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

[Eerie Decent]

The system is the problem, not the clubs trying to get around it.

I hate the money in the game, but unless they bring in proper rules, as in around the amount of English born players in the team, salary caps, maximum transfer spend regardless of incoming transfer money etc, then this current set up is just there purely to try to ringfence the big hitters. Hasn't worked all round, as in Man Utd's case, but that's purely down to their own incompetence.

Either go hardcore with the rules, or just let everyone get on with it.

[El Scorchio]

Nah bollocks, they've historically been trying to get away with financially cheating for years, yet they always get protected, just as Man City no doubt will as well...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footb ... sters.html

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... r-payments

It fucking stinks.

That to be fair is stuff the club did under the old regime. It's under the new lot that they've been finding the loopholes in the financial rules and using those grey areas to game the system.

[Lee Trundle]

It's only Massive Bellend, Chutney Ferret, and Manuel who's moaning.

I think I'll get over it.

[Gank]

This has already been done recently, and most - including me - said that whilst Chelsea are a horrible club with weird supporters, they are the world experts at playing the transfer game and we should employ people who could do similar for us instead of moaning about PSR and suggesting that we sell all of our best players to fund buying new players to replace them.

Credit where it's due, Chelsea have mastered the transfer system and regularly lose players much better than anything we have and still finish much higher than us. That doesn't mean we love Chelsea, it's a reluctant admiration for their business manipulation and like many things at West Ham, it goes to show that leaving important decisions to imbeciles like our owners is going to leave us trailing.

[Mike Oxsaw]

Utter embarrassment for Trundle once again.

What will NOT talking about what other teams in our league - in this case Chelsea - achieve?

Will they go "Oh No! Proper faces on WHO are ignoring us so we'd better stop what we're doing right now and behave"?

[Mad Ferret]

Utter embarrassment for Trundle once again.

[Massive Attack]

Nah bollocks, they've historically been trying to get away with financially cheating for years, yet they always get protected, just as Man City no doubt will as well...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footb ... sters.html

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... r-payments

It fucking stinks.

[Lee Trundle]

They’ve gamed all the new rules very well, to be fair to them. It’s almost like an F1 team having someone to pore over any new regs to find a legal way of exploiting them. Invaluable. 

we probably have Brady’s cleaner on an abacus. 

Glad someone gets it, Scorch.

Hopefully we join the same club if they buy Kudus from us, and we can fiddle our figures to help PSR.

[El Scorchio]

They’ve gamed all the new rules very well, to be fair to them. It’s almost like an F1 team having someone to pore over any new regs to find a legal way of exploiting them. Invaluable. 

we probably have Brady’s cleaner on an abacus. 

[Manuel]

Trundle def seems to admire Chelsea a lot.

[Massive Attack]

Best to close eyes and ears until August as we aint doing any business until then.


 

Which year?

[Sir Alf]

Best to close eyes and ears until August as we aint doing any business until then.  Sullivan and Potter on holiday, then waiting for Kudus to be sold. We are cash poor / skint as usual.  Some, perhaps most, targets might be gone but dont worry we are fortunate unlike other clubs because we have a chairman with special relationships with 2 or 3 great football agents who will make sure, with our chairman/ owner, that we get players for our rebuild so long as we compromise on things like age, pace etc.  Mr Sullivan is a blessing.  

 

[Massive Attack]

 They've played the game without breaking the rules.
 

By bending them, the bent wankers.

[Mad Ferret]

You’re a Ch*lsea fan mate.

[Lee Trundle]

2 mins?  That bait was just too much for you, wasn't it?

[Mad Ferret]

Oh great, let’s wank ourselves silly over Chelsea once again. 

Trundle, you are definitely in the right place (Surrey) for a rent boy.

[Lee Trundle]

We've got money to spend.  Chelsea have played a blinder.  They've played the game without breaking the rules.

[Massive Attack]

They were talking about Grealish on talksport this afternoon, in his whole time at city he has scored just 17 goals, in all competitions, for £300k a week I want someone who is going to score that many a season.

We'll probably offer them £120M for him and double Jack's wages to £600k a week on a ten year contract.

[stubbo-admin]

Have added FBRef links for the rumoured ins for those that like to check out comparative stats on the players we're lniked with.

[Gaffer58]

They were talking about Grealish on talksport this afternoon, in his whole time at city he has scored just 17 goals, in all competitions, for £300k a week I want someone who is going to score that many a season.

[Massive Attack]

News coming out Potters interested in offering Kudus in part exchange for another suspect Keeper Sanchez from Chelsea. Sanchez and Ramsdale really the best scouting we can do under Macauley/Potter? 

[Fauxstralian]

Not sure if mentioned but ex West Ham employee talking of an interest in Soungoutoo Magassa of Monaco
21yo & can play defensive midfield or centre half 

[Massive Attack]

£20m on this cսnt?

Yeah, you can tell Wright was gobsmacked at what he was hearing but suppressed it well. Thick as mince with a short attention span which is probably why he's been involved in so many relegations with different Clubs by the age of 26. He's been stealing a living in the Premier League up to this point.

[Tomshardware]

Expect Kudus will be off and strikes me as the sort of player who will kick up a stink if he doesn't get a move to Chelsea.   Hopefully a few clubs will be interested so we get a decent price. 

[Takashi Miike]

£20m on this cսnt?