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

[OCD]

Watching Gala-Juve, I can see why we get linked to Yilmaz and Sara. McKennie looks like he can play anywhere and made one of their goals.

[pauliewalnuts]

Whenever I hear McKennie I always think of Leeds fans chanting 'you fat bastard' at him. While he played for Leeds.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Watching Gala-Juve, I can see why we get linked to Yilmaz and Sara. McKennie looks like he can play anywhere and made one of their goals.

Did you mean Yildiz? Not heard us been linked with him, unfortunately he’ll go to a supposedly bigger club.

[Monty]

He means Yıldız (who is very very good yes!).

[Dante Lavelli]

He means Yıldız (who is very very good yes!).

Juve were shocking second half.  So bad it should give us hope that we could sign Yildiz.  We must be one of the most upwardly mobile clubs around, despite everything.

[tomd2103]

^^ Harsh on Buendia and his 7 goals and 5 assists.

Maybe a bit harsh, but he's a player that we'd moved on from, yet have had to bring back and rely on quite heavily due to our situation.

but you've got the timeline wrong. He was back in the mix and playing before Sancho and Elliott even joined so we didn't 'bring him back' because they were shit.

Wasn't necessarily following that timeline.  Buendia had been moved on, but then had to be brought back and has featured heavily.  He's probably played more because the three brought in after him haven't really worked out.

I like Emi and think he's a good player at a certain level, but I don't think he's someone we need to be relying on to start regularly.

[Dante Lavelli]

According to Emery, Emi wasn’t moved on, he was sent away to regain his fitness,

[Dave]

According to Emery, Emi wasn’t moved on, he was sent away to regain his fitness,

Pretty much everywhere suggested that Leverkusen could have bought him for 20m as part of the loan deal, they just chose not to.

So that suggests that moving him on wasn't something we were desperate to stop from happening.

[KevinGage]

Whenever I hear McKennie I always think of Leeds fans chanting 'you fat bastard' at him. While he played for Leeds.

Human hamburger

[paul_e]

According to Emery, Emi wasn’t moved on, he was sent away to regain his fitness,

Pretty much everywhere suggested that Leverkusen could have bought him for 20m as part of the loan deal, they just chose not to.

So that suggests that moving him on wasn't something we were desperate to stop from happening.

Yes, but he was back with us months before we signed Sancho and Elliott, played a big part in pre-season and had played against Brentford and Palace.

My argument isn't about anything else other than the idea that he was bought back in because the signings in the summer were shit, that just isn't supported by events.

I think we were happy to let 1 of our players who play primarily on the left leave during the summer and we had better offers for JJ.

In truth I think we wanted to sell 4-5 players in the summer (so Buendia/JJ, Bailey, Emi and 1-2 more). I think the plan was to bring in £150m+ from it and then sign younger players to fill out the squad but with the first choice 11 not changing too much initially. Alysson is a nod towards the sort of work I think we were looking at, as was Canvot who obviously ended up at Palace instead. I think they ideally wanted to have 18-23 year olds as the backup for almost everyone with just a few older heads (Bizot, Mings, Barkley) in there as well.

[Rigadon]

Whenever I hear McKennie I always think of Leeds fans chanting 'you fat bastard' at him. While he played for Leeds.

Those lovable northern scamps with their witty terrace humour. 

[OCD]

He means Yıldız (who is very very good yes!).

Actually I meant Barış Alper Yılmaz. The Galatasaray right winger. Juve took Cambiaso off at half time because Yilmaz was all over him. Cambiaso was on a yellow and could have had a second yellow, so they didn't risk him getting second half. Only the lad who replaced him fared even worse. Got booked early in the second half then got a second yellow a bit later. They just couldn't handle him.

[PeterWithe]

Whenever I hear McKennie I always think of Leeds fans chanting 'you fat bastard' at him. While he played for Leeds.

I read a piece last week in the Guardian that said he had been Juventus' best player this season and was a favourite of the coach.

[LeeB]

Whenever I hear McKennie I always think of Leeds fans chanting 'you fat bastard' at him. While he played for Leeds.

I read a piece last week in the Guardian that said he had been Juventus' best player this season and was a favourite of the coach.

Are you sure it was the coach and not the chef?

[Sexual Ealing]

He had to put up with the coach so he could get to the horses.