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Author Topic: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.  (Read 293415 times)

Offline VILLA MOLE

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3210 on: January 28, 2026, 05:17:58 PM »
Raheem Sterling now a free agent. I would not be surprised.

He was on really silly money


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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3211 on: January 28, 2026, 05:18:54 PM »
10% of our income, is not buttons.

But that's not how his transfer is after amortisation, 30 million is 6 million a season for 5 seasons so not 10% of our income because its spread over 5 seasons.
Similarly with malen we get 25 million now, Tammy costs around 4.6 a season for 4.5 seasons and if we sing Dougie permanently on a 5 year deal he will be 5 million a season approx. Wages to turnover ratio is the bottle neck now not spend.

Offline Demitri_C

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3212 on: January 28, 2026, 05:21:20 PM »
Diaby next?
Fuck yeah.

Hell yeah! Lets get the band back together

As for luiz you all probably remember i was deeply  unhappy  when we sold luiz and diaby. Im thrilled he is coming home!

Well you being unhappy really stands out so you'd think so wouldn't you?

Examples ?

Picking a fight for no reason? You continue to be negative ill be happy thanks.

Thrilled  he is back

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3213 on: January 28, 2026, 05:25:52 PM »
10% of our income, is not buttons.

But that's not how his transfer is after amortisation, 30 million is 6 million a season for 5 seasons so not 10% of our income because its spread over 5 seasons.
Similarly with malen we get 25 million now, Tammy costs around 4.6 a season for 4.5 seasons and if we sing Dougie permanently on a 5 year deal he will be 5 million a season approx. Wages to turnover ratio is the bottle neck now not spend.

We don't as it is currently a loan with the 25 coming in the Summer.

Offline Sexual Ealing

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3214 on: January 28, 2026, 05:38:37 PM »
Raheem Sterling now a free agent. I would not be surprised.

He was on really silly money



He was, and good for him, but he won't be getting anything like the same again unless he goes to Saudi.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3215 on: January 28, 2026, 05:42:47 PM »
Wonder if another loan move, for Neves from Saudi, might be worth considering?

Maybe not as he's similar in style to Duggie.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3216 on: January 28, 2026, 05:48:44 PM »
Raheem Sterling now a free agent. I would not be surprised.

He was on really silly money



He was, and good for him, but he won't be getting anything like the same again unless he goes to Saudi.

Oh I dont begrudge him , just dont want him

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3217 on: January 28, 2026, 05:49:22 PM »
Nor me, but I can see it.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3218 on: January 28, 2026, 05:50:34 PM »
10% of our income, is not buttons.

But that's not how his transfer is after amortisation, 30 million is 6 million a season for 5 seasons so not 10% of our income because its spread over 5 seasons.
Similarly with malen we get 25 million now, Tammy costs around 4.6 a season for 4.5 seasons and if we sing Dougie permanently on a 5 year deal he will be 5 million a season approx. Wages to turnover ratio is the bottle neck now not spend.

We don't as it is currently a loan with the 25 coming in the Summer.

And under SCR rules transfer income is spread over three years, not ‘now’. It’s PSR where you get it ‘now’ and we’re fine under PSR.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3219 on: January 28, 2026, 05:51:55 PM »
Raheem Sterling now a free agent. I would not be surprised.

He was on really silly money



He was, and good for him, but he won't be getting anything like the same again unless he goes to Saudi.

I'm assuming he has already agreed an eye-watering deal with some team or other or else why would he have agreed to terminate his contract?

Offline Demitri_C

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3220 on: January 28, 2026, 06:06:55 PM »
No thanks to sterling. Huge wages and very little if any return

I reckon he ends up in saudi

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3221 on: January 28, 2026, 06:07:31 PM »
£25m in the back pocket and he can stop hanging out with the twats at Cobham?

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3222 on: January 28, 2026, 06:08:52 PM »
Just read he cost £40 million and had £325 a week over 5 years  , eyewatering

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3223 on: January 28, 2026, 06:09:50 PM »
Couldn't he have just agreed a settlement as part of the termination and now he is free to look around? I thought that's what happened in these situations. Don't know, though.

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Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3224 on: January 28, 2026, 06:11:29 PM »
Just read he cost £40 million and had £325 a week over 5 years  , eyewatering

This is the thing that pisses me off with FFP. If we did this deal we woold financially  fucked for years. Yet chelsea can do it and its like nothing ever happened

 


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