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

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Yes.

Sidibé's son Sol was born in 2007 and signed a professional contract with Stoke in July 2023.

Thought it might be a possibility.

[AV84]

Recruiting young talent is all well and good but we don't want to become a club with a reputation for ending careers. Man City and Chelsea used to sign all the bright young things and ruin their development. Sending them out on loan is better than keeping them here and never playing them, I suppose. Feels like a fine line though

I don’t recognise this at all. Villa have a great record of being a springboard for talent.

Which is why I said "we don't want to become...."

We have a good record, but we're also now at a point where we need to be bringing in a lot of money to keep the progress of the last few seasons going. Which is where the fine line comes in. We need to keep going as we have been.

[Mister E]

Has anyone read the article in The Athletic regarding how clubs finances are held by certain clubs? Apparently some clubs have more than one set of finance figures and they somehow use this to get good figures against what the PL or the other set of figures are. I couldn’t understand this so if someone can explain in simple terms it would be very helpful. If someone can explain clubs are doing it, why aren’t the Villa?
 

"why aren’t the Villa?" - we don't know that they are not.
All the financial teams I've worked with over the years have been pretty good at presenting the numbers in an audience-targeted way; i.e. 'what do these people want to hear and how can I present the numbers that answers their needs?'. It's not falsification, it's data-manipulation; if that makes sense!

[ChicagoLion]

Clubs have to present numbers for PSR purposes which apply different rules to Standard Accounting Practices.

[kippaxvilla2]

https://x.com/DeadlineDayLive/status/1931293305397993511?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

[tomd2103]

Recruiting young talent is all well and good but we don't want to become a club with a reputation for ending careers. Man City and Chelsea used to sign all the bright young things and ruin their development. Sending them out on loan is better than keeping them here and never playing them, I suppose. Feels like a fine line though

That has almost become a business within a business though in the Premier League.  Buy a young player, if they don't look like they are going to be a regular feature in the first team, then get them out on loan and then sell them for a decent profit. 

[thick_mike]

https://x.com/DeadlineDayLive/status/1931293305397993511?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

How can they sign Viktor Gyökeres on a free?

[aj2k77]

Because the kid in his bedroom who made the video did it on Championship manager the other day.

[ozzjim]

If he's going to United we need to make sure we get the better end of the deal.

[Londonvilla]

THE VILLANS Aston Villa out to hijack £20m Bournemouth transfer for France star and Milos Kerkez replacement

ASTON VILLA want to hijack Bournemouth’s move for Rennes skipper Adrien Truffert.

Villa look keen on the left-back and could swoop for the 23-year-old if they can quickly sell a player.

The Cherries are close to agreeing a £20million deal for France international Truffert.

Truffert has scored two goals and provided two assists in 33 Ligue 1 games this season, as Rennes finished 12th.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/35308406/aston-villa-hijack-bournemouth-transfer-adrien-truffert/

Not sure what to think about this. It's from the Sun, and he looks OK, but he would not be my first choice, and why would he come here to be a backup?

[kippaxvilla2]

Why are we in the market for a Left Back? 

[OCD]

Would suggest that we want a younger left back to replace Digne and help reduce the wage bill.

[Rigadon]

Left back is a pivotal position in an Emery team.

[IFWaters]

Looks like Arsenal are going to pay the £5 million release clause for Kepa arrivabalata. Surely we should have been in at that kind of money?

[Drummond]

Left back is a pivotal position in an Emery team.

Yep, so let's have 10 of them.