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

[ChicagoLion]

Talking of Semenyo, so lovely of the BBC to reveal to the scum 6 that he has a 65 mil quid release clause that can be activated in January. W*****s!

Hardly an exclusive.

[pauliewalnuts]

Talking of Semenyo, so lovely of the BBC to reveal to the scum 6 that he has a 65 mil quid release clause that can be activated in January. W*****s!

Hardly an exclusive.

It isn't, but what it does hint at is the propensity of the BBC and other media to see playing for the top 5 + Spurs as the be all and end all, and the sort of thing that excites football fans.

[paul_e]

Not really, anyone that would be interested will have alraedy spoken to his agent and know exactly what the clause is so nothing is really being given away by anyone making it public.

[Dave]

Talking of Semenyo, so lovely of the BBC to reveal to the scum 6 that he has a 65 mil quid release clause that can be activated in January. W*****s!

Hardly an exclusive.

It isn't, but what it does hint at is the propensity of the BBC and other media to see playing for the top 5 + Spurs as the be all and end all, and the sort of thing that excites football fans.

That in general, is annoying.

But in this case (and without diving into the horrors of Twitter to find out) I bet that the BBC haven't "revealed" anything . Without much actual football for their bbc.co.uk content slaves to write about in an international week, they've just repeated something that someone else revealed somewhere else about three days ago.

[ozzjim]

A young centre forward, well scouted, that can actually run, head, score and generally be a useful striker please.

[Dante Lavelli]

We're not getting anywhere near £40m for Watkins.

West Ham was the club i was thinking of, but assuming you’re right, there’s even less justification for shifting him this January.

[eamonn]

There's a lad at Udinese that's doing ok...

There's a guy works down the chipshop, swears he's Elvis.
Saw a Kirsty MacColl tribute night in Brighton last Friday. No sign of Keinan nor Nicólo sadly.

[Smithy]

We're not getting anywhere near £40m for Watkins.

I don't know, there's always West Ham.

They spent almost £30m on 31-year-old Fullkrug last season, and gave us £15m for 31-year-old Danny Ings the year before that.  I think we could expect a decent chunk from them for a 30-year-old Ollie Watkins (he's 30 next month).

Not that I want Ollie sold (not yet, I still think he'll find some form this season), but I think sometimes people miss what the going rate is for a proven goal scorer in the Premier League.  I just don't think he'd be willing to take a step "down" at this stage of his career, and certainly not before a World Cup.

Next summer, who knows?

[Dave]

I imagine there is about 0% chance that we're selling Watkins in January.

Flip of a coin in the summer depending on what competitions we're playing in next year, who might be interested in him and who we might be interested in as a replacement.

[paul_e]

I imagine there is about 0% change that we're selling Watkins in January.

Flip of a coin in the summer depending on what competitions we're playing in next year, who might be interested in him and who we might be interested in as a replacement.

Yep, and next summer feels like a good time to start considering it given we should have a bit more scope to spend on his replacement than we have for the last couple of summers. For the rest of this season I'd also be working on finding ways to use Malen and Guessand up there because if they can be good options for next season then we can take a bit more time finding the right long-term solution and maybe even opt for someone more like Duran who can grow into the role over a year or 2.

[VancouverLion]

A young centre forward, well scouted, that can actually run, head, score and generally be a useful striker please.

That Redmond kid we signed from Feyenoord, wasn't he supposedly all of this? How's he getting on at Huddersfield, any good?

[Dave]

A young centre forward, well scouted, that can actually run, head, score and generally be a useful striker please.

That Redmond kid we signed from Feyenoord, wasn't he supposedly all of this? How's he getting on at Huddersfield, any good?

Out until the new year with a serious knee injury.

[Gareth]

Strikers wise I always liked Youssef En-Nesyri when he was at Sevilla…scoring a few at Fenerbache now