Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.

[Mister E]

Not getting Champions League is a huge blow obviously but I'm pretty sure the club had a plan for either eventuality. It's happend now and we just need to get on with it and see how it pans out. It may not be as bad as we think it will be.

I don't think we were ever in the box-seat for Chumps League qualification TBH. Yeah, the debacle at Old Triffid was massively disappointing but I think the Europa League might be a blessing in disguise - even though it means we may not be attracting quite the players we could have done into the squad, this time.
What will define our close season and next-season performance will be Emery's ability to weave younger talent into the squad / first team - some of Garcia, Jimoh Aloba, Barrenechea, Bogarde, Orcan, Broggio, Wilson, Borland, Rowe - and use Maatsen, Ramsey and Rogers even more effectively.

[Somniloquism]

Maybe it will, who knows but let's see where we are at the end of the window. I'm not going to start worrying two days into it opening, especially with a manager of the calibre we have.

That's your shout, others may disagree (and obviously do).

And you won't have to wait until the end of the window, either, it'll be June 30th.

Well it won't. We will know who we have had to sell early by June 30th, but we won't know their replacements until the end of the transfer window.

Then the gloom can stay or be lifted.

[Clampy]

I think 'uncertainty' is definitely the better word to describe it. I do take Toronto's point about watching the likes of Man Utd and Chelsea spending again though.

[Percy McCarthy]

I’m not gloomy or uncertain. To combine two of my obsessions, we’ve taken a Cosa Nostra stutter-step. We were walking alongside our unsuspecting targets stride for stride and we’ve suddenly dropped back so we can put two behind the ear. Emery reclaiming control of his Europa League racket is the prize.

Look out for us inducting a couple of powerful and calculating zips into the family, either as a consigliere or a capodecina, or both.

[olaftab]

Percy, can you rewrite that so a simple Brummie can understand😂

[Percy McCarthy]

Percy, can you rewrite that so a simple Brummie can understand😂

Haha! Gimme a minute, I’m out at the minute.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I watched the final episode of Lilyhammer last night, I understood everything thanks to Percy. And yes, that includes the Norwegian.

[kippaxvilla2]

It was The Guvnors the film I was thinking of where an ageing David Essex punches the usually knife wielding gangster to the floor in a pub.  Comically bad film.  I watched it yesterday.

[PeterWithesShin]

Vikings! I fuckin' shit 'em.

[Percy McCarthy]

Percy, can you rewrite that so a simple Brummie can understand😂

A stutter-step is a mafia hit technique where you walk alongside someone, seemingly with no ill intent, then take a step back to get behind them, facilitating shooting them in the back of the head, or maybe garrotting them.

Zips are Italians/Sicillians who are actually from those places, (like Mr Calvo for instance) as opposed to Italian-Americans.

Mr Calvo would be in the administration, like a consigliere (counsellor), third in command of a mafia family. A capodecine is in charge of ten soldiers in a mafia family, like a captain in a football team.

[Percy McCarthy]

I watched the final episode of Lilyhammer last night, I understood everything thanks to Percy. And yes, that includes the Norwegian.

So glad to be of service mate.

[eamonn]

So who's your Italian team Percy, Palermo or Catania?

[Percy McCarthy]

So who's your Italian team Percy, Palermo or Catania?

Napoli!

[cdbearsfan]

Palermo are owned by City Group. So, twats. Capisce?

[eamonn]

So who's your Italian team Percy, Palermo or Catania?

Napoli!

Any chance you can sweet talk McTominay into coming back to the UK and become a Villain?