Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[Marcus Kendall]

The English thing is bs, young players now are far more expensive across the board as nearly every club has moved to the model of buying under 26

Always annoys me when people call it the English tax when it's really a we've got a highly regarded young player so if you want him you pay for the privilege

 

[Rita_Poon]

Far more likely us they have given a rough ball figure in terms of wages and fees and complete costs allowed within a range fir the dinner spend - likely season spend.

dinner spend?

 

[RichCee123]

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“Dear Sirs,
Thank you for your kind offer. Unfortunately we have already sold him to Forest.
Best regards,
Juve”

 

[Makis]

They bought cheap foreigners in most cases. Hardly bought overpriced English youth for £30m do they…

Kostoulas 35m, De Cuyper 20m, Rutter 46m, Minteh 35m, Wieffer 32m, Gruda 31m, Kadioglu 30m, O'Riley 29m, Tzimas 26m, Pedro 34m, Baleba 27m, Verbruggen 20m, Mwepu 23m, Caicedo 28m, Webster 22m, Jahankabakhsh 22m.

Cheap as chips.

 

[Zatara]

I’m expecting us to close a deal by the weekend at around that price - Moyes is fuming we need players pronto. This ends the Kubo chase - he’s no longer an option Sociedad don’t want to sell and we ain’t paying €60m.

If we could bring in Fofana & Dibling then no matter what anyone tells me, i'll see a young team emerging over the next couple of seasons that should be deadly on the counter.

Those two on the flanks will create a lot of clapping seats when everyone stands to watch.

One very interesting take on all this.

Moyes has been publicly complaining about recruitment. He's also on record saying he wanted a mix of experienced premier League proven and oh some young potential.

He deliberately played down Aznou the other day as being first team ready - without even a training session etc.

So maybe Moyes has been pushing the older players, the recruitment team has some time trying to get those deals over the line but are obviously more difficult "Luiz, Grealish" type deals instead of certain others.

And maybe him moaning has got them to focus now on the deals they have had on hold, be funny if Moyes moaning ends up with the recruitment focusing on the players he'd rather not use as they aren't premier League proven though.

The Anzou comments were so negative.

Imagine if we signed Dibling for £35mil.

Same dour comments?

 

[WA Toffee]

Always annoys me when people call it the English tax when it's really a we've got a highly regarded young player so if you want him you pay for the privilege

It's actually more a "we have to have a certain amount of players that went through a youth academy in England so selling clubs can charge us a bit more knowing we have a quota to fill" tax, rather than an English tax.

But it's a bit of a mouthful to say all of that

 

[Nymzee]

If we could bring in Fofana & Dibling then no matter what anyone tells me, i'll see a young team emerging over the next couple of seasons that should be deadly on the counter.

Those two on the flanks will create a lot of clapping seats when everyone stands to watch.



The Anzou comments were so negative.

Imagine if we signed Dibling for £35mil.

Same dour comments?

Why are you so obsessed with what Moyes said regarding Anzou (which wasn't negative) when the player himself said he came here after being convinced by Moyes?

 

[mccole]

Jonathan Rowe been linked with Roma in last few days. Anyone think we could turn our attention to him if we fail to land Fofana?

We should have bought him while he was at Norwich

 

[Zatara]

Why are you so obsessed with what Moyes said regarding Anzou (which wasn't negative) when the player himself said he came here after being convinced by Moyes?

"Why are you so obsessed"

Thought you were a bloke

Wowzers, never would have guessed.

 

[tellmema]

Unsure why anyone is getting their knickers in a twist about the fee etc, TFG are very unlikely to have just given a set amount to spend in transfers unless they are idiots.

Far more likely us they have given a rough ball figure in terms of wages and fees and complete costs allowed within a range fir the dinner spend - likely season spend.

Dibling for 35m on say 35k per week, with minimal signing fee for 5 years, costs. 9m in wages so total costs commited too is 44m

Now say Fofana is wanting 120k per week and costs 40m with same signing fees etc. 31.2m in wages so total commitment is 71.2m

Over a 27m difference

Do that on say 2-3 signings and what would look like only 15m more spent is actually spending or commitng to spending close to 80m extra and has to be factored in.

The combined fee and wage costs are gonna be the budget this year. Not some arbitrary - we have 150m to spend in fees.

So for a player wanting much higher wages we are more restricted in how high the fee can go, if wage demands are much more reasonable then we have way more room to increase the initial fees.

I'm guessing Dibling currently on a youth contract at Saints is asking for a lot less than either Kubo or Fofana would be - hugely less in fact.

Same can be applied to Douglas Luiz who'd cost 30-35m with currently 150-175k per week say compared to the cost of buying Mcatee who'd in all likelihood cost less initial and far far less on wages, so what would look a similar outlet for the club on fee would actually be 30m cheaper a deal.

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[Nymzee]

"Why are you so obsessed"

Thought you were a bloke

Wowzers, never would have guessed.

 

[bluestevon]

If we could bring in Fofana & Dibling then no matter what anyone tells me, i'll see a young team emerging over the next couple of seasons that should be deadly on the counter.

Those two on the flanks will create a lot of clapping seats when everyone stands to watch.



The Anzou comments were so negative.

Imagine if we signed Dibling for £35mil.

Same dour comments?

Possibly will be, I can honestly see Moyes doing this season and being replaced by a manager who regularly schools us and we just played the other week.

 

[Blue peter]

Unsure why anyone is getting their knickers in a twist about the fee etc, TFG are very unlikely to have just given a set amount to spend in transfers unless they are idiots.

Far more likely us they have given a rough ball figure in terms of wages and fees and complete costs allowed within a range fir the dinner spend - likely season spend.

Dibling for 35m on say 35k per week, with minimal signing fee for 5 years, costs. 9m in wages so total costs commited too is 44m

Now say Fofana is wanting 120k per week and costs 40m with same signing fees etc. 31.2m in wages so total commitment is 71.2m

Over a 27m difference

Do that on say 2-3 signings and what would look like only 15m more spent is actually spending or commitng to spending close to 80m extra and has to be factored in.

The combined fee and wage costs are gonna be the budget this year. Not some arbitrary - we have 150m to spend in fees.

So for a player wanting much higher wages we are more restricted in how high the fee can go, if wage demands are much more reasonable then we have way more room to increase the initial fees.

I'm guessing Dibling currently on a youth contract at Saints is asking for a lot less than either Kubo or Fofana would be - hugely less in fact.

Same can be applied to Douglas Luiz who'd cost 30-35m with currently 150-175k per week say compared to the cost of buying Mcatee who'd in all likelihood cost less initial and far far less on wages, so what would look a similar outlet for the club on fee would actually be 30m cheaper a deal.

A 35m player mate is not going to be on 35k a week, he will be on market average for a 35m player, more likely will be 100k at least

 

[Zatara]

Possibly will be, I can honestly see Moyes doing this season and being replaced by a manager who regularly schools us and we just played the other week.

Armstrong (18)
Anzou (19)
Dibling (19)
Fofana (20)
Alcaraz (22)
Barry (22)
Branthwaite (23)
O'Brien (24)
Ndiaye (25)


Bring in Dibling & Fofana and it would be a new young team developing.

A year or two under Moyes and then a transformative coach would be ideal.

 

[Who's_up_for_cumpkins?]

Id have thought Dibbling will actually be interesting in coming to us, unless there's a CL team in the frame and none seem to have been mentioned.

So just lob in 35 million and 5 in add-ons that must get it done.

It looks like we have a clear run at this one like Barry. Just get It done FFS if he's next on the list.