Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[NeilMorepies]

Would much prefer McAtee to Grealish. We’d actually stand a chance of getting him as well due to City wanting some PSR profit in the bank for one of their “big” purchases.

(Not that PSR has ever been a consideration for them due to their legal team)

 

[GoldenToffee]

Would much prefer McAtee to Grealish. We’d actually stand a chance of getting him as well due to City wanting some PSR profit in the bank for one of their “big” purchases.

(Not that PSR has ever been a consideration for them due to their legal team)

We'd probably end up with controversial anti-virus guru John McAfee knowing us.

 

[Makis]

Grealish usually plays on the left, doesn't he? That's the one position we are not exactly short of players.

We'd probably end up with controversial anti-virus guru John McAfee knowing us.

You need a spade for that.

 

[peterw]

I’ve heard a rumbling that Leeds, Burnley and West Ham are in for a loan for Jacob Ramsey. Villa are financially screwed and are hawking about some of their dross, Leon Bailey is another who they would accept any pound sterling offer for. Tyrone Mings can also leave but no non league side can afford his wages anymore

We aren't financially screwed at all. Yes there has to be some sales but that was going to happen anyway due to UEFAs rule about 70% of wages to turnover to play in their competitions. Our wage bill is astronomically high - 91% to turnover - which clearly is unsustainable for a club without CL football. If Ramsey goes it won't be on loan and certainly wouldn't be to clubs that have just come up.

The players we are looking to move on will be the highest earners. There are others that have naturally come to the end of their shelf life at Villa. As for Tyrone Mings, its quite remarkable that only those that watch him play every week actually appreciate him. He should be going nowhere. He played through his most recent knee injury and was still our best defender and we stopped conceding goals. Great pro, great player, and hopefully he beats his injury and stays with us for many more years to come.

 

[Mr Happy]

He said he was a Villa fan

Oh.

 

[toffeeblue9]

Not defending Grealish here, but how much of this has been drilled into him by Pep? Pep has been bloody successful, but his football in general is boring to watch imo.

Saw an interview with Grealish the other year where he basically said exactly this - Pep doesn't like his players to lose the ball, so a lot of the risk is removed from their game. Ergo Grealish doesn't try and do stuff he would have done a few years ago.

Could that be coached out of him at 29? Dunno

 

[hoppy]

Thought our wage bill had come down

Other news
Charlie Adam ‘interested’ in becoming manager at Dundee
Adam had a successful career in the Premier League before he eventually moved to Scotland in 2020.

 

[Bob Elstone]

We aren't financially screwed at all. Yes there has to be some sales but that was going to happen anyway due to UEFAs rule about 70% of wages to turnover to play in their competitions. Our wage bill is astronomically high - 91% to turnover - which clearly is unsustainable for a club without CL football. If Ramsey goes it won't be on loan and certainly wouldn't be to clubs that have just come up.

The players we are looking to move on will be the highest earners. There are others that have naturally come to the end of their shelf life at Villa. As for Tyrone Mings, its quite remarkable that only those that watch him play every week actually appreciate him. He should be going nowhere. He played through his most recent knee injury and was still our best defender and we stopped conceding goals. Great pro, great player, and hopefully he beats his injury and stays with us for many more years to come.

Mings is a yard dog and a shocking player. Consistently has a game changing error in him. Shocking, absolute pony.

 

[Clarky cat]

We aren't financially screwed at all. Yes there has to be some sales but that was going to happen anyway due to UEFAs rule about 70% of wages to turnover to play in their competitions. Our wage bill is astronomically high - 91% to turnover - which clearly is unsustainable for a club without CL football. If Ramsey goes it won't be on loan and certainly wouldn't be to clubs that have just come up.

The players we are looking to move on will be the highest earners. There are others that have naturally come to the end of their shelf life at Villa. As for Tyrone Mings, it’s quite remarkable that only those that watch him play every week actually appreciate him. He should be going nowhere. He played through his most recent knee injury and was still our best defender and we stopped conceding goals. Great pro, great player, and hopefully he beats his injury and stays with us for many more years to come.

 

[toffeeblue9]

As I said, there's no "finding form" in this case. He already found it and has been one of the best players in La Liga since moving there in January.

Maybe we shouldn't have signed Ndiaye either, he was actually in poor form in France before moving to us?

MSN

And since I know people don't even bother clicking links when they have decided what they think of something (e.g Antony is crap even if he wins Ballon d'Or next season):


I won't copy the stuff about his off-field issues but he did score 8 goals for ManU in his first season with three assists.

Yeah, we'd never have signed Ndiaye if you based signing a player off a poor season

Similarly, two of Moyes's best signings for Everton in his first spell, Arteta and Pienaar came here off the back of poor form at the clubs they were at (Sociedad and Dortmund respectively I think)

I'm not specifically advocating Antony (he'll end up in Spain), but the really shrewd deals out there are talented players who've had a bad move or don't suit a manager - Europe is littered with players who've been previously highly rated at some point but have made a bad career choice

 

[Toffeepot]

We aren't financially screwed at all. Yes there has to be some sales but that was going to happen anyway due to UEFAs rule about 70% of wages to turnover to play in their competitions. Our wage bill is astronomically high - 91% to turnover - which clearly is unsustainable for a club without CL football. If Ramsey goes it won't be on loan and certainly wouldn't be to clubs that have just come up.

The players we are looking to move on will be the highest earners. There are others that have naturally come to the end of their shelf life at Villa. As for Tyrone Mings, its quite remarkable that only those that watch him play every week actually appreciate him. He should be going nowhere. He played through his most recent knee injury and was still our best defender and we stopped conceding goals. Great pro, great player, and hopefully he beats his injury and stays with us for many more years to come.

No thanks

 

[Tel001]

We'd probably end up with controversial anti-virus guru John McAfee knowing us.

Apparently the anti virus on Moyes laptop slows his computer down so much and this is why his transfers take so long

 

[Bkk Andy]

Leave Utd with their financial mistakes - don't bring them here.

At the moment they maybe a bit financially hamstrung - gives us one less competitor in the market.

They're about to spend >£60m on Cunha. I'm not convinced they can't spend despite their publicised financial woes

 

[Yarrgh]

When does the transfer window slam shut? Has it actually even opened up yet?

 

[Makis]

I'm not specifically advocating Antony (he'll end up in Spain), but the really shrewd deals out there are talented players who've had a bad move or don't suit a manager - Europe is littered with players who've been previously highly rated at some point but have made a bad career choice

Me neither, but there's a clearly a good player there. He was so good at Ajax that ManU forked 100 million for him and as I stated twice sensational since January in Spain.

Any dork can spot a player who has been constantly great for several years. But those guys cost a lot and have lots of suitors. People here seriously think players who can take their pick of CL clubs would come to Everton and play for less money than some of those clubs can afford.