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

[brontebilly]

Our very own James Rodriguez. Got the permanent deal and didn't try a leg thereafter. Carragher correctly described him as a "seven a side player". Must be up there with likes of Richards as one of our biggest ever flops. 

[SaddVillan]

I'm guessing we've given him a chunk of dosh to get him off the books.

Less than what he's due over the final, but enough to tempt him to quit.

What an almost complete waste of money he's been.

£17m fee and £27m in wages, plus the 6 months when he was on loan - another £3.5m

So that's £47.5m down the pan.

Cheers Steeeevie

[SaddVillan]

I'm guessing we've given him a chunk of dosh to get him off the books.

Less than what he's due over the final, but enough to tempt him to quit.

What an almost complete waste of money he's been.

£17m fee and £27m in wages, plus the 6 months when he was on loan - another £3.5m

So that's £47.5m down the pan.

Cheers Steeeevie

[Brazilian Villain]

What an almost complete waste of money he's been.

£17m fee and £27m in wages, plus the 6 months when he was on loan - another £3.5m

So that's £47.5m down the pan.

Cheers Steeeevie

When we signed him, my recollection is that the vast majority on here were very happy. Wasn't there talk of "we've pulled their pants down" getting him for £17m when the agreed fee was €40m?

[SaddVillan]

We may have pulled their pants down, but it transpired that the Emporer wasn't wearing any clothes.

[SaddVillan]

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

A bit more background from The Athletic

Hull City hit with three-window transfer ban by EFL for failing to maintain payments

Hull City have been placed under a transfer embargo by the English Football League (EFL) to cast doubt over the Championship club’s financial health.

Hull have been sanctioned for failing to maintain transfer payments and sources with knowledge of the matter not authorised to speak publicly indicate that it relates to money owed to Aston Villa after Louie Barry was loaned from the Premier League club last season.

Villa are still due £1million in outstanding loan fees and wages by Hull, who signed Barry in the January transfer window.

An agreement had been reached for Hull to sign the youngster in a permanent £3.5m deal earlier this week but their failure to clear debts already owed to Villa has shelved those plans.


I can't see that Barry would have wanted to go there if they can't pay last season’s money, he might be wondering if he'll be getting  paid regularly.

[Brazilian Villain]

I can't see that Barry would have wanted to go there if they can't pay last season’s money, he might be wondering if he'll be getting  paid regularly.

Plus he'd be living in Hull.

[cdbearsfan]

I doubt that.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Poor Louie, he’s been to Hull and back.

[SaddVillan]

I can't see that Barry would have wanted to go there if they can't pay last season’s money, he might be wondering if he'll be getting  paid regularly.

Plus he'd be living in Hull.

"From Hell, Hull, and Halifax,
Good Lord Deliver Us.”

[kippaxvilla2]

I'm guessing we've given him a chunk of dosh to get him off the books.

Less than what he's due over the final, but enough to tempt him to quit.

What an almost complete waste of money he's been.

£17m fee and £27m in wages, plus the 6 months when he was on loan - another £3.5m

So that's £47.5m down the pan.

Cheers Steeeevie

[Somniloquism]

What an almost complete waste of money he's been.

£17m fee and £27m in wages, plus the 6 months when he was on loan - another £3.5m

So that's £47.5m down the pan.

Cheers Steeeevie

When we signed him, my recollection is that the vast majority on here were very happy. Wasn't there talk of "we've pulled their pants down" getting him for £17m when the agreed fee was €40m?

There might have been some saying that. I was against giving him a contract myself at the time.

[paul_e]

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but I think most of us thought for the fee/wage that we were getting someone who might only play 1/2-2/3 games but had a bit of magic that was very much needed in a team built around that by a idiot of a manager. I suspect he'd have provided it, to a degree, if we'd signed almost anyone else to replace Gerrard but getting in an elite manager who's teams are built around following plans and structured patterns of play he just wasn't what we needed.

[eamonn]

Bronte had his card marked as a Hamez Rodriguez fairly early in fairness. His controversial player match ratings meant most Heroes preferred to drink the kool-aid.

[brontebilly]

Bronte had his card marked as a Hamez Rodriguez fairly early in fairness. His controversial player match ratings meant most Heroes preferred to drink the kool-aid.

Stopped clocks etc

Similar reason Id be against Asensio on a permanent deal too