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

[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!

[Keep dreaming]

At least we can agree on wanting Sullivan to fuck off from the club as soon as possible.

[Any Old Iron]

It’s now over a month since the end of the season and apart from wasting £32 MILLION on the thoroughly useless Tobido we have got no new players in.  
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.  
I’d say that many would say that’s the right way to go about your team building, but not if you’re Sullivan and Potter. They’ll no doubt start to panic in about four weeks time and start paying over the odds for rubbish and bring in a bunch of loaners that are no use to us.  
All in all it’s a very bleak outlook for the coming season because, barring a recruitment miracle we’re going to have possibly the weakest squad in the league. 
 

[Eerie Decent]

He has spent a fortune backing the managers. And yes, of course it's the money the club earns, that's how it works. They have not been the right managers, and they have not been the right signings, but the money spent on transfers is indisputable, you plank.

I'd rather we done our research, bought wisely, sold wisely, invested in the infrastructure of the club, appointed good managers. Every single one of us wants all that, and it's been said a thousand times.

I honestly wonder if some of you can read what has actually been written.

Of course everyone can read...well almost.

It's the very fact that so much money has been spunked up the wall in an ad-hoc, laissez-faire, knee jerk way without doing any strategic due diligence or homework on what and who has been signed which is the number one reason why most of us are so pissed off.

He lives by the very same economic values of Ken Bates who bought Chelsea for £5 and spent years largely doing everything on the cheap and aimless until Abramovich bought him out.

We have a chairman who is 30 years out of date regarding what it takes to run a successful football operation.

Yes, which I have said in so many words. Numerous fucking times. Blimey.

Obviously, you're another one that has not properly read what has been said.

[eusebiovic]

I think the way Sullivan does business is he won't spend on anything that he thinks he can't get a return on. He won't spend money on managers, scouts etc because they can't be sold at a profit.  He won't spend money on a stadium as its dead money, it can only be sold at a profit if it's redeveloped for housing etc (Upton park). He buys these players as he thinks he will make money selling them, but he is buying the wrong players because he won't spend money on good backroom staff. And we go round in circles again. 

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Not sure that would explain £10m for a 2 and a half year deal at £125k/week on a 30 year old striker... or £30m for a central defender with no knees. No, you over-estimate him... he's not even that bright

A 30 year old striker who had suffered a devastating injury to both knees but managed to score a few goals when he went back to Southampton. He was a panic buy for Villa but they managed to offload him on the dinamic, diminutive master negotiator.

[onsideman]

I think the way Sullivan does business is he won't spend on anything that he thinks he can't get a return on. He won't spend money on managers, scouts etc because they can't be sold at a profit.  He won't spend money on a stadium as its dead money, it can only be sold at a profit if it's redeveloped for housing etc (Upton park). He buys these players as he thinks he will make money selling them, but he is buying the wrong players because he won't spend money on good backroom staff. And we go round in circles again. 

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Not sure that would explain £10m for a 2 and a half year deal at £125k/week on a 30 year old striker... or £30m for a central defender with no knees. No, you over-estimate him... he's not even that bright

[honky cat]

I think the way Sullivan does business is he won't spend on anything that he thinks he can't get a return on. He won't spend money on managers, scouts etc because they can't be sold at a profit.  He won't spend money on a stadium as its dead money, it can only be sold at a profit if it's redeveloped for housing etc (Upton park). He buys these players as he thinks he will make money selling them, but he is buying the wrong players because he won't spend money on good backroom staff. And we go round in circles again. 

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[eusebiovic]

He has spent a fortune backing the managers. And yes, of course it's the money the club earns, that's how it works. They have not been the right managers, and they have not been the right signings, but the money spent on transfers is indisputable, you plank.

I'd rather we done our research, bought wisely, sold wisely, invested in the infrastructure of the club, appointed good managers. Every single one of us wants all that, and it's been said a thousand times.

I honestly wonder if some of you can read what has actually been written.

Of course everyone can read...well almost.

It's the very fact that so much money has been spunked up the wall in an ad-hoc, laissez-faire, knee jerk way without doing any strategic due diligence or homework on what and who has been signed which is the number one reason why most of us are so pissed off.

He lives by the very same economic values of Ken Bates who bought Chelsea for £5 and spent years largely doing everything on the cheap and aimless until Abramovich bought him out.

We have a chairman who is 30 years out of date regarding what it takes to run a successful football operation.

[Eerie Decent]

We were the 5th highest net spenders last summer in the Premier League, and we weren't even in Europe. The fact it's the clubs money, or that we spent it poorly, is neither here nor there.

Some of you are so fucking thick.

[Fauxstralian]

He hasn’t spent fortunes
He has spent the clubs money which comes from Sky and us
Can someone tell me how much of his own money he has spent …not loans which he got back after extorting outrageous interest rates on the balance. Got the shares in a fire sale from the Icelandics so am guessing it’s even less than the Glazers at Man U
Obviously money in has to be weighed against backhanders from HIS agents & the £2m a year he shovels to his whore Brady

[Mad Dog]

No.  What the prick does is fuck around with deals trying to get it on the cheap, gets told to fuck off then panic buys square pegs for round holes for exuberant amounts

[Eerie Decent]

He has spent a fortune backing the managers. And yes, of course it's the money the club earns, that's how it works. They have not been the right managers, and they have not been the right signings, but the money spent on transfers is indisputable, you plank.

I'd rather we done our research, bought wisely, sold wisely, invested in the infrastructure of the club, appointed good managers. Every single one of us wants all that, and it's been said a thousand times.

I honestly wonder if some of you can read what has actually been written.

[Keep dreaming]

But Sullivan hasn't invested in the club, he has on a few occasions spent club money on terrible deals on a pay structure designed to set us up in a difficult position long term.
And I don't the fact that he has backed managers. He didn't acquire those players if it wasn't for one sort of a deal making him look good one way or the other, but not for backing a manager

[Eerie Decent]

Arnautovic - £20mil
Felipe Anderson - £40mil
Haller - £45mil
Kilman - £40mil
Zouma  -£30mil
Aguerd - 30mil
JWP - £30mil

All players that managers wanted, who we massively overpaid for to get (maybe Arnautovic aside, although only eventually)

 

 

I agree. All players, with the possible exception of Zouma, whose health issues should have been a massive red flag which scuppered the deal were unsuited to the mangers style of play.
The issue is "players the manager wanted". Surely this should have been an objective process run by a director of football.
Arnautovic was not at the top of Slavs list and Moyes lucked in by changing his position.
In the cases of Anderson and Haller they were never going to survive the change of manager. Both have had successful careers away from West Ham. We did overpay but they were devalued by Moyes and sold at an even greater loss than should have been realised given no consistency in managerial appointments.
Kilman and JWP were terrible buys, not suited and not worth the money. Surely a football person would have called these deals out?
Aguerd is a ball playing centre half not suited to backs to the wall football. Moyes wanted him, but why? Again a football person, backed by analysis of Aguerds game would have called this deal out.
Another example of wasteful spending rather than strategic investment in playing staff. 

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.