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

[cdbearsfan]

His figures are just 'alright'. Basically a 1-in-3 goal involvement rate but maybe his all round game is decent? I think I read he was playing well this last season up until an injury.

He'll fit in nicely! 🙂

[eamonn]

Another thing I really hate about the modern transfer window is all the bloody pictures of players in other club's shirts. It really is low.

It's like seeing someone's profile on Tindr and then photoshopping them into your Facebook holiday pics before you've even sent them an unsolicited nude.

It's just not done. 

Agreed, absolutely insidious shite. Why live in the real world when online has made us invent new realities?

[Percy McCarthy]

Rogers ‘not pushing to leave’ according to Matt Maher (Express & Star).

[eamonn]

Good, needs to keep his push notifications switched off.

[Brazilian Villain]

Rogers ‘not pushing to leave’ according to Matt Maher (Express & Star).

Good lad, nice to know he's a Remainer.

[Dogtanian]

Rogers ‘not pushing to leave’ according to Matt Maher (Express & Star).

Good lad, nice to know he's a Remainer.

You’d have thought he’d have wanted to save us £350m a week.

[Percy McCarthy]

Rogers ‘not pushing to leave’ according to Matt Maher (Express & Star).

Good lad, nice to know he's a Remainer.

You’d have thought he’d have wanted to save us £350m a week.

Yes, he could give up playing football altogether, and save the petrol money.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

After watching the Brazil - Morocco game last night how about a £5m bid for Bruno Guimarães?

[Mister E]

After watching the Brazil - Morocco game last night how about a £5m bid for Bruno Guimarães?

Maybe because Morocco have better players to scout?

[Max Villan]

If we could somehow keep Rogers and sign Summerville and Mbaye I'd be over the moon. Probably a pipe dream.

[Toronto Villa]

What is the role of the coach in England? Are you just a coach there or can you be considered a manager?

We all want the same thing at Aston Villa, but we need specialists. My speciality is not signing players.
What I've always wanted is to focus on the pitch, on the grass, on preparing everything from the offices to the training field. Since I started working with Roberto 20 years ago at Almería, I have enormous professional and personal esteem for him. I need people who contribute in all the necessary areas so we can keep growing. I am the ultimate responsible person, but we share the responsibility. That said, my thing has always been the pitch. Outside of that, whatever Roberto says, I follow him with my eyes closed.

[eamonn]

Er... what?

[Toronto Villa]

He’s saying he’s got a close, long standing relationship with Roberto Olabe and trusts him implicitly in his specific role to build the best squad so he can focus on coaching them.

[Dogtanian]

If Rogers goes, I hope it’s to a French team, as I think they will pronounce his name beautifully, and surely that is the most you can hope for in a transfer.

[pauliewalnuts]

Interesting from Unai. It changes the view most of us had that there was a degree of sign off from him on Monchi signings, beyond the formalities anyway.