Transfer Rumours Summer 2025 Transfer Thread…

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I really hope we can keep Hughes this summer. He was vocal about how much he liked Sellés and if OLM’s comments about the players being fuming at Sellés’ sacking, I wouldn’t be surprised if Hughes went at the first opportunity or told his agent to start looking for clubs
He used to be a defender and likes usung the defenders, the younger players tend to like this as they will learn something new/ different to improve themselves
 
I really hope we can keep Hughes this summer. He was vocal about how much he liked Sellés and if OLM’s comments about the players being fuming at Sellés’ sacking, I wouldn’t be surprised if Hughes went at the first opportunity or told his agent to start looking for clubs, nor could I blame him. The owner has already shown multiple times that loyalty, faith and patience aren’t valued here so why should he or the supporters expect that of the players now?
To be fair, it wasn't that long ago that you called Hughes a disgrace and felt that he should **** off, or used words to that effect, anyway.
 
The funny thing is, people are like..."but his press is good" talking about Joseph, as they are desperate to say something good about him. Me too. Out of some sort of embarrassment that we don't want to admit we wasted 2.5m on him.

To be clear.....every ****ing footballer on the planet should be good at pressing. Every single one of them!
 
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We’ve got quite a lot of forward thinking players now - Kamara, Miller, Belloumi, Crooks, Puerta, Matazo, Omur, Mehlem. Lets see what a new manager can do with them and give them a striker or 2 to play off.
 
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The funny thing is, people are like..."but his press is good" talking about Joseph, as they are desperate to say something good about him. Me too. Out of some sort of embarrassment that we don't want to admit we wasted 2.5m on him.

To be clear.....everyone ****ing footballer on the planet should be good at pressing. Every single one of them!
what about the celibate ones?
 
I hoped the same about Walter. The two ****e coaches under Acun (Arveladze and Walter) were also not liked by many of the players. The two coaches who were somewhat successful or improved the team (Rosenior and Sellés) also happened to be well-liked. It’s not a coincidence. If Jakirović comes in all Billy Big Bollocks because he won the Croatian league with Zagreb and adopts a similar attitude to Walter then we are ****ed. That old-school style of man management just doesn’t fly with players anymore.

They won’t just sit there meekly whilst another grown man screams at them. They’ll just laugh in his face or tell him to **** off then ring their agent the next day and tell him to start putting feelers out.

I'm not so sure. Meek pretty much describes most of the team this season. Not sure where they'd suddenly grow bollocks from to tell their gaffer to **** off when we've let opposition teams push us around so readily. They'd more likely just go straight to their agent and shy away from the confrontation. Who knows, if some of them force a move out after some dummy spitting, we might replace them with players willing to run through walls for the club/fans/manager. It would be nice but its very much wishful thinking on my part.