Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[Marcus Kendall]

We started the season with only 3 of them.

Yes but it'll be a very unlucky occurrence if they missed big chunks of the season

 

[Fonzy]

He could be our Saviour

He’s also good with crosses

 

[windymiller]

Sterling on 325k a week and Sancho on 250k a week. If they both want to play football in a World Cup year then why not? Chelsea paid Sterling's wages when loaned to arsenal last season. Could be an option to do that. If he thinks he is still worth anything above 200k a week, then so be it. But he has to play to go to the world cup.

Sancho on 250k a week with a reported 20mil transfer fee would be 46mil on a 2 year deal.

I think sterling would accept the same, but thats for us to negotiate.

So 40mil transfer fees and 13 mil a year for each for wages. A European place or a cup win means that is money well spent in my opinion...

So £40m in fees and £52m in wages for two players who have flopped not only at their current clubs but also out on loan. £92m for Sterling and Sancho. Once again, flawless plan.

 

[DaChunk]

Guys, work on transfers is being done, we just aren’t hearing about it. To double down on my previous post, there is a clear causal link between a member of senior management publicly calling out employees leaking confidential information to the public, and a sudden dearth of information reaching us. To imagine that this is pure coincidence seems a stretch.

What is more likely? That Moyes calling out the leak has caused a decline in the amount of publicly available information, or that by pure coincidence at the exact time this happened the highly paid, business critical player recruitment team has decided to completely down tools and cease activity entirely? And for what reason would they ever do that? Spite? Ennui?

Work continues people, of course it does. Signings are coming. Wins are coming. I would respectfully suggest that we try to look forward to them.

Hopefully but until they're in blue this is just wishful thinking. Evidence please we're missing 5 players to be half competitive and are already getting spanked in league games.

 

[Fonzy]

Coming up on 3500 pages only to end finishing comfortably 15th on the table

Right now i’d take that

 

[Curtis]

I know the squad had a little more structure and balance and we even were further limited finances then now but I'm curious what the mood was when we approached the end of the transfer window under the first year of Roberto, when picked up Lukaku and Barry on the last day?

 

[Eagle Eye]

Why not, reason 1 Sterling is turbo gash

One bad season last year
Has a better than 1 in 4 goal scoring record in his career as 1 in 5 assist record. He is not turbo gash. He is younger than Gareth Barry when he signed and the same age as James Rodriguez..

 

[DanB90]

I find it incredibly troubling that some in here are using humour as a coping mechanism instead of hyperventilating and shrieking at people.

 

[PeregrineT]

When you look at the glaring holes right throughout the team, I do find it baffling that we spent roughly £12 million on a premium loan.

Grealish at £12 million is very much cherry on the cake. But for me, there are much more pressing needs which required that investment.

If we had a strong DoF, I don’t think he’s sanctioning that loan fee, not when you look at our full back options.

I think thats great value.

Doucoure cost us 11m last year, we replaced him with Grealish at 12m. Players arent just their fee, its their wages to. On both the books and PSR Grealish is the same cost as a 35m player getting paid 95k a week. Which other player is available, that we can sign?

 

[MikeH72]

One bad season last year
Has a better than 1 in 4 goal scoring record in his career as 1 in 5 assist record. He is not turbo gash. He is younger than Gareth Barry when he signed and the same age as James Rodriguez..

Yeah and the 3 or 4 before that too.

 

[Marcus Kendall]

One bad season last year
Has a better than 1 in 4 goal scoring record in his career as 1 in 5 assist record. He is not turbo gash. He is younger than Gareth Barry when he signed and the same age as James Rodriguez..

I've never really rated him. His end product is horrendous. His pace has most likely declined a little. And like Sancho I don't detect any hunger in him anymore. I remember QPR tried this strategy of buying over the hill once good players and it nearly finished them off. Plus there's absolutely no link to Sterling either so there's no point even thinking of this scenario

 

[Eagle Eye]

So £40m in fees and £52m in wages for two players who have flopped not only at their current clubs but also out on loan. £92m for Sterling and Sancho. Once again, flawless plan.

Sancho did well for Chelsea last season. Sterling had his worst season last season. His next worst season would have seen him top all of our stats last season. Sancho is 25. The same age a 'washed up' Steven Pienaar was when we signed him....

 

[windymiller]

Yeah and the 3 or 4 before that too.

Chelsea didn't send him out on loan because he'd been tearing it up at Stamford Bridge the year before!

 

[MikeH72]

Sancho did well for Chelsea last season. Sterling had his worst season last season. His next worst season would have seen him top all of our stats last season. Sancho is 25. The same age a 'washed up' Steven Pienaar was when we signed him....

So well that they paid a fee to NOT sign him

 

[VaguelyBrown]

Not allowed this mate. Reported.

Whoops. Sorry mods