The Summer 2025 Transfer Window Thread

[Jinky]

The season starts a week tomorrow! That's crept up!

- Jeff Shi & his recruitment team, August 2025.

 

[Jinky]

Back to the rumours for a second.

Is this saying we are interested or were previously and now not bothered?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1953383468143968731

Good to see his agent doing his work in smoking out the actual club that will end up signing him.

 

[prawnking]

What did he do last season? We could/should have had him 20 months ago on loan.

We don't really seem to do loans from big PL clubs?

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

We don't really seem to do loans from big PL clubs?

We don't, the theory being we "don't want to develop other clubs players" but that logic seems narrow to me.

If those loan players improve us and mean we earn more prize money and profile, that can surely be used to buy and attract better players then that's got to be an upside. Also if they don't perform then it isn't our problem if they lose value sat on the bench.

 

[prawnking]

We don't, the theory being we "don't want to develop other clubs players"

We're happy to develop players like RAN for the big boys to buy on the cheap though

 

[Lycan]

You can do without the nicknames and the patronising “you’ve no idea how long a transfer takes” stuff - because that’s just not useful at all. Quite clearly everyone knows we’re not playing a game of football manager/fifa career mode here.

I’m well within my rights to say we’ve fucked the window up at this point, because the manager is going into the first game of the season without the tools required to do his job. I can’t accept many of the excuses offered out for another failed transfer window when it’s about the 4th year in a row of the same pattern.

Also, we might well go sign a superb RWB on the last day of the window - but there’s absolutely no way we address/strengthen the squad to the level almost all of us universally agreed needed to happen when the final game of last season finished. Therefore, it’s been another failure of a window from a squad sense.

I appreciate you’re being more cautious with your criticism, but don’t patronise others for disagreeing.

You clearly don't know or are unwilling to accept how long or how difficult transfers are to complete. You say everybody knows it's not Football Manager but that's exactly how you're acting.

I'm not patronising you for disagreeing, I'm patronising you because you're acting like a child throwing a tantrum in a supermarket because his mum won't buy him sweets and disregarding any reasoned opinion because it would interrupt your biannual windmilling session.

 

[Carsy]

We're happy to develop players like RAN for the big boys to buy on the cheap though

Was just about to say this. Loans or RAN/Cunha still amounts to being a stepping stone club in a roundabout way

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

We're happy to develop players like RAN for the big boys to buy on the cheap though

Ha, yes exactly.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Slater

That’s the badger. Underwhelming at best.

 

[Lycan]

Was just about to say this. Loans or RAN/Cunha still amounts to being a stepping stone club in a roundabout way

The Arias & Wolfe signings seem to point to this as well. Arias is at an age where you'd think he won't make another quick move unless he absolutely smashes it out the park (which is good for everyone) and Wolfe has talked about this being his 'big move'.

López probably the only one so far where we've identified a young player below value with the hope of selling him for profit later but you need a few like that around the squad.

I don't think there's much value in Chelsea cast offs at this point unless we really rate the player. They just charge too much money.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

That’s the badger. Underwhelming at best.

Only cost 75k though.

Claridge ambling around against Arsenal at Villa Park while Keane and Bull watched on still gives me heartburn.

Also I remember Froggatt absolutely destroying Grimandi in the first 5 mins, we didn't get the ball out to him again all game.

Oh well, conversely the prior game at Elland Road is one of my favourites games ever.

 

[Muscat]

What did he do last season? We could/should have had him 20 months ago on loan.

2 in 9 in Turkey but only 282 minutes, then injured his knee or thigh depending on source and needed an operation. Would be a good, cheap alternative to JSL. Agreed should have signed him when we ended up playing Fraser, got outmanoeuvred by Burnley instead.

 

[Law's Bus]

Robbie Slater

It was also the day Neil Emblen returned to us.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I'm not stressed about the first few games at all.

It seems Wolves haven't been either

Since returning to the Premier League in 2018, Wolves have won just one of their 20 league fixtures in this month – an astonishingly poor return that has them on the back foot immediately.

 

[prawnking]

I was looking for that quote, remember seeing that recently.

Those poor starts (and the upheaval and transfer scramblings that usually precede them) are a reason why I'm not sure we can expect everyone to have a 'balanced' view on this transfer window.

We'd all have to be stupid, complacent, Squeak or have unjustifiable blind faith in the club hierarchy not to be disappointed and cynical right now.

A new manager, 'six in a row', staying up, a bit of optimism, money in the bank from sales...yet we'll probably still be seeing S Bueno, H Bueno, Hoever and Hwang ambling round the pitch at various points next Sunday

 

[Alan]

And a Munetsi header

I’ve got my pants ready to be pissed for just such an occasion!

 

[Alan]

I was looking for that quote, remember seeing that recently.

Those poor starts (and the upheaval and transfer scramblings that usually precede them) are a reason why I'm not sure we can expect everyone to have a 'balanced' view on this transfer window.

We'd all have to be stupid, complacent, Squeak or have unjustifiable blind faith in the club hierarchy not to be disappointed and cynical right now.

A new manager, 'six in a row', staying up, a bit of optimism, money in the bank from sales...yet we'll probably still be seeing S Bueno, H Bueno, Hoever and Hwang ambling round the pitch at various points next Sunday

It’s really only been two of our seasons back in the Prem that have started so poorly tbf. 15 points from the first 10 in 18/19, 12 in 19/20, 17 in 20/21 (weird for that to be our best start under Nuno), 16 in 21/22 (how fucked is that??), bottom fell out in 22/23 (6 from the first 10), 12 in 23/24, and then finally, last season the nearly apocalyptic 3 points from 10.

I admit that the trendline is concerning, and obviously there is an inextricable relationship between the squad and performances, but I do think the recency bias of just how fucking shit we were under GO has an impact here. It wouldn’t be inconceivable to me that someone could look at those two worst seasons and say “well, yeah, we were managed by a couple of bitchass poser cunts those seasons”.

As someone who always felt that the squad has had more talent than it tended to show under GO’s “too complicated for them to understand” tactics, the dipshit managers were the more destructive elements in our most, er, concerning stretches of form. IMV, obv.

 

[Kenny]

Here is your deadline day, missed out on main targets signing

https://twitter.com/x/status/1953413303301964021

 

[Kenny]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1953415341763084443

 

[Lycan]

Here is your deadline day, missed out on main targets signing

https://twitter.com/x/status/1953413303301964021

https://twitter.com/x/status/1953415341763084443

https://archive.ph/2025.08.07-110426/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-14979183/Wolves-transfer-news-Vitor-Pereira-Teti-targets.html

Link to the article where those quotes have come from. Not a whole lot of new info there but still an interesting read.

I like van Ewijk btw, I'd be happy if we ended up with him.