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

[Gareth]

Wharton would cost a club upwards of £60M plus and we couldn't even do a deal for Gallagher at half the price. So forget anyone permanently at anything over £25M. We're more likely do get Will Hughes than Wharton.

Exactly this ^

Wharton is way way out of pay bracket

[Clive W]

Article by John Percy in today’s DT highlighting just how important Kamara is to us

This was in the middle of the article:

“ Emery must now consider whether to find a replacement, despite financial restrictions which forced the £25m sale of Donyell Malen to Roma last week.

One option could be Douglas Luiz, the former Villa midfielder, who is currently on loan at Nottingham Forest from Juventus”

[Ads]

Good job we have a better player than him already then.

[Drummond]

Did we ever play Luiz and Tielemans together?

[PeterWithesShin]

Did we ever play Luiz and Tielemans together?

Often in 23/24.

[andyh]

Article by John Percy in today’s DT highlighting just how important Kamara is to us

This was in the middle of the article:

“ Emery must now consider whether to find a replacement, despite financial restrictions which forced the £25m sale of Donyell Malen to Roma last week.

One option could be Douglas Luiz, the former Villa midfielder, who is currently on loan at Nottingham Forest from Juventus”

Hold on.
Firstly, were we ‘forced’ to sell Malen ?
Second, I though it was explained on here yesterday why Dougie coming back is an absolute none starter.

[Steve67]

Douglas Luiz does not take us further forward. We are third, not the Aston Villa he once signed for. Let’s move on from Douglas for the love of God!

[Holy Trinity]

Douglas Luiz does not take us further forward. We are third, not the Aston Villa he once signed for. Let’s move on from Douglas for the love of God!

He isn't a bad player at all, on loan he would be a fantastic signing.
We have 3 midfielders on the books who all tend to miss 15-20 games a season in Kamara, Onana and Barkley. He would be a welcome addition.

Nobody is suggesting signing him for a fee.

[Rigadon]

Onana coming back and staying fit would be huge for us right now.  Him and Tielemans (who should be captain IMO) in there would be good enough to see us finish top 4 I reckon. 

[PeterWithesShin]

The Luiz of 2-3 years ago would be a great signing, the Luiz since then has been pretty crap.

[Tuscans]

🚨 Inter have made initial contact with Emi Martínez’s camp to explore conditions of a potential summer move.
@DiMarzio

[Tuscans]

🚨 Inter have made initial contact with Emi Martínez’s camp to explore conditions of a potential summer move.
@DiMarzio

After this summer I would bet my house he's not with us next season.

[PaulWinch again]

Not a chance we sign Wharton.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'm not sure we can afford Warburtons for sandwiches.

[Beard82]

One thing I guess we need to factor in is the fact that there Kamara will always miss big stretches of the season - as will Onana apparently.  We need to factor that in, and Barkley clearly isnt the answer.