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

[Keep dreaming]

Looks like Liverpool want 40m for Elliot.

They bought Keekez for 64m and Wirtz for 120m, so 40m for Elliot makes sense.

If we were a bit smart, and invested for more than a year ahead, Elliot would be both sensible and smart.
He would strengthen the team and his value most like will go up.

It's not Sullivan though, and I'm furious about it

[Mike Oxsaw]

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

So Brexit didn't completely fuck up your life then if you've still got "a mate" in Brussels.

[SUM A DING WONG]

Onyadika has the sort of name we have to go after.   Who knows if he would be a success? What is his profile? Young, athletic, stamina, physicality but able to pass accurately and a good attitude, plays for the team not himself. Thats what we need in centre mid. In fact we need 2 one a cdm and the other able to get up and down the pitch.   We need a striker, goalkeeper and left back too but getting the 2 midfielders right will give us the biggest improvement ( bang for the buck as the Septics say ) imho

So if we had players with the surnames;

Haas

Onyedika

Hall

Day

Long

You’d be really happy, Sir Alf?

[BRANDED]

Not checked in here for a while. Can someone do a current waaagwaan of the squad? 

[stubbo-admin]

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

cancel the deal! some bloke in Brussels said he is shit. 

In fairness, his data looks ropey as hell (see the link on him in the remour post at the top).

[RBshorty]

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

Are they reading who?

ONLY if they don’t sell certain players by a set time. If they are reading over here. “THAT HORSE HAS ALREADY BOLTED.!”

[Sir Alf]

Onyadika has the sort of name we have to go after.   Who knows if he would be a success? What is his profile? Young, athletic, stamina, physicality but able to pass accurately and a good attitude, plays for the team not himself. Thats what we need in centre mid. In fact we need 2 one a cdm and the other able to get up and down the pitch.   We need a striker, goalkeeper and left back too but getting the 2 midfielders right will give us the biggest improvement ( bang for the buck as the Septics say ) imho

[Dick Shaftsbury]

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

cancel the deal! some bloke in Brussels said he is shit. 

[Lee Trundle]

To put that into perspective, Trent got £16.9 million from his signing on fee.

[Lee Trundle]

Brownhill apparently wants a 15 million signing on fee.

Jog on.

That's got to be a joke, surely?

[violator]

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

Oh well, can you get him to call the dwarf and let him know.

[El Scorchio]

Brownhill apparently wants a 15 million signing on fee.

Jog on.

[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.