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
29. Yeremay | FW | Deportivo La Coruna
30. Adama Bojang | ST | Reims
31. Rocco Reitz | MF | Borussia Moenchengladbach
32. Dominic Calvert-Lewin | ST | Free Agent
33. El Hadji Malick Diouf | LB | SK Slavia Prague
34. Oscar Mingueza | RB/MF | Celta Vigo
35. Tyler Morton | CM | Liverpool
36. Harvey Elliott | AM | Liverpool
37. Zion Suzuki | GK | Parma
38. John Victor | GK | Botofogo 
39. Jacob Ramsey | MF | Villa
40. Mateus Fernandes | CM | Southampton
41. Nga Makou | CM | Lille
42. Quinten Timber | CM
43. Hayden Hackney | CM | Boro
44. Yves Bissouma | CM | Spurs

Rumoured Out

1. Nayef Aguerd | CB | Leverkusen, Marseile
2. Maxel Cornet | FW | Genoa/Others
3. Guido Rodriguez | DM | Betis/Espanyol
4. Tomas Soucek | CM | Everton
5. Michail Antonio | ST | Free Agent
6. Mo Kudus | FW | Chelsea/Newcastle/Arsenal
7. Lucas Paqueta | AM | Man City
8. Andy Irving | CM | Celtic/Wrexham
9. Emerson | LB | Marseille

Confirmed In

1. Jean Clair Todibo | CB | Loan To Perm (32m)
2. Daniel Cummings | ST | Celtic (Free Agent...Tribunal)
3. El Hadji Malick Diouf | LWB | Slavia Prahia | 20m
4. Kyle Walker-Peters | RWB | Free Agent
5. C****m Wilson | ST | Free Agent
6. Mads Hermansen | GK | Leicester (18m)
7. Mateus Fernandes | CM | Southampton (38m + 4m)
8. Soungoutoo Magassa | CDM | Monaco (17m)
9. Igor Julio | CB | Brighton (Loan)

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
12. Muhammed Judus |stroppy| sp*rs| £55m
13. Michail Antonio | Released
14. Kieran Casey | Swansea | Loan
15. Edson Alvarez | Fenerbache | Loan with Option
16. Emerson | Marseille | £1m
17. Aguerd | Marseille | £20m
18. Max Cornet | Genoa | Loan

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

Starting (STARTING) to think we are FUCKED next season

Call yourself  mad dog?

more like limp dog

It's the first week of the window .

When did WHU supporters become so Manny like?

[Massive Attack]

Just wish the circus would leave town and give us back our beloved club.

Hear, hear!

[ATHammer]

What gets lost in all this transfer window excitement for me is that, based on the "World Class Club in a World Class Stadium" promises on moving to Stratford any ownership with a vision, strategy and tactics to deliver that strategy would, by now, be looking at one or two players to refresh a top quality squad, regularly competing in Europe.
Instead we have spent loads on disparate players in an uncoordinated manner over the last few years, invested nothing and created a "World Class" laughing stock of a club.
It wasn't Husillos's fault; it wasn't Newman's fault; and it wasn't Steidten's fault that the hotch potch team assembly has left us where we are, It was David Sullivan's, never more clearly evidenced than last years "winning of the transfer window" with 3 picks for Steidten, 3 for Lopetegui and 3 for Sullivan creating a 3 humped camel. And now he is leading from the rear again, hiding behind Macaulay and Potter whilst pleading poverty so rummaging around at the boot sale end whilst expecting top dollar for our cast offs, Aguerd and Cornet for example.
Just wish the circus would leave town and give us back our beloved club.

[Mike Oxsaw]

Sullivan is out of his depth.

Sullivan would be out of his depth, but totally within his element, in a petri dish.

[onsideman]

With him apparently joining Forest it looks like we might get a chance to see if we missed out on Igor Jesus

Will he join the list of us having seen Kerkez and Reijnders first hand over 2 legs and being offered Ekitike for €20m?
 

[honky cat]

We’d of been better off keeping hold of Rice and letting him leave for free

He wanted to leave? But interesting, if we had kept the Europa side together the following season , bar moving on a few oldies  - and under a new manager - we'd probably have been better off today.

[Maverick180180]

Starting (STARTING) to think we are FUCKED next season

Of course we are fucked next season. Over the last few seasons under the clueless Sullivan we have been wasting huge amounts of money on duds who after a year or two with us end up with next to no sell on value.  And in addition to that they managed to waste the Rice jackpot.
Now we have another clueless manager who shows no signs of being in any way pro-active in the transfer market and will soon have us in a relegation dog fight. 
Potter will have gone before Christmas but tragically the cause of our decline will still be here.

We’d of been better off keeping hold of Rice and letting him leave for free

[Massive Attack]

Sullivan is out of his depth.

cսnt could stand in a pothole and still be out of his depth.

[El Scorchio]

Sullivan is out of his depth.

100% this. He thinks the game hasn't moved on from 20 years ago and is approaching things thusly. But it's moved on massively, especially in the last 5. It's not full of wideboys who will operate on a wink and a brown envelope any more and backslap each other in the freemason's lodge. It's serious big business stuff where people act professionally and invest in data and strategic experts.

[honky cat]

We still havent signed anyone its a fucking nightmare. In 10 years time we'll be playing in the East London Sunday League. 

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[Any Old Iron]

Starting (STARTING) to think we are FUCKED next season

Of course we are fucked next season. Over the last few seasons under the clueless Sullivan we have been wasting huge amounts of money on duds who after a year or two with us end up with next to no sell on value.  And in addition to that they managed to waste the Rice jackpot.
Now we have another clueless manager who shows no signs of being in any way pro-active in the transfer market and will soon have us in a relegation dog fight. 
Potter will have gone before Christmas but tragically the cause of our decline will still be here.

[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.