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

[algy]

Is it not just something like we're good for PSR at the moment, but the wage ratio is the imminent problem?  So for us it's actually beneficial to shift the wages off the books this season, but receive the money next season so it lasts longer in the amortisation calculations?

[wolfman999]

6th place Premier League finish, FA Cup semi final, Champions League 1/4 final, sold Duran for gbp70 mill plus others including Carlos in January yet we are acting as if we don't have a pot to piss in. The season starts 4 weeks on Saturday ffs.

[Sexual Ealing]

Is it not just something like we're good for PSR at the moment, but the wage ratio is the imminent problem?  So for us it's actually beneficial to shift the wages off the books this season, but receive the money next season so it lasts longer in the amortisation calculations?

Looks like something like that to me too, and I know loads about all the money and that.

[PaulWinch again]

Is it not just something like we're good for PSR at the moment, but the wage ratio is the imminent problem?  So for us it's actually beneficial to shift the wages off the books this season, but receive the money next season so it lasts longer in the amortisation calculations?

It is, but we basically need to record a profit on transfer to register any new players first Europe. So we need transfer fees in too, if we’re planning to buy anyone of any real quality.

[Sexual Ealing]

Is it not just something like we're good for PSR at the moment, but the wage ratio is the imminent problem?  So for us it's actually beneficial to shift the wages off the books this season, but receive the money next season so it lasts longer in the amortisation calculations?

It is, but we basically need to record a profit on transfer to register any new players first Europe. So we need transfer fees in too, if we’re planning to buy anyone of any real quality.

It doesn't look like we are, if we're to believe Monchi.

[OCD]

Is it not just something like we're good for PSR at the moment, but the wage ratio is the imminent problem?  So for us it's actually beneficial to shift the wages off the books this season, but receive the money next season so it lasts longer in the amortisation calculations?

It is, but we basically need to record a profit on transfer to register any new players first Europe. So we need transfer fees in too, if we’re planning to buy anyone of any real quality.

That assumes we're bothered about paying Uefa 5m next season for going over or having players that can play in the league but not Europe.

[andyh]

6th place Premier League finish, FA Cup semi final, Champions League 1/4 final, sold Duran for gbp70 mill plus others including Carlos in January yet we are acting as if we don't have a pot to piss in. The season starts 4 weeks on Saturday ffs.

I agree with this sentiment, although I’d say it ‘feels’ like we don’t have a pot to piss in, rather than we are acting like it.

[jwarry]

6th place Premier League finish, FA Cup semi final, Champions League 1/4 final, sold Duran for gbp70 mill plus others including Carlos in January yet we are acting as if we don't have a pot to piss in. The season starts 4 weeks on Saturday ffs.

I agree with this sentiment, although I’d say it ‘feels’ like we don’t have a pot to piss in, rather than we are acting like it.

You are confusing rules with money.  We like the Geordies have more than enough money but the bastards who had less money than us before the bridge was pulled up have now fucked us all over

[wolfman999]

6th place Premier League finish, FA Cup semi final, Champions League 1/4 final, sold Duran for gbp70 mill plus others including Carlos in January yet we are acting as if we don't have a pot to piss in. The season starts 4 weeks on Saturday ffs.

I agree with this sentiment, although I’d say it ‘feels’ like we don’t have a pot to piss in, rather than we are acting like it.

You are confusing rules with money.  We like the Geordies have more than enough money but the bastards who had less money than us before the bridge was pulled up have now fucked us all over

Then maybe it's about time we started challenging the legality of this in the Courts. Others such as Chelsea appear totally unconcerned about the punishment handed down by UEFA, which was more severe than ours. It seems like only we are shit scared of it.

[ASHTONVILLA]

Is it not just something like we're good for PSR at the moment, but the wage ratio is the imminent problem?  So for us it's actually beneficial to shift the wages off the books this season, but receive the money next season so it lasts longer in the amortisation calculations?

It is, but we basically need to record a profit on transfer to register any new players first Europe. So we need transfer fees in too, if we’re planning to buy anyone of any real quality.

It doesn't look like we are, if we're to believe Monchi.

Didn't we sign Rogers for about £10m, Duran for about £8m, McGinn for £1.5m? The vast majority of our best signings over the years have always been bargains like Yorke, Platt, McGrath or youth players like Shaw, Little, Grealish.

Just because we can't go out and spend mega money or mega wages on individual players this year, does not mean we can't improve. Indeed this set up is more capable of 1. finding value and 2. improving players than any I can remember in the last going on 50 years.

In any event if we trade out a few players we can outspend all but maybe 10 clubs in Europe. We can only have a squad of 26, it makes no sense to stack up players without clearing a few out even if there were no rules to contend with.

The moment we shift one of the bigger players, Bailey, Martinez or even Warkins or Kamara I think we start to see some good players come in.

I'm off to Australia and New Zealand for a month on saturday (via the US) if we haven't doen anything when I get back I may start to worry, but its early days yet.

[algy]

I'm off to Australia and New Zealand for a month on saturday (via the US) if we haven't doen anything when I get back I may start to worry, but its early days yet.

Amateur mistake there, Ashton mate. The US is to the west of us on the map, right over on that top left hand side, and New Zealand is all the way over on the far right of the map, down in that bottom corner.



See? You’ll end up having to fly back over Britain to get there!! You’d be better off going via somewhere like India, at least that’s in the right direction!

[VillaTim]

🚨 Aston Villa are understood to have now registered their interest in Manchester United winger Alejandro Garnacho.
@ChrisWheelerDM

Good news

[KevinGage]

6th place Premier League finish, FA Cup semi final, Champions League 1/4 final, sold Duran for gbp70 mill plus others including Carlos in January yet we are acting as if we don't have a pot to piss in. The season starts 4 weeks on Saturday ffs.

I get the frustration.

But Emery did say at the end of last season that if he could have the same squad available to him next year as he had in the second half of 24/25 he'd be happy.

Rashford and Asensio are major omissions from that, ofc.

But 500k wages per week for that pair combined (players who weren't even guaranteed starters with us) never seemed the best use of funds, much as they had their moments.

If we've still got Emi, Rodgers, JJ and Watkins on the books by the end of Aug + a judicious signing or two like Trossard and/or Harvey Elliott we'll be in decent shape.

We don't need a substantial overhaul.

[cdbearsfan]

We can't do that, though. We have to sell.

[KevinGage]

Some of the second string, aye.

For actual fees rather than the promise of the never never, obv.