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

[PeterWithe]

There might be something in that - as essentially when players join we become on the hook for the wages but if we sign them at the end of August we save a couple of months!

And can that reassure ourselves that next season, they will be a lot better 'with a full pre-season under their belts'

[kippaxvilla2]

Well presumably he will be training with PSG in the meantime?!

[kippaxvilla2]

Just popped on the forum. Talk about scrabble in the transfer thread. Clearly nothing happening (logs off).

Are you saying you are board with the thread?

He wants a monopoly of posts about transfers.

He really needs to give us a Clue(do).

[VILLA MOLE]

Just popped on the forum. Talk about scrabble in the transfer thread. Clearly nothing happening (logs off).

i think we need a bit of guess who we are signing at the moment

Are you saying you are board with the thread?

He wants a monopoly of posts about transfers.

He really needs to give us a Clue(do).

[ozzjim]

Weird that a player who looked so good at times were so on the fence about signing. I think Asensio would be a brilliant buy for the Europa and home games, but shouldn't be near the side away from home.

[Dave]

Weird that a player who looked so good at times were so on the fence about signing. I think Asensio would be a brilliant buy for the Europa and home games, but shouldn't be near the side away from home.

I think people would be a lot keener on him if his presence didn't take so much away from what Rogers brings.

[OCD]

I think there's a question about how often he's able to play a full 90 minutes. There wasn't many times he played the full 90.

[ozzjim]

Weird that a player who looked so good at times were so on the fence about signing. I think Asensio would be a brilliant buy for the Europa and home games, but shouldn't be near the side away from home.

I think people would be a lot keener on him if his presence didn't take so much away from what Rogers brings.

I think that's a simple one to solve, Rogers should be coming from the left for me. I don't think he's a 10, he's too careless on the ball and needs to drive at players from deeper. He's totally lost on the right though. Asensio and he should be able to fit together. We need to sign a proper right winger though to abolish this madness of Rogers looking lost out there.

[paul_e]

Weird that a player who looked so good at times were so on the fence about signing. I think Asensio would be a brilliant buy for the Europa and home games, but shouldn't be near the side away from home.

I think people would be a lot keener on him if his presence didn't take so much away from what Rogers brings.

I think that's a simple one to solve, Rogers should be coming from the left for me. I don't think he's a 10, he's too careless on the ball and needs to drive at players from deeper. He's totally lost on the right though. Asensio and he should be able to fit together. We need to sign a proper right winger though to abolish this madness of Rogers looking lost out there.

I agree, I prefer Rogers on the left. What we could really do with on the right is someone who holds their position out wide better to stretch defences with Maatsen offering the same on the left. That way Rogers can drift in at times and play as a left-side 10 alongside someone like Asensio offering the same on the right.

[algy]

Just popped on the forum. Talk about scrabble in the transfer thread. Clearly nothing happening (logs off).

Are you saying you are board with the thread?

He wants a monopoly of posts about transfers.

He really needs to give us a Clue(do).

Probably just worried that if we were to lose someone like Kamara or Tielemans we'd struggle to Connect 4 passes together.

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

Weird that a player who looked so good at times were so on the fence about signing. I think Asensio would be a brilliant buy for the Europa and home games, but shouldn't be near the side away from home.

I guess he'd be looking for wages of £150k-£200k which wouldn't be great for our SCR; especially as he might not be a regular starter.

It doesn't make sense to be talking about losing someone like Martinez for SCR reasons, and then just replacing his costs with Asensio.

There's also the risk that he'd be Coutinho II.

[aldridgeboy]

Couthino has gone

https://x.com/avfcofficial/status/1941122436252234088?s=46&t=jo4adbG13BgBUR97pIGxUA

[cdbearsfan]

Good luck to him. We didn't see that much of him, but we did get a few magic bits.

[tomd2103]

Good luck to him. We didn't see that much of him, but we did get a few magic bits.

I can remember a 20-25 minute period against Leeds at home (3-3 game if I recall correctly) where he was just on a different level to every other player on the pitch. 

[eye digress]

Weird that a player who looked so good at times were so on the fence about signing. I think Asensio would be a brilliant buy for the Europa and home games, but shouldn't be near the side away from home.

I think people would be a lot keener on him if his presence didn't take so much away from what Rogers brings.

There's that, and also that he never really took games by the scruff of the neck. It sometimes looked like he was, especially early on when the goals were flying in, but in reality, he was far too often a spectator.