Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread

[stubbo-admin]

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)

[El Scorchio]

Forest's owner might be mental but you can't say he's not giving his club every chance to survive by going for plenty of players of a decent quality.

Unlike Sullivan sitting on his hands with one eye on the shop soiled damaged goods bargain bin waiting for a yellow sticker each day.

Both men rumoured to be dodgy in their own ways, but one of them is doing what it takes for the best bet of remaining a premier league owner come May.

[onsideman]

We will have to pay silly money to loan a decent CB. Sullivan and the board dont believe we can escape imo.  Its token gesture bids or prospective loans to keep fans off their back.   

We are a failing business courtesy of a “not fit for purpose”, incompetent owner, facilitated by a inept, weak board. Add to that a part time CEO who has only worked for one boss and who was promoted to roles she didnt earn by her achievements but simply because she was and remains a “brown nose”.  Amateurs with egos who dont and cant listen. 

BS and board taking us down faster than Katie Price’s drawers

Do you just spend all your time drafting different ways to say the same thing?

[Sir Alf]

We will have to pay silly money to loan a decent CB. Sullivan and the board dont believe we can escape imo.  Its token gesture bids or prospective loans to keep fans off their back.   

We are a failing business courtesy of a “not fit for purpose”, incompetent owner, facilitated by a inept, weak board. Add to that a part time CEO who has only worked for one boss and who was promoted to roles she didnt earn by her achievements but simply because she was and remains a “brown nose”.  Amateurs with egos who dont and cant listen. 

BS and board taking us down faster than Katie Price’s drawers

[Fauxstralian]

Personally I also would be looking at a loan having sent Igor back
Hopefully players who can help us survive & we rethink in the summer
We aren’t going to be able to find someone capable of filling in for Fernandes 
And of course we have left it to the last couple of days of the window 
Sullivan … we tried
 

[stubbo-admin]

Frankly I'd get Disasi in.

Would rather him on loan than Harwood-Bellis on a perm, as neither are inspiring...Disasi at least has a physicality about him though not good with the ball at his feet, but strong in the air.  Didn't play much for Villa (10 games?) but was MoM in one of them and played out of position too.

Injury to Fernandes is the one that really concerns me, as it causes our whole midfield to fall apart. Not just that we can't replace him, but without his ability to 'do everything be everywhere' it renders Soucek unplayable at the same time, and that rips out the nucleus of our side.

If we have money to spend, I'd be looking for someone to come in and be backup to him. Would rather we spent solid money on a gamble with upside like Hayden Hackney, and loaned a CB who is likely to be a bench option anyway, than spent money on another sub-par CB and left midfield susceptible to such a body blow.

[Fauxstralian]

Might have been mentioned but social media story about Taylor Harwood-Bellis being mentioned as an alternative to Disasi
Left far too late I imagine as Southampton would need a replacement 
 

[stubbo-admin]

What's happened to Orford, not really progressing how he would have hoped?

Had that bad loan, and fallen behind Kante in the pecking order (I'm guessing because of physicality) as well as both Potts and Magassa being ahead of him in the deeper laying role.

Surprised he didn't go back out on loan in January. He's of course got time on his side, but really needs to go on loan and make an impression somewhere.  Also needs to become evident just what his midfield role is...is he physical enough to play CDM or Box to Box, or creative enough to play 10?  

[Manuel]

What's happened to Orford, not really progressing how he would have hoped?

[El Scorchio]

Well if he ought to be in and around our first team, he ought to be starting for Bristol city. 

[Alfs]

Maybe, just maybe, Earthy's not good enough.  I love to see our youth coming through but sometimes you need to take off the claret and blue glasses.

[DiCaniosLeftNut]

Paqueta officially gone on the O/S

[onsideman]

He should never have gone there without some game time guarantee. It's so detrimental to his career. Keep him or send him somewhere he'll get game time. I'd understand if they were on a huge run... Our club is a joke

 

 

Drink taken. As you were 

[onsideman]

He should never have gone there without some game time guarantee. It's so detrimental to his career. Keep him or send him somewhere he'll get game time. I'd understand if they were on a huge run... Our club is a joke

[twoleftfeet]

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Bristol City v Derby tonight
Earthy on the bench. Again
0-3 at half time. Still on the bench
Waste of fucking time

Bristol City making him feel at home, 4 down at home. 

[onsideman]

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Bristol City v Derby tonight
Earthy on the bench. Again
0-3 at half time. Still on the bench
Waste of fucking time

[Takashi Miike]

Brown asset stripped, but the 4ft cսnt has taken it to another level

[Jaan Kenbrovin]

Even for Sullivan, it's actually unbelievable that we are a couple of days away from the transfer deadline and our squad is actually worse now than before the window.

[kylay]

I’m willing to think this Disasi thing is a sort of “money ball” transfer. 
in that he was sold to Chelsea for nearly 40m from Monaco so clearly was not shit. Then I hear both Chelsea and Villa played him at RB and his best position is CB. 

So is he another mispriced asset? We’ve seen it with Lingard, Dawson, AWB and Wilson.

will reserve judgement until I see him play in his real position. 
hopefully he’s kept himself fit. But I kind of think would I want him to come on instead of Killman at 85 minutes? Right now probably yeah. 

 

So does us paying 40 million for Killman mean he's not shit?

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Is Actual Disaster joining on loan or not?

[Massive Attack]

Re Axel D Rosenior said he would not stop any players leaving if they  could play first team football 

[Westham67]

Re Axel D Rosenior said he would not stop any players leaving if they  could play first team football 

[El Scorchio]

The Pole seems like a good choice. You can never do with too many plumbers round the joint.!

I don’t believe for a moment we are seriously in for him. Happy to be wrong about it though. 

[El Scorchio]

There's talk that Disasi has stalled and we're back considering bloody Harwood-Bellis from Southampton.

Assume will be a last day panic and we take Igor back from Brighton again

It would be peak Sullivan to re sign Igor at 11pm on deadline day. He’s fucking shameless. 

Harwood Bellis Id be ok with. I wonder why we haven’t tried Magassa there yet tbh.

[RBshorty]

The Pole seems like a good choice. You can never do with too many plumbers round the joint.!

[Massive Attack]

There's talk that Disasi has stalled and we're back considering bloody Harwood-Bellis from Southampton.

Assume will be a last day panic and we take Igor back from Brighton again

Better alternative. He should be preferred over Disasi anyway.