Summer Transfer Window (2024/25)

[Jas10]

Just now, burchy said:

Guido Rodriquez and Hermoso please. I’d also check out Martin Terrier at Rennes. He’s recovered from his ACL and is now bad in the team and scoring. He had 21 goals or something form LW/IF the season before his injury. 

Remove the high earners who aren’t key players and bring in some savvy free transfers to lift the quality and provide more worthwhile options… I think that would be wise. Easier said than done though

No injury prone players either… I’m fed up and pissed off with all the injuries we’ve had so far. We need some stability and consistency to keep progressing…

[thabucks]

Whatever is saved in fees for so called frees goes on wages so not so savvy and also cannot be amortised. Our wage bill is spiralling and needs to be controlled 

[bobzy]

2 hours ago, Herman22 said:

Another example today that we need to buy an aerially dominant centre back in the summer. 

Teams can see we can’t handle balls into the box and Emi can only do so much. Maybe Ty coming back will fix this problem but we look suspect every time we play a team that can deliver the ball well from set pieces. 

 

2 hours ago, calcifer said:

Ty will fill that void, but we defo need back up for rotation. 

Nearly every set piece into the box looks like it could end up in a goal. It's awful to watch! 

I doubt Mings will get that many minutes for us anymore - let alone be a first choice player.

The thing is, you can’t be excellent at everything. Konsa and Torres as a centre back partnership seem very good at almost everything, bar dominating/heading - and that’s where Martinez comes in to try and claim crosses.

We’re aiming to be (and basically are) a possession based side; those physical strengths are likely going to be a weakness for a while as they aren’t as important for how we play. 

[villa89]

15 minutes ago, thabucks said:

Whatever is saved in fees for so called frees goes on wages so not so savvy and also cannot be amortised. Our wage bill is spiralling and needs to be controlled 

Not necessarily. We saved a lot of money getting Kamara in on a free for example. Same for Tielemens. Any agents fees or signing on bonus would be much less that the expected transfer fee in both cases. 

[burchy]

52 minutes ago, Jas10 said:

Remove the high earners who aren’t key players and bring in some savvy free transfers to lift the quality and provide more worthwhile options… I think that would be wise. Easier said than done though

No injury prone players either… I’m fed up and pissed off with all the injuries we’ve had so far. We need some stability and consistency to keep progressing…

How about Florian Wirtz, just recovered from an ACL, don’t want him though due to him being injury prone?

An ACL is a major injury but it doesn’t mean the player is then a dud to be avoided.

If we do our due diligence there are players out there that could improve us, whether they’re coming back off a serious injury and not.

[Marka Ragnos]

2 hours ago, Jas10 said:

Remove the high earners who aren’t key players and bring in some savvy free transfers to lift the quality and provide more worthwhile options… I think that would be wise. Easier said than done though

UPDATE: PLEASE DISREGARD -- FOR THE MOST PART -- THIS BAD DATA BELOW. MY APOLOGIES. I looked too quickly. I was wondering about the Joe Gauci one. It shocked me.

But who do you mean? Lenglet? If you look at the low end of our salary table, you see lesser quality, apart from Konsa, who seems ridiculously underpaid. Lenglet seemed overpaid. On some days , Youri also. Diaby is hugely important, IMO. So I don't know where the fat is.

Boubacar Kamara	M	0		£7,800,000	£150,000
Clément Lenglet	D	27		£7,800,000	£150,000
Youri Tielemans	M	25		£7,800,000	£150,000
Moussa Diaby	F	23		£6,760,000	£130,000
Ollie Watkins	F	27		£6,760,000	£130,000
Lucas Digne	D	29		£6,240,000	£120,000
Emiliano Martinez	GK	30		£6,240,000	£120,000
John McGinn	M	28		£6,240,000	£120,000
Leon Bailey	F	25		£5,200,000	£100,000
Diego Carlos	D	30		£5,200,000	£100,000
Joe Gauci	GK	22		£5,200,000	£100,000
Tyrone Mings	D	30		£5,200,000	£100,000
Pau Torres	D	26		£5,200,000	£100,000
Matty Cash	D	25		£4,160,000	£80,000
Emiliano Buendía	F	26		£3,900,000	£75,000
Douglas Luiz	M	24		£3,900,000	£75,000
Jacob Ramsey	M	21		£3,640,000	£70,000
Nicolò Zaniolo	M	23		£3,120,000	£60,000
Calum Chambers	D	28		£2,600,000	£50,000
Robin Olsen	GK	33		£2,600,000	£50,000
Álex Moreno	D	29		£1,820,000	£35,000
Jhon Durán	F	0		£1,560,000	£30,000
Ezri Konsa	D	25		£1,560,000	£30,000
Morgan Rogers	F	20		£1,040,000	£20,000
Kortney Hause	D	27		£420,000	£8,077
Tim Iroegbunam	M	19		£210,000	£4,038

Edited March 17 by Marka Ragnos

[villaglint]

2 minutes ago, Marka Ragnos said:

But who do you mean? Lenglet? If you look at the low end of our salary table, you see lesser quality, apart from Konsa, who seems ridiculously underpaid. Lenglet seemed overpaid. On some days , Youri also. Diaby is hugely important, IMO. So I don't know where the fat is.

Boubacar Kamara	M	0		£7,800,000	£150,000
Clément Lenglet	D	27		£7,800,000	£150,000
Youri Tielemans	M	25		£7,800,000	£150,000
Moussa Diaby	F	23		£6,760,000	£130,000
Ollie Watkins	F	27		£6,760,000	£130,000
Lucas Digne	D	29		£6,240,000	£120,000
Emiliano Martinez	GK	30		£6,240,000	£120,000
John McGinn	M	28		£6,240,000	£120,000
Leon Bailey	F	25		£5,200,000	£100,000
Diego Carlos	D	30		£5,200,000	£100,000
Joe Gauci	GK	22		£5,200,000	£100,000
Tyrone Mings	D	30		£5,200,000	£100,000
Pau Torres	D	26		£5,200,000	£100,000
Matty Cash	D	25		£4,160,000	£80,000
Emiliano Buendía	F	26		£3,900,000	£75,000
Douglas Luiz	M	24		£3,900,000	£75,000
Jacob Ramsey	M	21		£3,640,000	£70,000
Nicolò Zaniolo	M	23		£3,120,000	£60,000
Calum Chambers	D	28		£2,600,000	£50,000
Robin Olsen	GK	33		£2,600,000	£50,000
Álex Moreno	D	29		£1,820,000	£35,000
Jhon Durán	F	0		£1,560,000	£30,000
Ezri Konsa	D	25		£1,560,000	£30,000
Morgan Rogers	F	20		£1,040,000	£20,000
Kortney Hause	D	27		£420,000	£8,077
Tim Iroegbunam	M	19		£210,000	£4,038

Joe Gauci cannot be on £100k a week. 

[penguin]

7 minutes ago, villaglint said:

Joe Gauci cannot be on £100k a week. 

Added one 0 too many I think.

[GingerCollins29]

13 minutes ago, villaglint said:

Joe Gauci cannot be on £100k a week. 

Stick him in the double pivot and make him earn his money, the new Digne! 

[GingerCollins29]

16 minutes ago, Marka Ragnos said:

But who do you mean? Lenglet? If you look at the low end of our salary table, you see lesser quality, apart from Konsa, who seems ridiculously underpaid. Lenglet seemed overpaid. On some days , Youri also. Diaby is hugely important, IMO. So I don't know where the fat is.

Boubacar Kamara	M	0		£7,800,000	£150,000
Clément Lenglet	D	27		£7,800,000	£150,000
Youri Tielemans	M	25		£7,800,000	£150,000
Moussa Diaby	F	23		£6,760,000	£130,000
Ollie Watkins	F	27		£6,760,000	£130,000
Lucas Digne	D	29		£6,240,000	£120,000
Emiliano Martinez	GK	30		£6,240,000	£120,000
John McGinn	M	28		£6,240,000	£120,000
Leon Bailey	F	25		£5,200,000	£100,000
Diego Carlos	D	30		£5,200,000	£100,000
Joe Gauci	GK	22		£5,200,000	£100,000
Tyrone Mings	D	30		£5,200,000	£100,000
Pau Torres	D	26		£5,200,000	£100,000
Matty Cash	D	25		£4,160,000	£80,000
Emiliano Buendía	F	26		£3,900,000	£75,000
Douglas Luiz	M	24		£3,900,000	£75,000
Jacob Ramsey	M	21		£3,640,000	£70,000
Nicolò Zaniolo	M	23		£3,120,000	£60,000
Calum Chambers	D	28		£2,600,000	£50,000
Robin Olsen	GK	33		£2,600,000	£50,000
Álex Moreno	D	29		£1,820,000	£35,000
Jhon Durán	F	0		£1,560,000	£30,000
Ezri Konsa	D	25		£1,560,000	£30,000
Morgan Rogers	F	20		£1,040,000	£20,000
Kortney Hause	D	27		£420,000	£8,077
Tim Iroegbunam	M	19		£210,000	£4,038

You missed two zeros from the end of Digne's weekly wage

[VillaChris]

Hermoso is a realistic signing I think. Was going to watch him tonight but he's not involved. Played for them in the CL match v Inter as LCB in a back 3 so that signing feels right up our street as he can cover a few positions in the backline.

[Jas10]

1 hour ago, burchy said:

How about Florian Wirtz, just recovered from an ACL, don’t want him though due to him being injury prone?

An ACL is a major injury but it doesn’t mean the player is then a dud to be avoided.

If we do our due diligence there are players out there that could improve us, whether they’re coming back off a serious injury and not.

I didn’t even mention ACL

My dream/fantasy signing has been Chiesa… I don’t write players off if they’ve been injured at some point. I’m massively looking forward to having Mings and Buendia back… and also Kamara (what a blow that was)…

Just try to avoid signing players who are regularly injured, pick up knocks or tend to have long lay offs… those who struggle to keep up a sustained run of games…  I don’t think there’s anything wrong, unfair or extreme about that view…

Maybe an example and a player who has previously been linked or discussed is Dybala… it makes even less sense to hand big, long contracts to ageing players too - as we’ve seen, we struggle to shift them later…

It wasn’t a strong point or extreme view… I’m just fed up and annoyed by the rotten luck we have had with injuries and would prefer to avoid such or as bad situations in future… but, a lot of these things are out of anyone’s control.

[Jas10]

1 hour ago, Marka Ragnos said:

But who do you mean? Lenglet? If you look at the low end of our salary table, you see lesser quality, apart from Konsa, who seems ridiculously underpaid. Lenglet seemed overpaid. On some days , Youri also. Diaby is hugely important, IMO. So I don't know where the fat is.

Boubacar Kamara	M	0		£7,800,000	£150,000
Clément Lenglet	D	27		£7,800,000	£150,000
Youri Tielemans	M	25		£7,800,000	£150,000
Moussa Diaby	F	23		£6,760,000	£130,000
Ollie Watkins	F	27		£6,760,000	£130,000
Lucas Digne	D	29		£6,240,000	£120,000
Emiliano Martinez	GK	30		£6,240,000	£120,000
John McGinn	M	28		£6,240,000	£120,000
Leon Bailey	F	25		£5,200,000	£100,000
Diego Carlos	D	30		£5,200,000	£100,000
Joe Gauci	GK	22		£5,200,000	£100,000
Tyrone Mings	D	30		£5,200,000	£100,000
Pau Torres	D	26		£5,200,000	£100,000
Matty Cash	D	25		£4,160,000	£80,000
Emiliano Buendía	F	26		£3,900,000	£75,000
Douglas Luiz	M	24		£3,900,000	£75,000
Jacob Ramsey	M	21		£3,640,000	£70,000
Nicolò Zaniolo	M	23		£3,120,000	£60,000
Calum Chambers	D	28		£2,600,000	£50,000
Robin Olsen	GK	33		£2,600,000	£50,000
Álex Moreno	D	29		£1,820,000	£35,000
Jhon Durán	F	0		£1,560,000	£30,000
Ezri Konsa	D	25		£1,560,000	£30,000
Morgan Rogers	F	20		£1,040,000	£20,000
Kortney Hause	D	27		£420,000	£8,077
Tim Iroegbunam	M	19		£210,000	£4,038

I don’t think that’s accurate or up to date:

Gauci on 100k?!  

not sure McGinn is being paid that much and

Ezri did get a new contract and pay rise a while ago (absolutely no way he’s only getting 30k).

Many of these sites don’t have the accurate figures… look on another one and they will be different.

Hause was given a new contract when Dean was here and is definitely being paid more than 8k.

Anyway, you’re forgetting the players out on loan

We HAVE to shift Coutinho and, yes, Digne… club was stupid to hand such big contracts to older players… we need to learn from mistakes of the past and realise how difficult it is to shift them later when they turn out crap or are past it… it’s not a sensible or sustainable approach.

Chambers, Dendoncker and Sanson must and will hopefully all leave… Olsen 

Cash is a debatable one, depends on a decent offer and an upgrade being brought in. He would remain a good member of the squad regardless. Same goes for Carlos too (injury troubles, big contract).

If, somehow, a decent offer came in for Tielemans… personally, I would sell. Great chance to make a profit on a replacable and upgradable player. But happy to have him remain and improve under Unai too…

Lenglet and Zaniolo will return to their clubs…

We’ll probably have to shift Archer again once he returns…

Probably forgetting some off the top of my head…

 

We have to exploit any opportunity to upgrade and improve… might be a case of having to balance the books too… it’s going to be a very busy summer…

 

Edited March 17 by Jas10

[burchy]

5 minutes ago, Jas10 said:

I didn’t even mention ACL

My dream/fantasy signing has been Chiesa… I don’t write players off if they’ve been injured at some point. I’m massively looking forward to having Mings and Buendia back… and also Kamara (what a blow that was)…

Just try to avoid signing players who are regularly injured, pick up knocks or tend to have long lay offs… those who struggle to keep up a sustained run of games…  I don’t think there’s anything wrong, unfair or extreme about that view…

Maybe an example and a player who has previously been linked or discussed is Dybala… it makes even less sense to hand big, long contracts to ageing players too - as we’ve seen, we struggle to shift them later…

It wasn’t a strong point or extreme view… I’m just fed up and annoyed by the rotten luck we have had with injuries and would prefer to avoid such or as bad situations in future… but, a lot of these things are out of anyone’s control.

No worries mate, hear you about the injuries we’ve had this season, Kamara especially.

G. Rodriquez is just a player that I think fits us as a DM, he knows the two Emi’s and he’d fit right into position as he plays there for both Argentina (35 caps) and Real Betis. He’s on a free so it would be silly not to at least speak to him. He knows Acuna too, who we were linked to previously. He’s only on about 27k too.

Hermoso is on about 136k though

[Newry_Villan]

1 hour ago, Marka Ragnos said:

But who do you mean? Lenglet? If you look at the low end of our salary table, you see lesser quality, apart from Konsa, who seems ridiculously underpaid. Lenglet seemed overpaid. On some days , Youri also. Diaby is hugely important, IMO. So I don't know where the fat is.

Boubacar Kamara	M	0		£7,800,000	£150,000
Clément Lenglet	D	27		£7,800,000	£150,000
Youri Tielemans	M	25		£7,800,000	£150,000
Moussa Diaby	F	23		£6,760,000	£130,000
Ollie Watkins	F	27		£6,760,000	£130,000
Lucas Digne	D	29		£6,240,000	£120,000
Emiliano Martinez	GK	30		£6,240,000	£120,000
John McGinn	M	28		£6,240,000	£120,000
Leon Bailey	F	25		£5,200,000	£100,000
Diego Carlos	D	30		£5,200,000	£100,000
Joe Gauci	GK	22		£5,200,000	£100,000
Tyrone Mings	D	30		£5,200,000	£100,000
Pau Torres	D	26		£5,200,000	£100,000
Matty Cash	D	25		£4,160,000	£80,000
Emiliano Buendía	F	26		£3,900,000	£75,000
Douglas Luiz	M	24		£3,900,000	£75,000
Jacob Ramsey	M	21		£3,640,000	£70,000
Nicolò Zaniolo	M	23		£3,120,000	£60,000
Calum Chambers	D	28		£2,600,000	£50,000
Robin Olsen	GK	33		£2,600,000	£50,000
Álex Moreno	D	29		£1,820,000	£35,000
Jhon Durán	F	0		£1,560,000	£30,000
Ezri Konsa	D	25		£1,560,000	£30,000
Morgan Rogers	F	20		£1,040,000	£20,000
Kortney Hause	D	27		£420,000	£8,077
Tim Iroegbunam	M	19		£210,000	£4,038

Why I think this is complete fiction is because there is no way we signed Joe Gauci from the Australian A League as back up keeper and put him on 100k a week.

Edited March 17 by Newry_Villan

[Jas10]

1 minute ago, burchy said:

No worries mate, hear you about the injuries we’ve had this season, Kamara especially.

G. Rodriquez is just a player that I think fits us as a DM, he knows the two Emi’s and he’d fit right into position as he plays there for both Argentina (35 caps) and Real Betis. He’s on a free so it would be silly not to at least speak to him. He knows Acuna too, who we were linked to previously. He’s only on about 27k too.

Hermoso is on about 136k though

Cool… it’s just annoying… we could’ve stayed in that top 3 without the injuries… I really miss those guys too, really fond of the majority of our players… amazing work Unai is doing…

Hey… anyone decent we can get on a free, especially if they’re better than what we have in that position… we should go for…

We will have to get a DM… Bouba won’t be back all that soon will he?

Forget Acuna, too old. I’d like us to keep a lid on the maximum age of the squad… players with longevity and potential. I feel like we have enough senior or experienced pros anyway (wouldn’t say no to another leader or captain type as long as they are good enough though) … we need to boost the talent/ability in certain areas…

[Jas10]

Seems to be a long running obsession with signing Frimpong… not sure he would fit in all that well, more of a wing back or attacking player than one that is defensively sound… another little’un too… is Unai even interested and he would probably be really expensive…

I’d rather have a RB who can defend well,  first and foremost, while contributing going forward and able feed the attacking players.. rather than someone who wants to bomb down the wing and possibly neglect the more important duties…

this team is lacking in defensive steel and resilience… we sorely need some players who can enhance us on that side too…

[Marka Ragnos]

28 minutes ago, Jas10 said:

I don’t think that’s accurate or up to date:

Gauci on 100k?!  

not sure McGinn is being paid that much and

Ezri did get a new contract and pay rise a while ago (absolutely no way he’s only getting 30k).

Many of these sites don’t have the accurate figures… look on another one and they will be different.

Hause was given a new contract when Dean was here and is definitely being paid more than 8k.

Anyway, you’re forgetting the players out on loan

We HAVE to shift Coutinho and, yes, Digne… club was stupid to hand such big contracts to older players… we need to learn from mistakes of the past and realise how difficult it is to shift them later when they turn out crap or are past it… it’s not a sensible or sustainable approach.

Chambers, Dendoncker and Sanson must and will hopefully all leave… Olsen 

Cash is a debatable one, depends on a decent offer and an upgrade being brought in. He would remain a good member of the squad regardless. Same goes for Carlos too (injury troubles, big contract).

If, somehow, a decent offer came in for Tielemans… personally, I would sell. Great chance to make a profit on a replacable and upgradable player. But happy to have him remain and improve under Unai too…

Lenglet and Zaniolo will return to their clubs…

We’ll probably have to shift Archer again once he returns…

Probably forgetting some off the top of my head…

 

We have to exploit any opportunity to upgrade and improve… might be a case of having to balance the books too… it’s going to be a very busy summer…

 

Oh my, I looked too quickly -- you're right! So inaccurate. 

1 hour ago, villaglint said:

Joe Gauci cannot be on £100k a week. 

Sorry. Bad chart.

1 hour ago, penguin said:

Added one 0 too many I think.

Yup. Sorry.

[burchy]

For me Frimpong would be a replacement for Cash. A Frimpong purchase wouldn’t and probably shouldn’t happen without Cash going out the other way. He’d be a massive improvement on Cash's forward play though. 

If, and it’s a big if, we go for Frimpong we’d need the DM to slot in at CB when he bombs on. 

[Jareth]

Gauci has a great agent