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

[Crown Hill]

Shockingly poor transfer window, lacking ambition, quality, almost laughable if it wasn't so sad, but the most tragic thing of all is we are left with a keeper that doesn't want to play for the club, has been gagging for a move away since the Jan transfer window, then downed tools last night and today we actually have had to endure a complete rogering from the very club this tosser got sent off against and as such helped in the clubs downfall in terms of the Champions league, that is Manchester United, that's the club this keeper has been going cap in hand to, to get away from Villa and go to and guess what, they took great delight in rejecting him.

Tragic and a poor transfer window.

Its a very poor window. Probably the worst since we came back up. Panic buys and only saved by elliot signing.

Other sides have strengthened  so much the gaps goung to be wider than ever i think. Feel like we have gone backwards as a club this summer

Yep well and truly back amongst the also rans!

[Proposition Joe]

Sad times

How are Fenerbahce doing with the UEFA squad cost ratio? All those "name" players must be on a fair whack to get them to play in the basket case of Turkish football. Maybe their homegrown players are all minimum wage.

[Demitri_C]

Shockingly poor transfer window, lacking ambition, quality, almost laughable if it wasn't so sad, but the most tragic thing of all is we are left with a keeper that doesn't want to play for the club, has been gagging for a move away since the Jan transfer window, then downed tools last night and today we actually have had to endure a complete rogering from the very club this tosser got sent off against and as such helped in the clubs downfall in terms of the Champions league, that is Manchester United, that's the club this keeper has been going cap in hand to, to get away from Villa and go to and guess what, they took great delight in rejecting him.

Tragic and a poor transfer window.

Its a very poor window. Probably the worst since we came back up. Panic buys and only saved by elliot signing.

Other sides have strengthened  so much the gaps goung to be wider than ever i think. Feel like we have gone backwards as a club this summer

Worse than Drinkwater, Samatta, Reina and Baston? Buendia, Bailey, Ings and Digne with Grealish going? Coutinho and Olsen?

You know what dave- you are right that drunkwater one is worse. Man i forgot  how bad that one was.

But i would say this is definitely  worse bailey ings one

[aj2k77]

Happy this window is closed now. It's been a really bad one on and off the pitch. Now it falls to Emery to unite the players together again and make a fist of Europa and challenge the periphery of European places.

If anyone can do it it's Unai but full concentration needs to be poured in to on field matters now.

[JUAN PABLO]

We will end up with Sancho  I bet .

whos need fabrizio when you have me ... 

[brontebilly]

Terrible transfer window but context is key. Not just the OT surrender, undoubtedly didn't help, but an unchecked process that allowed the wage bill to go out of control over the past few transfer windows. Chickens came home to roost really. We knew the rules so no point complaining now. We had a poor hand to start with and played it badly in any case. Monchi should pay for it with his job.

I thought we could or should have been bolder with our transfer strategy knowing the constraints. Maybe that was the plan but Watkins & Martinez to use a betting analogy were surprisingly friendless in the market. Martinez embarrassingly so for him and us. Did we really need to resign Kamara, Digne and Mings to new contracts? Surely it was crystal clear at the end of last season that we needed a new centre back as priority and maybe two. Yet Lindelof as a free was the only change. Selling Ramsey and replacing him with a brat like Sancho sums up modern football. I do think Elliot can be a good player in time and a better bet for us than Asensio.

We have the air of, to use a MONism, a disaffected club in a very short space of time. Emery needs to galvinize the remaining crew and staff very quickly.

[Villatillidie25]

Terrible transfer window but context is key. Not just the OT surrender, undoubtedly didn't help, but an unchecked process that allowed the wage bill to go out of control over the past few transfer windows. Chickens came home to roost really. We knew the rules so no point complaining now. We had a poor hand to start with and played it badly in any case. Monchi should pay for it with his job.

I thought we could or should have been bolder with our transfer strategy knowing the constraints. Maybe that was the plan but Watkins & Martinez to use a betting analogy were surprisingly friendless in the market. Martinez embarrassingly so for him and us. Did we really need to resign Kamara, Digne and Mings to new contracts? Surely it was crystal clear at the end of last season that we needed a new centre back as priority and maybe two. Yet Lindelof as a free was the only change. Selling Ramsey and replacing him with a brat like Sancho sums up modern football. I do think Elliot can be a good player in time and a better bet for us than Asensio.

We have the air of, to use a MONism, a disaffected club in a very short space of time. Emery needs to galvinize the remaining crew and staff very quickly.

This is pretty fair. We’ll never know the ins and outs and who’s to blame etc. but some of it surely must be a victim of our own relative success and getting into Europe far quicker than we expected. I think central defence and RB is where we clearly need upgrades in the summer. Torres has gone completely off the boil and Konsa has no (Lindelof) competition so is stagnating and Cash is basically just a decent right back but not a good one. 

[martin o`who??]

Stevenage sign Lewis Orford on loan, why does that ring a bell?

It’s a town in Hertfordshire- perhaps you’ve been there in the past
maybe?

Birthplace of Sir Lewis Hamilton.