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

[Ads]

We need somebody who can hold the ball up and play with his back to goal when Watkins isn't doing it or not in the pitch. Malen is good at linking up and working channels, but he can't play that way and it impacts us when we need to drag us higher up the pitch.

[Drummond]

Duran has 3 goals in 8 games.

[Mister E]

Malen is more use to us than Tammy. Happy to have both and swap Tammy for Bailey in some way though.

that's the badger!

[pauliewalnuts]

We would have to be insane to swap Malen for Tammy.

This Tammy stuff really is nonsense, it's sentimentality overcoming actual truth. We might as well go the whole hog and get Jonathan Kodjia back, too.

[PaulWinch again]

We need somebody who can hold the ball up and play with his back to goal when Watkins isn't doing it or not in the pitch. Malen is good at linking up and working channels, but he can't play that way and it impacts us when we need to drag us higher up the pitch.

True but that doesn’t mean we don’t need Malen to bring other attributes.

[cdbearsfan]

I do always get a vague notion that Unai has never really decided quite what to do with Malen. Swapping Malen for Abraham, but with a massive packet of cash coming in our direction to allow us to sign a fancy winger, might not be catastrophic.

[Tuscans]

Aston Villa's interest in Abraham is correct, but there is no official offer that has reached Beşiktaş yet.

ℹ️ There are claims that Aston Villa are considering an Abraham–Guessand swap.

@firatgunayer

[Toronto Villa]

Aston Villa's interest in Abraham is correct, but there is no official offer that has reached Beşiktaş yet.

ℹ️ There are claims that Aston Villa are considering an Abraham–Guessand swap.

@firatgunayer

Sign me up for that.

[Mellin]

That changes everything. Do it.

[KevinGage]

Aston Villa's interest in Abraham is correct, but there is no official offer that has reached Beşiktaş yet.

ℹ️ There are claims that Aston Villa are considering an Abraham–Guessand swap.

@firatgunayer

Happy New Year!

I could maybe see Besiktas going for that. The Guessman might even look half decent in a vastly inferior league.

But don't see a club of Roma's pedigree being that daft, sadly.

How many Italian defences are going to be conned by a supposed wide forward knocking it past the full back and trying to outpace him.

[Dave]

If we do, I'm very comfortable with it. Wouldn't be my choice, but my choice wouldn't have been that bloke who looked alright on the wing for Middlesbrough either.

And as I've said a couple of times, Emery turns decent strikers into great strikers. I don't think him scoring one in four in Italy is what he is for us. If they've decided that with our budget then Abraham is something to work with, then at time of writing their track record is good enough to assume they know what they're doing.

If we do sign him, I'm completely certain they're not doing it out of sentimentality from the Championship days, when none of them were here.

Wouldn't be swapping him for Malen though. And I think my main objection if we brought him in permanently, isn't really how good he is. It's the sign that our strikers for the next couple of years are probably "Watkins and Abraham", rather than "one of the world's best new strikers, being supported by Watkins".

[pauliewalnuts]

Aston Villa's interest in Abraham is correct, but there is no official offer that has reached Beşiktaş yet.

ℹ️ There are claims that Aston Villa are considering an Abraham–Guessand swap.

@firatgunayer

Excellent deal, let's bring Tammy home.

[PaulWinch again]

Aston Villa's interest in Abraham is correct, but there is no official offer that has reached Beşiktaş yet.

ℹ️ There are claims that Aston Villa are considering an Abraham–Guessand swap.

@firatgunayer

Excellent deal, let's bring Tammy home.

Ha ha yeah I thought that.

[VILLA MOLE]

I wouldn’t have thought we would have given up on Guessand just yet

[Somniloquism]

Not sure what Besitkas has to do with it?