Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[D410]

Everybody has an opinion on next priority postion but if you dont have a striker threat then we will be treading water till January.

 

[MikeH72]

Find it mad people making such a defence over signing players like Soucek and Brownhill. They aren’t good enough and both would want a decent enough wage. Giving the manager options like these players isn’t a good thing and will see us stagnate and not move forward like we should be doing.

Brownhill is a free agent and Soucek would cost us about £20m, they’re not the same. We’re currently paying Seamus Coleman to do literally nothing so I do find it funny how everyone starts having kittens about wages as soon as Brownhill is mentioned, we still desperately need midfield depth which 1 win hasn’t papered over.

 

[andy5000]

This makes me sad. Beto and Barry are nowhere near enough. Maybe one of our more skillful players can play a role up front?!

As far as I remember, Dibling played up front for Saints a few times over the last couple of seasons. Very different profile to what we have there already. Considering we only play 1 striker, I think we're absolutely fine going into the season with what we have.

A first choice Right Back should be the priority, and if we can add a strong centre mid I'd be over the moon with this window.

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

Van Weijk still at Coventry ( didn't get on last night in the cup either ).
Wolfsberg deal broke down.
At circa £10 mil would be smart business. Cracking player with everything we want in a full back.

There must be a Premier League club(s) interested if:

a) Wolfsburg talks have broken down
b) He still gets benched in a tournament that doesn’t matter to foreign clubs

Hopefully we're in the mix.

 

[johnjoeefc]

I think while Barry has had a promising start and Beto is a reasonable squad player. I think we should try to sign Isak as well just to get a top goalscorer up there. Im not sure if it's within our budget but if we get creative and throw in Patterson maybe we get some £ knocked off the asking price.

 

[blulouie]

There must be a Premier League club(s) interested if:

a) Wolfsburg talks have broken down
b) He still gets benched in a tournament that doesn’t matter to foreign clubs

Hopefully we're in the mix.

Hope so mate

Seen him last season for Coventry, he was outstanding any time i saw them.

Amazed it's only £10mil in this crazy market tbh.

 

[Victus]

Would love an out of the blue big money transfer now.

 

[andy5000]

There must be a Premier League club(s) interested if:

a) Wolfsburg talks have broken down
b) He still gets benched in a tournament that doesn’t matter to foreign clubs

Hopefully we're in the mix.

Same.. this is the one I really hope we go for. Not sold on Hector Font, but this lad would be a cracking signing.

 

[Neiler]

Id pay Seamus Coleman an extra 10k a week to do less, if it meant having nobody over Josh Brownhill.

 

[Wat Tyler]

Would love an out of the blue big money transfer now.

Can we afford one after Dibling?

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Everybody has an opinion on next priority postion but if you dont have a striker threat then we will be treading water till January.

See I kinda disagree with this.

At the risk of taking our eye off the ball with our needs at DM/RB, feel like we can more than make do with the current striker situation even if Chermiti goes out on loan. Still leaves us with Beto, Barry, Ndiaye and now even Dibling who all have experience at CF. The goals can be spread.

 

[MikeH72]

Wow I’ve just seen Josh Brownhill played more football matches last season than the Claptain has in the last 3 seasons combined. Wowzers.

*claps furiously and scowls for cameras*

 

[D410]

See I kinda disagree with this.

At the risk of taking our eye off the ball with our needs at DM/RB, feel like we can more than make do with the current striker situation even if Chermiti goes out on loan. Still leaves us with Beto, Barry, Ndiaye and now even Dibling who all have experience at CF. The goals can be spread.

Fair enough but we are assuming the teams we are playing against won't recognise our weaknesses and cut supply lines. In the end you need a focal striker point with a genuine threat to allow you to spread the goals around by drawing players towards them .

I dont think many prem teams are the least bit bothered about our striking threat and Moyes knows it.

 

[Rooney_Tunes]

All good RT. I realise off the back of a good win the last thing people want to read is something that can be seen as negative, but I think we all, myself certainly included, need to stop giving the club praise when it does something that should be considered the bare minimum.

I have been guilty too many times of giving the club praise at the end of the window, because I’ve rated the business they have done whilst overlooking the business they haven’t.

Plugging all weaknesses of a squad should be the aim of any summer transfer window. In my opinion, we are yet to accomplish this, and I don’t believe the window can be spoken of positively in its entirety until we do.

Fair Point.

However, in previous windows we would be scrambling on Monday morning for a Grealish and a Dibling with the rest of the signings being average.

Instead, we have already loaned Grealish, bought KDH, Dibling, Barry and Alcaraz, and now need in my opinion two more and to make this an 8/10 window.

 

[Houghty19]

Some obsessing over the need for another striker but if you look at most successful teams goals come from all over the park. So yes while it would be nice to get a 3rd striker i want a midfield that can score goals rather than what we've had recently which is only capable of adding 10 a season.