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

[curiousorange]

DT suggesting Saudi's in for Bailey and Martinez.

Bailey I can see. Emi, why would he want to go to Saudi at this stage? There's still trophies in him.

[Dave]

DT suggesting Saudi's in for Bailey and Martinez.

Bailey I can see. Emi, why would he want to go to Saudi at this stage? There's still trophies in him.

Same reason anyone else might. He's won the trophies that matter most to him already. He's played in the Champions League for us. He's probably ticked off quite a few more career goals than he would have been expecting to a few years back.

I can easily imagine that earning twenty million per year might at this stage of his career be more of a motivation for him than a chance of winning the Europa League or League Cup with Villa.

[cdbearsfan]

Can the Saudis please sign Eze and Sarr, FFS.

[Drummond]

The reason I suggested the three that I did is that we're rumoured to be looking at that Espanol keeper at over £20m, Watkins had a bid already and has various clubs interested, and Kamara hasn't signed a new deal and left his left contract on a Bosman.

I can see Bailey going to Saudi, he moves around, and the money would be big. Emi I'd think a Champions League side would come for him. He's played CHampions League with us, he's been to Wembley with us, he just hasn't won anything yet.

[Gareth]

Emi does seem to pick up his fair share of knocks particularly to the back, so alongside the money element he can probs go there, play a less pressure lower standard of football & keep his place for Argentina.  Guess Saudi rumours will have come from his agents trying to stalk out interested parties.

Bailey is a logical one, another who picks up knocks & Saudi is a great payday- though I was kind of hoping he might have been in one of those funky PSR transfers with Everton to get us Branthwaite.

[Ian.]

Can the Saudis please sign Eze and Sarr, FFS.

Could we? Keep Eze and send Sarr out on loan so he can’t play against us.

[curiousorange]

Sarr is our new Henri Lansbury: has worldies against us, then we sign him and he achieves the square root of sod all.

[Brazilian Villain]

🚨 Aston Villa want to fast-track a move to sign Espanyol keeper Joan García — Monchi is ready to pay the release clause.
@La_SER

Straight out on loan to Derby is the rumour.

[curiousorange]

🚨 Aston Villa want to fast-track a move to sign Espanyol keeper Joan García — Monchi is ready to pay the release clause.
@La_SER

Straight out on loan to Derby is the rumour.

Bartering Ram?

[Martyn Smith]

I see that the latest club our Kev has been linked to is New York RB. Have say in his boots I'd be tempted. Wrap up a fine career with a chance to live in the city on good money for a few years, where he'll be the star man but still relatively anonymous

[nick harper]

The reason I suggested the three that I did is that we're rumoured to be looking at that Espanol keeper at over £20m, Watkins had a bid already and has various clubs interested, and Kamara hasn't signed a new deal and left his left contract on a Bosman.

I can see Bailey going to Saudi, he moves around, and the money would be big. Emi I'd think a Champions League side would come for him. He's played CHampions League with us, he's been to Wembley with us, he just hasn't won anything yet.

If we did get an offer for Kamara that made sense financially I'd spend it all on Adam Wharton.

[aldridgeboy]

Sarr is our new Henri Lansbury: has worldies against us, then we sign him and he achieves the square root of sod all.

Also file under "Kachloul/Hadji"

[manic-road]

The reason I suggested the three that I did is that we're rumoured to be looking at that Espanol keeper at over £20m, Watkins had a bid already and has various clubs interested, and Kamara hasn't signed a new deal and left his left contract on a Bosman.

I can see Bailey going to Saudi, he moves around, and the money would be big. Emi I'd think a Champions League side would come for him. He's played CHampions League with us, he's been to Wembley with us, he just hasn't won anything yet.

If we did get an offer for Kamara that made sense financially I'd spend it all on Adam Wharton.

Another vote for Wharton here, fantastic player.

[OCD]

Yep. Wish we'd signed him from Blackburn.

[AV82EC]

My only concern about Wharton is he fits very nicely in that system at Palace but has he shown anything to suggest he could evolve into something that’s more progressive? It’s all well and dandy playing for Palace in a 3-4-3 with a very limited game plan, and he does it brilliantly, but is there anything else in the locker.