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

[cdbearsfan]

I'd go for Ramsdale and sign that Ipswich goalie as backup.

[curiousorange]

Can't be doing with Ramsdale.

[RamboandBruno]

I'd go for Ramsdale and sign that Ipswich goalie as backup.

That would be a serious downgrade on Emi

[JUAN PABLO]

that forest goalie is damn good , not that I or we want him , just saying there are goalies out there Ive never heard of who are obviously good.

[cdbearsfan]

I'd go for Ramsdale and sign that Ipswich goalie as backup.

That would be a serious downgrade on Emi

I think just about any player we can realistically sign will be. We aren't getting Raya, Alisson or Donnarumma.

[RamboandBruno]

I'd go for Ramsdale and sign that Ipswich goalie as backup.

That would be a serious downgrade on Emi

I think just about any player we can realistically sign will be. We aren't getting Raya, Alisson or Donnarumma.

True. I just think Ramsdale can be both a good shot stopper and bit of a headless chicken. His careers also been weird, relegated with Bournemouth, Sheff Utd and Southampton in his single season with each and then bombed out at Arsenal after one season. Obviously relegations aren’t his fault, just a strange trajectory.

[Ads]

Ramsdale?! Fucking hell.

[cdbearsfan]

I'd go for Ramsdale and sign that Ipswich goalie as backup.

That would be a serious downgrade on Emi

I think just about any player we can realistically sign will be. We aren't getting Raya, Alisson or Donnarumma.

True. I just think Ramsdale can be both a good shot stopper and bit of a headless chicken. His careers also been weird, relegated with Bournemouth, Sheff Utd and Southampton in his single season with each and then bombed out at Arsenal after one season. Obviously relegations aren’t his fault, just a strange trajectory.

I've been impressed when I've seen him lately. Admittedly, hasn't been too often as Southampton are rarely televised. He's the same age as when we signed Martinez but has lots more top-flight experience behind him. Albeit, not universally positive experiences as you say.

[Mister E]

Ramsdale?! Fucking hell.

Hope not.
I thought Kinsky played well last night for Spuds, and Leicester's Scandi keeper is also pretty good.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Monchi seems to have the knack of pulling rabbits out of the hat so I am not going to get stressed about any player leaving - we are only going in one direction

Does he? Diaby I thought we were lucky to get rid of without making a serious loss, thankfully the Saudi's threw money at us. Onana right now is a very expensive squad player, there's no way he would he would be starting if Youri was fit.

Rogers by all accounts was an Unai signing.
Ian Maatsen has finally started looking the business in the last few weeks but it's probably still too early to confirm he was worth the high fee.
Garcia and Malen both look good deals but Unai doesn't seem to keen to use them.
Pau Torres may or may not have been set up before Monchi officially started.
Jaden never worked but we made a few quid selling to Ipswich
Lewis Dobbin doesn't appear to be the best £10m we've spent.
Enzo Barrenechea does and hopefully we'll see him at Villa Park next season.
Samuel Iling-Junior doesn't look like we'll ever get our money back.
Kosta Nedeljkovic seems to have disappeared off the football map.


Some clever loan business in January with Asensio and Rashford, hopefully we don't sign Axel Disasi.
I'd say Monchi's greatest bit of business has been Youri and he was free. Of course nobody will ever have a 100% success rate with signings but right now the jury is still out regarding Monchi 'pulling rabbits out of hats'.

[PaulWinch again]

Diaby in spite of the narrative had a productive year and clearly helped Bailey. He clearly had some challenges but still put in a solid season. I reckon he would have kicked on.

[Beard82]

The way I look at it is we fucked up last summer and went in light in a number of positions and we fixed it in Jan - but it seems to lack any real longer term strategy.  That’s my concern if we’re replacing key players it’s no unusual for it to take a couple bites at the cherry - which then effectively puts us on the back foot like it did this season

It also seems strange we sign a lot of players we then don’t seem to really fancy. 

[LeeS]

The way I look at it is we fucked up last summer and went in light in a number of positions and we fixed it in Jan - but it seems to lack any real longer term strategy. 

I’m a bit more forgiving. It’s not like you can map it all out on a giant project plan type thing and then meticulously deliver it. Every target you want is wanted by others and also has to be persuaded to join. So you can have the greatest long term strategy in the world and fail to deliver any of it through no fault of your own.

[Steve67]

Last summer's activity was a necessity in terms of PSR and doing weird deals to get out of a world of shit.  Onana and Maatsen will prove to be good signings.  The January signings were excellent and have helped to rescue the season, given we were as low as 9th at one point.  Hoping for more of January type signings and less of Last summers shenanigans but I am guessing we have to do a bit more of both.   I suspect Unai is thinking that some of these players have taken us as far as they can.

[Holy Trinity]

Monchi seems to have the knack of pulling rabbits out of the hat so I am not going to get stressed about any player leaving - we are only going in one direction

Does he? Diaby I thought we were lucky to get rid of without making a serious loss, thankfully the Saudi's threw money at us. Onana right now is a very expensive squad player, there's no way he would he would be starting if Youri was fit.

Rogers by all accounts was an Unai signing.
Ian Maatsen has finally started looking the business in the last few weeks but it's probably still too early to confirm he was worth the high fee.
Garcia and Malen both look good deals but Unai doesn't seem to keen to use them.
Pau Torres may or may not have been set up before Monchi officially started.
Jaden never worked but we made a few quid selling to Ipswich
Lewis Dobbin doesn't appear to be the best £10m we've spent.
Enzo Barrenechea does and hopefully we'll see him at Villa Park next season.
Samuel Iling-Junior doesn't look like we'll ever get our money back.
Kosta Nedeljkovic seems to have disappeared off the football map.


Some clever loan business in January with Asensio and Rashford, hopefully we don't sign Axel Disasi.
I'd say Monchi's greatest bit of business has been Youri and he was free. Of course nobody will ever have a 100% success rate with signings but right now the jury is still out regarding Monchi 'pulling rabbits out of hats'.

Some of those players Rudy were never brought to play
Dobbin was brought to be sold as a psr make weight.
I would imagine loan fee was a mil or so and I cant see us not getting the 10 million we "paid" in a psr cheat back.
Illing and barrencha were also psr cheats. Barrencha would absolutely sell for more than enough to cover illings part of the fee and I think illing will be a good player and easily worth and circa 15-20 million punt for a newly promoted team.
Kosta is reportedly being mooted to sign at lepzig on a permanent deal where we would most likely make a profit all be it not a large one. Maatsen was kept out by dignes creativity at the start of the season but was always going to become a long term player for us and has looked absolutely fantastic recently. He always moves the ball forwards where Cash's first thought seems to always be where is Konsa and how quickly can I pass to him.

Unai has a strange habbit of breaking people into our team slowly just like Tielimans last season.
Also Onana was great before his injuries and has now started to get upto full speed, look at his stats from last night. He is not a bench warmer and will not be moving forwards. He will be rotating regularly with the other CM's depending if we need a locksmith Tielimans or a battering ram ala Onana.

We are 2 or 3 great signings away from challenging for the title. This is the best position we have been in for years.