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

[Sexual Ealing]

They'd already bought him.

Nope, he was signed November 1998 so after the WC

Look, you can prove anything with facts. I think my post was closer to the spirit of the thread and, not to be too grandiose, the age.

[Dave]

Unai has preformed miracles but I think the time has run out with this squad to be challenging for top 6 & CL next season

Which six teams would you say are in a better position to finish ahead of us?

I think a solid argument can be made for four, beyond that they mostly have our problems but worse.

The current top 4 plus Chelsea and Spurs if they stay up. De Zerbi will get them playing given time.

While things can obviously change, but as things stand Chelsea are properly screwed in the summer. They have to have the same net positive transfer balance like we did this season, will have to make some pretty massive sales and probably take some pretty massive losses on players. There's talk that they need to make £60-80m in transfer profit before the end of June or their UEFA punishments get worse than they are already.

Whatever problematic state we might find ourselves in, Chelsea's is far worse.

As for Spurs, maybe. Emery managed to drag Gerrard's players into a far better position than when he found us. But it is still *that* Spurs squad that has finished in the bottom four / five for two seasons in a row. And de Zerbi record is much more one of chucking petrol on massive fires rather than putting them out.

[eamonn]

Their best players will have been out for a long time when they finally return - Kulusevski, Maddison aand Kudus. No guarantee they'll be as good as before.

[Dante Lavelli]

Their best players will have been out for a long time when they finally return - Kulusevski, Maddison aand Kudus. No guarantee they'll be as good as before.

Once back, the squad will be pretty bloated too.  There will be a few big egos sitting on the bench or in the stands.

[Dave]

And all of these is with the assumption that Spurs are even staying up.

[PaulWinch again]

And all of these is with the assumption that Spurs are even staying up.

Indeed and we have the opportunity to heavily influence this.

[Sexual Ealing]

They'd already bought him.

Nope, he was signed November 1998 so after the WC

Look, you can prove anything with facts. I think my post was closer to the spirit of the thread and, not to be too grandiose, the age.

You great big fibber, Rudy65, they sold him to Rangers in the November. Newcastle signed him before the World Cup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_Guivarc%27h

[cdbearsfan]

Sick of the proliferation of fake news on this site. Back to Twitter I go, have been reading some interesting things about Joe Biden faking the moon landings to cover up a paedophile ring.

[Mister E]

Stach from Leeds? - decent player.

[Somniloquism]

They'd already bought him.

Nope, he was signed November 1998 so after the WC

Look, you can prove anything with facts. I think my post was closer to the spirit of the thread and, not to be too grandiose, the age.

You great big fibber, Rudy65, they sold him to Rangers in the November. Newcastle signed him before the World Cup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_Guivarc%27h

That just states "Signed in the close season". A lot of transfer sites have it as 1st July but that is just to cover the starting the season date. Most other sources state he was signed after the World Cup though which was 12th July and "4 months later" he was sold on, which also puts it back to July.

[Sexual Ealing]

He was signed before the World Cup. Do you know how I know? I remember it.

[Somniloquism]

I didn't realise we had been visited by the Memory Man.

[cdbearsfan]

Bolton. White Horse Final, innit. We lost to Newcastle the following year.