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Transfers Summer 2026 Transfer Thread

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_mehstg said:
We need a new forward line. Not one of our forwards is a threat. None of them scare the opposition and none of them can change a game for us. Yes, they will score the odd goal but we literally have to rebuild the front three next season. RKM obviously won't return. Watching him play is as frustrating as eating soup with chop sticks. Solanke reminds me of one of those players who doesn't really like football. Its a career for him. Richy can not lead the line. He was played through with a head start so many times last night and every time he was caught and muscled off the ball within 5 yards. Tel is simply not good enough. Yes he's young, but I don't think he's going to be a top player. Same for Odobert. Kudus is probably the only one I'd keep.
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Tel - 35m + 10m
Odobert - 30m
Richy - 58m
Solanke - 65m
Kudus - 64m
Simmons - 65m

297 MILLION spent on a forward line that has produced just 20 EPL goals this season.

Even if they were all fully fit; its hard to see where the goals will come from.
 
harry7 said:
Tel - 35m + 10m
Odobert - 30m
Richy - 58m
Solanke - 65m
Kudus - 64m
Simmons - 65m

297 MILLION spent on a forward line that has produced just 20 EPL goals this season.

Even if they were all fully fit; its hard to see where the goals will come from.
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Don't forget RKM cost PSG 75m + 15m. I know we didn't pay that but if you add that value in, its thoroughly depressing.

And just when you think it couldn't be even more depressing, Thiago cost Brentford about 30m and he has 22 EPL goals this season.
 
_mehstg said:
Don't forget RKM cost PSG 75m + 15m. I know we didn't pay that but if you add that value in, its thoroughly depressing.

And just when you think it couldn't be even more depressing, Thiago cost Brentford about 30m and he has 22 EPL goals this season.
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Until the officiating problems in football are resolved, we will probably see less and less prolific strikers as time goes on. It feels like premier league teams will just start recruiting rugby players to attack set pieces and be done with it.
 
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Premier League

The 2026 Premier League summer transfer window will open on Monday 15 June.

La Liga

The 2026 La Liga summer transfer window will open on Wednesday 1 July.

Serie A

The 2026 Serie A summer transfer window will open on Monday 29 June.

Bundesliga

The 2026 Bundesliga summer transfer window will open on Wednesday 1 July.

Ligue 1

The 2026 Ligue 1 summer transfer window will open on Wednesday 1 July.

Saudi Pro League

The 2026 Saudi Pro League summer transfer window will open on Wednesday 22 July.

When does the summer transfer window close?​



Premier League

The 2026 Premier League summer transfer window will close on Monday 31 August.

La Liga

The 2026 La Liga summer transfer window will close on Tuesday 1 September.

Serie A

The 2026 Serie A summer transfer window will close on Tuesday 1 September.

Bundesliga

The 2026 Bundesliga summer transfer window will close on Monday 31 August.

Ligue 1

The 2026 Ligue 1 summer transfer window will close on Monday 31 August.

Saudi Pro League

The 2026 Saudi Pro League summer transfer window will close on Monday 12 October.

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Very simple solution if we stay up
We need to fully cull the current leadership group which means good bye to Vic, Romero, VDV and Porro. These 4 will forever be associated with the 24/25 and 25/26 league results but we should be able to hold out and get decent fees for the lot of them. Next, I would get shot of Spence (show pony and not good enough), Sarr (not good enough - ceiling reached already), Richy (slow and genuinely rubbish), Dragusin (overrated) and Solanke (unreliable and not even remotely good enough). Don't waste time bartering on these 5, just move them on to the first bidder. With no European football we don't need to bring in 9 players for the 9 leaving... 4 or 5 to improve the first eleven. Love the Kinsky redemption arc but go get Verburggen from Brighton. We then need to bring Vuskovic back and get Senesi in on a free and then buy another top CB. Someone like Scalvini from Atalanta. Danso would then be 4th choice. We then need a top draw RB. I've been impressed with Kayode at Brentford, he will do. I am happy to see if Bayern would do another one season loan on Palhinha but no way I'm parting way with 30m for a guy that will be 31 before next season starts. But the biggest thing this club can do is go all in on a top 9. We need a player that strikes fear into the opposition whoever they are. Test the water with Osimhen. It will be like singing Klinsmann when we were utter dross. He comes with a ton of baggage and would cost 60m in transfer and another 25m in salary per year. But what a statement it would be. That is what we need. A player who can win a game on his own. Can you imagine a front 4 of Kudus on the right, Gallagher or Madders (depending on opponents) in the ten, Osimhen up top and Simons (or a proper left winger) coming in off the left.
 
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_mehstg said:
Very simple solution if we stay up
We need to fully cull the current leadership group which means good bye to Vic, Romero, VDV and Porro. These 4 will forever be associated with the 24/25 and 25/26 league results but we should be able to hold out and get decent fees for the lot of them. Next, I would get shot of Spence (show pony and not good enough), Sarr (not good enough - ceiling reached already), Richy (slow and genuinely rubbish), Dragusin (overrated) and Solanke (unreliable and not even remotely good enough). Don't waste time bartering on these 5, just move them on to the first bidder. With no European football we don't need to bring in 9 players for the 9 leaving... 4 or 5 to improve the first eleven. Love the Kinsky redemption arc but go get Verburggen from Brighton. We then need to being Vuskovic in get Senesi in on a free and the buy another top CB. Someone like Scalvini from Atalanta. Danso would then be 4th choice. We then need a top draw RB. I've been impressed with Kayode at Brentford, he will do. I am happy to see if Bayern would do another one season loan on Palhinha but no way I'm parting way with 30m for a guy that will be 31 before next season starts. But the biggest thing this club can do is go all in on a top 9. We need a player that strikes fear into the opposition whoever they are. Test the water with Osimhen. It will be like singing Klinsmann when we were utter dross. He comes with a ton of baggage and would cost 60m in transfer and another 25m in salary per year. But what a statement it would be. That is what we need. A player who can win a game on his own. Can you imagine a front 4 of Kudus on the right, Gallagher or Madders (depending on opponents) in the ten, Osimhen up top and Simons (or a proper left winger) coming in off the left.
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Not really sure you can follow “very simple solution” with a completely unprecedented level of transfer ins and outs.
 
_mehstg said:
Very simple solution if we stay up
We need to fully cull the current leadership group which means good bye to Vic, Romero, VDV and Porro. These 4 will forever be associated with the 24/25 and 25/26 league results but we should be able to hold out and get decent fees for the lot of them. Next, I would get shot of Spence (show pony and not good enough), Sarr (not good enough - ceiling reached already), Richy (slow and genuinely rubbish), Dragusin (overrated) and Solanke (unreliable and not even remotely good enough). Don't waste time bartering on these 5, just move them on to the first bidder. With no European football we don't need to bring in 9 players for the 9 leaving... 4 or 5 to improve the first eleven. Love the Kinsky redemption arc but go get Verburggen from Brighton. We then need to being Vuskovic in get Senesi in on a free and the buy another top CB. Someone like Scalvini from Atalanta. Danso would then be 4th choice. We then need a top draw RB. I've been impressed with Kayode at Brentford, he will do. I am happy to see if Bayern would do another one season loan on Palhinha but no way I'm parting way with 30m for a guy that will be 31 before next season starts. But the biggest thing this club can do is go all in on a top 9. We need a player that strikes fear into the opposition whoever they are. Test the water with Osimhen. It will be like singing Klinsmann when we were utter dross. He comes with a ton of baggage and would cost 60m in transfer and another 25m in salary per year. But what a statement it would be. That is what we need. A player who can win a game on his own. Can you imagine a front 4 of Kudus on the right, Gallagher or Madders (depending on opponents) in the ten, Osimhen up top and Simons (or a proper left winger) coming in off the left.
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A number of our players who we need to move on (eg Bissouma at end of his contract) will not generate much in the way of fees, yet to buy any decent player the average price will be anywhere between £50m and £100m.

So I'd guess we might be looking at bringing in up to say 8 players of whom one/two might be free, and likely a few of our u21 players (eg Vuskovic, Phillips, Devine, Lankshear) - so we pay decent money for maybe 3 players - Eg.

GK Vicario out (£20m), Darlow in (free)
CB Romero out (£60m), Vuskovic as starter.
CB Dragusin (£30m - agent keeps on demanding a move) , Phillips as 4th CB,
CM Palhinha (£30m) convert from loan
CM/AM Devine (versatile CM/AM) may be needed as AM backup to Maddison depending on Kuludevski recovery timescales, can also play CM/DM
FWD 1 Player able to score/assist and play right sided
FW 2 As FWD 1, but mainly play left sided
CF Lankshear back up to Solanke
Kolo Muani (loan ends) and likely Richarlison leave, as well as Bissouma and Sarr.

Whilst we don't have european matches (which means a 60 game season) we will still be playing a 45 game season, but we use 2026/27 as a season to bring through some of our best most experienced youngsters (Vuskovic, Phillips, Devine Lankshear) some of whom will fly, one or two might prove to be average (but replacing players such as Bissouma who have been average for Spurs). This is a good preparation for 2927/28 when we hope to be back in europe with a need for a larger squad and 'Club Trained players)

The biggest issues we have atm is lack of creativity and lack of goal scorers - the first will be alleviated with Maddison back, don't know about Kulusevski, Simons out until next spring, so Devine in fills a possible gap. The second (goalscorers) is a real problem as there are few good goalscorers in europe - so we need to buy plus try to bring through Lankshear. IMO we need to replace both Kolo Muani and Richarlison, so we need to keep Solanke and see if Lankshear can show enough next season - leaving us with :

RW - Kudus + new Fwd
CF - Solanke + Lankshear
LW - New Fwd + Tel and Odobert
 
Rafa’sWand said:
Yes it’s a massive issue if he’s lost his biggest attribute. I didn’t rate him when he arrived. I’m tired of football being dominated by work horses (in the main) and technical ability is forced out. Yes every team needs grafters but not the whole eleven. Was it ever revealed the reason why he was out so long with the rumours etc?
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That saying "hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard" has been taken far too much to heart by too many people.

You should be looking at a players talent first and foremost, and then asking the question of does he work hard. Working hard should be in addition to the talent, not in place of it.
 
Timberwolf said:
I think keeper is a position where we can strategically kick the can down the road so we can focus spending in other positions.

Sell Vic for 15m or whatever, make Kinsky our provisional number 1 and bring in a cheap, homegrown, PL proven backup. We've been linked to Karl Darlow from Leeds who is out of contract in the summer and I think he'd be ideal. Still good enough to play PL football (he's been decent for Leeds this year) and cover for Kinsky if need be, while being a solid number 2 in the medium term. At 35 years old we can probably get 3-4 years out of him as a backup.

Then if Kinsky turns out to not be good enough we can always loan or sell him in Jan/next summer and then spend proper money on a new long term number 1.

Spending like 40m on Trafford or someone this summer just feels a bit unnecessary when we might have a 40m keeper at the club already. And the only way to find that out is to give Kinsky an extended run in the team.
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I think the personality and cajones that Kinsky has shown allied with the fact that his passing makes him the prototypical De Zerbi keeper means we should probably give him the job next year and sign an experienced backup who’s also good with his feet.

To me, if we stay up, all the money has to go on top of the line forwards and a passing midfielder.
 
AberdeenYid said:
What? Nine first team squad members out and five back in? My memory is playing up. I can’t recall that happening before.
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The outs are only 8 but not quite as unprecedented as you might think... maybe book into to see your GP... he might be able to help with Hebridean Brain Fog

Summer of 24/25

Out - never to return

Rodon
Parrott
Royal
Skipp
Hojberg
Gill
Veliz
Solomon

In

Bergvall
Gray
Solanke
Odobert
Werner (on loan)
 
_mehstg said:
The outs are only 8 but not quite as unprecedented as you might think... maybe book into to see your GP... he might be able to help with Hebridean Brain Fog

Summer of 24/25

Out - never to return

Rodon
Parrott
Royal
Skipp
Hojberg
Gill
Veliz
Solomon

In

Bergvall
Gray
Solanke
Odobert
Werner (on loan)
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Your first team squad members are slightly below the quality and price of the ones you want rid of this summer. Feel free to take this as a win though. Pretty sure it’ll be a lone open top bus parade though.
 
_mehstg said:
The outs are only 8 but not quite as unprecedented as you might think... maybe book into to see your GP... he might be able to help with Hebridean Brain Fog

Summer of 24/25

Out - never to return

Rodon
Parrott
Royal
Skipp
Hojberg
Gill
Veliz
Solomon

In

Bergvall
Gray
Solanke
Odobert
Werner (on loan)
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How many of those were actual quality first teamers though? And that's where the issue lies.
If you're wanting to sell Romero, VdV, Porro and umpteen other first team players, we need to be upgrading on them and it'll be nigh on impossible to replace that many.

Most of the players you mention here hardly ever played for us.
And many people complained about that window because the only 'first team' player we got in was Solanke - we shifted plenty of bodies around but didn't strengthen the first team at all, which is why we are here now.
 
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