Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[EFC_FRANCIS]

Fine if you are happy not being competitive for the first month or two of the season because huge swathes of the squad need to be brought up to fitness and integrated, especially those from overseas.

Why do we bother with a preseason at all if the squad can just rock up on day one of the season and be competitive?

Oh yeah cos Leeds have signed a bunch of galacticos to blow us out the water

 

[Saint Domingo]

Premier League signings made during summer window so farpublished at 08:04 British Summer Time​

08:04 BST​

Arsenal

• Kepa Arrizabalaga - from Chelsea - £5m
• Martin Zubimendi - from Real Sociedad - £60m
• Christian Norgaard - from Brentford - £10m (£5m)
• Noni Madueke - from Chelsea - £48.5m

Aston Villa

• Yasin Ozcan - from Kasimpasa - £5.9m (£6.7m)
• Zepiqueno Redmond - from Feyenoord - Free
• Marco Bizot - from Brest - Undisclosed

Bournemouth

• Adrien Truffert - from Rennes - £11.4m (£14.4m)
• Djordje Petrovic - from Chelsea - £25m

Brentford

• Michael Kayode - from Fiorentina - £14.8m
• Caoimhin Kelleher - from Liverpool - £12.5m (£18m)
• Romelle Donovan - from Birmingham City - £3m
• Antoni Milambo - from Feyenoord - Undisclosed
• Jordan Henderson - from Ajax - Free

Brighton

• Charalampos Kostoulas - from Olympiakos - £29.8m (£31.5m)
• Diego Coppola - from Hellas Verona - £8.5m
• Olivier Boscagli - from PSV Eindhoven - Free
• Maxim de Cuyper - from Club Brugge - Undisclosed

Burnley

• Bashir Humphreys - from Chelsea - £12m (£14.7m)
• Marcus Edwards - from Sporting - £8.5m
• Jaidon Anthony - from Bournemouth - £7.5m
• Zian Flemming - from Millwall - £7m
• Max Weiss - from Karlsruher - £4.3m
• Quilindschy Hartman - from Feyenoord - Undisclosed
• Axel Tuanzebe - from Ipswich - Free
• Loum Tchaouna - from Lazio - Undisclosed
• Kyle Walker - from Manchester City - £5m
• Jacob Bruun Larsen - from Stuttgart - Undisclosed

Chelsea

• Liam Delap - from Ipswich - £30m
• Estevao Willian - from Palmeiras - £29m (£48.5m)
• Dario Essugo - from Sporting - £18.5
• Mamadou Sarr - from Strasbourg - £12m
• Kendry Paez - from Independiente del Valle - £8.3m (£16.6m)
• Joao Pedro - from Brighton - £60m
• Jamie Gittens - from Borussia Dortmund - £48.5m

Crystal Palace

• Walter Benitez - from PSV Eindhoven - Free
• Borna Sosa - from Ajax - Undisclosed

Everton

• Charly Alcaraz - from Flamengo - £12.6m (£15.2m)
• Thierno Barry - from Villarreal - £27m
• Mark Travers - from Bournemouth - Undisclosed

Leeds

• Jaka Bijol - from Udinese - £15m
• Lukas Nmecha - from Wolfsburg - Free
• Sebastiaan Bornauw - from Wolfsburg - £5.1m
• Gabriel Gudmundsson - from Lille - £10m
• Sean Longstaff - from Newcastle - £12m

Liverpool

• Florian Wirtz - from Bayer Leverkusen - £100m (£116m)
• Jeremie Frimpong - from Bayer Leverkusen - £29.5m
• Armin Pecsi - from Puskas Akademia - £1.5m
• Milos Kerkez - from Bournemouth - £40m

Manchester City

• Tijjani Reijnders - from AC Milan - £46.3m (£60m)
• Rayan Ait-Nouri - from Wolves - £31m (£36.3m)
• Rayan Cherki - from Lyon - £30.5m (£35.6m)
• Marcus Bettinelli - from Chelsea - Nominal
• Sverre Nypan - from Rosenborg - £12.5m

Manchester United

• Matheus Cunha - from Wolves - £62.5m
• Diego Leon - from Cerro Porteno - Undisclosed

Newcastle

• Antonio Cordero - from Malaga - Free
• Anthony Elanga - from Nottingham Forest - £55m

Nottingham Forest

• Igor Jesus - from Botafogo - £10m
• Jair Cunha - from Botafago - Undisclosed

Sunderland

• Enzo le Fee - from Roma - £19.3m
• Habib Diarra - from Strasbourg - £30m
• Noah Sadiki - from Royale Union Saint-Gilloise - Reported £15m
• Reinildo Mandava - from Atletico Madrid - Free
• Chemsdine Talbi - from Club Brugge - Reported £18m (£2.5m)
• Simon Adingra - from Brighton - £21m

Tottenham

• Kevin Danso - Lens - £20.9m
• Mathys Tel - from Bayern Munich - £29.8m (£34.1m)
• Kota Takai - from Kawasaki Frontale - £5m
• Mohammed Kudus - from West Ham - £55m

West Ham

• Jean-Clair Todibo - from Nice - £36.3m
• El Hadji Malick Diouf - from Slavia Prague - £19m
• Kyle Walker-Peters - from Southampton - Free

Wolves

• Fer Lopez - from Celta Vigo - £19.6m (£21.3m)
• Jorgen Strand Larsen - from Celta Vigo - £23m

That reads as sky six playing fantasy football, newly promoted making desperation signings, everyone else either constrained by PSR, waiting for a sale, or waiting for deals to move elsewhere.

 

[Charro]

Ah, I see we're back to being scared of the newly promoted teams again.

Not really.

Just pointing out that if the season started today we'd be in trouble.

It doesnt start today though so lets hope the club gets a move on because there's a lot of work to do in under four weeks to be ready.

 

[Makis]

They aren't worse options though are they?

Probably are. There is a good chance neither will ever be a PL player.

 

[Nymzee]

Probably are. There is a good chance neither will ever be a PL player.

They definitely won't be. But neither are the likes of Harrison. Not arsed if he's played PL games before, his output is basically zero, we are missing like 1 goal from last season.

 

[Who's_up_for_cumpkins?]

Moyes + owners who's attention is on Roma.

Did anyone ever really expect all the talk about 'loads in' to materialise?

In your heart of hearts you never did.

Moyes is all about managing expectation for his own ends, so he was always going to accommodate that type of ownership at a distance and the releasing of minimal transfer funds. It's what he does.

I expect 3 in before the window closes. After the season starts. And I dont expect them to be big fee signings either.

 

[Bluebonic]

Thanks for sharing.

My username is a variation of a nickname I once had, ending with the number of variations of products that Heinz claim to have.

Interestingly, they actually had more than 60 products on offer at the time they used that slogan.

If you know your beans history and all that.

My user name refers to the blue tinge of my lips and the large buboes in my armpits brought on by the plague I contracted from sniffing grids in my youth!

 

[Tony’s Carp]

It's pretty amazing that we are currently much weaker than last year

The reason I’m not overly stressed about this stronger / weaker thing is that yeah we are numerically weaker but we’ve not failed to replace the departed players because it’s impossible to do so. We’re clearly trying to get the best possible players in.

Because you look at the names that have departed and in truth you could replace them with players of the same or better quality without much effort, fuss or expense. If the goal was just to find an adequate replacement for each departed player we could fill the squad by the end of the week and have them running around in America.

I’ll admit I’m getting a bit bored / impatient but I’ve no concern over the strength of the squad come the time it really matters. The departed players will be replaced by better players (in most cases it would be hard not to) and the squad will be stronger than last year.

I think probably knowing how easy it is to get better players than those who left is allowing them the luxury of a bit of patience for the much, much better players they want.

 

[Zatara]

I see Wesley is about to sign for Roma.

Thelwell had a bid in for him back in Jan but Moyes vetoed it.

Also Truffert, now at Bournemouth.

Where are the new full backs Moyes?

 

[Makis]

They did.

They weren't great players but they were physically capable of playing in the premier league and knew the basics of what positions to be in, touch, where not to lose the ball, tracking back etc.

The young lads would be headless chickens completely out of their depth.

What's this? Talking sense to lads who think a youngster with zero first-team experience will be better than someone who has played in three of the five top European leagues?

 

[coollino]

I’ve always pronounced it cool-leeno in my head, and feel a little silly now.

I'm not from the continent

 

[Makis]

You could be forgiven for not realising the season doesn't start for another 4 weeks

So new signings don't need to gel in? Just throw them into the first team right away and that's fine?

 

[Zatara]

The reason I’m not overly stressed about this stronger / weaker thing is that yeah we are numerically weaker but we’ve not failed to replace the departed players because it’s impossible to do so. We’re clearly trying to get the best possible players in.

Because you look at the names that have departed and in truth you could replace them with players of the same or better quality without much effort, fuss or expense. If the goal was just to find an adequate replacement for each departed player we could fill the squad by the end of the week and have them running around in America.

I’ll admit I’m getting a bit bored / impatient but I’ve no concern over the strength of the squad come the time it really matters. The departed players will be replaced by better players (in most cases it would be hard not to) and the squad will be stronger than last year.

I think probably knowing how easy it is to get better players than those who left is allowing them the luxury of a bit of patience for the much, much better players they want.

You think were going after better players?

How confident are you?

Weve gone from Wesley (January) to rejected by Tete this window.

The McGinn enquiry was leaked. Cant get much worse than that.

Not seeing thesd "elite players for an elite stadium"

What I am seeing is unprecedented. The inability to strengthen the 1st 11.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Moyes + owners who's attention is on Roma.

Did anyone ever really expect all the talk about 'loads in' to materialise?

In your heart of hearts you never did.

Moyes is all about managing expectation for his own ends, so he was always going to accommodate that type of ownership at a distance and the releasing of minimal transfer funds. It's what he does.

I expect 3 in before the window closes. After the season starts. And I dont expect them to be big fee signings either.

The bold was my biggest concern with him, but to be fair, there has been an element of it being his last rodeo.

I don't think he'll wants to go into a new season with a banana in a gun fight.

 

[Makis]

They definitely won't be. But neither are the likes of Harrison. Not arsed if he's played PL games before, his output is basically zero, we are missing like 1 goal from last season.

Newsflash: even wingers are expected to do more than just score goals these days.