Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.

[Tony Daleys Shorts]

If Thiago has another 4 or 5 excellent Premier league seasons we can start thinking of whether he’s the same calibre as Ollie; the same Ollie who sits just behind Salah and Haaland as the most consistently effective attacking player in the league in recent years.

That’s not how transfers work though. If you think someone’s going to have four or five good seasons you buy them. You don’t sit watching them banging them in for Brentford and then buy a spent force. Unless you’re John Gregory.

True, but as it stands the fellow is way behind Ollie, but granted he has the youth and potential for greater improvement. We’ve missed the boat with him now, guessing Brentford would be wanting £70m or so.

[Ger Regan]

Weird feeling to be totally relaxed about transfer dealings, both in and out. Feels like we're in a real position of strength, but also probably just the afterglow of wednesday.

[cdbearsfan]

Yeah, I'm taking a few days off from worrying about Villa. Maybe even a few weeks.

[paul_e]

Some don't seem to realise football has changed from the days of relying on a striker scoting 25 league goals a season.

Arsenal have won the league, could add the Champions league and reached the LC final and FAC QF.

These are numbers of their top scorers in all comps

21 (14 league)
11 (7 league)
11 (1 league)
10 (7 league)
8 (6 league)

Yep 4-5 people hitting double figures is just as valuable as 1 getting 30.

We've had the season we have because Ollie, SJM, Rogers and little Emi have all been a goal threat and Malen was previously.

[SamTheMouse]

I don't think the squad needs much work. The priority has to be letting Bailey and Sancho go, and replacing them with one more consistent player.

The two strikers we have are fine and realistically we're not going to find any better with our current budget.