Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.

[jwarry]

Can anybody explain how Chelsea can sign players outside the window?

[Dave]

Anyone can. They just can't register them and play them until the transfer window opens.

[Sexual Ealing]

They, like everyone else, can sign players whenever they want. They can't register them outside of a transfer window.

[Tuscans]

Can anybody explain how Chelsea can sign players outside the window?

They've agreed a deal. The player still plays for their current club until next summer or whatever date they've agreed on. They agreed a deal for Geovany Quenda 3 days for £40 million but won't join up with them until 2026.

[Footy-Vill]

As much he has petrol left in the tank, selling 30 year old Ollie for a good price and getting 25 year old Jonathan David on a free would be a super deal. 14 goals and 3 assists in Ligue 1 this season from 24 games is good going.

I’d disagree…sign David absolutely but to compete with Ollie not replace him

I’d love to have both. But in reality we will still need to address PSR/FFP play rules in the summer. Especially if we plan to sign Asensio and Rashford.

This 30 years old and not up to it is pure folly.
Watkins is still going strong as a professional athlete is no issue . He has another 7/8 years . And can still play at least 4/5 years.

Lewandowski is 36 top scorer
Mo Salah is 32 and top scorer in premier league
31 year old Harry Kane is leading scorer in Bundesliga

Look at Chris Wood 32 and has best goal scoring season

I rest my case.

[DeLaCruzing]

As much as Watkins will go down in my top 50 Villa players of all time and have so much time for him, he peaked last season in terms of goals scored and I’m going to go as far as
to say that he won’t ever score that many in the top flight again (would love to be wrong!)

Comparing him against players who have been prolific at the very top stage of the game for over 10 years is farcical and doesn’t rest any case.

[Dave]

Also, nobody is saying that he's "not up to it". Simply that if an opportunity for a longer-term striker appears, this summer or next would be the obvious time to sell when there would be good value in selling.

Andy Cole was still perfectly decent when Man Utd sold him as a 29 year old and he scored another 60 odd Premier League goals after he left. But getting £8m for him and bringing in Van Nistelrooy the same summer was clearly the right thing to do.

[London Villan]

We've seen this season the need for two strikers. I'd hope we sign Oli's replacement this summer and they can have a least a couple of seasons in the squad. Rotating, subs etc,

By the end of this season we'll have played between 55 and 65 games - that's more than enough to keep two strikers happy.

[DeLaCruzing]

Also, nobody is saying that he's "not up to it". Simply that if an opportunity for a longer-term striker appears, this summer or next would be the obvious time to sell when there would be good value in selling.

Andy Cole was still perfectly decent when Man Utd sold him as a 29 year old and he scored another 60 odd Premier League goals after he left. But getting £8m for him and bringing in Van Nistelrooy the same summer was clearly the right thing to do.

Spot on.

He would be an excellent squad player next season assuming he would accept we need an upgrade and be that ‘squad’ player.

If not, I would snap someone’s hand off for 30m.

[Dave]

Well I think that would be selling him a bit too short. Solanke went for nearly £60m, is clearly not as good and isn't that much younger.

Somewhere around the £50m that Arsenal were supposedly prepared to pay in January is, I imagine, where we'd start to entertain interest.

[Dante Lavelli]

The Turkish wonderkid we were once linked with apparently wants out of Real Madrid. Could be a good loan option for next year.

[oldhill_avfc]

I reckon we sell him far cheaper than he's worth like we did Luiz, because of the Status Quo Preservation rules.

This is what I think, and I think people are going to be obviously disappointed with the price.

We’d need to spend £40m plus to replace him so I struggle to see the point when we know he’s good enough. Jonathan David, on a free, could be the wild card that unlocks everything.

Ollie is certainly good enough, but the business model is totally reliant on selling players - FFP dictates this.

The days of keeping hold of 30yo players who have a net book value of zero are gone for the foreseeable future.

[Footy-Vill]

News now reporting (which is laughable in itself) that due to the improvement and call up of Rashford the redfilth want to change the agreed transfer fee we apparently have with them as part of the loan.

I bet they do.

I bet they want all their players to come here on some sort of training camp where they can be coached by Professor Emery to improve them.

Wankers

Newsnow doesn't report anything, it is a News aggregator service.

The article in question is from SportsMole via Football Insider.

I agree with your sentiment, though.

BBC football rarely break any big transfer news that hasn’t already been heard their BBC gossip is just a gathering of rumour from other sources.
Or just taken from back pages of newspapers.

[AV84]

Aston Villa might sell Argentine midfielder Enzo Barrenechea, 23, to Valencia in the summer following a successful loan spell with the Spanish club. (Athletic - subscription required)

[Footy-Vill]

Aston Villa might sell Argentine midfielder Enzo Barrenechea, 23, to Valencia in the summer following a successful loan spell with the Spanish club. (Athletic - subscription required)

Makes sense.
I always felt this guy and even more than Junior were just sweeteners for Douglas Luiz transfer .

Barrenechea would just be saleable asset because McKennie was first choice and would have been in the first team squad

Selling
El Baron would be say £30m
And with Junior £20m
Barry £20m
Buendia £30m
that’s £100m of player sales and would think that be a target.