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

[Dave]

Good to see Julien Laurens on Sky Sports thinks Luiz signing makes sense so he can come in and play with Tielemans in our midfield.

To be fair, he's probably not obsessing about Tielemans' injury prognosis as much as we are.

[Toronto Villa]

Good to see Julien Laurens on Sky Sports thinks Luiz signing makes sense so he can come in and play with Tielemans in our midfield.

To be fair, he's probably not obsessing about Tielemans' injury prognosis as much as we are.

It was a discussion this morning about Villa injuries and why we would be after Luiz. Had it been yesterday you could understand. I find most of what he says about us, mainly on ESPN less than complimentary.

[Monty]

His gimmick is that he's a PSG fan and so doesn't like Emery for mysterious spoiled bratty reasons, to which Marcotti says that Emery is a genius and purveyor of dark magic. All part of the show.

[Dave]

Good to see Julien Laurens on Sky Sports thinks Luiz signing makes sense so he can come in and play with Tielemans in our midfield.

To be fair, he's probably not obsessing about Tielemans' injury prognosis as much as we are.

It was a discussion this morning about Villa injuries and why we would be after Luiz. Had it been yesterday you could understand. I find most of what he says about us, mainly on ESPN less than complimentary.

While the injury news is obviously true, the story first broke about ninety minutes ago and still hasn't been confirmed by the club. Bigger outlets started reporting it about an hour ago.

He's sitting in a studio on television, not reading Villa Twitter.

[Brazilian Villain]

Yeah, when it comes to the Tielemans injury, Julien Laurens not being across it is a long way down my list of concerns.

[LeeS]

I love this tactic. Sell our players for large sums to clubs where they won’t succeed. Then buy them back later for peanuts. Maybe we let Rogers have a go at Real Madrid for a year. Could generate a stonking profit.

[UK Redsox]

What's the situation with the Luiz transfer? I thought there were complications? I hadn't really been paying attention but it's got quite pertinent.

Can't see that there'd be any complications as such. Forest want him out and Juve don't seem overly keen on wanting him to return mid season.

Only issue may be the obligation clauses in the Forest deal. Here's hoping Juve don't play dirty with us knowing we're desperate.

There's no obligation clauses in the Forest deal other than £135k a week.

Beeb report says that there are OtB clauses, but that they haven't been reached

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cql4pyq3462o

[VILLA MOLE]

I am looking forward / curious to see Doug and Onana together

[Matt C]

Telegraph reporting Luiz deal is done (loan).

[cdbearsfan]

Any clauses?

[dorsetvillian]

Could we offload Bailey or Guessand to try and bring another CDM in?

[VILLA MOLE]

Leon has only just come back poor fella 😳😃

[cdbearsfan]

I'd be keeping Leon, we are gagging for a bit of pace on the break. In any case, he can't play for any other team until summer now, same as Elliott. Unless he goes to a Summer League like MLS.

[Matt C]

And he’s played for two clubs now.

[teamvillage]

I adored Dougie, and also recall an interview with a couple of our players (Cash and Grealish?) where they were clearly in awe of his technical ability.

I really hope this doesn't break my heart. Even 70% of what he was would be a huge help to us over the next few weeks.