Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[MikeH72]

Again, doesn't sound positive. Hope it doesn't impact the summer window too badly.
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Surely all that affects is what we can do before June 30th. After that is a new financial year so why wouldn’t we be able to spend then?

 

[mikel_88]

Again, doesn't sound positive. Hope it doesn't impact the summer window too badly.
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Just being realistic will be money just not able to be free flowing cash, i am sure the squad will be alot stronger by next season

 

[Dwight K Schrute]

Surely all that affects is what we can do before June 30th. After that is a new financial year so why wouldn’t we be able to spend then?

Let's hope bud. May lose the jump on a fair few targets though.

 

[maccavennie]

Let's hope bud. May lose the jump on a fair few targets though.

We don't usually sign players until about 11:30pm on transfer deadline day anyway so having to wait until after 30th June won't affect us

 

[Raino85]

Thats this season mate

Just making an example of how easy it should be to be sat in 10th in this league

Do you think magically we are going to have 10 new brilliant teams next season?

 

[Raino85]

Villa have a squad of about 24 first team players, most of whom are on high wages and quite a few are nearing the end of their careers. They are storing up psr trouble albeit they got a great fee for Dhuran which will help them. Newcastle are in a similar situation and will have to sell Gordon, Isaak or Guimares to balance the books.

I'm not advocating selling Branthwaite just saying if we don't qualify for Europe next season he'll want to leave and then we'll have to sell him because he'll be in the last 2 years of his contract and because his performance will drop if he's unhappy.

We have to be realistic about where we are now and try and move forward so we can get sustained success.

They havent had to sell any of them so far.

Both clubs have gone balls out, used there generally high status as big sleeping giants to attract a certain type of player, and kept them.

If Newcastle have to sell they will do what they have been doing and sell squad players like they did with St Maxim, Almorin, Anderson etc etc

As for the Villa players near the end of there careers??????? Such as who?
The best player in the league is a 33 year old Mo Salah
Our best player this season has been a 35 year old Idrissa Gueye

Throw in Van Dijk (33), Bruno Fernandes (30), Chris Wood (33), Dan Burn (32), Raul Jiminez (33), Thomas Soucek (30), all been excellent this season and thats just off the top of my head.
I very much doubt Villa are worried that Ollie Watkins is 29

 

[Raino85]

We were 1 point off 10th last season and then the manager spent all summer talking about relegation scraps and spent the first half of the season setting the team up for a relegation scrap.

There was no reason we couldn’t have been in that 8-12th grouping when you think about the results you just posted above.

Agreed

Obviously there will be games were we got 1 point or 3 points were we will think 'we got away with one there'.
But i look at that league this season and the first thing i see is at least 15 points should be guaranteed from that bottom 3

 

[Tony’s Carp]

Again, doesn't sound positive. Hope it doesn't impact the summer window too badly.
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There is a world of difference between hosting a podcast and being and expert in football finance. The 23/24 accounts won’t tell us much we didn’t already know- we know they have passed PSR so there is a hard limit on how bad they can be.

 

[Raino85]

Adam Wharton looked great for Palace today, as did Eze. Both signed from The Championship. Maybe we should be looking there.

We got Dixie Dean from Tranmere Rovers and that worked, could be worth seeing what centre forwards they have.

 

[Drico]

Let's hope bud. May lose the jump on a fair few targets though.

Why, though? Nothing to stop us having an agreement in place with a player or club and executing it after June 30. We're taking a few weeks delay, at worst.

 

[Dwight K Schrute]

There is a world of difference between hosting a podcast and being and expert in football finance. The 23/24 accounts won’t tell us much we didn’t already know- we know they have passed PSR so there is a hard limit on how bad they can be.

Still unlikely to be as much spending as we need if we have 3 year rolling losses of £180m - even with PSR write offs. Probably on for a tighter summer than we should have for a side that hasn't invested properly for years and has over 10 players out of contract in the summer.

 

[EFC_FRANCIS]

Sell to buy FC again.

 

[Bally1989]

Another write off season ahead then..... woooooop

 

[Tony’s Carp]

Still unlikely to be as much spending as we need if we have 3 year rolling losses of £180m - even with PSR write offs. Probably on for a tighter summer than we should have for a side that hasn't invested properly for years and has over 10 players out of contract in the summer.

I think we will spend pretty big. You can add a load of amortisation with relatively low wiggle room. And if everything else is within PSR limits adding 50m in revenue equates to a significant increase in spending power. Those 3 year rolling losses are of limited importance as two of the years (including the worst)fall off by the time the 25/26 calcs are done. By 25/26 ONLY the result announced will be on the three year calculations and those numbers are broadly fine.

 

[Lanolin]

We are 10 points off tenth.

That's a reverse of the Bournemouth 3-2 (+3 points)
Beating Southampton away (+3 points)
Beating Leicester away (+2 points)
Beating 10 man Brentford at home (+2 points)

That would of put us on the same points as mighty Bournemouth who are about to sell all there players to Real Madrid and a re a club we should look at replicating.

It's swings and roundabouts though isn't it? You can't just add on 10 points and say look it's dead easy, because there are also games we've taken more than we deserved from, or more than we expected. You can't say we should have beaten the bottom 2 and so we'll add on the points without saying we probably shouldn't have taken points off the top 2, because the logic is the same. That's before you take into account that Bournemouth no doubt think they should have beaten teams that they didn't aswell, so suddenly they're magically 10 points further away too.