Summer 2024 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.

[Footy-Vill]

Ndidi on a free i really wouldnt be shocked to see

Is he even that good anymore? Had loads of injuries and looked poor when Leicester went down and no one from the prem wanted him compared to the others.

I’d guess he’d come as a back up to Kamara, so wouldn’t be playing week in and week out.

Bringing in Nidi midfielder and Hermoso centre back  on a free and selling  Carlos, Chambers and add pure profit sales of Iroegbunam and Archer who could feasible fetch around £50m to £60m in total and that is smart business.

[jwarry]

Hard to imagine being able to improve next season on a front four of (L-R) Ramsey-Rogers-Watkins-Bailey, with Diaby, Emi2 and Duran in reserve. Then you’ve got SJM, Dougie, Kamara and Tielemans competing for two spots in centre-mid (another CDM would come in handy there). Central defence is also looking good with Ty back. Full-backs the priority for me. Obviously, it’s actually impossible to improve on the goalkeeper.

didn’t we buy a couple of full backs  in January?

[Demitri_C]

Id sell carlos definitely and get rid of cash. If a stupid offer comes in JJ then i woild consider letting him go too.

That will allow unai to bring in some real quality. We need a cb rb striker dm

[pauliewalnuts]

Hard to imagine being able to improve next season on a front four of (L-R) Ramsey-Rogers-Watkins-Bailey, with Diaby, Emi2 and Duran in reserve. Then you’ve got SJM, Dougie, Kamara and Tielemans competing for two spots in centre-mid (another CDM would come in handy there). Central defence is also looking good with Ty back. Full-backs the priority for me. Obviously, it’s actually impossible to improve on the goalkeeper.

didn’t we buy a couple of full backs  in January?

Blimey, yes, I had totally forgotten about Sousa.

[Footy-Vill]

BBC have done an article placing Ramsey as sellable asset.

"Premier League club accountants also relish academy graduates - with a growing trend of selling them to generate 'pure profit' and help navigate the strict financial rules which have bitten hard this season.
Everton, Nottingham Forest and Leicester have all been hit with Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR) breaches while clubs such as Chelsea, Tottenham, Aston Villa, Newcastle and Wolves have posted significant losses in their most recent accounts"

Not only that, but they listed players for pure profit sales and put a £34 million price tag on Ramsey. It's like the BBC media making a point of having the cheapest asset when possibly he's better than any of those midfielders listed for sure, and in my opinion, he's better than Gallagher and Dewsbury Hall

The valuations:
Rashford £ 85m

I still like Rashford. He cops a lot of stick but he's a quality player. He'd want stupid wages though.

I know what you mean, he needs to get out of there, it would be tempting at the right money but it never will be.

Connor Gallagher 68m

I was impressed with Gallagher last night, he seems to have matured a lot in his positioning and patience, he's far less GungHo than he was last time I saw him play, which took the eye but also limits who he can play with.

That said, he isn't better at what he does now than players we already have, and for the fee he'll command, there will be better value elsewhere if we did want a back up.

Then in most valuable:
Evan Ferguson £68m
Jerry Branthwaite 43m
Keelan Dewsbury Hall £35m
And finally
Ramsey £34m

[LeeB]

Dewsbury Hall worth more than Ramsey? What the actual fuck?

[Dave]

Not only that, but they listed players for pure profit sales and put a £34 million price tag on Ramsey. It's like the BBC media making a point of having the cheapest asset when possibly he's better than any of those midfielders listed for sure, and in my opinion, he's better than Gallagher and Dewsbury Hall

He's also barely played in a year and keeps having a recurrence of a serious injury.

If he played for another team I wouldn't want us going near him until he'd shown that he was capable of putting a run of games together without breaking.

[Footy-Vill]

BBC valuation well I say It's up there with the smut and bawdy humour some times polluting the pages for distastefulness!

Ramsey is worth £40m plus given potential and ability and would be near double if he played season.
However starred for under 21s and starred for us if JJ was sold I want £50m minimum.

[Footy-Vill]

Not only that, but they listed players for pure profit sales and put a £34 million price tag on Ramsey. It's like the BBC media making a point of having the cheapest asset when possibly he's better than any of those midfielders listed for sure, and in my opinion, he's better than Gallagher and Dewsbury Hall

He's also barely played in a year and keeps having a recurrence of a serious injury.

If he played for another team I wouldn't want us going near him until he'd shown that he was capable of putting a run of games together without breaking.

Ok I take your point regards his injuries and if it was another player.
That's a good perspective and context actually.
I do hope he can strengthen and be able to play more I rather sell Buendia after injury and not Ramsey if had to.
I don't even want JJ sold I think he's great!

[LeeB]

Not only that, but they listed players for pure profit sales and put a £34 million price tag on Ramsey. It's like the BBC media making a point of having the cheapest asset when possibly he's better than any of those midfielders listed for sure, and in my opinion, he's better than Gallagher and Dewsbury Hall

He's also barely played in a year and keeps having a recurrence of a serious injury.

If he played for another team I wouldn't want us going near him until he'd shown that he was capable of putting a run of games together without breaking.

It's also why it would be rank stupidity to try and sell him this summer.

Personally I think it would be rank stupidity to sell him any summer, or winter, he's the player we've missed most this season.

[Percy McCarthy]

Hard to imagine being able to improve next season on a front four of (L-R) Ramsey-Rogers-Watkins-Bailey, with Diaby, Emi2 and Duran in reserve. Then you’ve got SJM, Dougie, Kamara and Tielemans competing for two spots in centre-mid (another CDM would come in handy there). Central defence is also looking good with Ty back. Full-backs the priority for me. Obviously, it’s actually impossible to improve on the goalkeeper.

didn’t we buy a couple of full backs  in January?

We did, but I have my doubts if they are CL ready, although the right-back has played in it already. The left back is also very young (and less experienced). I don’t think Cash is good enough, and I think we are tempted to sell Digne due to age and high wages.

[Footy-Vill]

Not only that, but they listed players for pure profit sales and put a £34 million price tag on Ramsey. It's like the BBC media making a point of having the cheapest asset when possibly he's better than any of those midfielders listed for sure, and in my opinion, he's better than Gallagher and Dewsbury Hall

He's also barely played in a year and keeps having a recurrence of a serious injury.

If he played for another team I wouldn't want us going near him until he'd shown that he was capable of putting a run of games together without breaking.

It's also why it would be rank stupidity to try and sell him this summer.

Personally I think it would be rank stupidity to sell him any summer, or winter, he's the player we've missed most this season.

Agreed!

[paul_e]

Given our delicate FFP situation I doubt we will be spending much money in the summer window but I am expecting Monchi to pull a few loans and out-of-contract rabbits out of the hat

Now called PSR and the squad cost ratio what exactly are you saying regards spending this summer
Is it delicate ??

Is it a case of some player sales as we are restricted?

Champions League is a must by all accounts for finance and prestige but are we looking at a sale of first team player like Ramsey for pure profit £40/50m, Luiz for big money £80m or perhaps Diego Carlos and Callum Chambers for 30m combined  or something more like a few less established like  Iroegbunam and Archer for saying 30m or so for the pair with clauses?

Just to make it clear, the new rules that are coming in are for 25/26 so it makes absolutely no difference to us this summer.

[OCD]

Although this might - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/aston-villa-risk-riling-deducted-clubs-by-wanting-limit-raised-by-30m-fvkhgrx3t

[Percy McCarthy]

Although this might - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/aston-villa-risk-riling-deducted-clubs-by-wanting-limit-raised-by-30m-fvkhgrx3t

It’s ridiculous that the limit hasn’t risen with inflation since it was set in… 2013 was it?