Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[Bluepablo]

I’m not convinced he’s out of contract next year. I had a look for his contract details online and some sites were suggesting he agreed a new contract to come into place on whatever birthday it was that allowed him to sign for more than 3 years. Some sites have 2026 and others 2027 for his contract end date.

Got to agree though. £25-30m does seem on the steep side

Palace allegedly had a £15m bid turned down in January.

From BBC Gossip Published 8 January 2025

Crystal Palace and Ipswich are set to make improved bids worth £20m for Liverpool's 19-year-old Scotland midfielder Ben Doak, who is on loan at Middlesbrough. (Guardian, external)

 

[Aries]

Let’s just hope that it’s a sign we’re finally actively pursuing this mythical right winger that doesn’t seem to exist!

 

[Mr Happy]

It’s half term this week too mate so probably won’t hear until next Monday now

And it's June next week too so maybe a few weeks after that.

 

[MikeH72]

And it's June next week too so maybe a few weeks after that.

Yep. Everyone off on holiday now, which is a month minimum. Looking like late June at the earliest

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

It’s half term this week too mate so probably won’t hear until next Monday now

We've got more chance of hearing news, actually. Think of all the kids on their ITK accounts

 

[jceverton]

the guy was hamstrung, we needed near every position apart from GK improving and had to minimise spend and sell our best asset each season

Plus he was working with Dyche and they clearly didn’t see eye to eye on recruitment!

 

[Vaughan]

Where did you see this?

All I've found online is that he signed a "long term deal" in 2023

read you can only sign max 3 year deals below a certain age, which he was

 

[Vaughan]

what are the factors that are influencing everyone saying liverpool always overcharge for their players? cos they sold coutinho for mad money 7 years ago?

 

[Rita_Poon]

How the actual f would we pronounce his name?

Moo Cow?

 

[CielosGrises]

He left us without a striker to start a season with and didn't resolve the right hand side issues in the team over three years.

We still need starting RB, RW & ST to this day , never mind a back up for two of these positions.

The decision was correct.

This may be missing some context.

As an understatement.

I hope the Friedkins had a better reason to let him go.

 

[lieneverton]

Yep. Everyone off on holiday now, which is a month minimum. Looking like late June at the earliest

Why bother sorting stuff out at the end of the month either - may as well wait until the new month so July it is.

 

[buskwhi2]

what are the factors that are influencing everyone saying liverpool always overcharge for their players? cos they sold coutinho for mad money 7 years ago?

Because a lot of their fringe players tend to go for fairly high fees based on what they’ve achieved/shown at that stage

 

[Makis]

Mostly about not signing Doak, who's mostly unproven at top level but the elephant in the room is where we get him from. I get that's quite petty but rivalries are rivalries. I hate Nick Barmby still for a mostly irrational reason. But you're right, it's data driven as an industry these days, football no longer what it was where rivalries and loyalty meant more. Silly season is here - long may it last!!

So signing Sheedy or Beardsley were mistakes? Watson also had a strong RS background.

You speak of the past, but we made much more deals in the past. Johnny Morrissey, Dave Hickson when he came for a second stint, Gary Ablett, David Johnson, Alan Harper. Xavier is the last one to move, 23 years ago.

 

[NeilMorepies]

read you can only sign max 3 year deals below a certain age, which he was

Was that not only a recent change to stop (mainly) Chelsea buying up youngsters on 7-8 year contracts, both spreading the cost and bringing in huge incomes when continually loaning out so they paid for themselves. They would then eventually sell the ones deemed not good enough for their first team at a big profit.

The EPL also limited the number of players you can loan out to stop this sort of stockpiling as well.

Not sure when those regulations came it.

 

[Rooney_Tunes]

So today is the day we will know which players are leaving?

This is what he said in the Presser on Friday, yes?