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

[Monty]

Graun's average prediction for our finish this year is fifth! In the league! Why?

[Meanwood Villa]

Graun's average prediction for our finish this year is fifth! In the league! Why?

Because we've got the best manager in the league and have consistently obtained points at the rate to finish 5th since he came in

[LeeB]

Graun's average prediction for our finish this year is fifth! In the league! Why?

Jonathan Wilson will write a think piece about Guardiola to explain.

[Monty]

Graun's average prediction for our finish this year is fifth! In the league! Why?

Jonathan Wilson will write a think piece about Guardiola to explain.

Barney Ronay will say that Emery exists in his own square of light.

[Hookeysmith]

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 have thought this for a while.
The likes of Us, Newcastle and Forest taking the places of the media darlings Red filth, Spurs in top spots - no we cannot have that.

Lets destabilise them by negative reporting, linking all their key players with wanting to move (just happened to be to the scum 6 teams doing the bidding for the likes Watkins, Emi, Rogers Gibbs-White, Isak etc)

The whole thing is a rigged deck and if we circumnavigate PSR. SCR, FFP then i am sure there will be another acronym we will be falling foul of.

Football and the finances just suck at the moment and that is made even more galling when the same scum 6 seemingly can just spend and spend due to years of untouched fiddling, bullshit and ridiculous spending power.

It’s not really a mess, it is the perverse situation of having PSR and SCR set at different levels. It’s almost as though we are being punished for qualifying for European football..

[DrGonzo]

Graun's average prediction for our finish this year is fifth! In the league! Why?

Jonathan Wilson will write a think piece about Guardiola to explain.

Barney Ronay will say that Emery exists in his own square of light.

And he’d be correct too

[ozzjim]

If Chelsea can get £25m for Dewsbury hall who has never done a thing in the Prem, we should be holding out for £40 for Ramsey.

[Drummond]

If Chelsea can get £25m for Dewsbury hall who has never done a thing in the Prem, we should be holding out for £40 for Ramsey.

What about the other £39,999,960?

[kippaxvilla2]

Everton are going to be a lot better this season.

[Rigadon]

Graun's average prediction for our finish this year is fifth! In the league! Why?

Jonathan Wilson will write a think piece about Guardiola to explain.

Barney Ronay will say that Emery exists in his own square of light.

Both will be usurped by Johnathon Liew's hot take about Emery's use of a low block in a reserve game being akin to the absurdity of meaning a la Jean-Paul Sartre existentialism, while simultaneously comparing it to a hot cross bun from Greggs in Hull. 

[PaulWinch again]

Graun's average prediction for our finish this year is fifth! In the league! Why?

No idea. If we don’t add I think it’ll be so tough.

[Mister E]

If Chelsea can get £25m for Dewsbury hall who has never done a thing in the Prem, we should be holding out for £40 for Ramsey.

40 quid??
Ramsey, homegrown and all, is worth upwards of £50m is the can stay fit. We shouldn't be countenancing a sale at this time.

[algy]

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.

We signed him right at the start of the window, and Rashford and Asensio came at the end of the window as loans. It’s quite possible we signed him thinking he’d play in Europe, and only found the other two would be available and interested when it got to the end of the window and we became the best option they had.

[Richard]

Graun's average prediction for our finish this year is fifth! In the league! Why?

No idea. If we don’t add I think it’ll be so tough.

They must think Newcastle will drop off with CL and probably no Isak, while Spurs and Man U will be better but still not top 5.

[Ian.]

Graun's average prediction for our finish this year is fifth! In the league! Why?

Cause he’s a believer mate!