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

[Gareth]

Looks like Arsenal are going to pay the £5 million release clause for Kepa arrivabalata. Surely we should have been in at that kind of money?

Guess he’s on 150k a week plus being a 70m signing for Chelsea- an expensive number 2 so to speak

Been v good this season, easily Chelsea’s best keeper but guess bridges were burnt there

[Toronto Villa]

Certainly by the lack of activity or urgency as there was last summer to get players moved quickly it might be that our PSR issues aren’t as desperate as we think or some parts of the media are making it out to be. Might just be the sale of one player before the deadline and then it all kicks off again in July. It would be great not to have to sell anyone of significance this summer and only those where it makes sense. And there are more than enough of those fringe players at the club.

[Demitri_C]

We need a right back not a left back unai. Fundamentally been our biggest issue for last few seasons. Our big money signing this summer needs to be a quality RB. Happily let cash go tbh

[Beard82]

Just checked with Mrs Beard - we moved last summer - and I was worried it wasnt sorted. 

Apparently we have one - but the Enforcement officer arrived at the door - claiming we didnt have one - but she told them they did and a quick phone call confirmed we were right.

Not a great story - but we need to change the poll to multi-choice as I have a TV licence and also have an enforcement visit

[cdbearsfan]

Just checked with Mrs Beard - we moved last summer - and I was worried it wasnt sorted. 

Apparently we have one - but the Enforcement officer arrived at the door - claiming we didnt have one - but she told them they did and a quick phone call confirmed we were right.

Not a great story - but we need to change the poll to multi-choice as I have a TV licence and also have an enforcement visit

Who does she think we should sign?

[Dave]

Certainly by the lack of activity or urgency as there was last summer to get players moved quickly it might be that our PSR issues aren’t as desperate as we think or some parts of the media are making it out to be.

I don't think they're desperate (next summer might well be different), but our panicky PSR stuff with Everton was on June 22nd last year. The Juventus stuff was June 30th.

There's no reason to think it's not fine, but things not happening now isn't evidence of that.

[Brazilian Villain]

Just checked with Mrs Beard - we moved last summer - and I was worried it wasnt sorted. 

Apparently we have one - but the Enforcement officer arrived at the door - claiming we didnt have one - but she told them they did and a quick phone call confirmed we were right.

Cool story, but I believe this thread is for football rather than property transfers.

[Demitri_C]

I think its silly  the window is closing because of the world club championship

[Toronto Villa]

Certainly by the lack of activity or urgency as there was last summer to get players moved quickly it might be that our PSR issues aren’t as desperate as we think or some parts of the media are making it out to be.

I don't think they're desperate (next summer might well be different), but our panicky PSR stuff with Everton was on June 22nd last year. The Juventus stuff was June 30th.

There's no reason to think it's not fine, but things not happening now isn't evidence of that.

It felt there was a lot more chatter though before those deals happened. That we needed to do a lot and seemed a lot more active trying to get deals done. The mind might be playing tricks as well as my memory but it “feels” a little calmer. Even with the absence of CL football.

[Dave]

Certainly by the lack of activity or urgency as there was last summer to get players moved quickly it might be that our PSR issues aren’t as desperate as we think or some parts of the media are making it out to be.

I don't think they're desperate (next summer might well be different), but our panicky PSR stuff with Everton was on June 22nd last year. The Juventus stuff was June 30th.

There's no reason to think it's not fine, but things not happening now isn't evidence of that.

It felt there was a lot more chatter though before those deals happened. That we needed to do a lot and seemed a lot more active trying to get deals done. The mind might be playing tricks as well as my memory but it “feels” a little calmer. Even with the absence of CL football.

I had a quick gander at the PSR thread from this time last year to see - it's stuff about Man City suing the Premier League and people calling someone called Kieron McKenna stupid because he thought we might have trouble with our finances.

There was little, if any concern.

[Percy McCarthy]

Certainly by the lack of activity or urgency as there was last summer to get players moved quickly it might be that our PSR issues aren’t as desperate as we think or some parts of the media are making it out to be.

I don't think they're desperate (next summer might well be different), but our panicky PSR stuff with Everton was on June 22nd last year. The Juventus stuff was June 30th.

There's no reason to think it's not fine, but things not happening now isn't evidence of that.

The finance bloke I like (Dave Powell) said we should be under less pressure next year as a £119m loss drops out of our three-year cycle.

[Demitri_C]

Isnt the rules changing next season though?

[eamonn]

Kieron McKenna! Told us Villa's finances were Dyer.

[Dave]

Certainly by the lack of activity or urgency as there was last summer to get players moved quickly it might be that our PSR issues aren’t as desperate as we think or some parts of the media are making it out to be.

I don't think they're desperate (next summer might well be different), but our panicky PSR stuff with Everton was on June 22nd last year. The Juventus stuff was June 30th.

There's no reason to think it's not fine, but things not happening now isn't evidence of that.

The finance bloke I like (Dave Powell) said we should be under less pressure next year as a £119m loss drops out of our three-year cycle.

But the UEFA wages-as-a-percentage-of-turnover requiement goes from a 80% maximum to a 70% maximum in a year when we don't have Champions League money on the books.

Assuming our plan is to be in a UEFA competition of some sort.

[Dogtanian]

Certainly by the lack of activity or urgency as there was last summer to get players moved quickly it might be that our PSR issues aren’t as desperate as we think or some parts of the media are making it out to be.

I don't think they're desperate (next summer might well be different), but our panicky PSR stuff with Everton was on June 22nd last year. The Juventus stuff was June 30th.

There's no reason to think it's not fine, but things not happening now isn't evidence of that.

The finance bloke I like (Dave Powell) said we should be under less pressure next year as a £119m loss drops out of our three-year cycle.

This is correct. The big loss drops off, but also forces us to make a profit in the 2024-25 books to cover it. So the next three year cycle starts with two years that add up to a very small loss, freeing us up considerably.