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

[chrisw1]

Hence why I used Charles N'Zogbia as my own example - he had bags of ability, but basically retired after we signed him.  Ireland would be next on my list.  That period (post MON to Dean Smith) was so, utterly shit in nearly every way wasn't it.

Agreed.  N'Zogbia has always been the one who pissed me off the most.  Closely followed by Ireland.

They were perfectly decent players who just couldn't give a fck.

I'm sure the likes of Balaban at least wanted to play.

[chrisw1]

I also think amid the McCormack disaster, Henri Lansbury gets an easy ride.  He's another one that I heard really didn't give a shit.

[chrisw1]

and clearly there's no excuse for spelling your name like that.

[ozzjim]

Kamara, Rogers, Konsa for me.

I'd want over £100m for them.

[Sexual Ealing]

and clearly there's no excuse for spelling your name like that.

Quite right.

[chrisw1]

Kamara, Rogers, Konsa for me.

I'd want over £100m for them.

I'd add Tielemans to that as the only 'non-negotiables'

[enigma]

Kamara, Rogers, Konsa for me.

I'd want over £100m for them.

And none of the shenanigans we were forced into with the Luiz deal which still rankles with me however good Barrenechea might become.

p.s. All that talk of crap signings and not one mention of Gary Penrice?

[caster troy]

For some reason Mark Kinsella always stands out in my memory. It wasn't so much that he was bad, more that he was completely invisible in central midfield. I think he started in the debacle in the temple of doom and had an absolute nightmare.

[Tony Daleys Shorts]

For some reason Mark Kinsella always stands out in my memory. It wasn't so much that he was bad, more that he was completely invisible in central midfield. I think he started in the debacle in the temple of doom and had an absolute nightmare.

Yeah, he made Ashley Westwood look like Dennis Mortimer.

[cdbearsfan]

Still, so far as I know, the only Villa player to be a parent of an Olympic medalist.

[Sexual Ealing]

Arctic pointing?

[cdbearsfan]

No thanks, I've just put one out.

[Rigadon]

The Guardian say this on Rogers to Arsenal:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jun/06/football-transfer-rumours-arsenal-morgan-rogers-viktor-gyokeres-rayan-cherki

"Getting Rogers would demand a significant fee – likely north of £50m – with the former Middlesbrough man pulling up trees for Unai Emery’s team this season, with 14 goals and 15 assists in 54 games."

'North' as in more than double that amount and we probably still wouldn't want to sell? 

[Dogtanian]

All this tree-pulling up must be playing havoc with our carbon footprint.

[Steve67]

Arsenal clearly operate on a different planet to the rest of us. There is no way on this earth that Morgan Rogers is going for anything like £50 million,  another digit needs to be added, north of £100m. Better than Grealish, younger, playing for England, nearly 30 goal contributions in his first full season. It’s insulting to say anything less than three figures before the million.