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

[LeeB]

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Mark Twain

You'd probably have got a more favourable reaction if you went with “Golf is a good walk spoiled".

I thought golf is a kind of car. Why would you be walking if you had a car?

That’s why it’s spoiled, surely, since you’d be driving rather than walking.

My first car was a Golf Driver, just to confuse matters.

[Rory]

This place gets weird during transfer windows.

[FatSam]

But walking with an ACL is agony

Not as much as walking without one.

[VILLA MOLE]

so Monday morning is quiet on the transfer front if we are quoting Mark Twain 

[PeterWithe]

Reports of us making a signing have been greatly exaggerated.

[john e]

Don’t ask for the champs league, we have the Europa
(Bette Davis)

[Exeter 77]

The ever-helpful Birmingham Mail are trying to flog Jacob Ramsey to Newcastle. They remain the most unsupportive regional newspaper of the main club they cover anywhere in the country.

[Walmley_Villa]

Ramsey and Geordies popping up in Athletic too, they have been in for him for a while.

[AV84]

Possibly why we're supposedly working on a new deal for him?

[frank black]

I could see it happening, annoyingly

[Drummond]

Or pretending to, in order to increase his perceived value to us and therefore price.

[frank black]

Newcastle are desperate for some good news. So they’ll overpay

[Mister E]

Ramsey and Geordies popping up in Athletic too, they have been in for him for a while.

I guess the question is "Are we prepared to sacrifice a home-grown player worth c.£50m in order to strengthen our defence and / or right side?"
Difficult one.

[Smithy]

I suspect the rumours of Ramsey leaving are mainly due to people seeing us not being active, thinking we have to sell, then looking at which homegrown players could generate the most revenue.  Ignoring the fact that we have quite a few players who would be almost 100% profit if sold, as they've been here so long.

I would be surprised if we sold him, as he's by no means peripheral.

[Dante Lavelli]

His agent is also trying to negotiate a better contract so testing the market is almost inevitable.