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Author Topic: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.  (Read 70320 times)

Offline SoccerHQ

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #840 on: January 05, 2026, 12:37:11 PM »
Way I see it we have the squad now to get 3rd. Probably not to be challenging for the league in April.

Big question mark now is can we get over the line in Europa league especially if we have a few injuries in the run in. That could be where adding two more players and one with good experience would be very useful indeed for the business end of the season.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #841 on: January 05, 2026, 12:48:03 PM »
Way I see it we have the squad now to get 3rd. Probably not to be challenging for the league in April.

Big question mark now is can we get over the line in Europa league especially if we have a few injuries in the run in. That could be where adding two more players and one with good experience would be very useful indeed for the business end of the season.

Mings*, Garcia and Elliott are probably the only ones we can remove from the current UEFA squad unless we sell someone unexpectedly.

* Mings is officially still in the squad as we used the injury clause to replace him with Barkley but that expires when the player replaced is fit again.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #842 on: January 05, 2026, 01:01:51 PM »
We need players for the second half of the premier league campaign not the Europa.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #843 on: January 05, 2026, 01:47:09 PM »
Might bringing Dobbin back be an option? Played plenty of football and seems to be doing ok at Preston and could be used as a pace option on bench.  We are still very thin out wide

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #844 on: January 05, 2026, 02:11:06 PM »
It would be some turn-around in his career if we did take him back and give him a run. Up to now, he's been seen as a sad little horse in a wet field with no pals to canter around with.

Offline Londonvilla

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #845 on: January 05, 2026, 05:33:47 PM »
AVFC The Religion‪@avfcthereligion.bsky.social‬

Aston Villa to bid £15 million for Edvin Austbø in January. Viking value him at £22-29 million.

Villa knows about Leverkusen, Leeds and Sunderland interest and fears a bidding war could occur.



Looks a little small

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #846 on: January 05, 2026, 05:41:00 PM »
a wide forward ? Bit like Shakiri

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #847 on: January 05, 2026, 06:08:57 PM »
His hips don’t lie.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #848 on: January 05, 2026, 06:10:46 PM »
His hips don’t lie.

and i am starting to feel its right

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #849 on: January 05, 2026, 06:16:54 PM »
a wide forward ? Bit like Shakiri

Shaq? The squattest fucker playing at a high level since Andy Reid and we've already got a stooping meatball.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #850 on: January 05, 2026, 06:19:10 PM »
a wide forward ? Bit like Shakiri

Shaq? The squattest fucker playing at a high level since Andy Reid and we've already got a stooping meatball.

sorry yes Shaqiri Shaqiri Shaqiri

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #851 on: January 05, 2026, 06:30:56 PM »
Unai saying we can't buy anybody unless we get out of the Elliott deal, or do some trading like last year.  Although loans are possible

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #852 on: January 05, 2026, 06:43:42 PM »
Has he done his pre-match presser already ?

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #853 on: January 05, 2026, 06:56:12 PM »
Surely the Elliott  deal would have been sorted in principle before Jan?

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #854 on: January 05, 2026, 07:24:44 PM »
I wonder if Liverpool hold the upper hand in terms of the deal made in the summer and are asking us to pay wages for him until the end of the season or some shit that holds things up.  They wouldn’t want to help us at the moment I wouldn’t have thought.

 


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