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

[Drummond]

I'd like to see him on the right.

[OCD]

I think he's always seen himself as an 8 as he liked to time his runs into the box from deeper positions.

[Bosco81]

Ramsey has switched to a 10 in parts of certain games, swapping with Rogers, who he combines with really well.

You need players who are flexible and can play a variety of positions these days, so I wouldn’t restrict JJ to just on the left.

[kippaxvilla2]

He's a perfect 10.

[VILLA MOLE]

He's a perfect 10.

but he wears a 12

[nigel]

He's a perfect 10.

Nice one
You load the gun and someone will always fire

[SaddVillan]

An interesting piece has popped up in The Athletic:

Man Utd have failed to sell Rashford, Sancho and Garnacho. It’s a mess of their own making

It basically wonders if ManU have shot themselves in the foot re trying to sell Rashford, Sancho and Antony and how their 'value' on Transfermarkt has dropped from £250m to £97m which might actually be a bit on the high side. It also discusses Garnacho and Malacia and how they might also be overpriced.

We can ho-ho-ho at Offshore Jim's predicament - but we might find that what we get for Bailey, Buendia, Moreno, Donck and Barkley if we move them on is less than we expect/wish for.

[Mister E]

When has Ramsey played at 10?

His eagerness and readiness to receive, and his ability to move the ball on quickly, make him perfect for the role; as well as his experience in the U21's.

[wolfman999]

I know it's still early days but when does the window close. Everyone else appears to be active and all we have managed to date is a teenager on a free contract that I suspect few if any have heard of. It's nearly always frustrating being a Villa fan and this year doesn't appear any different.

[Toronto Villa]

This is frustrating. We are standing still. Forced to by these rules. Maybe we have our cards cleverly tucked up our sleeves but as it stands we are not as good as last year. The players that propelled is in the latter part of the season are all gone. What is left is the mid table side they arrived at. Let’s hope we can get some business done soon.

[algy]

An interesting piece has popped up in The Athletic:

Man Utd have failed to sell Rashford, Sancho and Garnacho. It’s a mess of their own making

It basically wonders if ManU have shot themselves in the foot re trying to sell Rashford, Sancho and Antony and how their 'value' on Transfermarkt has dropped from £250m to £97m which might actually be a bit on the high side. It also discusses Garnacho and Malacia and how they might also be overpriced.

We can ho-ho-ho at Offshore Jim's predicament - but we might find that what we get for Bailey, Buendia, Moreno, Donck and Barkley if we move them on is less than we expect/wish for.

Yeah, by alienating those players they (Man Utd) have pretty much made it so that they *have* to sell them, which has tanked their price to begin with. Nobody is going to think it’s a coup signing one of them. And their wages are so high that a load of clubs who might conceivably sign them - us being one - can’t afford their salary.

Honestly think we’ll be lucky to get £15m cos Buendia, Moreno, Donck, and Barkley combined. Ross is the only one of those with any realistic chance of playing for us again, and probably the only one we’d not try to sell (purely cos he’s worth more as a squad player than what anyone is likely to pay for him imo). Bailey we might get more for, but only if we find some Saudi team to flog him to.

[Villatillidie25]

I suspect it’ll be a very quiet summer to be honest, particularly post the UEFA sanctions. If we ship some of the dead wood out and youngsters then we might get 1 or 2 in but I wouldn’t be expecting much more than that.

[Dante Lavelli]

I suspect it’ll be a very quiet summer to be honest, particularly post the UEFA sanctions. If we ship some of the dead wood out and youngsters then we might get 1 or 2 in but I wouldn’t be expecting much more than that.

It’ll be three quiet summers if we need to show a transfer surplus each year.

[wolfman999]

I suspect it’ll be a very quiet summer to be honest, particularly post the UEFA sanctions. If we ship some of the dead wood out and youngsters then we might get 1 or 2 in but I wouldn’t be expecting much more than that.

Yet Chelsea have a bigger fine than us because their guilt is presumably worse than ours yet have spent Gbp150 mill already apparently!

[wolfman999]

I suspect it’ll be a very quiet summer to be honest, particularly post the UEFA sanctions. If we ship some of the dead wood out and youngsters then we might get 1 or 2 in but I wouldn’t be expecting much more than that.

At the very least, we need a decent back up keeper as Olsen has gone and the rumours about  Emi still haven't gone away so in a worse case scenario, we could be looking for 2 premier league quality goal keepers before even looking at anything else. Hopefully, we will all be pleasantly surprised but the authorities seem determined to shaft upstarts like us.