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

[jwarry]

Romano
🚨🛑 Aston Villa confirm they’re not activating £40m buy option clause for Marcus Rashford.

Rashford returns to Manchester United… and £40m price remains available for any club interested in Marcus this summer.

I take this as his interpretation of the official statement thanking them for their services

[Drummond]

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@AVFCOfficial
Aston Villa would like to thank Robin Olsen and Kortney Hause following the expiration of their contracts, as well as our loan players as they return to their respective parent clubs.

I take it that's official bye bye for Rashford, Asensio and Disasi.

It is, but only because we had agreed to loan them until June 30th.

It doesn't mean that they can't come back again in a day, a week or a month.

This is precisely the clarification that will be needed until the end of the Transfer Window I reckon.

(Having said that, I don't think we'd want Rashford on those wages in the Europa League, and he wouldn't want to come anyway)

[Tuscans]

🚨NEW: Ollie Watkins is on Manchester United’s list of potential centre-forward options in the event Rasmus Højlund leaves the club.
@lauriewhitwell

[Percy McCarthy]

The fact that we have agreed to reduce costs this summer by 10 percent still means biggy or biggies going out the door?

Are you sure it’s costs and not the wages to revenue ratio that has got to be reduced by 10%?

Because UEFA don’t care about costs in isolation or they’d have something to say about PSG & Real Madrid.

[AV84]

🚨NEW: Ollie Watkins is on Manchester United’s list of potential centre-forward options in the event Rasmus Højlund leaves the club.
@lauriewhitwell

I could see it happening if they were still in a European competition like last year, but why would someone like Watkins want to play no European football at all next season? Not that he's ancient, but at his age I wouldn't want to be wasting a season there.

[Sexual Ealing]

The $ame reason Martinez would go there.

[kippaxvilla2]

The fact that we have agreed to reduce costs this summer by 10 percent still means biggy or biggies going out the door?

Are you sure it’s costs and not the wages to revenue ratio that has got to be reduced by 10%?

Because UEFA don’t care about costs in isolation or they’d have something to say about PSG & Real Madrid.

The statement I think said costs but I think it might just be awkwardly worded and mean wage costs.

[LeeB]

The $ame reason Martinez would go there.

They both slogged it out for years on what you imagine is piddling sums compared to what they will earn with what would be their last big payday, enough for the apocalypse proof bunker and weaponised exoskeleton anyone with the means to plan for the future would need.

[pauliewalnuts]

The fact that we have agreed to reduce costs this summer by 10 percent still means biggy or biggies going out the door?

Are you sure it’s costs and not the wages to revenue ratio that has got to be reduced by 10%?

Because UEFA don’t care about costs in isolation or they’d have something to say about PSG & Real Madrid.

The statement I think said costs but I think it might just be awkwardly worded and mean wage costs.

Wages to turnover is the UEFA one, but they tend to get not-very-angry about that stuff, as they just impose relatively insignificant fines.

So in other words FUCK THOSE GUYS, we're not scared of them.

[manic-road]

The fact that we have agreed to reduce costs this summer by 10 percent still means biggy or biggies going out the door?

Martinez and Digne would sort it.

Sure Buendia, Dendoncker, Moreno and maybe Bailey would more than sort it also…hopefully on the first three in particular

Maybe Louie Barry as well.

[Demitri_C]

If we can terminate coutinhos contract get buendia bailey and dendonker  off the books i think that massively  helps us.

Obviously  if a big name player like emi goes then the wage bill looks a lot healthier

Im pretty sure digne will leave on a free next summer which will help on the wage side too

[eamonn]

With loan signings, it's a bit of a pisser that they last an extra month ie til the end of June rather than when the season ends in late-May. So you're left with the massive wages of Rashford and Asensio for a few more weeks when they may have kicked their last for the club.

Although in fairness to Marcus, he did his bit for our marketing division by lending Garnacho one of his Villa shirts...

[frank black]

If we can terminate coutinhos contract get buendia bailey and dendonker  off the books i think that massively  helps us.

Obviously  if a big name player like emi goes then the wage bill looks a lot healthier

Im pretty sure digne will leave on a free next summer which will help on the wage side too

Does it? Wouldn’t we have to pay them a massive wedge of wages to do this, therefore increasing this season’s wage bill ? I don’t know the answer to this?

[pauliewalnuts]

If we can terminate coutinhos contract get buendia bailey and dendonker  off the books i think that massively  helps us.

Yeah, I agree, however worth noting, we can't just shift these players off the books and not replace them all, so they're not a total flushing of the wage bill.

[cdbearsfan]

We should just get a couple of good honest lads with plenty of passion off the Holte End who are willing to play for free and watch the trophies roll in.