Transfer Rumours Winter 2025 Transfer Thread

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
Steven Toast said:
On your first point, I think this is good context for last season. Delap and Greaves aside, none of the others have really kicked on. You could argue that Tufan and Philogene didn't get a fair shake, but for whatever reason they've probably not achieved what they hoped they would with those moves.

On the second paragraph, yeah we should really have looked longer term, but I don't think anybody expected Philogene to do as well as he did in such a short space of time so maybe they thought they'd have him a bit longer than 12 months. Pandur was a good signing and probably should have come in ahead of Allsop, even if it was later on when he was getting pelters for making mistakes but then hindsight is always 20/20. Ohio would have been a sensible move, he looked like he was settling in and was improving week by week. Morton I don't think was ever achievable; he was stuck in the twilight zone of deserving a move to a bigger club, but also maybe breaking into the Liverpool first team. I also think Klopp announcing his departure from Liverpool in January shook things up a bit and Morton would have wanted to see whether he could do something under Arne Slot. I can only conclude that Slot told him he was needed for first team duties and that's why he didn't go out again. He signed a "long term contract" before he went out on loan to Blackburn the season before he came to us, so maybe the price for him is too high for clubs like us to afford. In any case, unless we get promoted at some point or Liverpool decide that somehow we are the best fit for a loan deal, we're unlikely to see him again.

Our midfield last season was so good at keeping the ball and shielding the defence and I think not replacing Morton and Seri has contributed to us conceding a lot more. The threat we had out wide with Philogene and Tufan stretched teams out allowing them to get on the ball more. I don't think, at the moment anyway, Kamara and whoever we play on the left have the same impact on the opposition in terms of threat, so teams are happier to leave them wide and focus on the middle of the pitch. It was a different story when we had Belloumi and Millar either side, but we have to play the cards we are dealt and getting a proper winger in is vital.

The question is, are we going to go for a pacey winger, or somebody without pace but decent technical like Marc Pugh had.

If we have the money, Emil Riis Jakobsen is out of contract in Summer and hasn't signed a new deal with Preston. Probably other clubs after him but he'd be perfect for this system.

Jed Wallace might be available, I've always liked him and if nothing else it'd stop him scoring against us every time we play him.

The other name I've been told surprised me, but more because I hadn't realised where he was playing and that's Ben Woodburn who is currently at Salford City.
Click to expand...
In terms of kicking on.....for me

Morton for me has been mismanaged by Liverpool from a financial perspective, they thought that they could get 20m for him so kept on to him right til the end and then didn't send him out on loan when he wasn't sold, he was never a 20m player to begin with, they may be lucky to get 10m-12m for him this window, but a loan with option is more likely I think.

Philogene made a bad decision, simple as, he should have gone to Ipswich in the first place as he was always going to be more likely to get minutes and game time there, but for whatever reason he chose to go back to Villa, it's not worked out and now that Villa and he have realised he's not at that level yet (and Villa desperate for £) he's on the move.

Can't really comment on Tufan, blissfully unaware of the ins and outs of the Turkish lig.

Seri leavign was on us, silly move by a silly manager!
 
  • Like
Reactions: Stockholm Tiger
pierredelafranchesca said:
In terms of kicking on.....for me

Morton for me has been mismanaged by Liverpool from a financial perspective, they thought that they could get 20m for him so kept on to him right til the end and then didn't send him out on loan when he wasn't sold, he was never a 20m player to begin with, they may be lucky to get 10m-12m for him this window, but a loan with option is more likely I think.

Philogene made a bad decision, simple as, he should have gone to Ipswich in the first place as he was always going to be more likely to get minutes and game time there, but for whatever reason he chose to go back to Villa, it's not worked out and now that Villa and he have realised he's not at that level yet (and Villa desperate for £) he's on the move.

Can't really comment on Tufan, blissfully unaware of the ins and outs of the Turkish lig.

Seri leavign was on us, silly move by a silly manager!
Click to expand...

Tufan wanted to go back home

But istanbul is about 600 miles from trabzon <laugh>

Its almost like hull to munich
 
  • Like
Reactions: NewcastleTiger and SydneyTiger14
cheshireles said:
With transfers you know you are going to get some right, and some wrong for various reasons. Hopefully the majority right, but the recent signings of Sinik, Omur (albeit after a bright start) and Giles have been abject failures of the highest calibre.

Can we arrange for 'The Brain Team' to have a labotamy?
Click to expand...

That happened in October when they got rid of it's head.

Doesn't stop folk ignoring the fact though, does it?
 
  • Like
Reactions: Drew
bradymk2 said:
Tufan wanted to go back home

But istanbul is about 600 miles from trabzon <laugh>

Its almost like hull to munich
Click to expand...

Turkish guy who gave me a haircut after he left said he knows Tufan, and he was offered double his money to go back, but he also coinsidered staying for a bit longer, and hoping that someone from Saudi came in for him, offering megabucks.
 
pierredelafranchesca said:
In terms of kicking on.....for me

Morton for me has been mismanaged by Liverpool from a financial perspective, they thought that they could get 20m for him so kept on to him right til the end and then didn't send him out on loan when he wasn't sold, he was never a 20m player to begin with, they may be lucky to get 10m-12m for him this window, but a loan with option is more likely I think.

Philogene made a bad decision, simple as, he should have gone to Ipswich in the first place as he was always going to be more likely to get minutes and game time there, but for whatever reason he chose to go back to Villa, it's not worked out and now that Villa and he have realised he's not at that level yet (and Villa desperate for £) he's on the move.

Can't really comment on Tufan, blissfully unaware of the ins and outs of the Turkish lig.

Seri leavign was on us, silly move by a silly manager!
Click to expand...

Did Philogene have a choice? Once Villa came back in for him then Ipswich wasn’t even an option.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Stockholm Tiger
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back