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

[El Scorchio]

For me Potter is unproven and likely to be sacked if his early performances as our manager are to go by. Letting him build a team and selling our better players to do that is just plain crazy in my book.

We just need a manager to make the players we have work well as a team with minimal changes. That decision should have been made by Sullivan but he doesn't have the vision. He went with Brady's husband's mate because he was available after reaching the Brighton heights of 15th; 16th; 9th places. Then an 11th place with basket case Chelsea.

This window is a mess and everything currently wrong with WHU comes down to the useless Chairman imho..... 

 

 

He’s not getting sacked by Sullivan if Sullivan isn’t holding up his end of the bargain and providing Potter with a team capable of competing. Good luck to any manager making what we have in midfield- a combination of players who aren’t up to it or don’t want to be here- function well enough to be good. 
Potter doesn’t want to sell our best players. No manager wants to sell their best players. Sullivan does. The reality for Potter is that his only option is to buy younger cheaper players with the money from the sale of players who either don’t want to be here or have to be sold in order to generate a budget to replace the players who aren’t good enough or have already left on a free. 

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

I think there's no question that Sully must be wary about giving Potter much funding. He knows that there's a very good chance that he'll need to sack him by January and offer the next manager a war chest to fight off relegation. If he'd just waited until summer to sack Lopetegui we'd more than likely now have a better manager in charge and a bigger transfer kitty. Such a shame.

[Maverick180180]

Being reported now that Sullivan is stalling over paying the asking price for Diouf, like that’s a big surprise and now Leeds are in talks with him instead 

 

[El Scorchio]

Some people are going to be in for a big surprise when they see how well Kudus plays in another team. Especially if he goes to Spurs as Thomas Frank tends to prefer fast transitions and a more direct style, which suits Kudus. Best we can hope for if he stays in the Premier League is that his new team plays him out of position, like we did most of last season. 

He will be miles better. Wherever he ends up. It was completely obvious last season he didn’t want to be here. Only bothered putting in a performance against the likes of Liverpool and Arsenal. 

[Adsiron]

For me Potter is unproven and likely to be sacked if his early performances as our manager are to go by. Letting him build a team and selling our better players to do that is just plain crazy in my book.

We just need a manager to make the players we have work well as a team with minimal changes. That decision should have been made by Sullivan but he doesn't have the vision. He went with Brady's husband's mate because he was available after reaching the Brighton heights of 15th; 16th; 9th places. Then an 11th place with basket case Chelsea.

This window is a mess and everything currently wrong with WHU comes down to the useless Chairman imho..... 

[Fauxstralian]

Kudus is a very talented player 
Poor season like many as our midfield was so dogshit he had little service or opportunity to attack
Us being in a position where we are hawking him around and quite possibly selling him to Tottenham of all clubs just shows what an absolute shit show Sullivan has created
World class team in a world class stadium?
YEAH, RIGHT 
The little cսnt has to be hounded out by any means necessary 

[Sir Alf]

I was ready for a large slice of humble pie on my prediction we would not get anyone until August in “too little too late” style as per usual. The reason for the humble pie beimg this Diarra bloke that was supposedly coming for a medical etc. I should have known that Sullivan would fvck things up by offerimg well short of Slavia Prague’s valuation.

So again its looking like August at best for the first photo of someone holding up the shirt on the OS.

Relegation struggle still the likeliest scenario ahead. Nothing changes at West Ham while we have a narcissistic owner / chairman who is clueless, arrogant, ignorant etc

[fraser]

55M is a good price for Kudus he's been absolute toilet paper.

Bowen hasn't been great either, should we sell him for £55 million.. Kudus is younger and there's a correlation with our attacking players not looking great when generally only two of them in amongst loads of defenders and slow midfielders who don't want to kick the fucking football towards the other teams goal. 

 

What are you on about geezer? 

Bowen carried us last season.

You wanna get those mince pies checked once again.

 

 

I'm on about Bowen being in poor form and anonymous in a lot of games due to being misused. Played out of position and ball played forwards too slowly with no space for him to run into due to Potter's crab ball. It suits hardly any of our players and if you think Bowen played anywhere close to his potential last season your eyes must be worse than mine. 

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

Some people are going to be in for a big surprise when they see how well Kudus plays in another team. Especially if he goes to Spurs as Thomas Frank tends to prefer fast transitions and a more direct style, which suits Kudus. Best we can hope for if he stays in the Premier League is that his new team plays him out of position, like we did most of last season. 

[Barty888]

Don't sell Kudus to Tottenham FFS!!!

[Mad Ferret]

55M is a good price for Kudus he's been absolute toilet paper.

Bowen hasn't been great either, should we sell him for £55 million.. Kudus is younger and there's a correlation with our attacking players not looking great when generally only two of them in amongst loads of defenders and slow midfielders who don't want to kick the fucking football towards the other teams goal. 

 

 

What are you on about geezer? 

Bowen carried us last season.

You wanna get those mince pies checked once again.

[El Scorchio]

Fucking criminal and starting to get embarrassing how little the club has accomplished this summer so far despite clearly needing to do so much. 

[Mad Dog]

No?  Still nothing?

Same time next week then

[fraser]

55M is a good price for Kudus he's been absolute toilet paper.

Bowen hasn't been great either, should we sell him for £55 million.. Kudus is younger and there's a correlation with our attacking players not looking great when generally only two of them in amongst loads of defenders and slow midfielders who don't want to kick the fucking football towards the other teams goal. 

[southbankbornnbred]

I read that pre-season training starts tomorrow - is that right?

Regardless, as things stand, the Sullivan-Potter era is shaping up like the later Brown-Roeder period.

Need to get a shift on.

[ragingbull]

55M is a good price for Kudus he's been absolute toilet paper.

[goose]

Saudi window opens soon? Hopefully they will help push the price up.

[Sydney_Iron]

I hope we are just stringing Spurs along with Kudus? 

Mind you 2 tight arses in Sullivan and Levy, it’s going to drag on and on I bet, latest I read was Spurs have offered 50M rising to 55M depending on appearances etc and also want the deal to be over 5 years Levy doing his best to bend Sulli over a barrel

Hopefully someone else comes in for him and we tell Levy to do one So much for Sulli saying he would NEVER deal with them again after several deals where they fucked us over, refusing to sell at the last minute or changing the deal all the time, then that airport hijack with the Icelandic bloke, turned out bullet dodged but hope we ain’t forgotten that!

[Fauxstralian]

Zion Suzuki is 6’ 3 & 22
Parma keeper 
Born in USA, Ghana heritage with a Japanese parent

[Heavi995]

Looks like we finally have some movement. Hopefully the left back gets tied up.

that Exwhu reckons we are in advanced talks for a young Japanese GK from Parma. Not seen it mentioned elsewhere.

But the're all 4 foot tall?

[Heavi995]

I don't know much about this El Hadj Diouf fella but hopefully he's a much better egg than the one who liked covering supporters in spit and driving around in a gold painted beemer or jeep

 

What a total count he was

[ATHammer]

Working tirelessly, 10,000 names linked. Bids In, not quite at the asking price (by a country fucking mile). Bids rejected. On to the next target. Some are the same names that we saw last year, year before, year before, etc. But, of course, we believe that Macaulay and Twatter are making the running.

Groundhog day.

Oh, and the new kit is shit as well.

[Fauxstralian]

Chelsea have signed winger Gittens from Dortmund for £48m
Must have a dozen wide players now
Newcastle have agreed £55m with Forest for Anthony Elanga
Man City have managed to shift Kyle Walker to Burnley & even got £5m for him.

[stubbo-admin]

See that Igor Jesus that were oft linked with has now joined Forest in their expanding Brazilian foray.

Interesting and probably predictable to see what happens with that one.

[Sir Alf]

As others mention, Sullivan will not spend a penny until the Kudus sale money is secured and a large upfront installment in the bank accounts.

All the BS about being him and other board members being willing to pit £90 in. Another lie no doubt and Sullivan trying to take the heat off himself. It was only going to be some form of loan but I bet its the last we hear of it