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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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He´s lining up Enics pockets, which has been the plan all along for this gooner maggot troll of a chairman we've got!
After Zoolander 2 he just was never the same. Hard pass for me.
Forgive me but I gave Levy the benefit of the doubt, buying into training ground, stadium first, then the attraction of both would bring better players and of course the money to fund them!
As the 25/26 season approaches after finishing 17th in the league the previous season, exposing the manager and Solanke, Johnson, Maddison, Benny, Bissouma, Richarlison and regretfully Sonny as not being good enough. Anyone with an ounce of footballing nous could see these players are mid-table level at best and if our chairman's statement of wanting to win The EPL and CL had any real truth about it then these players would have been up for sale this window, bringing in 150m+ in sales and their wages reconfigured to have brought in 4, if an additional 80m+ been added to this 150m+, top class additions who just might have pushed us close to our chairman's wishes!
As the 25/26 season approaches after finishing 17th in the league the previous season, exposing the manager and Solanke, Johnson, Maddison, Benny, Bissouma, Richarlison and regretfully Sonny as not being good enough. Anyone with an ounce of footballing nous could see these players are mid-table level at best and if our chairman's statement of wanting to win The EPL and CL had any real truth about it then these players would have been up for sale this window, bringing in 150m+ in sales and their wages reconfigured to have brought in 4, if an additional 80m+ been added to this 150m+, top class additions who just might have pushed us close to our chairman's wishes!
Fuming over MGW 
Woke up to find 40+ pages added here, with no signings (surprise surprise) and that MGW has signed a new contract (well knock me over with a feather). The drama yet inactivity that continually occurs around and about this club is beyond a farce. So it’s Ramsey 5hen is it?
So many unanswered questions. Were we ever seriously after MGW? Did Marianarkis threaten to sit on MGWs sister? Was MGW just using us to get a wage rise?
Stuff it who gives a fuck. If we were a serious club we’d now go and pay the 8 mil extra it would cost us to get Eze. We are not though, so will end up with someone like Ramsey or Grealish on loan.
It was obvious from our practice games we desperately need another creative 10. We know Maddison won’t play more than about 60-75% of games.
Hell we are considering Pahlinha or Luis as defensive mids ffs! Shows where Daniel ‘I want to win the premiership and Champions league’ ambition really lies (or should that be lack of ambition?)
We have been so conditioned by the ENIC admin that many here think Pahlinha would be a good addition ffs, when we should be going for a Baleba or Stiller type.
Sheesh it beggars belief.
So many unanswered questions. Were we ever seriously after MGW? Did Marianarkis threaten to sit on MGWs sister? Was MGW just using us to get a wage rise?
Stuff it who gives a fuck. If we were a serious club we’d now go and pay the 8 mil extra it would cost us to get Eze. We are not though, so will end up with someone like Ramsey or Grealish on loan.
It was obvious from our practice games we desperately need another creative 10. We know Maddison won’t play more than about 60-75% of games.
Hell we are considering Pahlinha or Luis as defensive mids ffs! Shows where Daniel ‘I want to win the premiership and Champions league’ ambition really lies (or should that be lack of ambition?)
We have been so conditioned by the ENIC admin that many here think Pahlinha would be a good addition ffs, when we should be going for a Baleba or Stiller type.
Sheesh it beggars belief.
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Despite the cynicism, I wanted to believe that the club was really going to build on the Europa League win as a massive opportunity. More fool me 
I hope MGW breaks his leg in the first game of the season, the chicken shit bastard.
Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa, Manchester City and Chelsea all clubs that have sold out who they are for ridiculous debt or negligent owners just for a flash at power or success. All a bit of a disease on the game and sadly none of them seem to give a fuck about it.
The shame of it is how there's so little noise in the media about the crooks in charge at clubs. The media are just as crooked though so hardly a surprise.
I think MGW ends up regretting this later on down the line. His loss, we move on and focus on getting Frank in what he needs if Levy is smart.
There must be similar players with MGW’s particular skill on out list surely. Therefore a new bid could be going in within 24 hours.
What's wrong with Villa's owners?
The "ENIC do it the right way" delusion is really extraordinary in its durability.
Sold Villa Park to.... themselves to ease financial issues (very much like Chelsea did with their women's team) and a Deloitte report indicated that Aston Villa's wages-to-revenue ratio was 96% in the 2023/24 season.
That's a shambolic way to run a football club and the Premier league and FA should be ashamed of themselves for letting it happen in this country. It highlights everything wrong in the world if you ask me.
Also I never said ENIC do things the right way, but I definitely don't think being run by a mobster like Forest are or what Chelsea or City do is ethically right in sport. The sport is dying a slow death with these types of characters allowed to be in charge, doing what they do.
Villa is kind of the perfect case for showing the absurdity of treating owner investment as inherently "doping".
Huge, historic club in a big city with a big fanbase and a big ground, fallen on hard times, but with obvious potential to be much more, as they have been throughout their history.
So they should be forced to spend like Burnley because other clubs with a similar history and following have ensconced themselves into a European oligarchy? How is that fair? That's a TOTALLY different thing than what Abramovich and Abu Dhabi did.
24 months perhaps.
We all have to live by our actions. Do you honestly think it's fair that they can sell their stadium to.... themselves pretty much to overcome financial fair play? Do you think its not reckless to have a 96% revenue to wage ratio?
In any other industry or any other walk of life that's reckless but apparently football gets a free pass. I think it's an extremely sad thing for the game personally that its run purely by sugar daddies now. Its a rich man's toy, its not for the fans at all.
For me an owner shouldn't be able to sell assets to themselves, just like Chelsea shouldn't have been allowed to write £2bn off because Abramovic was ok with doing so. It's a disease in the game
How Marinakis got through the PL due Diligence is anyone's fucking guess, but not sure why this current iteration of Chelsea makes your list, or Villa for that matter. And Newcastle should be top of your list but don't seem to be on it.
Chelsea are owned by an American consortium and while they might have pulled a couple "moves" to mitigate PSR, they are fundamentally just normal guys - ie not a human rights violating oil state - likewise Villa.
The PL tried to, rightly, block MBS/Saudi ownership of Newcastle but were bullied into accepting it by Johnson and Co for political reasons.