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Author Topic: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.  (Read 146331 times)

Offline Somniloquism

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1440 on: May 24, 2026, 05:33:21 PM »
Yep, needs replacing.

Offline Smirker

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1441 on: May 24, 2026, 05:35:35 PM »
He needs to stop scoring. He's making our team worse. More goals = worse team. Simple really.

Online Skipper_The_Eyechild

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1442 on: May 24, 2026, 05:39:28 PM »
He's clearly a stone cold WUM. Just leave him to it.

Offline garyellis

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1443 on: May 24, 2026, 06:06:10 PM »
What an end to the season for Ollie

Offline Ger Regan

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1444 on: May 24, 2026, 06:15:16 PM »
He needs to stop scoring. He's making our team worse. More goals = worse team. Simple really.

If you bothered to read what i actually wrote, you'd know that wasn't the point i was making. It's incredibly tiresome, find something else to get hopelessly fixated about.

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1445 on: May 24, 2026, 06:17:41 PM »
We really are a very good side, three or four additions of quality and we will back up there again. 

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1446 on: May 24, 2026, 06:29:29 PM »
Champions League football next season under a world class coach should be a big draw for many players. Going to be an interesting summer.

Online Tuscans

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1447 on: May 24, 2026, 06:29:52 PM »
Unai and Damian tapping up Silva

Offline garyellis

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1448 on: May 24, 2026, 07:13:55 PM »
At the risk of stating the obvious we really need to do some smart business this summer. We know UEFA have a real problem with Premier League dominance so we are going to have to be inventive and bullet proof.

Offline Tony Daleys Shorts

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1449 on: May 24, 2026, 08:39:37 PM »
We only need one or two good windows to be title challengers.

There is a weakness to the Sky 6 that if we get it right is eminently exploitable.

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1450 on: May 24, 2026, 08:46:39 PM »
We only need one or two good windows to be title challengers.

There is a weakness to the Sky 6 that if we get it right is eminently exploitable.

If we get 2 or 3 first-team additions (not just squad numbers, but players who can play in the first 11, and do well, regularly), then I think all that's preventing us from challenging at the top this coming season is injuries.  They happen, obviously, but if we can avoid anything beyond a week or two for our important players, we're already on the cusp of a title challenge.

Imagine a couple of signings having the same impact Rashford and Asensio had, and maybe one other.  We'd be a force, certainly.

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1451 on: May 24, 2026, 08:47:02 PM »
Losing Duran, Rashford, Ramsey, Asensio and Malen in 12 months is too much. They really have performed miracles to overcome that this year.

But yes, we're not far away at all. Get the squad back to the standard it was 12 months ago and we'll be right up there next year.


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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1452 on: May 24, 2026, 10:24:37 PM »
We only need one or two good windows to be title challengers.

There is a weakness to the Sky 6 that if we get it right is eminently exploitable.

If we get 2 or 3 first-team additions (not just squad numbers, but players who can play in the first 11, and do well, regularly), then I think all that's preventing us from challenging at the top this coming season is injuries.  They happen, obviously, but if we can avoid anything beyond a week or two for our important players, we're already on the cusp of a title challenge.

Imagine a couple of signings having the same impact Rashford and Asensio had, and maybe one other.  We'd be a force, certainly.

We started the season with a workable squad of about 24, and it quickly turned out that it was actually a squad of about 19.

If it were actually a squad of 22-24, all contributing then we'd be set.

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1453 on: May 24, 2026, 11:46:27 PM »
With Garcia showing he isn't the answer, anyone think Kayode at Brentford. Seemed to have done decently and brings the long throw option in from more then just Digne.

 


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