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

[ez]

As soon as Buendia was brought back into the fold i wondered if there was problems.

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

Rank mismanagement.

What a dreadful fuck up of a window

Wow. You’ve changed your tune. A few weeks ago, when I suggested recruitment had not been great, you responded and I quote your words

“Yeah, I reckon going from a squad which survived immediate relegation back to the Championship on the last day of the season, to being in the QF of the Champions League five years after, that has been some proper shit recruitment.
I mean, honestly, that's a Tim level post. Worse,”

Paulie's post is about a specific window, though, this one. Seems like a nice bit of cherry picking from you when we can't see what you posted.

[villa for life]

Rank mismanagement.

What a dreadful fuck up of a window

Wow. You’ve changed your tune. A few weeks ago, when I suggested recruitment had not been great, you responded and I quote your words

“Yeah, I reckon going from a squad which survived immediate relegation back to the Championship on the last day of the season, to being in the QF of the Champions League five years after, that has been some proper shit recruitment.
I mean, honestly, that's a Tim level post. Worse,”

He’s fucked up this window. It’s that simple.

And it doesn’t end in a few weeks, it ends in a few hours.

Yet you ridiculed those who dared to question the recruitment policy a few weeks ago when things looked different.

[Dante Lavelli]

Also, with the transfer surplus requirement we’ve not been in the position to dictate proceedings.  we are on the back foot waiting for other people to act.  Not sure Monchi et al can be blamed for that.

[BoVillan esq]

Sancho on loan as part of the Martinez deal

Hardly exciting stuff and we are going to pay through the nose to get a keeper in with the window about to shut, wow, who figured that beauty out.

[PaulWinch again]

As soon as Buendia was brought back into the fold i wondered if there was problems.

It’s always a red flag when a limited, but wholehearted, player looks like the standout.

[villa for life]

Rank mismanagement.

What a dreadful fuck up of a window

Wow. You’ve changed your tune. A few weeks ago, when I suggested recruitment had not been great, you responded and I quote your words

“Yeah, I reckon going from a squad which survived immediate relegation back to the Championship on the last day of the season, to being in the QF of the Champions League five years after, that has been some proper shit recruitment.
I mean, honestly, that's a Tim level post. Worse,”

Paulie's post is about a specific window, though, this one. Seems like a nice bit of cherry picking from you when we can't see what you posted.

Just go back a few weeks and you’ll see lots of regular posters saying how good the recruitment policy has been and ridiculing those who suggested it might not be that great.

[Dante Lavelli]

Rank mismanagement.

What a dreadful fuck up of a window

Wow. You’ve changed your tune. A few weeks ago, when I suggested recruitment had not been great, you responded and I quote your words

“Yeah, I reckon going from a squad which survived immediate relegation back to the Championship on the last day of the season, to being in the QF of the Champions League five years after, that has been some proper shit recruitment.
I mean, honestly, that's a Tim level post. Worse,”

He’s fucked up this window. It’s that simple.

And it doesn’t end in a few weeks, it ends in a few hours.

Yet you ridiculed those who dared to question the recruitment policy a few weeks ago when things looked different.

Mate, we’re all annoyed, there’s no value in picking fights with posters to prove a point no matter how valid. 

[pauliewalnuts]

Rank mismanagement.

What a dreadful fuck up of a window

Wow. You’ve changed your tune. A few weeks ago, when I suggested recruitment had not been great, you responded and I quote your words

“Yeah, I reckon going from a squad which survived immediate relegation back to the Championship on the last day of the season, to being in the QF of the Champions League five years after, that has been some proper shit recruitment.
I mean, honestly, that's a Tim level post. Worse,”

He’s fucked up this window. It’s that simple.

And it doesn’t end in a few weeks, it ends in a few hours.

Yet you ridiculed those who dared to question the recruitment policy a few weeks ago when things looked different.

Because they looked different and there were weeks left, not hours.

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

Rank mismanagement.

What a dreadful fuck up of a window

Wow. You’ve changed your tune. A few weeks ago, when I suggested recruitment had not been great, you responded and I quote your words

“Yeah, I reckon going from a squad which survived immediate relegation back to the Championship on the last day of the season, to being in the QF of the Champions League five years after, that has been some proper shit recruitment.
I mean, honestly, that's a Tim level post. Worse,”

Paulie's post is about a specific window, though, this one. Seems like a nice bit of cherry picking from you when we can't see what you posted.

Just go back a few weeks and you’ll see lots of regular posters saying how good the recruitment policy has been and ridiculing those who suggested it might not be that great.

I haven't been on here religiously, but I can't imagine many posters have been waxing lyrical about THIS transfer window.

[Tuscans]

Tyrone Mings: “It is for us to stay calm & for us to act as professionally as possible. The players that want to be here, now is the time to stay calm. The window will shut & we will see what players we have here..”

 

[PaulWinch again]

Even one week ago we said the club (through Unai) said lots to do - and at the moment we have a 4th choice centre half on a free that might sign. It shockingly bad.

[villa for life]

Rank mismanagement.

What a dreadful fuck up of a window

Wow. You’ve changed your tune. A few weeks ago, when I suggested recruitment had not been great, you responded and I quote your words

“Yeah, I reckon going from a squad which survived immediate relegation back to the Championship on the last day of the season, to being in the QF of the Champions League five years after, that has been some proper shit recruitment.
I mean, honestly, that's a Tim level post. Worse,”

He’s fucked up this window. It’s that simple.

And it doesn’t end in a few weeks, it ends in a few hours.

Yet you ridiculed those who dared to question the recruitment policy a few weeks ago when things looked different.

Mate, we’re all annoyed, there’s no value in picking fights with posters to prove a point no matter how valid.

Totally agree. I’m not picking any fight. Just carrying on the debate. Have the views of those posters now changed/developed?

[pauliewalnuts]

The difference is, a few weeks ago you were saying they’d fucked it up etc etc when we had had the three most successful seasons in ages. That was a hard argument to make at the time.

I am saying we’ve phenomenally fucked up this window. Which we have.

And I suspect the two things that have had the biggest impact last behind the scenes are how the JJ sale was handled (see Mings’s social media post) and Martinez, who we seem to be selling on the last day of the window when apparently he’s has an agreement with man united for weeks.

[Steve67]

Looks like Marco Asensio will be lining up against us rather than for us if Romano is to be believed.