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

[wolfman999]

I do hope we have a few surprises lined up as so far, we are just linked with selling our top players and replacing them with teenagers on free transfers.

[cdbearsfan]

Be careful, now. Danny Drinkwater was a surprise.

[Richard E]

‘Drinky’ was a shock rather than a surprise.

[kippaxvilla2]

Haha sorry.

[pauliewalnuts]

There's a player in Hoijland for sure.

A dead one, I presume?

[algy]

There's a player in Hoijland for sure.

Shit!  Quick, someone do the Heimlich maneuver on Hoijland ... he's swallowed a footballer!

[paul_e]

I'm with Ozz, he could be a decent player but they overpaid to such a ridiculous degree that they created a situation where the pressure on him was completely over the top. £70m for a guy who was worth about a 3rd of that at the time.

[nigel]

I'm with Ozz, he could be a decent player but they overpaid to such a ridiculous degree that they created a situation where the pressure on him was completely over the top. £70m for a guy who was worth about a 3rd of that at the time.

Agree, he’s obviously a decent player, but the price they paid was ridiculous.
In a better environment he will come good again

[eamonn]

Send him to the Wolfs, he can Scandinive their attack with Strand Larsen.

[kippaxvilla2]

I don’t like his face.  He’s prime nose material.

[Tuscans]

Hull City given three window EFL transfer ban for failing to maintain payments. Hull had agreed £3.5m deal for Louie Barry but
@TheAthleticFC
 reported affordability concerns - #hcafc still owe #AVFC in loan fee & wages from 22yo's Jan loan.
@PJBuckingham

[ldavfc4eva]

Barry is surely worth more than £3.5m? Not much more but £5m minimum with some add ins on top and a cheap buyback clause

[eamonn]

Apparently Palace are in for Azzaz from Boro for £25m
Wonder if we put in a sell-on clause.

[IFWaters]

If Dominic Cruciate-Ligament signs for us they will have to open a new wing at our rehabilitation facilities. No, no and thrice NO.

[Brazilian Villain]

Apparently Palace are in for Azzaz from Boro for £25m
Wonder if we put in a sell-on clause.

That seems like a lot. Presumably they're playing extra for the additional 'z'.