Transfer Rumour 25/26 Summer Transfer Window (63 Viewers)

Lamps · Aug 3, 2025

shmmeee said:
The two are too similar. I agree, we need someone who can hit the forwards earlier and someone with more about him than Torp as backup for Rudi. I just get frustrated with Grimes because he’s a) got the ball so much And b) shown he can hit those passes

He can only hit them passes when our players find a bit of space. You can't blame Grimes for what the rest of our players are doing.

Torp is turning into a good player for us and is still improving. We have other positions we need to improve on first.

Brighton Sky Blue · Aug 3, 2025

Lamps said:
He can only hit them passes when our players find a bit of space. You can't blame Grimes for what the rest of our players are doing.

Torp is turning into a good player for us and is still improving. We have other positions we need to improve on first.

Torp's powderpuff effort when he had the goal at his mercy was a bit disappointing, but summed up the finishing in general. We don't help ourselves at times

Gint11 · Aug 3, 2025

I think Lamps pecking order for the one striker position when fully fit

Wright
BTA
Simms

Mucca Mad Boys · Aug 3, 2025

Lamps said:
He can only hit them passes when our players find a bit of space. You can't blame Grimes for what the rest of our players are doing.

Torp is turning into a good player for us and is still improving. We have other positions we need to improve on first.

Brighton Sky Blue said:
Torp's powderpuff effort when he had the goal at his mercy was a bit disappointing, but summed up the finishing in general. We don't help ourselves at times

I’m optimistic Torp will have a good season this year. He stepped up massively in the 5-3-2 days and was unfortunate with injuries.

If he can improve in his goals and assists, he’ll be a starter. More long range shooting and passing from deep is what this team can miss at times.

David O'Day · Aug 3, 2025

trueskyblue12 said:
I feel this summer has been a disappointment, appreciate there’s a few weeks of the window left but can only see yet another slow start on the cards because of sluggish recruitment

nonsense

David O'Day · Aug 3, 2025

Kingokings204 said:
have they? Norwich lost their best player or one of them and Sargent is still 50/50 to go.

Watford have brought in 9 players but also lost 9. Most of which will need to know the championship.

West Brom have made one decent signing. In a very average team.

we have brought in 3 quality players and sold Binks for a profit. I would say we’ve had a really good window so far.

ignore him, we could sign messi in his peak and he'd find a way to slag off king

quinn1971 · Aug 3, 2025

it’ll prob be different on Saturday but seems a bit flat going into a new season, apart from the keeper we’re kicking off with the same team that finished the last one, 2 more signings would be huge

SBT · Aug 3, 2025

We’ve clearly strengthened what was already a top 6-calibre squad and that’s why most pundits are tipping us for the playoffs or better. We will be expected to start strongly but even if we don’t you’d have to expect us to be in the mix.

procdoc · Aug 3, 2025

quinn1971 said:
it’ll prob be different on Saturday but seems a bit flat going into a new season, apart from the keeper we’re kicking off with the same team that finished the last one, 2 more signings would be huge

It doesn’t feel flat at all

Warwickhunt · Aug 3, 2025

I'll take a 1 -0 win first game to get 3 points on the board. Not expecting excillerating football just yet! 3 wins out of the first 5 games will.get our rhythm in sinc

Hullinho87 · Aug 3, 2025

quinn1971 said:
it’ll prob be different on Saturday but seems a bit flat going into a new season, apart from the keeper we’re kicking off with the same team that finished the last one, 2 more signings would be huge

You say this with the conviction that this is the general consensus. It will be anything but flat at 12:30pm next Saturday (as you have acknowledged to be fair).

If we win and especially if we win well, Derby will be bouncing at kick off.

Until some of this doesn’t happen or until none of this happens next week, the vast majority (away from this forum or social media) will be thinking with reasoned hope and/or positivity.

Evo1883 · Aug 3, 2025

Btw we have just drawn 2 matches with top flight european opposition , one of which beat sunderland yesterday 1-0 .

We could and should have scored 4 yesterday
Surely this is very positive stuff and not a cause for concern at all ?
I do feel like some are overreacting to our general needs as a squad
You can always improve a squad, ,but im not sure weve been in a better place as we are now over the last 25 years

procdoc · Aug 3, 2025

Evo1883 said:
Btw we have just drawn 2 matches with top flight european opposition , one of which beat sunderland yesterday 1-0 .

We could and should have scored 4 yesterday
Surely this is very positive stuff and not a cause for concern at all ?
I do feel like some are overreacting to our general needs as a squad
You can always improve a squad, ,but im not sure weve been in a better place as we are now over the last 25 years

Exactly, so far no major outgoings and three players that have been bought in to improve the squad. Hopefully Andrews and Raphael emerge this season to compete for places too

Andy123456 · Aug 3, 2025

So many entitled supporters it's so cringey.... a few good seasons and we think we are owed marquee signings all of the time!!!!!

We have not let any of the first team go that so nearly got us to the playoff finals... just enjoy the process ffs

GIMOC · Aug 3, 2025

Kingokings204 said:
have they? Norwich lost their best player or one of them and Sargent is still 50/50 to go.

Watford have brought in 9 players but also lost 9. Most of which will need to know the championship.

West Brom have made one decent signing. In a very average team.

we have brought in 3 quality players and sold Binks for a profit. I would say we’ve had a really good window so far.

Sargent was always injured and Sainz was suspended a lot too

fernandopartridge said:
Norwich have lost 34 goals from the team

and spent accordingly to fill that void. like we did when Vik and Hamer left us 2 years ago

GIMOC · Aug 3, 2025

Andy123456 said:
So many entitled supporters it's so cringey.... a few good seasons and we think we are owed marquee signings all of the time!!!!!

We have not let any of the first team go that so nearly got us to the playoff finals... just enjoy the process ffs

it’s called progression

if we want to make the next step in our progression we need a guaranteed 15 goal forward

simms too inconsistent and wright injury prone

Speedie's Head · Aug 3, 2025

Haji played 44 games in 23-24 that is not being injury prone. All players are going to get hurt from time to time, some more seriously than others. Some are going to get more "attention" than others too.

Godden played 41 games last season, not bad also for someone who was supposedly "injury prone". People throw that term around too easily.

RoysterE17 · Aug 3, 2025

If we only make 2 more signings.... I would make a cb and a box to box midfielder, feel this is what we majorly miss at this current moment

ptr · Aug 3, 2025

RoysterE17 said:
If we only make 2 more signings.... I would make a cb and a box to box midfielder, feel this is what we majorly miss at this current moment

If there is one thing we deffo do not need it is a midfielder.

Brighton Sky Blue · Aug 3, 2025

ptr said:
If there is one thing we deffo do not need it is a midfielder.

We could do with exchanging Sheaf or Eccles for a more dynamic player.

Jamesimus · Aug 3, 2025

GIMOC said:
Sargent was always injured and Sainz was suspended a lot too

and spent accordingly to fill that void. like we did when Vik and Hamer left us 2 years ago

Sainz was suspended so much last season he only played in 41 of Norwich’s games…

procdoc · Aug 3, 2025

Jamesimus said:
Sainz was suspended so much last season he only played in 41 of Norwich’s games…

Don’t worry, it’s Captain Negative GIMOC. He’s still bitter because he can’t get a box on the cheap and he gets told no information anymore

Jamesimus · Aug 3, 2025

procdoc said:
Don’t worry, it’s Captain Negative GIMOC. He’s still bitter because he can’t get a box on the cheap and he gets told no information anymore

His post essentially says that we spent accordingly to fill the voids left by Hamer and Gyokeres, so I guess that’s a positive?

Balli001 · Aug 3, 2025

GIMOC said:
it’s called progression

if we want to make the next step in our progression we need a guaranteed 15 goal forward

simms too inconsistent and wright injury prone

Ah yes that much peddalled myth bout 15-20 goal scorers. The whole championship had just 4 of those last season.

Perryccfc · Aug 3, 2025

procdoc said:
Don’t worry, it’s Captain Negative GIMOC. He’s still bitter because he can’t get a box on the cheap and he gets told no information anymore

Did he ever get told information? Still waiting for the Hamer signing a new contract announcement.

Skyblue Bangkok · Aug 3, 2025

Balli001 said:
Ah yes that much peddalled myth bout 15-20 goal scorers. The whole championship had just 4 of those last season.

Everyone is after one of those bit not easy to find who were the top 3 goalscorers in put division last season, I don't think anyone had 25 plus goals.

Sky_Blue_Dreamer · Aug 3, 2025

ptr said:
If there is one thing we deffo do not need it is a midfielder.

We could do with a ball carrying ACM in the O'Hare mould to replace one of the more defensive trio of Sheaf, Eccles or Allen.

But we have more pressing issues first.

I'd say
CB (preferable left sided with experience, although pace wouldn't go amiss)
RW (if they could play both sides even better, but right sided is priority)
FW (will need to remove at least one of Bassette/BTA/Simms though)

Cov4Ever · Aug 3, 2025

For those wanting Tyrique George may want to look away.

RB Leipzig keen on him. Championship clubs are keen on a loan which Chelsea want but he wants permanent move away from the club for more game time.

Sky_Blue_Dreamer · Aug 3, 2025

Cov4Ever said:
For those wanting Tyrique George may want to look away.

RB Leipzig keen on him. Championship clubs are keen on a loan which Chelsea want but he wants permanent move away from the club for more game time.

Could King pull out one of his eleventy billion in add ons for promotion specials?

Probably couldn't afford his wages anyway.

procdoc · Aug 3, 2025

Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
Could King pull out one of his eleventy billion in add ons for promotion specials?

Probably couldn't afford his wages anyway.

We are not going to compete with Leipzig for players, come on now

Perennial Lurker · Aug 3, 2025

Cov4Ever said:
For those wanting Tyrique George may want to look away.

RB Leipzig keen on him. Championship clubs are keen on a loan which Chelsea want but he wants permanent move away from the club for more game time.

He was never going to come to us or any other Championship side

Sky_Blue_Dreamer · Aug 3, 2025

procdoc said:
We are not going to compete with Leipzig for players, come on now

Balli001 · Aug 3, 2025

Skyblue Bangkok said:
Everyone is after one of those bit not easy to find who were the top 3 goalscorers in put division last season, I don't think anyone had 25 plus goals.

Only 4 had plus 15

SkyBlueStallion_89 · Aug 3, 2025

procdoc said:
We are not going to compete with Leipzig for players, come on now

We could if we put eleventy billion add ons lol

JimmyHillsbeard · Aug 3, 2025

Cov4Ever said:
For those wanting Tyrique George may want to look away.

RB Leipzig keen on him. Championship clubs are keen on a loan which Chelsea want but he wants permanent move away from the club for more game time.

He could be guaranteed game time if Chelsea loaned him but paid his wages if and only if he was a starter when fit. I’m convinced they did this with both Sterling (which finished Grimmer’s time with us) and Maatsen (who even played a few times as a number 8/10).

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