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

[Tuscans]

It'll be lowball season for us this summer.

Ridiculous.

How and why?

Purely in terms of selling a key player I mean. Can't imagine there's going to be many clubs clamoring to offer our asking price on someone if they know we're up against it.

The Saudis will.

[LeeB]

It's not troubled us so far has it?

We appear to be fully on top of this shit, I'd imagine we've already got a deal for someone ready to go, and as suggested earlier my guess would be Bailey off to Saudi.

I think it's helped we had a spare striker worth 60mill we could shift this year. 

Maybe I'm just being cynical, but I do wonder how long it is before we're forced to sell someone we simply can't replace.

It's basically the only way we can make up the shortfall in revenue to the teams we now compete with. The personal carrying it out have been doing the same thing now for decades elsewhere, I'm totally comfortable with it.

[Percy McCarthy]

It’s too labyrinthine for me to post about with accuracy or authority. Obviously there are players we want to get off the wage bill, hopefully with fees attached that ensure a profit or at least not a PSR loss. As I’ve said before we have lots of valuable players whose initial fees have been almost fully amortised so I think we’re in a strong position.

I’m confident that even if we sell players we like, we’ll buy players we like as well and we’ll be feeling positive come the start of next season.

As usual, I agree with LeeB.

[Dave]

...the personal carrying it out have been doing the same thing now for decades elsewhere, I'm totally comfortable with it.

I'm comfortable with how we seem to be structuring things, but I'm still retaining a cautious scepticism about those behind the scenes.

Sevilla are completely screwed at the moment, and it's mainly Monchi's fault.

[Sexual Ealing]

Didn't he arse things up at Roma too?

[Monty]

Didn't he arse things up at Roma too?

It's almost impossible not to arse things up at Roma, tbf.

[Dave]

Didn't he arse things up at Roma too?

Think at Roma he was just a bit underwhelming. It didn't cause any long-term damage, and they've done far more serious "arsing things up" since he left (as Monty alludes to).

At Sevilla he's properly Tony Xia-ed them.

[OCD]

I think to get the best out of Monchi, he needs Emery alongside him having the final say.

And as for replacing players, we seem to becoming a more attractive 'project' to players every year. The giant is awakening and more people are realising it.

[LeeB]

I think to get the best out of Monchi, he needs Emery alongside him having the final say.

And as for replacing players, we seem to becoming a more attractive 'project' to players every year. The giant is awakening and more people are realising it.

That's it really isn't it, for these DoF types to work the whole thing has to knitted together. I mean, you could for example buy a handful of promising young foreign players only for the manger and existing players to be a bunch of twats and bring them all down.

[Dave]

I think to get the best out of Monchi, he needs Emery alongside him having the final say.

And as for replacing players, we seem to becoming a more attractive 'project' to players every year. The giant is awakening and more people are realising it.

That's it really isn't it, for these DoF types to work the whole thing has to knitted together. I mean, you could for example buy a handful of promising young foreign players only for the manger and existing players to be a bunch of twats and bring them all down.

Can't imagine any club being that stupid.

[AV84]

I wonder if there's any other clubs needing to do business by June 30th? Bit of jiggery pokery again.

[cdbearsfan]

I can't imagine a circumstance where other clubs would need to buy a player before 30th June? So we will probably be back in a situation like last year where we have to sell (at least) one of our players for well below their value to the sort of club that aren't adversely affected by the rules, or in other words the sort of club that the rules are designed to protect.

[Somniloquism]

Any idea how much we need to sell for? Just wondering as I would have thought the additional revenue last year and selling Duran/Carlos/Philogene would have been enough.

[LeeB]

I'm not sure Juventus will view the Doug deal as well below value in hindsight.

[cdbearsfan]

Maybe not, but it was at the time. If we sold, say, Watkins to Juventus for thirty million to help us avoid falling victim to the rules introduced to protect Juventus by former Juventus player and well known crook Michel Platini, we will have been ripped off because of said rules. Even if he then scores fewer goals than Jordan Bowery for the rest of his career. It would soften the blow, admittedly. And not just because Juventus are fucking horrible.