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

[paul_e]

I'd assumed he'd be coming back for a while, it'll be interesting to see what happens next because I suspect we're going to have to take a loss on him if we want to sell.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Shit, does that mean we have to sell Buendia?

Apparently not as Valencia are said to be interested in both Garcia and Kosta Nedeljković. Expect an offer of €4m for the pair.

[andyh]

Rogers ‘open to leaving Villa’ according to today’s rags with the usual subjects interested in him.

It’s not necessarily selling him that bothers me, it’s selling him to one of those cunty clubs (arse,Liverpool, Chelsea and Man U) that does.

[kippaxvilla2]

Morgan Rogers, 23, would be open to leaving Aston Villa this summer - with Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester United all in the mix to sign the England midfielder. (Sun)

[steamer]

If he goes at top price we need to spend wisely, not like this season.
But no games for a while, the newspapers have to talk about something, one of best young talents in the league being linked with all the money machines, hardly news.

[Baldy]

If he goes at top price we need to spend wisely, not like this season.
But no games for a while, the newspapers have to talk about something, one of best young talents in the league being linked with all the money machines, hardly news.

Yes, the same every fecking  transfer window. The money machines just hoover up the best of the rest and the gap gets wider and wider.

Doesn't take a genius to put bids in for the likes of Guimaraes, Tonali, Garner, Anderson, Wharton, Rogers and Konsa.

We have to qualify for the Champions League and hope Unai convinces them that Villa are the future.

[Sexual Ealing]

I'd imagine Villa are just as open to selling him as he is to being sold.

[Dick Edwards]

It's in The Sun, so it must be true.

[Drummond]

I'd imagine Villa are just as open to selling him as he is to being sold.

Everyone is available at the right (or release clause) price.

[Rigadon]

I'd imagine Villa are just as open to selling him as he is to being sold.

Everyone is available at the right (or release clause) price.

Yep.  I hope when he sold, it’s to a club in a different country, but it almost certainly won’t be. 

[Dave]

I imagine we've never had a player in our entire history who hasn't been "open to leaving" us.

That's how the lives of footballers operate.

[Monty]

That's not new, it's just a (likely accurate enough) guess, worded vaguely enough for deniability. It's as much news as a horoscope is.

I mean, journalists have famously low trust-ratings among the public, the habit of hacks to just make shit up is at this point proverbial, and yet I would say a majority of people still believe pretty much anything they read.

[Rigadon]

Shame they couldn’t wait until the end of the season, but him playing for England is probably enough for the inevitable rumourmongering to be click worthy outside of ‘worried’ villa fans.  He’ll go to Man Utd or Liverpool (hopefully playing for a new manager). 

[algy]

I imagine we've never had a player in our entire history who hasn't been "open to leaving" us.

That's how the lives of footballers operate.

Spoke with the chaplain at Wrexham a few years back. Lovely bloke, Everton supporter. From what he was saying, it’s quite hard being a footballer - certainly at that level (non-league at the time) but a lot of it would be appropriate further up the chain.

Down there it was all 1 or at most 2 year contracts, or worse (for the player) a loan. It’d meant that you’d have lads coming from all over the country, or from other countries, staying for a year or two then moving on. No chance to put down any roots anywhere, few friendships that last any amount of time, a long way away from their families with limited opportunities to visit them during the season, … tbh it sounded a bit of a shit, unfulfilling life to me considering the amount of dedication it must’ve taken to even get to the bottom rung of being a professional footballer.

I suppose what I mean is that as a footballer it must go with the territory, and perhaps one thing that might’ve upset (for example) Big Emi is that he was settling down in to a vaguely normal life and then we tried to shunt him out last spring/summer.

[eamonn]

You really think he wasn't keen to move on, himself? And still is, presumably.