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Author Topic: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.  (Read 292526 times)

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #165 on: December 02, 2025, 06:57:24 PM »
Danny Ings is only 33...

And I would take him on a free until the end of the season.

Offline Smirker

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #166 on: December 02, 2025, 06:58:18 PM »
From now on, Smirker isn't in charge of ideas.

haha

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #167 on: December 02, 2025, 07:00:45 PM »
It's obviously a terrible idea now, but I reckon we should have definitely chucked £10m at Palace the season we came back up instead of £20m on Wesley. He wasn't that important to them and left on a free the following season.

Some players just fit a club - and even at 30, Benteke, with Grealish, McGinn, Mings et al, with a back-in-the-Premier--League Villa Park instead of Palace's mob fully behind him - I reckon it would have just worked.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #168 on: December 02, 2025, 07:59:12 PM »
I’m still hoping we can get Asensio back in the summer.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #169 on: December 02, 2025, 08:02:23 PM »
I like him but at nearly 30 he's hardly a good long term investment.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #170 on: December 02, 2025, 11:50:49 PM »
Danny Ings is only 33...

And I would take him on a free until the end of the season.

Hahaha, now I know you're on a wind up. Danny Ings with zero goals (or assists though we don't count them) in the Championship this season... And the grand total of 2 goals in the past three seasons...

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #171 on: December 03, 2025, 12:05:51 AM »
So for the last six months or so you’ve been jumping up and down ranting about Ollie and your answer is Benteke or Ings?

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #172 on: December 03, 2025, 04:11:40 AM »
Bring Keinan home.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #173 on: December 03, 2025, 10:01:45 AM »
If we're still around 4th after our usual hard as fuck December do we have the wiggle room to go for it like we did last January?

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #174 on: December 03, 2025, 11:06:16 AM »
I doubt it. And if we do, they'll change the rules so that we don't.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #175 on: December 03, 2025, 11:08:23 AM »
I’d imagine we can and will look to do loans.  We need a Rashford style impact. 

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #176 on: December 03, 2025, 11:09:56 AM »
I’d imagine we can and will look to do loans.  We need a Rashford style impact. 

I was trying to think of someone in a similar situation to what he was that needs rescuing but I'm struggling.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #177 on: December 03, 2025, 11:19:09 AM »
I’d imagine we can and will look to do loans.  We need a Rashford style impact. 

I was trying to think of someone in a similar situation to what he was that needs rescuing but I'm struggling.

And unless we're going to pay Liverpool a load of money to send Elliott back, they need to be from abroad as we can't have more than two domestic ones.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #178 on: December 03, 2025, 11:19:42 AM »
Chiesa? Sterling?

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #179 on: December 03, 2025, 11:29:18 AM »
I’d imagine we can and will look to do loans.  We need a Rashford style impact. 

I was trying to think of someone in a similar situation to what he was that needs rescuing but I'm struggling.

And unless we're going to pay Liverpool a load of money to send Elliott back, they need to be from abroad as we can't have more than two domestic ones.

Surely we won’t keep Elliot - it’d be mad to carry on like this for all parties. 

 


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