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

[Dante Lavelli]

We're going to need Emery to continue performing a few miracles for the next 2-3 seasons. We can maintain performance levels, achieve regular European football & perhaps win a trophy. If we over perform we might see Champions League football again. I wouldn't underestimate what Emery & his team could deliver.

We're ahead of where we would have believed a few years ago. Evven the gamble of bringing in Rashford & Ascencio would have delivered Champions League football again but for a refereeing decision.

This is how I see it.  Personally I think it’s a realistic target.  we need three years of ‘working miracles’ and qualifying for Europe, BUT at the back end of it we will be a considerably bigger club. If we continue buying and selling well I think it’s achievable.

A few of the clubs we are competing against are basket cases or at best, in transition, so our stability, togetherness and joined up thinking means we can continue to punch above our weight.

[Clampy]

It was all going so well as well.

I'm not sure there's any need for such pessimism.

[Toronto Villa]

It was all going so well as well.

I'm not sure there's any need for such pessimism.

I don’t know that it’s pessimism. But there is a dose of reality that we are now facing that is a bit shit. Given just how far we have come, how we got to the CL and how close we came again, we now potentially face a period of accepting that the sides without that same PSR/SCR restrictions are going to forge ahead. We will bring in players this summer but it might not be for a few weeks and they will the excess that the clubs who are buying the better players don’t want. That’s where we are and we might just need to accept it as we sort ourselves out so that we don’t need to repeat this nonsense next year and beyond. We are massively fortunate to have a top coach and staff to get the best out of players with potential. But we are not in a position to buy the very best or pay the biggest wages.

[PaulWinch again]

Yeah but we’ve never been in that position.

[VillaTim]

It was all going so well as well.

The last 2 seasons we should have lifted some silverware . Massive opportunities spurned.

[Ian.]

It was all going so well as well.

The last 2 seasons we should have lifted some silverware . Massive opportunities spurned.

You could also look at the last two seasons as part of our upward journey under the manager.

We really need to the football to start soo as this pre-season is sending folk into a well of doom.

[VILLA MOLE]

bloody hell guys 3rd season in a row in Europe , a great manager fantastic owners , enjoy 😳😊

[Rigadon]

There are only so many trophies to win, and everyone wants to win them.  I think we’ll do so next season. 

[Skerra]

Next year we’ll be millionaires Rodney, I tell ya!!

[saunders_heroes]

bloody hell guys 3rd season in a row in Europe , a great manager fantastic owners , enjoy 😳😊

Spot on. The trophies will come soon.

[Rigadon]

Next year we’ll be millionaires Rodney, I tell ya!!

Billionaires. 

[pauliewalnuts]

I am pretty sure we will win something this year.

Probably the Europa League* or the FA Cup**


* So long as we don't get drawn against Palace
** So long as we don't get drawn against Palace

[Rigadon]

I am pretty sure we will win something this year.

Probably the Europa League* or the FA Cup**


* So long as we don't get drawn against Palace
** So long as we don't get drawn against Palace

Haha! Indeed. We need another team that is not utterly inept against Chrystal (fucking) Palace to do us a favour and we're gonna go all the way. 

[VillaTim]

Not winning the Conference thing is more of an issue perhaps than Palace handing us our arse in the SF . We were odds on favourites for that .

[cdbearsfan]

We were dead on our feet.