Pre Season 2025/26
Busiest window since 2019 seen huge changes to the first team depth and the amount of U20's too as we try and build a team capable of challenging for a Champions League
Manager Changes
Patrick Vieira - Villareal
Vincent Kompany - Basel
Nuno Espirito Santo - Portugal
Pep Guardiola - Porto
Wenger finally retired at 75 years old as Portugal manager, Never seen him stay in the game this long.
Season Targets
SPL - Winners
Scottish Cup - Win
League Cup - Win
Champions League - Quarter Finals
Plenty new faces in the squad but no changes to our expectations. Better than last season is the worst i'd take
Pre Season Prices
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Odds are shortened to 2.50. Celtic, Rangers & Hibs all have good transfer windows, Forfar, Motherwell & St Mirren expected to fight to survive
Aberdeen Transfers
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As i said we were very busy but only 4 of these players go right into the first team squad, a few didnt get work permits
IN
Dave Barnett - MC
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I am in no doubt what so ever that this is my best signing in the save so far. Only 22 and he's already got 24 caps with England. Dave was on my shortlist for years and in December i got an alert saying his contract was up in 6 months but he had no interest in joining. With 3 months and 1 month left i had the same experience, TBH i was stunned nobody had offer on him. So as July 1st passed i went right back to offer him a deal and with no competition for his signature i add a utter gem of a player
Juan Pablo Pesce - MR
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My plan was to invade South America, especially Argentina for the best youth players as its been far simpler to get a work permits and Juan Pablo is the pick of the bunch. Got a lot to move up as he starts as my 3rd choice MR
Nicolas Viscovich - AM
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Not a position i was desperate for but the value was incredible. With Rodriguez in the U20s Nicolas will battle Frizzel to play off Klein up top
Anthony Redaelli - MC
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This deal was made after Barnett rejected me back in December. Sadly his chances will be limited behind Barnett, Henrique and 2 home grown midfielders. Amazing to think this over a 17 time Italy international.
Youth
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16 millions spent on these u20 players. Ramirez, Silva and Emerson all from South America get work permits something i learned last summer that its far harder to get a EU work permit. Due to that Michael Lang, Ibrahima Ba, Serge Aubame and Stellios Tsaousakis all leave on loan. Ramirez & Emerson stand out
Out
A record £115m comes into the clubs coffers to put the clubs balance over £100m for the first time. Future add ons will bring in a extra £25-£35m plus a few have 40% of future fee's tagged onto that.
Joel Gomez was my best defender who i really did not want to sell but when a offer over £30m came in January i negotiated the deal to the end of the season. I forgot to replace him so have just had a player search to find his replacement. If the deal goes through then i will have made a deal that may be even better than the one we got Gomez on 2 summers ago. The next transfer was the first time i asked for the impossible and a team say's yeah ok! Strange after
Joe Smith missed the last 5 months with injury and with my overflow of strikers one had to go so to potentially end up with £40m i was delighted. The final major transfer was
Islam Gamal who i planned to make my long term back up wing back but a combination of not winning the champions league & his contract ending in 12 months left me flogging him to the highest bidder which WAS Monaco but after 2 weeks they couldnt raise the funds so in the next episode of bidding it was Arsenal vs Man City and he chose London. 4 More players left for very reasonable smaller fee's.
Reda Bekakchi was a familare story of a back up player that never broke through. Was set to start with Gomez leaving but i could not turn down £15m for a back up.
Nika Chania spent his life on loan and with 3 back up DR for Axel Hock at least one had to go and Nika was the only one to get offers so off he went. I had great hopes for
Ondrej Jerabek but he could never take his chances when in the 1st team so he move to Schalke for a very small profit but 40% of his next transfer is ours. Finally Craig
Hendrie was also very poor when given the chance last season so with so much exciting youth players joining and hopefully a classy CB joining soon he was surplus to requirements
World Transfers
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Its a Regen world now. Former Dons Paul Hay & Tom Stephen moves for more money than i sold them for when they dropped out of favor at Pittodrie
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PSG mak a profit in the transfer window!
SPL Transfers
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Take out the Aberdeen deals Celtic "Torres" and Hibs "Connolly" sell there best players Rangers alos buy a Emerson for there first team as well as Pione Sisto who at only 30 could still do a job in the SPL. Celtic have a interesting summer spending nothing on Demarai Gray, Scottish international Graham McCann and Nathaniel Chalobah as well as a few interesting youths. Hearts make the signing of the summer adding Glenn Middleton a Scotland regular and then Hicham Saidi, a regen DL from Inter Milan.
Squad
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Does this show what a great signing Barnett is or how great Hock is? Either way we had no Hock for the first 2 months of the season and our last regular DC Callum Dickson will be out till the new year so the new attacking players will have to carry the slack for now.
Youth team
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Looks like a big upgrade overall. exciting times ahead.