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

[VILLA MOLE]

can we scoot around this one please

[OzVilla]

Martinez's father has been talking about where his son will finish his career;

https://sportwitness.co.uk/do-it-right-aston-villa-players-father-quizzed-about-transfer-as-negotiation-heats-up-over-summer-exit/

Reiterates what we already know - Juventus are trying to get him for peanuts and Villa will only let him go if we get a good offer.

There are far more reports of that being the case than the odd ones claiming he's going for 5m EUR or FOC.

You can count the number of world class footballers we’ve had at VP on one hand and Emi is one of them.

I honestly don’t see any sense in him moving on now, for either party. I’d be telling Juve to do one.

[Dave]

I honestly don’t see any sense in him moving on now, for either party

If there is a particular player that we've identified as his long-term replacement and who is obtainable this summer, and the squad cannot support all of Emi / Bizot / the new guy.

[algy]

Absolutely, setting things up where selling academy players is seen as a positive is about as dumb a decision as has ever been made in the sport. To make it worse instead of immediately reversing that and making it so keeping academy players was incentivised their response was to start applying arbitrary values to players to make it less profitable (particularly in swap deals).

Yeah, absolutely.  It seems oxymoronic that in order to make a club financially sustainable, it should sell off players it's developed themselves for free (bar the training) and instead spend large amounts of money on transfer fees, agents fees, etc.

Not that I have a solution to it, but you'd think logically that sustainability guidelines would encourage clubs to strengthen their youth team, bring more players in through that system, and spend less money on transfer fees.  The whole spending (wages and transfer fees) to revenue relationship makes sense, but the rest of it makes no sense to me (in terms of motivation rather than how it mechanically works)

[cdbearsfan]

I honestly don’t see any sense in him moving on now, for either party

If there is a particular player that we've identified as his long-term replacement and who is obtainable this summer, and the squad cannot support all of Emi / Bizot / the new guy.

Sure, if it is done quickly and we get suitable recompense for Martinez. No pissing about at the end of August missing games when all the viable targets have signed for someone else again, please.

[DennisHodgetts]

Club debt on any measure should be part of sustainability, but of course that would not work for Manure in particular, so lets just ignore that then!

[Dante Lavelli]

Club debt on any measure should be part of sustainability, but of course that would not work for Manure in particular, so lets just ignore that then!

And spurs and their £1bn stadium.  What's the situation at the other clubs like Madrid, Barca, Munich, PSG?