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

[brontebilly]

Bare minimum we need some pace in the squad. Surely we can shift buendia and bailey ti bring someone in.

Both sitting on juicy contracts, not going to be easy to move on without the club throwing some incentives at them. Not sure how that plays out from an FFP/PSR/TBC perspective.

Not beyond the realms of possibility that Bailey of 2023/24 can reappear. Buendia not so sure, he can only play at 10 so ideally replace with a player capable of playing in more positions.

[London Villan]

DCL on a free, pay as you play deal would be fine. But he’d never get paid!

[john e]

I don’t think there’s anything in the DCL thing, his wage demands will be to high for us to take a risk on him

[PeterWithesShin]

DCL is going to want a big wage increase as he's a free, he just doesn't strike me as a player we'd want to make one of our highest paid given our restraints.

[LeeS]

DCL is going to want a big wage increase as he's a free, he just doesn't strike me as a player we'd want to make one of our highest paid given our restraints.

His wage demands shrink with every passing day. If no one snaps him up by the start of the season he’ll be begging to join us.

[Tuscans]

Bringing on DCL for Ollie would be changing one player who misses big chances for another who misses chances.

[PeterWithesShin]

And a player that rarely misses a game for one that is rarely available.

[Tuscans]

And a player that rarely misses a game for one that is rarely available.

👍🏼

[algy]

DCL is injured a lot, his last 10+ goal season was 4 years ago, and he hasn’t even been scoring at a rate that, had he been fit for the whole season, he’d have scored 10+ goals.

I think the only way the deal would make sense for us is on something like a 1 season, pay-as-you-play type deal. More than happy to be proven wrong as I quite like the guy, but we’re not in a position where we can afford to take gambles

[liam]

Bare minimum we need some pace in the squad. Surely we can shift buendia and bailey ti bring someone in.

Those 2 players are both on good money, which i can;t see anyone picking up the bill for. So unless we loan them and cover a percentage of the salary I can't see anyone buying them. I hope I'm wrong but just can't see it. I thought Bailey may go to Saudi, but surely that would have been done by now if they were in for him.

[KevinGage]

I don’t like the guy at all and hope we stay well clear.

Would be an odd (and thoroughly depressing) scenario if Everton end up with Douglas Luiz in his peak years whilst we have DCL keeping the medical staff busy at our place.

[VillaTim]

Wonder if our strategy is to leave it late , let the big 6 pick off who they want and then take the best of what's left and when clubs / agents become a bit desperate .

[aj2k77]

Calvert Lewin is Blues, can we please stop discussing him and make up a different rumour instead. It's stressing me out.

[eamonn]

I don’t like the guy at all and hope we stay well clear.

Would be an odd (and thoroughly depressing) scenario if Everton end up with Douglas Luiz in his peak years whilst we have DCL keeping the medical staff busy at our place.

Don't know about Luiz going there but Everton are after Grealish according to Talksport.

[villadelph]

Absolutely no on DCL.

As for United trying to distract our most important players, do fuck off.