Aston Villa Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2025/26

For the transfer restrictions is this the overall squad or the Uefa registered squad, then it is the squad as of January or from the start of last season? Are the profits on Duran and Carlos sales irrelevant to this calculation. Then there is Malen who wasn’t registered in January is that deal included? Do Villa start at a loss by registering Malen? Anyone know??

I think reading it Villa have a transfer restrictions separate to the squad cost requirements. Basically can’t make a loss on Signings, but I can’t see is that as of the start of the season and is it against the Uefa listed squad? If it’s the UEFA listed squad then we lose Rashford, Asensio , Disasi. Good for squad cost ratio to revenue but net 0 for transfer activity. Maybe I am misunderstanding how it works. Then there is Malen who wasn’t on the UEFA list, does registering Malen mean we start at a loss with the current squad. Same with Garcia. Then the big question around the January sales, irrelevant as they were, I presume, removed from the squad in February. If that is the case it would seem, to me, to effectively be a punishment for us qualifying for later rounds as they would count in transfer activity if we had been knocked out earlier. Sorry long message but I am struggling to understand the exact impact of the transfer restrictions.

Romano posted Al Hilal made an enquiry for Watkins earlier this week. No formal bid yet.

Bailey being looked at by Fenerbahce and no did either. They are cleaning up signings this window.

Strange one I would have thought Barrenechea is exactly the type of player we should be keeping.

With regards to this transfer window I think it’s equally important we retain our core players such as Kamara, Rogers, Tielemans, Torres etc rather than who we bring in.

Is there a sell on clause? Manchester United got a decent sell on amount on the Carreras deal recently. Benfica a good club for a players value to increase and always willing to sell. What was his book value in the Luiz deal? Is it correct that the profit can be multiplied by 5 to get the head room for a new signing? But….he wasn’t in the UEFA squad list last season, so back to a previous question… does this transfer not count for the restriction where squad signings can’t be greater than incomings to our UEFA squad?

Agreed. New York is much more fun.

(I'll get my coat).

We've signed a Pre Contract with a 19 year old from LASK. Modou Kéba Cissé.

I think I read before that Middlesbrough have a 20% sell on clause on the profit so would need to sell for about £90M to make a 60M profit. Hopefully he stays,I think there is already enough to do to work without Asensio and Rashford, I don’t think Roger’s is on crazy money and Villa should be backing themselves to have his value hold over the next season or more. Players should only be sold within the Premier League if the club considers them overpriced and overrated.

Very quiet summer so far, I wonder if it is a case of one out and one in type of thing, could be a steady the ship type of season and then be able to go big next summer, of course that is risky as without european football the calibre of player you can attract drops drastically.

Great news on Kamara, I wasn’t overly hopeful he’d sign having seen out the contract at Marseille. Hopefully no release clause.