Summer Transfer Window 2025

This has ruined my day

Over to you, then, Mr Edu.

Harvey Elliot and James McAtee seem to be the main names linked. Both good players but it changes the pace dynamic considerably.

Needs a couple of rapid wingers if so.

I think we can safely assume we'll be playing a different set of systems next year. If we lost Anderson now then I'd be despairing.

You'd expect the combined fee would be close to .. what ...£70m? More?!

The pace thing stopped working in the last 6 weeks of the season anyway. I may be wrong but wasn't ManU the last real breakaway goal?

Teams wouldn't let us do that at home next season and most wouldn't away.

Saw City want 20-25 for McAtee.

We need homegrown talent for the Europeans.

I saw similar in a story today that Atalanta are interested in him. And perversely, losing MGW might make us a bit more attractive as it reduces competition for a starting spot.

The last guy who tore it up on loan at Sheffield United but then got frustrated at not being able to break into his Premier League team turned out all right.

Anyway, I thought you were all about the value of domestic experience?

I confess, I haven't seen enough of him play to have a worthwhile opinion as to his value, financial or otherwise.

I suspect we'll keep Danilo now, so if he can get back in the groove maybe we can have a random Brazilian with domestic experience. Best of all worlds.

Homegrown: Hennessey, Aina, Williams, Yates, Anderson, Hudson-Odoi, Awoniyi, Wood. Add Richards, possibly, as the only one of the fringe players who they might keep.

That's your 8, so no issue if they all stick around. No change to the European issue where we only have 1 club developed in the senior squad.

My pragmatism has deserted me. Utterly gutted. This feels like Cooper Campbell.