Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[windymiller]

Or he's saying that with the unprecedented amount of players out of contract or on loan he doesn't want to have to buy 7 players to replace the out of contract ones and 4 new players to add to the team.

There are players who we could offer new contracts to that still add something to the team, if not as first team starters, as experienced bench players/role models to new/younger players - Gueye, Doucoure, Young, Coleman.

You cannot solve all the problems in one transfer window - this is what promoted sides get wrong. They sign 11 players, spending £100m+, then there's no team dynamic and they fail to adapt to the premier League.

Improve in certain key positions, strengthen in depth in others but you can't hard reset every position all at once

Gueye, yes. Doucoure, Young, Coleman, no. Why are we keeping the players that have had us rooted in the relegation fight for four years with the expectation that that will result in a different outcome. We've allowed their contracts to run down for a reason. If you keep the same squad, you'll get the same outcome. Look at our recent run of form. Two wins in eleven games. Moyes is better than Dyche, not hard, but he is not a magician. We need better players.

 

[Efcjake]

Any other over 35 players we can target for our seniors walking footy team?

What's the original Ronaldo up to? Has he slimmed down? We could probably give him a contract.

 

[willjo]

Gueye, yes. Doucoure, Young, Coleman, no. Why are we keeping the players that have had us rooted in the relegation fight for four years with the expectation that that will result in a different outcome. We've allowed their contracts to run down for a reason. If you keep the same squad, you'll get the same outcome. Look at our recent run of form. Two wins in eleven games. Moyes is better than Dyche, not hard, but he not a magician. We need better players.

The above players need to be squad players, not regular starters, with the exception of gueye. Two top quality full backs, right winger & center mid and this team is transformed. Hopefully we keep alcaraz too and I see no reason why our aim shouldn't be top 8.

 

[NeilMorepies]

O’Brien seems good at right back. Maybe we have other priorities?

O’Brien isn’t a Right Back, and fills in for the Right Back we haven’t signed for 4-5 seasons now.
He’ll be covering Tarks’ injury, in his proper position.

Coleman has been called up for the Republic, so that’s him out injured for 6 months or the season depending on the severity of his impending inevitable injury.

Young can barely get through a full match these days, and certainly not 2 games a week.

Patterson isn’t reliable enough. Everyone else has to cover his position when he plays.

 

[cronullasharks]

Any other over 35 players we can target for our seniors walking footy team?

What's the original Ronaldo up to? Has he slimmed down? We could probably give him a contract.

Maybe we could get Tom Davies back, he's not old and knows the club so it keeps the team dynamic unchanged.

 

[NeilMorepies]

Unprecedented my arse.
Forest changed their entire squad twice over two windows.

Same Moyes excuses as ever.

If it’s all too hard for you, resign and let a competent Football Manager take over.

 

[Moomin]

I’m hoping this is one of your wind ups

 

[carolinablue232]

Idk Moyes. It's fine to have him around the squad, but this feels like sentimental Everton where we let players go on past their sell by date. We did it with Howard. We did it with Baines. Now with Seamus? I guess we'll see.

 

[polish]

So I guess the idea is to move Patterson out and get a new right back with Young and Coleman as his cover.

 

[buskwhi2]

We’ve been counting down the years for most of these contracts to run down, so we can move players on who aren’t what we need to progress and have some freedom with wages to get better in.

Now the time has come we’re seemingly too scared to use the opportunity.

Very disappointed by the messaging.

Which of the out of contract players would be getting kept on by any of the clubs in the top half of the table?
Gueye
DCL?
?

 

[davids]

I’m hoping this is one of your wind ups

Nope Moyse said in the press conference he'll be here next season.

 

[Connor]

Of the, what, 15 players out of contract, I suspect we'll see a few of them staying as squad players.

Too many incoming and outgoing in one window disrupts the chemistry of things too much. It'll be a gradual rebuild, but it starts this summer.

 

[Clarky cat]

Any other over 35 players we can target for our seniors walking footy team?

What's the original Ronaldo up to? Has he slimmed down? We could probably give him a contract.

His neck in Big Mac meals and poker chips.

 

[Clarky cat]

The same people who were telling us the players were crap and that Sean Dyche was getting the very best out of them are now convincing themselves that keeping as many of those players as possible is somehow a good move

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

Lets face it if the loanees all go back and the out of contracts get let go then we would have barely the spine of a side left for the first year at BMD,
I could see Moist keeping Gana, DCL, Alcaraz and Lindstrom. I really hope he does not offer contracts to Harrison, Keane and Doucoure. Any others wouldn't rile me either way.