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

[Smithy]

Conceciao was at Jive, on loan from Porto or Sporting

Oh yeah, he could move, daddio.

I dig him. €30m release clause apparently (Juve paid between €7-10m to loan him for the season).  He definitely looked good against us, but wasn't exactly prolific last season.  5 goals and 4 assists in 37 appearances.  If the team here thought they could get a tune out of him, then great, but don't see him being a priority, unfortunately.

[OCD]

Wonder what JJ would think if we signed him.

[Somniloquism]

If Sancho wouldn’t take a pay cut to go to Chelsea I can’t see him coming here.

Probably haggling for a pay out from Man United. Those signings OGS brought in that summer for Man United were all absolute disasters, Varane and CR7 were finished and Sancho signed to play RW but wanted to play on left! Those three were meant to deliver them the PL title.

Ronaldo was not an OGS signing, (I wonder if any of them were). Citeh played a blinder in pretending they were signing him and the Manure high-ups decided they couldn't let him go there. But he also still scored 18 league goals (24 overall) that season so how much was he finished or disaster? (maybe for long term building of the team and wages costs).

[Smithy]

Balaban pound for pound has to be the worst.

Yep, you could names dozens that were worse. Crespo, Luna, Malcolm Allen, Comyn, Jota are some more.

I saw Michael Boulding play for us (in the Intertoto cup, admittedly), so I've definitely seen worse.  But in terms of money spent, not sure there is much worse than Balaban? Big money (for the time) and a big wage (for the time), for practically zero return.

[Dogtanian]

Gilles de Bilde?

[Sexual Ealing]

Wonder what JJ would think if we signed him.

If it's not, "that makes sense. I haven't been at it since my injury, which was ages ago", it ought to be.

[kippaxvilla2]

Berson.

[Smithy]

Manure pursued him for 2 years if I recall.

They did.  The played silly buggers with Dortmund, who told them "if you want to buy him this summer, you have to buy him by X date so we have time to replace him" - then Utd came in after that date, trying to sneak a deal in before the deadline, and Dortmund just said "No, we told you what would happen, we weren't bluffing".  So they waited a full year and got him the following summer.

[kippaxvilla2]

Talking of Sancho.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKcUvh4o0T0/?igsh=djltcjhweGVyNDhr

[Londonvilla]

Sacha Tavolieri@sachatavolieri

Hugo Ekitike wants to take his time to think things through! Even though Chelsea Football Club is pushing to reach an agreement with the Frenchman, Liverpool is still very much in the race.

Aston Villa is also keeping a close eye on the striker’s situation at #SGE…

Clickbait or good link?


Funny how it's clickbait when you don't like the player and a good transfer link when you do?

[AV84]

Chelsea are signing Delap, are they not ? Unless they're planning another summer of stockpiling players.

[eamonn]

Conceciao was at Jive, on loan from Porto or Sporting

Oh yeah, he could move, daddio.

I dig him. €30m release clause apparently (Juve paid between €7-10m to loan him for the season).  He definitely looked good against us, but wasn't exactly prolific last season.  5 goals and 4 assists in 37 appearances.  If the team here thought they could get a tune out of him, then great, but don't see him being a priority, unfortunately.

Weren't Juve like allergic to scoring and conceding goals this season? With shite like Douglas Louise doing fuck-all to improve things.

[edgysatsuma89]

He scored a good goal for Portugal the other day. Not that there have been any links, but I do like the little prick.

[Tuscans]

@TheTimesSport

Arsenal have added Aston Villa’s Morgan Rogers and Feyenoord’s Igor Paixão to the list of their potential attacking targets this summer.

Won't happen.

[Richard E]

lol.