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

[Beard82]

Whats A List - sorry if I have missed it?

Football has turned into one of those board games you get at christmas that everyone loses interest in before the've lesrnt the rules 

We had a gin one a few year back - which involved no drink of gin.  Feels like football is going that way

[Villatillidie25]

The Club agrees to be subject to a sporting restriction and, as a consequence, may not
register any new player on its List A to UEFA club competitions unless the List A Transfer
Balance is positive.
• The List A Transfer Balance is defined as the difference between the cost savings from
outgoing players (“Cost savings”) and the new costs from incoming players (“New costs”) at
any applicable deadline for the Club’s submission of its List A

That was on the punishment statement, but I haven't seen anything mentioning how UEFA are working out "costs". If you have a link VTID let me know. (Preferrably UEFA directly as external people have interpreted UEFA rules wrong before, eg the amount of players allowed to be swapped in Jan).

The bit I'm unclear on is how sales impact it. For example, if we sell Ramsey for £40m is that all added to the positive column (along with £3m wages saved). It appears to be the case but if so this would put us positive to the the tune of about £50m when we include savings on wages for Rashford, Asensio, Disasi and the outgoings we've already had, which means there's potential for a bit of a splurge in the next couple of weeks, and if Bailey goes as well the 2-3 we want in could suddenly be from a level or 2 above where we thought we were shopping.

How do you calc that? Rashford on £325, Asensio £250 and Disasi £40k. It’s also been reported Rashford was likely on much less than that as he had no UCL clauses in his contract. Taking the best case is we’ve saved £600k a week for half a year, £16m. We’ve made about £7m in transfer/loan fees and got a couple more off the wage bill but only Olsen was in the UCL squad.
We’ve then replaced those with Malen, Garcia who will be on £160k between them plus £25m of amortised transfer costs (+£14m). Then there’s Guessand which is probably another £10m p.a of transfer and wages.
I make us break even at best to be honest as this doesn’t even include us adding to the squad some of the loanee returners.

[PeterWithesShin]

Blimey, I know people that earn more than Rashford and Asensio combined, Surely we have a spare 600 quid a week.

[Somniloquism]

Whats A List - sorry if I have missed it?

Effectively it is the main squad which has a number limit plus some other qualifying requirements for some places, (trained in the same country for x amount of years, trained at Villa for x amount of years.

B list is the current kids if they have been with us for 2 years or more.

[ozzjim]

Trossard is a very good player, but a left winger. Asensio isn't going to start every game, but would be brilliant over a season, will score and assist more than Ramsey would. You can't buy both though as they are too old. We need a much younger, pace option, not Trossard.

[eamonn]

Trossard's binocular celebration is lame compared to Ginny's googoly-eyed efforts.

And there's no way Malen & García are on 150k a week combined. García came from La Segunda. H&Vs hotshots earn more than he does.

[Londonvilla]

It appears that Trossard earns £90,000 per week, so he would likely want a pay rise if he were to join us. I can't see it

[villadelph]

Trossard would fit right into our style of play, we need someone on the left side and he would acclimate pretty quick with Youri and Onana. I say go for it.

[eamonn]

Nah, he's no pace or power. Just keep JJ and give him the same money as Trossard wants.