Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[WA Toffee]

We very nearly got relegated twice in the last five years. And during Moyes's first time our net spend was lowest in the PL which usually means bad things.

So we are not a PL team because of the great leadership.

So we didn't get relegated, and we didn't spend money we didn't have.

And those are bad things?

 

[Curtis]

But given that signing a player is a 4/5 year financial commitment and we don't have unlimited money to make mistakes prioritising getting the right players in (and being patient to do so if necessary) is surely preferable to getting the wrong players in early. Everyone would want players signed before the squad report back for preseason. But the transfer market doesn't work that way.

Being thorough would disrupt the grievance industrial complex established in this thread , where there's outrage to sign players immediately then when those players don't fit the lofty expectations of certain fans they become regularly vilified and the cycle continues

 

[Curtis]

I mean Brentford have been completely decimated and look to be in trouble. Newcastle & Forest looking pretty light considering they have Europe this season and the likes of Brighton, Palace & Wolves havent exactly lit the transfer window up yet either..

We aren't the only ones who've been 'slow' in this window so far.

The only clubs spending heavily are part of the scab 6 along with Sunderland as they just got promoted and need to engage in drastic recruitment as their squad is significantly lacking

 

[Frosty1878]

We would all love to have a full squad now and to have made 5/6 big signings let’s wait and see how the team looks first game of the season and who’s on the bench.

 

[MikeH72]

Being thorough would disrupt the grievance industrial complex established in this thread , where there's outrage to sign players immediately then when those players don't fit the lofty expectations of certain fans they become regularly vilified and the cycle continues

It’s usually the players we sign at the end of the window in a blind panic that end up vilified because they’re crap btw.

 

[chicoazul]

Being thorough would disrupt the grievance industrial complex established in this thread , where there's outrage to sign players immediately then when those players don't fit the lofty expectations of certain fans they become regularly vilified and the cycle continues

Grievance Industrial Complex hahahaha.

 

[mahermi1]

So we didn't get relegated, and we didn't spend money we didn't have.

And those are bad things?

No they are not, but having ambitions isn't a bad thing either, not just surviving. Ambitions usually mean you have to speculate to accumulate by spending money

 

[DaChunk]

I would have kept Young for the cover and had Coleman step up into a coaching role a la Baines. I don't think his body can hack it playing anymore, sadly it hasn't for awhile.

 

[Curtis]

It’s usually the players we sign at the end of the window in a blind panic that end up vilified because they’re crap btw.

I think there's a middle ground between signing for the sake of signing and panic buying at the last minute so hopefully we can actually find it this window. Yes crappy players get signed but we also have a tendency to consider every player here crap , Ive seen people make a go at ndiaye

 

[MACCA75]

The whole league have set up an academy and are bringing through youth both to play and sell for big money?

Literally every team in the football league try to do this, yes. You haven’t just come up with the idea!

 

[BlueStevie35]

I would have kept Delph for the cover and had Coleman step up into a coaching role a la Baines. I don't think his body can hack it playing anymore, sadly it hasn't for awhile.

Delph?

 

[DaChunk]

Delph?

Young, I don't know where Delph came from

 

[W84 Dum Freeze]

We finished 12th and 10th didn't we?

We did, but some of that was Silva & Big Dunc. ..erm like Moyes had us 6th in form after Dyche from January.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Austrian.

Thats what I said

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Well the rest of our pre season was diabolical after that game so I suspect not very well.

Not great not terrible. Some harsh red cards and too many draws before getting our first loss mid september to westham.

Ok, so no real correlation then.

Interesting