Transfer Rumours Summer 2025 Transfer Thread…

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If what Diego has said on the Zambrano thread is true, then we need another defensive midfielder in the summer. Alzate’s being decent there but I think we’d get more out of him playing more advanced. Not necessarily as a number 10 but also not the deepest midfielder.
 
We don’t have Birmingham’s owners. Acun isn’t actually that wealthy compared to other football club owners in the Championship. Acun Medya took out a loan from some creditor to bankroll the club and the club is being charged something like 5% to offset the debt Acun Medya owes to this creditor. It’s why when people come to his defence and say ‘he’s pumped a lot of his money into the club’, it couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s not his money; it’s some bank’s money. Football club owners loan money to their clubs all the time and that’s fairly normal. 5% is unusually high for an owner to charge his own club, however. The interest rates are so high because Acun literally can’t afford to bankroll the club with his own money. Billionaire owners usually can bankroll their clubs without taking out loans from third parties and charge their clubs minimal interest.

Reading’s owner did the same thing as Acun. He took out a £50 million loan from some Chinese state-owned bank and put the stadium up as collateral. Now he can’t pay his debts so the stadium may end up belong to this bank.

Relegation would be catastrophic because there would be a significant loss of income. The money from TV rights alone is a huge drop-off from the Championship to League One.
The loan he took out to buy the club was with Santander I believe, no idea if they provided the other loans afterwards though.
 
I know it’s quite a way off from happening and still might not happen at all but the thought of having 3 from Alzate, Puerta, Matazo & Zambrano on the pitch at the same time is quite exciting.

is it?

alzate a great 5 a side player, rather not have him in 11 a side championship football though

and zambrano will have missed a massive 12 months of any sort of professional training nevermind matches
 
is it?

alzate a great 5 a side player, rather not have him in 11 a side championship football though

and zambrano will have missed a massive 12 months of any sort of professional training nevermind matches

Has Alzate personally offended you in some way?
 
preban zambrano has the awareness that the top quality players have, its a rare thing, but they make it look easy but theyre always available for the ball, its the spatial ability to constantly find the right space at the right time

no idea what he will be like post ban
i can see how hes worth a risk but also it is a massive risk too
 
Zambrano will just be the equivalent of a January signing. I'm sure he will come back in November fit. Then some training sessions and probably some under 21 games ready for January or hopefully the Christmas period
 
Zambrano will just be the equivalent of a January signing. I'm sure he will come back in November fit. Then some training sessions and probably some under 21 games ready for January or hopefully the Christmas period

except he's had zero games of football or training for 12 months
he will take months to get up to full fitness
its not just the cardiovascular fitness, but his joints, ligaments, mentalside etc

its a massive part of our of budget
its just a big risk
 
except he's had zero games of football or training for 12 months
he will take months to get up to full fitness


its a massive part of our of budget
its just a big risk

It's not like he's injured, the club will have him on a strict training plan. Match fitness is different but shouldn't take him long
 
It's not like he's injured, the club will have him on a strict training plan. Match fitness is different but shouldn't take him long

i edited it ages ago

its not just the cardiovascular fitness, but his joints, ligaments, mentalside etc
 
except he's had zero games of football or training for 12 months
he will take months to get up to full fitness
its not just the cardiovascular fitness, but his joints, ligaments, mentalside etc

its a massive part of our of budget
its just a big risk

You honestly believe he has had no training, he would have seriously kept himself fit in case he got lucky with a big reduction on his ban for one he would have been training somewhere.
 
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You honestly believe he has had no training, he would have seriously kept himself fit in case he got lucky with a big reduction on his ban for one he would have been training somewhere.

where did i say that?

being fit in the gym is nowhere near match fit
honestly, one of the dumbest posts ive ever seen on here
 
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You said it here look below can you see it,

“except he's had zero games of football or training for 12 months”

training
as in professional football training

obviously not meaning
he's not trained his body in 12 months, i mean its clearly obvious
 
training
as in professional football training

obviously not meaning
he's not trained his body in 12 months, i mean its clearly obvious

He would have had plenty of training somewhere he would not have just done gym work and the club and his other club would have helped in some way with that because to let him do nothing but gym work would definitely not be beneficial to any of them, I bet the kid could play a match now and still run more than some we have had play recently.
 
He would have had plenty of training somewhere he would not have just done gym work and the club and his other club would have helped in some way with that because to let him do nothing but gym work would definitely not be beneficial to any of them, I bet the kid could play a match now and still run more than some we have had play recently.

then youre completely wrong
and thats fair enough

like i said, it's not just cardiovascular fitness