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

[Mad Dog]

Starting (STARTING) to think we are FUCKED next season

[Eerie Decent]

I can't claim to have seen a lot of him, but I thought that Leicester keeper was absolutely mustard against us at their place.

[northbankboy68]

Sullivan is out of his depth.

[Massive Attack]

West Ham United interested in Leicester City goalkeeper Mads Hermansen..

#ExWHUEmployee

Now out of him and Ramsdale, I prefer this Keeper which would be a step in the right direction. 

Hopefully they are still looking for even better than both but don't hold out much hope there.

[eusebiovic]

I keep  boring everyone with the prediction that nothing will happen before August in terms of incoming  players and to fully expect the same starting 11 that finished last season to start at Sunderland.  Sullivan tends to engineer things this way at the best of times when he is in full control, which he is again. That funnels us towards having to use his agent contacts as the window closes in.  

The need and identification of young up and coming players will be ignored and Potter and Macaulay will largely have to settle on “used goods”, 25 years or likely nearer 30 but meeting Sullivan’s top requirement which is Premiership experience. By definition they will be on high wages and Sullivan as always will be seduced by the name of a big club thet the player once played for.  

Relegatiion itself or a relegation fight, long hard season seems by far the most likely outcome based  on the way things are shaping up.  “Back to where we belong” with this owner.  

I don't disagree with the August timeline...but don't think that's down to Sullivan this time.

We're frankly, an unattractive proposition, with many ahead of us in the queue for the better talent.

So we either go in for the second or third tier prospects who see us as the peak of their current ambitions, or we wait to see if the bigger Lions have their fill and some of the choicer morsels remain available.

That looks like August, however you spin it. 

I do think we'll end up with younger prospects....but they'll be cheap punts from shit leagues...not top prospects from second tier leagues like Belgium...because the chairman sees anything over 10m as needing to be a sure thing, not a punt.

Any big money will be spent on our of contract players...which is where the older age bracket will come in. 

In reality we need a set of players nearing their prime....23-26 who are ready for the hear and now. We're not stable enough to be buying 'for the future'.

We are an unattractive proposition because the way the football side of the business is run is a complete fuckin' omnishambles. I blame the other shareholders as much as I blame the current chairman and his sidekick. If anything they are worse because it must be clear to them that even a modestly encouraging improvement in the way the football side operates would make their shareholding far more valuable. 

It will never be more than treading water under the current set up...FFS nobody is asking for champions league just a good, solid competitive team that regularly sticks a spanner in the works of the best laid plans of the big 4 to 6 clubs.

It shouldn't be this incompetent

[stubbo-admin]

I keep  boring everyone with the prediction that nothing will happen before August in terms of incoming  players and to fully expect the same starting 11 that finished last season to start at Sunderland.  Sullivan tends to engineer things this way at the best of times when he is in full control, which he is again. That funnels us towards having to use his agent contacts as the window closes in.  

The need and identification of young up and coming players will be ignored and Potter and Macaulay will largely have to settle on “used goods”, 25 years or likely nearer 30 but meeting Sullivan’s top requirement which is Premiership experience. By definition they will be on high wages and Sullivan as always will be seduced by the name of a big club thet the player once played for.  

Relegatiion itself or a relegation fight, long hard season seems by far the most likely outcome based  on the way things are shaping up.  “Back to where we belong” with this owner.  

I don't disagree with the August timeline...but don't think that's down to Sullivan this time.

We're frankly, an unattractive proposition, with many ahead of us in the queue for the better talent.

So we either go in for the second or third tier prospects who see us as the peak of their current ambitions, or we wait to see if the bigger Lions have their fill and some of the choicer morsels remain available.

That looks like August, however you spin it. 

I do think we'll end up with younger prospects....but they'll be cheap punts from shit leagues...not top prospects from second tier leagues like Belgium...because the chairman sees anything over 10m as needing to be a sure thing, not a punt.

Any big money will be spent on our of contract players...which is where the older age bracket will come in. 

In reality we need a set of players nearing their prime....23-26 who are ready for the hear and now. We're not stable enough to be buying 'for the future'.

[Texas Iron]

I keep  boring everyone with the prediction that nothing will happen before August in terms of incoming  players and to fully expect the same starting 11 that finished last season to start at Sunderland.  Sullivan tends to engineer things this way at the best of times when he is in full control, which he is again. That funnels us towards having to use his agent contacts as the window closes in.  

The need and identification of young up and coming players will be ignored and Potter and Macaulay will largely have to settle on “used goods”, 25 years or likely nearer 30 but meeting Sullivan’s top requirement which is Premiership experience. By definition they will be on high wages and Sullivan as always will be seduced by the name of a big club thet the player once played for.  

Relegatiion itself or a relegation fight, long hard season seems by far the most likely outcome based  on the way things are shaping up.  “Back to where we belong” with this owner.  

Depressing..but true…

Noteven 2 Bob…

[dealcanvey]

If it’s true that we are touting Kudus to clubs rather than waiting for an approach then we won’t get close to the asking price. Will end up being something like 50m. 

[goose]

Kudus may well be left with the option of move to Saudi or stay at West Ham.

maybe Chelsea will cough up £70m, but i dont see Spurs/Newcastle doing that.

[scott_d]

Reading the Guardian about Kudus to Spurs rumours. I wasn't aware of this situation. Is this widely known and I am just slow to it?

"Despite not having done business with West Ham since 2011 because he does not get on with the club’s owners, the Tottenham Hotspur chair Daniel Levy is prepared to bite the bullet....."

It doesn't surprise though.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... sunderland

Levy might be willing to bite the bullet, but from what I understand, Sullivan might not be.

Pretty sure that he's not exactly keen on doing business with Spurs either.

About the only thing he does/doesn't do that I'm on board with.

[Massive Attack]

Someone needs to poison one of those cheese platters Ladyboy serves up over there in that meeting.

 

[wils]

Reading the Guardian about Kudus to Spurs rumours. I wasn't aware of this situation. Is this widely known and I am just slow to it?

"Despite not having done business with West Ham since 2011 because he does not get on with the club’s owners, the Tottenham Hotspur chair Daniel Levy is prepared to bite the bullet....."

It doesn't surprise though.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... sunderland

[Massive Attack]

Is it a professional football club world record to release 11 players without making any profit, and without replacing anyone?

Sullivan OUT

Bit unfair, there's a lot of talk that Ramsdale, Walker-Peters and Brownhill all might join this Summer at some point. 

"That's our ambition, a World Class stadium with a World Class Team" - 2013

[Sir Alf]

I keep  boring everyone with the prediction that nothing will happen before August in terms of incoming  players and to fully expect the same starting 11 that finished last season to start at Sunderland.  Sullivan tends to engineer things this way at the best of times when he is in full control, which he is again. That funnels us towards having to use his agent contacts as the window closes in.  

The need and identification of young up and coming players will be ignored and Potter and Macaulay will largely have to settle on “used goods”, 25 years or likely nearer 30 but meeting Sullivan’s top requirement which is Premiership experience. By definition they will be on high wages and Sullivan as always will be seduced by the name of a big club thet the player once played for.  

Relegatiion itself or a relegation fight, long hard season seems by far the most likely outcome based  on the way things are shaping up.  “Back to where we belong” with this owner.  

[ragingbull]

Chelsea prioritising move for Gittens but have maintained dialogue with West Ham over Kudus
Steinberg.

[goose]

Wouldn’t take any notice of what proven liar Iron Duke posts.

When is that Kappa kit being announced?
You know the Aston Villa one you claimed was West Ham??

[El Scorchio]

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[Mad Ferret]

Wouldn’t take any notice of what proven liar Iron Duke posts.

[honky cat]

Maybe he's part of the JWP THB KWP deal

[Takashi Miike]

If the rumour's true about signing that fucking mong, take the 7/1 for the drop now

[Keep dreaming]

Is it a professional football club world record to release 11 players without making any profit, and without replacing anyone?

Sullivan OUT

[fraser]

Fabrizio Romano saying deal agreed for Aaron Ramsdale.

Not seeing this anywhere...link?

Yeah link or cսnt him right in the bastarf..

[stubbo-admin]

Fabrizio Romano saying deal agreed for Aaron Ramsdale.

Not seeing this anywhere...link?

[twoleftfeet]

Well that's relegation confirmed, the " Jonah " has joined us.

[Mike Oxsaw]

Fabrizio Romano saying deal agreed for Aaron Ramsdale.

If that's the case, the Sullivan has just taken a very low transfer quality bar and placed it beneath the Iranian Uranium processing plant.