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

[nigel]

Swinkels going permanently to Sheff Wed - excellent for him, no doubt a low fee and clauses

Looks like we have at least a matching rights clause in there. Would suspect there is a sell on percentage, too. The Owls won't be able to spend much so I'm guessing that would be one of our conditions.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7387348/2026/06/23/sil-swinkels-aston-villa-sheffield-wednesday-transfer/

I wonder if this opens the door for Josh Feeney to have his chance?

[PaulWinch again]

I wouldn’t have thought so to be honest.

[German James]

Someone of that talent playing his career at Hull and West Ham. Then managing to negotiate one last pay day at a big Champions League team. Seems backwards to me.

That's what I mean. It would depend if he saw it as "one last pay day", or if he thought he still had something to prove. It's odd that he stayed at West Ham so long.

Bowen and his family are all Villa mad, don't think for one minute that he would see it as a last pay day if he came here.

Very funny! I just thought we might offer him more chances to play, if that interested him.

[Dogtanian]

Swinkels going permanently to Sheff Wed - excellent for him, no doubt a low fee and clauses

Looks like we have at least a matching rights clause in there. Would suspect there is a sell on percentage, too. The Owls won't be able to spend much so I'm guessing that would be one of our conditions.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7387348/2026/06/23/sil-swinkels-aston-villa-sheffield-wednesday-transfer/

I wonder if this opens the door for Josh Feeney to have his chance?

I suspect he will be another one to go this summer. He's a lovely lad by all accounts, but not sure he is at the level we need at the moment. He's had two good seasons in League One, but you'd have thought he'd have stepped up to Championshop last season if he was anywhere near where we wanted.