Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread

[stubbo-admin]

Well seems like with all these international breaks, and us languishing, the rumours of ins and outs are rife.

Chuck anything 'worthy' of discussion on this thread...

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Incomings:

Pablo Felipe - €21m + €3m (Gil Vicente) | Forward
Valentin 'Taty' Castellanos - €26m + €4m (Lazio) | Forward
Adama Traore - £2m + £1m if stay up (Fulham) | Forward
Axel Disasi - Loan (Chelsea) | Centre Back
Keiber Lamadrid - £150k + £1m option | Attacking Mid

Outgoings:

Nicolas Füllkrug - 6 months loan (AC Milan)
Luis Guilherme - £17m + Sell On % (Sporting Lisbon)
George Earthy - 6 months loan (Bristol City)
Callum Marshall - 6 months loan (Bochum)
Andy Irving - 1.5m (Sparta Prague)
Guido Rodriguez - Undisclosed (Valencia)
Igor Julio - Loan Cancelled (Brighton)
James Ward Prowse - 6 months loan (Burnley)
Lucas Paqueta - £36.5m + Buy Back Clause (Flamengo)

[THUNDERCLINT]

Fucking Axel Disaster.

Why do we have to sign everyone's fucking broken toys?

[THUNDERCLINT]

If we get Disasi on loan then it's been a decent window.

Hello ladysmith

Yep, called it a while back.

[Mad Ferret]

Simpleton, chill dude.

Disasi is happening.

[El Scorchio]

By the way it's depressingly fucking quiet on the West Ham front. Not a peep aside from the obvious for days Disasi move.

Shocking dereliction of duty again from the dwarf

[El Scorchio]

It's also obvious without him saying anything. A blind man can see we are at least one or two players short in almost every position aside from full back.

Sullivan is doing the absolute bare minimum to rectify this. It's like he's told Nuno he can have one plaster and he has to choose which of the five gaping injuries to put it on. Everyone else is making moves. Palace, Forest, even Wolves. Gomes going there shoots down Sullivan's bollocks that it's impossible to get decent players in January. It can be done. He just doesn't WANT to do what's necessary to keep the club up. He could do if he committed. As usual for him it's a half measure and a gamble. Even this transfer window there was the move for the strikers right away and then.... nothing. Nothing until the very last couple of days. Once again hedging his bets. It's always all so fucking reactive and last minute and no way to build anything other than maybe short term success. 

The excuses and blame will come out. 'Nuno didn't want (insert pound shop sub par quality player courtesy of a friendly agent here)' so therefore he's the villain. 'We tried', 'It's impossible.' when it's been proven it's not. It's also been proven he doesn't need the manager to agree to a transfer before going rogue anyway.

It's all his fault. Every bit. The players, the managers, the results, the mess. And he's going to take zero accountability for it. I hope Nuno says 'Fuck your compo and NDA' and just gives it to him with both barrels when he's inevitably sacked and replaced with a worse and cheaper manager.

 

The squad lacks so much genuine quality that it makes some of the players already here look much worse than they actually are because there are so few that they can rely on to raise their level.

I've said before Mavro ain't such a bad player but he needs somebody sweeping up behind him allowing him to concentrate on forward facing defending which is his obvious strength. When he is isolated and the last man tracking back that ain't his fault. We needed somebody who can compensate for that. 

It goes back to our completely disjointed recruitment policy...they just sign players without giving the first thought as to how they will all compliment and bring the best out of each other.

It shouldn't be hard but due to our ownership it always is.

Agree. Far too much poorly scouted mediocrity has come through the doors, dragged down the talent we have had, and they've all except Bowen (and fucking fair play to that man so far) smelled the coffee and left- some through honourable means, but some through shithousery. Yes Alvarez, Paqueta, Aguerd and Kudus- that's you. It's more galling to see good players down tools than to see bang average ones giving their all. And almost every times one of them goes, Sullivan is downgrading. 

And bang on with disjointed policy. I swear Sullivan and I've said it before thinks this is still the 90s when a midfielder could just play midfield, and any striker can play in any sort of system as much as another, and any two centre backs can play effectively together. The game has progressed way beyond that. Each position is a specific role needing players not only of that general position but also with specific attributes to fill the roles needed to make the team work. A player just with 'good stats' in isolation at one club isn't going to do the same in another setup given how finely tuned it all is now. And as ever the most versatile ones who actually CAN do it all are the expensive ones we cannot on the whole afford- particularly if we don't even try to get in at ground level when they are young, like the three B's. We don't have the money to poach good, developed players. We have to pay top dollar for players like Fernandes after they've showed promise. As it turns out despite a lot of people saying we overpaid at the time, we probably haven't- but that's a case of the stopped clock being right for once and he is going to go on to be a fucking class player but why would he stick around here when he sees the shambles around him? For every Fernandes there are five gambles that end up being a total waste of money. Poor, poor decision making and a lack of footballing knowledge and hubris and any sort of modern strategy to building a squad is Sullivan to a tee.

[El Scorchio]

If we get Disasi on loan then it's been a decent window.

Hello ladysmith

[Beef&Tomato]

If we get Disasi on loan then it's been a decent window.

[Full Claret Jacket]

I think going down has been on the cards for a while. Not surprised if we bring nobody in today. Club will no doubt consider good offers for anyone. Its not defeatist to see the state of our team form and the league table. 
 

[RBshorty]

PRIMED FOR THE DROP.!

Championship here we come.

COYI.

[claypole]

Nice to see that the board have given up
remember this window when contemplating to spend money on official merchandise or tickets.

[eusebiovic]

It's also obvious without him saying anything. A blind man can see we are at least one or two players short in almost every position aside from full back.

Sullivan is doing the absolute bare minimum to rectify this. It's like he's told Nuno he can have one plaster and he has to choose which of the five gaping injuries to put it on. Everyone else is making moves. Palace, Forest, even Wolves. Gomes going there shoots down Sullivan's bollocks that it's impossible to get decent players in January. It can be done. He just doesn't WANT to do what's necessary to keep the club up. He could do if he committed. As usual for him it's a half measure and a gamble. Even this transfer window there was the move for the strikers right away and then.... nothing. Nothing until the very last couple of days. Once again hedging his bets. It's always all so fucking reactive and last minute and no way to build anything other than maybe short term success. 

The excuses and blame will come out. 'Nuno didn't want (insert pound shop sub par quality player courtesy of a friendly agent here)' so therefore he's the villain. 'We tried', 'It's impossible.' when it's been proven it's not. It's also been proven he doesn't need the manager to agree to a transfer before going rogue anyway.

It's all his fault. Every bit. The players, the managers, the results, the mess. And he's going to take zero accountability for it. I hope Nuno says 'Fuck your compo and NDA' and just gives it to him with both barrels when he's inevitably sacked and replaced with a worse and cheaper manager.

 

 

The squad lacks so much genuine quality that it makes some of the players already here look much worse than they actually are because there are so few that they can rely on to raise their level.

I've said before Mavro ain't such a bad player but he needs somebody sweeping up behind him allowing him to concentrate on forward facing defending which is his obvious strength. When he is isolated and the last man tracking back that ain't his fault. We needed somebody who can compensate for that. 

It goes back to our completely disjointed recruitment policy...they just sign players without giving the first thought as to how they will all compliment and bring the best out of each other.

It shouldn't be hard but due to our ownership it always is.

[El Scorchio]

In other news Kalvin Phillips has found his level- probably- going to Sheffield United on loan. Another fucking appalling signing for us. In January by the way, when it's impossible to get players in apparently.

[El Scorchio]

It's also obvious without him saying anything. A blind man can see we are at least one or two players short in almost every position aside from full back.

Sullivan is doing the absolute bare minimum to rectify this. It's like he's told Nuno he can have one plaster and he has to choose which of the five gaping injuries to put it on. Everyone else is making moves. Palace, Forest, even Wolves. Gomes going there shoots down Sullivan's bollocks that it's impossible to get decent players in January. It can be done. He just doesn't WANT to do what's necessary to keep the club up. He could do if he committed. As usual for him it's a half measure and a gamble. Even this transfer window there was the move for the strikers right away and then.... nothing. Nothing until the very last couple of days. Once again hedging his bets. It's always all so fucking reactive and last minute and no way to build anything other than maybe short term success. 

The excuses and blame will come out. 'Nuno didn't want (insert pound shop sub par quality player courtesy of a friendly agent here)' so therefore he's the villain. 'We tried', 'It's impossible.' when it's been proven it's not. It's also been proven he doesn't need the manager to agree to a transfer before going rogue anyway.

It's all his fault. Every bit. The players, the managers, the results, the mess. And he's going to take zero accountability for it. I hope Nuno says 'Fuck your compo and NDA' and just gives it to him with both barrels when he's inevitably sacked and replaced with a worse and cheaper manager.

[Fortunes Hiding]

Alfs, it’s obvious to me. You tell WHOers EVERY day. 

[Sir Alf]

Still think we need midfield reinforcements. Paqueta, Guido, Irvine, JWP all gone ( yeah I realuse tyey hardly played ) and Nuno now seems reluctant to uee Potts and Magassa?  Our issues in the last 30 mins of games are not just the back line which is all he changes. We need players he will use to freshen up midfield. This is obvious isnt it?

[El Scorchio]

On a buy or an obligation to buy after a loan id take £5m for Kilman

I think I would too- just to get his wages and contract off the books. Long run it's worth it just to write him off as a disaster and not throw good money after bad. I even doubt him being good enough to be in the top percentile of defenders in the Championship and not a liability there too, at least for us, TBH.

[El Scorchio]

But that's a completely separate point to 'Will he actually turn out to be decent or at least better than expected?' which is the point eusebiovic was actually making.

If I thought he'd turn out to be either outstanding or awful I'd have said as much.

As it is I think he is the best we can hope for, which is what I implied. It shouldn't be hard

Well exactly, but as I said, it was a different point being made. It feels like he is the best we can hope for, and I do think he'll at least be as good if not better than Mav. Put it this way, I'd 100% rather have Mav or Disasi coming on than Kilman so it's going to be a net gain at worst and at best a pleasant upgrade on Mav. I do think though similar to striker and midfield when the two in January and Fernandes arrived in the summer, his arrival will make us realise just how limited/bad Mav and Kilman actually are. 

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

I'll stick me neck out and say I think Disasi will be a decent signing. Don't buy into this not being ready mantra either. Is JWP ready for Burnley?

Normally I'd agree with you. People make too much of that match fitness stuff. Lingard was at it from the off and he'd barely played all season. It doesn't usually matter unless the player's been out injured.

That said though, Disasi hadn't been training with the first team at all for the whole season until a week or two back, and Rosenior himself said that "he’s behind in terms of his fitness", so he might well not be ready right away, which given Todibo's upcoming ban is not ideal.

[onsideman]

But that's a completely separate point to 'Will he actually turn out to be decent or at least better than expected?' which is the point eusebiovic was actually making.

If I thought he'd turn out to be either outstanding or awful I'd have said as much.

As it is I think he is the best we can hope for, which is what I implied. It shouldn't be hard

[Fauxstralian]

On a buy or an obligation to buy after a loan id take £5m for Kilman

[Westside]

The Kilman to Palace story has reared it's head again. If they offered a reasonable deal today, what would you do?

Rid us of the albatross but still leave us way short at the back and risk an inexplicable upturn of form from the player as he helps Palace pull away from danger possibly at our expense, or be stuck with him on crippling wages potentially for the next five years?

On the other hand of course he could continue his shocking form and give Palace even more problems.

Palace's defence is more than competent. It's upfront they have problems, only 3 teams have scored fewer than them in the Premier League.

[El Scorchio]

The Kilman to Palace story has reared it's head again. If they offered a reasonable deal today, what would you do?

Rid us of the albatross but still leave us way short at the back and risk an inexplicable upturn of form from the player as he helps Palace pull away from danger possibly at our expense, or be stuck with him on crippling wages potentially for the next five years?

On the other hand of course he could continue his shocking form and give Palace even more problems.

Snap their hands off frankly. The chances to shift the guy will be few and far between and his form is so horrid and we're so in need of guys in form, Is get rid and then see what we could get in as 4th choice. 

I'm inclined to agree, frankly. The only real gamble is if there's a crazy turnaround in his form as soon as he leaves which sees Palace edge us out for 17th place, but it seems unlikely that would happen. Todibo, Mav, Disasi and virtually anyone with a pair of legs is better than Todibo, Mav,Kilman as a CB compliment.

[El Scorchio]

I'm actually O.K with Disasi signing...He looked O.K for Chelsea until Maresca kept chopping and changing on a whim. I'm not expecting a world beater but he does have a bit of a presence and bite to his game. He is most probably pals with Magassa from when they were at Monaco so that might get something going too.




 

I think this transfer would belong in the "beggars can't be choosers" file

 

 

Of course it is. Just like virtually every transfer we have made in the last 12 months and every single one in this window, thanks to Sullivan's incompetence.

But that's a completely separate point to 'Will he actually turn out to be decent or at least better than expected?' which is the point eusebiovic was actually making.

[stubbo-admin]

The Kilman to Palace story has reared it's head again. If they offered a reasonable deal today, what would you do?

Rid us of the albatross but still leave us way short at the back and risk an inexplicable upturn of form from the player as he helps Palace pull away from danger possibly at our expense, or be stuck with him on crippling wages potentially for the next five years?

On the other hand of course he could continue his shocking form and give Palace even more problems.

Snap their hands off frankly. The chances to shift the guy will be few and far between and his form is so horrid and we're so in need of guys in form, Is get rid and then see what we could get in as 4th choice. 

[onsideman]

I'm actually O.K with Disasi signing...He looked O.K for Chelsea until Maresca kept chopping and changing on a whim. I'm not expecting a world beater but he does have a bit of a presence and bite to his game. He is most probably pals with Magassa from when they were at Monaco so that might get something going too.


 

I think this transfer would belong in the "beggars can't be choosers" file