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Summer 2025 Transfer Thread

Speaking of guys who never should have left their boyhood clubs, Kieran Tierney is back at Celtic completing a deal that was announced in January. His contract had run out at Arsenal.
 
Leroy Sane headed to Galatasaray on a free after his Bayern contract expired. Arsenal and Al Hilal had expressed interest but he wanted a more immediate resolution.
 
I don't know why people are bothering to link us with Jack when we couldn't afford to sign our priority youth signing in Nypan and he ended up signing with Man City where he will immediately be going on loan. I'm so utterly disillusioned with the world that PSR has created.
 
VinatieriDefinesClutch said:
I don't know why people are bothering to link us with Jack when we couldn't afford to sign our priority youth signing in Nypan and he ended up signing with Man City where he will immediately be going on loan. I'm so utterly disillusioned with the world that PSR has created.
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It's just a logic check. Reporters like to connect the dots and speculate. In truth, the only way Villa could acquire Jack is on loan or at such a low price that even City couldn't make the books balance. Nah. He'll end up playing for some Saudi team or another.
 
Also, I expect KDB to absolutely crush it in Italy. Not saying that it isn't a tough league, just that it's nowhere near as physically demanding as the prem. It obviously produces world class players and teams, but it also protects the hell out of certain types of players. I'm firmly in the "I don't understand why Pirlo is considered one of the greatest ever" camp and I truly believe that if he had played in any other league, he would have been exposed.
 
Agreed. I think he's going to need to work additional rest into the schedule though, because he looked VERY rundown late in the last two seasons. Otherwise, most of the physicality in Italy is in and around the box and he doesn't really play there anyway. Oh, and out wide. The battles between wingers and fullbacks in Italy can get unhinged. Still, won't bother Mr Metronome
 
PSV Eindhoven keeper Walter Benitez is having a medical ahead of a free transfer to Crystal Place. He’s expected to back up starter Dean Henderson.
 
Athletic Bilbao wing Nico Williams has agreed personal terms with Barcelona but Barca hasn’t met his release clause yet. And they still need to reduce their wage bill to allow them to register him.
 
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Athletic Bilbao wing Nico Williams has agreed personal terms with Barcelona but Barca hasn’t met his release clause yet. And they still need to reduce their wage bill to allow them to register him.
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Seems somehow familiar to have Barca sealing a deal without being bale to register a player ... like basically every other summer since the turn of the century.
 
They also have to pay the entire release clause at once, not in installments. I just don't understand how they could make the move without them making multiple major sales. He's on really high wages at Bilbao which is one of the reasons he hasn't been pushing for a move. They literally just barely were able to register Olmo and now they're doing this?

Nothing has changed in Barcelona, they claim that the previous regime left them in a bad position by over spending and being reckless, but they never stopped doing the exact same things.
 
Wirtz deal is over the line now at £116.1M
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Liverpool Smash British Transfer Record to Sign Florian Wirtz

Florian Wirtz is officially a Liverpool player as Arne Slot secures the services of one of the most exciting young talents in the world.
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They are close on the Kerkez deal now
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Transfer news LIVE: Liverpool agree deal to sign Kerkez & close in on Wirtz after medical

All the latest transfer news, reports and gossip as Florian Wirtz closes in on a move to Liverpool who agree a deal to sign Milos Kerkez from Bournemouth.
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And in a surprise (to me, at least), they are selling talented youngster Jarrell Quansah to Bayern with no "buyback" clause.
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Transfer news LIVE: Liverpool agree deal to sign Kerkez & close in on Wirtz after medical

All the latest transfer news, reports and gossip as Florian Wirtz closes in on a move to Liverpool who agree a deal to sign Milos Kerkez from Bournemouth.
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All the money that Liverpool’s owners won’t not spend when Klopp was coach, they are now spending to help Arne Slott. Interesting to how all the changes affect the team’s performance next year……building chemistry with all the new players will be key.
 
We'd like them to spend every year, but it appears they're willing to spend every other year: acquired Macallister, Szoboszlai, Gravenberch and Endo for £145M two summers ago; Konate, Diaz and Nunez for about that amount two years earlier. Net spend is a figure they look at closely, and it's been -£31M under Slot until this summer. And we're not done with the sales.
 
They kind of had to spend to refresh the roster and because of where they were in the contract cycle of a sizeable group of players. From a distance, I get the sense that Liverpool's spending is entirely pragmatic these days, as opposed to geared to making a manager happy.
 
Midfielder Christian Norgaard from Brentford to Arsenal for €11 million. He replaces Tomas Partey at the 6, with Declan Rice taking on more of a box to box role.
 
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