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

[Brend'Watkins]

Marmoush has only been at city for 5 minutes. They won’t be selling him to us anytime soon unless it’s money + Rogers and that wouldn’t happen in January.

[Dante Lavelli]

I’d take Bowen all day long, but it’s a bit arrogant to think we can just snap up a player like that out on loan.
There will be a queue a mile long when he becomes available.

There will be I’m sure.  I don’t think it is arrogant though; West Ham will not want to sell their talisman and I cannot see the player agitating for a move either.  We help them out by paying his wages and he gets top level football without destroying his relationship with the fans. When they get promoted he returns.

What are you smoking?

Okay, I’ll shut up then.

[Matt C]

Perhaps Savinho or Oscar Bobb might be available - can see Bobb’s versatility being of appeal and we might have been linked with him before?

[eamonn]

I only want Marmoush if he can do the Mamushka.

She sent him scented letters And he received them with a strange delight

[Garyth]

Can’t say for certain but likely they were just rotating the squad. The Russian played in goal against Flamengo and apparently saved 4 penalties in the shootout. A different reserve keeper played in the French cup at the weekend and Chervalier and the other keeper were on the bench. Seems like two goalies on the bench is all the rage!

It's more problematic than this - Zabarnyi (the CB) is Ukrainian, and doesn't really want to have anything to do with Safonov which makes communication in defence a little tricky... so they'll keep playing Chevalier, or play Safonov and drop Zabarnyi.

It's the sort of squad politics that is refreshingly absent from Villa at the moment.