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

[olaftab]

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?

We don't have a bomb squad.

[Holy Trinity]

I've just heard a whisper we are lining up a loan for Felix.
I do really hope this is a wind up but if nothing else it's depth and experience. It supposedly will be a late loan potentially after the season starts.
He's normally quite reliable but I have a feeling he's pulling my pud on this one.
Vinnie have you heard anything similar?

No mate. As far as i last heard he was off to Benfica

Thank God!!!
I do think he was taking the piss because a few years ago I was really excited by Felix, no not so much.
I would honestly rather offer DCL a contract and loan back Joe Goulash

[Matt C]

We’re going to have to be patient right up until the end of the window I suspect. Game of brinkmanship with clubs knowing we need to shift a few.

[ozzjim]

This seems like the summer where the hopes of us, Newcastle and Forest actually infiltrating that top 6 regularly essentially got swatted with a large electric bat into the long grass.

[AV84]

I reckon it'll be Garnacho or Grealish on a season long loan.
And hopefully a right sided centre half.
That's our lot.

I think Garnacho will eventually have offers from clubs in the CL. He's a very talented player and it's a bit ridiculous Man United are pushing him out while bringing Mbuemo in for a lot more money.

Grealish seems the more likely for us and him.

Man U want rid of him but they want a lot of money for him too. Sure, some CL club could be waiting until they're even more desperate, but I think if we actually want him there's a chance we could get him. I also read somewhere that he's said he wants to stay in the Premier League, which narrows his options down a bit. Chelsea could come in for him but are they any better than Man U behind the scenes? Maybe Spurs, but I can't see them spending that much more.

[Toronto Villa]

If Chelsea do sign the latest players they are linked with it will mean the clubs who finished in the top 4 last season will have spent in the region of £1 billion (with a B) between them. Whereas we have spent zero (with a Z).

[PeterWithesShin]

As was famously sang after Tony Moon scored "spend some facking money, spend some facking money".

[andyh]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c873zvn37jvo

Contrast and compare to his face on the day he signed for us.

[AV84]

It's pretty common knowledge that he wanted Barcelona in January too. We were a last minute move that got him away from Man U. He mentioned us in his press conference today and said he was very grateful for the opportunity to play for us for that period. Let him be happy, I say.

[Brazilian Villain]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c873zvn37jvo

Contrast and compare to his face on the day he signed for us.

TBF he'd just heard that he'd got some free tickets for the Gloucester v Leicester Tigers game.

[cdbearsfan]

It's pretty common knowledge that he wanted Barcelona in January too. We were a last minute move that got him away from Man U. He mentioned us in his press conference today and said he was very grateful for the opportunity to play for us for that period. Let him be happy, I say.

Yep, he's always come across as a good lad and his spell at Villa has only enhanced my opinion.

[Chip Butty 111]

If Chelsea do sign the latest players they are linked with it will mean the clubs who finished in the top 4 last season will have spent in the region of £1 billion (with a B) between them. Whereas we have spent zero (with a Z).

It may change, and I hope it does, but it seems like we are in the middle aisle of Aldi transfer wise, thanks to that debacle at Old Trafford..

[ChicagoLion]

This seems like the summer where the hopes of us, Newcastle and Forest actually infiltrating that top 6 regularly essentially got swatted with a large electric bat into the long grass.

Our hopes got swatted at Old Trafford.
It was a huge set back.

[kippaxvilla2]

Apparently we have pulled out of the race for Dougie.

[Toronto Villa]

This might be a bit of stretch, but not making the CL last season might be a little like not getting promoted under Bruce/Xia. Gutting at the time, but had we got up who knows what kind of disaster we’d be in continuing with that team. In the end we binned Xia, got a new ownership team, ultimately dumped the cabbage and the rest is history. We went up in a much better state.

Not making the CL last season has forced us to get our house in order. The wages ratio was bonkers and we might have just continued more as we were if we made the CL. Hopefully now, as shit as this feels not to do any serious business, we might just be better off long term. Newcastle did fuck all last summer, stabilized, and ended up with a cup and CL. While they didn’t have Europe and we will, we can have a great season. We are more than capable of winning the Europa, and come out the other in a much more secure financial position that will allow us to invest again next summer.