Transfer Rumours Winter 2025 Transfer Thread

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PLT said:
For me it's not only that, but that we've veered back and forth with our squad building every window. Walter wanted a big squad and he wanted very specific players, so they tried to give him that, but then a few months later we're undoing that work because Selles wants something closer to the squad make-up that Rosenior had. We spent all that money on players for Arveladze and then Rosenior came in and wanted rid of half of them. Its so messy. Shota was one mistake, fair enough, but to then veer back and forth again afterwards and still be so far away from where we want to be squad-wise three years in is really poor.
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I still don't understand why we didn't just build for the long term last season
 
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PLT said:
For me it's not only that, but that we've veered back and forth with our squad building every window. Walter wanted a big squad and he wanted very specific players, so they tried to give him that, but then a few months later we're undoing that work because Selles wants something closer to the squad make-up that Rosenior had. We spent all that money on players for Arveladze and then Rosenior came in and wanted rid of half of them. Its so messy. Shota was one mistake, fair enough, but to then veer back and forth again afterwards and still be so far away from where we want to be squad-wise three years in is really poor.
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Yep. And @Steven Toast has indicated that Palmer isn’t really in Sellés’ plans; neither was Mehlem evidently.

That’s two major summer signings in midfield the new manager has potentially judged to be surplus to requirements. Mehlem was probably the only signing Walter personally pushed for as he has history with him. I actually thought Mehlem was decent and my hunch is there was friction in the dressing room between Mehlem and others due to the his close relationship with Walter. Walter lost the dressing room, he goes and Mehlem soon follows him out the door.

Palmer was weird to begin with because he didn’t even suit Walter. A number 10 signed for a manager who doesn’t play with an out-and-out number 10. Bizarre. Seems like one of those panic signings that the club made because he was available, not because he fits in with what the manager wanted. ‘Coventry have said he’s not in their plans and he’s done alright in the Championship; get him in’.

So much churn in the squad year in, year out. We say, or hope, that ‘Acun will get it right and understands his mistakes’ but we keep making the same mistakes. There doesn’t seem to be a change. I don’t think the head coaches have a lot of say either. Arveladze, Rosenior, Walter and probably Sellés have likely been pressured into saying ‘okay’ to a lot of the names the club puts forward to them. We know for a fact Rosenior didn’t even want Pandur. That was one of the few signings that turned out to be a blessing in disguise but you have to wonder how many deadwood signings the club has pushed onto the head coaches that they didn’t even want in the first place.
 
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Wessie Exile said:
I still don't understand why we didn't just build for the long term last season
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Because Acun was distracted by the PL in January and pushed the boat out - even though promotion was always a slim chance.

We really should have used that window to prioritise new younger talent with half a season to bed them in or loans with an option to buy if they worked out.

Instead we got in talent which would never have been allowed to stay and the one loan we did get that might have been allowed an option (Ohio) we didn’t. Last January was a right mess and foolish.
 
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Drew said:
Because Acun was distracted by the PL in January and pushed the boat out - even though promotion was always a slim chance.

We really should have used that window to prioritise new younger talent with half a season to bed them in or loans with an option to buy if they worked out.

Instead we got in talent which would never have been allowed to stay and the one loan we did get that might have been allowed an option (Ohio) we didn’t. Last January was a right mess and foolish.
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Had Mr McVitie not been on board maybe they'd have been more circumspect...
 
TIGERSCAVE said:
Had Mr McVitie not been on board maybe they'd have been more circumspect...
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Supposedly the new deal this year is for the same money so don't think that was it. And if that's what pushed the spend then he should have either come on board for the summer or waited until this summer.
 
SydneyTiger14 said:
Supposedly the new deal this year is for the same money so don't think that was it. And if that's what pushed the spend then he should have either come on board for the summer or waited until this summer.
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I dont know... but maybe the promises of funds etc if promoted were too much to resist...
 
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