The Summer 2025 Transfer Window Thread

[NicholasG1973]

Does buying Liverpool prospects they're happy to sell

No but if clubs like them and arsenal gonna pinch our best 15/16 year olds we may as well return the favour and offer some of their best prospects a better route to first team football

If they thought these players were anywhere near PL level - trust me - they’d be keeping them for themselves.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Does buying Liverpool prospects they're happy to sell ever go well?

Neco Williams has come good at Forest but at £17m he wasn’t cheap. For every player like him there’s a Sheyi Oji or Jordan Ibe.

 

[NicholasG1973]

Neco Williams has come good at Forest but at £17m he wasn’t cheap. For every player like him there’s a Sheyi Oji or Jordan Ibe.

Conor Coady didn’t do bad eventually.

 

[HanDoJin]

Neco Williams has come good at Forest but at £17m he wasn’t cheap. For every player like him there’s a Sheyi Oji or Jordan Ibe.

Ki-Jana Hoever.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Conor Coady didn’t do bad eventually.

Took Nuno’s genius though. Did ok at Huddersfield, then for us poor in midfield, functional at RB and bloody brilliant as sweeper.

 

[Mel Evo]

offer some of their best prospects a better route to first team football

Fair enough, but they could just loan him to Stoke themselves.

 

[Lycan]

Lots of journalists saying that City are going to let James McAtee go after the U21 Euros in the Summer for around £25M.

 

[Alan]

If they thought these players were anywhere near PL level - trust me - they’d be keeping them for themselves.

There’s a gap between PL quality and Top 5 quality tbf. A player who isn’t expected to break into Liverpool’s XI isn’t necessarily a scrub just based on that.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

There’s a gap between PL quality and Top 5 quality tbf. A player who isn’t expected to break into Liverpool’s XI isn’t necessarily a scrub just based on that.

Liverpool tend to sell absolute shite though. They got about £35m for Hoever, Ibe and Danny Ward. They're not even Championship standard players.

 

[Alan]

Liverpool tend to sell absolute shite though. They got about £35m for Hoever, Ibe and Danny Ward. They're not even Championship standard players.

Sure, but it’s hardly a guarantee that they’ll definitely be shit. Chelsea moved on KdB and Salah once upon a time.

 

[The Bear]

Lots of journalists saying that City are going to let James McAtee go after the U21 Euros in the Summer for around £25M.

Weren't we linked with him last week?

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Sure, but it’s hardly a guarantee that they’ll definitely be shit. Chelsea moved on KdB and Salah once upon a time.

And Frimpong, Sancho and Palmer from City more recently.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

We're on about Liverpool though.

It's like the old rule of being wary of Fergie selling a big name. He wants rid of him because he knows he's had his best days and he wants to cash in before everyone else knows.

 

[sycophantia]

Who was the striker they sold to Sheffield Utd? Was/is garbage

 

[Sniffer]

Brewster

 

[Quirkafleeg]

Who was the striker they sold to Sheffield Utd? Was/is garbage

Rihan Brewster.

 

[Sniffer]

Solanke did ok but i think that they poached him from Chelsea

 

[sycophantia]

Rihan Brewster.

That's the fella, over 20m wasn't he?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Solanke did ok but i think that they poached him from Chelsea

Also took ages for him to be good. His first year at Bournemouth was a major factor in them going down, he was awful and took about 30 games to score a goal, but they'd put all their money into him.

 

[AndyWolves]

No one is saying don't buy prospects from city, Chelsea. It's when Liverpool sell their prospects it's for loads of money and they're usually duds