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

[OCD]

Everton agreed deal for Dibbling.

[Gareth]

Everton agreed deal for Dibbling.

Good club for Dibling to go to…personally I’ve been underwhelmed most times I’ve seen him…but there he can alternate with Jack / Alcaraz etc

[RamboandBruno]

We need a quality RB. 
Have done for 4 years. 

Right back is like a weird sort of genetic malady we have had for 25 years now.

MON used to buy them and discard them (Habib Beye for example) and play left backs or midfielders there (i reckon 75% of his substitutions involved a midfielder moving to RB - remember Reo-Coker playing there? And usually done to facilitate Steve Sidwell coming on).
Unai seems to see right backs as vitally important to how we play, but then buys them and bins them all the time (Ned, maybe Garcia by the looks of it, maybe Fort coming in) whilst persisting very often with Cash, a mediocre one.

You're right - I was thinking about this earlier today. Guilbert and Ned seemed to completely fit the bill for what we wanted but both have been binned off. KKH could definitely have done a job but has been sold.
Confused.com
I actually think Emery is still seeking the elusive CB-come-RB player that arsenal have created with Not-so-White Ben.

Guilbert, KKH or Ned, none of them were good enough for where we are now.

[Mister E]

We need a quality RB. 
Have done for 4 years. 

Right back is like a weird sort of genetic malady we have had for 25 years now.

MON used to buy them and discard them (Habib Beye for example) and play left backs or midfielders there (i reckon 75% of his substitutions involved a midfielder moving to RB - remember Reo-Coker playing there? And usually done to facilitate Steve Sidwell coming on).
Unai seems to see right backs as vitally important to how we play, but then buys them and bins them all the time (Ned, maybe Garcia by the looks of it, maybe Fort coming in) whilst persisting very often with Cash, a mediocre one.

You're right - I was thinking about this earlier today. Guilbert and Ned seemed to completely fit the bill for what we wanted but both have been binned off. KKH could definitely have done a job but has been sold.
Confused.com
I actually think Emery is still seeking the elusive CB-come-RB player that arsenal have created with Not-so-White Ben.

Guilbert, KKH or Ned, none of them were good enough for where we are now.

You say that - and it's your opinion - but the RB position is still pretty ambiguous, it seems.

[AGRIPPA]

We need a quality RB. 
Have done for 4 years. 

Right back is like a weird sort of genetic malady we have had for 25 years now.

MON used to buy them and discard them (Habib Beye for example) and play left backs or midfielders there (i reckon 75% of his substitutions involved a midfielder moving to RB - remember Reo-Coker playing there? And usually done to facilitate Steve Sidwell coming on).
Unai seems to see right backs as vitally important to how we play, but then buys them and bins them all the time (Ned, maybe Garcia by the looks of it, maybe Fort coming in) whilst persisting very often with Cash, a mediocre one.

You're right - I was thinking about this earlier today. Guilbert and Ned seemed to completely fit the bill for what we wanted but both have been binned off. KKH could definitely have done a job but has been sold.
Confused.com
I actually think Emery is still seeking the elusive CB-come-RB player that arsenal have created with Not-so-White Ben.

Guilbert, KKH or Ned, none of them were good enough for where we are now.

You say that - and it's your opinion - but the RB position is still pretty ambiguous, it seems.

I really think selling KKH will come back to bite us….hes quality

[Londonvilla]

Ｅｓｐｅｎ@espenstrand

Aston Villa and Fenerbahce is advance for Geny Catamo
The English have €18 million plus 2 million in bonuses to try the winger. Turks admit to reaching 20 million.

Sporting wants 25+5 to let him leave.

There are two clubs moving towards Geny Catamo and they are the two that A BOLA revealed have the 24-year-old winger on the radar: Fenerbahçe and Aston Villa. Both have funds reserved to attack the Mozambican from Sporting, both reach 20 million euros but the formula is different. The green and whites, however, want a value between 25/30 million euros to release the number 10.

Good business if we can get him for £20m

[eamonn]

Mozambique? A new country for CD to go wild about. Is he any cop though?

[Percy McCarthy]

Sounds like he might be a caporegime in the Genovese family. Bring!

[cdbearsfan]

Mozambique? A new country for CD to go wild about. Is he any cop though?

Make it happen, Villa.

[ROBBO]

Going to be a lot harder this season, even Man Utd have strengthened. I would put Chelsea ahead of Arsenal as a main challenger to City and Pool. I hope i'm wrong but we look far weaker than the second half of last season, we seem to be going after players who I have never heard of.

[OCD]

Isn't it Monchi's job to find up and coming players who we've never heard of?

[jwarry]

Isn't it Monchi's job to find up and coming players who we've never heard of?

Yes but he’s not averse to world class has-beens  looking to rediscover their worth

[jwarry]

Ｅｓｐｅｎ@espenstrand

Aston Villa and Fenerbahce is advance for Geny Catamo
The English have €18 million plus 2 million in bonuses to try the winger. Turks admit to reaching 20 million.

Sporting wants 25+5 to let him leave.

There are two clubs moving towards Geny Catamo and they are the two that A BOLA revealed have the 24-year-old winger on the radar: Fenerbahçe and Aston Villa. Both have funds reserved to attack the Mozambican from Sporting, both reach 20 million euros but the formula is different. The green and whites, however, want a value between 25/30 million euros to release the number 10.

Good business if we can get him for £20m

Looks like a straight replacement for Bailey in those clips

[Dante Lavelli]

As highlights go, that’s pretty awful.  They edit most the crosses out.

[Steve67]

Agree Dante, he looks very Bailey part deux, when we need, well, better.