Summer transfer window 2025

I think you don't understand what is going on. Betis and United had reached an agreement for the transfer that little Antony was dreaming of, but then he comes out demanding a pay off because his salary will be less at his new club.

It's completely different and not comparable to the Isak situation.

he wants it both ways. He wants United to pay the shortfall in wages that he’s missing out on by joining Betis. No harm in asking I suppose. United might accede to his request for the sake of getting a transfer fee.

Chelsea are in a league of their own for sales 😅 Quite impressive.

Woltemade to Newcastle £69 ... the game is gone absolutely bananas

The problem with this argument is I don't think it's very well thought through. I don't think people are thinking about the bigger picture when they make it.

PSR has it's issues, it's not perfect at all - my main problem with it is how youth players are more valuable to sell off rather than keep in your team but the core idea of it is the right idea IMO.

The alternative of opening the floodgates and letting wealthy owners pump in whatever they like won't make the league more competitive, in fact it will have the opposite effect in my view.

Lets look at some figures. You are frustrated as a Villa fan because you feel like your billionaire owners aren't able to put funds into the club to buy players. Your owners have a net worth in total of around €6B. Rich people by almost every metric known to man.

BUT and this is a big massive but, Newcastle Utd owners have a net worth of around €500B. They could make 1% of their total wealth available to Newcastle and it would blow your (and every) owner / club out of the water. That would be 10x the turnover of a club like Man Utd and it would be nothing to them. They could make the total value of Man Utd available to Newcastle as a budget and it wouldn't be but a drop in the ocean for them.

Villa had the 18th highest turnover in the world in 2024 - at €310m. A club that was in the Championship for 3 years until 2019.

That's fairly good progress.

If we look at the 3 biggest clubs in the country - effectively the "old money" clubs. Ones that aren't being backed by state ownership and making up their own sponsorship deals!! For 2024 you have -

Man Utd - €770m
Liverpool - €714m
Arsenal - €716m

It's a lot more realistic to get to that level or at least compete with clubs operating at that level than it is to take on clubs with owners who can drop 1% of their total wealth and have it be 10x the times of their rivals turnovers.

The answer to your question is Villa ARE going in the right direction. It just won't happen today or tomorrow but if they keep improving, keep spending well. Invest in their infrastructure (stadium and other ways to increase income streams). Then there is a far better chance you see you club win big trophies this way than if the floodgates are opened and the most important factor in your clubs success becomes about how much wealth your owner is willing to put in.

I don't think football clubs should be owned by any 1 person or group anyway if I am honest but that's another topic

I know a few people who know a few people. One of the quirks that has come up is that Chelsea are doing Brighton a favour, through the obvious connections and previous work colleagues, and are basically registering Bounonatte for the year to help with his HG status for Brighton. To grease some wheels, there is a small discount on the Enciso deal.

I've also been informed that the Isak deal is done for £130m all in. That fee will be framed in different ways from the 2 clubs though and both will put out their own idea of how that fee will be reached. It's not all up front. The 2 clubs agreed to this as part of giving Newcastle more time to sign their striker in the background while everyone talked about Wissa & Larsen.

Boards own Romano. We're blessed.

It all depends on what the contract says, this is all over compensation im sure.

if a player hands in a transfer request, they forfeit their "compsensation," I.e agreed bonuses, add-ons (that is why Isak hasn't handed in a request)

Its the opposite of Isak… Antony doesn't necessarily want to go but is getting booted out, so yeah… if it was me or anyone else, id want exactly what I was owed to the penny - even if the other club were doubling my money

Isak situation is he wants to go, so Newcastle may have grounds to not hand over all he is owed.

So I agree with Eagle Eye, if Anto is owed, he deserves it to the penny

Well the easy solution is.

1. if its in the contract > he is owed it, regardless if he took a shite on ratcliffs cereal
or
2. its not in his contract and he can sling his hook

You can't argue contracts over he said she said.

Same with Isak, im sure he was laughed at when he was "promised" a move, if its not in writing…tough