Transfer Window Summer 2025. The Verdict.

[Demitri_C]

I was happy that we have managed to keep the likes of Kamara, Watkins, Konsa and Tielemans as I was expecting one of our better players being sold. JJ scored one league goal last season, I expect Elliot to at least produce more than that.

Add emi to that as i expected him to go. If we have another bad season and our FFP is a mess i think one will be sold in the summer of 2026.

Cant see how we would be thiugh we have spent virtually  nothing

[PaulWinch again]

Now there’s a lot of hope in this I acknowledge, but we now at least have attacking options to change things - which is very much how we won at lot of games after Asensio and Rashford arrived. Clearly just having options doesn’t mean they will work, but it’s a step forward from having bugger all options to mix it up.

Hopefully 3 new players into the squad just reinvigorates Unai as well.

[adrenachrome]

It was shaping up to be a disaster, but now at least we have some hope.
We were hoping for progression based on the last 3 years, but PSR etc. has put us back into transition.

[Ads]

Elliot is better than JJ. Tielemans is better than Dougie. Rogers was better than the nobody doing his bit.

Diaby improved the first XI, he just so happened to be transformative for Bailey for the season he was here. So as with Maatsen with Digne, who found another level.

7th, 4th  and a semi-final, 6th a Quarter Final and a semi final- yet we have a rotten transfer strategy. I dont find the argument persuasive in the least.

The amount of flack Onana cops from people on here borders the obsessive.

[Dave]

23 for the A List? Who are the two homegrowns?

Edit: I see Bogarde in your list now. I assume he counts as one. Who am I missing?

Bogarde (I think) is still fine for the B list, born four days after the cut-off. Unless UEFA haven't updated their website.

So I'm pretty sure we'll have a European squad of 21 plus da yoot. So I think one other player on that list above doesn't need to worry about digging out their passport.

Scenes if Malen misses out again.

[Ian.]

Onana is great, a lot of potential and drives us forward when on song and fit. I just can’t believe we’ve got two very good deep lying midfielders who are injured so often. It’s bloody frustrating.


What’s more frustrating is my phone changing Onana to Obama ffs!

[Dante Lavelli]

I have to ask, ignore the football quality, how has this window performed from an accountancy perspective?

Was this a ‘step back’ so we can take ‘two steps forward’ in the future?  Has anyone managed to crunch the numbers from the data available?

[Chris Smith]

Given the restrictions I think we have done as well as could reasonably be expected. For those giving a low mark out of 10 I do wonder in our current circumstances how they think we might have achieved more?

[Gareth]

We were told at the start of the summer that it would be a tough summer with finances, the UEFA message was that we had to make a profit….it was and we have.

Obviously sacrificing JJ was far far from ideal & it’s never good selling a home grown player you don’t want to sell.  If he stays fit (& I won’t miss the panic everytime he goes down holding that foot!) and gets a run up there he will likely be around the England squad at some point.

Guessand as the only cash outlay will essentially be the one we judge the window by. 

I personally wouldn’t have gone near Lindelof but financially the deal make sense when you consider how much we paid out on Disasi last year to be a back up.  It gives back up to Konsa which was needed….not sure it helps the right back woes though.

Sancho is another punt…get the Dortmund Sancho out of him then he is an asset….not sure any other club has got anything of that form out of him so it’s a big one for Unai to achieve.

Elliott from nowhere was a pleasant surprise and turned a very poor window into one we could work with.

Again, very personal opinion but I am glad we didn’t go back for Asensio - sure him and Duran will bite us on the arse in the Europa game but I think we had the real value out of him in that short, sharp loan period…be interesting to see how he goes in Turkey but I suspect he’ll move about a few times in next 2/3 years gradually down the level of clubs.

Having said the output from Guessand will be where the window is judged it will actually be the next 2/3 weeks and how the club & player deal with the Martinez fall out…explain what happened, get all the players back on the same page until at least January and we go again…if he isn’t reintegrated quickly it will overshadow everything so needs to be done

For me;
Sunday 5.45pm - window was D
Monday 7pm - window was C+

[Dante Lavelli]

Given the restrictions I think we have done as well as could reasonably be expected. For those giving a low mark out of 10 I do wonder in our current circumstances how they think we might have achieved more?

Agreed.  If we are in a deeper financial hole after this window then the low scores are justified, however if we have created headroom for the future and this squad can scrape into Europe (possible) then I feel 5s and 6s feel more reasonable. 

[Percy McCarthy]

23 for the A List? Who are the two homegrowns?

Edit: I see Bogarde in your list now. I assume he counts as one. Who am I missing?

Bogarde (I think) is still fine for the B list, born four days after the cut-off. Unless UEFA haven't updated their website.

So I'm pretty sure we'll have a European squad of 21 plus da yoot. So I think one other player on that list above doesn't need to worry about digging out their passport.

Scenes if Malen misses out again.

It will be Garcia I think.

[London Villan]

I'm sure I'm not the only one, but it would make so much more sense for the window to shut before the start of the season. I'm sure that will be the message from Unai - get the new players on board and the season starts on September 13th - I include EMi in that too.

[FatSam]

In the circumstances that we find ourselves in, I’d say it was a relatively positive window. I think the club did as much as they realistically could to keep us competitive within the parameters that have been imposed on us.

It will be unfortunate if Martinez doesn’t knuckle down and get on with it, but that is down to the player rather than the club.

I would have preferred a more direct replacement for Bailey as a touchline-hugging winger, but I don’t know how that might have been, and whether they would have been gettable within our financial constraints.

[johnny from donny]

2/10 if we hadn't brought in Lindelof and Sancho it would have been 3.5. Dead wages for me, Lindelof will hardly play and Sancho doesn't want to be here.

[Monty]

Not a great window, but keeping Martinez (or at the very least not ending up with Bizot as number one and unnamed kids vying for number two) plus the signing of Harvey Elliot has definitely leavened the bread a bit. Lindelof and Sancho is pretty fucking desperate and about as imaginative as a bowl of Ready Brek, but there we are, let's hope Unai can do Unai things with them.