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

[Steve67]

I’d be ok with letting Konsa or Torres go, and hoping that Bailey finally comes back to life.  I can’t help thinking that there are loan deals already in place, but we won’t move for them until the end of the window so we are cutting down on salary spending . It also wouldn’t surprise me if one of those deals did include Emi Martinez going out too.

[Demitri_C]

Linked with Calvert-Lewin apparently.

Fucking hell can this transfer window be any more depressing?

I put this down on dawkins levels of shitness 😶

[PaulWinch again]

Well it’s not that, and it’s probably untrue anyway.

[Louzie0]

I don’t want to sell anybody but I wouldn’t mind buying Garnacho.

I don’t think he’s as good as our Morgs yet, but he shows promise.

[London Villan]

Who’s paying £60-70m for Konsa? I can’t think of any move that align to those sort of figures.

What’s the going rate for a england regular at the peak if their career?

[ldavfc4eva]

Branthwaite was supposedly being mooted at £50m, so can see why £60/£70m would be what we would want for Ezri

Can’t see a club at the moment who would pay it though

[PaulWinch again]

I’ve got no idea, but I still don’t see who’s looking to buy at centre back for that sort of outlay.

[Percy McCarthy]

I’ve got no idea, but I still don’t see who’s looking to buy at centre back for that sort of outlay.

Whoever wants the Palace homophobe. Liverpool/Newcastle?

[algy]

Why are Aston Villa making so many €5m to €9m signings?
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Ta, that’s interesting. Makes a lot of sense - at that price range you’re unlikely to make a big loss on any player once they’ve been out on loan for a couple of seasons.

Take Barrenechea, we paid €8m for him, but presumably Valencia and Benfica will have paid most of his wages for that period, and at the end of the season he’ll have depreciated 40% of his fee (so worth around €4.8m on the books), so we’ll bank a €7.2m profit plus 30% of whatever Benfica flog him for, so another €5m say if they sell him on at a modest profit themselves.

There’s barely any risk to us there, and you don’t have to do many of those sales for the whole system to pay for itself - so any really decent players that do come out of that policy (Morgan Rogers for example), there’s no pressure to sell as we’ve got a very steady income stream coming through anyway.

[Somniloquism]

Aston Villa and England midfielder Morgan Rogers, 23, is a top target for Chelsea and the Blues are ready to offer England defender Tosin Adarabioyo, 27, and Senegal striker Nicolas Jackson, 24, as well as a fee to secure a deal. (Football Insider)

A bit cheeky calling him "England Defender" when he has never played for the senior team.