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

[Somniloquism]

We have hit a road block basically. If we cant even get a few loans in by the end of the window then you really have to wonder what kind of a mess  we are in with wages

I would guess that we probably aren't in a mess, just very close to the limit with next to no wriggle room.

We know we had been running at 90% of wages to turnover the season before last. Last season the turnover should have brought that closer to the limit at the time but we would still struggle to get it under 70% I reckon, unless we are attempting that this season to give us some leeway next season.

[Chris Smith]

Theres a very plausible scenario with uefa SCR when it comes to who we wish to register. We didnt register Malen for example in champions league squad.

UEFA are measuring us for SCR based on squad A list from Jan vs whatever we wish to register now. Since then we lost the wages on squad A of Rashford, Asensio and Disasi - plus Olsen. Thats over £350k a week in wages -  wages have room to breathe

As far as i can understand, there would be nothing stopping us signing a couple on big money right now and maybe not registering then for Europe - if needs be.

We would be miles better off as a team this way, plus confident the ones we have could do fine for us for europa. Meanwhile we would be stronger in league and domestic cups

Not quite sure why this hasnt been explored so far............

I would imagining that telling players that we are trying to sign that they will not be part of the European squad would make it harder to sell the club to them.

[AV82EC]

Theres a very plausible scenario with uefa SCR when it comes to who we wish to register. We didnt register Malen for example in champions league squad.

UEFA are measuring us for SCR based on squad A list from Jan vs whatever we wish to register now. Since then we lost the wages on squad A of Rashford, Asensio and Disasi - plus Olsen. Thats over £350k a week in wages -  wages have room to breathe

As far as i can understand, there would be nothing stopping us signing a couple on big money right now and maybe not registering then for Europe - if needs be.

We would be miles better off as a team this way, plus confident the ones we have could do fine for us for europa. Meanwhile we would be stronger in league and domestic cups

Not quite sure why this hasnt been explored so far............

I would imagining that telling players that we are trying to sign that they will not be part of the European squad would make it harder to sell the club to them.

Exactly. European football of whatever type is attractive to players. I have a feeling Malen maybe wouldn’t have come if he’d have known about the CL position at the time.

[Smithy]

. Since then we lost the wages on squad A of Rashford, Asensio and Disasi - plus Olsen. Thats over £350k a week in wages

That's a lot more than £350k a week . Probably double that .

Only if we'd been paying 100% of their wages - which we know we weren't.  £350k sounds about right across the four of them, for the portion of their wages we'd been paying (plus Olsen's).

[Steve67]

It doesn’t matter now, of course, but I thought I’d read that we were paying all of Rashford’s and all of Asensio‘s salary.

[Holy Trinity]

It doesn’t matter now, of course, but I thought I’d read that we were paying all of Rashford’s and all of Asensio‘s salary.

Not even close, around 200 for Rashfords a d about 120 for asencio

[VillaTim]

. Since then we lost the wages on squad A of Rashford, Asensio and Disasi - plus Olsen. Thats over £350k a week in wages

That's a lot more than £350k a week . Probably double that .

Only if we'd been paying 100% of their wages - which we know we weren't.  £350k sounds about right across the four of them, for the portion of their wages we'd been paying (plus Olsen's).

except we were paying the vast majority if not all of Rashford / Asensio wages so thats circa £600k a week . Disasi we paid a big fee to get on loan and again would of been covering most if not all his wages so over £700k plus whatever we were paying Olsen .

[Percy McCarthy]

Speculation is that Olsen was on £50k a week.

[VillaTim]

Well, as per The Athletic’s report “Villa would be paying a significant portion of Rashford's £325,000-a-week wages and committing to a buy option.”

The club have agreed to cover all of Asensio’s reported £230,000-a-week wages during his time on loan from PSG, increasing their salary expenditure by £5million.

Villa will also pay Disasi’s entire salary until the end of the season, with the centre-back understood to be on around £80,000 per week at Chelsea.

[VILLA MOLE]

I think Rashford was on considerably less if Man U weren't in CL about a 3rd less ?

[Percy McCarthy]

Well, as per The Athletic’s report “Villa would be paying a significant portion of Rashford's £325,000-a-week wages and committing to a buy option.”

The club have agreed to cover all of Asensio’s reported £230,000-a-week wages during his time on loan from PSG, increasing their salary expenditure by £5million.

Villa will also pay Disasi’s entire salary until the end of the season, with the centre-back understood to be on around £80,000 per week at Chelsea.

If all that’s correct, even taking into account the idea that Rashford was on the non-CL rate of his Man Utd contract, you’re still looking at £600k a week savings.