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Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
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Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
Well seems like with all these international breaks, and us languishing, the rumours of ins and outs are rife.
Chuck anything 'worthy' of discussion on this thread...
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Incomings:
Pablo Felipe - €21m + €3m (Gil Vicente) | Forward
Valentin 'Taty' Castellanos - €26m + €4m (Lazio) | Forward
Adama Traore - £2m + £1m if stay up (Fulham) | Forward
Axel Disasi - Loan (Chelsea) | Centre Back
Keiber Lamadrid - £150k + £1m option | Attacking Mid
Outgoings:
Nicolas Füllkrug - 6 months loan (AC Milan)
Luis Guilherme - £17m + Sell On % (Sporting Lisbon)
George Earthy - 6 months loan (Bristol City)
Callum Marshall - 6 months loan (Bochum)
Andy Irving - 1.5m (Sparta Prague)
Guido Rodriguez - Undisclosed (Valencia)
Igor Julio - Loan Cancelled (Brighton)
James Ward Prowse - 6 months loan (Burnley)
Lucas Paqueta - £36.5m + Buy Back Clause (Flamengo)
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Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
Tomshardware wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 14:01southbankbornnbred wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 10:10Tomshardware wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 07:47Great logic. Sell our best player who runs his bollocks off for the cause week in week out.Pssst...I think Gank is taking the piss THW.Toms you fucking tit.
You're absolutely right.
Toms - you're fucking thick for failing to realise that Gank was taking the piss.
Corrected it for you.
Toms - you're fucking thick for failing to realise that Gank was taking the piss.
Corrected it for you.
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Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
southbankbornnbred wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 10:10Tomshardware wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 07:47Great logic. Sell our best player who runs his bollocks off for the cause week in week out.Pssst...I think Gank is taking the piss THW.
Toms you fucking tit.
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Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
Given our position and desperation, Mendes probably sees us as a way of offloading every "Mauro Zarate" that he has on his books. His premium clients will be offered elsewhere.
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Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
He'll join a team with a better chance of staying in the Premier League. Looks like Carrick is already sniffing around him for Man Utd.
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Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
Main priority is a brute of a centre half who can head the ball.
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Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
Manuel wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 10:20onsideman wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 09:55dealcanvey wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 09:51 Dont mind the idea of Dier especially if he is willing to drop down to the championship if we go down.
Same with Pinnock
If ever there was a crystallisation of how far we've fallen
Solid attritional work from Sullivan and Brady - expectations at rock bottomAgree to an extent, but come on we desperately need some old skool defenders and these two fit that bill.
Don't forget this is the site that didn't want Dawson, Maguire, McTominay, among others.
Agree with this.
My worry is that, with relegation a near certainty now (I don't really have any hope of us staying up), but with Nuno and Mendes still in place, we're looking to fill the squad with expensive, lower grade (than Mendes' best clients) Latino lightweights who will hate the relentlessness of the Championship (46 games of mayhem) and will want off quickly.
I know some fans cream themselves over the mere thought of a Brazilian (fnar, fnar). But for every Coutinho or Guimaraes there's a Guilherme or an Igor. And we ain't in line to land the Coutinhos.
Hope I'm wrong. But I can see us being lumped with a lot of expensive problems next season. And, by then, Nuno and his agent mate will be long gone.
My worry is that, with relegation a near certainty now (I don't really have any hope of us staying up), but with Nuno and Mendes still in place, we're looking to fill the squad with expensive, lower grade (than Mendes' best clients) Latino lightweights who will hate the relentlessness of the Championship (46 games of mayhem) and will want off quickly.
I know some fans cream themselves over the mere thought of a Brazilian (fnar, fnar). But for every Coutinho or Guimaraes there's a Guilherme or an Igor. And we ain't in line to land the Coutinhos.
Hope I'm wrong. But I can see us being lumped with a lot of expensive problems next season. And, by then, Nuno and his agent mate will be long gone.
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Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
El Scorchio" wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 10:40onsideman wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 09:55dealcanvey wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 09:51 Dont mind the idea of Dier especially if he is willing to drop down to the championship if we go down.
Same with Pinnock
If ever there was a crystallisation of how far we've fallen
Solid attritional work from Sullivan and Brady - expectations at rock bottomYes- this is exactly the same as where we are with manager now. We'll get a Dyche type next whenever that may be and 'be thankful' for it. Awful fall.
With those sort of players, it's not quite so bad if they are bought to 'steady the ship' with the next 18 months in mind but other recruitment with the next 5 years in mind happens alongside it. Trouble is the second part won't happen and we'll just carry on and on in this short term cycle of mediocrity/shit.
and the cycle starts all over again.
'Allardyce appointed West Ham manager for promotion push'
'Allardyce appointed West Ham manager for promotion push'
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Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
onsideman wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 09:55dealcanvey wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 09:51 Dont mind the idea of Dier especially if he is willing to drop down to the championship if we go down.
Same with Pinnock
If ever there was a crystallisation of how far we've fallen
Solid attritional work from Sullivan and Brady - expectations at rock bottom
Yes- this is exactly the same as where we are with manager now. We'll get a Dyche type next whenever that may be and 'be thankful' for it. Awful fall.
With those sort of players, it's not quite so bad if they are bought to 'steady the ship' with the next 18 months in mind but other recruitment with the next 5 years in mind happens alongside it. Trouble is the second part won't happen and we'll just carry on and on in this short term cycle of mediocrity/shit.
With those sort of players, it's not quite so bad if they are bought to 'steady the ship' with the next 18 months in mind but other recruitment with the next 5 years in mind happens alongside it. Trouble is the second part won't happen and we'll just carry on and on in this short term cycle of mediocrity/shit.
Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
Manuel wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 10:20onsideman wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 09:55dealcanvey wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 09:51 Dont mind the idea of Dier especially if he is willing to drop down to the championship if we go down.
Same with Pinnock
If ever there was a crystallisation of how far we've fallen
Solid attritional work from Sullivan and Brady - expectations at rock bottomAgree to an extent, but come on we desperately need some old skool defenders and these two fit that bill.
Don't forget this is the site that didn't want Dawson, Maguire, McTominay, among others.
Yeah, I get that too... it wasn't so much a criticism of the poster, just that it's a manifestation of where we are
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Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
onsideman wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 09:55dealcanvey wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 09:51 Dont mind the idea of Dier especially if he is willing to drop down to the championship if we go down.
Same with Pinnock
If ever there was a crystallisation of how far we've fallen
Solid attritional work from Sullivan and Brady - expectations at rock bottom
Agree to an extent, but come on we desperately need some old skool defenders and these two fit that bill.
Don't forget this is the site that didn't want Dawson, Maguire, McTominay, among others.
Don't forget this is the site that didn't want Dawson, Maguire, McTominay, among others.
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Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
Gay Wank was clearly taking the piss.
But twoleftfeet unironically posted similar about us flogging Bowen.
But twoleftfeet unironically posted similar about us flogging Bowen.
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Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
Tomshardware wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 07:47Great logic. Sell our best player who runs his bollocks off for the cause week in week out.
Pssst...I think Gank is taking the piss THW.
Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
dealcanvey wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 09:51 Dont mind the idea of Dier especially if he is willing to drop down to the championship if we go down.
Same with Pinnock
If ever there was a crystallisation of how far we've fallen
Solid attritional work from Sullivan and Brady - expectations at rock bottom
Solid attritional work from Sullivan and Brady - expectations at rock bottom
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Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
Dont mind the idea of Dier especially if he is willing to drop down to the championship if we go down.
Same with Pinnock.
Same with Pinnock.
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Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
Was reading Flamengo are prepared to go to 40m Euros for Paqueta
No brainer for a player refusing to play who will be worse than useless for the rest of the season
Get him out & get someone who is bothered
Conor Gallagher would be ideal but seems to be Tottenham bound as Villa don’t have the money
Must be serious FFP problems as saw they may move on Malen who has been scoring regularly
No brainer for a player refusing to play who will be worse than useless for the rest of the season
Get him out & get someone who is bothered
Conor Gallagher would be ideal but seems to be Tottenham bound as Villa don’t have the money
Must be serious FFP problems as saw they may move on Malen who has been scoring regularly
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Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
Why would he have come to a relegation team with Sp*rs and Villa sniffing around?
Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
Tomshardware wrote: ↑13 Jan 2026, 07:47Great logic. Sell our best player who runs his bollocks off for the cause week in week out.
Whoosh!
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Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
Great logic. Sell our best player who runs his bollocks off for the cause week in week out.
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Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
Did Bowen refuse to play against QPR because he is desperate to leave?
Why keep a player who doesn't want to be at the club, has just refused to play in a game, got the most stupid red card you'll ever see when we were only 0-1 down in a game, and has been monumentally fucking shit all season so far, when some idiot is apparently prepared to pay £35mil for him?
We are going down with the current set up, i.e. with the side as it currently is, and with him stinking the place out every week. Getting that money in would give us one last chance of improving the areas we need to, still very slim, but at least a fighting chance.
Use your brain.
Why keep a player who doesn't want to be at the club, has just refused to play in a game, got the most stupid red card you'll ever see when we were only 0-1 down in a game, and has been monumentally fucking shit all season so far, when some idiot is apparently prepared to pay £35mil for him?
We are going down with the current set up, i.e. with the side as it currently is, and with him stinking the place out every week. Getting that money in would give us one last chance of improving the areas we need to, still very slim, but at least a fighting chance.
Use your brain.
Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
Don't think anyone would disagree with this but when he apparently has a straight choice between Villa and the N17 mob, any talk of him coming here in our predicament is just fanciful
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Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
Probably some legs in the Dier link, Nuno had him at Spurs and apparently rated him and also has some leadership about him.
Paqueta could get messy, seems mad to turn down the reputed offer and keeping players against their will never works. Fuck him off and let him go and pass to the opposition team and perform the odd trick on the half way line in Brazil.
Paqueta could get messy, seems mad to turn down the reputed offer and keeping players against their will never works. Fuck him off and let him go and pass to the opposition team and perform the odd trick on the half way line in Brazil.
Re: Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread
We really need to sell Bowen. He's played all season and we're 18th and he even played when Paqueta was banned so he's even more to blame.
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WHO has never been known for having intelligent posters but had the wit. Noww we're all thick AND dull.
