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

[VancouverLion]

Ready-made song too.

Samu, Samu, Samu, Samu, Samu Aghehowa,
He's fast as fuck, he's fast as fucckkk!

F me, that’s brilliant! We must sign him on that alone!!

[Rigadon]

If you can believe any of the transfer stuff, it would appear we could start the season with pretty much the same squad minus the loans.  That wouldn’t be a disaster, and with a few decent new loans, we could be right there again.   

[PaulWinch again]

Yeah but the “new loans” is doing some heavy lifting there. We just don’t have enough to change games in the current squad.

[Dante Lavelli]

If you can believe any of the transfer stuff, it would appear we could start the season with pretty much the same squad minus the loans.  That wouldn’t be a disaster, and with a few decent new loans, we could be right there again.   

I agree.  However I suspect the club want to shift one player so they can make some changes themselves, just to keep things fresh and avoid complacency.

[Somniloquism]

I'm surprised that nothing has been made that Ramsey was the only outfield player not to get on the pitch last night.

[Mister E]

I'm surprised that nothing has been made that Ramsey was the only outfield player not to get on the pitch last night.

He's already a decent slug of pre-season minutes ...

[Dave]

Yeah but the “new loans” is doing some heavy lifting there. We just don’t have enough to change games in the current squad.

Compared to the squad that finished fourth in 23-24, we've lost Olsen, Diego Carlos, Lenglet, Douglas Luiz, Chambers, Duran, Zaniolo and Diaby. We've gained Iling-Junior, Buendia, Mings, Barkley, Maatsen, Onana, Bizot, Özcan, Malen and Garcia.

There may well be players on that second list that leave (the first two for example), who if they leave, will likely be replaced by better. And if they're not, we'll probably keep them. But there isn't *that* much difference between those two lists.

But I don't think anyone thinks for a second that our current squad is how we're going to start the season, do they?

[OCD]

Yeah but the “new loans” is doing some heavy lifting there. We just don’t have enough to change games in the current squad.

Compared to the squad that finished fourth in 23-24, we've lost Olsen, Diego Carlos, Lenglet, Douglas Luiz, Chambers, Duran, Zaniolo and Diaby. We've gained Iling-Junior, Buendia, Mings, Barkley, Maatsen, Onana, Bizot, Özcan, Malen and Garcia.

There may well be players on that second list that leave (the first two for example), who if they leave, will likely be replaced by better. And if they're not, we'll probably keep them. But there isn't *that* much difference between those two lists.

But I don't think anyone thinks for a second that our current squad is how we're going to start the season, do they?

Waiting for evidence to the contrary for this.

[Clampy]

Yeah but the “new loans” is doing some heavy lifting there. We just don’t have enough to change games in the current squad.

Compared to the squad that finished fourth in 23-24, we've lost Olsen, Diego Carlos, Lenglet, Douglas Luiz, Chambers, Duran, Zaniolo and Diaby. We've gained Iling-Junior, Buendia, Mings, Barkley, Maatsen, Onana, Bizot, Özcan, Malen and Garcia.

There may well be players on that second list that leave (the first two for example), who if they leave, will likely be replaced by better. And if they're not, we'll probably keep them. But there isn't *that* much difference between those two lists.

But I don't think anyone thinks for a second that our current squad is how we're going to start the season, do they?

Waiting for evidence to the contrary for this.

The season hasnt started yet.

[Dave]

Yeah but the “new loans” is doing some heavy lifting there. We just don’t have enough to change games in the current squad.

Compared to the squad that finished fourth in 23-24, we've lost Olsen, Diego Carlos, Lenglet, Douglas Luiz, Chambers, Duran, Zaniolo and Diaby. We've gained Iling-Junior, Buendia, Mings, Barkley, Maatsen, Onana, Bizot, Özcan, Malen and Garcia.

There may well be players on that second list that leave (the first two for example), who if they leave, will likely be replaced by better. And if they're not, we'll probably keep them. But there isn't *that* much difference between those two lists.

But I don't think anyone thinks for a second that our current squad is how we're going to start the season, do they?

Waiting for evidence to the contrary for this.

Well, last summer in the final week of the window we brought in two fairly big-name loan players. In the final week of last January we brought in three fairly big-name loan players.

Precedent suggests that we will do this again, even if we don't do anything else. But players that are surplus to requirements tend not to go on loan earlier, while their current club still has designs on selling them.

Edit - "start the season" was bad phraseology on my part. Let's go with "play the season" instead.

[Gareth]

Yeah but the “new loans” is doing some heavy lifting there. We just don’t have enough to change games in the current squad.

Compared to the squad that finished fourth in 23-24, we've lost Olsen, Diego Carlos, Lenglet, Douglas Luiz, Chambers, Duran, Zaniolo and Diaby. We've gained Iling-Junior, Buendia, Mings, Barkley, Maatsen, Onana, Bizot, Özcan, Malen and Garcia.

There may well be players on that second list that leave (the first two for example), who if they leave, will likely be replaced by better. And if they're not, we'll probably keep them. But there isn't *that* much difference between those two lists.

But I don't think anyone thinks for a second that our current squad is how we're going to start the season, do they?

Think there is a fair chance it will be….to my mind incomings may only be 2/3 loans to replace the 3 we had Jan-May & that market might not play out until the last week of the window

[PeterWithesShin]

Last season we did our summer business before August. Only August signings were kids from memory.

[Meanwood Villa]

Who were the two big name loan players last summer?

[Dave]

Who were the two big name loan players last summer?

Sorry - getting my summers confused. Previous summer. But there's pretty solid precedent that if there are gaps in the squad, we're quite happy to bring in loans to fix the gaps.

[Monty]

Honestly, I'd rather start the season with the squad as it is than with Ramsey at West Ham, Watkins at Newcastle and Martinez at Man Utd. I feel that replacing them this far gone into the summer would be extremely tricky.