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

[RamboandBruno]

I would be really gutted if JJ goes, in many ways would sting more than Martinez. I think JJ has so much more to give.

[Monty]

JJ to Newcastle and Martinez to Man Utd would sour me so much on football in general. Think I'd just watch cricket and tennis. And maybe the women's game.

[cdbearsfan]

We've even less chance of holding onto our best players in the women's game.

[Monty]

Yeah but I watch the sport as more of a general fan than a club fan on that side. Less bullshit in general (though it is growing, sadly).

[Rigadon]

JJ to Newcastle and Martinez to Man Utd would sour me so much on football in general. Think I'd just watch cricket and tennis. And maybe the women's game.

HERETIC! 

I can live with Martinez at Man Utd if Rashford came in the other direction.  But JJ to Newcastle for £30m?  Fuck off.

[cdbearsfan]

Ramsey for £30 million feels very much like when Tottenham tried to act like vultures and take Grealish off us when we were on life support. It's an absolute pittance, an insult. Arguably worse because we weren't, in any way, competing with Tottenham at the time. As usual, a match against Man Ufuckingnited has ruined everything.

[Drummond]

I mean, £30m would almost not be worth it. Just take a points deduction at that stage, fuck's sake. £30m for Jacob Ramsey? In this market? Why don't we just babysit their dogs and help them move while we're at it? Would be a grave and barely forgivable fuck up, in my view, either in the actual transaction or, if you prefer, in the strategy that's got us here in the first place.

Exactly. Of course there is the potential link to Barnes coming the other way as well... But still.

[Rigadon]

I mean, £30m would almost not be worth it. Just take a points deduction at that stage, fuck's sake. £30m for Jacob Ramsey? In this market? Why don't we just babysit their dogs and help them move while we're at it? Would be a grave and barely forgivable fuck up, in my view, either in the actual transaction or, if you prefer, in the strategy that's got us here in the first place.

Exactly. Of course there is the potential link to Barnes coming the other way as well... But still.

Barnes is shit. I'd rather the cash (and I don't want that either!)

[cdbearsfan]

I don't mind Barnes but it still leaves us effectively a player short in Europe.

[ozzjim]

Yep, Howe fits that shitty bunch of bastards right down to the ground.

A man who keeps that awful assistant about to do his dirty work. After they beat Arsenal in the league cup Howes interview was fascinating, basically saying he drills into the team they are in 11 one on one battles, and to win theirs, in any way possible, including going over the line to make sure.

[Rigadon]

Barnes is a mid table winger who has the odd cracking game.  Should be at Fulham or somewhere like that. 

[Rigadon]

Yep, Howe fits that shitty bunch of bastards right down to the ground.

A man who keeps that awful assistant about to do his dirty work. After they beat Arsenal in the league cup Howes interview was fascinating, basically saying he drills into the team they are in 11 one on one battles, and to win theirs, in any way possible, including going over the line to make sure.

Doesn't surprise me at all.  It's one step up from those 'classic' Wimbledon or Stoke sides.  Hideous. 

[Monty]

Ghastly manosphere football bizarrely tolerated by a feckless media that still wanks itself to sleep with a fat fist thinking about Phillippe Albert's chip.

[ozzjim]

Yep, Howe fits that shitty bunch of bastards right down to the ground.

A man who keeps that awful assistant about to do his dirty work. After they beat Arsenal in the league cup Howes interview was fascinating, basically saying he drills into the team they are in 11 one on one battles, and to win theirs, in any way possible, including going over the line to make sure.

Doesn't surprise me at all.  It's one step up from those 'classic' Wimbledon or Stoke sides.  Hideous. 

Not one game where Joelinton should not have got 2 bookings that I watched last season.

[Villa in Denmark]

Barnes is a mid table winger who has the odd cracking game.  Should be at Fulham or somewhere like that. 

Yeps.