Transfer Rumours Summer 2026 Transfer Thread…
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Matija Frigan? He was already at Westerlo and we would’ve signed him last summer were it not for the transfer fee restriction. He wanted to join us and Westerlo wanted it to happen but we couldn’t make the deal work under the circumstances and he went to Parma in Italy instead. Really unfortunate about his ACL injury. I think he’s had setbacks with it as well.
I think we'll sign all of the Maribor lads who Acun signed for them as a holding place, so Zambrano, Carrero and Borys. All three will be reasonably cheap (surely just what Maribor paid?) and could end up being appreciating assets.
Wouldn't surprise me to see Laalaoui back too, he was obviously scouted as a long term option.
I really like the idea of business like that, well scouted foreign youth options who we could make a mint on down the line.
Not much of an option other than to rehab him. Contract expires at the end of the season, so see how he recovers before triggering his option?
10-12 high quality additions needed, KJ no chance in the prem with that touch. Mo, slinks, Hughes, maybe Giles are good enough to start. Even youre Slaters and crooks millers etc be squaddies, prem is an insane standard jump from scraping 6th.
I’d focus on the Japanese/south korea market for a few.
My gut feeling is Zambrano will stay at Maribor in the summer and reassess maybe over the next 2 transfer windows where we’re at and where he’s at? Having been out so long he needs games not sitting on our bench playing 5 minutes every now and then.
Looking at Sunderland’s squad, players like Ballard, O’Nien, Mayenda, Isidor and Hume were all players from their promotion season who were still utilised in the Prem this season.
For us, I think Giles, Hughes, McBurnie, Belloumi, Egan, Gelhardt and Slater will be utilised the same way (some more than others). The likes of Pandur, Ajayi, Millar, Joseph, Crooks and McNair are decent squad options. Everyone else, I’m afraid to say, is surplus to requirements and we’ll either try to offload them permanently or loan them out.
Considering we have 28 players in the squad as of today, including the six loan players, I would say having 12-13 of them carry over to the Prem in some capacity is good continuity. We obviously need to sign quite a few players and improve in key areas but I don’t think we need to go as apeshit as Forest did in their first season. We probably need at a minimum a new keeper to challenge Pandur (Sunderland had Patterson but still upgraded with Roefs), a starting right-back, a centre-back, depth at left-back, an athletic, physical defensive midfielder, a couple of central midfielders, a number 10, a left-winger and a striker. It may seem like a whole new team but the midfield would’ve needed an overhaul in the summer regardless of which division we ended up in.
Do you think the severity of Southamptons punishment puts any pressure on a proper punishment
There was a player serg wanted around the time of the restrictions, I remember him saying he would really improve us and he wanted to come but it couldn’t happen for financial reasons. I think it was a striker but don’t shoot the messenger if I’ve got that wrong.
They're totally unrelated in every way, but there are other more relevant precedents that would mean Man City are due a huge points deduction at the very least if they were guilty of all charges. The deductions that Forest and Everton have had in recent years were for equivalent offences on a much smaller scale, so Man City would be due a deduction many times bigger. Some of the other charges also amount to corporate fraud and would mean that the board would have to be removed if they are guilty. But all of that rests on the assumption that they are guilty of all of this stuff, which is a huge assumption that I think a lot of people believe but we really don't know. Really my point is, the question isn't whether they'll get a heavy punishment, it's whether they're guilty of everything they're charged with; if they are then the punishments will have to follow.
I’d like to see us go for Agyemang. Was really impressed with him when we played Derby. Strong, powerful and quick.
Wonder if anyone would be interested in Vipotnik too.
Wonder if anyone would be interested in Vipotnik too.