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

[Gareth]

On the goalkeeping situation I have a feeling proctor is going to become the number 2 very quickly.

I suspect James Wright will be number 2 before Proctor….wouldnt be surprised if Proctor goes to Unai’s team on loan this season

[pauliewalnuts]

On the goalkeeping situation I have a feeling proctor is going to become the number 2 very quickly.

I agree, this is why I could see us giving Gauci a chance for a season.

There's no chance of Gauci getting any significant game time.

I agree - what I've seen of him, admittedly not a massive amount what with me not watching football every minute of the day, he's nowhere near good enough for us to be relying on.

[Duncan Shaw]

BBC Sport reporting the Everton interest in McGinn. Well McNulty the Merseyside editor is anyway.

This is very annoying, they don't usually report on speculation, just trying to promote Everton to higher in the pecking order than us.

[paul_e]

On the goalkeeping situation I have a feeling proctor is going to become the number 2 very quickly.

I agree, this is why I could see us giving Gauci a chance for a season.

There's no chance of Gauci getting any significant game time.

Again though, if he's not ready to be 2nd choice for 6-12months then there's no point in him being here because Proctor looks perfectly fine to be 3rd choice right now.

[Chap]

Ferran Torres being mentioned on the BBC Gossip page again.

[Dave]

On the goalkeeping situation I have a feeling proctor is going to become the number 2 very quickly.

I agree, this is why I could see us giving Gauci a chance for a season.

There's no chance of Gauci getting any significant game time.

Again though, if he's not ready to be 2nd choice for 6-12months then there's no point in him being here because Proctor looks perfectly fine to be 3rd choice right now.

There's probably nobody who knows less about this stuff than me, but isn't Zych supposed to be pretty decent?

[Gareth]

Ferran Torres and Joao Felix are the ones Unai is continually linked with…hopefully we can do those if they are the players he wants

[Sexual Ealing]

BBC Sport reporting the Everton interest in McGinn. Well McNulty the Merseyside editor is anyway.

This is very annoying, they don't usually report on speculation, just trying to promote Everton to higher in the pecking order than us.

Yep, that'll be it.

[Demitri_C]

We 100% need at least one keeper as god knows who is playing in goal vs newcastle.

If emi goes we need two. If we dont sign a first choice right back this season i think im going to put my head through the wall. Its been a problem for our team for years now and has to be addressed this summer.

We of course will need replacements for asensio and rash (but maybe one of them could be a loan instead of two permanent signings) so some work  to do

Probably, but if Gauci isn't good enough to be 2nd choice then I'm not sure what the point of him being here is. We have to make do with a negative net spend this summer and in those conditions a goalkeeper who is highly unlikely to play a single minute isn't much use. Same for wanting a replacement for Cash or even more backup in central midfield. We need another winger and a right sided centre half because our only options there are to move players out of position to fill in. After that our signings will be to replace gaps where we've sold the first or 2nd choice option, and I only see 2 of those at most (Bailey and Digne would be my guess).

Agree with that about gauci. I think it would make sense to just ahve him as number 2 next year and use him in the cup games.

[brontebilly]

On the goalkeeping situation I have a feeling proctor is going to become the number 2 very quickly.

I agree, this is why I could see us giving Gauci a chance for a season.

There's no chance of Gauci getting any significant game time.

I agree - what I've seen of him, admittedly not a massive amount what with me not watching football every minute of the day, he's nowhere near good enough for us to be relying on.

He looked like Brad Guzan's long lost cousin in one of the cup games last season. Not sure it was just nerves either.

If it's wages that need to come down before we add to the squad, it's somewhat inevitable that Bailey plus one of Martinez/Kamara will go I think. Wouldn't be surprised if Emery looked to trade Malen too, I like him but not sure Emery is that keen. The fact we brought both Asensio and Rashford in about a week after we signed Malen maybe suggests Emery wasn't all that keen to begin with.

Every club tries to shed deadwood but it's not going to be easy move on the likes of Donk, Moreno and Buendia unless we subsidise their deals. Can't imagine we are paying likes of Dobbin, SIJ, Enzo and Kosta all that much. Is that really going to cut the wage bill all that much?

Going to require a bit of a miracle transfer window, possibly with NFL style trades, to strengthen the squad for another 55+ game season while still aiming for another mid 60 points total in the league and going deep in cup competitions.

[Steve67]

Ferran Torres and Joao Felix are the ones Unai is continually linked with…hopefully we can do those if they are the players he wants

It’s probably now or never, especially for Felix. Might just get a bit of a bargain.

[PaulWinch again]

Ferran Torres and Joao Felix are the ones Unai is continually linked with…hopefully we can do those if they are the players he wants

It’s probably now or never, especially for Felix. Might just get a bit of a bargain.

He is pretty continuously failing now. I think we’d be mad to look at him.

[Rory]

And there I was thinking Kippax was attempting a proctology joke, with 'procto-' and 'number 2'.

Maybe I just wanted it to be that.

[Flamingo Lane]

Ferran Torres and Joao Felix are the ones Unai is continually linked with…hopefully we can do those if they are the players he wants

It’s probably now or never, especially for Felix. Might just get a bit of a bargain.

He's a terrible player.

[kippaxvilla2]

Arsenal signing Eze now it seems.  If they don’t start well Lego head will be for it.