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Author Topic: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.  (Read 344013 times)

Offline PaulWinch again

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1425 on: January 12, 2026, 08:02:56 PM »
He’s 25 isn’t he?

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1426 on: January 12, 2026, 08:10:39 PM »
We still need another centre mid so hope we have something else lined up. Ideally a bit younger than Gallagher.
Someone more 23/24 would be ideal.

Offline Dante Lavelli

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1427 on: January 12, 2026, 08:11:27 PM »
He would have been a solid acquisition, relatively risk free, at the £25m we were originally quoted. Also happy that we’ve stuck to our guns and not matched the spurs offer.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1428 on: January 12, 2026, 08:19:37 PM »
He’s 25 isn’t he?

I thought 28 but apparently only 26 in Feb, so good age really. Annoying, Unai would have worked well with him.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1429 on: January 12, 2026, 08:24:12 PM »
CM was not a position I thought we needed to target.  I suppose the question now is whether Emery sees midfield as a weakness or whether the original deal was considered too good to be true. 

My guess is the second option, so there wont be a plan B move of the same magnitude.
« Last Edit: January 12, 2026, 08:32:36 PM by Dante Lavelli »

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1430 on: January 12, 2026, 08:27:24 PM »
£35 for Gallacher who has only started 4 league games is not a good deal.

Correct. Spurs going in £10m over what had been agreed sums them up.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1431 on: January 12, 2026, 08:53:02 PM »
We’ve played a blinder tricking Spurs into paying £40m for him. Well played Agent Lange.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1432 on: January 12, 2026, 09:00:55 PM »
Failed a vital test horrifically. Hope he enjoys living up to his potential just as much as Joao Felix!

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1433 on: January 12, 2026, 09:01:30 PM »
Is this Hayden Hackney, interesting name, at Boro any good?

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1434 on: January 12, 2026, 09:03:04 PM »
Is this Hayden Hackney, interesting name, at Boro any good?
Yes, according to my Boro mate but they've already turned down a £25m bid from Everton, apparently.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1435 on: January 12, 2026, 09:03:16 PM »
£35m for Gallagher is too much with where he currently is. Back the club for not paying that. Shame for the player going to Spurs as they are a mess.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1436 on: January 12, 2026, 09:04:34 PM »
Like, does anyone think he'll solve their problems over at Spurs? Were they one Conor Gallagher away from a title challenge this whole time? Doubt it.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1437 on: January 12, 2026, 09:07:12 PM »
Like, does anyone think he'll solve their problems over at Spurs? Were they one Conor Gallagher away from a title challenge this whole time? Doubt it.

What Spurs need is another headless chicken knocking lumps out of people. They don't have enough of those.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1438 on: January 12, 2026, 09:11:13 PM »
Is this Hayden Hackney, interesting name, at Boro any good?

Highly rated.  We were linked last summer and his highlights reel is/was exceptional.

Have we been linked again?

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1439 on: January 12, 2026, 09:14:31 PM »
Is this Hayden Hackney, interesting name, at Boro any good?

Highly rated.  We were linked last summer and his highlights reel is/was exceptional.

Have we been linked again?
No, Fulham.

 


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