Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[Aries]

If team talk talks about Kubo then we know that wont be happening..damn

This is in response to someone asking about the Kubo links in the Teamtalk article so he’s poured cold water on that one. It was actually him that name dropped Kubo out of the blue last week! Done a full 180 there lol

 

[bluestevon]

Not sure why anyone would think Myers would have the remotest clue what business the club's doing.

 

[brieverton]

This is in response to someone asking about the Kubo links in the Teamtalk article so he’s poured cold water on that one. It was actually him that name dropped Kubo out of the blue last week! Done a full 180 there lol

I like Alan, but he doesn't know anything. When people in his position say "That's not what I'm hearing" they never tell us what they ARE hearing. It's like The Echo, it can only ever be a response in the negative. Perhaps it's because in reality they are "hearing" nothing at all because they're not sourced.

 

[bitterbloo157]

We can’t buy him! The lad will be known as ‘Pubes’ almost from day one.

It’s ok we’re chasing Vagiannidis who sounds like a thrush ointment

 

[DayL08]

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.

We should never have gotten rid of Thelwell. He was doing a good job given the hand he was dealt

We should have done more business but you can still point out all other teams we’ll be competing with have weakened or stood still. Only Newcastle outside the Big 6 have strengthened

We’ve lost Doucoure, DCL and Young. Not huge losses. We have probably stood still at the moment. We need to get 2 or 3 permanents in along with our full allocation of loans who are likely to become available as the season draws near

 

[NeilMorepies]

It’s ok we’re chasing Vagiannidis who sounds like a thrush ointment

His Blade Runner soundtrack was awesome to be fair.

 

[Miked1e]

27 days...

Well in fact 24 days if we want any new players to be available for the 1st EPL game of the season!

 

[MisterJ]

How do people have the energy to write full on essays this early in the morning?

They have time to fill as they wait for the wash to finish so they can hang up their sheets

 

[Bluewolf]

He’s 35. And unless you are his agent, i imagine you wouldn’t have a clue about offers he may have had.

Weird take if you think he was poor last season tbh.

I mean its not a werid take if i thought he was poor is it?

if him being 35 is a issue then why did we resign him?

Ive made no secret i think our entire midfield is dross but i really don't understand the hero worship gana receives. But then people on here rate McNeil

 

[Aries]

No Premiership side should be relying heavily on a 36 year old Midfield player.

 

[14_dollars]

Alan is an expert at p*ssing on anything he hasn’t heard of.

“Hi Alan what do you think about the concept of quantum computing which leverages the principles of quantum mechanics to solve complex problems that are intractable for classical computers?”

“Not for me”

 

[Nymzee]

Of all the people who you think might be ITK if you're tweeting Alan Myers for info you are a numpty.

 

[14_dollars]

No Premiership side should be relying heavily on a 36 year old Midfield player.

 

[Aries]

Alan is an expert at p*ssing on anything he hasn’t heard of.

“Hi Alan what do you think about the concept of quantum computing which leverages the principles of quantum mechanics to solve complex problems that are intractable for classical computers?”

“Not for me”

I honestly don’t mind Al I think he has good intentions. But he’s very very conservative on things like transfers. Days after the Romano’s of this world had given the “here we go deal done new striker for Moyes” stuff on Barry, Al was still coming out with “still a lot of work to do” and “hurdles to overcome” stuff. Nothing wrong with that that’s just his way of doing things. At least doing it his way he doesn’t run the risk of looking like a fool when things go belly up at the 11th hour like Romano has in the past.

 

[Neiler]

We were linked with him at one stage weren’t we, that looks like a manageable deal.