Summer 2025 Transfer Window (not Wolves)

[Alan]

Thought you were playing FM or something then Alan, as the only Patrick Agyemang i know is 44!

Incredibly, this is exactly what Dan said the first time I mentioned him here!

You two at least have that in common.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Me and EP are fine, we're like brothers. We scrap and it's all sorted two minutes later

 

[Alan]

Oh I know, I’m just poking.

 

[Kenny]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1941086362205360484

The Barca transfer policy is nuts.

Get player to agree to join
Agree fee with club
Tell player they can't sign just yet as they are not allowed to register him.

Williams eventually turned them down and signed a 10 year deal at his current club.

Barca's reaction...start the process again with another player.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

And Rashford patiently waits hoping they might be interested in him.

 

[Keef]

Burnley sign Kyle walker for £5 million and give him a 2 year deal

 

[Squeak]

Burnley sign Kyle walker for £5 million and give him a 2 year deal

Decent deal for them IMO.

 

[Lupo]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1941444475290558515

 

[Alan]

That’s a fucking miracle of PR.

 

[Keef]

I always think of the local Muslim butcher by where my mom lives and his sign saying
Halal,
Is it meat you’re looking for?

 

[The Bear]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1941444475290558515

Honestly I'd be embarrassed to be any part of that.

Honking.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

The signing has a certain whiff of us signing Irwin when we went up the first time. Pretty sure Walker's legs have gone.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

The signing has a certain whiff of us signing Irwin when we went up the first time. Pretty sure Walker's legs have gone.

Irwin fell off a cliff in the PL season. I remember the home game against Villa when Darius Vassell was so much quicker that it looked like Irwin was standing still. He’d have been ok the previous season but Dave Jones ensured we spent another season in the Championship.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Jones knew that Irwin had gone, Irwin knew that he had gone.

That's why Luzhny was signed, and it seemed a decent signed at the time. But Luznhy just feigned injury and Irwin because he was a good pro played with severe arthritis in each of his big toes.

Luzhny fucked us.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Irwin was very slow by that point but what did us more than anything was he couldn't jump any more. So many simple goals conceded at the back stick.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Irwin was very slow by that point but what did us more than anything was he couldn't jump any more. So many simple goals conceded at the back stick.

Yep, he was still effective on the ball, and made good choices. But his mobility was awful, but he was 38 and had played over 900 games for club and country by that Prem season with us.

Also, inexplicably we very rarely let him take free kicks. What was that about, he scored a cracker against Burnley (?) But he just never seemed to get to take others? Or am I misremembering?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Yeah, was quite strange. Trying to think who would have been on direct free kicks then, Kennedy maybe, or Naylor? Cameron perhaps took a few? We didn't score many/any. Also took one pen in the shootout vs Rotherham and missed, so never took another one for us. But we couldn't score penalties for shit at the time and he had scored loads for Man Utd!

Think we did give him a free kick vs Spurs in his final game and he nearly scored.

Set pieces were not Dave Jones' forté, think we went the best part of a year without scoring off a corner and he said "why bother with corners when you score loads from open play". Presumably set pieces got in the way of him playing golf.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I'd forgot about penalties!! That's even worse.

Just absolutely crazy, unless he actively said he didnt want to take them i can only imagine Jones suggested he shouldn't. Which would be some weird power play.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Jones knew that Irwin had gone, Irwin knew that he had gone.

That's why Luzhny was signed, and it seemed a decent signed at the time. But Luznhy just feigned injury and Irwin because he was a good pro played with severe arthritis in each of his big toes.

Luzhny fucked us.

Luzhny’s last game for Arsenal was in the FA Cup final and he was the MOTM. I think part of the problem was he wasn’t a regular starter at the start of the season and by not playing his fitness levels gradually dropped and he never got close to the level he’d been at when he was at Arsenal. I think we can all agree he certainly wasnt a natural athlete!

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Luzhny’s last game for Arsenal was in the FA Cup final and he was the MOTM. I think part of the problem was he wasn’t a regular starter at the start of the season and by not playing his fitness levels gradually dropped and he never got close to the level he’d been at when he was at Arsenal. I think we can all agree he certainly wasnt a natural athlete!

Yes, which is why it seemed like a good signing., He did start the season injured. But even once he was "fit" he was actively declaring himself not fit and doing the bare minimum in training, so Irwin had to play despite his arthritic toes.