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

[eamonn]

No chance Torres comes. Too expensive, too high wages.

Abraham might if he takes a decent wage.

Beyond that we are hamstrung with FFP.

Tanswell told Bardwell today that our Tammy alternatives are of a similar quality. Nothing gobsmacking, unsurprisingly.

[tomd2103]

We need Big Ron on the pitch pre-Everton game to announce a new striker coming in.

We are doing everything we can to Get Dean
Sanders !!

..The Colonol..?

Ron called him Sanders for some reason 🤔

That always made me laugh. Why did Big Ron do it?

Bit like Doug pronouncing to the Prem in Premier League' like the prem in premium.

[AV82EC]

We need Big Ron on the pitch pre-Everton game to announce a new striker coming in.

We are doing everything we can to Get Dean
Sanders !!

..The Colonol..?

Ron called him Sanders for some reason 🤔

That always made me laugh. Why did Big Ron do it?

It was to force Ellis into actually doing it as he was  as ever twatting about with the negotiation.

[The Man With A Stick]

We need Big Ron on the pitch pre-Everton game to announce a new striker coming in.

We are doing everything we can to Get Dean
Sanders !!

..The Colonol..?

Ron called him Sanders for some reason 🤔

That always made me laugh. Why did Big Ron do it?

Why did he go to the World Cup for a month and come back with John bloody Fashanu?

[Gerrin]

If the Moise Kean rumours are true, he would look like a very promising option. Looks like he'd very much suit our style, certainly more than Malen or Abraham.

[VILLA MOLE]

We need Big Ron on the pitch pre-Everton game to announce a new striker coming in.

We are doing everything we can to Get Dean
Sanders !!

..The Colonol..?

Ron called him Sanders for some reason 🤔

That always made me laugh. Why did Big Ron do it?

Why did he go to the World Cup for a month and come back with John bloody Fashanu?

and Ni Lampty 💪

[TelfordVilla]

If the Moise Kean rumours are true, he would look like a very promising option. Looks like he'd very much suit our style, certainly more than Malen or Abraham.

I think this will be the deal that gets done. Again, someone deemed a failure in the EPL with a point to prove. Perfect

[LeonW]

We need Big Ron on the pitch pre-Everton game to announce a new striker coming in.

We are doing everything we can to Get Dean
Sanders !!

..The Colonol..?

Ron called him Sanders for some reason 🤔

That always made me laugh. Why did Big Ron do it?

It was to force Ellis into actually doing it as he was  as ever twatting about with the negotiation.

I should have clarified; I meant the pronunciation.

[LeonW]

We need Big Ron on the pitch pre-Everton game to announce a new striker coming in.

We are doing everything we can to Get Dean
Sanders !!

..The Colonol..?

Ron called him Sanders for some reason 🤔

That always made me laugh. Why did Big Ron do it?

Why did he go to the World Cup for a month and come back with John bloody Fashanu?

I thought we signed him from Wimbledon as he was always a threat against us. Didn’t realise Ron just brought him back with him after a month in America. Must have been a shock to the family Fash.

[Dave]

Checked out Wikipedia on Lyon, not many players I have heard of to be honest

Malick Fofana is the one Lyon player who goes on to a big, fancy club in the next twelve months.

Fun winger, a hundred games for Gent and Lyon at age 20, already in the full Belgium squad.

If Unai is asking the current squad as well as Juan Mata about good attackers to add, I expect Onana and Tielemans would be chucking his name out there.

[KingstandingVilla]

We need Big Ron on the pitch pre-Everton game to announce a new striker coming in.

We are doing everything we can to Get Dean
Sanders !!

..The Colonol..?

Ron called him Sanders for some reason 🤔

That always made me laugh. Why did Big Ron do it?

Why did he go to the World Cup for a month and come back with John bloody Fashanu?

I thought we signed him from Wimbledon as he was always a threat against us. Didn’t realise Ron just brought him back with him after a month in America. Must have been a shock to the family Fash.

Big Ron adopted him.. Doing Madonna things before Madonna

[Brazilian Villain]

Checked out Wikipedia on Lyon, not many players I have heard of to be honest

Malick Fofana is the one Lyon player who goes on to a big, fancy club in the next twelve months.

Fun winger, a hundred games for Gent and Lyon at age 20, already in the full Belgium squad.

He was mentioned earlier on X. He suffered a serious ankle sprain with ligament damage at the end of October, had surgery on it, and is not expected to be fit for another 3-6 weeks.

[KevinGage]

No chance Torres comes. Too expensive, too high wages.

Abraham might if he takes a decent wage.

Beyond that we are hamstrung with FFP.

Tanswell told Bardwell today that our Tammy alternatives are of a similar quality. Nothing gobsmacking, unsurprisingly.

While all that may come to pass I'm not sure Vidagany will be tipping off even semi respectful journos about our true targets until it's pretty much in the bag.

I'd imagine the Gallagher leak has made them even more determined to maintain some professional distance.

[KevinGage]

BTW: It's nice to see our ex pros (they've monumentally pebbledashed the opportunity of being called legends icons a long time ago) Yorke and Collymore encouraging Yanited and the Redscouse to go for our manager and one of our best players respectively. 

Yorke I sort of get, with the stick we gave him after leaving. He obv didn't help himself with his comments when he joined the tramps down the road. And I think he genuinely still feels miffed that we never offered him the manager's job despite multiple unsolicited applications.

But Collywobbles used to ham it up when he commentated on our games for a time, cheering when he was with the national broadcaster. Maybe it was just his attempt to still appear hip and street and cool.

Like Rod Liddle supporting Millwall.

As Mark Waugh might say about the pair of 'em, they're just ex players.

[VILLA MOLE]

Collymore always seem to come across as trying to hard to convince
me he is. Villa fan