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

[eamonn]

Guessand should be judged against his forebear, the half-useless Emile Heskey.

[Garyth]

Happy to have a sportman's (or £) bet that the Guessmeister won't have 10 goals and 10 assists between now and the end of 2026/27

Hmm, I think there's a chance he gets these in 18 months - maybe 25% (mostly on Emery's track record, rather than what we've seen of Guessand).

[Goldie.7]

Just had a look at players whose contracts are expiring in the summer (and therefore may be available for a lower fee in January) on Transfermarkt.

Forwards:

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/transfers/endendevertraege/statistik?plus=0&jahr=2026&ausrichtung=Sturm&spielerposition_id=alle&altersklasse=alle&land_id=0&yt0=Show

I don't think we'd be in for the big strikers in there (Gnabry, Lewandowski, Vlahovic); but noticed Harry Wilson in there. Didn't realise he was 28, but would be a great technical player to add to the squad.

Only forward on that list who sparks my interest is our good friend El Kaabi. I’m not remotely concerned that he’s the same age as Kane, because his career record is one goal every 1.72 games. Ridiculous.

[dorsetvillian]

The fact that we are even discussing bringing Bailey back shows how limited our options are in this window.

[aj2k77]

Guessand will never score 10 goals for us. I haven't wrote him off, he's written himself off being shit. He'll be replaced in the Summer.

[Ian.]

He’s scored two already in quite limited circumstance based on him playing a defensive role. That’s two more than Sancho.

[Drummond]

He's not 'shit'. You apparently have written him off. And he keeps getting picked by our manager, in games we are winning , and is part of our great run.

He might not be what you want him to be, but he's clearly doing a job for the team.

I think we need to remember that Emery has built a team, of players with the right attitude, who work hard for each other and who don't cost the earth.

We're not Liverpool, ManU, ManC or Chelsea who can seemingly chuck half a billion quid in fees at a window; we're on an extremely tight budget and we're not buying the very best individuals out there but we are developing a team.