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

[Beard82]

I know McGinn is getting older but he is showing no signs of slowing down - I could see him as a James Milner or Gareth Barry type player who keeps going albeit in a slightly different role.  He has so many attributes to his game.

Mings and Digne I would agree we need to be mindful of losing a yard and stamina could be a killer for them

[Dogtanian]

I know McGinn is getting older but he is showing no signs of slowing down - I could see him as a James Milner or Gareth Barry type player who keeps going albeit in a slightly different role.  He has so many attributes to his game.

Mings and Digne I would agree we need to be mindful of losing a yard and stamina could be a killer for them

Plus, arses generally grow with age, so he could get even better!

[Clampy]

I know McGinn is getting older but he is showing no signs of slowing down - I could see him as a James Milner or Gareth Barry type player who keeps going albeit in a slightly different role.  He has so many attributes to his game.

Mings and Digne I would agree we need to be mindful of losing a yard and stamina could be a killer for them

Plus, arses generally grow with age, so he could get even better!

That's not always true. Trump has a massive arse and he's still a massive arse.

[Dave]

I know McGinn is getting older but he is showing no signs of slowing down - I could see him as a James Milner or Gareth Barry type player who keeps going albeit in a slightly different role.  He has so many attributes to his game.

Agreed - but one thing that we definitely need to move away from is being so reliant on his presence dragging us through.

I'd be delighted to see a 35 year old McGinn coming on after 70 minutes of matches to help see games out, but the planning that should be happpening right we now isn't "how do we replace McGinn?", but how do we transition into an era where he is playing fewer and fewer minutes without us falling to pieces.

[LeeS]

This part of the window is so frustrating. All these random links to exciting players and you just know we won’t do any business until after the WC.

[Dogtanian]

This part of the window is so frustrating. All these random links to exciting players and you just know we won’t do any business until after the WC.

This brought out the child in me. 

[LeeS]

This part of the window is so frustrating. All these random links to exciting players and you just know we won’t do any business until after the WC.

This brought out the child in me. 

I am simply bursting

[brontebilly]

I know McGinn is getting older but he is showing no signs of slowing down - I could see him as a James Milner or Gareth Barry type player who keeps going albeit in a slightly different role.  He has so many attributes to his game.

Mings and Digne I would agree we need to be mindful of losing a yard and stamina could be a killer for them

Mings definitely isn't the athlete he was. To be expected after injuries and irregular game time. I'm glad for him the Man City game went well but he was struggling badly towards the end of the season. We need another player comfortable on the ball like Torres. I thought Digne struggled for a lot of the season but to be fair he finished strong. 33 this summer and after a World Cup, think the time is right to consider a decent offer there too.

With McGinn, I know we had other injuries but our midfield collapsed when he was out. Can't afford to take that risk again.

I see this transfer window as the one we should have had 12 months ago only for the OT debacle to get in the way.

[LeeB]

I know McGinn is getting older but he is showing no signs of slowing down - I could see him as a James Milner or Gareth Barry type player who keeps going albeit in a slightly different role.  He has so many attributes to his game.

Mings and Digne I would agree we need to be mindful of losing a yard and stamina could be a killer for them

Mings definitely isn't the athlete he was. To be expected after injuries and irregular game time. I'm glad for him the Man City game went well but he was struggling badly towards the end of the season. We need another player comfortable on the ball like Torres. I thought Digne struggled for a lot of the season but to be fair he finished strong. 33 this summer and after a World Cup, think the time is right to consider a decent offer there too.

With McGinn, I know we had other injuries but our midfield collapsed when he was out. Can't afford to take that risk again.

I see this transfer window as the one we should have had 12 months ago only for the OT debacle to get in the way.

Really need to get my glasses sorted, read the first three sentences as 'McGinn' and was almost apoplectic at the end, when in fact I'm agreed on all counts.

[eamonn]

This part of the window is so frustrating. All these random links to exciting players and you just know we won’t do any business until after the WC.

This brought out the child in me. 

Nii '94
Fash the Bash
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Too many Ronald MacDonald's for Ron Atkinson

[brontebilly]

Big Ron got chatting to Fashanu at the World Cup wasn't it? Nearly every player and coach back then had nixers on the side. Venables had a travel show?  Jack Charlton had every possible side gig going, shredded wheat was one.

[Hookeysmith]

We may well have already signed the Mings replacement as well, with Cisse arriving soon, he's another who is young, very highly rated and has been playing first team football for 18months

Have i missed this - who?

[cdbearsfan]

We may well have already signed the Mings replacement as well, with Cisse arriving soon, he's another who is young, very highly rated and has been playing first team football for 18months

Have i missed this - who?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modou_K%C3%A9ba_Ciss%C3%A9

[Dave]

We may well have already signed the Mings replacement as well, with Cisse arriving soon, he's another who is young, very highly rated and has been playing first team football for 18months

Have i missed this - who?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modou_K%C3%A9ba_Ciss%C3%A9

Bought him last summer for £4m, 20 years old. Played forty or so games for LASK, who won the Austrian Bundlesliga.

[paul_e]

Yep, young Senegalese CB who signed last year but with the move completing at the end of this month.

From the highlights of him he's got everything to be the perfect modern central defender and seems like a bit of a coup on our part.