Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[hktoffee]

On largely potential. We need the finished article to walk into our starting 11 to improve our team, for that type of outlay.

£40m should be a player of finished article quality.

 

[rochdaleblue]

No risk at all and he'll be a first teamer in no time after a bedding in period which managers like to do with new signings. Ditto Barry and Aznou

Listen I’m not saying the lad isn’t talented, but it’s a risk spending 45m on a young lad from a relegated team. The pressure and expectation on him to perform here would be immense for such a young lad.

 

[hktoffee]

The Dibling fee just feels standard now for an English prospect with PL experience.

We sold Gordon for £40-45m

Gordon had far more PL exp at the time.

 

[AmericanBlue]

£40m should be a player of finished article quality.

Ever heard of inflation?

 

[Bluewolf]

Must say, if we add £60-70m to this on KDH and Dibling we are 100% having to sell Branthwaite next Summer

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Unless something mad happends like we move into a new stadium that generates aload of new income and get better sponsorship revenue

 

[hktoffee]

Ever heard of inflation?

Bakayoko (gone for €18m), Conceição (gone for €32m). I know they rejected us.

You can only find value for money from aboard. The English league market is crazy.

 

[DL100]

Gordon had far more PL exp at the time.

Gordon had 65 PL appearance for us compared to Dibling' 33.

Gordon was also 2-3 years older when we sold him

 

[DL100]

£40m should be a player of finished article quality.

Such as?

 

[RomanReigns]

tell southampton to do one

 

[jamieni]

Bakayoko (gone for €18m), Conceição (gone for €32m). I know they rejected us.

You can only find value for money from aboard. The English league market is crazy.

Is right. But we can only sign players who want to come and seems like Dibling does and we have to pay the premium.

 

[Who's_up_for_cumpkins?]

Imagine we got neither in this week...

 

[AmericanBlue]

Such as?

Jari Litmanen

 

[hktoffee]

Such as?

Bakayoko (gone for €18m), Conceição (gone for €32m). They rejected us though.

 

[Bluewolf]

From where we were 12 months ago and having to shop with Klarna, nobody can say the new owners haven’t backed the manager if these two deals get completed. Around 130m outlay can’t be criticised really for their first Summer window.

My worry would be they did this at roma and then pulled the plug for the following 2 seasons till Mourinho got sacked.

Hopefully they dont do that again here.

 

[MikeH72]

tell southampton to do one

They hold all the cards and we hold none. Seemingly we have no alternatives lined up, we are desperate and will end up paying what they want to save face. Either way this ends, we look incredibly amateurish and clearly have amateurs running the recruitment side of the club once again.