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

[DB]

The whole thing feels like the momentum has seriously hit a wall this summer.

With the amounts that the top 4 have spent and can spend, we cannot keep up. But I would hope to see us still signing a few to keep progressing even if the top 4 seem to be pulling away.

[Dave]

All this stuff is why it boils my piss the window doesn’t close before a balls even kicked.

But if it closed before the season started, a player who wanted to leave would just potter off to MLS / Saudi / Turkey without the ability to then bring in a replacement.

[UK Redsox]

Not if they changed the rules so that once the transfer window closes, that's it for both signing AND selling players

[brontebilly]

Ollie won’t kick up a fuss (like he didn’t in Jan with Arsenal). However, he has made it know internally that he would be up for a fresh challenge elsewhere if the right club and bid came in.

Could I see him wanting and joining United? Unfortunately yes.
Can I see them paying what we want? Not so sure

All this stuff is why it boils my piss the window doesn’t close before a balls even kicked. Given how we’ve struggled so far to shift some of the deadwood like Bailey, morneo (although Moreno is now close to gone) it’s just gearing up for a potentially chaotic last couple of weeks of the window

Bit disappointing with Ollie. Thought with Duran and Rashford gone, he would be settled. If a circus of a Man United are deemed more attractive to likes of Martinez or Watkins rather than staying with us, that's a big problem.

Newcastle are going to be flush with cash from selling Isak soon, wouldn't be surprised if they bid a bit over the odds for Watkins. Bailey after last season is going to be harder to shift than we fear.

[JUAN PABLO]

so 4th choice man utd target  watkins might be tempted?     

Id f##k them off just for being 4th choice .

[Beard82]

I just dont think we should be selling first team players to Man Utd - Why make a direct rival more competitive.  The longer they float around mid table the better.

[VillaTim]

why would they need Watkins after already buying Cunha and Mbeuno to compliment Hoijland

[Monty]

In the same we don't need Rogers because we've already got Watkins.

[Brazilian Villain]

Looks like "Football Insider" may have been wrong for once, and we're not looking to sell Rogers. https://x.com/J_Tanswell/status/1950088918801461692

[ozzjim]

Garnacho holding out for a move to Chelsea seems like another total piss take. Who is advising the 976 wingers they all need to go to Chelsea FFS. Seriously had enough this summer.

[alan_clarke]

Ollie won’t kick up a fuss (like he didn’t in Jan with Arsenal). However, he has made it know internally that he would be up for a fresh challenge elsewhere if the right club and bid came in.

Could I see him wanting and joining United? Unfortunately yes.
Can I see them paying what we want? Not so sure

All this stuff is why it boils my piss the window doesn’t close before a balls even kicked. Given how we’ve struggled so far to shift some of the deadwood like Bailey, morneo (although Moreno is now close to gone) it’s just gearing up for a potentially chaotic last couple of weeks of the window

Bit disappointing with Ollie. Thought with Duran and Rashford gone, he would be settled. If a circus of a Man United are deemed more attractive to likes of Martinez or Watkins rather than staying with us, that's a big problem.

Newcastle are going to be flush with cash from selling Isak soon, wouldn't be surprised if they bid a bit over the odds for Watkins. Bailey after last season is going to be harder to shift than we fear.

I get why Watkins might not feel loved by Emery though.

[Clampy]

There's no suggestion anywhere reporting that Ollie would favour a move away, maybe other than Arsenal.

[Rigadon]

This transfer window is turning into quite a depressing one in terms of the rumours.  It remains to be seen if the reality matches up.

[Tuscans]

🚨 Aston Villa are expected to try to find an understudy to Ollie Watkins in the remaining weeks of the window & have been sounded out over a potential move for free agent Dominic Calvert-Lewin, but Villa are only likely to look seriously at him if they cannot find anything else nearer to the end of the transfer window.
@Matt_Law_DT
 

[Monty]

That'll make him feel wanted. 'You're not even our first choice to be second choice.'