Winter Silly Season Transfer Thread 2025/2026

[btffc]

Seems a bit of a new thing where FulhamTransfer is the source rather than a rumour aggregator. Will be interesting to see if any of this comes to pass.

I'd be absolutely fine with Sterling. I do think a bit of perspective is needed. When a high profile player drops off they quickly become a figure of ridicule and derision/banter subject and people can lose sight of the fact they were one of the league's best players.

Now, clearly he's not that anymore - but class is permanent as we've seen with Montella, Diarra, Berbatov, Willian etc. He's not coming in as the main man, but come on - on a short term, favourable deal we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Reasonable odds that he could still pop up with some big moments and be a decent short term option.

Think FFN only posts with himself as the source if he has rock solid info about it.

I do disagree about the class is permanent thing for him because he was never really class/technique player like the ones mentioned. He was always mostly a movement plus quickness player so he'll suffer more than those by losing a yard of pace/quickness, but he's a decent finisher and knows how to find space to score from. Also pretty adept at winning penalties(diving).

[FFC1987]

Fair enough Hopper. I appreciate the point but i still disagree. 

[hopper]

Seems a bit of a new thing where FulhamTransfer is the source rather than a rumour aggregator. Will be interesting to see if any of this comes to pass.

I'd be absolutely fine with Sterling. I do think a bit of perspective is needed. When a high profile player drops off they quickly become a figure of ridicule and derision/banter subject and people can lose sight of the fact they were one of the league's best players.

Now, clearly he's not that anymore - but class is permanent as we've seen with Montella, Diarra, Berbatov, Willian etc. He's not coming in as the main man, but come on - on a short term, favourable deal we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Reasonable odds that he could still pop up with some big moments and be a decent short term option.

Think FFN only posts with himself as the source if he has rock solid info about it.

I do disagree about the class is permanent thing for him because he was never really class/technique player like the ones mentioned. He was always mostly a movement plus quickness player so he'll suffer more than those by losing a yard of pace/quickness, but he's a decent finisher and knows how to find space to score from. Also pretty adept at winning penalties(diving).

I do agree with all of that. But movement is also a kind of skill even if it's not as clear and immediate as ball striking. And wingers do have a sharper fall off than other positions because of that half yard of pace.

I imagine though that a young Kevin and King could learn a thing or two and would be excited to work with Sterling.

If the deal is fine, short term, I don't mind it.

[Super Mick]

Seems a bit of a new thing where FulhamTransfer is the source rather than a rumour aggregator. Will be interesting to see if any of this comes to pass.

I'd be absolutely fine with Sterling. I do think a bit of perspective is needed. When a high profile player drops off they quickly become a figure of ridicule and derision/banter subject and people can lose sight of the fact they were one of the league's best players.

Now, clearly he's not that anymore - but class is permanent as we've seen with Montella, Diarra, Berbatov, Willian etc. He's not coming in as the main man, but come on - on a short term, favourable deal we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Reasonable odds that he could still pop up with some big moments and be a decent short term option.

Think FFN only posts with himself as the source if he has rock solid info about it.

I do disagree about the class is permanent thing for him because he was never really class/technique player like the ones mentioned. He was always mostly a movement plus quickness player so he'll suffer more than those by losing a yard of pace/quickness, but he's a decent finisher and knows how to find space to score from. Also pretty adept at winning penalties(diving).

Bear in mind that those penalties awarded in his Liverpool, City and Chelsea shirts won't be awarded in ours!

[jayffc]

Seems a bit of a new thing where FulhamTransfer is the source rather than a rumour aggregator. Will be interesting to see if any of this comes to pass.

I'd be absolutely fine with Sterling. I do think a bit of perspective is needed. When a high profile player drops off they quickly become a figure of ridicule and derision/banter subject and people can lose sight of the fact they were one of the league's best players.

Now, clearly he's not that anymore - but class is permanent as we've seen with Montella, Diarra, Berbatov, Willian etc. He's not coming in as the main man, but come on - on a short term, favourable deal we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Reasonable odds that he could still pop up with some big moments and be a decent short term option.

We'll see I guess. He's never been a decent pressing player, and he's never been asked to track back which he'd have to do at a side like Fulham. He's nowhere near fit let alone match fit and the last time we actually saw him kick a ball, he struggled big time for both minutes in an injury riddled squad. In my humble opinion, he looked like a player well past his prime and would be demanding serious wages which should never be scoff e at even in the short term.

Happy to agree to disagree and if we do bring him, see how he fares but I'm sorry I won't be sharing your and others enthusiasm for him.

I wouldn't be enthusiastic as such, but I certainly won't be disappointed with him.

I would.

I'd find it uninspiring and quite frankly, lazy, from our recruitment team allocating large portions of our budget towards a player with no resale value, on a short term deal taking game time from far more committed players, who seemingly hasn't played a competitive match since what, 6-7 months ago? Hasn't been training competitively either....Lets say it takes him 3-4 matches to come in and get match fit and up to speed with Silvas way of playing.

You can probably tell I'm unimpressed by it but if some of you lot are finding it exciting or think it's valuable, as I say, sorry I can't share in that. Let's hope I'm wrong if he does come in hey.

I think I just feel like we only just signed an exciting starting winger in chuk (and Kevin). Taking a punt on a 3rd option rw with the goal record sterling has and who won't mind a bench role but could offer some real class makes perfect sense imo.

Obviously an oscar bobb would be awesome but do we really need to spend that in January unless we sold Wilson? And what message does that send to our summer wing signings.

Seems a sensible decision unless we we don't keep/extend harry

[FFC1987]

Seems a bit of a new thing where FulhamTransfer is the source rather than a rumour aggregator. Will be interesting to see if any of this comes to pass.

I'd be absolutely fine with Sterling. I do think a bit of perspective is needed. When a high profile player drops off they quickly become a figure of ridicule and derision/banter subject and people can lose sight of the fact they were one of the league's best players.

Now, clearly he's not that anymore - but class is permanent as we've seen with Montella, Diarra, Berbatov, Willian etc. He's not coming in as the main man, but come on - on a short term, favourable deal we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Reasonable odds that he could still pop up with some big moments and be a decent short term option.

We'll see I guess. He's never been a decent pressing player, and he's never been asked to track back which he'd have to do at a side like Fulham. He's nowhere near fit let alone match fit and the last time we actually saw him kick a ball, he struggled big time for both minutes in an injury riddled squad. In my humble opinion, he looked like a player well past his prime and would be demanding serious wages which should never be scoff e at even in the short term.

Happy to agree to disagree and if we do bring him, see how he fares but I'm sorry I won't be sharing your and others enthusiasm for him.

I wouldn't be enthusiastic as such, but I certainly won't be disappointed with him.

I would.

I'd find it uninspiring and quite frankly, lazy, from our recruitment team allocating large portions of our budget towards a player with no resale value, on a short term deal taking game time from far more committed players, who seemingly hasn't played a competitive match since what, 6-7 months ago? Hasn't been training competitively either....Lets say it takes him 3-4 matches to come in and get match fit and up to speed with Silvas way of playing.

You can probably tell I'm unimpressed by it but if some of you lot are finding it exciting or think it's valuable, as I say, sorry I can't share in that. Let's hope I'm wrong if he does come in hey.

I think I just feel like we only just signed an exciting starting winger in chuk (and Kevin). Taking a punt on a 3rd option rw with the goal record sterling has and who won't mind a bench role but could offer some real class makes perfect sense imo.

Obviously an oscar bobb would be awesome but do we really need to spend that in January unless we sold Wilson? And what message does that send to our summer wing signings.

Seems a sensible decision unless we we don't keep/extend harry

I don't think so but that's because I just don't see a ready and hungry player, or a cheap one. Oscar Bobb was more of a meme carry on from the summer silly season thread and I'm not even sure if he's the sort we should go for.

It's a tough one but of all the things we need in our squad during this window, I'm not really sure a RW is that high up and allocating those wages towards it feels off to me.

As I say, hope if we do get him in, I'll be eating some delicious humble pie! 😂

[ArcticOctopus]

How much of this transfer strategy is Marco driven? We know how much he likes established premier league players.

[btffc]

Seems a bit of a new thing where FulhamTransfer is the source rather than a rumour aggregator. Will be interesting to see if any of this comes to pass.

I'd be absolutely fine with Sterling. I do think a bit of perspective is needed. When a high profile player drops off they quickly become a figure of ridicule and derision/banter subject and people can lose sight of the fact they were one of the league's best players.

Now, clearly he's not that anymore - but class is permanent as we've seen with Montella, Diarra, Berbatov, Willian etc. He's not coming in as the main man, but come on - on a short term, favourable deal we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Reasonable odds that he could still pop up with some big moments and be a decent short term option.

Think FFN only posts with himself as the source if he has rock solid info about it.

I do disagree about the class is permanent thing for him because he was never really class/technique player like the ones mentioned. He was always mostly a movement plus quickness player so he'll suffer more than those by losing a yard of pace/quickness, but he's a decent finisher and knows how to find space to score from. Also pretty adept at winning penalties(diving).

I do agree with all of that. But movement is also a kind of skill even if it's not as clear and immediate as ball striking. And wingers do have a sharper fall off than other positions because of that half yard of pace.

I imagine though that a young Kevin and King could learn a thing or two and would be excited to work with Sterling.

If the deal is fine, short term, I don't mind it.

I'm with you. Cheap and/or short term then I'm totally fine with it. Worst case he's not any worse than Adama at about the same price so whatever.

[C Block]

For those of you that think we're signing Raheem Sterling, Silva made it abundantly clear in his interview with Jack Kelly that we WON'T be making any short term signings in January as he wants to build for the future,
In my mind that completely rules out Sterling and makes the signing of somebody like George (Chelsea) far more likely,
For those of you that haven't seen the interview notes on X , Silva was as bullish as he's ever been going into a window ,
Fingers crossed he gets what he wants.

[jayffc]

For those of you that think we're signing Raheem Sterling, Silva made it abundantly clear in his interview with Jack Kelly that we WON'T be making any short term signings in January as he wants to build for the future,
In my mind that completely rules out Sterling and makes the signing of somebody like George (Chelsea) far more likely,
For those of you that haven't seen the interview notes on X , Silva was as bullish as he's ever been going into a window ,
Fingers crossed he gets what he wants.

Obviously if more information has come to light since that suggests as such then that shifts the probabilities

Evidently people were going off of the latest reports at the time and there was little reason to doubt them given our clear interest months ago and the links to west ham for Adama.

The original suggestion was we wouldnt pay a certain amount of wages but this is a different topic and matter of approach all together.

Happy to hear Silva talking about building for the future though, hopefully something he himself is still invested in being a part of

[Jims Dentist]

Going for winger Fatawu from Leicester would make a lot more sense than Sterling.

[Jims Dentist]

If our other efforts to recruit a striker fail, I wouldn't mind us seeing what Everton would let Beto go for.
He is not clinical (not many are) but is fast, good in the air and a handful to play against.

[Hugh Janus]

Had it confirmed today we are talking to Raheeem. Will Hughes is keen if it means more game time. Those two in would be great. Ricardo Pepi is looking less likely until the summer but we have been told Troy Parrott is available now.

You Whites

[St Eve]

If our other efforts to recruit a striker fail, I wouldn't mind us seeing what Everton would let Beto go for.
He is not clinical (not many are) but is fast, good in the air and a handful to play against.

He turned us down once. No thanks

[St Eve]

Had it confirmed today we are talking to Raheeem. Will Hughes is keen if it means more game time. Those two in would be great. Ricardo Pepi is looking less likely until the summer but we have been told Troy Parrott is available now.

You Whites

I really hope that isn't true

[FFC1987]

Had it confirmed today we are talking to Raheeem. Will Hughes is keen if it means more game time. Those two in would be great. Ricardo Pepi is looking less likely until the summer but we have been told Troy Parrott is available now.

You Whites

I really hope that isn't true

See, in the past I've been a fan of both players but now? Not really. I don't think Hughes's is an upgrade on our 6 other than squad depth, and he's not the midfielder we actually need. And Sterling, I don't believe it still but we'll see I guess

[Hugh Janus]

Had it confirmed today we are talking to Raheeem. Will Hughes is keen if it means more game time. Those two in would be great. Ricardo Pepi is looking less likely until the summer but we have been told Troy Parrott is available now.

You Whites

I really hope that isn't true

See, in the past I've been a fan of both players but now? Not really. I don't think Hughes's is an upgrade on our 6 other than squad depth, and he's not the midfielder we actually need. And Sterling, I don't believe it still but we'll see I guess

I would tend to agree about Raheeem but I'm getting Willian vibes. There's a player in there. 80 odd caps for England. It's his motivation that would worry me. But I'd love him in.

[ArcticOctopus]

For those of you that think we're signing Raheem Sterling, Silva made it abundantly clear in his interview with Jack Kelly that we WON'T be making any short term signings in January as he wants to build for the future,
In my mind that completely rules out Sterling and makes the signing of somebody like George (Chelsea) far more likely,
For those of you that haven't seen the interview notes on X , Silva was as bullish as he's ever been going into a window ,
Fingers crossed he gets what he wants.

Feel like Marco is always bullish and it doesn't always equate to the reality of the window. I don't see the board committing any more money until Marco commits.

[Count Flapula]

Obviously if more information has come to light since that suggests as such then that shifts the probabilities

Evidently people were going off of the latest reports at the time and there was little reason to doubt them given our clear interest months ago and the links to west ham for Adama.

The original suggestion was we wouldnt pay a certain amount of wages but this is a different topic and matter of approach all together.

Happy to hear Silva talking about building for the future though, hopefully something he himself is still invested in being a part of

Reports from Ornstein saying Silva has a lucrative contract offer on the table making him one of the top 6 highest paid managers in the league - I reckon this is him saying "back me in the transfer market if you want me to sign". I'm ok with that. I reckon how January goes will entirely decide whether he signs or not. He's ambitious, as should we be if we want him to stay.

[btffc]

Will Hughes just doesn't seem like the answer to me. He's not really creative, he's older which goes against what Marco said about signings being for the long term and I'd hardly say he's any kind of upgrade over Lukic. Sure, he's better than Reed but the bar should be higher.

Also, it would be surprising if Palace is will to let him go. He's not first choice but they are a very thin squad and are playing in Europe.