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

[Dante Lavelli]

Linked, along with Newcastle and West Ham, to Oscar Mingueza for £8m on some instagram page.

He's off to Juventus. We missed that bus.

shame 8m for a Spanish international strikes me as good value.  Right back is also a position we need to strengthen unless Garcia is ripping it up in training. 

[PaulWinch again]

Linked, along with Newcastle and West Ham, to Oscar Mingueza for £8m on some instagram page.

He's off to Juventus. We missed that bus.

Don’t worry there’s rumours of us bringing in Freddie Guilbert.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Linked, along with Newcastle and West Ham, to Oscar Mingueza for £8m on some instagram page.

He's off to Juventus. We missed that bus.

shame 8m for a Spanish international strikes me as good value.  Right back is also a position we need to strengthen unless Garcia is ripping it up in training. 

I think he'd already agreed as a free agent to join Juventus in the summer but they want him to join now therefore a fee will have to be paid. Half the fee has to go to Barca. The fee mentioned is between €3m and €5m. What's crazy is his salary at Juventus will jump from 600k a season at Celta to €1m which sounds ridiculously low.

Could we not jump in and offer more or does his pre-agreement throw a spanner in the works?
We could even throw in Garcia.

[Toronto Villa]

Linked, along with Newcastle and West Ham, to Oscar Mingueza for £8m on some instagram page.

He's off to Juventus. We missed that bus.

shame 8m for a Spanish international strikes me as good value.  Right back is also a position we need to strengthen unless Garcia is ripping it up in training. 

Juve want him on a free in the summer and not pay in January the skint pricks.

That rock at Juventus was thrown from my glass house.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Linked, along with Newcastle and West Ham, to Oscar Mingueza for £8m on some instagram page.

He's off to Juventus. We missed that bus.

Don’t worry there’s rumours of us bringing in Freddie Guilbert.

You're not helping, Paul.

Whatever happened to the young Serbian right back we signed with the caterpillar eyebrows?

[Toronto Villa]

Tammy saying his goodbyes to the fans and teammates?

https://x.com/onurtascioglu/status/2011883730844205354?s=46

https://x.com/kartalrecord/status/2011884322123370568?s=46

[Toronto Villa]

Linked, along with Newcastle and West Ham, to Oscar Mingueza for £8m on some instagram page.

He's off to Juventus. We missed that bus.

Don’t worry there’s rumours of us bringing in Freddie Guilbert.

You're not helping, Paul.

Whatever happened to the young Serbian right back we signed with the caterpillar eyebrows?

Kosta Nedeljković. Playing sometimes while on loan at Leipzig.

[PaulWinch again]

I know we shouldn’t compare, but last year:

Rashford and Asensio

This year:

Linked to (I know linked not signed) Tammy and Loftus-Cheek

Not sure what it means, other than we were in the Champions League last year, but at the very least transfers are less fun. Luckily the most important thing is the team is doing well - I do think second half of the season might be tough if we’re not careful.

[Toronto Villa]

We also spent an absolute fortune on bringing those players in. Something we just can’t do this time around even though our CL chances are significantly greater. Clearly we have been warned by UEFA to keep our finances in line or face serious consequences. So instead we are being linked with players that fall into our structure or having to move players out to make room for some better ones we might be able to get late on.

[Mellin]

There's not much gain from the big loans this January. Very small chance we don't qualify for the Champions League and as much as we'd all love it, don't blow whatever PSR budget we have chasing the title on temporary fixes to something that isn't broken.

Club are doing the right thing. Invest in the future. Love this team, but the majority of them are 28 and above.

[eamonn]

Wish Harvey would just join Uncle Deano for a few months and enjoy himself in Carolinas North and South. Give us an extra few bob to entice Asensio or whoever.

[PaulWinch again]

Of course, we’ve also spent a fair chunk of our money pretty bloody badly. I mentioned a few pages back, or on another thread, we have made some really good signings in the last few years but it doesn’t feel like our strategy is coherent and we’ve made some poor errors - at least in terms of whether the manager rates the players we’re signing.

[olaftab]

Our own Ferran has scored for Barca just now.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Let me know when he's waving his goodbyes to the Barca fans.

[Ian.]

I know we shouldn’t compare, but last year:

Rashford and Asensio

This year:

Linked to (I know linked not signed) Tammy and Loftus-Cheek

Not sure what it means, other than we were in the Champions League last year, but at the very least transfers are less fun. Luckily the most important thing is the team is doing well - I do think second half of the season might be tough if we’re not careful.

I’m sure back in September after the summer transfer we all thought the first half the season was going to be tough.