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.

[brontebilly]

I know its a bit of an off the wall thought, but if we need to sell someone, I’d look at moving Konsa on. Big psr profit £60m-£70m, addresses the issue of not being able to start with Unai’s key player (Torres) and allows us to bring in a strong, RCB starter.

Agreed 💯 . Konsa isn't being sold for that kind of money but would be a big PSR win. Team playing a high defensive line with a powerful centre back next to him, Konsa is fine then. His positional play and recovery pace are best in that setup. He's a follower not a leader. His distribution isn't strong enough for a Liverpool or Man City. Not sure where that leaves him in terms of options - Newcastle, Chelsea, Spurs maybe.

That day at Wembley should have been the final straw for one of him or Torres. Pathetic, the pair of them. Id be more worried about Torres, mind. Konsa was fine back next to Mings. Stopped all the whinging too.

[j66acd]

I can’t believe that I’m reading some of you would sell Konsa. The best 1v1 defender we’ve got, rarely gives the ball away, scores the odd goal or two and an integral part of our pretty successful spine of the team since Emery was here.

[sid1964]

Pau will be the next one to sign a new long term contract - Unai loves him and he is integral in how Unai wants the team to play.

We just cannot seem to find any buyers for the likes of Buendia / Donck etc.. looks as though they will eventually leave us on free transfers at the end of their contracts.

[Beard82]

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.

It seems a very sensible strategy - I guess with our current psr challenges we could do with one of the players we’ve signed developing as quickly as Roger’s and improving the first team over the next 12 months

[ozzjim]

United think they can bully us to get Watkins for £40m. We'd be insane to sell at that price this close to the season starting. Garnacho plus decent money would be my starting point.