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

[cdbearsfan]

No, we must make a profit on "List A" players.

[ASHTONVILLA]

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!

My wife is freaking out about flying over the middle east so want to fly the other way. Routing through Houston as I can visit my US manufacturing plant and show the kids a bit of Texas.

Taking the family with me on this one, they get to spend a few weeks by the pool in the sunshine coast whilst I travel around. Get to do some stuff with them at the weekends.

Three days in Texas visit my manufacturer and stay by lake Conroe (nice area for hiking), one week in North Island visiting avocado and kiwi fruit farmers, some researchers and some distributor training. Taking the kids to see Hobbiton and some rainforest. Then drop them in Queensland and I have do a week in WA, week in Tasmania, rest in Queensland. Then week in South Island meeting apple, pea, blackcurrant, potato and grape farmers (taking the kids to the Antarctic centre), then back through Houston for a few days (taking the kids to the Space centre).

Busy few weeks.

[Rory]

Yeah? Well I once had a work meeting in Nuneaton.

See, we can all show off if we want to.

[Tony Daleys Shorts]

Yeah? Well I once had a work meeting in Nuneaton.

See, we can all show off if we want to.

Lucky you, I’ve rarely left Pensnett in a 31 year working life.

[Olneythelonely]

My wife is freaking out about flying over the middle east so want to fly the other way. Routing through Houston as I can visit my US manufacturing plant and show the kids a bit of Texas.

Taking the family with me on this one, they get to spend a few weeks by the pool in the sunshine coast whilst I travel around. Get to do some stuff with them at the weekends.

Three days in Texas visit my manufacturer and stay by lake Conroe (nice area for hiking), one week in North Island visiting avocado and kiwi fruit farmers, some researchers and some distributor training. Taking the kids to see Hobbiton and some rainforest. Then drop them in Queensland and I have do a week in WA, week in Tasmania, rest in Queensland. Then week in South Island meeting apple, pea, blackcurrant, potato and grape farmers (taking the kids to the Antarctic centre), then back through Houston for a few days (taking the kids to the Space centre).

Busy few weeks.

Needless to say, I had the last laugh.

[PaulWinch again]

No, we must make a profit on "List A" players.

If we want to register those new players for Europe right?

[cdbearsfan]

I think so. But the rules confuse me.

[PaulWinch again]

Problem we have is the same squad, including Rashford and Asensio and another centre back would have been plenty (ideally another right back, but hopefully Garcia kicks on). But we don’t have those 3 players, maybe one if Ozcan really settles quick. The squad without a bit more will likely struggle to match what we did in the second half of last year.

[cdbearsfan]

That's why I can see us selling at least one or two players and bringing in a big name player like Garnacho or Grealish on loan. We could really do with actual money, though, not loaning players out and waiting on vague promises of future payment.

[Rory]

Yeah? Well I once had a work meeting in Nuneaton.

See, we can all show off if we want to.

Lucky you, I’ve rarely left Pensnett in a 31 year working life.

Don't worry, I was making it up so I'd look glamorous.

[LeonW]

Apparently Duran failed to turn up for first day of pre-season training with Fenerbache. Mourinho not happy. That £65m we got looking pretty good right now.

[eamonn]

A manufacturing plant, huh? Hope your visits in the mid-2010s didn't make it a factory of sadness. Trying to run a viable business while Paul Lambert did his utmost to destroy your downtime. Can't have been easy.

[JD]

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!

My wife is freaking out about flying over the middle east so want to fly the other way. Routing through Houston as I can visit my US manufacturing plant and show the kids a bit of Texas.

Taking the family with me on this one, they get to spend a few weeks by the pool in the sunshine coast whilst I travel around. Get to do some stuff with them at the weekends.

Three days in Texas visit my manufacturer and stay by lake Conroe (nice area for hiking), one week in North Island visiting avocado and kiwi fruit farmers, some researchers and some distributor training. Taking the kids to see Hobbiton and some rainforest. Then drop them in Queensland and I have do a week in WA, week in Tasmania, rest in Queensland. Then week in South Island meeting apple, pea, blackcurrant, potato and grape farmers (taking the kids to the Antarctic centre), then back through Houston for a few days (taking the kids to the Space centre).

Busy few weeks.

So you're coming to my sunny Christchurch then. Wrap up warm it's freezing here at the moment (it is in the middle of Winter though).

[Brazilian Villain]

So you're coming to my sunny Christchurch then.

One thing I know about Christchurch is that it doesn't share its name with one of the largest cities in Canada, and one of the largest towns in Scotland.

[Garyth]

So you're coming to my sunny Christchurch then. Wrap up warm it's freezing here at the moment (it is in the middle of Winter though).

I grew up near where ‘Hobbiton’ is, and my first thought is ‘poor bastards, take a raincoat and extra clothes because it’s always miserable and wet there in winter ’ 😂