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

[saint13]

I went to Barnsley away, New Year 1988 in Div 2. We won 3 1. It was very cold and windy on their open away end. We were also chased down the road on the way back to the car. Good game and day out I recall.

[Londonvilla]

Three players Atletico Madrid should sell this summer

Cashing in on Almada would generate funds to purchase a player more directly suited to Simeone’s system, perhaps one with greater work-rate or tactical discipline, while also resolving a squad bottleneck where promising players stagnate on the fringes.

Moreover, moving Almada on could be mutually beneficial amid his links with Aston Villa. He needs regular minutes to progress and reach the ceiling scouts once forecast for him. Atletico Madrid, meanwhile, gain transfer flexibility. In the modern market, timing is crucial: selling before a player’s stock peaks but while there remains clear interest is sensible business.

https://thehardtackle.com/opinion/three-players-atletico-madrid-should-sell-this-summer/#google_vignette

We were linked with him when he was playing in America IIRC.

Cost would be prohibitive now, I'd imagine.

21 million euros, they want him gone as he does not fit with their style of play

[Tuscans]

Three players Atletico Madrid should sell this summer

Cashing in on Almada would generate funds to purchase a player more directly suited to Simeone’s system, perhaps one with greater work-rate or tactical discipline, while also resolving a squad bottleneck where promising players stagnate on the fringes.

Moreover, moving Almada on could be mutually beneficial amid his links with Aston Villa. He needs regular minutes to progress and reach the ceiling scouts once forecast for him. Atletico Madrid, meanwhile, gain transfer flexibility. In the modern market, timing is crucial: selling before a player’s stock peaks but while there remains clear interest is sensible business.

https://thehardtackle.com/opinion/three-players-atletico-madrid-should-sell-this-summer/#google_vignette

I believe hard tackle as much as I believe hand of arsenal 

[Dogtanian]

Imagine the Hand of Arsenal getting to grips with Hard Tackle though.

[brontebilly]

Hourihane and McGinn were pretty good, Lansbury seemed a perfectly reasonable cheap option at the time, and he did stabilise us. Unless you think we were better off before he turned up, which would obviously make you insane.

Lansbury was absolutely useless and didn't stabilise anything. He had talent but no application. He had played well against us a few weeks before signing us. Id give Bruce more credit than plenty on here but some of his signings were just silly. Claimed he had been scouting Hogan since his Rochdale days but was obvious within weeks of signing that he wasn't a good. Hourihane was on a hot streak too but he did well for us.

[Richard E]

Lansbury does now promote his own brand of organic grass fertiliser, though, which is more than you can say for Hourihane or even dare I say it McGinn.

[Dogtanian]

Lansbury does now promote his own brand of organic grass fertiliser, though, which is more than you can say for Hourihane or even dare I say it McGinn.

I guess you have to be full of it. 

[Sexual Ealing]

They need fertiliser for old-fashioned English grass now?

[Somniloquism]

Lansbury does now promote his own brand of organic grass fertiliser, though, which is more than you can say for Hourihane or even dare I say it McGinn.

Did he get the inspiration that his namesake has been fertilising since 2022?

[cdbearsfan]

Hourihane and McGinn were pretty good, Lansbury seemed a perfectly reasonable cheap option at the time, and he did stabilise us. Unless you think we were better off before he turned up, which would obviously make you insane.

Lansbury was absolutely useless and didn't stabilise anything. He had talent but no application. He had played well against us a few weeks before signing us. Id give Bruce more credit than plenty on here but some of his signings were just silly. Claimed he had been scouting Hogan since his Rochdale days but was obvious within weeks of signing that he wasn't a good. Hourihane was on a hot streak too but he did well for us.

I meant Bruce stabilised us, not Lansbury.

[Dogtanian]

Maybe Bruce and Lansbury can team up and sell soil stabiliser?

[Sexual Ealing]

As long as they get their worms on.

[brontebilly]

Lansbury does now promote his own brand of organic grass fertiliser, though, which is more than you can say for Hourihane or even dare I say it McGinn.

Ok so he stabilises lawns now, good for him.

[cdbearsfan]

Is this what you are referring to? I did not know this.

"After his retirement, Lansbury committed full-time to his organic fertilizer business Grass Gains. He credits his interest in lawns to a COVID lockdown period when he had to mow the lawn himself after a gardener did a disappointing job. The Grass Gains products are being used at various football pitches across Europe, including Genk, AS Monaco and Fulham."

[cdbearsfan]

Ah yes, I should try reading all the posts before replying.