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

[LeeS]

He gave it the big I Am to a bloke who worked at Lennon Airport and is a big Liverpool fan, said he's the biggest cvnt he's ever met. For that reason, I'm out.

Without knowing him at all he does give the impression of being a bit of a twat.

It’s a no from me then

[Percy McCarthy]

They wouldn't be given £100 million this summer, they'd be giving us £20 million. Then the same for the next few years or until he moves on again and they amortise what's left.

I'd like to believe the rules will hamstring Chelsea, but all the evidence suggests that the rules will just be subverted or ignored if there is any potential for that. The so-called penalty they received last year removed any remaining doubt that the cabal can do whatever the fuck they want.

Under UEFA SCR transfer fees are spread over three years.

[Smithy]

I'd imagine still yes. There seem to have been whisperings of this potential move for months now. Realistically, the rules still mean that they are more likely to be long-term challengers than us. We are doing brilliantly to keep doing so well despite the restrictions.

More likely short to medium term challengers, possibly, but long-term? I'm not so sure.  They were only just over £100m ahead of us in revenue terms in the last set of accounts.  Which is significant, but not insurmountable. They themselves are £100m behind Spurs, who are the next lowest in the so-called big six. Then it's another £100m till you reach the top 4 English clubs who are all pretty close around the £800m level.

Of the so-called big six, Chelsea are definitely the ones we are most likely to catch and replace first.  I would imagine in the next two years (current form/trajectory holding, obviously).  But it could be five or more years before we're in the revenue range between Spurs and the top 4 - which is where we need to be in order to challenge long-term, and not find ourselves financially hamstrung by one bad season.

[brontebilly]

He did an amazing job of pointing at Rogers when we scored the first. We've not seen such high class pointing while marking space since the days of Kinsella.

Jones, much like Mac Allister; players you'd struggle to say what they actually do well.

Macallister was excellent last season to be fair and previously at Brighton and Argentina. Can't run though and that's been a big problem for them this season.

I can't really figure Jones out, has an interesting profile in terms of age and his contract situation. An under performing player with high potential or a Tom Cleverley lightweight type carried by better players. I know he was out of position but certainly was in the latter camp against Buendia last week.

[Mister E]

He did an amazing job of pointing at Rogers when we scored the first. We've not seen such high class pointing while marking space since the days of Kinsella.

Jones, much like Mac Allister; players you'd struggle to say what they actually do well.

Macallister was excellent last season to be fair and previously at Brighton and Argentina. Can't run though and that's been a big problem for them this season.

I can't really figure Jones out, has an interesting profile in terms of age and his contract situation. An under performing player with high potential or a Tom Cleverley lightweight type carried by better players. I know he was out of position but certainly was in the latter camp against Buendia last week.

Cleverly is a good comparison, actually, and sums up where my head is re Jones.

[Somniloquism]

They wouldn't be given £100 million this summer, they'd be giving us £20 million. Then the same for the next few years or until he moves on again and they amortise what's left.

I'd like to believe the rules will hamstring Chelsea, but all the evidence suggests that the rules will just be subverted or ignored if there is any potential for that. The so-called penalty they received last year removed any remaining doubt that the cabal can do whatever the fuck they want.

Under UEFA SCR transfer fees are spread over three years.

Also they are still in the "must have a positive transfer for List A squad members" as they deferred the punishment for one year. Hopefully we did enough not to be in that this year.

[brontebilly]

Our Kid reckons they are more fucked if they qualify for Conference League than if they qualify for nothing but I can't remember why.

Heard Simon Jordan (I know..) complaining previously that the ECL was costing Palace money. Chelsea were meant to have earned 85m for that Mickey mouse tournament last summer so might not be in all that much bother financially.

If they need to dump players in a hurry, Delap was excellent at Ipswich and caused us huge problems previously. Might be a good fit.

[paul_e]

He did an amazing job of pointing at Rogers when we scored the first. We've not seen such high class pointing while marking space since the days of Kinsella.

Jones, much like Mac Allister; players you'd struggle to say what they actually do well.

Macallister was excellent last season to be fair and previously at Brighton and Argentina. Can't run though and that's been a big problem for them this season.

I can't really figure Jones out, has an interesting profile in terms of age and his contract situation. An under performing player with high potential or a Tom Cleverley lightweight type carried by better players. I know he was out of position but certainly was in the latter camp against Buendia last week.

Like all of Liverpools midfield (except Endo who just isn't good enough) he's a perfectly good player with the ball but without it he's ill-disciplined and lazy. if you're playing a 433 you can carry 2 of those but you need someone who just does their job and keeps things under control. We have Bouba for it and miss him when he's out. Slot decided to spend the best part of half a billion quid and not bother buying anyone to do that job. I literally called the problem on the first weekend:

They got the result today but that midfield looks far too open for Liverpool, I can see them conceding a lot more than they did last year.

They've also scored a lot less, and all those Salah goals last year did hide the problem a little, but this year teams have worked them out and have had far too easy a time dragging players out of position and then playing through the lines and exposing an aging Van Dijk and whatever shit they've put alongside him.

Back on topic, Curtis Jones is another one who has that same problem, he's not a poor player but he is a bit of a nothing much player, he's neat and tidy, he plays the odd good pass or shot but more often than not he's just there, not really doing much because taking him out of the game is too easy.

[paul_e]

Our Kid reckons they are more fucked if they qualify for Conference League than if they qualify for nothing but I can't remember why.

Heard Simon Jordan (I know..) complaining previously that the ECL was costing Palace money. Chelsea were meant to have earned 85m for that Mickey mouse tournament last summer so might not be in all that much bother financially.

If they need to dump players in a hurry, Delap was excellent at Ipswich and caused us huge problems previously. Might be a good fit.

True but that came on the back of a loss of £265M so even with that £75m and the extra £40-50m by stepping up from the conference league to the champions league they still had a huge shortfall to cover and not many more tricks up their sleeve.

[cdbearsfan]

They wouldn't be given £100 million this summer, they'd be giving us £20 million. Then the same for the next few years or until he moves on again and they amortise what's left.

I'd like to believe the rules will hamstring Chelsea, but all the evidence suggests that the rules will just be subverted or ignored if there is any potential for that. The so-called penalty they received last year removed any remaining doubt that the cabal can do whatever the fuck they want.

Under UEFA SCR transfer fees are spread over three years.

Ta mate, it's impossible to keep up with all of these rules they bring in to fuck Villa over.

[Somniloquism]

Everton and Aston Villa are interested in Newcastle's 22-year-old Denmark forward William Osula.

We are apparently after the Jackson wannabe. They will be linking us to Jimenez from Bournemouth next.

[Dave]

Apparently we agreed to sign him for £30m last summer but Newcastle changed their mind when all those strikers kept turning them down.