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

[eamonn]

Every club has their share of duds each year  In our strait-jacket  we're under pressure to have an almost perfect hit rate but that's never going to happen, it never does anywhere.

[Toronto Villa]

If we can't spend much after a few years of: CL twice, winning a trophy, selling youth players, dodgy mutual transfers, trading players around like they're Pokemon cards, selling the warehouse, selling the women's team, screwing every penny out of fans with piss take prices then maybe we have to look at what we're doing wrong rather than just blame the rules.

Not really, as we have spent very little, in nett terms. The rules are quite clearly designed to restrict us and clubs like us. We have come closer to regularly challenging the established elite than any other team in England, Spain, Germany or France.

I'd say we get a lot more right than wrong.

The rules mean we cannot make mistakes. And when we talk mistakes our biggest outlay is £28M for Guessand which hasn't worked out but we would still get most of it back when sold. £28M spent on a player in the PL today is a story that doesn't make the news. So of course we could have done better but when you look at some of the signings made at Spurs, Man U, Chelsea etc. where their revenues allow them to make massive errors to begin with, it shows the fine margins we are working with. Our net outlay is tiny. If we want to be a top 4 side then we either operate like one and pay the bigger transfer fees or wages or we decide our revenues are more suited to being mid table/Conference league. What we have is a world class manager that allows us significantly overachieve because you can see with Newcastle, that without one they quickly sink down the table. That would happen to us if Emery left.