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

[PaulWinch again]

Yikes.

[Clark W Griswold]

Anybody else think Tammy's imminent return is partly sponsored by how many balls have roll straight across the goal line this season?
Tammy is a finisher, and those balls that keep rolling across the box with no villa player within 10 yards could be behind the decision to pivot to Tammy.

I certainly think we would have scored more with him in the team than we have without even if he ends up being a 10 goal a season bench striker.

Id say the gig is to be Watkins backup. Hold the ball up and bring others into the play. Malen had other skills but couldn't do that.

Don't see him being true competition in the way Duran and Rashford became for Watkins but would love to be proven wrong. Tammy was a very good player for us, the downgrade the following season to likes of Wesley killed us. Critical for him is that he has proven his fitness after a serious injury that stalled his career and maybe an earlier move back under Emery.

I've just watched the obligatory YouTube reel to reacquaint myself and there's are surprisingly large number of clip of him wider and beating his man with sublime skill, which surprised me.

I remember him being interviewed early in that season with us and when asked what he thought his best position was, he said wide on the left hand side forward. Whether he's been playing there since much or whether Emery will see him there is another thing.

I think if he's the bod in the door to replace Elliott, who Emery clearly doesn't fancy, then that's fine, provided we sign a top forward to replace Malen as well.

[Dante Lavelli]

Surely not. He’ll be the only striker we sign this window.  I can see a winger type arriving given the form of sancho/elliot/guessand.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Didn't he score 4 in one game and some fans moaned about the chances he missed?

Forest. He did miss some sitters in that one!

[Toronto Villa]

Over to Toronto Villa.

On it mate. As soon as John Percy and Townley says it's happening. But then again, even they've failed us. Filed them now with Footy Headlines.

[Tuscans]

Dani Ceballos whispers appearing again in the Spanish media.

[Joe S]

Terry Gibson mentioned Dani Ceballos being a target whilst waffling on about Real Madrid (TalkSport).

[Demitri_C]

I wonder who the rivals were.

Seems a short term signing but he does fit the system and it will allow us to rotate Ollie as he gets older.

Personally I’d have targetted a loan this window and looked to upgrade Ollie in the summer. That could still happen but we’ve burnt £15m (?) in the process.

15m though over 4 years is very small money in terms of FFP

[Brend'Watkins]

If Abraham does return to us, I hope his hold up play will have improved considerably in the time he's been away.  With us it was not very good at all.

I think it will be an improvement on Malen’s even so.

[RamboandBruno]

Sentiment and memory are funning things. My son is excited by the prospect of Tammy coming back, he was 9 years old when we got promoted, so Tammys like got superstar status for him. I really liked Tammy and was gutted we didnt manage to sign him when we went up.
Then I watched him for Milan in some champions league game last year and thought he was terrible. Only one game mind.
Bring the lad back home and bring on the title charge.

[Toronto Villa]

If Abraham does return to us, I hope his hold up play will have improved considerably in the time he's been away.  With us it was not very good at all.

He was 22. Since then he went back to Chelsea, score 15 PL goals the following season, 30 goals in total for them in less than 2 seasons, went to Roma and scored 17 league goals in his first season with them. There was an ACL injury in there as well that affected him. Went to Milan and then where he is now. He's filled out, bigger and stronger. I think he will be fine.

[VILLA MOLE]

I am looking forward to seeing him with all this positive chat

[SamTheMouse]

I like Abraham but he's not exactly lightning quick, is he?

We could still do with a bit of blistering pace somewhere.

[itbrvilla]

I can see a winger type arriving given the form of sancho/elliot/guessand.

What a fucking waste of a window to end up stuck with that lot. Barely contributed anything between them.

[Des Little]

I like Abraham but he's not exactly lightning quick, is he?

We could still do with a bit of blistering pace somewhere.

Is Alysson the answer to this?  I'm hoping so.