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

[algy]

I honestly think if we started the season with this squad until Jan even without rashford and asencio we would finish pretty much in the exact position. Newcastle will struggle again, forest will be back down the bottom of the league. Us, Spurs, Chelsea and city battling for 4th/5th. We are not as desperate as people are making out, malen will be used this season. Kids will get games in the europa vs lesser opposition and we will get one or two in on loan if we don't manage to sell the deadwood. It's not time to panic until a starter leaves, if we had lost EM1 already and still were passive in the market I would be a lot more worried than I am now. Also if we need 1 more season with lower spend but competing for 7th then so be it  if it means the following season we can launch a balls to the wall assault on the top 3.

Pretty much sums up my thoughts. I think the most important thing this summer is keeping hold of any players we want to keep hold of. That *i imagine* would involve keeping Ollie, Kamara, and possibly Martinez. With that squad, i think we’ll do alright. Hopefully things will start moving over the next couple of weeks and we’ll be able to shift a few players about. But I don’t think it’s a disaster if we don’t.

[paul_e]

I honestly think if we started the season with this squad until Jan even without rashford and asencio we would finish pretty much in the exact position. Newcastle will struggle again, forest will be back down the bottom of the league. Us, Spurs, Chelsea and city battling for 4th/5th. We are not as desperate as people are making out, malen will be used this season. Kids will get games in the europa vs lesser opposition and we will get one or two in on loan if we don't manage to sell the deadwood. It's not time to panic until a starter leaves, if we had lost EM1 already and still were passive in the market I would be a lot more worried than I am now. Also if we need 1 more season with lower spend but competing for 7th then so be it  if it means the following season we can launch a balls to the wall assault on the top 3.

I understand what you're saying but the major flaw in the low spend argument as I see it is that, while we stand still for a further season, our rivals will not so we will continue to lose ground on them. Top six competition will very quickly become top ten competition.

However, fully fit Mings, Kamara, JJ, Onana and Bailey alongside settled Maatsen, Garcia and Malen is 8 players who all have the capacity to be a level above what we saw last season.

I'm not saying we don't need a couple of signings but the idea that you need signings to improve is something that frustrates me, especially given how many of our players have improved under Emery already.

[PaulWinch again]

I think there’s absolutely scope to improve players, but I think the reality is if you’re hoping to compete at the top end then with the gaps we have (left by the loanees) it’s incredibly hard to do that internally.

[Tuscans]

I honestly think if we started the season with this squad until Jan even without rashford and asencio we would finish pretty much in the exact position. Newcastle will struggle again, forest will be back down the bottom of the league. Us, Spurs, Chelsea and city battling for 4th/5th. We are not as desperate as people are making out, malen will be used this season. Kids will get games in the europa vs lesser opposition and we will get one or two in on loan if we don't manage to sell the deadwood. It's not time to panic until a starter leaves, if we had lost EM1 already and still were passive in the market I would be a lot more worried than I am now. Also if we need 1 more season with lower spend but competing for 7th then so be it  if it means the following season we can launch a balls to the wall assault on the top 3.

I understand what you're saying but the major flaw in the low spend argument as I see it is that, while we stand still for a further season, our rivals will not so we will continue to lose ground on them. Top six competition will very quickly become top ten competition.

However, fully fit Mings, Kamara, JJ, Onana and Bailey alongside settled Maatsen, Garcia and Malen is 8 players who all have the capacity to be a level above what we saw last season.

I'm not saying we don't need a couple of signings but the idea that you need signings to improve is something that frustrates me, especially given how many of our players have improved under Emery already.

Bailey can't be here another season, Shirley.

[eamonn]

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2025/july/22/back-on-the-grass/

All bar one of the bomb squad are back in training......the question is, will they all go on tour to the USA?

Who's missing?

[ChicagoLion]

HT, I think you are off the mark,without recruitment we are a lot weaker than last season with some of our better players a further year from their peak.
We should not underestimate the strengthening of our closest rivals let alone the investment Arsenal Citeh Pool are making.
Right now I put Pool Arse Citeh Chelsea Newcastle Spurs even Manu ahead of us which leaves us scraping with Forest Palace Brighton etc.

[Londonvilla]

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2025/july/22/back-on-the-grass/

All bar one of the bomb squad are back in training......the question is, will they all go on tour to the USA?

Who's missing?

I couldn't see Leander Dendoncker

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

HT, I think you are off the mark,without recruitment we are a lot weaker than last season with some of our better players a further year from their peak.
We should not underestimate the strengthening of our closest rivals let alone the investment Arsenal Citeh Pool are making.
Right now I put Pool Arse Citeh Chelsea Newcastle Spurs even Manu ahead of us which leaves us scraping with Forest Palace Brighton etc.

Man United? Mbueno and Cunha are good players and are a bit more established than Garnacho and Diallo but they haven’t improved their spine of keeper, midfield and centre forward.
They’ll probably do better this season just through the fact they finished 15th last year but I think even as we are we could finish ahead of them, similarly with Spurs.

[cdbearsfan]

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2025/july/22/back-on-the-grass/

All bar one of the bomb squad are back in training......the question is, will they all go on tour to the USA?

Who's missing?

I couldn't see Leander Dendoncker

Genuinely didn't know he still played for us.

[paul_e]

From the friendlies and training photos Ozcan seems to be part of the first team squad and Mosquera has been given time in both matches so far, might be interesting to see how much more time they get on tour and I wouldn't be surprised if we see Jimoh, Burrowes and Hemming all around the squad through the next few months.

I'm not saying we should rely on these players but I think there's plenty of talent in the U21 and U18 squads and players at those ages can see pretty big jumps in performance in a really short time (see Rogers for example).

[john2710]

The right side of our team is not strong enough. Last season, an injury to Cash & we were down to Bogarde, Konsa & it was Carlos, Bailey & we're moving players to fill the role. As frustrating as Cash is at times, the alternative aren't there if he gets injured.

We need a centre back who can fill in at right back & a replacement for Bailey. We then need another option for the No 10 role.

[brontebilly]

HT, I think you are off the mark,without recruitment we are a lot weaker than last season with some of our better players a further year from their peak.
We should not underestimate the strengthening of our closest rivals let alone the investment Arsenal Citeh Pool are making.
Right now I put Pool Arse Citeh Chelsea Newcastle Spurs even Manu ahead of us which leaves us scraping with Forest Palace Brighton etc.

Man United? Mbueno and Cunha are good players and are a bit more established than Garnacho and Diallo but they haven’t improved their spine of keeper, midfield and centre forward.
They’ll probably do better this season just through the fact they finished 15th last year but I think even as we are we could finish ahead of them, similarly with Spurs.

Mbuemo and Cunha are good players but they have overpaid like crazy on them. Pressure at performing at Wolves or Brentford is one thing, performing in a crap Man United team sinks far better players. Cunha already flopped at Athletico. Most likely outcome is that Amorim sinks early on (they can't dump every player he doesn't rate) and these two struggle.

[Beard82]

Got a feeling Dendoncker is going to be a big player for us next season

[Aldridge Villa]

Got a feeling Dendoncker is going to be a big player for us next season

Too right , he’s 6’ 2’’.

[brontebilly]

“Quote from: VinnieChase84 on May 28, 2025, 09:53:02 AM
If its any comfort psr isnt this summer/june anywhere near as bad as it was last year! Plus we have a big loss year falling out of calculations this coming season and being replaced by our highest revenue one

Issue for us is we WANT to continue to bring in new and refresh squad. Its in doing that which means we have to sell.

IF we had wanted to then outside of selling a few "squad players/loanees" in june - then we could have kept the entire same team/sold no one and bought no one”

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Still the state of play as posted back here.
Our dominoes are waiting to fall depending on exits. Bailey, Emi, Maybe JJ

As said, would could keep squad as it was pretty much. If no big sales happen then I’d expect a few loans to plug some gaps etc
Frustrating but it’s where we are
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Guess there's plenty of time left in the transfer window but Emi's camp might be disappointed in the lack of genuine interest from top CL clubs thus far. He would be off his rocker to consider going to Old Trafford. Hope we don't consider selling JJ but he's probably the easiest one to move on quickly. 

Do we know if we have interest in a couple of our former stalwarts? The fact they haven't already got deals sorted elsewhere has me thinking we might have at least one of them lined up for a return if one of the dominoes fall.