Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

Runub said:
We really must stop taking on players approaching the end of their careers who can probably do a job between injuries, have no improvement in them and little to no sell on value. It’s just money down the drain
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Yes my exact thoughts as well hopefully we have these people in place now to sign younger players before other teams with improvement in them and sell on
 

chippy1722 said:
Traitor is a donkey, he’s Theo Walcott on Steds. I would have Harrison over him every day of the week.
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He has been good this season, and runs at players with pace....we just dont have anyone that does this.

On a free, would be a decent option.

If we have som many positions and players to bring in, we need tofind value in the free market.

Harrions I would also take, if he was free I suppose.. But we have seen how just offers nothing.
 
MikeH72 said:
In terms of points and proximity to the bottom of the table, you could make the case that we were fractionally better off, by virtue of 2 points. But when you deep it, he picked us up in the thick of a relegation battle in January and left us in the thick of a relegation battle in January.
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We were as good as down when Dyche replaced Lampard. We were never going down this year, just would have taken Dyche longer than Moyes to get the required pints.
 


Aries said:
Some are just making excuses here “you need a balance between old and young players” and “Soucek is still good for a couple of years he’s only 30”

We already have experience and plenty of it, the oldest squad in the league is it? Whether you’re choosing to bury your head in the sand because you’re blindly backing Moyes or whatever other reason, there is simply no world where Soucek or Stones would be sensible signings. They’re going to demand big wages and those high wages for players who are on the decline has been what has caused us so many problems with PSR and financially in general, in the past.

Any significant wage we pay should go towards upgrading the contracts of the younger players in our squad who are important, namely Branthwaite. Younger players with big potential is the sensible business policy and far more sustainable when it comes to recruitment. They don’t demand instant high wages, and have resale value so give you monetary assets that give you the option to sell at a later date for a profit (if the talent spotters have done their job) to then reinvest. Soucek on 100k+ on a four year deal would NOT be a good signing and neither would an injury plagued 30 year old John Stones who would demand to be our highest earner.

Hopefully these links are utter nonsense.
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Most of the older players will probably be gone in the next few weeks. The squad may be old but generally the team hasn't been.
Branthwaite, O Brien, Garner, Mykolenko, McNeill, Ndiaye, Alcaraz and Beto would all still be considered young.
It is likely that Young, Coleman , Keane, Doucoure and possibly even Gana could leave and that would change the age profile hugely.

In any event I expect we will see a mixture of experience and youth arrive.
I can see some free transfers and more loan deals together with money spent on a few.
I think anyone expecting a raft of exciting young new signings will be disappointed.

The improvement in age and quality of the squad will be incremental, possibly three or even four year.

The only caveat is that we sell Branthwaite and that would remove PSR worries and also inject cash into the kitty but at a loss of one of best young talents.
 

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