Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[bluestevon]

@Joey66 mate, one of my students suffers badly from gout himself. He's around 67-68 just had a hip replacement op too, I'll hit him up for anything he can recommend that may help out - he's a bit of a nut in terms of research into helping his condition out.

 

[bluestevon]

Paqueta has a lot of talent but he drifts in and out of games far too often for me.

Yeah on form he was brilliant, but does have games were he seems to just not fancy it.

Given a squid game choice of Soucek or Paqueta though, I'd not even have to think about which.

As @Nymzee said though, personally I'd rather neither and we addressed what we actually need to improve the starting 11

 

[Nippydan]

suffering with Gout sorry to anyone offended by my views on Soucek

I suffer with gout. I have found that I need to force myself to drink a lot of water and I am absolutely fine. If I don't drink enough for a day or two then I get that feeling where it feels like I might have just gone over on my ankle and that is my warning sign I'm about to have an attack. If I ignore it I can't put any weight on my foot the next morning but if I pop two colchicine I've been prescribed then it often fights it off. If I don't get any warning signals then I have 2 colchicine in the morning after an attack and then a tablet every few hours, that seems to stave it off so I get through the day but you have to be careful as colchicine can badly upset your stomach. Horrible, horrible thing gout and I don't drink red wine, eat cheese or eat a lot of red meat so makes a mockery of the traditional views as to what causes it.

I have wasted money on cherry capsules, they did not seem to have any affects on me.

 

[jazzy]

Things are so bad that I find the discussion on gout more interesting ( and sadly potentially more relevant to me ) than the discussion on Soucek

 

[Nymzee]

Don't think dibling will start immediately and paqueta would be a huge upgrade as an attacking option.

Shocked that people are turning their noses up at him

We have Grealish, Ndiaye, Charly, Dibling & McNeil in the attacking positions. We have no right-back. It’s not that people are turning their nose up to Paqueta it’s just not what we need with 3 days to go.

 

[formerly manx toffee]

Tbh it’s the people talking about maybe getting into Europe that have the expectations that are too high.

At this stage of the season we should be optimistic

 

[Zatara]

Then we’re not agreed? I don’t want either of them.

Notice the full stop after the word 'agreed'?

I agree that neither player look like they are necessary.

However, (note the new sentence) with Paqueta he's so good that a place would be found for him.

You mean like he’s driven West Ham up the league?

Imagine where they would have been last few seasons without him.

Paqueta has a lot of talent but he drifts in and out of games far too often for me.

He's known for his pressing, not only his on the ball play.

 

[dutchblue54]

My slightly underwhelming prediction on the end of the window: no RB/Patto staying. Soucek in Armstrong out on loan. Chermiti to Rangers, no striker in N Diaye to be used centrally in occassions

 

[bluesb1970]

Things are so bad that I find the discussion on gout more interesting ( and sadly potentially more relevant to me ) than the discussion on Soucek

I thought it was a metaphor for Soucek!

 

[jazzy]

Come on Angus , 3 days to go and 3 players needed, ain't that difficult surely ;
AMN or Celik on loan.
A big grock to sit in front of the defence on a permanent
Gary Lineker up top.

Chop chop Angus

 

[bluestevon]

We have Grealish, Ndiaye, Charly, Dibling & McNeil in the attacking positions. We have no right-back. It’s not that people are turning their nose up to Paqueta it’s just not what we need with 3 days to go.

Yeah Paqueta is the type of player you either build an attack around if weak in attacking areas or you add as an option into a CL type squad.

Very odd to add him to us as we'd be approaching CL/EL levels of depth in that position and bare arsed at RB and centre mid.

 

[jazzy]

I thought it was a metaphor for Soucek!

To be fair the GOT swear filter would catch me every time on the Wham boy so I just refer to him as Ciro ( as in the Bologna striker )

 

[Nymzee]

Notice the full stop after the word 'agreed'?

It wasn’t the full stop after agreed. It was this sentence:

He's such a good player you'd fit him in somewhere.

Which suggests you want him.

 

[Igrok]

Say no to any ham or manu rejects…

 

[Who's_up_for_cumpkins?]

Think we'll deffo get a couple more in. Whether they're permanent transfers I'm not convinced.

We've loads of loans to play with so it'D be irresponsible not to use some of them.

I also think we all need to exercise a bit of caution. We are not going to get the perfect squad in one window

So some of the players that come in might not be the glamorous ones were expecting, they could well be bodies to cover things like right back and DM. Key thing to remember is they're loans not permanent and we can maybe get more permanent additions in January or next summer