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

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

^ there's been several reports linking us with a swap deal for Feran Torres.

It's all they know and the most obvious thing so they report it. If Emi does end up there we don't want  Barca reservers. Our team is far better than that now.

45 games, 19 goals and 7 assists this season, not too bad for a reserve. He didn’t set the world alight at Man City but that’s not to say he isn’t a good player.

[eamonn]

He's shite in England.

Can we just swap Bailey + £40m for Bowen? He'll score on the wing or up front.

[Dante Lavelli]

^ there's been several reports linking us with a swap deal for Feran Torres.

It's all they know and the most obvious thing so they report it. If Emi does end up there we don't want  Barca reservers. Our team is far better than that now.

45 games, 19 goals and 7 assists this season, not too bad for a reserve. He didn’t set the world alight at Man City but that’s not to say he isn’t a good player.

I vaguely remember Guardiola saying he was their best finisher.  He seemed to rate him but as a right winger rather than a striker.

[paul_e]

^ there's been several reports linking us with a swap deal for Feran Torres.

It's all they know and the most obvious thing so they report it. If Emi does end up there we don't want  Barca reservers. Our team is far better than that now.

45 games, 19 goals and 7 assists this season, not too bad for a reserve. He didn’t set the world alight at Man City but that’s not to say he isn’t a good player.

I vaguely remember Guardiola saying he was their best finisher.  He seemed to rate him but as a right winger rather than a striker.

Guardiola not knowing how to use a player who doesn't precisely fit into his system isn't news.

[Londonvilla]

Aston Villa are all interested in signing Rayan Cherki.

Olympique Lyon are looking for €22m 🇫🇷
 [@fichajesnet] #avfc

I would take him and his mad representative every day of the week and twice on Sunday

[paul_e]

I'd absolutely take Cherki, he's exactly the age and quality we should be looking at to replace Bailey (assuming he is going).

[eamonn]

Aston Villa are all interested in signing Rayan Cherki.

Olympique Lyon are looking for €22m 🇫🇷
 [@fichajesnet] #avfc

I would take him and his mad representative every day of the week and twice on Sunday

Super-agents shouldn't go too crazy or they end-up like Mino Raiola - rich, fat and dead by 55. And the inevitable subject of a Netflix doc in the future.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Aston Villa are all interested in signing Rayan Cherki.

Olympique Lyon are looking for €22m 🇫🇷
 [@fichajesnet] #avfc

I would take him and his mad representative every day of the week and twice on Sunday

He was amongst the names in that graph a few pages back when talking about Alex Baena and as far as I could make out had similar, if not better positive stats but would be a cheaper option given Lyon’s financial situation and that he’ll definitely be leaving in the summer.

[Brazilian Villain]

Anyway having two Torres in the team would be a disaster of armageddon proportion with some people on here as they can't deal with one Torres.

They could make a sitcom about it. Maybe call it Fawlty Torres.

[cdbearsfan]

Flowery Trats.

[IFWaters]

Was just looking at our goals against this year. 9 teams have let in fewer goals. I know we've tightened up lately and I know we hardly had a fit centre back about midway through the season but that's pretty poor.

I'm struggling to think of a consistent reason for that excess of goals conceded

[edgysatsuma89]

Surely the 'hardly had a fit centre back' helped?

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Kamara injured, Emi off form.

[cdbearsfan]

We went through a spell where if we lost, we got twatted. Can't remember if that was at the same time as when we were getting more injuries than Paulus' lads at Stalingrad.

[Tuscans]

🚨 Aston Villa are on a ‘huge’ offensive for RC Strasbourg midfielder Habib Diarra.
@MohamedTERParis