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

[kippaxvilla2]

If we want to link films with transfer speculation I hope we sign Sean Bean from Sheffield United he was terrific on his debut.

[Dogtanian]

As long as we don’t replace Martinez with Stallone.

[Mellin]

That Parma team was great. Cannavaro 😎

It's always defenders for me (McGrath, Mellberg and Laursen are my top three by a mile). That Milan backline, Maldini especially, was different level.

Rolled into the noughties too. Cafu Stam Nesta Maldini is unparalleled. What they were doing shipping 3 in a half to Smicer and co, I have no idea.

[ozzjim]

If we want to link films with transfer speculation I hope we sign Sean Bean from Sheffield United he was terrific on his debut.

Quite slow though after losing his head and all that.

Really has gone very quiet, which is unusual because Monchi is wheeling and dealing by now. Something feels a bit off at the moment and I can't quite work out what, but there is a strange feeling about Villa that has been fairly universally positive for the last 2.5 years, and now seems very uncertain. Almost like we are stepping between eras, but having to do it with our hands tied, and no one is sure what the future looks like.

[edgysatsuma89]

How does 'something feel off'? I don't understand these sentiments. What needs to have happened by now for it not to 'feel off'? I get uncertainty, and maybe it will end up all being shit, but the window has only just opened. I don't get how anyone is reading anything into it, positive or negative.

[Clampy]

It's not gone quiet, the window has been open for 48 hours.

[Dogtanian]

I just think everyone is feeling the effects of the first season in the last three to end in disappointment.

We lost the Champions League place in the most hideously awful way, and along with the FA Cup semi, it’s naturally got a lot of people thinking back to the shit show we’ve been through and worrying we’ve missed our chance.

We just need to get through the summer and try and move on, and put faith in the good people we have in place to make the best of our situation and find a way to get over it.

[edgysatsuma89]

I mean, I get that missing out on the CL is really shit, but I still don't get how you can then make the leap to thinking something 'is off'. It doesn't make sense to me 2 days into a window, we literally have nothing to go on! We'll probably miss out on some targets because of the lack of CL, maybe we have to sell another player we wouldn't previously have sold, maybe someone else will want to leave that wouldn't have if we had CL, that's all just pretty logical, but that's all it is.

[Dogtanian]

It’s not specifically that. It’s that the last match was such a massive downer, it’s like getting dumped, or losing your job, or waking up in a world where Micah Richards exists… it taints everything.

So right now, we need two positives.

[Skerra]

Correct me if I’m wrong but, I thought Manure were heavily in debt so, how come they’ve already splashed the cash on Cunha and Mbuemo? I take it PSR doesn’t apply to them!!

[pauliewalnuts]

Correct me if I’m wrong but, I thought Manure were heavily in debt so, how come they’ve already splashed the cash on Cunha and Mbuemo? I take it PSR doesn’t apply to them!!

Revenue. They might be heavily in debt but they have enormous revenue.

[Percy McCarthy]

Crotone are from Calabria as well - lower leagues now, but played in Serie A within the last decade.

Cosenza and Catanzaro decent sized clubs from there too.

If we are talking Calabria Mafia, they're the 'Ndrangheta.

Yes. Multi, multi billions in revenue - worldwide cocaine distribution.

[ChicagoLion]

It’s not specifically that. It’s that the last match was such a massive downer, it’s like getting dumped, or losing your job, or waking up in a world where Micah Richards exists… it taints everything.

So right now, we need two positives.

Hard to  think of a worse way to end the season, the injustice of the non goal and the humiliating shit show of a performance , there of all places. The fact it happened so soon after the Wembley debacle.
As you say, the first in 3 seasons to not end on a high.
In fact quite the opposite.
Out of the darkness cometh light.

[ozzjim]

Correct me if I’m wrong but, I thought Manure were heavily in debt so, how come they’ve already splashed the cash on Cunha and Mbuemo? I take it PSR doesn’t apply to them!!

Revenue. They might be heavily in debt but they have enormous revenue.

Almost £400m more than us. It's not that element that annoys me as much as there being no mechanism to allow genuinely ambitious owners to find a way to catch up.

[Dave]

Correct me if I’m wrong but, I thought Manure were heavily in debt so, how come they’ve already splashed the cash on Cunha and Mbuemo? I take it PSR doesn’t apply to them!!

PSR does apply to them, but debt doesn't matter for PSR which focuses on annual losses.

Spurs are probably in one of the strongest PSR positions in the league due to their revenue and the Kane sale, but they still have a gross debt of nearly £900m, which is more than Man Utd.