Transfer Window Summer 2025 Transfer Window Thread

[Jaboysmith]

Transfer Rumours In
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Player​	Current Club​	Link or Source​
Davis Keillor-Dunn​	Barnsley​	Football World Article​

Transfer Rumours Out​

Player​	Interested Club​	Link or Source​
James Golding​	Unnamed LG1&2 Clubs​	Peter O'Rourke​

Confirmed In/Out​

Player​	In/ Out​	Transfer Type​	Club​
Stuart Findlay​	​	Loan (Season)​	Hearts​
Ruben Rodrigues​	​	Permanent (w Fee)​	EC Vitoria​
Brian De Keersmaecker​	​	Permanent (w Fee)​	Heracles Almelo​
Idris El-Mizouni​	​	Permanent (w Fee)​	Leyton Orient​
Will Goodwin​	​	Loan (Season)​	Colchester​
Brodie Spencer​	​	Permanent (w Fee)​	Huddersfield​

 

[holdsteady]

I’m still trying to figure out whether there should be a comma in this sentence.

Both.

 

[Eric Blair]

Is it better to have good grammar or manners?

Manners always

 

[Eric Blair]

Always good to have an assistant.

Assistant manager or assistant to the manager?

 

[werthersoriginal]

Manners always

Manner’s is more important

 

[Bicester Yellow]

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Having heard what I have I wouldn’t call our budget not backing him.

However, if that isn’t true and he’s been given less I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we got to a situation where Rowett walks away. His stock is high & any championship club in disarray would be an idiot not to employ him after he kept us up.

 

[Ewes]

Manner’s is more important

There’s a job in the OUFC Communications Department waiting for you.

 

[RgYellows]

Having heard what I have I wouldn’t call our budget not backing him.

However, if that isn’t true and he’s been given less I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we got to a situation where Rowett walks away. His stock is high & any championship club in disarray would be an idiot not to employ him after he kept us up.

Why would a story of Gary Rowett calling out our owner get leaked to the Indonesian press? I don’t think Rowett has many of their journalists on speed dial and I doubt Thohir would get called out for not providing funds and then boast about it.

Pretty easy to ignore that story for me.

 

[Nick the Greek]

And of course the same Indonesian press web site which claims we’re sending our under 19 team to play In upcoming tournament, basically seems unlikely

 

[Bicester Yellow]

Why would a story of Gary Rowett calling out our owner get leaked to the Indonesian press? I don’t think Rowett has many of their journalists on speed dial and I doubt Thohir would get called out for not providing funds and then boast about it.

Pretty easy to ignore that story for me.

I don’t disagree with you at all. I doubt there’s anything in it & if he’s unhappy with the budget I was told then he’s at the wrong club full stop as we will be spending more than 10 sides in the division I reckon.

Just playing devils advocate really.

 

[londonyellow]

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This was just

I don’t disagree with you at all. I doubt there’s anything in it & if he’s unhappy with the budget I was told then he’s at the wrong club full stop as we will be spending more than 10 sides in the division I reckon.

Just playing devils advocate really.

For what it's worth the source for that article is an Oxford Mail interview with Rowett where he says:

“We've spoken that if we want to have next season as strong as this season, we're obviously going to have to increase the budget and spend more on players, but at the same time, that's always going to be pretty sensible for a club like ours.

"That's always down to the owner and the leadership team"

So no 'ultimatums'. Can be safely ignored.

 

[Ewes]

Why would a story of Gary Rowett calling out our owner get leaked to the Indonesian press? I don’t think Rowett has many of their journalists on speed dial and I doubt Thohir would get called out for not providing funds and then boast about it.

Pretty easy to ignore that story for me.

I agree and suspect the phrase “Rowett has given the Oxford boss an ultimatum to spend more” has been lost in translation, written by a journalist hundreds of miles away.

I think we all know we haven’t got a top half budget, and why would we? Smaller attendances, a focus on the new stadium, being wary of getting relegated and saddled with high earners, not yet established in the division, an FFP debt over 2 years which needs caution.

A couple of careful PL loans, offload the 2 biggest signings of last season who haven’t ’cut the mustard’, bank a few million from selling TG, and we should have a reasonable budget with which to compete.

 

[stokeu]

Is it better to have good grammar or manners?

Good grammar’s are fewer important

 

[Teacher]

The willy waving ‘From what I’ve heard’ is so tiresome, particularly when it’s clearly recycled from hints on this forum.

Could really do with a signing that UTO tells us about an hour before it’s announced just so it stops.

 

[Jon-ioualways]

Manners always

We all have manners, Eric.

Some of us just have bad ones.

 

[The Voice Of Reason]

This is summer transfer thread not grammar suggest you start a new thread

 

[Berliner]

The willy waving ‘From what I’ve heard’ is so tiresome, particularly when it’s clearly recycled from hints on this forum.

Could really do with a signing that UTO tells us about an hour before it’s announced just so it stops.

"As I understand..."

 

[Jon-ioualways]

This is summer transfer thread not grammar suggest you start a new thread

I can see why you'd think that.

 

[The Voice Of Reason]

I can see why you'd think that.

Agreed

 

[Stranger]

Is it better to have good grammar or manners?

It's not an either/or situation. It's possible to have both

 

[SirAndyOfCrosby]

Is it better to have good grammar or manners?

Talking of both grammar and of manners, they've named a panda at Edinburgh zoo after Karl Robinson.

It eats, shoots and leaves.

 

[bazzer9461]

Based on what?

On social media

 

[SSO]

Blackburn signing a Portuguese midfielder for £2.5m. Giving us a free hit on BDK?

BDK ?

Bruyne De Kevin ??

 

[m]

I hear this fallacy mentioned a lot.

Although we will want/have to lose a number of players from the squad to achieve the correct balance both financially and numerically, it does not have to happen before we make any signings, football does not work like that. It will be a fluid process until the window closes, of comings and goings, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if some of those departing don't do so until the very end of the window.

I mean, not least because moving later might be the difference between a holiday in Bali, or trips to Slough and Dulwich Hamlets.

Timing really is everything.

 

[TheYolker]

Hopefully we will see Matos and COD become official this week and that would be a solid start to the window imo. If we could then add BDK on top then that would be a fantastic start to the summer, despite all the panic on here.

 

[Jster]

Hopefully we will see Matos and COD become official this week and that would be a solid start to the window imo. If we could then add BDK on top then that would be a fantastic start to the summer, despite all the panic on here.

That plus Cumming contract news, hopefully.

 

[BillyTurleys CurlyWurly]

We are rumoured to have interest in Karlan Grant.
West Brom forward.

 

[Mateo Corbo's Tackle]

Both.

I’m pleased to confirm that you’ve broken my brain with this response.

 

[Mateo Corbo's Tackle]

We are rumoured to have interest in Karlan Grant.
West Brom forward.

Yes please. Pacy, direct, not afraid to shoot.
Just please don’t use him as a hold up man.

 

[geosamfry]

We are rumoured to have interest in Karlan Grant.
West Brom forward.

Not for the first time - think there was a rumour we were in for him in Jan. Where have you seen this btw?

 

[Bicester Yellow]

Not for the first time - think there was a rumour we were in for him in Jan. Where have you seen this btw?

Not a matter of where he’s seen it, it’s what he’s heard or knows.