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

[LeeS]

We should agree on categories for each type of rumour e.g.
The Carlton Palmer ("please no"),
The Benni McCarthy ("him again?"),
The Gareth Barry ("definitely sold/tapped up" - was Ollie Watkins now Morgan Rogers),
The John Fashanu ("wtf?"),
The Didier Six ("bit random that"),
The David Ginola ("past it, last paycheck"),
The Savo ("interesting, let's see how this turns out...")
The Alpay ("I've been to the World Cup I'm too good for this" - looking at you Amadou)

Nothing will surpass the “Ivo Stas”.

We’ve had quite a few players who’ve joined, left, joined again. Staunton, Young, Gray, Cowans… Is that the boomerang category?

[FranzBiberkopf]

I know I'm in a minority, but if we had of signed Carton Palmer at the time, we'd have won the league that year. He was exactly what we needed

[Exeter 77]

We should agree on categories for each type of rumour e.g.
The Carlton Palmer ("please no"),
The Benni McCarthy ("him again?"),
The Gareth Barry ("definitely sold/tapped up" - was Ollie Watkins now Morgan Rogers),
The John Fashanu ("wtf?"),
The Didier Six ("bit random that"),
The David Ginola ("past it, last paycheck"),
The Savo ("interesting, let's see how this turns out...")
The Alpay ("I've been to the World Cup I'm too good for this" - looking at you Amadou)

The Mathieu Berson ("Chase him for more than year and then never play him")

[AV82EC]

We should agree on categories for each type of rumour e.g.
The Carlton Palmer ("please no"),
The Benni McCarthy ("him again?"),
The Gareth Barry ("definitely sold/tapped up" - was Ollie Watkins now Morgan Rogers),
The John Fashanu ("wtf?"),
The Didier Six ("bit random that"),
The David Ginola ("past it, last paycheck"),
The Savo ("interesting, let's see how this turns out...")
The Alpay ("I've been to the World Cup I'm too good for this" - looking at you Amadou)

The Mathieu Berson ("Chase him for more than year and then never play him")

Ahhh. Berson. The best player on the pitch in a 3-0 defeat away at Boro. Which is all I remember of him.

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

Aston Villa will also move for Rashford if they fail to sign England forward Jadon Sancho, 26, who is on loan from Manchester United but out of contract this summer. (SportsBoom)

- SportsBoom?

Barcelona and Spain left-back Alejandro Balde, 22, is attracting interest from Manchester United, Manchester City and Aston Villa. (Mundo Deportivo - in Spanish)

Sunderland could face a battle to keep on-loan RB Leipzig utility player Lutsharel Geertruida, 25, at the club next term, with Liverpool, Aston Villa, Everton, Tottenham and Crystal Palace all interested in the Netherlands international. (Teamtalk)

A few links. Two sites are definite clickbait places. Not sure on Mundo Deportivo's links but I can't see us beating the other two teams if they are interested.

I'd also be surprised if another expensive young left-back is where we'd be focusing our limited transfer abilities this summer.

Nothing would surprise me when it comes to Villa and fullbacks.

[eamonn]

We should agree on categories for each type of rumour e.g.
The Carlton Palmer ("please no"),
The Benni McCarthy ("him again?"),
The Gareth Barry ("definitely sold/tapped up" - was Ollie Watkins now Morgan Rogers),
The John Fashanu ("wtf?"),
The Didier Six ("bit random that"),
The David Ginola ("past it, last paycheck"),
The Savo ("interesting, let's see how this turns out...")
The Alpay ("I've been to the World Cup I'm too good for this" - looking at you Amadou)

Nothing will surpass the “Ivo Stas”.

We’ve had quite a few players who’ve joined, left, joined again. Staunton, Young, Gray, Cowans… Is that the boomerang category?

I still find it hard to believe Axel Tuanzebe has joined us 3 separate times. Such a non-entity of a player.

[algy]

We should agree on categories for each type of rumour e.g.
The Carlton Palmer ("please no"),
The Benni McCarthy ("him again?"),
The Gareth Barry ("definitely sold/tapped up" - was Ollie Watkins now Morgan Rogers),
The John Fashanu ("wtf?"),
The Didier Six ("bit random that"),
The David Ginola ("past it, last paycheck"),
The Savo ("interesting, let's see how this turns out...")
The Alpay ("I've been to the World Cup I'm too good for this" - looking at you Amadou)

Nothing will surpass the “Ivo Stas”.

We’ve had quite a few players who’ve joined, left, joined again. Staunton, Young, Gray, Cowans… Is that the boomerang category?

I still find it hard to believe Axel Tuanzebe has joined us 3 separate times. Such a non-entity of a player.

I don’t get why he didn’t try to force a move to us at the end of the 2018-19 season.

He was still in his early 20s at the time. With our inevitable squad churn that summer, we’d have signed him just to keep a bit of consistency (rather than that Danish(?) defender from the Belgian league … Engels was it?) and he’d have probably had a half decent Premier League career.

Instead he signed a contract with Man Utd where it was clear he’d struggle for games at just the point in his career where he needed to play 30+ games a season. Thought at the time it was a bizarre choice from him & pretty much consigned him to knocking about in crap sides for the rest of his career (which he may well have done anyway, but he killed any prospect of a decent PL career)

[RamboandBruno]

We should agree on categories for each type of rumour e.g.
The Carlton Palmer ("please no"),
The Benni McCarthy ("him again?"),
The Gareth Barry ("definitely sold/tapped up" - was Ollie Watkins now Morgan Rogers),
The John Fashanu ("wtf?"),
The Didier Six ("bit random that"),
The David Ginola ("past it, last paycheck"),
The Savo ("interesting, let's see how this turns out...")
The Alpay ("I've been to the World Cup I'm too good for this" - looking at you Amadou)

Nothing will surpass the “Ivo Stas”.

We’ve had quite a few players who’ve joined, left, joined again. Staunton, Young, Gray, Cowans… Is that the boomerang category?

I still find it hard to believe Axel Tuanzebe has joined us 3 separate times. Such a non-entity of a player.

I thought he was better than Mings in the promotion year and like Algy says, should of stayed with us. Instead he became a lower prem/upper championship journeyman

[kippaxvilla2]

We will soon know which supermarket we are shopping in if the ‘Oyvind Leonhardsen’ signing rocks up.

[cdbearsfan]

We should agree on categories for each type of rumour e.g.
The Carlton Palmer ("please no"),
The Benni McCarthy ("him again?"),
The Gareth Barry ("definitely sold/tapped up" - was Ollie Watkins now Morgan Rogers),
The John Fashanu ("wtf?"),
The Didier Six ("bit random that"),
The David Ginola ("past it, last paycheck"),
The Savo ("interesting, let's see how this turns out...")
The Alpay ("I've been to the World Cup I'm too good for this" - looking at you Amadou)

Nothing will surpass the “Ivo Stas”.

We’ve had quite a few players who’ve joined, left, joined again. Staunton, Young, Gray, Cowans… Is that the boomerang category?

I still find it hard to believe Axel Tuanzebe has joined us 3 separate times. Such a non-entity of a player.

I liked his song, though.

[Clampy]

I was watching the Wales Bosnia game the other night and the commentators mentioned a Bosnia player called Kerim Alajbegović who looked very decent for his age (18). Just signed a 5 year deal with Leverkusen but one to keep an eye on I reckon.