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

[Dante Lavelli]

A garnacho loan makes sense but that sort of deal won’t happen until the end of the window when Man U get desperate to shift players out.

[eamonn]

Think we've got a better chance of getting someone in like Garnacho than people realise.

Garnacho would be signed as the difference maker and hopefully nod to us playing more of a counter attacking style that we had for pretty much all of 2023.

Really? I thought that was the year where we learned how to dominate games for the first time since 1996.

[AV84]

A garnacho loan makes sense but that sort of deal won’t happen until the end of the window when Man U get desperate to shift players out.

I suppose that's reliant on someone like Spurs or Chelsea not being dumb enough to give them what they want earlier in the window. Fingers crossed he really liked the quality of Rashford's jersey

[eamonn]

99% of rumours are total bullshit either made up by some sad little man in a Hertfordshire bedroom for attention or to generate clicks to a site, so I'm fairly relaxed.

I wonder what its like support Bilbao during the off season?  There can’t be much speculation.  Scouting involves searching birth certificates to see where players are born.  It’s incredible they’ve never been relegated, let alone qualifying for the champions league.

BV is the man for knowing the score on other club forums. Doubt they taught Basque/Euskara in Longford and Leitrim when he was a nipper, mind (nor now or at any time in the future, I guess...).

[Mister E]

I'd like to have seen Walker-Peters come in on a free; he's gone to WHam.

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

I'd like to have seen Walker-Peters come in on a free; he's gone to WHam.

Then let's go for Wan-Bissaka!

[ozzjim]

When are we going to start getting linked to João Felix again?

[Toronto Villa]

When are we going to start getting linked to João Felix again?

Last week of the window where he realizes he won’t get to play for Chelsea yet again.

[SoccerHQ]

Joao Felix will be playing in the ballers league in about three years.

Would be disappointed in Emery if he still has a fetish for him considering his chronic lack of impact at AC Milan.

[brontebilly]

Even the spurious rumours seem to have died a death now. Going to need every ounce of Emery magic this season.

Our results for the last few months of the season made us one of the top three performing clubs in the league. As things stand we've lost no players of significance other than our three loans. I have no doubt we will bring in a defender and a striker before the end of the window. If we still have Emi and Ollie come August 16th the team that starts our season will be very competitive.

Your confidence is admirable, I hope its not misplaced. However, one of the prime reasons our results in the last few months of the season were so good was down largely to those loan players. Football is all about opinions but as things stand at the moment, with the purchases made by our rivals, the acquisition of a few unknown teenagers who are promptly sent back out on loan doesn't fill me with confidence. We shall see.

Yeah the loanees were essential to what we did. We have to plug that gap.

Yet their impact individually was mixed at best. Asensio started great but dropped off a lot, Rashford had a short purple patch and then got injured. But they gave us competition and options in the attacking areas particularly. I think that's key, we need to bring guys in who can fit relatively easily into Emery's style of play. Ideally can play in a couple of positions, this became a problem with Asensio at the end, 10 or bench.

[N'ZMAV]

Ferran Torres and Garnacho will sign soon.

Bailey will leave.

[VillaTim]

The Loanees made a huge impact. Without them i think we'd have been about 8/9th

[PaulWinch again]

Doesn’t really matter when they made the impact though, particularly in terms of league points. There’s no doubt that Asensio and Rashford were big successes in their own right, but in addition, as you say, the added competition and options really raised our effectiveness. We have to replace them.

[N'ZMAV]

Doesn’t really matter when they made the impact though, particularly in terms of league points. There’s no doubt that Asensio and Rashford was big successes in their own right, but in addition, as you say, the added competition and options really raised our effectiveness. We have to replace them.

it was a first for us (in recent years) to have players on the bench that could have an impact each week.

[PaulWinch again]

Indeed and it’s critical we can replicate that. I think competition is going to be really tough next season, we cannot afford to stand still.