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

[Walmley_Villa]

This is getting tedious.  Can we get back on topic?  Films/actors that can also be loosely related to transfers.  The Sean Bean to Villa rumours seem to have gone quiet.

The Bastard! (Sharpe reference) - just seen Drummond's post!

[ozzjim]

Coming back to this joyful window so far. Nyapan joining Man City looks a blow, but the size of fees being talked about for our outs seems to be out of kilter with the rest of the market at the moment. If we can shed Bailey, comply with PSR and keep the rest together, even just a couple of loans we'll be up there again and try and do a Newcastle last summer, stay quiet and then have much more room next summer

[Steve67]

Remembering we didn’t have Rashford available at the end of the season, if we start next season like we finish last season, we will do okay.

[Beard82]

This is getting tedious.  Can we get back on topic?  Films/actors that can also be loosely related to transfers.  The Sean Bean to Villa rumours seem to have gone quiet.

The Bastard! (Sharpe reference) - just seen Drummond's post!

Ah - never seen Sharpe.  Let me guess - does he die?

[Anthenagin]

One last post on the fax theme. A mate of mine was tour manager for The Fall until Mark E Smith’s demise. MES insisted on communicating by fax from his local corner shop (tour itineraries, riders etc.) right up until he died in 2018.

[Beard82]

Wow, I never knew Mark E Smith was a Plymouth Brethren

[Sexual Ealing]

One last post on the fax theme. A mate of mine was tour manager for The Fall until Mark E Smith’s demise. MES insisted on communicating by fax from his local corner shop (tour itineraries, riders etc.) right up until he died in 2018.

We'll be the judge of that, thank you very much (although this is a very entertaining post)!

Was it Phil Collins who divorced his wife/was divorced by his wife over fax?

[Exeter 77]

I remember Tony Cascarino's wire found out he'd been playing away and had a daughter with another woman after she read a fax he had just dropped invs hotel room bin.

[paul_e]

All the reports seem to suggest that the PSR shortfall is 'only' £15m or so, wonder why we don't sell a kid to one of our feeder clubs for that.

I think most of them are getting that figure through a misunderstanding.

The only time I've seen any actual analysis that comes up with that figure is where people have looked at our losses for 23/24 and 24/25 and said that we can only afford a loss of £15m if we are to fit the rules. Since then it's been repeated and twisted until it' morphed into a fact that we need to find £15m before the end of the month.

Why I don't believe that at all is that there's no analysis that I've seen which accounts £100m increase in revenue from improved sponsorship and Champions league money or accounts for the fact that we're 'only' paying 12months of wages this season not 13months like last year.

23/24 accounts have a turnover of £263m and Opex of £319m they don't state what wages were but the deloitte report had that as £252m. We can convert that to £232m when cut down to 12 months and, even if we don't do that with all other expenses, that takes us below £300m in costs. Heck has already said revenue for this season is over £360m (and with our reported income from the CL and the new sponsorship money that fits). So, without considering player trading, we'd need to have added £75m to our costs to 'be in trouble'.

Once you add players in that gets even more unlikely, assuming book values I make the profit as something like:
Iroegbunam (+10m)
Sinisalo (+1m)
Sanson (+2m)
Archer (+1m)
Diaby (+14m)
Philogene (+8m)
Carlos (~0m)
Duran (+50m)
+~86m

Add that to the £75m above and we'd need to have spent over £160m more than last season to be in trouble, given transfer values are amortised we won't be anywhere near that and I can't think of any costs (that can't be dismissed, such as the work on the ground and academy) that would put us in trouble.

[RamboandBruno]

One last post on the fax theme. A mate of mine was tour manager for The Fall until Mark E Smith’s demise. MES insisted on communicating by fax from his local corner shop (tour itineraries, riders etc.) right up until he died in 2018.

Would expect nothing less of the great man.
Last time I saw them live was about 2015 at a really small festival in Warwickshire, very family orientated with lots of families and younger kids. Funny seeing MES giving it the full Fall to a bunch of bemused young uns, although he did unfortunately piss himself towards the end of his set.

[Stu82]

Wow, I never knew Mark E Smith was a Plymouth Brethren

His stuff didn’t get much air play on radio!

[DrGonzo]

This is getting tedious.  Can we get back on topic?  Films/actors that can also be loosely related to transfers.  The Sean Bean to Villa rumours seem to have gone quiet.

The Bastard! (Sharpe reference) - just seen Drummond's post!

Ah - never seen Sharpe.  Let me guess - does he die?

Spoiler for Hiden:

Not yet!  Think he's retired unhurt!!

[Anthenagin]

One last post on the fax theme. A mate of mine was tour manager for The Fall until Mark E Smith’s demise. MES insisted on communicating by fax from his local corner shop (tour itineraries, riders etc.) right up until he died in 2018.

We'll be the judge of that, thank you very much (although this is a very entertaining post)!

Was it Phil Collins who divorced his wife/was divorced by his wife over fax?

I always thought it was Chris De Burgh who told his wife he wanted a divorce by fax, I think Collins’ wife dumped him.

[cdbearsfan]

Collins story seems to be a misunderstanding.

(According to Google):
"The persistent rumor that Phil Collins divorced his second wife, Jill Tavelman, by fax was a misunderstanding. While he did send a fax while in Frankfurt to arrange visitation with their children and mentioned the marriage was over, the phrase "divorced by fax" was a misinterpretation. Collins has addressed this "Faxgate" rumor, stating it hurt his career and public persona. He insists the divorce was not finalized via fax and that the fax was about arranging visitation."

He's still a twat, though.

[kippaxvilla2]

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