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

[kippaxvilla2]

As long as Emery doesn’t walk to man united when the press click their fingers in the international break.

[cdbearsfan]

I don't know. I think our game is based around working extremely hard, running players into the ground safe in the knowledge that we can take them off and replace them with subs who are of a similar standard. With the squad shrinking all the time I'm not sure that's the case. We need to be very lucky with injuries or have some unknown kid from the youth team step up, IMO. I don't expect us to struggle or anything, but I would be surprised to see us match our achievements of the past couple of seasons.

[PaulWinch again]

Come home Marco.

Indeed - we need a spark badly and he is that.

[garyellis]

There is nothing wrong on financial controls on a conceptual level.

If there were no controls, Newcastle would be becoming the next Man City right now, imagine watching that happen.

Someone needs to stop clubs getting into loads of debt because based on years gone by, the clubs can’t often help themselves.

The problem is, the way it is currently set up seems to stop clubs from competing at the top level consistently whilst also having the frankly absurd side effect of making selling your home grown players more appealing- how nuts is that?

So how should it be set up so as to curb excesses but encourage clubs to grow?

I don’t know the answer to that.

It’s a bit like VAR - perfectly good idea but with dreadful implementation.

100%

Yup. It's rubbish, but it's tricky to come up with a fairer way. And this way is preferable to playing a game of "who has the richest owner" Top Trumps.

I think it just needs slightly larger budgets - and some kind of way to book against know future revenues (i.e. European qualification)

Don't get me wrong, as a Villa fan I'd like the rules to be that we get to spend whatever we want and everyone else can't spend anything. But for everyone who isn't connected to our club "the precise set of circumstances that benefits Villa the most right now" and "the right way to govern football finances" aren't necessarily the same thing.

If we swapped places with say, Palace - the above scenario would benefit them and hinder us. Would you still think that it would be the right way to do it?

Or would The Right Thing To Do then be to stop billionaire owners just pumping in even more money and paying hundreds of millions more in wages, meaning the clubs without billionaire owners would still be able to compete?

The current rules protect certain clubs and prevent all the others from competing. That can’t be right even if you are happy being an also ran.

[Pete3206]

Seem to be back to the old 'jam tomorrow' malarky.

[BC Villain]

If only we hadn’t been totally bottlejob wankers on that last day of the season.

Yes, i don't like all this "woe is us" feeling hard done by. It's our own fault we're not in the CL. We had it in our own hands and monumentally bottled it.

Yes we didn't turn up when it really mattered at Wembley and on the last day of the season, but our mismanagement of the last three or four transfer windows have played a major factor.

We are as badly run by our owners as Man Utd are by the Glazers and Radcliffe, yet cannot spend anywhere near as much

[kippaxvilla2]

Seem to be back to the old 'jam tomorrow' malarky.

That’s Hartley fair.

[PaulWinch again]

You really don’t understand the ownership thing do you?

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

You really don’t understand the ownership thing do you?

It’s an, er….interesting take!

[Brazilian Villain]

You really don’t understand the ownership thing do you?

BC = Beyond Comprehension.

[Olneythelonely]

How on earth are we covering his salary? Surely he is taking a pay cut?

We’ve just got the wages of Ramsey, Bailey, Dendonker, Coutinho et al off the books.

[Ads]

If only we hadn’t been totally bottlejob wankers on that last day of the season.

Yes, i don't like all this "woe is us" feeling hard done by. It's our own fault we're not in the CL. We had it in our own hands and monumentally bottled it.

Yes we didn't turn up when it really mattered at Wembley and on the last day of the season, but our mismanagement of the last three or four transfer windows have played a major factor.

We are as badly run by our owners as Man Utd are by the Glazers and Radcliffe, yet cannot spend anywhere near as much

The H&V equivalent of a dirty process this. Absolute shite smeared everywhere by this whopper.

[Drummond]

We will beat Palace on Sunday, announce 2 or 3 players before the window ends and all this chat will slow down for a bit.

Nobody likes the rules but most clubs feel safer with them.

Worry and fear takes over sometimes for some people and those those thoughts pervade everything. We've had a tricky start with a depleted squad but we will be competitive again. We'll be in the mix again.

[cdbearsfan]

If only we hadn’t been totally bottlejob wankers on that last day of the season.

Yes, i don't like all this "woe is us" feeling hard done by. It's our own fault we're not in the CL. We had it in our own hands and monumentally bottled it.

Yes we didn't turn up when it really mattered at Wembley and on the last day of the season, but our mismanagement of the last three or four transfer windows have played a major factor.

We are as badly run by our owners as Man Utd are by the Glazers and Radcliffe, yet cannot spend anywhere near as much

The whole thing makes you tired and weary, doesn't it?

[ozzjim]

If he's taking a pay cut to £100k a week and costs us £12-14m in signing fee, he's worth it for me. Positionally he's one of the most intelligent footballers I've seen at Villa Park, and think he'll be instrumental in Europe. He's also got an uncanny knack of seeing space from the bench, coming on and finding it to positively change a game. We need pace around him, but he's a bloody good player that improves us.