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

[Rigadon]

Anderson will go to Man Utd/City.  Selling Rogers is probably inevitable I’d guess, and I can imagine someone like Gibbs White coming in. 

[Brend'Watkins]

I like the MGW rumour. It will only happen if we get CL but not at the expense of selling Rogers hopefully.

[Dave P]

I like the MGW rumour. It will only happen if we get CL but not at the expense of selling Rogers hopefully.

I like it too.  I love Buendia, but this seems an upgrade.

[Dave]

If Forest go down, I imagine we'd be at the front of the queue. Don't see him going to anyone who is obviously a bigger draw as he doesn't really fit there. If he was happy to go to Spurs in the summer, there's no reason he wouldn't be interested in us.

And either way, bringing in Gibbs-White to play with Rogers for a year in case summer '27 ends up being a Rogers sale feels like sensible planning, akin to the Tielemans / DL situation.

[Pat Mustard]

I'd be annoyed if we only got £100m. He's worth closer to £150m

If/when Rogers leaves £150 million will be the staring price - he'd be one of the most sought after players in the world, in his early 20s and with a record of already performing at PL, CL and international level.

[paul_e]

I like the MGW rumour. It will only happen if we get CL but not at the expense of selling Rogers hopefully.

I like it too.  I love Buendia, but this seems an upgrade.

I think this is the right answer, it wouldn't be about replacing Rogers, it would be replacing Buendia or possibly pushing McGinn out of the automatic starter role he has. We're at the point now where our list of capable starters needs to push up to 17/18 players so we can both absorb a few injuries but also rotate a bit more than we have to avoid them in the first place.

[tomd2103]

I like the MGW rumour. It will only happen if we get CL but not at the expense of selling Rogers hopefully.

I like it too.  I love Buendia, but this seems an upgrade.

I think this is the right answer, it wouldn't be about replacing Rogers, it would be replacing Buendia or possibly pushing McGinn out of the automatic starter role he has. We're at the point now where our list of capable starters needs to push up to 17/18 players so we can both absorb a few injuries but also rotate a bit more than we have to avoid them in the first place.

If Rogers went, then I'd think we'd need to make signings to fill the right wing, number 10 and left side spots really. 

[garyellis]

MGW is exactly the type of signing that would take us forward.
That would not be achieved by selling Roger’s to fund it, we need both to take us up a level.

[Drummond]

Gibbs-White seems to be an Emery sort of player too; a versatile, hard-working  leader, and has goals in him too.

[Brazilian Villain]

Gibbs-White seems to be an Emery sort of player too; a versatile, hard-working  leader, and has goals in him too.

Yeah, MGW as an upgrade on Buendia would be great. As a replacement for Rogers, not so much.

[Dave]

Gibbs-White seems to be an Emery sort of player too; a versatile, hard-working  leader, and has goals in him too.

Yup, I reckon you could drop him into any of the roles that Rogers, McGinn, Buendia or Tielemans (when he has Onana / Buendia behind him) do and he'd make a pretty go of it.

[ChicagoLion]

Yes I like him, but I yearn for the day when we get in that level of player to play with and not instead of Rogers.

[SamTheMouse]

Can we stop talking about Rogers leaving? It's giving me the hump just thinking about it.