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

[eamonn]

Even Monchi deserves a 10 day summer holiday.

[DB]

Even Monchi deserves a 10 day summer holiday.

I would say going on holiday when the 1st window opens is not a great idea....this is when he does his stuff. He can have a holiday in Barmouth once the window closes.

[SamTheMouse]

Even Monchi deserves a 10 day summer holiday.

I would say going on holiday when the 1st window opens is not a great idea....this is when he does his stuff. He can have a holiday in Barmouth once the window closes.

Nonsense.

He's clearly more of a "caravan in Dawlish" man.

[wolfman999]

Correct me if I’m wrong but, I thought Manure were heavily in debt so, how come they’ve already splashed the cash on Cunha and Mbuemo? I take it PSR doesn’t apply to them!!

Revenue. They might be heavily in debt but they have enormous revenue.

And there, in a nutshell, you have the absurdity that is PSR. A well run, well funded club with ambitious owners who are looking to develop it further are forced to sell their best assets, probably at knock down prices, to meet an arbitrary date while clubs with massive debt are allowed to carry on adding to that debt.

[VILLA MOLE]

Correct me if I’m wrong but, I thought Manure were heavily in debt so, how come they’ve already splashed the cash on Cunha and Mbuemo? I take it PSR doesn’t apply to them!!

Revenue. They might be heavily in debt but they have enormous revenue.

And there, in a nutshell, you have the absurdity that is PSR. A well run, well funded club with ambitious owners who are looking to develop it further are forced to sell their best assets, probably at knock down prices, to meet an arbitrary date while clubs with massive debt are allowed to carry on adding to that debt.

I thought one of the objectives of PSR is so that clubs wouldnt be loaded with debt ?  to prevent a Portsmouth happening

[PeterWithe]

Aren't we unlikely to buy anyone before the end if this financial year on 30 June?

[AV84]

I was reading a thing about Man U's post season tour to Asia, and it was saying that some players were subbed off in the first game and straight off to the airport to fly to India to do a load of "engagements" there. They got back to the UK a few days sooner than the ones that went on to China. Apparently the few days was worth £10million to the club.

[Dogtanian]

Aren't we unlikely to buy anyone before the end if this financial year on 30 June?

Yeah, I very much doubt we would buy anyone.

[caster troy]

Wishful thinking maybe but is the decision on Man City a factor before we start buying/selling? A retrospective points deduction could change things for us, and if they get away with it perhaps it kills PSR.

[JUAN PABLO]

Correct me if I’m wrong but, I thought Manure were heavily in debt so, how come they’ve already splashed the cash on Cunha and Mbuemo? I take it PSR doesn’t apply to them!!

Revenue. They might be heavily in debt but they have enormous revenue.

Almost £400m more than us. It's not that element that annoys me as much as there being no mechanism to allow genuinely ambitious owners to find a way to catch up.

I do feel they have brought it into the protect the 'Vile big '  6

[LeeS]

We sold Luiz on 30th June last year. How people can be anxious on 3rd June this year is beyond me.

[cdbearsfan]

The direction of travel is entirely different. We've been spending at Champions League levels and haven't qualified for the Champions League. There's a lot more speculation suggesting we have problems than there was this time last year.

[LeeS]

The direction of travel is entirely different. We've been spending at Champions League levels and haven't qualified for the Champions League. There's a lot more speculation suggesting we have problems than there was this time last year.

Speculation from who? On here? I know that is what the forum is for, but the levels of panic seem a bit over the top to me.

[edgysatsuma89]

The direction of travel is entirely different. We've been spending at Champions League levels and haven't qualified for the Champions League. There's a lot more speculation suggesting we have problems than there was this time last year.

I thought we were in more shit last year, hence the Luiz deal?

[algy]

The direction of travel is entirely different. We've been spending at Champions League levels and haven't qualified for the Champions League. There's a lot more speculation suggesting we have problems than there was this time last year.

Speculation from who? On here? I know that is what the forum is for, but the levels of panic seem a bit over the top to me.

I agree.  My hope might be misplaced, but it seems to me that we weren't in financial trouble at the start of this season, and since then we've sold Duran & Philogene, and bought Malen & Garcia for [much] less.  I think we sold Diaby too after 30th June, so that's in this seasons accounts too.

Whilst there might, of course, still be some PSR issues - I can't see that they'll be anything like as serious as they were last summer given how much money we've got in the bank from those sales & our increased Champions League revenue.

In fact, if I'm honest I'd be fairly surprised if we had any significant problems at all if our aim is broadly to stand still. Might have to sell if we want to do any major investment in the first team, which it sounds like we might be planning to ... but I think that's separate from our normal PSR concerns.