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

[aj2k77]

He's out for a month and Glasner is going in the Summer. Guessand will be back here.

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

Just been looking at the expiring contracts on Transfermarkt.

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/statistik/endendevertraege


With or without CL, we should be looking to pick up a few of these - we've done very well with free transfers recently (Kamara, Tielemans, Lindelof)

Harry Wilson  - already linked
Marcos Senesi - would be a good replacement if we wanted to cash in on Konsa or Torres.
Julian Brandt - maybe a Rogers alternative/replacement if we cash in
Oscar Mingueza - previously linked, good alternative/back up for Cash and RCB.
Ryan Sessegnon - still young LB, could replace Digne
Rico Henry - older LB, could replace Digne
Yves Bissouma - was good a few years ago, and we'll need cover for Kamara's inevitable season-ending injury next January.

There's also Sancho, but I don't think he's done enough for us to be paying him £150k-£200k a week.

[LeeB]

Bissouma is a knob, steer clear of him.

[Baldy]

Bernado Silva, 31, up for grabs as well on a free in June 2026. Big wages though.

[aj2k77]

Hopefully our transfer department has a bit more imagination and a wider scope.

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

Bernado Silva, 31, up for grabs as well on a free in June 2026. Big wages though.

If he was going to stay in England, he'd renew with Man City.

I think he wants to go to Spain.

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

Hopefully our transfer department has a bit more imagination and a wider scope.

Well the media is speculating that we'll have to sell even if we're in the CL, suggesting we don't have a lot of scope.  I doubt we're going to be spending £100m+ without selling Rogers.

Free transfers like Senesi, Mingueza and Wilson are cheap(er) ways of getting good quality players to strengthen the squad for a CL campaign. 

I'm not suggesting that's all we do, but it leaves our budget for the likely big ticket transfers - like a replacement keeper, a striker and a winger.

[eamonn]

Hopefully Guessand will hit the ground running in August having had a year to acclimatise to English turf.

[ADVILLAFAN]

I miss Footy's free agents lists, where he would suggest us going for a load of old duffers, some mono legged.

[pauliewalnuts]

I miss Footy's free agents lists, where he would suggest us going for a load of old duffers, some mono legged.

Also the occasional dead person.

[Sexual Ealing]

I miss Footy's free agents lists, where he would suggest us going for a load of old duffers, some mono legged.

I had no idea Footy went to indie clubs in the 90s.