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

[Somniloquism]

We don't need to get to 70% but an agreed figure lower then the current one with the aim of getting to 70 within the three seasons. However paying Sancho £300k a week probably hasn't helped towards that and with Malen one of our top earners, it isn't a surprise he has been sacrificed.

[brontebilly]

I guess getting Asensio, Malen, Rashford and Disasi is the thing that contributed to us getting fined and put under the transfer "embargo" by UEFA?

Happy to be corrected but think main issue was wage/turnover ratio the previous season we finished 4th. Loans like Lenglet and Zaniolo weren't cheap. Obviously last January we went full on drunken gambler and threw those expensive chips in, nearly paid off but reckless in the circumstances.

I'm not a fan of loans in to be honest. Fine when we were trying to get promoted but if the player does well like Rashford they go elsewhere. If they stink it out like Disasi it's far from free too. At least with Lindelof we have showed a bit of faith in him with a proper contract and he has done well. Sancho, with his contract up in the summer, was always going to be high risk for that reason alone.

[andyh]

Reports indicate that Garcia has gone on loan to Elche with an option to buy.

Not that he’s been getting much of a look in through injury and Cash’ great form but that seems a bit silly. Diminishing the squad further and it’s another position that we’ll need to get a replacement in for.

Maybe not, but after a long unjury layoff he had re-established himself in the squad.
I thought he was starting to look ok before he was injured and a real prospect.

RB cover for cash includes Bogarde, Konsa and Lindelof, but no specialist.
But with our injury record that always seems to effect a whole ‘department’ at the same time time, I’m sure we’ll be ok.

[Chip Butty 111]

Sancho's £160000 a week, (£8.3M for the year ffs) ....and the money we are paying Elliot, to not even be included in match day squads is looking like gross incompetence in the current circumstances.  Malen being sacrificed for this pair, even if he was frustrated at game time,
is criminal.

[Percy McCarthy]

We don't need to get to 70% but an agreed figure lower then the current one with the aim of getting to 70 within the three seasons. However paying Sancho £300k a week probably hasn't helped towards that and with Malen one of our top earners, it isn't a surprise he has been sacrificed.

Paying Sancho £300k a week definitely won’t help, but it would be pretty stupid considering we are supposed to pay him ‘only’ £160k a week.

[Somniloquism]

We don't need to get to 70% but an agreed figure lower then the current one with the aim of getting to 70 within the three seasons. However paying Sancho £300k a week probably hasn't helped towards that and with Malen one of our top earners, it isn't a surprise he has been sacrificed.

Paying Sancho £300k a week definitely won’t help, but it would be pretty stupid considering we are supposed to pay him ‘only’ £160k a week.

We are paying 80% of his wages and most report he is on between 250k to 350k a week. So 200k minimum, but even on your figure he is one of the highest wages at the club which considering his contribution so far isn't helping us with Salary Cost Ratios.

[ozzjim]

1 win in 8 without Kamara. I wonder how many of those Onana has also been out at the same time. Hi fitness record is becoming a real problem for us. A genuine Kamara backup seems a must right now, alongside a winger and a striker. Out wide I would also get Bailey back in the squad until the summer just for options.

[eamonn]

How much are we paying Guessand, Sancho and Elliott - it must be the thick end of £300k a week? When SCR was already biting us, they are three horrific drains on what we're allowed to pay-out on salaries.

[Gareth]

Kamara and McGinn going down in 2 games has to impact the window targets…before last Saturdays game I was definitely a 9 and some real pace out wide….do we need to add a centre mid to the list now?

Suspect bodymoor is gonna be hectic in next 10 days or so….at least hope it is

[brontebilly]

Is there any hope of Emery and Elliot agreeing to put the past behind them? He starts on Thursday if so. His treatment just seems self defeating really and I thought that before McGinn's injury.

[ozzjim]

Kamara and McGinn going down in 2 games has to impact the window targets…before last Saturdays game I was definitely a 9 and some real pace out wide….do we need to add a centre mid to the list now?

Suspect bodymoor is gonna be hectic in next 10 days or so….at least hope it is

If we could get the holding mid from Brugge I think he'd be a great bit of business.

Striker wise, I'm coming round to the idea of Abraham to give genuine competition for Watkins.

Out wide, anyone with pace.

[Rigadon]

Is there any hope of Emery and Elliot agreeing to put the past behind them? He starts on Thursday if so. His treatment just seems self defeating really and I thought that before McGinn's injury.

Maybe he's just a bit shit in training?

[brontebilly]

Is there any hope of Emery and Elliot agreeing to put the past behind them? He starts on Thursday if so. His treatment just seems self defeating really and I thought that before McGinn's injury.

Maybe he's just a bit shit in training?

Maybe but no way he's worse than the other two.

[enigma]

Kamara and McGinn going down in 2 games has to impact the window targets…before last Saturdays game I was definitely a 9 and some real pace out wide….do we need to add a centre mid to the list now?

Suspect bodymoor is gonna be hectic in next 10 days or so….at least hope it is

Out wide, anyone with pace.

Come back Adama. All is fogiven.

[Drummond]

Is there any hope of Emery and Elliot agreeing to put the past behind them? He starts on Thursday if so. His treatment just seems self defeating really and I thought that before McGinn's injury.

This is purely and simply down to Emery not wanting, or us not being able, to pay the price that was agreed for him. They've not fallen out etc.