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

[stubbo]

Ramsdale a massive uninspiring no from me. We've already got a decent shot stopper who is crap with the ball at his feet. Ramsdale has a frantic air about him too IMO.

This smacks of agent talk anyway IMO. Supposedly Potter and more specifically MacCauley are being 'data led' in their targets, with the Club having invested in this area.

Ramsdale's stats are pretty ropey. His wages are expensive. And he wouldn't be cheap either.  Just don't see us signing someone of his ilk to be number 2, and don't see us making a signing that at the outset makes 120k per week Areola number 2.

 

[Manuel]

Just rename this forum Manuelonline,
And swap him for Potter so we have our very own Fat Ange know it all.

Well that's a strange post, cսnt. How am I a know it all? What did I say?

[BerlingtonBertie]

Just rename this forum Manuelonline,
And swap him for Potter so we have our very own Fat Ange know it all.

[Mex Martillo]

I think to be fair, Ramsdale is a bit better than Areola and also Fabianski as he is just getting too old. But it's not much of an upgrade and doesn't show much ambition. Sterling would be another expensive Ings bench warmer.

[Manuel]

Apart from the fact that Ramsdale is a liability, if we're short of dough why would we lay out 20 large on a keeper? Makes no sense to me, so I'm calling beard on this. We will probably try to loan the cսnt, if anything.

[Mad Ferret]

Ramsdale and Sterling thru the door would be solid business.

[Massive Attack]

Aaron Ramsdale is set for salvation after a season from hell by holding talks over a move to West Ham, talkSPORT understands.

The 27-year-old conceded 66 of the Saints 86 goals in their relegation campaign that was almost record-breaking with just 12 points collected - one more than Derby’s all-time low.

Yet his involvement didn’t deter West Ham manager Graham Potter, who remains impressed by Ramsdale’s stints in the top flight at Arsenal, Sheffield United and Bournemouth.

Ramsdale won’t come cheap, though, with Southampton hoping for £20million in exchange for a player they paid £18m for just under a year ago.

However, the south coast team are looking to offload his hefty £100,000 per-week wages as they gear up for their Championship return.


We never fucking learn.  

[Sydney_Iron]

Sterling would be a useful addition.

Jesus fucking Christ ferret son! you talking about West Ham or Levy and your lot going all in for him! Or is this one of your wind ups?

Saying that i wouldn't put it past Sullivan! Joked a few weeks ago we would be after KDB and then apparently, we did have a sniff.......

We love an aging player on a free or low fee at the club who we can "big" up as a world beater

[RBshorty]

Chelsea have signed Delap for 30 million.  

And he be flipped. This time next year. This is Chelsea MO.

[Tomshardware]

Chelsea have signed Delap for 30 million.  

[Steady]

Dreamland if you think we’re getting any more than £50m for Kudus.

I’ll have a bet with you chutney ferret son.
If we sell Kudus, he will got for £50m or more.

Loser never posts on here again.

kudus less than 50 mill? Ferret you’ve shown yourself up son

[El Scorchio]

Wouldn’t bother. He’ll only carry on under a new username after he’s lost the bet. 

[goose]

Dreamland if you think we’re getting any more than £50m for Kudus.

I’ll have a bet with you chutney ferret son.
If we sell Kudus, he will got for £50m or more.

Loser never posts on here again.

[Mad Ferret]

Dreamland if you think we’re getting any more than £50m for Kudus.

[Mex Martillo]

As much as I like Kudus, after such a shit season, I'd be happy to take 85M for him, especially if we then got in 3-4 players at a similar level as Guilherme.

[Tomshardware]

These ae the sorts of players its quite encouraging to be linked with. Young and with potential. We have to start being the club that spots talent and picks these players up at the right time, rather than the club that only enters the picture for a player a year or two too late once their value has already shot up.
Provided Sullivan can be convinced to open his wallet for 'risky unknowns'.

Agree,  we need to be signing younger players with potential.   

[RBshorty]

I'm liking the look of this Lucas STASSIN we're being linked to.

We are just a staking horse in that race. Word coming out of France. Is that we are the first team to "Sat down with Saint-Etienne and discussed the financing of the transfer." That alone. Should tell anyone. This ain't happening.

[El Scorchio]

These ae the sorts of players its quite encouraging to be linked with. Young and with potential. We have to start being the club that spots talent and picks these players up at the right time, rather than the club that only enters the picture for a player a year or two too late once their value has already shot up.
Provided Sullivan can be convinced to open his wallet for 'risky unknowns'.

[Lee Trundle]

I'm liking the look of this Lucas STASSIN we're being linked to.

[Mike Oxsaw]

Even without the distraction of 5 other teams (the promoted 3 plus Man U & Spurs) fishing in the same shallow talent pool to strengthen next season, the best we are ever going to aim for is somewhere between 9th & 12th, augmented by early cup exits.

Sure we'd all like much more success, but the malaise in both the current team and recruitment process runs so deep that a change in our fortunes will have the manoeuvrability of a fully-laden super-tanker on the high seas.

Even "Slowly, slowly catchee monkey" will only have relevance to our performance if the monkey's legs are tied together at the knees.

[Mad Ferret]

Sterling would be a useful addition.

[goose]

Yes.

[greenie1]

In reality, having finished near the bottom of the Premiership, not being a team known for constant European football and winning trophies over the years (for example Spurs and Man U), do any of us think we are going to get in any top quality players?
 

[Gank]

Nothing wrong with selling Kudus for a profit if you have a succession plan in place and a young player ready to replace them either already in the squad or an identified target. We NEVER do which is where we fall over.

This is what Brighton particularly have managed to do with huge success relative to the size of club they are. Lose Caicedo and MacAllister? No problem. Step forward next young player off the line who cost them fuck all two years ago and will be worth multitudes more in two years time, while the team barely misses a beat.
Great talent spotting and most of them recruited with a specific purpose in mind.


 

Exactly right.

The one time we sorted this out, we recruited an expert who got us Kudus who we can sell at a big profit, and Guilherme who can replace him.

Then we sacked him because we didn't get instant success and we've already gone back to the old way.

It's pathetic.

[scott_d]

Some people seem to think that Football Manager is real life.

For starters, in FM you can sign players outside of Will Salthouses stable.