Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[Drico]

I'll rephrase it then. It's not naive, he's possibly been absolutely stupid for a manger of his experience and pedigree saying what he did if it was a political ploy.

This doesn't mean I'm Moyes out btw.

I don't think he's being stupid. He's keeping the majority of fans onside (even people like me who have never been his biggest admirers) by pointing out some unpalatable home truths. He's also piling pressure on the Friedkins to get stuff done. The stadium is a positive distraction for only so long...

I thought he was in Kenwright's pocket for years. I'm not going to criticise him for putting some distance between himself and an underperforming club management now.

 

[Makis]

No

I said our squad last season would’ve finished in a European position since Moyes took over based off our points total in response to someone saying we’re in a relegation battle with this squad. This squad is better than a relegation battle.

I have also said that I think our ambition in trying to sign very good players instead of good players is worth the risk of having to sign good players at the end of the window instead of early


Where did I say I am happy with our current squad?

Maybe instead of trying to work out how I sound in my written text you should take your own advice and read what people say

So you wouldn't be happy if we end up in a European position this season? Because your first sentence seems to think squad is good enough for that or else it's a complete bogus sentence. Or a red herring, and I would want to know why you wrote it?

 

[blueboy72]

We should be all over that Hackney deal.

£20 mill total package.

Thats my only worry....we are reaching for players who will say no - so miss out on these more realistic deals.

trying to stay positive and think the club still think we have a chance on our midfield targets, whoever they are

 

[brieverton]

I have no idea what goes on behind closed doors. But it appears from the outside to very much work linearly by position. Wouldn't it make more sense to have a top 2 or 3 by role that we would be happy with and would improve us. We work across all of the tier 1 prospects by position concurrently and communicate a hard date to get them in and we are also talking to others. Then you have tier 2 if the player and the club say no. It seems like we work on a target and if they say no we seem start fresh on the next target.

I think the Tete situation kind of reinforces that impression. We were working hard on a RB clearly to be a starter and now nothing for a month until ANM.

I'm sure I am probably wrong but it sure does feel this way from the outside.

Excluding the signings made, the way I'd look at it with Moyes saying he wanted up to 10 players is to have 3 options in play for each of the other 6 transfers.

So that's 18 prospective signings in play. If rejected by each and every one of your top 6 targets, you still have 12 in play.

Getting 4 from 12 seems modest and doable even if you've had to work down the list.

The way things are developing though, they might all very well be loans. They seem stuck in a bind between needing numbers but not convinced about the players they might be able to get, so that's where the stopgap loan solution comes in.

Going into Sept 1 and needing to do that much business is very risky though and an indication of failure.

 

[MACCA75]

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@MACCA75

How many players left in the summer? Can you actually read?

 

[Miked1e]

All am saying lets see who's proven right in a months time and then you can apologise to everyone for clogging up this thread with your incredibly prosaic posts.

Is that better?

Not sure on what has to be proven..... I have never said we will or want to re-sign Jack Harrison. So unsure what point you are trying to prove.

My only comments have been, I wouldn't be surprised (based on lack of activity) or in a way I said on a post earlier.

Nor will I be apologizing to those who make personal comments / attacks on people and the likers of the posts. These just go on the ignore list and those I wouldn't ever bother with on a forum or very much outside it.

So, yes let's see in a month time but don't be waiting on a response from me! Enjoy.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

How many players left in the summer? Can you actually read?

Not a number he seems happy with regardless? Moyes sounds far more positive by comparison haha

 

[Lapeno77]

Oscar Mingueza available for 20 million Euros, contract negotiations broken down between him and his club Celta Vigo.

Been linked with Villa and West Ham previously.

An actual RB who can play CB and LB, so there are options out there.

 

[Victus]

If a poster had written what Moyes said he'd be laughed at and called a bedwetter btw

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Not sure on what has to be proven..... I have never said we will or want to re-sign Jack Harrison. So unsure what point you are trying to prove.

My only comments have been, I wouldn't be surprised (based on lack of activity) or in a way I said on a post earlier.

Nor will I be apologizing to those who make personal comments / attacks on people and the likers of the posts. These just go on the ignore list and those I wouldn't ever bother with on a forum or very much outside it.

So, yes let's see in a month time but don't be waiting on a response from me! Enjoy.

You know what to do fella

 

[Exeter_Gently]

If a poster had written what Moyes said he'd be laughed at and called a bedwetter btw

I genuinely think Moyes has wet the bed.

 

[witchdoc187]

People cry when the club aren't honest and open or just silent. Then they cry when they are honest and open. Then they cry when we don't sign players who have no interest in signing for us, then cry again when we sign players not as good as the ones we initially targeted. This site is demented during transfer windows.

 

[TheNinja]

PSR isn’t an issue. We just sold the womens team to ourselves - which we could easily have done before 30 June if we needed to

We can always sell the Goodison too. Chelsea have shown how easy it is to get around

You mentioned buying more players in January. We certainly weren't in a position to sell the women's team at that point, nor were we in a position to spend 30 or 40 million on 2 or 3 players then.

 

[Shibbywiggles]

So you wouldn't be happy if we end up in a European position this season? Because your first sentence seems to think squad is good enough for that or else it's a complete bogus sentence. Or a red herring, and I would want to know why you wrote it?

You’re funny

My first sentence says the fact that we got enough points under Moyes to have finished in a European position, we all saw those articles last season with form tables since Moyes took over and we did very well

I at no point said I was happy with this squad or that I think this squad would get into Europe

But I don’t know mate, keep jumping to conclusions and making stuff up if it makes you happy?

 

[Blueblood1965]

Where’s the Arteta money Gus?