Summer 2025 BFC Transfer Window - Links and discussion on the Linked player only.

[agreenwood]

Not a “drive him there myself” comment in sight. Don’t often see that…

https://www.twtd.co.uk/forum/609173/tua ... urnley/#25

[Woodleyclaret]

A decent signing

[Longsider]

The last post from the Ipswich fans made me laugh. "Please take Muric with you" Hope not.

[agreenwood]

Behind a pay wall, but suggest Newcastle struggling to agree a fee for Trafford.

https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football ... -tf7v7252p

[RVclaret]

£25m offer apparently. Not enough.

[123EasyasBFC]

https://sport.ua/uk/amp/news/772633-v-b ... -100-ochok

Ukrainian cm link

[NewClaret]

https://sport.ua/uk/amp/news/772633-v-b ... -100-ochok

Ukrainian cm link

Translation:

The leader of "Dynamo" and midfielder of the national team of Ukraine Volodymyr Brazhko can continue his career in the English Premier League.

According to the source, Volodymyr was interested in the newcomer of the Premier League Burnley, who last season of the Championship reached the mark of 100 points and got into the elite. Brajka's candidacy is on the shortlist of the English club.

This season, Brazhko played 37 matches at the club level, scored five goals and gave four assists.

Last winter, Brazhko was already close to moving to the Premier League. Wolverhampton made an official offer to the Ukrainian club in the amount of 20 million euros, but was rejected.

€20m seems a lot Nice to see us linked with a defensive midfielder though.

[NewClaret]

9 minutes of you tube watching and I approve.

- Big strong lad
- Incredible long ball passer (badly needed to play on the counter)
- Gets stuck in
- Pretty strong in the tackle from what I can see, most of the compilation is him pinging long balls all over

[Newcastleclaret93]

9 minutes of you tube watching and I approve.

- Big strong lad
- Incredible long ball passer (badly needed to play on the counter)
- Gets stuck in
- Pretty strong in the tackle from what I can see, most of the compilation is him pinging long balls all over

I must have just watched the same video haha.

Looks exactly the kind of player we need IMO

[RVclaret]

https://sport.ua/uk/amp/news/772633-v-b ... -100-ochok

Ukrainian cm link

Not sure on the source for the link, but his profile seems pretty spot on for what we need.

[burnley007]

https://sport.ua/uk/amp/news/772633-v-b ... -100-ochok

Ukrainian cm link

No idea how credible that link is, but...YES PLEASE.

He's exactly what we need. Would be an awesome signing.

[123EasyasBFC]

Not sure on the source at all tbh, I remember last summer the Amdouni to benfica initially came from an absolute nothing source and then it became mainstream media in Portugal so could be something similar

[NewClaret]

I must have just watched the same video haha.

Looks exactly the kind of player we need IMO

I’m always a bit dubious of passing compilations playing inch perfect passes when they had 30 seconds to pick it out. This lad seems to move the ball very quickly though.

[jedi_master]

Tends to be the case that often these bizarre links that appear out of nowhere have more basis than the ones in UK press with 5 or 6 clubs listed - certainly as far as Burnley is concerned.

Never heard of him but certainly looks like a good player on the old 'Tube, good profile and the right age to be expected to be starting games for us whilst also having that value upside if he proves himself. I like the look of him.

[boatshed bill]

No idea how credible that link is, but...YES PLEASE.

He's exactly what we need. Would be an awesome signing.

Apparently he's just signed a new deal with Kyiv, not that really matters these days.

[Grimsdale]

Linked with Pepe from Porto (along with Villa, Forest and Fulham)

https://x.com/futebol_info/status/1938399643244839269

[burnley007]

Linked with Pepe from Porto (along with Villa, Forest and Fulham)

https://x.com/futebol_info/status/1938399643244839269

28 and valued at over £20m apparently. Doesn't sound right.

[BuryClaret]

Probably nonsense as its Pete O'Rourke / Football Insider, but linked with Tomas Soucek with West Ham open to offers. Would be on a big wage you'd imagine: https://www.footballinsider247.com/excl ... rove-sale/

[jedi_master]

Soucek would be an absolutely unbelievable signing for us - I'd be over the moon.

[Jambounchained]

Soucek would be a ridiculous signing for us.

I'd be amazed to see it come to fruition though, reckon he'll be on about 80k a week minimum.

[agreenwood]

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[RVclaret]

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27m inc add ons? Is this a joke? All this noise and this is still a good 10m off what I’d find acceptable.

[agreenwood]

27m inc add ons? Is this a joke? All this noise and this is still a good 10m off what I’d find acceptable.

I suspect the “noise” is being generated by our old mucker, David Eyres.

[Goliath]

27m inc add ons? Is this a joke? All this noise and this is still a good 10m off what I’d find acceptable.

It's not a million miles off. I'd have thought somewhere between 30 to 35 million with clauses based on his success with Newcastle and england

[RVclaret]

It's not a million miles off. I'd have thought somewhere between 30 to 35 million with clauses based on his success with Newcastle and england

35m and you might be nearer. You have to add a premium for 1. Newcastle 2. The fact we are in the Prem. The base fee has to be £30m, Pickford went for that 10 years ago!!

[boatshed bill]

More troublesome for me is the fact he ditched us as soon as we were relegated. We signed him from Charlton and gave him the chance of Premier League football. In my book that earns you at least one season of loyalty.

There is no loyalty in football. Nick Pope gave us great service.... then he left. That's what happens.
Poor fee for Trafford, though. I'm disappointed.

[Socrates]

There is no loyalty in football. Nick Pope gave us great service.... then he left. That's what happens.
Poor fee for Trafford, though. I'm disappointed.

By what?

No fee has been agreed.

[Newcastleclaret93]

35m and you might be nearer. You have to add a premium for 1. Newcastle 2. The fact we are in the Prem. The base fee has to be £30m, Pickford went for that 10 years ago!!

Pickford went for 25m to be fair, the full fee of 30m was never realised due to Everton’s crap performance.

30m is the 7th most expensive fee for a keeper in history.

Makes the 70m Chelsea spent on Kepa seem crazy

[Spijed]

Pickford went for 25m to be fair, the full fee of 30m was never realised due to Everton’s crap performance.

30m is the 7th most expensive fee for a keeper in history.

Makes the 70m Chelsea spent on Kepa seem crazy

But Everton paid that in 2017. Fees have moved on since then

[warksclaret]

Man Utd spent over £47m with add ons with Onana and he is a liability. The bar has been raised on price ceilings for keepers-Pickford joined Everton 8 years ago and Trafford has the same potential as Pickford when he joined Everton, if not more, and is younger than Pickford was at the time

[ollieclarets8]

£30m rising to £35-40m+ with add-ons and a 25% sell-on clause. Anything less keep. With a potential England starting spot in the World Cup next summer his stock could be even higher.

[Murger]

Be interesting to see which keeper we go for when Trafford leaves.

[Goliath]

35m and you might be nearer. You have to add a premium for 1. Newcastle 2. The fact we are in the Prem. The base fee has to be £30m, Pickford went for that 10 years ago!!

We urgently need to do a deal really so will probably fall a bit short on what we want ideally. I'm.hoping we can get Ramsdale in as replacement

[Newcastleclaret93]

But Everton paid that in 2017. Fees have moved on since then

Evidently no they haven’t

Raya to Arsenal = 27m (24-25)
Ramsdale to Arsenal = 23m (22-23)
Onana to United = 37m (23-24)
Jorgensen to Chelsea = 20m (24-25)
Mendy to Chelsea = 19.5m (20-21)
Vlachodimos to Newcastle = 19m (24-25)
Verbruggen to Brighton = 16m (23-24)
Henderson to Palace = 14m (23-24)
Bazanu to Southampton = 12m (22-23)
Martinez to Villa = 13m (20-21)

They are pretty much all of the GK transfers I could find from the last 5 years in the prem. if anything it probably shows that keepers have come down in value over the last 5 years.

I would argue there is only really Onana that has gone for crazy money.

[Oldparkwood]

We urgently need to do a deal really so will probably fall a bit short on what we want ideally. I'm.hoping we can get Ramsdale in as replacement

Why do we urgently need to do a deal?

[boatshed bill]

We urgently need to do a deal really so will probably fall a bit short on what we want ideally. I'm.hoping we can get Ramsdale in as replacement

I don't think we would have a chance of meeting Ramsdale's wage demands.

[wilks_bfc]

We urgently need to do a deal really so will probably fall a bit short on what we want ideally. I'm.hoping we can get Ramsdale in as replacement

Absolutely agree it needs to be done urgently

It’ll be impossible to find a replacement in the 8 remaining weeks of the transfer window

[Goliath]

Why do we urgently need to do a deal?

Because we don't have our first choice goalkeeper until he's gone most probably. The earlier we get a replacement in the earlier we can start building an understanding with the defence and rest of the squad.
We don't want to be scrambling around for a keeper in the middle of pre season if we can help it.

[Goliath]

Absolutely agree it needs to be done urgently

It’ll be impossible to find a replacement in the 8 remaining weeks of the transfer window

Why delay the inevitable over a couple of million. Get it done.

[boatshed bill]

Because we don't have our first choice goalkeeper until he's gone most probably. The earlier we get a replacement in the earlier we can start building an understanding with the defence and rest of the squad.
We don't want to be scrambling around for a keeper in the middle of pre season if we can help it.

Perhaps we've already signed one.

[randomclaret2]

Absolutely agree it needs to be done urgently

It’ll be impossible to find a replacement in the 8 remaining weeks of the transfer window

9 weeks on Monday

[wilks_bfc]

Why delay the inevitable over a couple of million. Get it done.

Because he’s worth more to us than the £26/27mthey have offered

[ollieclarets8]

Why delay the inevitable over a couple of million.

A couple of a million is a lot to the club.

[Colburn_Claret]

I obviously don't want Traff to go, but every player has a price, especially if that player is keen on the move.
That said 25 mill is beyond insulting. If they rate him so highly they'll happily pay 40 for him. If we were to give in it just opens the club up for every other team to think they can have our pants down as well, and that could be a catastrophe going forward.
Brighton have been so successful because they refuse to sell their star players on the cheap, we have to have the same attitude. Honestly I'd rather lose him for free in 2 years time than allow him to go for 25 mill.

[warksclaret]

A couple of a million is a lot to the club.

There is a reason Burnley paid over the odds for him. For the same reason we now need to be asking "over the odds" for Trafford ourselves. It is generally felt he could well be the next Joe Hart or Jordon Pickford , who between them have earned over 150 England caps. THere is no one around of Trafford's age who remotely aspires to achieving this. For this reason we need to play hard ball with Newcastle. I am convinced if we keep Trafford that by Christmas , in the high spotlight of the PL, that we will have more than one club chasing him, and would not be surprised to see the German clubs watching him too by then

[Elizabeth]

I'll say it now.

Thanks James, the highlight of your stay at Burnley was the two penalty saves at the death against Sunderland on the Turf that got us an important point against promotion rivals when we didn't deserve it

If you read this board James , why does Nick Pope call you ' shagger' ?

[kentonclaret]

New keeper

If he has signed for Burnley to play in the PL next season I can guarantee he won’t be an Idle Weiss

[boatshed bill]

I'll say it now.

Thanks James, the highlight of your stay at Burnley was the two penalty saves at the death against Sunderland on the Turf that got us an important point against promotion rivals when we didn't deserve it

If you read this board James , why does Nick Pope call you ' shagger' ?

Could be a farming reference in that

[Elizabeth]

If he has signed for Burnley to play in the PL next season I can guarantee he won’t be an Idle Weiss

All royalties to Vince Hill

[Elizabeth]

Could be a farming reference in that

The researcher I am I looked up where Trafford was born. It said Carlisle , so I looked up Carlisle and all I could find was that it was a region full of sheep. I'm completely lost bill, can you help me