Transfer Rumours Summer 2025 Transfer Thread…

Yep. And people cheerlead it when we get rid of players but it's just the same mistake time and time again. Every forward who plays for us is always just finding their feet. They're never here for a second season. They play in a crap side that creates nothing and we pile on them for not scoring, write off the investment in them and start the cycle with someone else. I don't know how people can still support that pattern, and happily believe that it's just this player isn't good enough. When every forward player you sign fails to make an impact you have to start asking whether it's really them that's the problem.

 

For those wondering about non-fan based income for this season, to the best of my knowledge we will definitely get:

Just over £8m in TV money (£4.5m from the PL YV deal, £2.5m from the EFL, plus around 10x TV appearances @ £100k each).

Around £3.5m in solidarity payments from the PL.

Anywhere between £7k and £100k depending on how high up the table we finish.

So we're guaranteed at least £11.5m for being a Championship club.

Chuck in the sponsorship money and whatever we have made in player sales so far and we're probably at around the £15m mark. Which, isn't great to be honest.

 

That’s a combination of finances , the managers picks , a players appearances and effectiveness . Burstow , Macca and jones could be poor at their new clubs . It’s all a gamble unless you can buy what you want

 

Josh Sargeant is a prime example of what can happen if you stick with a striker and give them time. Was crap in his first PL season, but Norwich stuck with him and he became one of the most consistent forwards in the Championship.

I think what pushes people to be critical is how other clubs seem to be able to find strikers that can score goals, whereas we consistently struggle to bring goal scoring strikers into the club and have them perform to a decent standard on a weekly basis.

Swansea signed Joel Piroe from PSV in the 20/21 season, despite him having scored 2 goals in 18 at Sparta Rotterdam the season before. He managed 22 in his debut season.

Borja Sainz managed 18 from the left wing last season, having arrived from Giresunspor the season before on a free transfer.

Millwall signed 20 year old Mihailo Ivanovic from Vojvodina, but he bagged 13 in all competitions last season. They also made a decent profit on Zian Flemming.

Clubs around us seem to find these players no problem and then they move on for big profits, whereas we seem to just coast along happy to sign veterans and sick notes as if somehow it'll all come good.

It's like our brain team sat down to watch Moneyball and learn what it's all about and then turned it off when Peter Brand says "Billy, of the 20,000 notable players for us to consider, I believe that there is a championship team of twenty-five people that we can afford, because everyone else in baseball undervalues them" then loaded up Transfermarkt's free transfers page and started making phone calls.

 

Compared to the Premier league and those with parachute payments it's pennies. High lights my earlier point about the game being ****ed.

The EFL should have supported the euro super league and kicked out all those who wanted to be in it.

 

I think the relegated teams should have some of their costs covered by the PL using parachute payments, but also say they have a rule that they can't use any of that money on transfers or wages.

 

So we’ve decided McBurnie is going to Swansea ? If it’s that easy why isn’t there any press or confirmation ? Is it the same for Frigan ?
Looked st Swans signings and they don’t blow your flip flops off never mind your socks !

 

Nixon reported Swansea being in the lead for him and then @NewcastleTiger said his mate in Swansea physically saw McBurnie down there (presumably for a medical).

 

in the words of princess leia

destan, you're our only hope

 

Saint Selles blocked that though and then never played him.

 

Agree with overwhelming majority of that......only bit I slightly disagree with is on the CB side of things, selling 3rd and 4th choice for a reported 2-3.5m and replacing with 2 frees looks like good financial sense, on the footballing side was v impressed with semi on sat too so there's potentially an argument about improving depth wise tho obv time will tell.

 

However we have had a succession of managers who have failed to give strikers a chance in their actual position (LR with Ohio, Walter with Burstow, Selles with Joseph) and most of the time not playing football that is conducive to strikers getting chances and scoring.

I've got hopes that Jakirović's football is different and we might see the likes of Joseph actually get played up front and be on the end of chances.

The rest, as they say, is up to him...

 

The Frigan thing is funny because it was talked about as a loan with an obligation to buy after 12-18 months but the issue is that we cannot sign a player on loan with an option or obligation to buy under the current fee restriction. It prohibits us from paying a fee or even committing to pay for a fee.

I do wonder if Acun didn’t realise that and thought he could get around it. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least because it seems like he doesn’t understand the EFL’s rules in general, hence the late payment for Barry and Burns.

 

So, with three players injured and two having contract issues with the FA, this is what we have isn’t it?

 

yes

 

We won't hold him long enough to realise his full potential financially,especially if Illicali is here.

I think it's very early to be calling a fairly raw kid our biggest ever transfer fee but each to their own

 

Although, if he'd gone where he was lined up to go and scored a few goals, we'd have ended up relegated and in even bigger trouble.

 

Theres no way hughes goes for more than bowen, defenders dont go for big money unless theyre proven in the prem
he could be a league 1 player in 26/27

 

It's difficult to judge any strikers we have had / bring in as we create sod all