Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[Toffe3m4n]

Something else that I found interesting was that Moyes made it clear that we really do have to stretch our money. So the haggling over 3-4 million isn't just the new transfer team playing hardball but a needed process.

That did surprise me a bit. Once again, the media guilty of whipping up a frenzy amongst the fanbase by claiming we had around £150-200m to play with?

 

[Shibbywiggles]

Something else that I found interesting was that Moyes made it clear that we really do have to stretch our money. So the haggling over 3-4 million isn't just the new transfer team playing hardball but a needed process.

I think it’s even more needed this year from the volume of signings we need to make

If we don’t add that extra £3m average that people seem to just want us to pay to get it done per player, that can leave us enough for another £30m player if we’re really signing 10 by end of window

 

[hktoffee]

I like how you've come to this decision off a few YouTube clips.

Dude I ask you for evidences to show he’s quick but you have nothing. You just want to argue for the sake of it.

 

[Neiler]

Hard when the players are saying no.

You expect no's - you get more no's then yes's in the window obviously, you plan accordingly.

 

[hktoffee]

Any West Brom fans here, is Fellows pacy/quick/agile. I use the word quick to describe player like Forfana.

 

[hktoffee]

You expect no's - you get more no's then yes's in the window obviously, you plan accordingly.

Or just pay them more wages.

 

[bluestevon]

Im actually pretty happy with those Moyes comments its what you want to see. If im putting a senior management structure in place like we have under TFG in the last six months, what i want to see is productivity but also natural tension. You want questions being asked, you want people being challenged, you want accountability. What we have just seen from Moyes is massively healthy.

From an overall plan implementation point of view we have seen productivity, we have four in the door we have a squad of 20/21. Arguably of greater quality and potential then the players who have vacated the squad places at the end of last season. Do we need to abandon the plan for the window at a critical point - absolutely not - this is a critical point when the most business will be done and availability is at its highest, you can be flexible in your plan but never abandon it - mid implementation. What Moyes is essentially saying to his recruitment colleagues is we have two deadlines coming up the PL and End of Window, we need to be more productive.

Away from strategy and if I'm interpreting what he is saying and what is happening so far i would say this. Hes talking about specific players, i suspect we know what it takes to get McAtee done and havent done it, i suspect we know what Lyon want for Fofana and havent done it, Sociedad for Kubo etc etc and prob an awful lot of different players we arent aware of. Part of what the management team has done in recruitment this summer has been to spend a lot of time negotiating to get best value in deals - thats been one of the objectives. We spent three weeks negoating down the Barry deal. What Moyes is signalling here is there comes a point if you want to get deals over the line - that you go and pay the £35 mill each for McAtee and Fofana if you want them and that any deal isnt held up on our side.

As said i think what we are seeing here isnt a reason for blind panic, Moyes knows exactly what hes doing here - hes using the media and fans to raise the tension with the recruitment team to get deals over the line instead of over negotiating. Thats what you want in a management structure a natural tension. While we have been productive, Moyes is signalling we need to be quicker, more decisive, committed, bolder and agile, because in the next week or so we are hitting the apex of the market.

We keep our heads here, but recognise the need for commitment and stealth - we're getting to the business end now.

I take it as the club has it's value of a player and the value they want to try to get the player at and likely has agreed in certain cases that we may need to exceed these numbers but only at a certain point in time.

Moyes is basically saying, ok, need to move into the less hardnose stage and be one more flexible to get the players in wanted.

 

[Neiler]

Or just pay them more wages.

Exactly mate, you work out in what conditions it takes to turn a no into a yes and get it done or dont - that s negotiation.

I suspect what Moyes is flagging here is I'm full sure we know what it will take to say get McAtee done and we're not doing it or trying to be too clever, to get the best deal. He's prob met him and knows his preference, prob like a number of players he's spoken to and the delays could be on our side, trying to box clever.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Or just pay them more wages.

That worked well in the past

 

[Saint Domingo]

The difference is , when clubs like Brighton and Bournemouth sell their best players for huge profits they already have the replacement lined up . We'd sell them and then start looking .

Who’s replaced Pedro?

Who’s replaced Huijsen?

Who’s replaced Mbeumo?

Brentford in particular look like a complete mess this window, their fans are worried about relegation.

Brighton spent close to a quarter of a billion last summer and came 8th. I know it’s a popular idea that everyone else’s recruitment is amazing and Everton’s is terrible but it’s just not that binary.

 

[mikel_88]

Any West Brom fans here, is Fellows pacy/quick/agile. I use the word quick to describe player like Forfana.

Is more similar to a mcneil but with more pace not like a fofana what we need of real pace to change a game

 

[Pabbers]

I don't care if its not trendy and it wont satisfy anyone, but I want Soucek. He would be great for us.

 

[Toffeelover]

Running out of time for transfers. Not looking good.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

Take it 3 aren’t coming in this week then @Brett Angell Delight

One is already in mate. Got a few days left yet.

 

[Zatara]

Quite like the honesty from Moyes in his frustrations on current transfers, but he’s as much a part of the process as the rest of the recruitment team. Not sure him saying desperate 14 times in a press conference is going to help our negotiating position either.

I’m glad we aren’t allowing our pants to be ragged off on stupid transfer fees and by players agents wanting daft money for their clients, but it seems we are quite limited to our scope of targets.

I really like the aznou signing, I would love a few more of those - theres value and talent available imo, I just don’t think we are necessarily looking in the right markets.

South America, some of the champs league teams from lesser nations like Belgium etc and players from the youth set ups of the big teams, like aznou, who won’t get minutes at their current clubs and want to kick on. The world is a big place and we are just about, still a premier league team.

I don’t want us to sign crap like Harrison or coufal just to fill the squad with bodies, thanks very much.

Moyes will have had a major say in the targets this window.

He continues to do so.

Not sure whose fault this is but his own.