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

[Swiss.]

Mate of mine here in Brussels who follows Belgian football doesn't rate Raphael Onyedika at all. 

[Lee Trundle]

Elliot is a fellow CHERTSEY lad.  I know people who know his old man.

Forget about us signing him.

[Keep dreaming]

Board now says they will add money to transfers from their own pockets.

Are they reading who?

[Keep dreaming]

Agree, Elliot is a no brainer if possible 

[Fauxstralian]

Elliot would be great but unfortunately will have bigger admirers than us.
This Ondeyika & Stroeykins sound the right profile … get them done
Hopefully just waiting til July 1 to put the write down of 20% of the fee into the next year
Also prefer the Leicester keeper to Relegation Ramsdale
Understand Leicester are in financial meltdown & will get points deducted next season so time to deal while they are desperate 

[dealcanvey]

Elliot is a very good young promising player.

doesn’t he play RW though? If he does, you then end up with the same situation we have currently with Kudus/Bowen. 

[Takashi Miike]

I like Elliott, seems like a really genuine player that just wants games. Has a decent shot, and works hard. It's sad we probably won't even consider getting him. 

[El Scorchio]

Breaking news

Concrete bid for Raphael Onyedika according to Sull... eh C&H.
Club asking for 25m, we can only guess what Sullivan bid....?

Loan with an option probably. 

[El Scorchio]

We could do a lot worse than go for Harvey Elliott if he’s leaving Liverpool. Two great goals tonight. 

[Keep dreaming]

Breaking news

Concrete bid for Raphael Onyedika according to Sull... eh C&H.
Club asking for 25m, we can only guess what Sullivan bid....?

[Fauxstralian]

You see these small clubs with good recruiting almost always hit the wall at some point when they have a bad run of stopping picking winners
Brentford fan at work is very concerned at Keith Andrews (their set piece guy) getting the job especially if the rumoured players leave
Bournemouth look like losing 3 of their back 4 and will struggle if Semenyo also goes.

[honky cat]

El Scorchio

On the plus side, it looks like Brenftord are going to be a bit gutted of talent if Mbuemo and Norgaard leave on top of the manager and maybe Wissa. Guess we'll see whether they have a really strong system and infrastructure, or it it might all fall apart. They could really struggle.

And their new keeper who's barely had a save to make in 6 years. 

[El Scorchio]

Brighton have signed 2
Bournemouth 1
Leeds 2
Tottenham 1
Man City 4
Chelsea 4
Liverpool 2
Newcastle 1
Brentford 2
Man Utd 1
Wolves 1
Palace 1

Quite a few have done some business. Whether we rate the signings is another question.

Well, we've signed one, too. Whether we rate the signing is another question.

My point is, we are not significantly slower off the mark than anyone else, except it seems Man City and Chelsea, who have the riches of Croesus, and Liverpool, whose two signings are big ones.

It's impossible to tell where everyone else is with their deals, so there are question marks how behind or otherwise we are. However our one in of course was prearranged and obligatory, and a player we already had in the squad, so it's not really the same as a 'proper' new signing. 
I'd hope we are keeping it close to our chests for once with deals. 

On the plus side, it looks like Brenftord are going to be a bit gutted of talent if Mbuemo and Norgaard leave on top of the manager and maybe Wissa. Guess we'll see whether they have a really strong system and infrastructure, or it it might all fall apart. They could really struggle.

[Fauxstralian]

Was reading he switched from someone called Jennifer Mendeleswitch (crazy name, Spurs fan?) to his family a year ago
Guess he wants professional advice now

[Mike Oxsaw]

I suspect that Sullivan's (been) running the club on money borrowed against potential future earnings.

He's probably maxed that out during our European sojourns but not ensured that such travels would continue ("We've hit our European target, don't need any more players or a new manager; we can all sit back and admire our bling for a few years now").

That policy directly contributed to/guaranteed we set off on a downward trajectory, and, once the momentum picked up is proving difficult to slow.

As a direct result of that, future potential earnings are suddenly not there to borrow against - indeed, some loans could well be on the brink of being called in; we drop out of the PL and it will be more than carnage.

[threesixty]

Was reading that Kudus has changed agents from a family member to a proper professional agency (one that handles Van Dijk & others)
This is ahead of his buyout of £85m which is active from July 1 to 10.
Article speculated that Chelsea , Arsenal & Newcastle are interested but all would be looking to offer less & include players in any swap. 

 

 

I thought his agent was that french woman?

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

Brighton have signed 2
Bournemouth 1
Leeds 2
Tottenham 1
Man City 4
Chelsea 4
Liverpool 2
Newcastle 1
Brentford 2
Man Utd 1
Wolves 1
Palace 1

Quite a few have done some business. Whether we rate the signings is another question.

Well, we've signed one, too. Whether we rate the signing is another question.

My point is, we are not significantly slower off the mark than anyone else, except it seems Man City and Chelsea, who have the riches of Croesus, and Liverpool, whose two signings are big ones.

[Fauxstralian]

If no one stumps up the buyout we don’t have to sell … obviously if they do he walks
Suspect we will end up bending over & accepting less
This sell to buy is PALPABLE bollocks
We have £93m leeway & have just dumped maybe £400k a week (incl Antonio & Zouma) off our weekly wage bill

[Lee Trundle]

I'm not a fan of selling Kudus for less than we feel he's worth, and the buying Hutchinson for more than he's worth.

I'd rather we kept Kudus.

[ATHammer]

Yes, everyone knows all that, you're just regurgitating what has been said a thousand times, and what I touched on in the last bit of my post, which you conveniently left off.

The owner is shit, but let's not pretend he hasn't backed managers with big dough. The opposite has been true, to our detrement.

I said I agree. He has wasted club money on backing managers. That is the wrong fucking starting point.
The ethos, culture and identity of the club should be permanent. Transient players and managers should be objectively selected in line with that criteria, preferably by a DOF who "gets it". Other clubs understand that and operate successfully in that manner. Sullivan doesn't, or doesn't want to. This time he doesn't appear to be backing Potter whole heartedly but I do expect him to waste some more money in the transfer market and blame others when it goes wrong again.

[Russ of the BML]

Was reading that Kudus has changed agents from a family member to a proper professional agency (one that handles Van Dijk & others)
This is ahead of his buyout of £85m which is active from July 1 to 10.
Article speculated that Chelsea , Arsenal & Newcastle are interested but all would be looking to offer less & include players in any swap. 

It's looking like Kudus may be the key to our business. It's being rumoured Stroeykens is being brought in to replace him but without Kudus' sale we can't buy. And it now seems Sullivan is as inept at selling as he is at buying. He's valued Kudus at £85m (LOL!) and nobody is going to pay that. So I reckon Kudus will stay. And I also reckon we will do very little transfer business and, its likely, relegation beckons. 

And that will be Sullivan's legacy complete. 

[Fauxstralian]

Was reading that Kudus has changed agents from a family member to a proper professional agency (one that handles Van Dijk & others)
This is ahead of his buyout of £85m which is active from July 1 to 10.
Article speculated that Chelsea , Arsenal & Newcastle are interested but all would be looking to offer less & include players in any swap. 

[cheesebgt]

Brighton have signed 2
Bournemouth 1
Leeds 2
Tottenham 1
Man City 4
Chelsea 4
Liverpool 2
Newcastle 1
Brentford 2
Man Utd 1
Wolves 1
Palace 1

Quite a few have done some business. Whether we rate the signings is another question.

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

Up and down the country Prem teams are getting their business done early so their squads will be well prepared for the start of the season in just over six weeks time.  

Apart from Liverpool, hardly anyone has actually completed the signing of anyone of note, have they?

[Mickey Rat]

I suspect it's more  corruption than incompetence, though Sully is clearly that too.  Buy mediocre players for madly inflated  prices but only using your mate agents, they mostly turn out to be useless so we sell a year later for half prices or less, agents split their massive profit with Sully and pay it to him in crypto currency so it's untraceable.  All clubs buy duds from time to time, but we seem to do it a lot more than most!