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

[LeeB]

I’d be disappointed / underwhelmed with Harry Wilson. He’s fine, nothing special, and 29.

No transfer fee, summer off and he would surely be better than Bailey, Sancho, Guessand

I think we need a higher bar than better than Bailey, Sancho and Guessand. Using crisp packets as oven gloves would surely be better than your bear hands.

All we need from Wilson is what Lindelof has given us this year, just in the attacking positions. The breaks that will allow our first choice players will sustain us longer and means we harvest more points, the absence of a fee means we can spend in addition.

It's a no brainer for us, in our position.

[aj2k77]

£5m+ a year on our wage bill just to give a first team player the odd break is way too much. He's not good enough to get in the first team and we're in the Champions League next season. We need a better scouting system if all it turns up is 30 year old one season wonders.

In my opinion it would be lazy not a no brainer.

[brontebilly]

I’d be disappointed / underwhelmed with Harry Wilson. He’s fine, nothing special, and 29.

My view too. We need better and younger. Decisions on Rogers and Martinez likely to frame the transfer window unfortunately. Hopefully keep one of them anyway but suspect both are off. I'd move on Onana too as he misses far too much football, big problem with Kamara having the same issue in the same position.

Exciting to see the names being linked with. Williams, MGW and Ampadu are three I think we can get and are very good players. Wonder if we will look to move Tammy on in the summer or work on him in pre season?

[Smithy]

£5m+ a year on our wage bill just to give a first team player the odd break is way too much. He's not good enough to get in the first team and we're in the Champions League next season. We need a better scouting system if all it turns up is 30 year old one season wonders.

In my opinion it would be lazy not a no brainer.

It's a BIT underwhelming, and I doubt he would become a first-team regular, but that's probably what we're paying Lindelof, who many were underwhelmed by last summer (given it seemed like he was coming to be our 4th choice centre-half), and even though his minutes have been limited this season, he's played a MAJOR part in us winning a trophy and securing a top 5 league finish.

I'm one of the biggest advocates for bringing down the average age of the squad, but I'm also pragmatic.  We don't have the resources to go and spend big on transfer fees, so if a reasonable free transfer becomes available, who will give us a bit of squad depth while we rebuild over the next two or three years, then I'm all for it.

[lessealey]

I think we need a starting calibre winger, for that role Harry is a bit underwhelming
If Harry is backup to the starting calibre winger then I'm good with it.
We all like the young, up and coming potential players as backup but there are frequent failures guessard etc
Lindelhof shows there is great value in the oldies

[Dante Lavelli]

I think we need a starting calibre winger, for that role Harry is a bit underwhelming
If Harry is backup to the starting calibre winger then I'm good with it.
We all like the young, up and coming potential players as backup but there are frequent failures guessard etc
Lindelhof shows there is great value in the oldies

Pretty sure it would be Wilson plus one more. Wilson being an insurance policy for the riskier/younger ‘one more’ and also cover for McGinn.

[kippaxvilla2]

I read this morning that our transfer budget is £100m I assume that excludes outgoings.

[Dave]

I read this morning that our transfer budget is £100m I assume that excludes outgoings.

I assume that Roberto Olabe hasn't been saying anything to The Mirror and they have no idea what our transfer budget is.

[Dante Lavelli]

I read this morning that our transfer budget is £100m I assume that excludes outgoings.

My guess is that includes the income from Barranchea etc, but not the sale of a first team squad members.

[paul_e]

£20m - Malen, £15m - Guessand, £5m - Dobbin, £15m - Barranechea, Elliot, Sancho, Luiz, £5m - Illing-Junior, £2m - Barry and £3m - Bailey all going will surely raise a few quid and positively effect SCR?  Selling Rogers now would be hugely disappointing.

I get about £65m from that lot.  Hopefully CL qualification would mean we could fund about about £100m of transfers without selling any ‘crown jewels’.  Three solid additions appears very possible.

I reckon that's a bit low. The ones we know are done:
Barrenechea: £13m
Malen: £25m

Then there's the optional one:
Guessand: £28m
All the talk recently is that Palace do plan to trigger that so there's a pretty good chance we can bank that as well.

That leaves sales for:
Dobbin: ~£5-8m - Coming off a pretty strong season at Preston but is a little older than some similar players we've sold in those circumstances recently (AJ Ramsey, Archer, Philogene). It will depend who is interested
Iling-Junior: ~£4-5m - He hasn't had a great time with his loans but he's young enough to still be worth a gamble for a team in somewhere like Germany, France or the championship and this is about the figure I'd expect for that level
Barry: ~£2-3m - I expect Stockport will want to keep him regardless of whether they get promotion or not and I can't imagine the price being too far from this range in either direction.
Bailey: ~£6-7m - This is probably the toughest sale after the season he's had but I think someone will be willing to take a gamble on him finding his form again.

Even on the low end, or if a few other drop a bit further we're looking at £80m if we can make all of those sales.

Add in the huge savings on wages from the loanees as well and I reckon that gives us a fair bit of overhead to play with before we need to consider any 'real' sales.

Mingueza on a free and 2-3 in the £20-40m range seems realistic to me and that lines up with the rumours of who we're being linked with.

[Dave]

All of those look about right to me ^

[Sexual Ealing]

The trouble is that we're probably paying most of them plenty more than their suitors can/will.

[Dave]

Probably true of Bailey, don't see it so much with the rest of them.

[Sexual Ealing]

Who's buying Dobbin, for example? Whoever it is will be offering significantly less than his current deal.

[Dave]

Who's buying Dobbin, for example? Whoever it is will be offering significantly less than his current deal.

You reckon? His current deal is supposedly around £20k per week, so less than the Championship average. He's 23 and just popped in ten goals from the wing for a lower mid-table side.

I'd be surprised if he's not getting a wage increase wherever he goes next.