The Rondo - Biggest Transfers - 11AUG2025

This transfer window might be one of the hottest ones we've seen, but high profile transfers come

with high expectations. Today we're going to be grading some of the biggest transfers that

happen this window and see where they are compared to other clubs. The first one that we have to

talk about, Marcus Rashford to Barcelona bro. I think, honestly, Barcelona fan. Listen bro

I've been happy with it bro. You saw, I know you saw him miss the wide open net yesterday though

Yeah, but get it out of the way and preach it. Bro, come on. He's not trying like that, bro

He's not. You saw the speed. Yeah, yeah. You see the speed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Prime Rashford is back

Prime Rashford is back. Where do you think Prime Rashford sits in, like, the world in terms of wingers

Bro, top three. Top three, bro. Prime Rashford is top three. He was in Man U, bro

Man U, bro. Prime Rashford and Marston is different. The thing about Rashford, though, the only thing about Rashford that I saw about him

at Manchester United that I didn't really like is that I really thought he could have pushed a little bit more on the field sometimes like i think for rashford it's not about talent

it's about the mental and i think with barcelona i think for him it's like it's a new challenge

it's a no it's a new place for him to develop but at manchester united i just wish like bro

it worked out bro he's a he's an academy prospect he's one of the best prospects to come out of

manchester united in history i would say and for him to not work out at his hometown club it's

kind of disappointing that's the man united tax though think about all the people bro they're called devils bro yeah like yo i don't understand like how this club is ever supposed to ever work

out both it's not a good club it's not a good club think of all the people that they have club have

uh homegrown themselves or brought in who were absolutely unbelievably hyped up because they

were really good somewhere else they bring them in and then they suck yeah you could name it on

on multiple it happened with lukaku it happened with uh rashford it happened with oh they did

ronaldo dirty to go one of the goals ronaldo back he was like and he was a little iffy i know he's

getting old but like they did that to him that's the united tax and i think that when he leaves as

he's done now, he's going to look way better at another place. Probably just because of the mental stuff

I swear, bro. Even at Villa, he looked better, bro. Mind you. Mind you. He's been working behind the scenes

He's been working behind the scenes. Like, I know. I know because sometimes I train, too

And I can see in his eyes. Boy, he was in the lab, bro. Yeah. He was in the lab this whole time just knowing, waiting for the opportunity, bro

What would you rate the transfer, A through F? Rate transfer or F? A plus

A plus. A plus? A plus. Okay. What about you? I mean, from Rashford's perspective, I'll give him

personally a plus from the club perspective i'll give it a b uh i don't know if it's gonna work out

but i hope it does and i'm rooting for him and we'll see man but good for rashford because it's

a step up for him i will say that out of any move that he could have made like this is probably the

best one like the most beneficial for him i feel like any other move like a galatasaray or something

would not be you don't want to go to fenerbahce nah nah but barcelona's barcelona's a good club to

be at all right moving on now we got victor goyokeres to arsenal honestly bro goyokeres looking

kind of stiff a little bit on the ball. I knew a lot of people said the Portuguese

league will give him more space and he looks faster in that league, but he looks alright

to me. As an Arsenal fan, he looks just okay. Yeah, it's really hard to judge this early

I feel like you gotta give him halfway through the season to start making real judgments

because there is an adjustment time. Like 100%. Play style is totally different

Quality of play is different. The speed of play is different. He's with new teammates, yada, yada

I think it's a great move for Barcelona. They need that goal score and his celebration is sick

Come on, now Devane. Yeah, and I think he'll give them that like X factor that they've needed

I still don't think they're going to win anything, but it'll make them better

What do you think, A-man, bro? What you think about my squad, bro? Yo, he going on the bench. I don't know

You know why, though? You saw Kai Havertz. Yeah. Yeah. Kai Havertz transformation Big buddy Havertz bro Big buddy Havertz bro But I saw him He looked sharp He looked sharp bro He not trying to relinquish that spot like that That what this also is an underrated underrated thing that related to these transfers

When you bring somebody in who's supposed to take your spot, it lights a fire under you and you really get after it

Because that effort and the work rate that he put in on that one goal that I know we're all thinking of, that one clip, that run

He might not have done that if he wasn't worried about losing his job. And for a club, that's good because you basically just triggered a player for $80 million

Yeah. For sure. And also, it's like, why wouldn't you want to have two strikers battling for it as a team, bro

You need guys who are trying to, yeah, someone get hurt. Look at Chelsea right now

Right now, they're locked in. Everybody could get hurt. Chelsea bought everybody in the world, bro

Two world-class nines, bro. It's crazy, bro. Everybody could get hurt. They still got a squad

It's GG's better for him. What are you guys grading Goyokarez to Arsenal? I give it an A

they wanted him they got him fans are happy i think he'll take a little while to adjust but i

think he'll be solid what do you think see because i said bench i was taking a spot though you think

kai hovertz got it over goyokarez i think it's gonna be a lot i think it's gonna be a lot closer

than people think because our tenta love hovertz bro a lot of people don't factor that in his

technical he's technically good technically very good of course our manager you always want to keep

the ball always you always want to keep the ball especially if you're hitting in the air and you can win it up the field bro that's that's integral to a part of the game so i'm gonna rank i'm gonna

We're gonna rank Victor Gilchores a B- we'll see what he goes up to. We gotta move on

Hugo Eketike to Liverpool, bro. That brother cold, man. I know you seen some of that dribbling yesterday

Bro, bro, bro, this guy's a baller and he's like a- he gives you street energy

And he's like 6'4", bro. And he's 6'4". He Wemby with soccer skills, bro. Fast

So I'm like, yo, bro, bro, bro, that's scary for the Prem, but at the same time, not everybody

can do it at the Prem. Oh, for sure. If he does the same thing he did in Bundesliga in the Prem, it's deadly

It's going to be deadly. I'm seeing hints of it, bro. That goal against Crystal Palace

I don't know if you guys watched the Community Shield final. It was nice. Cutting in, hitting a far post in a final

First off, rip. Yeah. It's clean, bro. It's unfortunate because Liverpool did exactly what I would

If I were a Liverpool fan, exactly what I would want them to do is you win a title. You win a title and you don't rest and you upgrade at three or four positions on the field

It's a really good signing. and I honestly think he'll probably have less

he'll need like less of an adjustment time than the Gilchrist or some of these other guys because he was playing at a higher level in Germany

and it's definitely, it's not the same as in England, but it'll transfer much easier

than a lot of the smaller leagues will. I agree because I feel like in the Bundesliga, you still got competition

A lot of players who come from the Bundesliga typically do well in the prep. Yeah, yeah. Kai Havertz, for example

like not saying he's the perfect player, but like he won the Champions League with Chelsea after coming from Bayer Leverkusen

So there's like a history of that. Yeah. You're just going to need time, bro. Like a lot of these guys

But for Eketike, though, I think he just offers something different, bro. When you're 6'4 and you can dribble, bro, you know how hard that is to stop

What would you guys rate that Eketike trades for? I'd give it an A, man. I think they upgraded

I think it's money well spent. I don't think they overpaid for him, considering he is one of the best young attacking players

in the world in general. Unfortunately, I think they did good business

I think they did good business. And it pains me to say as an Arsenal fan, because we try to catch up to Liverpool, and

they keep on making these goddamn improvements. and it's like i'm gonna have to give him an eight plus for that bro damn all right florian vertz

to liverpool honestly this was an interesting one because vertz cost a lot of money they paid

a lot of money even if he's playing well bro is he gonna ever be worth that value i'm gonna give

it well i'll get my rating at the end but that's where my head is at too because he was so expensive

he better be the best player in the league for that much money that what i saying bro i feel I like Issao beautiful signing But you can put Fischer on a guy like him because he a guy that creates moves play and if he if he got a score he bang it you know he basically

like you sold Coutinho for 150 million yeah and you paid almost the same it's basically the same

in this it just inflated it is inflated you know I'm not gonna lie we do talk about it yo this

market is crazy inflation price man yeah it's crazy bro but I think for Florian Vert it's gonna

to be all about how he transitions his game to the premier league as fast as possible because you

already know as a big signing you need to hit the ground running from day one because that momentum

carries you through the season but bowlers there's like certain bowlers like like the short ones

specifically the short ones like the techie ones like they don't need time i don't think he needs

time no hate playing against those type of guys oh my gosh vert's got yeah it's got skills yeah

what do we reckon this transfer i give it i give it a b for now i think we'll have to wait and see

If he is not clearly one of like the top three or four players in the league by midseason

I think you got to drop it down to somewhere in the C range because of how much they paid for him. Yeah. But we'll see

We'll give a B for now just because of the price tag. I'd say A plus because like I said, yes, he's one guy, but he gets people better

Like he's going to have Salah have like easy goals. You're a believer, man

We'll see. I'm excited to watch the show. Obviously, because I just know he's a baller. He's just a baller

This is one player that I've been anticipating to watch him play this season

joel pedro bro there's one thing about joel pedro that intrigues me is that when he left from

brighton and the reason why he only went for 50 60 million i don't think people thought he was elite like that like i thought people thought he was a good striker kind of like that gabriel jesus

build where it's like great striker but they don't score that much but bro chelsea he's been killing

it in these preseason matches scoring he won them the club world cup i think he could be decent for

them bro it's tough with chelsea because i don't even know how you rate their transfers because

they bought everybody that plays professional soccer right now i swear to god bro and so it's

Do I want to give him an A because I feel like he's a good player and he fits him well

Or do I just want to give him a C because you could say the same thing about the 20 other players that they signed over the past three windows

I don't know, man. He's a good player. But again, we'll see. If he falls out of form, there's like five guys that they also just bought waiting to replace him

And then it's like, what did you even spend all that money on? That's what I'm saying, bro. That's the problem with Chelsea

What do you think, A-man? Me, I thought, personally, I thought he sucked

Before we got him, I'm like, yo, all right, so we just going by already. card merchant. I'm not going to lie, you saw him when he threw that punch that one time

If that punch connects, this Chelsea move never happens, which is crazy

how the butterfly effect of that that he missed that. Bro, that could have ruined his whole career

bro, looking back now, bro. I was like, yo, who he did

That's what I'm saying. Why are you getting so bad? I was crashing out, and then

club woke up, going crazy, two goals, like, what? And he just did it again, doing it again

in the final, and I'm like, alright, drug bar. You said that's Drummer right there? You can't make that comparison yet. Come on, man

What are you guys ranking that transfer? I'll give it a B- and I'd probably give

every Chelsea Suning a B- just because you never know, man. There's like 30 dudes

training with the first team there. It's impossible to tell at this point. What do you think, Amen? What are you ranking

this transfer? Just give everybody an A+. I'm going to give it

a B for now. I think what's going to be very telling is how he competes with

Liam DeLapp because Liam DeLapp also scored See, this is exactly what I'm talking about. It's the other guy that they signed who plays practically the same position

with the same type of role for the team. It don't matter. It don't matter

Drug butt is drug butt, bro. But Juan Pedro's not drug butt, my boy. He has that clutch, bro

I see it. I don't know, man. I look at him. He gives me drug butt energy

If we come back to this in five years and they've won like one or two Champions Leagues with him as their main star player

I'll give it to you. Yeah I do whatever you want I do whatever you want All right I going to give you this one Victor Oseman to Galatasaray This was a little weird What happened to Victor Oseman man Two or three years ago we were anticipating that he was going to go to Real Madrid or something for like million

Not necessarily Madrid, but like somewhere. A big club in the Prem. One of the top five biggest clubs in the world for like a nine-figure fee

So it's crazy to see, I don't know if I want to call it the fall off because he's still good

But going to Turkey like that in what should be the prime of your career when you are or you were wanted by so many other people and like fan bases and media

I don't know. It's just weird. It's great for Galatasarayi, but for Otsaman personally. Maybe he wanted a hairdresser, man

He needed that. He needed to go to Turkey. You know, I need to go there. I need a year off

Him and Eric Adams. You know what's crazy? You know what's crazy for me, though

Like, where did Turkey get all this money? Because you know all these Turkish teams, they can't afford to pay for these players

Like, I'm pretty sure a lot of these Turkish clubs are still waiting to be able to pay clubs for their transfers from, like, years ago

So, the fact that Galatasaray coughed up $75 million somehow, I don't know where they got this money from

Because you already know in football, there's very few leagues that could spend over $50 million and be okay

So, for the Turkish league to spend $75 million on Viktor Osman, bro, that says a lot to me

I don't know what they're doing with that money, but at that level, bro, you expect them to be playing in the Prem

It's a donor kebab tax, man. I get enough of the beef and lamb Euro special with extra white sauce

I'm crying, bro. I throw that tax on it. For real. What are you guys ranking this transfer

Oh, for Galatasaray, I'd say like an A. He should pretty clearly be the best player in that league

And I mean, all right. Galatasaray for me is one of the clubs that I grew up watching where it's like, I'm never watching the Turkish league

Like, nor do I know more clubs in the Turkish League than like, what is it, Fenerbahce, Galatasaray, and Natalya Spor

Yeah, I know like four clubs, right? But every time they come on and play in the Champions League

I would always be there watching because I'm like, this is sick. Like, I never get to watch the domestic competition

Get to watch them in the Champions League. They're always kind of decent. I think that they are thinking of the Turkish League as like a lot

We need to win that. But their aspirations are making it further in Europe

So I think for them, it's an A, man. They got a really, really top-tier player. They paid good money for him

What about for Oseman himself? I don't know. For him, it's like a C-. I'm sure he's going to be the head honcho, making the most money

probably with the most endorsements in the whole country. Istanbul seems like a great place to live

But it seems like he never wanted more for himself in terms of playing at that really high level

I feel like at the end of this, I think, honestly, at the end of his career, I feel like he's going to feel a little empty

Maybe. It's like when you play when you're younger, and he's from Nigeria, for example

Everybody in Nigeria is a Manchester United fan, Arsenal fan, Premier League fans. I knew he grew up watching Drogba, watching the Premier League, watching these African legends at the highest level

So you're looking back at your career when it's all said and done, and the highest level you got to was winning Serie A with Napoli

For a guy like Victor Oseman, who's supposed to be considered one of the greatest African strikers of all time, I feel like that's pretty lackluster, bro

Yeah, we'll see, man. What do you think, Eamon? I agree Like For the club

It's decent But for the players Like I feel like I think he stopped

Caring about football Yeah Personally I just don't see it in him I don't see he's trying Like

We've been thinking about A lot of rumors From before Yeah Like

It's never like Yo Big clubs You know what I'm saying It's always been the money Yeah

So it's like Always been the money Exactly Money don't always buy happiness My brother

You know what I'm saying Especially with football Unless you earn it And I'm like Yo you're him

Dominion all Earn it Mbappe They're him So they're making this money big clubs yeah then you can't you can't really unless you just trying to you know you trying to

chill bro