Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread

[stubbo-admin]

May as well get going with this since with Sullivan at the helm, season ticket renewals slow, and the football vacuum to commence, this will soon be all the "news" there is.

Can Potter and MacCauley pull multiple rabbits out of the hat, or will Sullivan 'try really hard' with all of them before grabbing a few aging bargains from Big Willie Salthouse?

Window this close season comes in two parts:

Part 1: 1st June to 10th June
Part 2: 16th June to 1st September

Rumoured Outs...most of the squad

Let the "Rumoured In's" commence. 

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Player | Position | Club | Fee (GBP)

Rumoured In

1. Daniel Cummings | ST | Celtic
2. Koni De Winter | CB | Genoa
3. Morten Frendrup | DM | Genoa
4. Richard Kone | ST | Wycombe
5. Aaron Ramsdale | GK | Southampton
6. Caiomin Kelleher | GK | Liverpool
7. James Trafford | GK | Burnley
8. Kyle Walker-Peters | FB | Free Agent
9. Taylor Harwood-Bellis | CB | Southampton
10. CJ Egan-Riley | CB | Free Agent
11. Josh Brownhill | CM | Free Agent
12. Albian Hajdari | CB | Lugano
13. Lucas Høgsberg | CB | FC Nordsjælland
14. Ardon Jashari | CM | Brugge
15. Raphael Onyedika | CM | Brugge
16. James McAtee | AM | Man City
17. Mario Struykens | AM | Anderlecht
18. Mathias Kvistgaarden | ST | Brondby
19. Clement Bischoff | LB | Brondby
20. Mika Biereth | FW | Monaco
21. Barış Alper Yılmaz | AM | Galatasaray
22. Evann Guessand | ST | Nice
23. Lucas Stassin | ST | Saint Etienne
24. Marcus Taverner | FW | Bournemouth
25. Soungoutoo Magassa | CDM | Monaco
26. Valentin Atangana | CM | Stade Reims
27. Mads Hermansen | GK | Leicester City
28. Hamza Igamane | ST | Rangers

Rumoured Out

1. Nayef Aguerd | CB | Leverkusen, Marseille,  Juventus |  ~25m
2. Maxel Cornet | FW | Genoa/Others
3. Guido Rodriguez | DM | Betis/River Plate 
4. Tomas Soucek | CM | Everton
5. Michail Antonio | ST | Free Agent
6. Mo Kudus | FW | Chelsea/Newcastle/Arsenal
7. Lucas Paqueta | AM | Multiple/Ban
8. Andy Irving | CM | Celtic

Confirmed In

1. Jean Clair Todibo | CB | Loan To Perm (32m)

Confirmed Out

1. Aaron Cresswell | LB | Free Agent | 0m
2. Danny Ings | ST | Free Agent | 0m
3. Vladimir Coufal | RB | Free Agent | 0m
4. Lukusz Fabianski | GK | Free Agent | 0m
5. Kamari Swyer | AM | Free Agent | 0m
6. Kurt Zouma | CB | Free Agent | 0m
7. Carlos Soler | CM | PSG | End of Loan
8. Evan Ferguson | ST | Brighton | End of Loan
9. Brad Dolaghan | Released
10. Dondre Abraham | Released
11. Mehmet Halim | Released

[Rossal]

Also if we sign Ramsdale for more money and wages than Kelleher i fucking give up. 

He is bang average, only because he is english he gets spoken about. 

[Rossal]

If  i am Amorim looking a the state of them i am doing all i can to keep Rashford and Sancho. Both shown they can operate in the prem and what's point of paying 300/400k a week to watch them play for someone else. 

£25m for Sancho a few years after laying out £70m sums up their policy the last 10 years perfectly. 

[Fauxstralian]

For those worried about the reported interest in Sancho was reading that Chelsea WOULD have signed him if he would have agreed to a reduction in his Man Utd wages of £300k per week
Noone is paying that except for Saudi 

[Steady]

Surely if Moyes is that desperate for Soucek, we do a player plus cash deal for Pickford who is a huge upgrade in the goalkeeper position 

[John Drake]

I thought the reason Ramsdale was frozen out at Arsenal was down to how poor he was with distribution. A good shot stopper who could not do what his manager wanted with the ball at his feet. Exactly the same as Areola at West Ham, making it a signing that would make no sense other than to fill a hole in the squad.  

[Massive Attack]

Ramsdale also feels like lazy recruitment. Is he really the best we can do, a Keeper that has been relegated 4 times by the age of 27yo, that lost his Number 1 spot to Raya at Arsenal after a big money failed move there and will cost a fair whack for the privilege. He'd make a very good Championship Keeper but a quality Prem Keeper? I'm not convinced. 

[Fauxstralian]

I might be wrong about the timings but thought Fabianski had been agreed but Pellegrini actually didn’t want it to go ahead as he wanted Roberto to be his no1
Can you imagine that ?
Relegated with 150 goals conceded

[Massive Attack]

we sure did.
£7m bargain.

i could well be wrong but i just dont think Ramsdale is worth £20m.

The irony being Fabianski was Pellegrini's main man who he wanted here and was one of our best signings in recent times. Only to then come unstuck in main down to his clown replacement Roberto due to Fabianski's rare long term injury. 

[Eerie Decent]

Didn’t we sign Fabianski from relegated Swansea? Our best goalkeeper signing in recent years by a long stretch.

I'm not too bothered about signing a keeper from a relegated club, it's all about the talent of the keeper and the situation. That said, is it not slightly concerning in this case, given Ramsdale has been 1st choice and relegated 3 (THREE) times with 3 different clubs at the age of 27? That is worrying. Fabianski had 3 seasons in the Prem with Swansea and was named their player of the year in his 4th season, the season they were relegated, his 1st and only relegation at the age of 33. And he has been absolutely top notch for us, imo our best keeper since Parkes.

Ramsdale didn't even win Southampton's POTY this season, normally an ever present keeper in a team that bad (2nd worst Premier League team ever) stands out, because he has every chance to, and given how great he apparently is I would've expected a landslide for that award.

It is the most uninspiring, obvious, unnecessarily expensive pointless signing we could make. He's not even that good with the ball at his feet, so why the fuck should we sign him? I have never, ever been impressed whenever I've watched him, but that's not loads, so I'm really hoping I'm wrong, as it looks like a deal that's going to get done.

[fraser]

McAtee looks a good player, but from what I've seen, doesn't look to have much pace.

We are badly short of quick players, and a bit of muscle. Also, doesn't he play wide right? Probably the last signing we need to make at the moment, a slow left footed right winger.

But if we're selling Kudus who will fill the good second player for the same position to be played out of position on the left.. 

Summerville

Nah he won't be out of position  

[goose]

we sure did.
£7m bargain.

i could well be wrong but i just dont think Ramsdale is worth £20m.

[dealcanvey]

Didn’t we sign Fabianski from relegated Swansea? Our best goalkeeper signing in recent years by a long stretch.

[goose]

Ramsdale is classic west ham. Zero imagination in finding a new keeper so we over pay for one who's just been relegated.

[claypole]

Sancho?

A Magpie coverts those shiny things

[El Scorchio]

I'd rather Sancho than Marcus Tavernier.

But not for anything near the £300k a week which he's on at Man Utd.

Exactly. He's not objectively a terrible player but he just won't be anywhere near worth the probable outlay and he seems to carry a lot of baggage around with him.

[scott_d]

McAtee looks a good player, but from what I've seen, doesn't look to have much pace.

We are badly short of quick players, and a bit of muscle. Also, doesn't he play wide right? Probably the last signing we need to make at the moment, a slow left footed right winger.

But if we're selling Kudus who will fill the good second player for the same position to be played out of position on the left.. 

Summerville

[Lee Trundle]

I'd rather Sancho than Marcus Tavernier.

But not for anything near the £300k a week which he's on at Man Utd.

[El Scorchio]

From a couple of the news links down the right, how they are written and the site they are from, I'm getting the feeling Sullivan is trying to foist Jadon Sancho on Potter.
I fucking hope not.

[Pshyco scored all 4]

The club should have a go at luring back Douglas luiz. From  Italy . He'd be ideal . Whether he'd come or not is another matter. I suspect he would.  But whatever happens this club needs the potless dwarf to piss off pronto .

[Eerie Decent]

True that, frase.

I think people just throw names in that are obvious and easy. Ramsdale & McAtee, one is shit, and the other is nothing of what we have been crying out for.

But one played for Arsenal, and one plays Man City, so...

[fraser]

McAtee looks a good player, but from what I've seen, doesn't look to have much pace.

We are badly short of quick players, and a bit of muscle. Also, doesn't he play wide right? Probably the last signing we need to make at the moment, a slow left footed right winger.

But if we're selling Kudus who will fill the good second player for the same position to be played out of position on the left.. 

[Eerie Decent]

McAtee looks a good player, but from what I've seen, doesn't look to have much pace.

We are badly short of quick players, and a bit of muscle. Also, doesn't he play wide right? Probably the last signing we need to make at the moment, a slow left footed right winger.

[Fauxstralian]

McAtee needs to realise that with City reacting to losing the title he will be further away from playing
Needs to follow Cole Palmers example & move on
To us would be good

Can anyone explain Man U’s finances in terms of FFP?
Understand they have large losses & have bought Cunha & now probably Mbuemo
Plus Fernandes has said he isn’t going to Saudi so a large fee has disappeared 

[Jaan Kenbrovin]

I'd go for Ramsdale. He'd be ideal for us. I'd go for Harwood-Bellis, Walker- Peters, McAtee and any other half decent young English player with the right mentality and attitude. Our aim should be to create an image of being the best PL team for young English players.

I get the principle but Walker Peters isn't what I'd call young... neither is Ramsdale particularly 

That was poorly worded I meant McAtee and others.

[Steady]

Maybe he answers to friends who influenced getting the ground at a good rate, and who secured the land for the Olympics