Summer Silly Season Transfer Thread 2025

[Angus Telford]

So you would like Saudi money in the club?

The TV money we already get from the PL's deal with Saudi, Qatar et al, not to mention the £50m we got from Saudi for Mitro, probably exceeds what we get from SK. But in any case, I don't see an ethical case for being any more concerned about Saudi money than American money.

[RAY Rock]

Villa signed a striker Evann Guessand for 28 million I thought they were skint.

[Super Mick]

Villa signed a striker Evann Guessand for 28 million I thought they were skint.

I thought we were skint but bid £30 million for a player the other day.

[KentFulham]

Villa signed a striker Evann Guessand for 28 million I thought they were skint.

I thought we were skint but bid £30 million for a player the other day.

I guess there is Skint and Proper Skint

[Sgt Fulham]

I cant belive Reed is even still here given he is so far off the pace, AP is just bang average and a hinderance to set peices. Both should have gone to make way for something better

I was hoping AP would go for a good fee but the problem is Marco F'ing loves him! We 100% need a box to box 8 who can create and assist and I'll be extremely disappointed/annoyed if we don't get one. All rumours are we are going for one. If we do I would imagine one of Reed or AP will go and we'll keep one for a back up/emergency option and to be fair no issue with that. I'd rather sell AP for a decent fee and keep Reed as the low cost back up but bet it will be the other way around if it happens.

I dont get the MS & AP love affair, its very odd. MS needs to come and stand in the Hammersmith end at watch him from our view.

Marco is a professional football manager who watches and trains this guy day in day out. Could you accept that perhaps you are the one missing something?

So you just ignore everything you see from your seat at FFC and 100% approve of every player's performance because our manager selects them? You never, ever take the view that any of them should be moved on? You're just happy to go with whoever this manager, and all the preceding professional managers, select. After all every manager is a professional and they all see their players in training!
Have to say this is a remarkably sanguine viewpoint but credit to you for your absolute faith in football managers.

Not sure why you felt the need to patronise me, when at least the person I initially replied to provided a reasonable response.

Yes, I trust the manager more than myself or other fans when it comes to judgement of our players. I also don't think Pereira is the worst player on the planet, and while not the most spectacular, adds value to our team.

Better we just agree to disagree on this one.

[JimOG]

https://twitter.com/rikelfrink/status/1953501620139876381

Translation: What @Santi_J_FM reports about #Fulham is correct. The British were willing to spend 30 million euros for him, but that amount is absolutely not enough for PSV. Pepi himself is now aiming for a season with lots of goals for PSV and wants to go to the World Cup.

PSV are getting mad over there, they rejected 30m for an unproven player who wasnt even a starting striker for them. I am personally happy for that, would much rather have Romulo for 20m or even Sadiq for less than 10m.

Romulo for me every time

[Twig]

I cant belive Reed is even still here given he is so far off the pace, AP is just bang average and a hinderance to set peices. Both should have gone to make way for something better

I was hoping AP would go for a good fee but the problem is Marco F'ing loves him! We 100% need a box to box 8 who can create and assist and I'll be extremely disappointed/annoyed if we don't get one. All rumours are we are going for one. If we do I would imagine one of Reed or AP will go and we'll keep one for a back up/emergency option and to be fair no issue with that. I'd rather sell AP for a decent fee and keep Reed as the low cost back up but bet it will be the other way around if it happens.

I dont get the MS & AP love affair, its very odd. MS needs to come and stand in the Hammersmith end at watch him from our view.

Marco is a professional football manager who watches and trains this guy day in day out. Could you accept that perhaps you are the one missing something?

So you just ignore everything you see from your seat at FFC and 100% approve of every player's performance because our manager selects them? You never, ever take the view that any of them should be moved on? You're just happy to go with whoever this manager, and all the preceding professional managers, select. After all every manager is a professional and they all see their players in training!
Have to say this is a remarkably sanguine viewpoint but credit to you for your absolute faith in football managers.

Not sure why you felt the need to patronise me, when at least the person I initially replied to provided a reasonable response.

Yes, I trust the manager more than myself or other fans when it comes to judgement of our players. I also don't think Pereira is the worst player on the planet, and while not the most spectacular, adds value to our team.

Better we just agree to disagree on this one.

Happy to agree to disagree. I should explain that my reply was patronising partly to make what I think is a valid point (that I'm pretty sure not one of us can say we have always trusted the judgement of every manager just because they are paid i.e. professional). And partly because I thought your comment was pretty patronising in the first place.

[Chi_FFC]

https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1953800238034030704

A week out from the start of the season and Bournemouth has now lost 4 of 5 starters from last season's back line and only signed a LB and GK (and imo ~25M for Djorde Petrovic is an INCREDIBLE overpay). Sky and Fab are also reporting that Brentford is working on a deal for Dango Ouatarra as a replacement for Wissa (who looks likely to be off for Newcastle).

Bournemouth obviously have a lot of money to spend but 1) they need to spend a good chunk of it and 2) they need to spend it well.

[iansthailand]

https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1953800238034030704

A week out from the start of the season and Bournemouth has now lost 4 of 5 starters from last season's back line and only signed a LB and GK (and imo ~25M for Djorde Petrovic is an INCREDIBLE overpay). Sky and Fab are also reporting that Brentford is working on a deal for Dango Ouatarra as a replacement for Wissa (who looks likely to be off for Newcastle).

Bournemouth obviously have a lot of money to spend but 1) they need to spend a good chunk of it and 2) they need to spend it well.

To be fair they usually do.

[WindyCity]

I admit upfront that I don't understand SCR and know nothing about it really, but apparently it is tailor designed to only impact FFC?

Plenty of clubs in the league buying and selling, active in the window.

[Fulham 442]

Burnley sign Broja, good luck with that!

[Chi_FFC]

https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1953800238034030704

A week out from the start of the season and Bournemouth has now lost 4 of 5 starters from last season's back line and only signed a LB and GK (and imo ~25M for Djorde Petrovic is an INCREDIBLE overpay). Sky and Fab are also reporting that Brentford is working on a deal for Dango Ouatarra as a replacement for Wissa (who looks likely to be off for Newcastle).

Bournemouth obviously have a lot of money to spend but 1) they need to spend a good chunk of it and 2) they need to spend it well.

To be fair they usually do.

Eh, this is the first window since being back in the PL where they've ever had anything like this happen. Over the three previous seasons the only players of consequence they've sold/lost were Solanke and Lerma. As for their acumen in the transfer market, interestingly enough if Ouatarra ends up going, 3 of their 4 big money outgoings this summer (the GK they lost was a loanee) would have been signed in one transfer window (January of 23). If you look at their transfer business since, it's been solid enough but there are some real question marks. In short, I haven't seen enough yet to conclude that their scouting system is as good as say Brighton (who seem to have transfer windows like the one Bournemouth is going through right now every summer). And even if they do buy fairly well, they'll be doing it late in the window.

[Super Mick]

Burnley sign Broja, good luck with that!

Watch him bang one in against us at turd moor. Burnley absolute bogey team away. Hopefully Parker will get us out first away win there in years!

[Angus Telford]

I mean, unless you're selective and treat outgoing rumours as confirmed but not incoming rumours, Bournemouth have replaced 2 out of 3 at this point, and if they lose a fourth, will have €150m left for the two replacements. Half their business done at this point is better than us, and they'll come out of the window with either a massive profit, or if they spend the money elsewhere, massively improved. These huge sales validate their transfer model, not sure how/why we try to spin them into a negative. Credit where it's due.

[FFC007]

I mean, unless you're selective and treat outgoing rumours as confirmed but not incoming rumours, Bournemouth have replaced 2 out of 3 at this point, and if they lose a fourth, will have €150m left for the two replacements. Half their business done at this point is better than us, and they'll come out of the window with either a massive profit, or if they spend the money elsewhere, massively improved. These huge sales validate their transfer model, not sure how/why we try to spin them into a negative. Credit where it's due.

Could also be that the extra cash may benefit them in expanding the vitality.

One of my AFCB mates has said they have got the go ahead to buy the ground from the landlord and will expand.

[Chi_FFC]

I mean, unless you're selective and treat outgoing rumours as confirmed but not incoming rumours, Bournemouth have replaced 2 out of 3 at this point, and if they lose a fourth, will have €150m left for the two replacements. Half their business done at this point is better than us, and they'll come out of the window with either a massive profit, or if they spend the money elsewhere, massively improved.

Oh, so you'd have been ok with Fulham selling say King/Bassey/AR/Muniz this summer, buying 4 cheaper players to replace them (waiting until the week before our first match (at the earliest) to buy two of them) and banking a massive profit but not improving? That would surprise me given all you've said here.

And leaving that aside, let's treat the 2nd CB leaving rumor as real given it's gotten the "here we go" from Fab (though of course there are times when he has to backtrack). How is replacing 2 of 4 starters "better than us"??? They're still be 2 starters down from last season while Fulham hasn't lost any one of consequence this summer (at least yet).

And finally I offered the Bournemouth example merely to point out for all those complaining about late business and our lack of activity, we're going into week one of the season with a strong/settled squad while one of our peer clubs has lost 4 starters and replaced only two. I feel pretty confident that if we were in Bournemouth's shoes rn you'd be screaming for Shad Khan's head even louder than you are now.

[Nero]

Burnley sign Broja, good luck with that!

Watch him bang one in against us at turd moor. Burnley absolute bogey team away. Hopefully Parker will get us out first away win there in years!

Be there only shot with Parker in charge

[Nero]

Villa signed a striker Evann Guessand for 28 million I thought they were skint.

I thought we were skint but bid £30 million for a player the other day.

I guess there is Skint and Proper Skint

And maybe selling Watkins now they have a replacement in

[General]

       So booredd.... How are the club not able to do anything - whether the money is there or not.

Can't believe we've just signed one backup keeper still. Season has 7-6 days to start. When it does, that'll have been 2 MONTHS of the window having been open and the club doing almost nothing.

Surely they can do better, plan better, figure out the finances better..

[Deuce]

https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1953800238034030704

A week out from the start of the season and Bournemouth has now lost 4 of 5 starters from last season's back line and only signed a LB and GK (and imo ~25M for Djorde Petrovic is an INCREDIBLE overpay). Sky and Fab are also reporting that Brentford is working on a deal for Dango Ouatarra as a replacement for Wissa (who looks likely to be off for Newcastle).

Bournemouth obviously have a lot of money to spend but 1) they need to spend a good chunk of it and 2) they need to spend it well.

Petrovic is actually good tho.

The market is crazy. You cant get a decent prem player for anything below £30 mil.

So considering that, I dont think they overpaid by much.