2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[Emerald Isle Rover]

Yea hibs manager said it’s nothing too serious and he’s back out on the pitch already - Nixon 2 months was well off the mark who’d  have guessed 

[alcd]

1 hour ago, Gamst said:

The exiting summer continues! 

Definitely not "exciting" but certainly an "exiting" summer. Venkys out!! 

[bluebruce]

2 minutes ago, alcd said:

Definitely not "exciting" but certainly an "exiting" summer. Venkys out!! 

That would be the best exit of all.

[BankEnd Rover]

At least we're replacing Brittain....Another player over 6ft n all...We are a team of giants! 

[Tugayisgod]

That's the song sorted anyway 😄

Edited 21 hours ago by Tugayisgod

[RevidgeBlue]

2 hours ago, K-Hod said:

What's the point? Get a good player, have a really good season, get close to the play offs.

Then we just sell and don't even bother trying to improve.

Pathetic.

I was thinking exactly this this afternoon. 

Every single transfer window since the Court case I get more and more despondent about the Club. The likes of Dolan and Brittain are nowhere near the best players to leave the Club. It's nowhere near a Shearer or Duff or Adam Wharton moment, hell it's probably no nowhere even near a Tony Field or a Roger Jones or a Simon Barker moment. 

However the plan now seems clearly to be to shed all higher earners and scour the lower reaches of European Leagues or any other League where players are paid a fraction of what they are in the Championship and are therefore still happy to come.

If we can do this and remain competitive in the top half of the table or even just about survive it's a stroke of genius but as Herbie says "but..........".

When you've got to the stage where the Club isn't prepared to offer competitive enough wages to retain the services of decent Championship players like Brittain and Dolan or even tempt a 35 year old centre back or a 34 year old squad player into signing a short term deal, the temptation is as you say to think

"Why bother?"

Edited 21 hours ago by RevidgeBlue

[Emerald Isle Rover]

I like the look of miller I follow a good bit of Scottish football he’s decent. How that transfers to the championship only time will tell but can play centre half and rb good age profile is an international - decent signing 

[RevidgeBlue]

3 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

I like the look of miller I follow a good bit of Scottish football he’s decent. How that transfers to the championship only time will tell but can play centre half and rb good age profile is an international - decent signing 

What's your view on him in comparison to Brittain?

Upgrade or downgrade?  (if it happens)

[Ossydave]

8 hours ago, islander200 said:

Would the player  his agent and the selling club not be kicking off if we flew him all the way over here after agreeing a fee and  then we turned around and started to try and alter the terms of the deal?

And surely if no issue with his medical wouldn't him or his agent release some sort of statement denying it?He wants a move away

Quite possibly, however you'd suspect the player wants to keep us sweet as it would be a huge move for him. I suspect it will just get filed away and forgotten about though.....

[Emerald Isle Rover]

Very hard to say you would probably have to put him behind Brittain at this stage given he’s no championship experience - so better the devil you know sort of thing

but good age still a lot to learn and can improve on and a bit more versatile hard comparison but if pushed cal at the this stage a better right back but he wouldn’t be a massive downgrade 

[bluebruce]

Lewis Miller...24 year old (25 before end of August) 6 ft 2 inches right back with 14 caps for Australia, as well as 2 international goals. They're not what they used to be the Socceroos, but we don't have a lot of internationals. Spent 3 seasons at Hibs, out of contract next season. Played in the A-League in Australia before that. Wiki has him down as 144 career club appearances and 6 goals (5 of them at Hibs in his 85 games for them, all in the last 2 seasons and 3 of them in the league).

Struggling to find much in the way of highlights reels, none from his time at Hibs, this one being the most ecent...

And that's SMI, not to be confused with SEM of SEM and Kentaro infamy, in case anybody else made the same mistake as I did for a moment.

[RoversClitheroe]

It's almost as if we have no money and needed a sale.

[RevidgeBlue]

8 hours ago, islander200 said:

Would the player  his agent and the selling club not be kicking off if we flew him all the way over here after agreeing a fee and  then we turned around and started to try and alter the terms of the deal?

Yeah, there's no way on earth anything like that could ever happen.

*Cough*

(Mcguire)

[bluebruce]

3 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

It's almost as if we have no money and needed a sale.

I've been wondering if the holdup on further activity was the Brittain sale and seeing if we could get Baradji for a sufficiently low guaranteed fee. But then I keep remembering that outgoing transfers have no impact on our budget according to Gestede (a stance I find hard to believe, as surely without all these sales we would be spending even less).

[islander200]

3 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Yeah, there's no way on earth anything like that could ever happen.

*Cough*

(Mcguire)

Yeah but both McGuire and his agent were critical of the club when that happened 

If no issue with Baradji medical surely they would be saying something or his club if we led them up the garden path and started trying to alter the deal after he arrived 

[RoversClitheroe]

13 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

I've been wondering if the holdup on further activity was the Brittain sale and seeing if we could get Baradji for a sufficiently low guaranteed fee. But then I keep remembering that outgoing transfers have no impact on our budget according to Gestede (a stance I find hard to believe, as surely without all these sales we would be spending even less).

Absolutely.

Gestedes stance just shows he's not got a hope, and not competent.

[simongarnerisgod]

brittain is going to be a big miss with his attacking instinct,we`ll struggle down that side with no dolan and now no brittain,maybe val is going all long ball for this season,negating the need for attacking down the flanks

think we all know that travis will be next out of the door and im`e very surprised that sonny is`nt courting any interest

[London blue]

If we bring in Miller I'll hold my hands up, I absolutely was not expecting a replacement. I don't know much about him but the consensus seems good.

Still, sort out Brittains contract 12 months ago and we wouldn't need to replace him.

[roversfan99]

Still a massive blow to lose Brittain, no way can we get someone as good.

At least we are looking to proactively replace him permanently although the injury is a concern. Hopefully he will be back ASAP.

Seems to be quick and powerful which makes sense considering what we seemingly are desperate for.

From reading online, he seems to have done well in the last few months of the season playing as a right centre back and a few Hibs fans have commented saying that hes a good right centre back but not a right back.

[simongarnerisgod]

1 minute ago, London blue said:

If we bring in Miller I'll hold my hands up, I absolutely was not expecting a replacement. I don't know much about him but the consensus seems good.

Still, sort out Brittains contract 12 months ago and we wouldn't need to replace him.

i doubt miller will arrive,we`ve already bought brittains replacement in alebiosu

[BigHoz]

Another batch of money made, funny how we never replace with the amount we’ve made or more. 

[rigger]

2 hours ago, wilsdenrover said:

I’m wondering if this is a typo or not 😁 

It was a joke posted the other day.

[TommyRovers]

Gutting to lose Brittain. Big part in how we play but Millar is a very good signing so fair play.

[bluebruce]

7 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

From reading online, he seems to have done well in the last few months of the season playing as a right centre back and a few Hibs fans have commented saying that hes a good right centre back but not a right back.

That seems strange, as going off the video I posted (admittedly 3 years old) he is quick with good feet, and can even shift direction quickly for a big lad. Perhaps he has other attributes but it feels like playing him at RCB wastes some of his best attributes.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

Injury is a tad annoying but it’s nowhere near the extent Nixon reported