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

[FatSam]

NEW: Aston Villa are set to sign LASK defender Modou Kéba Cissé (19) for €5m — he will go back on loan for a season.
@SkySportAustria

That's two 18-year old centre backs that we've been strongly linked with, added to the 19-year old that we've already signed. Players based in Turkey, France and Austria - it certainly suggests that our scouting networks are working well.

[wolfman999]

NEW: Aston Villa are set to sign LASK defender Modou Kéba Cissé (19) for €5m — he will go back on loan for a season.
@SkySportAustria

That's two 18-year old centre backs that we've been strongly linked with, added to the 19-year old that we've already signed. Players based in Turkey, France and Austria - it certainly suggests that our scouting networks are working well.

If they turn out to be any good. I'm not passing judgement as I, and I suspect most other posters, know absolutely nothing about any of them.

[Smithy]

NEW: Aston Villa are set to sign LASK defender Modou Kéba Cissé (19) for €5m — he will go back on loan for a season.
@SkySportAustria

That's two 18-year old centre backs that we've been strongly linked with, added to the 19-year old that we've already signed. Players based in Turkey, France and Austria - it certainly suggests that our scouting networks are working well.

If they turn out to be any good. I'm not passing judgement as I, and I suspect most other posters, know absolutely nothing about any of them.

That's entirely the key.  For a couple of million each, it's worth a punt, but only of one of them comfortably becomes a first-team player, or one sold for an amount it covers the losses on others.

If do wonder if buying teenagers counts as "youth costs" in FFP terms, or if these transfers all go into the calculation.  I'm sure the latter, but it would be nice if it were the former.

[SaddVillan]

Hope his career is every bit as successful as Dan Crowley's.

Or into  a Grealish sized career cul-de-sac?

[PaulWinch again]

If money is as constrained as it is I can’t see us signing someone and loaning them out.

[AV84]

Don't people keep saying that it's wages is the problem, not cash to spend. So loans out make sense, assuming the loan club is paying the wages.

[Matt C]

I’d be pretty confident we’ve got the cash to spend, this isn’t some Ellis or Lerner austerity drive, it’s being allowed to spend it within the confines of the regulations that’s the issue.

[Holy Trinity]

I was thinking about this earlier.

Let's assume the profit we have to turn this summer is amortised profit, does that mean if we generate  40 million in sales we can spend 200 million on 4 players on 5 year deals costing us just 40 million a season of amortised fees?

If it's wages I suspect we have 3 in the chamber and can't pull the trigger until some of the dross/unwanted leave.

Is this wishful thinking? Im convinced there are a couple of big ones around the corner.

[PaulWinch again]

I’d be pretty confident we’ve got the cash to spend, this isn’t some Ellis or Lerner austerity drive, it’s being allowed to spend it within the confines of the regulations that’s the issue.

Well yes, I’m not sure anyone is disputing that. But it amounts to the same thing, we don’t appear to be able to spend as we would like. So we’re struggling a bit.

[Villatillidie25]

I was thinking about this earlier.

Let's assume the profit we have to turn this summer is amortised profit, does that mean if we generate  40 million in sales we can spend 200 million on 4 players on 5 year deals costing us just 40 million a season of amortised fees?

If it's wages I suspect we have 3 in the chamber and can't pull the trigger until some of the dross/unwanted leave.

Is this wishful thinking? Im convinced there are a couple of big ones around the corner.

Sadly I’m pretty sure it’s cash in and out the door.

[cdbearsfan]

Nypan has gone to Man City.

[Clampy]

Nypan has gone to Man City.

Another one in before the inevitable transfer ban.

[pauliewalnuts]

Don't people keep saying that it's wages is the problem, not cash to spend. So loans out make sense, assuming the loan club is paying the wages.

I've got a feeling it's both fees and wages that are the problem, with wages perhaps the more pressing one.

I think we're going to be doing minimal business.

[Ads]

We were the best side in the league for the final 3rd of the season. We don't need to do loads.

[Brazilian Villain]

We were the best side in the league for the final 3rd of the season. We don't need to do loads.

Exactly, even if it's panicked the other big clubs into a spending splurge.