like a World Cup, to focus minds so everyone is clamouring for news.

Every club is jockeying for position right now, and they are all, agents included, testing the waters and working out what could happen. It'll all kick off in the next couple of weeks I reckon, when teams start returning from holidays etc. The young players are still at their tournament and the senior players are on holiday after the stupid international games.

Happy to come back to this when the summer transfer window closes.

[john e]

I think we have had targets, but they are next level targets and we are finding it difficult to get them over the line as they are wanted by Teams in a better position than we are at the moment

[Toronto Villa]

We now have one of the top managers in the world who is putting together a really strong staff on the back of season where under him we showed CL form. We have just appointed one of the most reputable individuals as our President of Football Operations. We also just appointed a new President of Business Ops. I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest with a degree of confidence that Tielemans on a free won’t be our only signing this summer.

[Beard82]

We now have one of the top managers in the world who is putting together a really strong staff on the back of season where under him we showed CL form. We have just appointed one of the most reputable individuals as our President of Football Operations. We also just appointed a new President of Business Ops. I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest with a degree of confidence that Tielemans on a free won’t be our only signing this summer.

Plus we have Wesley and House to come back from loans - they'll be like 2 new signings :-)