Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

Since a year ago, we are utterly and miraculously transformed.

The club still exists.
Bramley Moore, one of the best stadiums in the World, is actually built.
Our debt is sorted.
We finished midtable.
Moyes is the manager.
American billionaires own us.
Backroom staff has been properly sorted.
We have no PSR issues.
We have money to spend.

It's a miracle.

Why wouldn't we be optimistic?
Yeah I just can’t bring myself to be stressed by this situation after the stress of the last few years. A few years ago we spent 1.7m in an entire window. We spent more than double that on our reserve goalie this window.

Last summer we were worried about the lights going out and trying to sell off youth players for enough cash for a down payment for a 15m player. This summer we’re trying to get 30-40m players through the door.

Yeah, we’re struggling to get big deals over the line, yeah it’s a bit frustrating but after the last few summers *struggling* to spend our sizeable budget feels like a pretty luxurious problem to have.
 

His contract expired 1st July mate.
He's right. Footballers get an extra month's payment past the expiration of their contract, unless they sign with a new team in the meantime. It's why a lot of players on frees sit it out for a month in no panic to pick a club. Particularly if they know that there is no way that they will secure a wage as good as their last contract.
 
He's right. Footballers get an extra month's payment past the expiration of their contract, unless they sign with a new team in the meantime. It's why a lot of players on frees sit it out for a month in no panic to pick a club. Particularly if they know that there is no way that they will secure a wage as good as their last contract.

This generally doesn’t happen though, but if that was the case then every single player would do it when their contract expires? They’d just sit tight and then you’d see an influx of free agent signings on August 1st, when does that ever happen?
 

We could use a couple players for depth, but we are now down to "needing" 3 more players in my opinion. A RB, a RW, and a CM. The recruitment team can now just focus on those 3, and if you believe the rumors about Fofana, Luiz, Grealish and Kubo, we may be close to two of them.

I still think RB should be #2 priority behind RW, hopefully the Maitland-Niles links are them trying.
 
This generally doesn’t happen though, but if that was the case then every single player would do it when their contract expires? They’d just sit tight and then you’d see an influx of free agent signings on August 1st, when does that ever happen?
Not necessarily. Depends on what's on offer. Some clubs will walk away because they need you now. Some players will get dream moves etc. Some would rather have their futures sorted than cream off another half a million. Depends on the player and the agents involved.

But I'm telling you, that this is a thing with footballer's contracts. Yet another crazy thing that removes them so far from the real world.
 
Not necessarily. Depends on what's on offer. Some clubs will walk away because they need you now. Some players will get dream moves etc. Some would rather have their futures sorted than cream off another half a million. Depends on the player and the agents involved.

But I'm telling you, that this is a thing with footballer's contracts. Yet another crazy thing that removes them so far from the real world.

I’ve never ever heard of this before this window when discussing our own out of contract players, I’m interested to know if anyone else has ever heard of this before now or if it’s been mentioned on the forum in previous years. I’ve never heard any journalist mention it either, I’m not sure I believe it in all honesty. It’s ridiculous and makes no sense.
 
This generally doesn’t happen though, but if that was the case then every single player would do it when their contract expires? They’d just sit tight and then you’d see an influx of free agent signings on August 1st, when does that ever happen?
Because a lot of free agents, particularly the ones anyone would notice, will get more money at the new club than they were earning at their previous club and therefore have no incentive to wait. As Dwight says, you don’t get both salaries if you join a new club.
 
Because a lot of free agents, particularly the ones anyone would notice, will get more money at the new club than they were earning at their previous club and therefore have no incentive to wait. As Dwight says, you don’t get both salaries if you join a new club.

What are the numbers on this? Because I’m not sure that’s true either. Ashley Young will be on much less at Ipswich than he was at us so why hasn’t he waited till August and milk another month of our wage out of us?
 

I’ve never ever heard of this before this window when discussing our own out of contract players, I’m interested to know if anyone else has ever heard of this before now or if it’s been mentioned on the forum in previous years. I’ve never heard any journalist mention it either, I’m not sure I believe it in all honesty. It’s ridiculous and makes no sense.
I assume at some point it’s been a PFA thing. It makes sense in the overall context of the football pyramid, where much further down players are more likely to be let go than walk of their own volition. For those players it’s just a month’s grace to find a new club while still being able to play rent and bills.
 
I assume at some point it’s been a PFA thing. It makes sense in the overall context of the football pyramid, where much further down players are more likely to be let go than walk of their own volition. For those players it’s just a month’s grace to find a new club while still being able to play rent and bills.

Well yeah that makes sense at that level, but in what world would that need to be applied to fellas earning over £50k a week?
 
I’ve never ever heard of this before this window when discussing our own out of contract players, I’m interested to know if anyone else has ever heard of this before now or if it’s been mentioned on the forum in previous years. I’ve never heard any journalist mention it either, I’m not sure I believe it in all honesty. It’s ridiculous and makes no sense.
It's a form of loyalty bonus that most agents insert into contracts these days as standard. Although, not every player will have them, just the majority.

Effectively, the player waives it if they instantly sign elsewhere. Like I said, just another mad quirk of football and agents.
 
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What are the numbers on this? Because I’m not sure that’s true either. Ashley Young will be on much less at Ipswich than he was at us so why hasn’t he waited till August and milk another month of our wage out of us?
he only signed last week, and they possibly paid him a bonus to sign on early than chance missing out later from a better bid from elsewhere?
 

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