Transfer Window Summer 2025 Transfer Window Thread

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Kasey Palmer​
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Onel Hernandez​
Norwich City​
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Tyler Goodrham​
Burnley, Southampton, Middlesbrough, Coventry​
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Stuart Findlay​
Hearts, Kilmarnock​
 
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Is it SF getting away with it or an inability of our recruitment department to stand firm and sell him? I hope we're not paying any contribution to wages, they're a big old club and don't need us subsidising them. We seem to be a football club who are like Manchester United, happy to get players in but unable to get rid of the dross who are lifting our legs.
 
Brahma said:
Is it SF getting away with it or an inability of our recruitment department to stand firm and sell him? I hope we're not paying any contribution to wages, they're a big old club and don't need us subsidising them. We seem to be a football club who are like Manchester United, happy to get players in but unable to get rid of the dross who are lifting our legs.
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The report states it’s an obligation to buy, doesn’t that mean he will be signing there once a certain thing has been triggered appearences etc.
 
Brahma said:
Is it SF getting away with it or an inability of our recruitment department to stand firm and sell him? I hope we're not paying any contribution to wages, they're a big old club and don't need us subsidising them. We seem to be a football club who are like Manchester United, happy to get players in but unable to get rid of the dross who are lifting our legs.
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Mmm.
Comparing us to Man U?
Findlay was on a very good contract that the Scottish clubs cant/ won't match.
I suspect that we get the most that we can, but he is simply a decent SPL centre back who is not good enough for the Championship
 
Foley said:
Mmm.
Comparing us to Man U?
Findlay was on a very good contract that the Scottish clubs cant/ won't match.
I suspect that we get the most that we can, but he is simply a decent SPL centre back who is not good enough for the Championship
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Or league one.

Hopefully they are at least paying in more than Kilmarnock were.
 
Foley said:
Mmm.
Comparing us to Man U?
Findlay was on a very good contract that the Scottish clubs cant/ won't match.
I suspect that we get the most that we can, but he is simply a decent SPL centre back who is not good enough for the Championship
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Yes in principle, a comparison to Manchester United is quite fair.

Man United - buy over the odds, poor recruitment and then can't get rid of the players who then, rightly, sit on their contracts.

Oxford United, buy over the odds in some cases, poor recruitment and then can't get rid of the players, who then, rightly, sit on their contracts.
 
Evan9 said:
The report states it’s an obligation to buy, doesn’t that mean he will be signing there once a certain thing has been triggered appearences etc.
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It means there is an obligation to buy. Whether that's after appearances, end of loan, whatever, we won't know. Hopefully Ed will have better success rate in offloading a few more players to clubs who buy them.
 
Northernyellow said:
Jamie Hanson runs him pretty close
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Hanson, Pekalski, Findlay are the three that stand out from the recent era, with a two year deal for Phillips not a million miles behind.

Can't win them all I suppose, although Findlay probably pips it for me through the amount of time we pursued him and then him turning out to be a type of centre back that the manager who wanted him didn't really like, say what you like about Robinson (and plenty you can say) but he did try and set his teams up to play attractive football, Findlays passing is so bad that he actually hinders that.

Bit surprised a club as relatively big as Hearts want him, his ceiling is below them unless they are really struggling financially.
 
m said:
Erm, yeah, it very literally is his fault.

His fault is that he is not good enough to play football at the level of our club.

Also wish him well.
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Well it’s not his fault he isn’t good enough, he was brought to the club by a failing manager who wasn’t fully concentrated on the job & had become lazy in his job.

He’s probably a league 2 standard player who was given a stupid contract. Not his fault at all.
 
Brahma said:
Yes in principle, a comparison to Manchester United is quite fair.

Man United - buy over the odds, poor recruitment and then can't get rid of the players who then, rightly, sit on their contracts.

Oxford United, buy over the odds in some cases, poor recruitment and then can't get rid of the players, who then, rightly, sit on their contracts.
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Man U have had many recently.
Oxford less than a handful?
Most clubs buy players who don't work out and they make a loss on them ( probably all clubs in reality
Findlay was a terrible signing, but in my view Man U are absolutely streets ahead
 
Bicester Yellow said:
Well it’s not his fault he isn’t good enough, he was brought to the club by a failing manager who wasn’t fully concentrated on the job & had become lazy in his job.

He’s probably a league 2 standard player who was given a stupid contract. Not his fault at all.
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Well I'm not getting into an argument on semantics.

Suffice to say we disagree.
 
m said:
Well I'm not getting into an argument on semantics.

Suffice to say we disagree.
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Apparently so, players will always take the contract they are offered even if they are limited & it’s a ridiculously good deal.

Same with Matt Phillips, not his fault we offered him a stupid deal when he’s not good enough for the level anymore.
 
Bicester Yellow said:
Apparently so, players will always take the contract they are offered even if they are limited & it’s a ridiculously good deal.

Same with Matt Phillips, not his fault we offered him a stupid deal when he’s not good enough for the level anymore.
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Yes, I don't blame them for that either.

It doesn't change the fact that their fault is that they are not at the standard we require.

The blame for that, as you say, lies elsewhere.
 
Brahma said:
Yes in principle, a comparison to Manchester United is quite fair.

Man United - buy over the odds, poor recruitment and then can't get rid of the players who then, rightly, sit on their contracts.

Oxford United, buy over the odds in some cases, poor recruitment and then can't get rid of the players, who then, rightly, sit on their contracts.
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I see one common denominator in this comparison...

Step forward @dickwalton1964
 
Bicester Yellow said:
Apparently so, players will always take the contract they are offered even if they are limited & it’s a ridiculously good deal.

Same with Matt Phillips, not his fault we offered him a stupid deal when he’s not good enough for the level anymore.
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Serious questions need asking about our recruitment last year tbh. It was a horror show in honesty. It’s understandable, everyone’s learning the level, but it was the same players who got us up who kept us up.
 
greatunclekip said:
Serious questions need asking about our recruitment last year tbh. It was a horror show in honesty. It’s understandable, everyone’s learning the level, but it was the same players who got us up who kept us up.
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You have to wonder how we finished 17th after such a “horror show”
 
tatabanya said:
You have to wonder how we finished 17th after such a “horror show”
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Spot on
Cumming, Vaulks, Kioso , Ter Avest, Helik, Matos, Shemmy, helped us stay up
Even Sibley scored a very important goal, Dembele scored 2 very imortant goals.
Staying up 17th with a relatively low budget was not easy...
 
SteMerritt said:
Only one more year I believe. 30th June next year we must do something to commemorate the ending of the worst contract offer in OUFC history.
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We should have walked away the moment Philadelphia Union said that he still has to play for them after this mad contract was agreed upon. Karl Robinson ploughing through all obstacles with absolute tunnel vision to sign him, then binning him off after actually seeing him for more than five minutes.
Thanks Karl...again.
 
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