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

[VillaTim]

It would be nice to see a decent rumour of an incoming wouldn’t it :-) ?

Seems 90% of rumours (& actuals) are outgoings.

Hoping for a good week/10 days in the market

Don't see much happening maybe a couple of loans .

[Jon Crofts]

Jackson off to Newcastle according to some of their fans. Hope so, he's not even as good as Diaby.

Bullet dodged for sure .

A player who has previous with Emery and developed under him? Yeah whatever Tim.

[Mister E]

Haven’t we already potentially sold Ozcan and Ned (option to buy loan)

I thought Ozcan comes in as a highly rated player, not a player-to-flip.

[Tuscans]

🚨NEW: Jaydee Canvot turned down a lucrative offer from Saudi Arabia in recent hours — priority is given to the sporting project, and Aston Villa remain in the race for him.
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[LeeB]

I hope we sign him as this was and still is an absolute banger:

[danno]

Canvot is he a centre back or a right back? or both?

[SaddVillan]

I watched highlights of Chumps League qualifiers last night and spotted Barrenechea playing for Benfica, so I checked his stats - 5 starts already for him this season.

Our deal with them is: €3m loan fee plus a  buy obligation of €12m (subject to conditions being met) and a 30% sell-on clause.

So €15m is pretty well guaranteed and given Portuguese football’s propensity for developing players a €30m sale in the future wouldn't be a surprise, (double what Benfica will pay us). Earning us a further €9m in sell-on fees.

That would give us  €24m for a player who we got for €8m + €3m add-ons (which won't have been paid.
So a net €17m - £14.5m for a player who never played for us.

Cityesque/Chelseaesque

That's what we're going to have to do in the future to bring in money, and is why we're signing the likes of Zeppy Redmond, Yasin Ozcan, Illing-Junior and Kosta Nedeljkovic.

Just a couple of quick points: We have a €10m ceiling on any future profit Benfica make if they were to sell and generally they sell very well. Monchi wasn't even at the club when we signed Duran. Unai gave his approval, probably his vert first decision when he joined us. Everything was already in place to sign Duran.

As for 'Zeppy Redmond, Yasin Ozcan, Illing-Junior and Kosta Nedeljkovic' not forgetting Dobbins, together I don't see us breaking even on those deals. Garcia is for me the best of the bunch and I hope he gets a chance to develop at Villa Park. He's already shown great potential.

I didn't say that Monchi was with us when we signed Duran.

As for breaking even, this is what we paid for the players mentioned
;
Zeppy Remond - signed for nothing
Yasin Ozcan - €7m plus €3m add-ons (€6.06m + €2.6m add-ons)
Kosta Nedeljkovic - £8m plus add-,ons
Samuel Iling-Junior €14m plus add-ons (£12.12m +add-ons)
Lewis Dobbin £9 or £10m

And don't forget, we'll be earning loan fees for them whilst they're playing for other clubs - obviously not millions, but every little helps.l towards breaking even/turning a profit.

And if we've got a €10m max sell-on limit for Barrenechea, that equates to a sale price from Benfica of €33.33m.

[PaulWinch again]

Jackson off to Newcastle according to some of their fans. Hope so, he's not even as good as Diaby.

Bullet dodged for sure .

A player who has previous with Emery and developed under him? Yeah whatever Tim.

In fairness, he’s normally very enthusiastic about signings….

[N'ZMAV]

There's something raw and coachable about Jackson, similar to where Rogers was - I'd back Unai to improve him.