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

[LeonW]

I suspect it’ll be a very quiet summer to be honest, particularly post the UEFA sanctions. If we ship some of the dead wood out and youngsters then we might get 1 or 2 in but I wouldn’t be expecting much more than that.

I’m usually quite risk averse but to be honest, I do think we should just float the rules and accept a heavier fine ala Chelsea.

[Steve67]

Meanwhile, Chelsea keep spending. 

[ChicagoLion]

It’s as much finishing outside the CL places as PSR.
We are now seeing the cost of that shit show at Old Trafford.

[cdbearsfan]

I've kind of felt like we might have missed our chance, again, since the Wembley debacle. Don't think we will ever have such a strong squad again, the rules are in place to stop us doing so. Nothing that has happened since has changed my mind.

[Gareth]

I’m backing Monchi & co to do their wheeling and dealing through the window…don’t think anyone expected any incomings of note until July 1st, most expected a big outgoing that didn’t happen.  It’s not even a week into July so I think there is plenty of time.

[kippaxvilla2]

The market has not been that busy really.

[OCD]

There's a lot of negativity on here, which I get but disagree with.

Re: us being a midtable side without the loaned players because that's where we were January. That doesn't account for the amount of points we dropped from having lower energy levels after CL games or having a spell in the season where we were having to cobble a defence together. With that run-in we didn't just have the loan players but we got a lot of players healthy again and then rotated with greater effect to not risk anyone.

We couldn't bring anyone in before Tuesday because it would have gone into our accounts and fucked up our PSR. We were probably awaiting Uefa's decision too. We'll have plans in place for the different scenarios but it will take a while before we see the outcomes.

We've either got to do some clever, strategic moves (which we're capable of doing these days) or we act in a way where we know the actions Uefa will take but we're prepared to accept them.

Being in a lesser European competition allows us to develop players. Our kids just won the treble and we may be able to sell off old heads and bring in young players full of potential. Then our coaches can work on fulfulling their potential.

I don't buy into the doom and gloom. We've had our cards dealt and we can work with what we've got.

[Villatillidie25]

This kind of logical, thought out sentiment isn’t welcome 🤣

[Dante Lavelli]

Being in a lesser European competition allows us to develop players. Our kids just won the treble and we may be able to sell off old heads and bring in young players full of potential. Then our coaches can work on fulfulling their potential.

I don't buy into the doom and gloom. We've had our cards dealt and we can work with what we've got.

Yep, all clubs sometimes need to reframe what success looks like and in our case the above is an achievable objective.

However, which are the potential swaps (assuming no one leaves in the meantime):

Digne to Maatsen
Cash to Garcia
Watkins to Malen
Barrenchea to ??

[sid1964]

Trying to get rid of our dead wood (Dendoncker, Buendia etc..) is going to prove difficult- who else is going to pay Dendoncker £90k a week??

[Woody17]

I've kind of felt like we might have missed our chance, again, since the Wembley debacle. Don't think we will ever have such a strong squad again, the rules are in place to stop us doing so. Nothing that has happened since has changed my mind.

This is how I see it too. Last season was phenomenal and a quite a ride.
I can’t see us having a season like that again for a very long time, sadly.

[Ian.]

I've kind of felt like we might have missed our chance, again, since the Wembley debacle. Don't think we will ever have such a strong squad again, the rules are in place to stop us doing so. Nothing that has happened since has changed my mind.

This is how I see it too. Last season was phenomenal and a quite a ride.
I can’t see us having a season like that again for a very long time, sadly.

However, we still didn’t quite hit the same heights in spectacular or consistently as the first half of the previous season. Those months when Dougie and Bailey were playing at the top of their game was such a joy to behold.

Last season we obviously had the torrid injury list which hugely impacted the ability to select a steady back four and for a while we lacked the pace which Diaby gave us. Of course the Champions Leagues games took their toll too.

What I’m saying though, I’m still confident with a few minor tweaks Emery will know what’s needed and we’ll compete again. We definitely seem to have to work extra hard, more so than Chelsea, Spurs and I know they are shit at the moment, but Man Utd who all seem to be able to do what they want in the transfer market.

[wolfman999]

I've kind of felt like we might have missed our chance, again, since the Wembley debacle. Don't think we will ever have such a strong squad again, the rules are in place to stop us doing so. Nothing that has happened since has changed my mind.

This is how I see it too. Last season was phenomenal and a quite a ride.
I can’t see us having a season like that again for a very long time, sadly.

But isn't the one good season followed by numerous indifferent ones where we look back nostalgically and say 'wasn't 24/25 great' exactly what we are trying to move away from?

[N'ZMAV]

There's a lot of negativity on here, which I get but disagree with.

Re: us being a midtable side without the loaned players because that's where we were January. That doesn't account for the amount of points we dropped from having lower energy levels after CL games or having a spell in the season where we were having to cobble a defence together. With that run-in we didn't just have the loan players but we got a lot of players healthy again and then rotated with greater effect to not risk anyone.

We couldn't bring anyone in before Tuesday because it would have gone into our accounts and fucked up our PSR. We were probably awaiting Uefa's decision too. We'll have plans in place for the different scenarios but it will take a while before we see the outcomes.

We've either got to do some clever, strategic moves (which we're capable of doing these days) or we act in a way where we know the actions Uefa will take but we're prepared to accept them.

Being in a lesser European competition allows us to develop players. Our kids just won the treble and we may be able to sell off old heads and bring in young players full of potential. Then our coaches can work on fulfulling their potential.

I don't buy into the doom and gloom. We've had our cards dealt and we can work with what we've got.

being in the Europa League gives us two shots at getting into the Champions League too

[eamonn]

Trying to get rid of our dead wood (Dendoncker, Buendia etc..) is going to prove difficult- who else is going to pay Dendoncker £90k a week??

The dickheads who decided to do so in the first place, Gerrard and Purslow. He can be a man-servant for each on alternating weeks.