On 12/08/2025 at 17:39, DarkMata said:

Hell no!

Why? Aside from the price and giving city money, what's so bad about him?

53 minutes ago, Deino said:

Why? Aside from the price and giving city money, what's so bad about him?

Maybe an overreaction the kind that should be saved for Garnacho, but I don't really rate him highly. Not a terrible player by any means and he could have been Grealished, but I don't think he adds much to what we already have as in a big upgrade. He does have some of Mahrez's characteristics as in the way he moves at times but without the final quality. He's on the long list of wingers that don't inspire, but I wasn't exactly jumping up and down when we signed Gittens. However if it's him or Garnacho then no question I'd pick Savinho.

After few flurry earlier this window we have stopped buying and it is not a suprise. We need to sell first.

Jackson, Nkunku, Veiga, George, Chuku. If we can move some of this player we will get maybe Garnacho/Simmons

Edited August 20, 2025Aug 20 by Bob stark

51 minutes ago, Bob stark said:

After few flurry earlier this window we have stopped buying and it is not a suprise. We need to sell first.

Jackson, Nkunku, Veiga, George, Chuku. If we can move some of this player we will get maybe Garnacho/Simmons

Agree! If not for UEFA, they would have continued spending foolishly. But mind you, they already have plans to buy Emegha from Strasbourg. No wonder their fans are protesting.

United supposedly value Garnacho at £50m, which is way too much – at least double. They want to offload him, he wants out, and only to us, so we clearly have the upper hand. Maybe that’s why talks are dragging – our side doesn’t want to pay up. Best move would be a £20–25m bid on deadline day, or even a loan with United covering part of his wages. Truth is, we don’t even need him that badly.

Nkunku was linked with Bayern (they wanted a loan, we want a sale), now Leipzig are reportedly interested. Simmons deal is stuck until we move Nkunku and Jackson. Honestly, just sell – Newcastle might panic-buy Jackson for £50m, which would be a huge profit after getting him for £32m.

After Colwill’s injury, haven’t seen any concrete links with new defenders – have you?

Edited August 20, 2025Aug 20 by CFC_SLO

4 hours ago, Bob stark said:

After few flurry earlier this window we have stopped buying and it is not a suprise. We need to sell first.

Jackson, Nkunku, Veiga, George, Chuku. If we can move some of this player we will get maybe Garnacho/Simmons

None of these will move. All the press and social media hype is just that. None of the clubs that have expressed an interest are anywhere near the valuation that we put on these players. Either we drop our demands and therefore stand to lose money or break even at best or else these clubs will find cheaper alternatives elsewhere, probably in loan deals.

10 minutes ago, CFC_SLO said:

United supposedly value Garnacho at £50m, which is way too much – at least double. They want to offload him, he wants out, and only to us, so we clearly have the upper hand. Maybe that’s why talks are dragging – our side doesn’t want to pay up. Best move would be a £20–25m bid on deadline day, or even a loan with United covering part of his wages. Truth is, we don’t even need him that badly.

Nkunku was linked with Bayern (they wanted a loan, we want a sale), now Leipzig are reportedly interested. Simmons deal is stuck until we move Nkunku and Jackson. Honestly, just sell – Newcastle might panic-buy Jackson for £50m, which would be a huge profit after getting him for £32m.

After Colwill’s injury, haven’t seen any concrete links with new defenders – have you?

This all sounds plausible but I highly doubt any of it will happen. Man Utd are pricing Garnacho in line with similar, average under achieving wingers, one of which we sold.

Even if we miraculously sold Nkunku for the fee that we want, hus salary is double what he is wort and, in the case of Europe, nearer treble what they can afford to pay.

23 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

None of these will move. All the press and social media hype is just that. None of the clubs that have expressed an interest are anywhere near the valuation that we put on these players. Either we drop our demands and therefore stand to lose money or break even at best or else these clubs will find cheaper alternatives elsewhere, probably in loan deals.

All been very quiet in terms of outgoings since Broja left on 8th August.

We've done quite well on moving players so far, but there is still an awful lot left to sort out ... I think we'll be adding Disasi and Datro Fofana to the list of players above that we can't shift ...

1 hour ago, WhiteWall said:

None of these will move. All the press and social media hype is just that. None of the clubs that have expressed an interest are anywhere near the valuation that we put on these players. Either we drop our demands and therefore stand to lose money or break even at best or else these clubs will find cheaper alternatives elsewhere, probably in loan deals.

I think theres no definite here, we will get into the last few days of the window, teams will have injuries, suspensions etc and panic will begin to set in. Whether we sell for our valuation is a different thing though.

Arsenal highjacking Eze from Spurs.

14 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Arsenal highjacking Eze from Spurs.

So Spurs missing out on a central attacking midfielder ... perhaps that might create some interest from them in Chukwuemeka and Nkunku ?

Or dare I say it ... Enzo Fernandez ! LOL

Potential Garnacho smokescreen

Villa have just signed Lindelof, so I guess that's them off the list as a possible destination for Disasi ...

So, I'm not putting down some of the work that we have done in getting players, but just be clear, am I right that since the CWC, when there was a month left of the window we have signed Garnacho and loan deal for Buonanotte. Leaving us thin in defence to cover Colwill and thin now up top after Delaps injury. I've missed the last hour but is that about the extent of it?

8 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

So, I'm not putting down some of the work that we have done in getting players, but just be clear, am I right that since the CWC, when there was a month left of the window we have signed Garnacho and loan deal for Buonanotte. Leaving us thin in defence to cover Colwill and thin now up top after Delaps injury. I've missed the last hour but is that about the extent of it?

But ... but ... but ... look at the SALES ... !!! 🤑🤑🤑

Joao Pedro looks like a top signing so far, but I’d still hold off on calling him “the most complete striker” just yet. Hard to put him ahead of Haaland, Isak, etc. at this point.

As for sales – we absolutely smashed the British record. We brought in over £300m from sales and loans. Players leaving include Noni, Nkunku, Felix, Petrovic, Ugochukwu, KDH, Veiga, Broja, Chukwuemeka, Jackson, Amougu, Humphreys, Kepa, Bettinelli, Gilchrist, plus a few others on loan.

The biggest positive of this window is definitely Jackson’s departure. The biggest negative has to be Sterling – looks like we won’t be able to shift him easily. No club showed serious interest, even though TM values him at around £10m. The problem is his wages – £320–340k per week – and he’ll likely see out his contract until 2027. He also refuses moves to Turkey or Saudi.

Regarding arrivals – Pedro, Delap, Hato?, Estevão all look promising. Gittens, Sarr and Páez are a bit more unknown to me, and Garnacho was a complete shock. I don’t get the priorities here – we went for him before signing a goalkeeper, another defender, or Simons, who we were chasing for two months.

Honestly, I’m a bit worried about our attack. It’s rare to sign two strikers in one window, so on paper that looks great, but we’re heading into a Champions League season with just Guiu and Pedro as our main options. When Delap got injured and Palmer was benched, the team already looked shaky. These things are hard to predict, but if Pedro picks up a knock while Delap is still out, we could be in real trouble.

Overall, I’d rate this transfer window as good – maybe solid – but definitely not excellent. Liverpool easily “won” the market this summer. If they manage to quickly harmonize the squad and integrate all their new signings, they’ll be dangerous this season already – and certainly next year. Arsenal only gotten stronger.