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

[john2710]

He'd have to take a pay cut, wherever he goes, because nobody is paying him whatever he's getting at City nor is anyone paying the £40m they'd be looking for.

A year long loan, no fee with City paying 60% of his wages.

Emery is exactly the man to bring out the best in him, if it's still there.

[villadelph]

Youri wasn't nearly 30 and getting pissed in public more often than scoring.

Your weird Daily Mail obsession with a player occasionally having a drink in his spare time doesn't exactly lend credence to your argument.

It's a bit more than occasionally having a drink.

He absolutely has a drink problem. I find it mad that this is even arguable. It should be widely accepted fact.

That’s absolutely slander.

[Somniloquism]

Going out in your spare time is not "a drink problem". Step away from the Daily Mail.

Going out during lockdown (when no travel is allowed and just after recording a video message to fans to be safe and follow rules) and then so drunk the next morning he couldn't even reverse his car down a street without wrecking three others is someone with a drink problem to me. Those are the same antics Gazza used to do.

[Richard E]

Youri wasn't nearly 30 and getting pissed in public more often than scoring.

Your weird Daily Mail obsession with a player occasionally having a drink in his spare time doesn't exactly lend credence to your argument.

It's a bit more than occasionally having a drink.

He absolutely has a drink problem. I find it mad that this is even arguable. It should be widely accepted fact.

That’s absolutely slander.

Libel.

[cdbearsfan]

Going out in your spare time is not "a drink problem". Step away from the Daily Mail.

Going out during lockdown (when no travel is allowed and just after recording a video message to fans to be safe and follow rules) and then so drunk the next morning he couldn't even reverse his car down a street without wrecking three others is someone with a drink problem to me. Those are the same antics Gazza used to do.

That was twatty behaviour. But it still isn't evidence of a drink problem. It also isn't evidence of any level of diminished commitment to his career coming, as it did, at a time when there was no football going on (two months before they were even allowed to train).

[Dave]

That incident isn't a "drink problem" it's a "being an immature twat" problem.

[cdbearsfan]

Yep.

[AlexAlexCropley]

I have heard far worse of his antics in Ibiza this year.

[Ian.]

That incident isn't a "drink problem" it's a "being an immature twat" problem.

Yep. Also how many of us at some point in our twenties have been an absolute twat at some point?

[Smirker]

Doing it once, fine. Making it a habit is the problem part.

[cdbearsfan]

He hasn't, though. A drink "habit" doesn't mean once a year or so when he's on holiday.

[Smirker]

He hasn't, though. A drink "habit" doesn't mean once a year or so when he's on holiday.

He's been seen publicly off his face plenty of times. If you think that's normal behaviour you're in denial. Many people are in denial though. This country has a massive problem with alcohol, so it does seem normalised.

[AlexAlexCropley]

He hasn't, though. A drink "habit" doesn't mean once a year or so when he's on holiday.

Ok

[cdbearsfan]

It's unhealthy if it happens regularly, especially if it affects your work, home life, family etc. No evidence of that whatsoever. Just a lot of Helen Lovejoyism going on.

[AlexAlexCropley]

It's unhealthy if it happens regularly, especially if it affects your work, home life, family etc. No evidence of that whatsoever. Just a lot of Helen Lovejoyism going on.

Of course there's evidence.It's just not privy to you.