Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

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Wish people would stop comparing our transfer activity to those of every other club as a way of justifying the lack of movement. An “unprecedented” Summer laid ahead in terms of player turnover we were told due to an anomaly of so many players out of contract and leaving the club.

We now are left with a skeletal squad, with far more gaps to fill than anyone else so people need to stop pointing out the lack of activity elsewhere as justification for doing little business ourselves. Our situations are simply not the same.

Forget contract renewals and using that as well to blow smoke up the @rses of the new owners. Not one fan anywhere wouldn’t be happy with Branthwaite signing a new deal. That’s a massive boost without question. But that doesn’t help with the numbers in the squad does it.

So far we’ve signed a loan player who was already part of the squad on a permanent deal, and a replacement keeper to replace one of the two/three who have left who’ll be sat watching the games like the rest of us. The only real meaningful addition we’ve made approaching August, is a young striker to replace DCL.

Three and a half weeks away from the Premiership games starting and nobody can surely say that they weren’t expecting more to be done at this point. Not even a sniff of a link by reliable sources, and even the cr@p sources who like to make things up for clicks, have given up doing that where we’re concerned. It’s all getting a bit bizarre.

“Waiting to get the quality players in that we really want rather than average ones now” is a popular one on here. Fair enough IF that’s the case, but with the amount of positions we need filling and the sheer numbers, we keep getting told not everything will be achievable with big money signings and we’ll have to pad out the squad with frees and fill our loan quota.

Where are they? Not a single free, not a single loan player has been signed either? For balance, they tried for Tete so that would have been one, but still, it’s bizarre that approaching August we haven’t brought in a single loan or free transfer for squad depth. If they’re choosing to wait on the quality they want to spend the main budget on, that doesn’t mean other cheaper business can’t be done in the meantime surely.

Yes the window hasn’t shut, yes there’s still time to bring in several additions before it closes, but we’ll go in to another season ill-prepared because the new players “haven’t had a pre season with us” or “not fully up to speed”. We all know what excuses are coming.

It screams of a lack of planning and confusion. If they use the excuse that new people have come in to new roles at management and executive level and a completely new recruitment structure meaning a detailed summer plan hasn’t had time to be put in place, then they shouldn’t have removed Kevin Thelwell this Summer. He would no doubt have had a strategy for this summer mapped out based on various budgets. They could have removed him at a later date and brought in the new recruitment structure (some of which don’t even officially start until later in the year!!) allowing them to settle in to new roles and plan for future windows.

Final point, at what point do those that are confident everything will end up just fine and we have plenty of money to spend, start to smell a rat and fear that the budget simply isn’t there beyond what’s already been spent on Barry? We can all have our opinions on that and we can all have a guess what we think the budget might be, the fact is none of us have a clue either way. They still have it all to prove where that is concerned and that can’t be argued.

The longer it goes without anymore significant signings, the more suspicious people are gonna be.
 
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Aries said:
Wish people would stop comparing our transfer activity to those of every other club as a way of justifying the lack of movement. An “unprecedented” Summer laid ahead in terms of player turnover we were told due to an anomaly of so many players out of contract and leaving the club.

We now are left with a skeletal squad, with far more gaps to fill than anyone else so people need to stop pointing out the lack of activity elsewhere as justification for doing little business ourselves. Our situations are simply not the same.

Forget contract renewals and using that as well to blow smoke up the @rses of the new owners. Not one fan anywhere wouldn’t be happy with Branthwaite signing a new deal. That’s a massive boost without question. But that doesn’t help with the numbers in the squad does it.

So far we’ve signed a loan player who was already part of the squad on a permanent deal, and a replacement keeper to replace one of the two/three who have left who’ll be sat watching the games like the rest of us. The only real meaningful addition we’ve made approaching August, is a young striker to replace DCL.

Three and a half weeks away from the Premiership games starting and nobody can surely say that they weren’t expecting more to be done at this point. Not even a sniff of a link by reliable sources, and even the cr@p sources who like to make things up for clicks, have given up doing that where we’re concerned. It’s all getting a bit bizarre.

“Waiting to get the quality players in that we really want rather than average ones now” is a popular one on here. Fair enough IF that’s the case, but with the amount of positions we need filling and the sheer numbers, we keep getting told not everything will be achievable with big money signings and we’ll have to pad out the squad with frees and fill our loan quota.

Where are they? Not a single free, not a single loan player has been signed either? For balance, they tried for Tete so that would have been one, but still, it’s bizarre that approaching August we haven’t brought in a single loan or free transfer for squad depth. If they’re choosing to wait on the quality they want to spend the main budget on, that doesn’t mean other cheaper business can’t be done in the meantime surely.

Yes the window hasn’t shut, yes there’s still time to bring in several additions before it closes, but we’ll go in to another season ill-prepared because the new players “haven’t had a pre season with us” or “not fully up to speed”. We all know what excuses are coming.

It screams of a lack of planning and confusion. If they use the excuse that new people have come in to new roles at management and executive level and a completely new recruitment structure meaning a detailed summer plan hasn’t had time to be put in place, then they shouldn’t have removed Kevin Thelwell this Summer. He would no doubt have had a strategy for this summer mapped out based on various budgets. They could have removed him at a later date and brought in the new recruitment structure (some of which don’t even officially start until later in the year!!) allowing them to settle in to new roles and plan for future windows.

Final point, at what point do those that are confident everything will end up just fine and we have plenty of money to spend, start to smell a rat and fear that the budget simply isn’t there beyond what’s already been spent on Barry? We can all have our opinions on that and we can all have a guess what we think the budget might be, the fact is none of us have a clue either way. They still have it all to prove where that is concerned and that can’t be argued.

The longer it goes without anymore significant signings, the more suspicious people are gonna be.
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So many words...
 
Aries said:
Wish people would stop comparing our transfer activity to those of every other club as a way of justifying the lack of movement. An “unprecedented” Summer laid ahead in terms of player turnover we were told due to an anomaly of so many players out of contract and leaving the club.

We now are left with a skeletal squad, with far more gaps to fill than anyone else so people need to stop pointing out the lack of activity elsewhere as justification for doing little business ourselves. Our situations are simply not the same.

Forget contract renewals and using that as well to blow smoke up the @rses of the new owners. Not one fan anywhere wouldn’t be happy with Branthwaite signing a new deal. That’s a massive boost without question. But that doesn’t help with the numbers in the squad does it.

So far we’ve signed a loan player who was already part of the squad on a permanent deal, and a replacement keeper to replace one of the two/three who have left who’ll be sat watching the games like the rest of us. The only real meaningful addition we’ve made approaching August, is a young striker to replace DCL.

Three and a half weeks away from the Premiership games starting and nobody can surely say that they weren’t expecting more to be done at this point. Not even a sniff of a link by reliable sources, and even the cr@p sources who like to make things up for clicks, have given up doing that where we’re concerned. It’s all getting a bit bizarre.

“Waiting to get the quality players in that we really want rather than average ones now” is a popular one on here. Fair enough IF that’s the case, but with the amount of positions we need filling and the sheer numbers, we keep getting told not everything will be achievable with big money signings and we’ll have to pad out the squad with frees and fill our loan quota.

Where are they? Not a single free, not a single loan player has been signed either? For balance, they tried for Tete so that would have been one, but still, it’s bizarre that approaching August we haven’t brought in a single loan or free transfer for squad depth. If they’re choosing to wait on the quality they want to spend the main budget on, that doesn’t mean other cheaper business can’t be done in the meantime surely.

Yes the window hasn’t shut, yes there’s still time to bring in several additions before it closes, but we’ll go in to another season ill-prepared because the new players “haven’t had a pre season with us” or “not fully up to speed”. We all know what excuses are coming.

It screams of a lack of planning and confusion. If they use the excuse that new people have come in to new roles at management and executive level and a completely new recruitment structure meaning a detailed summer plan hasn’t had time to be put in place, then they shouldn’t have removed Kevin Thelwell this Summer. He would no doubt have had a strategy for this summer mapped out based on various budgets. They could have removed him at a later date and brought in the new recruitment structure (some of which don’t even officially start until later in the year!!) allowing them to settle in to new roles and plan for future windows.

Final point, at what point do those that are confident everything will end up just fine and we have plenty of money to spend, start to smell a rat and fear that the budget simply isn’t there beyond what’s already been spent on Barry? We can all have our opinions on that and we can all have a guess what we think the budget might be, the fact is none of have a clue either way. They still have it all to prove where that is concerned and that can’t be argued.

The longer it goes without anymore significant signings, the more suspicious people are gonna be.
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We need a couple more in within the next 10 days, minimum.

If that doesn't come to pass, then I expect the Paddy Boylands of this world to wheel out pieces about why that's not happened:

"tougher than expected"

"difficult circumstances"

"club will not be held to ransom"

"lack of value in the market"

And such like.
 
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Aries said:
Wish people would stop comparing our transfer activity to those of every other club as a way of justifying the lack of movement. An “unprecedented” Summer laid ahead in terms of player turnover we were told due to an anomaly of so many players out of contract and leaving the club.

We now are left with a skeletal squad, with far more gaps to fill than anyone else so people need to stop pointing out the lack of activity elsewhere as justification for doing little business ourselves. Our situations are simply not the same.

Forget contract renewals and using that as well to blow smoke up the @rses of the new owners. Not one fan anywhere wouldn’t be happy with Branthwaite signing a new deal. That’s a massive boost without question. But that doesn’t help with the numbers in the squad does it.

So far we’ve signed a loan player who was already part of the squad on a permanent deal, and a replacement keeper to replace one of the two/three who have left who’ll be sat watching the games like the rest of us. The only real meaningful addition we’ve made approaching August, is a young striker to replace DCL.

Three and a half weeks away from the Premiership games starting and nobody can surely say that they weren’t expecting more to be done at this point. Not even a sniff of a link by reliable sources, and even the cr@p sources who like to make things up for clicks, have given up doing that where we’re concerned. It’s all getting a bit bizarre.

“Waiting to get the quality players in that we really want rather than average ones now” is a popular one on here. Fair enough IF that’s the case, but with the amount of positions we need filling and the sheer numbers, we keep getting told not everything will be achievable with big money signings and we’ll have to pad out the squad with frees and fill our loan quota.

Where are they? Not a single free, not a single loan player has been signed either? For balance, they tried for Tete so that would have been one, but still, it’s bizarre that approaching August we haven’t brought in a single loan or free transfer for squad depth. If they’re choosing to wait on the quality they want to spend the main budget on, that doesn’t mean other cheaper business can’t be done in the meantime surely.

Yes the window hasn’t shut, yes there’s still time to bring in several additions before it closes, but we’ll go in to another season ill-prepared because the new players “haven’t had a pre season with us” or “not fully up to speed”. We all know what excuses are coming.

It screams of a lack of planning and confusion. If they use the excuse that new people have come in to new roles at management and executive level and a completely new recruitment structure meaning a detailed summer plan hasn’t had time to be put in place, then they shouldn’t have removed Kevin Thelwell this Summer. He would no doubt have had a strategy for this summer mapped out based on various budgets. They could have removed him at a later date and brought in the new recruitment structure (some of which don’t even officially start until later in the year!!) allowing them to settle in to new roles and plan for future windows.

Final point, at what point do those that are confident everything will end up just fine and we have plenty of money to spend, start to smell a rat and fear that the budget simply isn’t there beyond what’s already been spent on Barry? We can all have our opinions on that and we can all have a guess what we think the budget might be, the fact is none of us have a clue either way. They still have it all to prove where that is concerned and that can’t be argued.

The longer it goes without anymore significant signings, the more suspicious people are gonna be.
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I have a feeling we will max our loans by the end of the window.
 
brieverton said:
We need a couple more in within the next 10 days, minimum.

If that doesn't come to pass, then I expect the Paddy Boylands of this world to wheel out pieces about why that's not happened:

"tougher than expected"

"difficult circumstances"

"club will not be held to ransom'

"lack of value in the market"

And such like.
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Just listened to his podcast,by the sounds of it they are actually struggling.
 
Aries said:
Wish people would stop comparing our transfer activity to those of every other club as a way of justifying the lack of movement. An “unprecedented” Summer laid ahead in terms of player turnover we were told due to an anomaly of so many players out of contract and leaving the club.

We now are left with a skeletal squad, with far more gaps to fill than anyone else so people need to stop pointing out the lack of activity elsewhere as justification for doing little business ourselves. Our situations are simply not the same.

Forget contract renewals and using that as well to blow smoke up the @rses of the new owners. Not one fan anywhere wouldn’t be happy with Branthwaite signing a new deal. That’s a massive boost without question. But that doesn’t help with the numbers in the squad does it.

So far we’ve signed a loan player who was already part of the squad on a permanent deal, and a replacement keeper to replace one of the two/three who have left who’ll be sat watching the games like the rest of us. The only real meaningful addition we’ve made approaching August, is a young striker to replace DCL.

Three and a half weeks away from the Premiership games starting and nobody can surely say that they weren’t expecting more to be done at this point. Not even a sniff of a link by reliable sources, and even the cr@p sources who like to make things up for clicks, have given up doing that where we’re concerned. It’s all getting a bit bizarre.

“Waiting to get the quality players in that we really want rather than average ones now” is a popular one on here. Fair enough IF that’s the case, but with the amount of positions we need filling and the sheer numbers, we keep getting told not everything will be achievable with big money signings and we’ll have to pad out the squad with frees and fill our loan quota.

Where are they? Not a single free, not a single loan player has been signed either? For balance, they tried for Tete so that would have been one, but still, it’s bizarre that approaching August we haven’t brought in a single loan or free transfer for squad depth. If they’re choosing to wait on the quality they want to spend the main budget on, that doesn’t mean other cheaper business can’t be done in the meantime surely.

Yes the window hasn’t shut, yes there’s still time to bring in several additions before it closes, but we’ll go in to another season ill-prepared because the new players “haven’t had a pre season with us” or “not fully up to speed”. We all know what excuses are coming.

It screams of a lack of planning and confusion. If they use the excuse that new people have come in to new roles at management and executive level and a completely new recruitment structure meaning a detailed summer plan hasn’t had time to be put in place, then they shouldn’t have removed Kevin Thelwell this Summer. He would no doubt have had a strategy for this summer mapped out based on various budgets. They could have removed him at a later date and brought in the new recruitment structure (some of which don’t even officially start until later in the year!!) allowing them to settle in to new roles and plan for future windows.

Final point, at what point do those that are confident everything will end up just fine and we have plenty of money to spend, start to smell a rat and fear that the budget simply isn’t there beyond what’s already been spent on Barry? We can all have our opinions on that and we can all have a guess what we think the budget might be, the fact is none of us have a clue either way. They still have it all to prove where that is concerned and that can’t be argued.

The longer it goes without anymore significant signings, the more suspicious people are gonna be.
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We’ve got “over 20 senior players” I was told on here yesterday mate, don’t know what you’re talking about.
Bluewolf said:
Mad isn't it?

Gana constantly runs out of position leaves gaps everywhere in our midfield that the opposition exploit. Leaving garner to try to cover two positions while our midfield is over run.

But garner is crap and gana is gods gift apparently. I mean if you watch toffeetv youd think gana is literally the best cm in the league the way they tongue his hoop.

Personally I dont think that either of them are good enough for where we want to be but the way people talk about garner youd think he couldn't tie his own shoe laces and scores an own goal every game.
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So you don’t think either of our starting central midfielders are good enough, but yesterday you were gassing up our squad saying we have over 20 senior players so there’s nothing to worry about?

If Gana and Garner aren’t good enough then how can you possibly consider Iroegbunam and Armstrong viable options?
 

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