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Summer 2025 Transfer Window

Panda

lorddulaarsenal Completely agree. They should just hire us. I'm sure we'd do a better job lol.

If we can get high quality in the first 4 would be delighted. 5 and 6 can be free transfers/loans do not care about them.

samthegooner

If Wirtz is available and open to moving to us, we should be all over it. I would still want striker depth with someone like Sesko but we could get away with our wing options (or at least just add a cheaper stopgap) IMO if we added a talismanic creator/attacker in Wirtz. He's actually my ideal player for the Odegaard role with Odegaard moving deeper to specialize in buildup. Has all of the output that Odegaard doesn't while also being a great presser. I just don't think he is going to be available and if he is, I think he will head to Bayern unfortunately (even with Musiala). Having him and Saka on the same team would be a cheat code - just look what he's done for Schick and Boniface. Arteta talked about having killers with that X factor after the Bayern loss last year and I don't think you can find many better than Wirtz at this point in time.

JazzG

samthegooner If Wirtz is available and open to moving to us,

I reckon the price tag would be huge, like over £100m. We'd also face big competition from Bayern Munich, Man City and Real Madrid for his signature. Would be an absolute dream signing, unfortunately a pipe dream 😉

Musiala has a year to go on his contract this summer, he is someone who might be more realistic and affordable.

samthegooner

lorddulaarsenal I believe Son extended his contract recently.

Claudius

JazzG Musiala is one of the best in his position and English adjacent. He will cost as much as Wirtz.

Saw a rumour today that Liverpool are prioritising Isak. Isak is the only true striker out there. Newcastle will be able to extract an insane fee if they choose to/are forced to sell.

Qwiss

Claudius I just don't see Newcastle selling unless Isak demands a move and he doesn't seem that disruptive. I reckon they at least want to hold onto until the 115 charges ruling is out so they know where they actually are as a club.

Qwiss

lorddulaarsenal So summer’s priorities in order of most to least important are:-

1) striker
2) Zubimendi
3) left winger
4) attacking mid
5) cover for Saliba
6) cover/competition for Raya

Fairly spot on I reckon. Although you could switch attacking mid for a different profile if the right player came along. And in reality it'll probably just be that Norwegian kid.

samthegooner

If Newcastle makes Champs League, which I think is going to happen especially since top 5 look like they will make it this year, then I don't see a scenario where he leaves them for anyone. Frankly, I almost rather that happen instead of having to deal with a transfer saga that takes up precious time and tons of resources this summer when we could get our business done early and potentially bring in two quality players for the cost of Isak.

If we are to guess at Isak's price, it's probably going to be close to 130m pounds, a PL record fee. Now my question to everyone here is - would you rather Isak at 130m pounds or a combo of Sesko (let's say 75m) and Semenyo/Nico Williams (50-60m)? I'd probably be happy with either option but I think I prefer the second option. You'd bring in a high potential CF whose production has been ahead of basically all his peers at the same age other than Haaland and a quality winger to compete with Martinelli for the starting LW spot and push our attack to another level while also improving the floor of our depth.

daredevil

I'd go with Isak, 1 great player always beats two good players, especially if you already have a bunch of good players.

In other words Martinelli-Isak-Saka is better than Williams-Sesko-Saka.

QuincyAbeyie

daredevil do you like Isak now?

Burnwinter

Isak, easily. Our other options complement him well. Isak, Saka, Havertz, Martinelli, Trossard is a big improvement.

Sesko would be in danger of ending up in a selection no-man's-land. Isak would play (and get injured, but that's another story).

City are about to get sanctioned and quite likely go into transition, Liverpool are maybe losing Salah and Trent, the rest of our squad is peaking and starting to get tapped up. There's well above average major trophy and player retention upside built into a couple of "capstone" signings.

Don Pacifico

Burnwinter Isak would play (and get injured, but that's another story).

Yeah, I worry about that bit. You know that as soon as we sign him, he'd pull an ACL and then we're back to square one.

daredevil

QuincyAbeyie

I never said I didn't. I was just questioning why a striker who was going to cost north of 100m was languishing so low in the scoring charts, but clearly he read my comment as he's third now.

Gazza M

if we get no inkling that isak is interested in coming, then get sesko and Williams. i get that theyre still developing their efficiency, but I reckon the pair will inject a certain pace and dynamism we sorely need

lorddulaarsenal

Linked to Thuram recently - he’d be a good option

Tactics

lorddulaarsenal He isn't good enough IMO. Yeah his stats are good but I have seen enough of him for the French national team to come to that conclusion. Kolo Muani, who failed miserably at PSG, has always looked the better player to me.

Fully expecting our attack to be an issue next season.

Sicario2

Fuck the summer window. We need to look at free transfers asap. Ben Yedder please.

samthegooner

I want nothing to do with Ben Yedder. Vile human being who has been charged with rape and sexual assault in two different incidents over the last two years. Having to watch Partey on the field the last two years has been tough enough but bringing in someone where there already is a history of this is a bridge too far for me and no amount of success is worth that.

Sicario2

samthegooner ok wasn’t aware of that.

A lot of suggestions that Artera will use Merino as the number 9. Nathan Butler if he was any good surely would have been able to score on his loan moves? Question marks that he is 22 and has barely 10 mins to his name for us.

Sicario2

Don Pacifico

Sicario2 don't let AFTV bait you! Doubt Chido would have much impact if he got first XI minutes for us.

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