Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[Exeter_Gently]

Any player who scores a header when the ball is on the ground is an instant yes

One of a few players I actually bothered watching in the Championship last season.

Confident he could make the step up.

 

[Blast_of_Cannock]

Any player who scores a header when the ball is on the ground is an instant yes

Didn't the Straq score a diving header from an inch off the floor? Or am I imagining it?

 

[brieverton]

Surely we will see 2-3 new faces in this week.

Hopefully it will be Barry plus at least one other new arrival. This time next week is mid-July more or less. I expect things will start to heat up.

 

[Dwight K Schrute]

41 days till new season starts and It's beginning to look like we are rebuilding on a par with last seasons squad. I am very unimpressed currently.

See where we are at the end of the coming week. If we don't have 2 or 3 in by that point (which admittedly looks unlikely), I think we can be legitimately worried.

 

[Victus]

I guess there's a lot going on behind the scenes that's being kept genuinely quiet?

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

We paid £8m for Gueye - not the same. Juve paid £42m for him last year. Will they really be selling for £27m less a year later

If it was 15m there will be a queue of top clubs in for him.

 

[Ian]

You are right but I still expect us to win every game we play and always will.

Fair enough. Certainly, I hope we win every game we play, and I can't abide the Moyes "knife to a gunfight" mentality that expects we will be beaten by the richer teams when approaching every match.

However, in the aggregate, rather than in each individual match, it is likely that we will lose more than we win against those teams, for good reasons. There is also a difference between hope and expectation. You might hope that Marvin Hagler beats Mike Tyson, and it's possible he might occasionally, but Tyson just has greater resources and that matters in competition and he will win at least 90% of the time.

To expect that we win every game in a 38 match season is admirable positivity but much pain and potential insanity lies that way. It's also probably counter-productive because when it doesn't happen we can get frustrated and take it out on the club, manager and players who (mostly) are doing their best.

 

[davids]

If they wanted to flip us quick they wouldn't looking into the purchase of Nelson dock.

Id hope not,but flipping sites with planning permission isn't unheard of.

 

[Eggs]

Didn't the Straq score a diving header from an inch off the floor? Or am I imagining it?

….Andy Gray in the mud at Notts County.

 

[Lob]

See where we are at the end of the coming week. If we don't have 2 or 3 in by that point (which admittedly looks unlikely), I think we can be legitimately worried.

We have our first pre season game in 9 days time and we haven't made one new signing. Even Barry hasn't been confirmed yet not that one striker alone is going to change us into a top half team. Even Alcaraz was here last season. I am definitely already worried mate. I expected better than this. It is starting to look like same old.

 

[mahermi1]

Didn't the Straq score a diving header from an inch off the floor? Or am I imagining it?

Andy Gray scored a half volley with his head once for Everton.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Signing Luiz is like signing two players usually as his mrs then signs for the women’s team…

She played for us on loan a few years ago before signing for Villa.

 

[BlueStevie35]

We have our first pre season game in 9 days time and we haven't made one new signing. Even Barry hasn't been confirmed yet not that one striker alone is going to change us into a top half team. Even Alcaraz was here last season. I am definitely already worried mate. I expected better than this. It is starting to look like same old.

We were never going to go on a massive spending spree coming off our financial situation so I don’t get why people were expecting dozens of signings coming through the door

The club seemingly can’t win with some, if we’d have brought in say the West Ham guys, Brownhill and some other average players on frees or had gone gung ho Moshiri style and bought Grealish or any other Sky 6 rejects, they’d have got pelters for wasting money and wages. We’ve had to replace the whole transfer structure and are being a lot more sensible (letting Doucoure/DCL/Young go, making Alcaraz permanent, giving Keane/Gueye 1 year deals etc) and still they’re getting pelters

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Id hope not,but flipping sites with planning permission isn't unheard of.

Not unheard-of but when you've personally got Chong on record saying he's been charged with "redeveloping nelson dock to complement the stadium" you'd imagine they're pretty invested.

Also why flip us quickly when they can redevelop the land around and make ten fold on their investment.

I'd imagine some Blues want us flipped quickly so they've got another takeover to worry and stress about,some of them are uneasy with stability.

 

[davids]

Fair enough. Certainly, I hope we win every game we play, and I can't abide the Moyes "knife to a gunfight" mentality that expects we will be beaten by the richer teams when approaching every match.

However, in the aggregate, rather than in each individual match, it is likely that we will lose more than we win against those teams, for good reasons. There is also a difference between hope and expectation. You might hope that Marvin Hagler beats Mike Tyson, and it's possible he might occasionally, but Tyson just has greater resources and that matters in competition and he will win at least 90% of the time.

To expect that we win every game in a 38 match season is admirable positivity but much pain and potential insanity lies that way. It's also probably counter-productive because when it doesn't happen we can get frustrated and take it out on the club, manager and players who (mostly) are doing their best.

No but we should go into every match looking for a win.