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

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Barca interested in Pau, according to A Man On The Internet.

Straight swap for Raphinha?

[Dave]

Barca interested in Pau, according to A Man On The Internet.

Given Mings is obviously miles better (see prevailing opinion ten months ago), maybe we should just sell Mings to Barcelona instead and make even more cash from this.

[Percy McCarthy]

Barca interested in Pau, according to A Man On The Internet.

Given Mings is obviously miles better (see prevailing opinion ten months ago), maybe we should just sell him to Barcelona and make even more cash from this.

We were getting better results when Mings played 8/10 months ago. That’s not an opinion.

Opinions are fine, but I’ll stick with facts on this one.

[Brazilian Villain]

Not happy about Lyon strengthening, they’re one of our rivals for Europa League glory, let’s hope Endrick is absolute shite.

Beware the Lyon in winter.

[Dave]

Barca interested in Pau, according to A Man On The Internet.

Given Mings is obviously miles better (see prevailing opinion ten months ago), maybe we should just sell him to Barcelona and make even more cash from this.

We were getting better results when Mings played 8/10 months ago. That’s not an opinion.

Opinions are fine, but I’ll stick with facts on this one.

Let's get those Barcelona millions then.

[cdbearsfan]

Barca interested in Pau, according to A Man On The Internet.

Given Mings is obviously miles better (see prevailing opinion ten months ago), maybe we should just sell him to Barcelona and make even more cash from this.

We were getting better results when Mings played 8/10 months ago. That’s not an opinion.

Opinions are fine, but I’ll stick with facts on this one.

We weren't though, were we. We are literally on our best top flight run since 1989/90, mate.

Lindelof has done well but he is a squad player, not someone we want playing twenty-thirty games a season. Top teams have at least three or four high quality centre-halves. We need to stop being in a desperate rush to sell our star players as soon as some European Scab League team flashes a bit of ankle.

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

Barcelona don't have a pot to piss in.  They're not giving us decent money for Pau.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Club still want a CB/RB - not sure what long term future Garcia has

Whether this type of move can happen next month, not sure

We have Modou Kéba Cissé arriving in June.

[Percy McCarthy]

Barca interested in Pau, according to A Man On The Internet.

Given Mings is obviously miles better (see prevailing opinion ten months ago), maybe we should just sell him to Barcelona and make even more cash from this.

We were getting better results when Mings played 8/10 months ago. That’s not an opinion.

Opinions are fine, but I’ll stick with facts on this one.

Let's get those Barcelona millions then.

Why? The facts have changed.

[Percy McCarthy]

Barca interested in Pau, according to A Man On The Internet.

Given Mings is obviously miles better (see prevailing opinion ten months ago), maybe we should just sell him to Barcelona and make even more cash from this.

We were getting better results when Mings played 8/10 months ago. That’s not an opinion.

Opinions are fine, but I’ll stick with facts on this one.

We weren't though, were we. We are literally on our best top flight run since 1989/90, mate.

I’m on about 8/10 months ago. There’s a clue in the post.

[pauliewalnuts]

If the current results at the moment are the best since 1989, then they were also the best since 1989 8/10 months ago.

There is also another causality rabbit hole to go down around whether we were getting the results we were getting 8/10 months ago because of Mings, but life is too short for that.

[Dave]

Barca interested in Pau, according to A Man On The Internet.

Given Mings is obviously miles better (see prevailing opinion ten months ago), maybe we should just sell him to Barcelona and make even more cash from this.

We were getting better results when Mings played 8/10 months ago. That’s not an opinion.

Opinions are fine, but I’ll stick with facts on this one.

Let's get those Barcelona millions then.

Why? The facts have changed.

I don't think anything has changed. My opinion on what our best back five is is the same as it was eighteen months ago, and eight months ago.

[cdbearsfan]

Barca interested in Pau, according to A Man On The Internet.

Given Mings is obviously miles better (see prevailing opinion ten months ago), maybe we should just sell him to Barcelona and make even more cash from this.

We were getting better results when Mings played 8/10 months ago. That’s not an opinion.

Opinions are fine, but I’ll stick with facts on this one.

We weren't though, were we. We are literally on our best top flight run since 1989/90, mate.

I’m on about 8/10 months ago. There’s a clue in the post.

I know. We are on our best top flight run since 1989/90. 8/10 months ago was not longer ago than 1989/90.

[Dave]

In defence of percy, I don't think he's comparing eras in his post. He's specifically comparing Mings and Pau last season. "Our performances with Mings were better than those with Pau".

Not "our run last season was better than the one this season"

[cdbearsfan]

Ah okay, fair enough. This season, though, we have undoubtedly tended to get better results during the period of the season when Torres was mostly playing than when Mings was mostly playing. I'm still pretty keen on Torres and Mings and we would be mad to let either of them go, especially as we would get next to nothing for Mings given his injury record.