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

[Sexual Ealing]

What the Turkish press seem to be saying is that Besiktas has the obligation to buy, so would buy, then sell to us, but only for 30 million euros. We do that we're utterly insane. Go get younger, more mobile, striker centre forward from somewhere. He's worth 15 max.

Yes.

[eamonn]

Yeah, feck that.

[DrGonzo]

Ratface on loan.

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Guessing Gallagher

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

Ratface on loan.

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Guessing Gallagher

Ratfacè (Italian winger)

[Toronto Villa]

Tammy has scored 1 in 2 in Turkey. We wouldn’t sign him as our primary option. His attitude always seems to be great. He is a bigger, stronger version of the player who was with us in his early 20’s. Good as a target man up front. A very useful option when defending set pieces. For a reasonable price I think he’d be a very good signing. He’s only 28. We watched 35 year old Danny Wellbeck still doing the business for Brighton. Emery likes experienced players with versatility and that intelligence that also comes from developing their game on the continent. I would be very happy to get Tammy and Gallagher in the January window to add that extra bit of depth and quality to our second half trophy push.

[Beard82]

In the right deal - I would have no issue with Tammy.

Warming to Gallagher too

[pauliewalnuts]

Tammy has scored 1 in 2 in Turkey. We wouldn’t sign him as our primary option. His attitude always seems to be great. He is a bigger, stronger version of the player who was with us in his early 20’s. Good as a target man up front. A very useful option when defending set pieces. For a reasonable price I think he’d be a very good signing. He’s only 28. We watched 35 year old Danny Wellbeck still doing the business for Brighton. Emery likes experienced players with versatility and that intelligence that also comes from developing their game on the continent. I would be very happy to get Tammy and Gallagher in the January window to add that extra bit of depth and quality to our second half trophy push.

Gallagher has proved himself to be a PL standard player.

Tammy hasn't.

[Tuscans]

🚨 Roma are in talks to sign Donyell Malen on loan.
@DiMarzio
 

[ozzjim]

I don't see any value in letting Donny go. He's scoring a few goals, offers something different and is literally the only forward we have with pace. It would be a mind bogglingly poor decision.

[Toronto Villa]

Tammy has scored 1 in 2 in Turkey. We wouldn’t sign him as our primary option. His attitude always seems to be great. He is a bigger, stronger version of the player who was with us in his early 20’s. Good as a target man up front. A very useful option when defending set pieces. For a reasonable price I think he’d be a very good signing. He’s only 28. We watched 35 year old Danny Wellbeck still doing the business for Brighton. Emery likes experienced players with versatility and that intelligence that also comes from developing their game on the continent. I would be very happy to get Tammy and Gallagher in the January window to add that extra bit of depth and quality to our second half trophy push.

Gallagher has proved himself to be a PL standard player.

Tammy hasn't.

Tammy has played in 89 PL games scoring 26 times plus 5 assists. Conor Gallagher has 136 PL appearances by comparison.

There are plenty of players that get signed without PL experience. And while Tammy doesn’t have a lot of games in the PL I don’t know if it disqualifies him as a PL level player. He’s played in Serie A, Turkey’s top league, Europa and Champions League. And he’s been picked for England 11 times.

[eamonn]

I don't see any value in letting Donny go. He's scoring a few goals, offers something different and is literally the only forward we have with pace. It would be a mind bogglingly poor decision.

Especially on-loan. I assume we'd only let him go if we're bringing in a better option.

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

Tammy's record in Italy, so most of his last 5 years, in the league, is 29 in 112 games. Not really exciting, is it? I do think it's a bit of rose tinted glasses with how well he did for us in the Championship by some but I guess we need bodies in.

It's completely bizarre, in my arrogant opinion.

It's not a good record but if you add his 30 assists then it is 59 in 112 and looks much better.

Haha!

I get the gag, but he actually only has 11 assists in Serie A.

[Brazilian Villain]

🚨 Roma are in talks to sign Donyell Malen on loan.
@DiMarzio

It would be a shame if Malen left before my Dad learnt his name, rather than simply referring to him as 'Baldy'.

[LeeB]

I don't see any value in letting Donny go. He's scoring a few goals, offers something different and is literally the only forward we have with pace. It would be a mind bogglingly poor decision.

If it was "he's going on loan so we can sign Rashford permanently" then yeah, ok. Otherwise fuck off.

[Chip Butty 111]

🚨 Roma are in talks to sign Donyell Malen on loan.
@DiMarzio

Don't see any sense in this, unless we've pulled a major rabbit out of the hat to replace him. He's been decent after a slow start, and grown into the team.