Summer transfer thread 2025

[Jim44]

Anybody heard about our interest in Migouel Alfarela, Legia Warsaw striker (French) on loan to a Greek club with 5 goals from 10 starts?

[Wilson]

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Anybody heard about our interest in Migouel Alfarela, Legia Warsaw striker (French) on loan to a Greek club with 5 goals from 10 starts?

Nah.

[Jim44]

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Nah.

Nah, you haven’t heard or nah, nonsense?

[Wilson]

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Nah, you haven’t heard or nah, nonsense?

Definitely didn't read it at the top of the last page ;-)

[Jim44]

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Definitely didn't read it at the top of the last page ;-)

[superfurryhibby]

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Definitely didn't read it at the top of the last page ;-)

Neither didn’t’ I, it definitely wasn’t not the subject of a bit of speculation.

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Just done a bit of research on Alfarela, seems to have had quite an interesting career.

It doesn’t seem clear what his best position is, but seen a few saying he can play upfront, wide or in the 10. Maybe upfront in a 2 in our current system so he can drift wide etc would be perfect?

His current form may price us out though as you’d think Warsaw would want to get their money back for him and rumours of a couple of big Greek teams being interested in him.

[Donegal Hibby]

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Just done a bit of research on Alfarela, seems to have had quite an interesting career.

It doesn’t seem clear what his best position is, but seen a few saying he can play upfront, wide or in the 10. Maybe upfront in a 2 in our current system so he can drift wide etc would be perfect?

His current form may price us out though as you’d think Warsaw would want to get their money back for him and rumours of a couple of big Greek teams being interested in him.

800k is the figure rumoured that Warsaw paid for him which I think is doable especially if Vente and Youan go for decent and reasonable fees. Rumours of big Greek teams interested might be a big stumbling block as the player has said he’s enjoyed playing his football there …

One thing that’s interesting in Alfarela can play a few positions . If we do secure third place we are going to need players that are versatile in covering a few positions , already have one signed in McGrath who can play AM , LW or RW.

[Ozyhibby]

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800k is the figure rumoured that Warsaw paid for him which I think is doable especially if Vente and Youan go for decent and reasonable fees. Rumours of big Greek teams interested might be a big stumbling block as the player has said he’s enjoyed playing his football there …

One thing that’s interesting in Alfarela can play a few positions . If we do secure third place we are going to need players that are versatile in covering a few positions , already have one signed in McGrath who can play AM , LW or RW.

I’m not sure we’ll get much for Youan now? He’s pretty much had this season off and clubs will likely be wary of him becoming injury prone?


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[we are hibs]

Max Boruc will depart Hibs this summer,*writes Scott Burns.

The keeper will leave when his contract expires at the end of the season.

Boruc - the cousin of former Celtic star Artur - has fallen out-of-favour with David Gray.

Gray has preferred Jordan Smith and Josef Bursik this season.

The 22-year-old was signed from Slask Wroclaw as a development goalkeeper back in 2023.

He did make a handful of appearances under former boss Lee Johnson but since then his game time has been limited.

Boruc also had a loan spell at Arbroath last season.

Defender Kyle McClelland will also leave on freedom of contract this summer.

The former Rangers youngster has been on loan at Irish side Coleraine.




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[JohnM1875]

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Max Boruc will depart Hibs this summer,*writes Scott Burns.

The keeper will leave when his contract expires at the end of the season.

Boruc - the cousin of former Celtic star Artur - has fallen out-of-favour with David Gray.

Gray has preferred Jordan Smith and Josef Bursik this season.

The 22-year-old was signed from Slask Wroclaw as a development goalkeeper back in 2023.

He did make a handful of appearances under former boss Lee Johnson but since then his game time has been limited.

Boruc also had a loan spell at Arbroath last season.

Defender Kyle McClelland will also leave on freedom of contract this summer.

The former Rangers youngster has been on loan at Irish side Coleraine.




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Likely to lose Vente and Youan in the summer as well. Hopefully find another club to loan Jair for his final year as can't see anyone wanting to buy him.

Still quite a rebuild needed when you think about it. Both to add a few to the starting XI and bring in squad depth for hopefully group stage European football.

[Centre Hawf]

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I’m not sure we’ll get much for Youan now? He’s pretty much had this season off and clubs will likely be wary of him becoming injury prone?


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I think we'll still get at least £1m for him personally. I do agree his valuation will have taken a hit from its peak, but there will be clubs out there that see the opportunity to get a quality player for what would be peanuts.

What we net after paying anything to his former club or the Gordon's I don't know but we might still end up with something in the budget from him.

[Springbank]

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Likely to lose Vente and Youan in the summer as well. Hopefully find another club to loan Jair for his final year as can't see anyone wanting to buy him.

Still quite a rebuild needed when you think about it. Both to add a few to the starting XI and bring in squad depth for hopefully group stage European football.

In fairness these guys are not core parts of our team

This is Malky McKay finishing off the required clearcut from the last few years mismanagement by others - the like of Kenneh, McKirdy, Amos, McLelland, Boruc, Tavares were all a financial drain without delivering onfield

The likes of Iredale, N Cadden, Gayle, Bowie are bringing us a lot more & I don't think a rebuild is the gameplan facing us - it's retain as many core guys as possible, make a bit on vente/youan, and look at retaining triantis / integrating Jamie McGrath

Better times are here

[LEaston87]

If we don't get over £500k for Youan I would just keep him and let him leave at the end of next season, he won't have many suitors if he doesn't perform next season so I'd rather he could contribute next season and help us in Europe. Wins in Europe would be worth more to us financially than whatever we could sell him for. St Gallen are probably due a percentage of our profit on a transfer as well.

[JohnM1875]

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In fairness these guys are not core parts of our team

This is Malky McKay finishing off the required clearcut from the last few years mismanagement by others - the like of Kenneh, McKirdy, Amos, McLelland, Boruc, Tavares were all a financial drain without delivering onfield

The likes of Iredale, N Cadden, Gayle, Bowie are bringing us a lot more & I don't think a rebuild is the gameplan facing us - it's retain as many core guys as possible, make a bit on vente/youan, and look at retaining triantis / integrating Jamie McGrath

Better times are here

From the regular starters I reckon we'll likely lose Rocky, Triantis, Myko and Gayle.

Have McGrath signed and Newell to come back in as well. But we'll defo need a new starting CB and at least a striker to push Boyle and Bowie. That and we'll always be looking to improve the starting XI so expect a few more to come in and do just that.

Agree though that after this season it'll only be Jair left that's not really good enough.

[Ozyhibby]

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From the regular starters I reckon we'll likely lose Rocky, Triantis, Myko and Gayle.

Have McGrath signed and Newell to come back in as well. But we'll defo need a new starting CB and at least a striker to push Boyle and Bowie. That and we'll always be looking to improve the starting XI so expect a few more to come in and do just that.

Agree though that after this season it'll only be Jair left that's not really good enough.

Is the new guy Manneh injured?


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[Nicho87]

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Is the new guy Manneh injured?


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Matty and Colin touched on manneh on the last episode without going in depth said he didn’t have a preseason.

Plus the fact we’ve been amazing it’s a big ask for him to come in. I did expect to see more minutes from him. Wonder if he is struggling with the different style of league etc.

[JohnM1875]

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Matty and Colin touched on manneh on the last episode without going in depth said he didn’t have a preseason.

Plus the fact we’ve been amazing it’s a big ask for him to come in. I did expect to see more minutes from him. Wonder if he is struggling with the different style of league etc.

Not sure I’m buying the lack of minutes being down to not having a pre-season. He's been in and training with us since start of Feb, so three months now. Bowie was out injured for months and is back and in the team.

Think it’ll be more of what you say, finding it hard to force himself into a team that's been smashing it since he arrived and changing leagues and styles wont be easy.

[Centre Hawf]

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Not sure I’m buying the lack of minutes being down to not having a pre-season. He's been in and training with us since start of Feb, so three months now. Bowie was out injured for months and is back and in the team.

Think it’ll be more of what you say, finding it hard to force himself into a team that's been smashing it since he arrived and changing leagues and styles wont be easy.

I think it'll be a mixture of all the things mentioned. By all accounts the club were happy to bring him in this summer instead of January but the opportunity came to get him in earlier.

At the time we perhaps needed that body with Newell getting injured and the slight uncertainty on a few others in that area like Kwon, but since then NMW and Levitt have stepped up even more so than they had done first half of the season, which has probably put his opportunity to step in back into the summer. Mix that in with maybe a lack of match sharpness and you can see why we haven't forced him in for the sake of it when there's a handful performing in that position anyway.

[JohnM1875]

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I think it'll be a mixture of all the things mentioned. By all accounts the club were happy to bring him in this summer instead of January but the opportunity came to get him in earlier.

At the time we perhaps needed that body with Newell getting injured and the slight uncertainty on a few others in that area like Kwon, but since then NMW and Levitt have stepped up even more so than they had done first half of the season, which has probably put his opportunity to step in back into the summer. Mix that in with maybe a lack of match sharpness and you can see why we haven't forced him in for the sake of it when there's a handful performing in that position anyway.

Aye, no doubt.

And absolutely no harm at all getting him in early to have four months integrating into the squad behind him before the start of pre-season. Can only be a good thing.

Still excited to see what he'll add to the team and think it'll prove to be a good signing.

[Hibernian Verse]

What happened to Kwon? Is he injured or can he just not get in?

[Thatdayinmay16]

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What happened to Kwon? Is he injured or can he just not get in?

Just extremely bad at football I think.

[Coco Bryce]

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What happened to Kwon? Is he injured or can he just not get in?

He's just not very good at football.

[Centre Hawf]

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Aye, no doubt.

And absolutely no harm at all getting him in early to have four months integrating into the squad behind him before the start of pre-season. Can only be a good thing.

Still excited to see what he'll add to the team and think it'll prove to be a good signing.

Definitely. I'm not overall worried about his lack of time or think it's an indicator of any lack of quality. As you say he's with our coaching staff who will get a good look at him and he can integrate into the squad properly and hopefully will hit the ground running in pre-season.

People rightly want us to get our signings done early, we just so happened to get this one done 6 months earlier than first planned.

[Spudster]

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Wonder if he is struggling with the different style of league etc.

I've tried to find a tweet I seen (unsuccessfully) showing the speed/tempo of the leagues in Europe. Scotland was by some distance 1st place and I'm pretty sure Denmark was bottom. When we signed Manneh I thought that's going to be a drastic change for him!

[HoboHarry]

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Not sure I’m buying the lack of minutes being down to not having a pre-season. He's been in and training with us since start of Feb, so three months now. Bowie was out injured for months and is back and in the team.

Think it’ll be more of what you say, finding it hard to force himself into a team that's been smashing it since he arrived and changing leagues and styles wont be easy.

Maybe protecting him from worthless Scottish referees. Is that of a referee who sent him off still getting top flight games by the way?

[Billy Whizz]

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I think it'll be a mixture of all the things mentioned. By all accounts the club were happy to bring him in this summer instead of January but the opportunity came to get him in earlier.

At the time we perhaps needed that body with Newell getting injured and the slight uncertainty on a few others in that area like Kwon, but since then NMW and Levitt have stepped up even more so than they had done first half of the season, which has probably put his opportunity to step in back into the summer. Mix that in with maybe a lack of match sharpness and you can see why we haven't forced him in for the sake of it when there's a handful performing in that position anyway.

NMW not getting many minutes either just now, wonder if he’s one that will be wanting to move on

[Centre Hawf]

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NMW not getting many minutes either just now, wonder if he’s one that will be wanting to move on

Yeah it's an odd one, I thought there was a real period around February/March when he was performing the better of our midfielder then he disappeared again. I thought he was playing his way back into the mix but perhaps his time is up if a move is on the cards. Levitt at the moment now seems to have cemented the role that was up for grabs in Newells absence.

[EGL2000]

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What happened to Kwon? Is he injured or can he just not get in?

God actually forget we even still have him! I was really pleased when we got him and after a fairly bright start just went massively down hill.

[Donegal Hibby]

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I’m not sure we’ll get much for Youan now? He’s pretty much had this season off and clubs will likely be wary of him becoming injury prone?


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It was said on here that Myko was injury prone though Swansea still shelled out £2m for him , personally I think we’ll get at least £1m for him and £1.5m or more for Vente . £2.5m or more possible for them two players I don’t think is a unrealistic figure .