Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.

[andyh]

Chelsea about to pay £130mil for Rogers apparently. Aren't they under the same UEFA sanctions as us on a positive expenditure?

Is that for his left or right leg ?

[Smirker]

Chelsea about to pay £130mil for Rogers apparently. Aren't they under the same UEFA sanctions as us on a positive expenditure?

Would sell for £130m. Great price.

We could do a lot with that and I trust Unai to spend it well.

[Brazilian Villain]

Chelsea about to pay £130mil for Rogers apparently.

Can't see it, I think he'd prefer to be at a club that offers him Champions League football.

[eamonn]

And one that had a manager.

[rooboy316]

On the flip side, with that sort of money, we could buy three Evann Guessands to replace his qualities.

[Tayls_7]

I imagine Tony Dorigo has been in his ear again.

[ChicagoLion]

On the flip side, with that sort of money, we could buy three Evann Guessands

Two Djemba Djembas
And a Tonev in a pear tree.

[Rigadon]

Chelsea about to pay £130mil for Rogers apparently. Aren't they under the same UEFA sanctions as us on a positive expenditure?

Would sell for £130m. Great price.

We could do a lot with that and I trust Unai to spend it well.

We’ll sell him eventually, and for massive money, but not this winter. That would be just giving up. 

[PaulWinch again]

Selling him this winter would be insane and we won’t do it.

[walsall villain]

Selling him this winter would be insane and we won’t do it.

Every year we have to put up with this nonsense. It would be insane as you say and clubs in this league do not sell key players in this window.

[Steve67]

Selling our best player, arguably, to an inferior club with a lower gate capacity and forward momentum? Would question Morgan’s desire if that were the case.

[LeeB]

Chelsea don't pay massive wages do they? What is the incentive for the player to take a step down to them?

[Mellin]

That's how I see it too. When I read Chelsea I just thought, why? What do they have other than some extra revenue? I was thinking about this when someone was banging on about Arsenal "knowing how to win" as a club the other day. What is the difference between 23 and 46 years to these current players? Nothing.

The players aren't stupid. They'll know we're in the top 3, in all likelihood playing in the Champions League next year, and in Emery they have a manager they can trust to get the best out of them. No one's going to Chelsea unless we want them gone.

[Dave]

Chelsea don't pay massive wages do they? What is the incentive for the player to take a step down to them?

Now they've had their initial splurge, he's also the wrong profile for what their owners are looking for in a player now.

Their whole current thing is signing players who could get to Rogers' level for a quarter/ third as much as Rogers would cost, hope that some of them get to that level to build a team but sell on the majority for a bit extra once they have the "prestige" of being a Chelsea player on their CV.

They're an investment vehicle first and foremost.

[Clampy]

Watching the game yesterday, I think a defensive midfielder or another body in there is needed. I know we have Barkley and Onana to come back but there's no guarantee they'll stay fit. I did think briefly about Kalvin Philljps but hes not been much cop for ages (another career Pep ruined). I do like Mainoo though.