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

[brontebilly]

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.

As Fash tells it, he was over there doing commentary for Nigerian TV.

He always liked BFR, and recommended a few Nigerian players for Villa from that squad. Ron then enquired about Fash the Bash's availability instead.

He was close to 32 at the time, close to semi retirement and more focused on his Gladiator TV nonsense.  But couldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Signing Fashanu when we already had Saunders, Atkinson, Yorke, Fenton, was Guy Whittingham still with us then?

[VILLA MOLE]

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.

As Fash tells it, he was over there doing commentary for Nigerian TV.

He always liked BFR, and recommended a few Nigerian players for Villa from that squad. Ron then enquired about Fash the Bash's availability instead.

He was close to 32 at the time, close to semi retirement and more focused on his Gladiator TV nonsense.  But couldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Signing Fashanu when we already had Saunders, Atkinson, Yorke, Fenton, was Guy Whittingham still with us then?

Then trying to sign cole from
Bristol on the day Big Ron got the sack 😳😃

[paul_e]

The thing to remember with a lot of the transfers we might see going out is that we're only able to name 21 players in the list a squad and we had 22 we'd like to include so Barkley is the one who missed out (but is now in as cover for Mings). Elliott likely being taken off the list meant we were looking at 1 in 1 out for that so Malen gives us space for 1.

Despite both being young enough Alysson and Madjo aren't eligible for the B squad as they need to be with us for 2 years for that so just to add them we'd need 1 more out (but I suspect the current plan is to leave them off the list).

Of course we could decide to leave Barkley off the list again and add 2 more, which I suspect is the plan given we seem to be linked with a lot of midfielders and strikers.

[TheToffnar]

Tammy Abraham has opened doors to Aston Villa move as personal terms are not an issue.

Villa, working on new striker after Malen left to join AS Roma — no agreement or deal done yet with Besiktas.

Fabrizio Romano

[Smithy]

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.

Watched him a few times for Fiorentina last season amd thought at the time, that he'd suit our style perfectly.

The same Moise Kean who scored 2 goals in 30-odd appearances for Everton? Yes, he was only 19/20/21 at the time, but it's not like he looked like a threat when he was in the Premier League previously.  He's done okay elsewhere, and very well in the last 18 months for Fiorentina - but he doesn't feel close to the sort of signings we made last January.

However, in Unai we trust...

[Pete3206]

Tammy Abraham has opened doors to Aston Villa move as personal terms are not an issue.

Villa, working on new striker after Malen left to join AS Roma — no agreement or deal done yet with Besiktas.

Fabrizio Romano

Wouldn't we be dealing with Roma?

[Smithy]

Tammy Abraham has opened doors to Aston Villa move as personal terms are not an issue.

Villa, working on new striker after Malen left to join AS Roma — no agreement or deal done yet with Besiktas.

Fabrizio Romano

Wouldn't we be dealing with Roma?

I think Besiktas has loaned Tammy with either a "right to" or "obligation to" buy him in the summer at an agreed rate (£11m I think).  Whichever it is, they'd have to forgo that right in order for us to sign him.  So we're effectively negotiating with two clubs, who probably both want a cut of whatever he ends up costing above the £11m.

[TheToffnar]

Ignore. Talking bubbles.

[Dave]

Tammy Abraham has opened doors to Aston Villa move as personal terms are not an issue.

Villa, working on new striker after Malen left to join AS Roma — no agreement or deal done yet with Besiktas.

Fabrizio Romano

Wouldn't we be dealing with Roma?

He's apparently done all the stuff needed to trigger a permanent Besiktas move, so if they want him to be their player he would be their player.

[placeforparks]

From what I have read, Besiktas have triggered an obligation to buy Tammy.

[ozzjim]

Besiktas has already met the terms of the loan for it to be perm, so they are essentially going to turn around a quick profit on this. Probably £3-4M if we end up paying £15M or so. Any more at his age and we should walk away.

[Toronto Villa]

🚨 Sheffield United have made an enquiry to sign Ross Barkley on loan.
@SportsPeteO

Watch him do a Luton, magically return to full health and play the rest of the season. Seriously though it would be a good move for him, he’d be a solid at that level and gets his wages off our books.

[Matt C]

The Times reporting the Tammy deal is happening

[Olneythelonely]

Over to Toronto Villa.

[Brend'Watkins]

🚨 Sheffield United have made an enquiry to sign Ross Barkley on loan.
@SportsPeteO

Watch him do a Luton, magically return to full health and play the rest of the season. Seriously though it would be a good move for him, he’d be a solid at that level and gets his wages off our books.

Yep, we need to move on from players held together by sticky tape and a sign saying fragile, place right side up.