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

[TopDeck113]

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, …

Back when Bury FC were a football league club and just prior to their financial collapse, we had a player who regularly came in to the school where I was teaching to do coaching sessions with the kids.  I had a conversation with him about this and he said that many players in the lower echelons tended to base themselves in Greater Manchester/West Yorkshire as there are plenty of clubs within commuting distance.  He subsequently moved to... Plymouth!

[Londonvilla]

Two and two makes Unique Sports Group.

‘Time to go’ – Roberto Olabe can now secure Aston Villa transfer cheaply

Celta Vigo’s Óscar Mingueza has been on Aston Villa’s transfer agenda for a long time.

The right-back has parted ways with his long-time agent Josep María Orobitg and is now represented by British agency Unique Sports Group.

https://sportwitness.co.uk/time-to-go-roberto-olabe-can-now-secure-aston-villa-transfer-cheaply/

And
 
Aston Villa join open race for Harry Wilson – Unique Sports Group client’s free-agent summer could ignite bidding war

https://www.footballagencies.com/news/aston-villa-join-open-race-for-harry-wilson-unique-sports-group-clients-free-agent-summer-could-ignite-bidding-war/

Passed and present players with Unique Sports Group

Jacob Ramsey
Cameron Archer
Bradley Burrowes
Finn Azaz
Arron Ramsey
Axel Tuanzebe

So we clearly do business with Unique Sports Group, am I putting two and two together and getting five?

[eamonn]

What about our old pal Jorge Mendes and his stable of Shetland showponie, is he still hawking Felix around?

[brontebilly]

What about our old pal Jorge Mendes and his stable of Shetland showponie, is he still hawking Felix around?

Emery seemed to have a weird fascination with Felix. If ever there was a guy stealing a living at a very high level - showpony!

[KevinGage]

Don't think we're hugely worse off for not having Paqueta and his famous disappearing routine at VP either.

[jwarry]

What about our old pal Jorge Mendes and his stable of Shetland showponie, is he still hawking Felix around?

Emery seemed to have a weird fascination with Felix. If ever there was a guy stealing a living at a very high level - showpony!

15 goals in 26 games so far this season

[cdbearsfan]

In a joke league.

[olaftab]

What about our old pal Jorge Mendes and his stable of Shetland showponie, is he still hawking Felix around?

Far too good for us, more suited to a top club like Chelsea.

[Toronto Villa]

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.

Yep. If Man U at the height of their powers, winning just about everything at the time could sell Beckham or Ronaldo, then it's likely not a shocker a player might want to leave Aston Villa who have won nothing in a very long time. It's the nature of the industry. Our job as it has always been is to provide players with the best opportunity of career success and for a long time we have failed in that regard. It's the closest we have been right now with Unai but truthfully, as wonderful as it probably is to be a Villa player today, the chance of trophies consistently lies elsewhere. So whether it is back in the day with Yorke, Barry, Milner, Jack or possibly now Morgan Rogers, they will always be opening to leave us for club x. That's pretty much the case for any footballer further down the food chain looking to maximize their short careers.

[olaftab]

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.

That's a massive coup for the "journalist" who has unearthed this news. No one could have come up with this on a quiet week or two in football news.

[N'ZMAV]

we need a replacement option for McGinn if we can box off other priorities this summer and we have a bit to spare. Not easy, mind you.
 

[Percy McCarthy]

we need a replacement option for McGinn if we can box off other priorities this summer and we have a bit to spare. Not easy, mind you.

Wilson on a free. Keep Luiz and we’ve got one of the best midfield mini-squads in the world.

[N'ZMAV]

we need a replacement option for McGinn if we can box off other priorities this summer and we have a bit to spare. Not easy, mind you.

Wilson on a free. Keep Luiz and we’ve got one of the best midfield mini-squads in the world.

Harry Wilson has really come on this past year or so, he'd be a fantastic option in the attacking midfield options.

as a free transfer 

[andyh]

Harry Wilson is flavour of the month. He’s 29.
It’s taken him this long in his career to have a half decent season and suddenly he’s in massive demand.

I watched closely in that World Cup playoff game, and he disappeared for large parts of that game.
Decent enough squad player but not someone who we should be expecting to take us to the next level.

[KevinGage]

Harry Wilson is flavour of the month. He’s 29.
It’s taken him this long in his career to have a half decent season and suddenly he’s in massive demand.

I watched closely in that World Cup playoff game, and he disappeared for large parts of that game.
Decent enough squad player but not someone who we should be expecting to take us to the next level.

Yeah, never been convinced by him either.

On a free  - and realistically on his last chance to earn his biggest contract - he'll be on an inflated wage n'all.

That's a problem for us anyway. But becomes a bigger problem when better players we currently possess want parity. Or other new signings use it as a benchmark.

Kamara and Tielemans were smart deals.

This one wouldn't be.