Official January '25 Transfer Window Thread

[stubbo-admin]

Official Transfer Window Thread | I'll try and stay current with signings and rumours.

Could be The Scarf's last chance to prove his worth as well as make-or-break for Lopetegui who needs to shuffle the back to suit what we're trying to do more.

Rumoured In:

• Ewan Ferguson, ST (Brighton)
• Carney Chukwumeka, CM (Chelsea)
• Carlos Soler, CM (PSG, Loan to Perm)
• Emmanuel Latte Lath, ST (Middlesbrough)
• Shea Charles, CM (Southampton)
• Ezekiel Banzuzi, CM (Leuven)
• Arthur Carbral, ST (Benfica)
• Taiwo Awoniyi, ST (Forest)
• Igor Jesus, ST (Botofogo)
• Marcus Rashford, FW (Man Utd)
• Jonathan David, ST (Lille)
• Evann Guessand, ST, (Nice)
• Randal Kolo Muani, ST, (PSG)
• Kieran Dewsbury-Hall , CM, (Chelsea)
• André Silva, ST, (RB Leipzig)
• Elye Wahi, ST, (Marseille)
• Kristjan Asllani, CM, (Inter)
• Rodrigo Muniz, ST, (Fulham)
• Callum Wilson, ST, (Newcastle)
• Ansu Fati, AM, (Barcelona)
• Angel Gomes, CM, (Lille, pre-contract)
• Adam Webster, CB, (Brighton)
• Brian Brobbey, ST, (Ajax)
• Ricardo Pepi, ST, (PSV)
• James McAtee, MF, (Man City)
• Yuri Alberto, ST, (Corinthians)
• Tyler Morton, DM, (Liverpool)

Rumoured Out:

• Kudus (Liverpool, Newcastle, Arsenal)
• Fullkrüg (Juventus)
• Rodriguez (Betis)
• Alvarez (Monaco)
• Emerson (Juventus)
• Luis Guilherme (Al Hilal)

Confirmed In:

• Josh Landers (!), ST (Hibernian)
• James Ward-Prowse, MF, (Nottigham Forest | Return from loan)
• Evan Ferguson, ST, (Brighton, Loan...no option/obligation to buy)

Confirmed Out:

• Max Cornet (Genoa, Loan)
• Favour Fawunmi
• Sean Tarima
• Junior Robinson — Sutton United (loan)
• Regan Clayton — Dagenham & Redbridge (loan)
• Brad Dolaghan — Aldershot Town (loan)
• Michael Forbes — Colchester United (loan)
• Krisztian Hegyi — Debreceni (loan)

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[ragingbull]

‘We have a lot of professional players. Sometimes players make mistakes. It’s an ugly situation ‘His attitude was not good. It’s a little bit of a club problem’ - Ivan Juric on Flynn Downes

On twitter,looks like a new club next season.

[Mex Martillo]

Interesting, he was a good player for us. But obviously too old now. No idea if he can be an ok backup for us.

[Manuel]

Wolves are in talks with Craig Dawson about paying up the final six months of his contract to make him a free agent, talkSPORT understands. Dawson has been told he will not be in Wolves's revised 25-man Premier League squad for the rest of the season. Leicester and West Ham would potentially be interested in signing him as a free agent.

Dawson previously played for West Ham, initially on loan from Watford before his move was made permanent in 2021.He left the Hammers at the beginning of 2023 for Wolves, making 61 appearances in total since.

[Rossal]

Yeah Forest have been awesome this season, he started in the team but they only won one once in those 5 starts.....his debut away at Anfield. Got sent off at Chelsea. Hasn't been able to get a sniff since. Forest have been superb but largely when he isn't playing so what does that tell you? 

Rossal - This ain't hard mate, regardless of what ones opinion of him may be in recent times, and I'm not really a fan myself, but he's proved he's a capable operator at this level, so how about we just wait to see what Potter can get out of him? Potter must think he can or surely he wouldn't be back. No, he's not suddenly going to morph into Edgar Davis, but he may surprise us all, and it's not like we have many, or any, great players in his position.

Tend to agree. He's obviously a capable operator or wouldn't have had the career he has, but also has obvious limitations. All about if the manager can harness his strengths without exposing his weaknesses by formulating a system and gameplan that works with him in the side.

We're seeing the same thing with players that looked terrible under Lopetegui who was wedded to 'his' way, versus Potter who seems more open to assessing his availability and devising a plan that works for them.

Time will tell, but suspect JWP will prove himself useful, without being transformational or pulling up trees.

Worst thing about his return will likely be the loss of minutes from Orford.

Yeah I don't hate JWP at all and hope Potter can get him back to his best. The original point was me saying how much better players seem to get in our fans eyes once they leave us.......so my opinion on him was in reference to that. He will need to be much better than he was the last 6 months here to get near the side IMO and as you say coming towards the end of the season are we not better off giving minutes to Orford than JWP?  Unless we get a free kick 30 yards out! 

[Sydney_Iron]

I hope I'm not policing the forum with that last post.

“Evenin' all!"

"'Ello, 'ello, 'ello" what’s been going on here then?

[stubbo]

I'm pretty sure he was saying "he's not even good enought to get in forrest's t's team, what does that say about him"

Forest have been awesome this season, stars or not they've got a system that works so it says very little about jwp and more about how nunes has goes them playing

Yeah Forest have been awesome this season, he started in the team but they only won one once in those 5 starts.....his debut away at Anfield. Got sent off at Chelsea. Hasn't been able to get a sniff since. Forest have been superb but largely when he isn't playing so what does that tell you? 

Rossal - This ain't hard mate, regardless of what ones opinion of him may be in recent times, and I'm not really a fan myself, but he's proved he's a capable operator at this level, so how about we just wait to see what Potter can get out of him? Potter must think he can or surely he wouldn't be back. No, he's not suddenly going to morph into Edgar Davis, but he may surprise us all, and it's not like we have many, or any, great players in his position.

Tend to agree. He's obviously a capable operator or wouldn't have had the career he has, but also has obvious limitations. All about if the manager can harness his strengths without exposing his weaknesses by formulating a system and gameplan that works with him in the side.

We're seeing the same thing with players that looked terrible under Lopetegui who was wedded to 'his' way, versus Potter who seems more open to assessing his availability and devising a plan that works for them.

Time will tell, but suspect JWP will prove himself useful, without being transformational or pulling up trees.

Worst thing about his return will likely be the loss of minutes from Orford.

[Manuel]

I hope I'm not policing the forum with that last post.

[Manuel]

I'm pretty sure he was saying "he's not even good enought to get in forrest's t's team, what does that say about him"

Forest have been awesome this season, stars or not they've got a system that works so it says very little about jwp and more about how nunes has goes them playing

Yeah Forest have been awesome this season, he started in the team but they only won one once in those 5 starts.....his debut away at Anfield. Got sent off at Chelsea. Hasn't been able to get a sniff since. Forest have been superb but largely when he isn't playing so what does that tell you? 

Rossal - This ain't hard mate, regardless of what ones opinion of him may be in recent times, and I'm not really a fan myself, but he's proved he's a capable operator at this level, so how about we just wait to see what Potter can get out of him? Potter must think he can or surely he wouldn't be back. No, he's not suddenly going to morph into Edgar Davis, but he may surprise us all, and it's not like we have many, or any, great players in his position.

[Rossal]

I'm pretty sure he was saying "he's not even good enought to get in forrest's t's team, what does that say about him"

Forest have been awesome this season, stars or not they've got a system that works so it says very little about jwp and more about how nunes has goes them playing

Yeah Forest have been awesome this season, he started in the team but they only won one once in those 5 starts.....his debut away at Anfield. Got sent off at Chelsea. Hasn't been able to get a sniff since. Forest have been superb but largely when he isn't playing so what does that tell you? 

[Sir Alf]

L’Orient owner is Bournemouth owner so was never a chance by the sounds of things

[twoleftfeet]

I see that we offered Lorient £35m for Kroupal but the agent was reluctant to accept it.

Instead he went to Bournemouth for £10m

[Mad Dog]

I'm pretty sure he was saying "he's not even good enought to get in forrest's t's team, what does that say about him"

Forest have been awesome this season, stars or not they've got a system that works so it says very little about jwp and more about how nunes has goes them playing

[,]

Actually rossal said the Forest midfield was hardly filled with superstars not that they were shit, as mad dog posted.

And I agree with rossal because it just goes to show what you can get out of competent professionals with good coaching and tactics. 







 

[Mad Dog]

Rosal, is this the same Nottingham forest team of stars that are currently 3rd in the Premier league.  Yep they're shit

[Mad Dog]

Formals often found himself on moyes' naughty step (left wing)
the dour one often failed to use him at his best and hes not the only player that suffered as a result of the rigid boring one note jock twat either 

[El Scorchio]

Yeah he did. I also don’t think ‘I wish he was here’ but would I rather than some of the players since? Yes. 

[Rossal]

Did he though? Can't remember seeing too many matches since he left and thinking 'ahh we could really of done with Fornals here' 

[El Scorchio]

Fornals seems to be the latest one who's ability vastly improves since he left us. The reason he left was because he wasn't getting in the team. He wasn't getting in the team as he wasn't that good. 

Yes he loved the club and gave his all, but aside from the odd decent goal he didnt consistently perform enough for us. Wasnt good enough out wide, couldn't finish well enough to be a 10.....wasn't a 6 or 8..... 

Yet now he has been gone a while all of a sudden he was a great loss to us.......same for JWP the last week or so, people forget him second half of last season......and the fact he hasn't troubled a Forest midfield hardly filled with superstars. 

No-one has said that about Fornals. It was only pointed out he offered more than some of the players we currently have (true) and that GP would love his attitude (also true) and have got more out of him than Moyes. (also true)

[Rossal]

Fornals seems to be the latest one who's ability vastly improves since he left us. The reason he left was because he wasn't getting in the team. He wasn't getting in the team as he wasn't that good. 

Yes he loved the club and gave his all, but aside from the odd decent goal he didnt consistently perform enough for us. Wasnt good enough out wide, couldn't finish well enough to be a 10.....wasn't a 6 or 8..... 

Yet now he has been gone a while all of a sudden he was a great loss to us.......same for JWP the last week or so, people forget him second half of last season......and the fact he hasn't troubled a Forest midfield hardly filled with superstars. 

[El Scorchio]

Be mad to sign Soler permanently. Reminds me a bit of Lanzini after his injury just not as good.

Fornals offered us more also. 

GP would have absolutely loved Fornals, and probably Benny. Would have got way more of a tune out of them than Moyes.

[El Scorchio]

Pretty much as expected. We aren't in danger of going down and will be handy when everyone is actually fit again so it was obvious Sullivan would try and get away with spending absolutely nothing. Ferguson is pretty cheap as a loan only.

In a way it's good we didn't usually do what we do and sign an Ings type older player the manager obviously didn't ask for on a mid length contract that instantly becomes a millstone round our necks as soon as the ink is dry. Would have liked a CB though. It's mad going into games with Cresswell and Coufal in a back three, but props to GP, he's actually managing to put together something that functions even with that sort of constraint. He even got Soucek and Irvin as a pair of relative strangers not in preferred positions to form a very decent partnership in midfield. I bet Sullivan is delighted he's lucked into a manager who can seemingly make decent teams out of dogshit rather than dogshit out of decent teams for once. Thinking of all that extra cash to roll around in on his marble floor.

[dealcanvey]

Be mad to sign Soler permanently. Reminds me a bit of Lanzini after his injury just not as good.

Fornals offered us more also. 

[twoleftfeet]

If you want to see how to announce a new signing then check out Burnley’s for Marcus Edwards 

For all you Friends fans out there

[Full Claret Jacket]

Rest of the season we can hopefully see whether the young players can break into the team. Potter has shown he is not afraid to use them. I would have preferred a centre back or better midfield option but he is clearly giving JWP and Soler a chance to adapt to his system. 
This season is a bust. Hopefully next season we can  have something good to watch that gets us results most weeks. Be lucky to get European spots even next year as I think other clubs are better and have depth and some of those currently struggling like Spurs and Man Utd will do better next year. 

[Sir Alf]

That is a problem that needs to be fixed for sure Manuel. I’ve become obsessed about central midfield and it’s inability to press and control games. Soucek and Soler and Irvine were no match for Caiecedo and Fernandez in terms of speed of movement and strength. It is a collective thing as a team mind so not just them but we struggle to match a lot of teams in that area of the pitch so invariably have to set up in a Moyesball style, deeper and resort to longer balls to the front men and not able to build enough thru the middle. 

So lets hope Potter, Macaulay address it in the summer. We need a couple of players with strength, pace, legs.