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

[OCD]

I've said on here many times that I really rate Ramsey and think he has a high ceiling, but £50m and I'd have to be starting to think that would tip the balance into being a good sell?

My exact words to the lads at work was i think your about 20 million out as he's a much better player than Gibbs white a d they laughed at me

I think that's going too far. Gibbs-White would look quality in our side.

[VILLA MOLE]

I've said on here many times that I really rate Ramsey and think he has a high ceiling, but £50m and I'd have to be starting to think that would tip the balance into being a good sell?

My exact words to the lads at work was i think your about 20 million out as he's a much better player than Gibbs white a d they laughed at me

I think that's going too far. Gibbs-White would look quality in our side.

Different players , Ramsey is more Dynamic running with ball , but I think GW is more creative 

[brontebilly]

It highlights what a good job Dean Smith did to keep us up with what was a pretty ragtag squad that first year back.

Really? I guess McGinn was injured a lot of that season but we still had likes of Grealish and Mings. Chelsea brought back Tammy didn't they due to a transfer ban? He was a massive loss, poor old Wesley and Samatta were beyond awful. I think Deano was lucky to hold onto his job after Xmas, the covid delay probably saved him from the chop. Personnel aside, we were all over the place tactically and the Drinky signing might have been the final straw for him...

[john e]

The price beinv quoted by chelsea according to the media is 100m. No sane ub is paying  even half that for jackson

Hello Norman Collier.

I reckon you’ve got to be well over 50 years old to get what that’s about

[Gareth]

Ramsey was on the verge at that Euro u21’s, convinced he would have come back and been in the next England squad and kicked on towards that 50m+ player….he hasn’t been quite as dynamic at all since he got fit so it would be a begrudged sale but anything above £35m (of pure profit) seems reasonable to me.

Would prefer he stay though

[Rigadon]

I’d be pretty disappointed to see Ramsay leave before he reaches his undoubted potential.  I trust Emery if that's what he wanted to do, but it feels like it’d be a move forced upon us.  Meanwhile Liverpool spend another £300m on a few players. 

[AGRIPPA]

So, assuming Louie Barry leaves and we keep Ollie for another season; who/how do we replace him?

His contract expires in 2028 and will have 2 years to run next summer, when he'll be 31.Will we sell him then?

His transfer value will fall from now on - unless he has a 25+ league goal season.

Is Rory Wilson - the next cab off the Academy rank going to be good enough?

Will Zeppy Redmond progress sufficiently?

How much will we have in the kitty for a "big name: signing.

Has Monchi got a Morgan Rogers look a like centre forward who nobody else has spotted in his sights.

Ollie's been very good for Villa and vice versa, but I don't expect him to be with us in 18 months time.

I do wonder if the club have one eye on the 'Morgan Rogers look a like' centre forward being the man himself, eventually.

My thoughts for quite a while now…

[Somniloquism]

It highlights what a good job Dean Smith did to keep us up with what was a pretty ragtag squad that first year back.

Really? I guess McGinn was injured a lot of that season but we still had likes of Grealish and Mings. Chelsea brought back Tammy didn't they due to a transfer ban? He was a massive loss, poor old Wesley and Samatta were beyond awful. I think Deano was lucky to hold onto his job after Xmas, the covid delay probably saved him from the chop. Personnel aside, we were all over the place tactically and the Drinky signing might have been the final straw for him...

Wesley was bad although I think he was finally getting more upto speed and the he was Mee'd. Would definitely have had him scoring more the 1 goal second half of the season anyway. But  apart from Grealish and Mings, and a young and not as good Luiz, the rest of the squad was still Championship players at best, and even the two we mentioned were not much better at that point. Remember Mings used to regulalrly have his brain farts and we were really reliant on Grealish to do something.

[N'ZMAV]

if we're ever getting a big fee for Watkins it has to be this summer....

[RamboandBruno]

It might be all nonsense, but I will be beyond gutted if Ramsey is sold. The last year has been a bit of write off due to injury, but he has so much more to give. Its been underwhelming enough this pre-season so far, selling Ramsey would just do my nut in, I think in some ways it would do my head in more than Emi, given Ramseys age, the Brummie factor etc.

[Bosco81]

I’m hoping the annual Ramsey rumours are just lazy journalism, it’s been the same story for the past 3 seasons.

I understood the Watkins rumours in Jan cos of Duran, but he could easily carry on scoring goals for the next 4/5 seasons, which is quite a tricky job in the Premier League, and he is one of the best around, so cashing in on him makes no football sense, even if you might balance your books a bit.

[PaulWinch again]

Still plenty of time obviously, but if the squad for the season is what we have today I think we’re fighting a real uphill battle.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

we play too slow in posession, pace needed

Pace will certainly help as will Unai not forcing us to play so defensively, especially first half. Pointlessly passing it about at the back for 45 minutes maybe great for our possession stats but not much more. As if it wasn't frustrating enough to watch, the fact he had the biggest quality squad in our history to choose from, everybody fit and raring to go made little sense to me.

Maybe he over thinks or just needs to have a night off from football,  go down the pub, have a couple of pints and a game of darts if they don't have crown green bowls.

[Demitri_C]

The price beinv quoted by chelsea according to the media is 100m. No sane ub is paying  even half that for jackson

Hello Norman Collier.

Hello ronnie corbett

[PaulWinch again]

we play too slow in posession, pace needed

Pace will certainly help as will Unai not forcing us to play so defensively, especially first half. Pointlessly passing it about at the back for 45 minutes maybe great for our possession stats but not much more. As if it wasn't frustrating enough to watch, the fact he had the biggest quality squad in our history to choose from, everybody fit and raring to go made little sense to me.

Maybe he over thinks or just needs to have a night off from football,  go down the pub, have a couple of pints and a game of darts if they don't have crown green bowls.

Maybe, but in the round his results stack up pretty well.