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

[SaddVillan]

We seem to be accumulating centre backs

Konsa
Mings
Torres
Finley Munroe
Josh Feeney
TJ Carrol
Leon Routh
Modou Cisse
Yasin Ozcan
Yeimar Mosquera

[VILLA MOLE]

how many will end up on loan

[thick_mike]

Following on from the above, I worked with Brian Little's niece for a bit. This was early 00s and she was a bit coy about saying who he was, thinking he'd left the manager's job under a cloud. I was suitably gobsmacked and reverential once I knew.

Nice.

I was taught for a year in primary school by Peter McParland's great-niece.
She was appropriately called 'Miss McParland'.

Ron Saunders' daughter was my Spanish teacher. 
BEAT THAT!

I wouldn't bet against you

I once saw Ian 'sticks' Ormondroyd among other Villa players take part in a cricket match at Smethwick Cricket Club years ago. Surely I win?

I was there too. Had a chat to Gordon Cowans in the Pavilion…well I stuttered some inarticulate gibberish as I was so starstruck.

[eamonn]

how many will end up on loan

We all get sold in the end.

[VILLA MOLE]

how many will end up on loan

We all get sold in the end.

some of us for glue

[PaulWinch again]

Another day and we wonder who the next teenager no one has heard of will be through the door. Exciting times!

And just like that, a transfer appeared…… although I presume pre-contract agreement means some sort of trial ?

https://www.avfc.co.uk/

It won’t be a trial, it’s just he’s already signed his contract but won’t be with us for a year.

[AV84]

Is this some kind of financial rules work around? Or is it standard for young players we don't want to have at the club yet?

[Rodders]

Julian Joachim cadged a fag off me at halftime when Villa Old Stars played Stiperstones FC a few years ago (one for the HMHB aficionados). He did the whole thing in two massive drags and was still the quickest player on the pitch.

[VILLA MOLE]

Julian Joachim cadged a fag off me at halftime when Villa Old Stars played Stiperstones FC a few years ago (one for the HMHB aficionados). He did the whole thing in two massive drags and was still the quickest player on the pitch.

did you keep the butt end ?😃

[Mister E]

Is this some kind of financial rules work around? Or is it standard for young players we don't want to have at the club yet?

I interpret the loan-back as a way of giving the kid more gametime experience than he'd get with us next season.

[oldtimernow]

Following on from the above, I worked with Brian Little's niece for a bit. This was early 00s and she was a bit coy about saying who he was, thinking he'd left the manager's job under a cloud. I was suitably gobsmacked and reverential once I knew.

Nice.

I was taught for a year in primary school by Peter McParland's great-niece.
She was appropriately called 'Miss McParland'.

Ron Saunders' daughter was my Spanish teacher. 
BEAT THAT!

I wouldn't bet against you

I once saw Ian 'sticks' Ormondroyd among other Villa players take part in a cricket match at Smethwick Cricket Club years ago. Surely I win?

I was there too. Had a chat to Gordon Cowans in the Pavilion…well I stuttered some inarticulate gibberish as I was so starstruck.

Derek Dougan signed my football at Short Heath recreation ground on a Sunday morning....

[oldtimernow]

how many will end up on loan

following the Chelsea model ..

[kippaxvilla2]

Not Villa player related but and I’ve told this before but when I was in my teens Don Goodman and a load of other Albion players of that era joined me and my mates in trying to get as many people into a phone box as possible competition.

[algy]

I got awarded a medal for my footballing prowess* at Lichfield City U11s “B” football team by Tony Morley (whose son played at the same club).


* and I indeed showed every bit of prowess that you’d expect from a slow, one-eyed, dyspraxic 9 year old kid. In case it’s not obvious, I’m absolute rubbish - decent amount of stamina but outside that I’m more likely to fall over or get myself sent off that do anything productive

[AV84]

Is this some kind of financial rules work around? Or is it standard for young players we don't want to have at the club yet?

I interpret the loan-back as a way of giving the kid more gametime experience than he'd get with us next season.

Yeah I get the reasoning for loaning them back for a year, I was just wondering if signing a "pre contract" can be used in any way to do a bit of financial jiggery pokery on our end. As opposed to a player signing and then going on loan, like Barrenechea or Iling-Junior last season. Or it could just be an age thing. I think this guy is old enough but I know Brexit changed the rules for British clubs signing young EU players.