Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[DaChunk]

Wednesday today and not a sniff of progress on a RB, winger, cm, striker, cb, or the back up goal keeper we need.

 

[Curtis]

Im dissatisfied with how the summer has played out , at the same time most of the people saying they wouldn't care if we came out initially over paying for players is pure fiction though. At this time for me Is acquiring players that can bolster the squad as quickly as possible

 

[jonnyg]

Sorry about the name but apparently Soule is only valued at 30m euros?

Seems like a no-brainer to give them a call. Make this multi-club thing actually worthwhile.

 

[MACCA75]

I agree completely with that. They shouldve paid whatever compensation was necessary to get the other 2 through the door for this summer. Especially the City bloke who hasn't even been working but sat on gardening leave.

TFG have left me with the impression they don't have much of a plan for us and we are a relative afterthought. Under no circumstances should they have allowed Kinnear to work with Leeds an extra 2 months to collect his promotion bonus either.

No idea why we were taking anyone from the clown car that is Leeds United anyway.

 

[Curtis]

It’s baffling that we’ve got 60mil of strikers at the club and it’s evident that we still need another one.

Barry is still raw but the signings of Beto and Chermiti have to go down as a waste, even if we tried to sell them we’d get a fraction of what we paid.

You consider Beto to be a waste?

 

[MACCA75]

I think people can forget doing friendly deals with Roma tbh. I think the connection extends to giving them a game in pre-season but that’s it.

 

[ArtetaMagic]

don't know why we don't go for Van Ewijk from Coventry. A right back and their best player

 

[GrandOldTeam]

They didn't sack the entire recruitment team, they didn't extend Thelwells contract and Purdy (unexpectedly) followed him out the door. 90% of the scouts at the club will have remained. DoFs don't have a magic wand they use to find players. The thing that's changed is the bloke with the final say has now gone from Thelwell to Moyes.

The club ultimately had to make a choice who they trusted more between Thelwell and Moyes and given Thelwell wanted Potter over Moyes and has since appointed that disaster Martin at Rangers, it was probably the right call.

If they weren't going to trust Thelwell long term why would they give him 'the most important window in years' as they billed it?


The club have got a lot wrong with the transition and I mean a lot, but that doesn't mean the original decision was wrong. The application of it has been the issue. And the signs have been there that it was going to go badly since January.

Tomato, tomato.

The writing was on the wall for Thelwell/Purdy before last season had finished, and we waited months for all these to join;

Nick Cox as Technical Director, James Smith as Director of Scouting and Recruitment, Chris Howarth to direct the Club's football strategy & analytics operations and Nick Hammond to lead the Club's player trading activity. The quartet will work alongside the Club’s CEO Angus Kinnear in supporting Men’s Senior Team manager David Moyes.

They've lashed 6 new people together there, late June - I'm not even sure some are in position yet.

You spent years sniggering at 'Kopite Kev', so I understand your view point that Thelwell was never the answer. That's your opinion - but to suggest some are just rewriting opinion after the event isn't true.

For me, timing wise - it's too much, too soon. If it was my club, as I've said since last season - I'd have kept the existing, for now. Evolution over a year or two, rather than making massive changes when we have a massive amount of work to do.

All that said - Kinnear last month spoke about value at the arse end of the window. So I'll give them until 1st. Hopefully they prove me wrong - but whatever happens, the changes they've made haven't been conducive to having us ready for a new season. Moyes had 14 senior players, 2 were injured to start pre-season. Moyes started the season without a full back, or winger.

 

[Curtis]

Sorry about the name but apparently Soule is only valued at 30m euros?

There's no way that's accurate, he's one of their best wingers , he has to be in gasperini's plans

 

[Paul Rideout]

Wednesday today and not a sniff of progress on a RB, winger, cm, striker, cb, or the back up goal keeper we need.

we have 3 keepers now (3rd joined on Friday), if we got a right back we wouldn't need a CB, we desperately need a natural RM/RW, a CM & another striker who offers something different to what we have (big lads that can't head the ball or hold the play up).

 

[davek]

When the penny drops then we move into phase 2.

Consolidation of our Premiership status.

Nothing will happen in the January window as it will be sell to buy.

Hold on though, the full team of exceptional operators will be all together then...

 

[Evo2901]

I’ve been relatively relaxed about incomings up to now but not having a player or two in by Sunday and leaving it all to the last week of the window will be pure negligence.

 

[Nymzee]

Sorry about the name but apparently Soule is only valued at 30m euros?

Not sure that would go down well with Roma fans.

 

[58 toffees]

You look at the state of Everton and also situations like Isak at Newcastle.

The window should close before the season starts.

Anyone know the reason why it doesn’t?

We'd be knackered if it did

 

[Jebus_lives]

don't know why we don't go for Van Ewijk from Coventry. A right back and their best player

I rate him highly. He'd massively improve anything we have at RB.