Winter Silly Season Transfer Thread 2025/2026

[Jim©]

On the LDF front, has anyone watched him at all of late?

[jayffc]

On the LDF front, has anyone watched him at all of late?

Nope, apparently he's been out with an abdominal injury for a week weeks now , should be returning to the squad this or next week

Worst defensive record in the league though 😬. Albeit they are a team you'd expect to struggle

[Chi_FFC]

On the LDF front, has anyone watched him at all of late?

Nope, apparently he's been out with an abdominal injury for a week weeks now , should be returning to the squad this or next week

Worst defensive record in the league though 😬. Albeit they are a team you'd expect to struggle

Was back in the squad and played ~20 minutes last weekend. They've been on a bit of run in his absence. Haven't lost (in the league or cup) and picked up their first two league wins.

[SerbianLad]

Agreed, I can't believe hes still willing to be here to be honest given he's played pretty well every time called upon but never starts.

I suppose the only reasoning could be looking at LDF to replace issa in the summer when he returns from loan. Very different players of course though and high risk. BUT significantly lower wages and probably willing to be that backup option for now. This is likely earmarked as the long term plan to replace Anderson IF he continues his upward trajectory . Though will mention that having been out with an abdominal injury ,his current loan team are rock bottom of the Belgian league

Maybe. He can also play as a rb if I remember corectly. So he could potentially replace Castagne who has been linked with moves away for quite some time now.

[FFC1987]

In regards to Ferguson, I appreciate he scored twice against Celtic but I wouldn't say he's lit the league up. 2 goals in Europa in 5 appearances (both against Celtic, who are a bit of a train wreck atm), and 1 goal and 1 assist in 10 league appearances. I know a lot of posters really liked the idea of him when we were linked previously.....but he feels grossly overpriced to me.

[jayffc]

Agreed, I can't believe hes still willing to be here to be honest given he's played pretty well every time called upon but never starts.

I suppose the only reasoning could be looking at LDF to replace issa in the summer when he returns from loan. Very different players of course though and high risk. BUT significantly lower wages and probably willing to be that backup option for now. This is likely earmarked as the long term plan to replace Anderson IF he continues his upward trajectory . Though will mention that having been out with an abdominal injury ,his current loan team are rock bottom of the Belgian league

Maybe. He can also play as a rb if I remember corectly. So he could potentially replace Castagne who has been linked with moves away for quite some time now.

Yeh he played there at youth level but has very much been converted to CB at club and national level since. Think it unlikely he moves back there but could play on right of a back 3 or play there in a pinch like bassey at lb

[HillingdonFFC]

We have no head room to sign players SCR comes in next season and we are at maximum head room on that. The only way we can spend is by selling a few in January
Traoré: hopefully sell for 5-7  million and get his 100 k wages off the books
Cairney :get wages off books
Reed: get wages off the books
Diop: get wages off the books he never gets in the match day squad much anymore
Castagne: could sell Juventus are interested or loan with obligation and get his wages off the books
King: sell max profit controversial but
30 - 40 million pure profit would help out tremendously

100%. There is not a hope in hell we make signings. We are at 86% with the cap at 85%. Rumours are just click bait.

With all due respect, I've been told that nearly all the above is wrong. Are you aware of the Green and Red thresholds?We do have money to spend, not huge amounts but a bit

[Deeping_white]

We have no head room to sign players SCR comes in next season and we are at maximum head room on that. The only way we can spend is by selling a few in January
Traoré: hopefully sell for 5-7  million and get his 100 k wages off the books
Cairney :get wages off books
Reed: get wages off the books
Diop: get wages off the books he never gets in the match day squad much anymore
Castagne: could sell Juventus are interested or loan with obligation and get his wages off the books
King: sell max profit controversial but
30 - 40 million pure profit would help out tremendously

100%. There is not a hope in hell we make signings. We are at 86% with the cap at 85%. Rumours are just click bait.

The new rules permit exceeding the cap for a season or two, with a financial penalty to be incurred as part of doing that and the proviso that you follow 85% threshold strictly thereafter for a set period. Ultimately it's probably something we would do, because an investment into several younger players next season knowing that over £250k a week in wages for TC, Raul and Adama are on the way out means that we can purchase players with an aim to re-sell, also having valuable assets in Bassey, King, Chuku, (assuming we do activate the option as I think we could instantly make a profit based on the circa £23m option) whilst knowing that losing those three sets of wages will instantly drop our %

[Twig]

We have no head room to sign players SCR comes in next season and we are at maximum head room on that. The only way we can spend is by selling a few in January
Traoré: hopefully sell for 5-7  million and get his 100 k wages off the books
Cairney :get wages off books
Reed: get wages off the books
Diop: get wages off the books he never gets in the match day squad much anymore
Castagne: could sell Juventus are interested or loan with obligation and get his wages off the books
King: sell max profit controversial but
30 - 40 million pure profit would help out tremendously

100%. There is not a hope in hell we make signings. We are at 86% with the cap at 85%. Rumours are just click bait.

If you agree 100% can you explain to me how we get Cairney, Reed and Diop "off the books" when they have contracts? People often make comments like this so I'm interested to understand how FFC can legally just terminate contracts at no cost?

Though Reed and TC contracts are very short?

So how does that allow you to break their contracts?

[FFC007]

Wonder if the Endrick rumours will resurface?

[FFC007]

The rejected Danilo bid plus the Tyrique George failure means we must have some ammo in January to play with...

Tyrique George wasn't a failure,
We pulled plug on deal as we kept wilson having not got what we wanted for him. It was one in one out there

Does show we got money in the bank though.

Don't think transfer fees are the issue but wages.

Thank god we didn't sell Wilson..

[Pavel Dempsey]

We have no head room to sign players SCR comes in next season and we are at maximum head room on that. The only way we can spend is by selling a few in January
Traoré: hopefully sell for 5-7  million and get his 100 k wages off the books
Cairney :get wages off books
Reed: get wages off the books
Diop: get wages off the books he never gets in the match day squad much anymore
Castagne: could sell Juventus are interested or loan with obligation and get his wages off the books
King: sell max profit controversial but
30 - 40 million pure profit would help out tremendously

100%. There is not a hope in hell we make signings. We are at 86% with the cap at 85%. Rumours are just click bait.

With all due respect, I've been told that nearly all the above is wrong. Are you aware of the Green and Red thresholds?We do have money to spend, not huge amounts but a bit

Nice to hear that. Coincide with what Silva says to expect signings in January.

[Hugh Janus]

We have no head room to sign players SCR comes in next season and we are at maximum head room on that. The only way we can spend is by selling a few in January
Traoré: hopefully sell for 5-7  million and get his 100 k wages off the books
Cairney :get wages off books
Reed: get wages off the books
Diop: get wages off the books he never gets in the match day squad much anymore
Castagne: could sell Juventus are interested or loan with obligation and get his wages off the books
King: sell max profit controversial but
30 - 40 million pure profit would help out tremendously

100%. There is not a hope in hell we make signings. We are at 86% with the cap at 85%. Rumours are just click bait.

With all due respect, I've been told that nearly all the above is wrong. Are you aware of the Green and Red thresholds?We do have money to spend, not huge amounts but a bit

I guess we will soon see. Everything I have heard and read from those with a back ground in finance suggests there's little to no money

[HillingdonFFC]

We have no head room to sign players SCR comes in next season and we are at maximum head room on that. The only way we can spend is by selling a few in January
Traoré: hopefully sell for 5-7  million and get his 100 k wages off the books
Cairney :get wages off books
Reed: get wages off the books
Diop: get wages off the books he never gets in the match day squad much anymore
Castagne: could sell Juventus are interested or loan with obligation and get his wages off the books
King: sell max profit controversial but
30 - 40 million pure profit would help out tremendously

100%. There is not a hope in hell we make signings. We are at 86% with the cap at 85%. Rumours are just click bait.

With all due respect, I've been told that nearly all the above is wrong. Are you aware of the Green and Red thresholds?We do have money to spend, not huge amounts but a bit

I guess we will soon see. Everything I have heard and read from those with a back ground in finance suggests there's little to no money

As you say we'll have to see. My info comes from an accountant friend who has audited football clubs books for a living. This is all greek to me but I showed him the above posts
Firstly he said you can't just get players like Diop & Castagnes wages "off the books" because there is outstanding amortisation against their name. Also the 86% Vs 85% is completely irrelevant. It only kicks in in the summer at which point we clear £15m off our salary costs due to contract expiry which takes us under the threshold
He added on top of that you get 30% leeway in the first season after it changes to SCR. He said there's 100% definitely money to spend,not huge amounts but a bit. I suppose the Silva contract situation might affect this too whether we decide to back him or not

[FFC007]

So who will be signed for Jan 1st at 00.01 hrs.

[iansthailand]

So who will be signed for Jan 1st at 00.01 hrs.

Santa Claus if he gets back to his grotto in time.

[Deeping_white]

https://twitter.com/fulltimetiers/status/2000490669215777212

[bencher]

https://twitter.com/fulltimetiers/status/2000490669215777212

Can't work out if Kean is amazing or useless. He clearly blows hot and cold.

[jayffc]

https://twitter.com/fulltimetiers/status/2000490669215777212

Can't work out if Kean is amazing or useless. He clearly blows hot and cold.

true although Fiorentine have in general been a bit of a mess off the pitch recently. Though when I look at how Mctominay has become a god in Serie A I do question the quality of the league these days!

There's talent in there but he does seema bit clumsy on the ball to me at times, even last year where he was prolific, so many of the goals I thought were a bit meh and often accompanied by very poor defending...still only 25 so should in theory be ready to come into his prime though.

I guess for me depends on
1. Price and 2. For that price, Is he better than Raul

If it was say 20-25m range (he signed for Fiorentina for 13m euros then had a blinding first season before falling off this time out) with performance based addons - then perhaps that's worth a go.

Ultimately he's gotta be better than A knackered Raul at the moment. Love what Jiminez has given us for the amount he cost us, it's been great value. But it's probably time to move him on in the summer and replacing him with a 25/26 year old Kean pushing a hopefully healthy Muniz with ALB (or JKA in the seemingly unlikely event we retain him) is probably a good set of options.

[hopper]

I like Kean from what I've seen, his goals last season demonstrated great movement and instinctive finishing. I probably agree with jayffc's valuation range. I definitely think he could do well here.