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

[Jaan Kenbrovin]

The story of Kudus only wanting a Spurs move came from Fabrizio Romano, not C&H/Sullivan.

[Maverick180180]

Classic Sullivan tactics. Try to make a villain of the player/manager/staff member in the hope they get the blame for his actions or inactions. 

This is why I can’t stand the piece of shit 
I’m used to having unambitious owners who love to cash in on our best players, but this is the only one that tries to make out it’s not his choice or fault

He honestly reminds me of a Bond villain,
manipulates the media for his own narrative like Elliott Carver from Tomorrow Never Dies, same weasel appearance as Nik Nak from the Man with the Golden Gun and a bird that looks like fucking Jaws from the Spy who Loved Me standing by his side 

[boleyn8420]

Surely this is simple. Release clause is £85m for a Premirr League team. Pay it or fuck off.

[Ron Eff]

Bowen always makes a decent fist of playing up front. It’s embarrassing how bad Kudus is on the left for a left footed player. Seems to have no ability or confidence to take someone on on the outside and cross with his favoured foot. I understand players have favoured sides, but do I think Bowen would have a better stab at left wing than Kudus? Absolutely. He has a better attitude for starters. It just so happens he is better than him on the right as well. And up front. 

People make way too many excuses for Kudus playing on the left. He was generally average when he played on the right, too. 

I don't think that Kudus was "generally average" in his first season, when he mainly played on the right. 18 goals and 10 assists in his first season in England is excellent by anyone's standards. Not fucking average at all.

Last season, under Lopetegui he started 4 times on the right (3 of them vs Chelsea, Man City and Liverpool which the manager didn't even try to win, the other vs Wolves where we won and Kudus got an assist). Under Potter he started twice on the right (1 win, 1 draw, 1 assist). He was given very few chances to be at his best.

As for Bowen I tend to agree that he would have been better than Kudus on the left, but we'll never know will we? I guarantee that he wouldn't have played as well as he does from the right or up front though.

I’m referring to last season, when he clearly threw his toys out of the pram being asked to play on the left. 

It wasn’t Paqueta’s chosen position the season prior either, but he just got on with it. 

[El Scorchio]

Classic Sullivan tactics. Try to make a villain of the player/manager/staff member in the hope they get the blame for his actions or inactions. 

[Maverick180180]

Kudus is off to spurs then 
the hobbit cսnt is using his mouth piece claret and hugh to put it out there that Kudus wants to go to Tottenham, what better way to appease what he’s about to do than to try and make the fan base take it out on Kudus rather than him
nice try Sullivan, but no matter what you do no one will ever be as hated by this fanbase as much as you are you slimy cսnt

[dealcanvey]

Sullivan and Levy negotiating with each other? This could drag on for a couple of years. 

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

Is it entirely beyond the bounds of possibility to suggest that Sullivan's failure to move in the transfer market might be a tactic to try to get Potter to resign?

Even a fuckwit like Sullivan knows that Potter won't resign. Someone who already has a chequered history is not going to quit when his current win rate is just 26%. Even if we buy no-one he won't do that much worse than he has already. And he can just use the lack of transfer funds as an excuse when he does inevitably get sacked (and also get the HUGE payout that goes with it).

[the exile]

Is it entirely beyond the bounds of possibility to suggest that Sullivan's failure to move in the transfer market might be a tactic to try to get Potter to resign?

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

Bowen always makes a decent fist of playing up front. It’s embarrassing how bad Kudus is on the left for a left footed player. Seems to have no ability or confidence to take someone on on the outside and cross with his favoured foot. I understand players have favoured sides, but do I think Bowen would have a better stab at left wing than Kudus? Absolutely. He has a better attitude for starters. It just so happens he is better than him on the right as well. And up front. 

People make way too many excuses for Kudus playing on the left. He was generally average when he played on the right, too. 

I don't think that Kudus was "generally average" in his first season, when he mainly played on the right. 18 goals and 10 assists in his first season in England is excellent by anyone's standards. Not fucking average at all.

Last season, under Lopetegui he started 4 times on the right (3 of them vs Chelsea, Man City and Liverpool which the manager didn't even try to win, the other vs Wolves where we won and Kudus got an assist). Under Potter he started twice on the right (1 win, 1 draw, 1 assist). He was given very few chances to be at his best.

As for Bowen I tend to agree that he would have been better than Kudus on the left, but we'll never know will we? I guarantee that he wouldn't have played as well as he does from the right or up front though.

[Ron Eff]

The truly great players always give it their all, regardless of the opposition or quality of the teammates. I think someone like Kudus would shine for a while elsewhere and then revert to type when things werent going his way. Bowen over him every time for me.

Even the Ghanaian fans think Kudus is a prick with an attitude problem, I gather. 

[honky cat]

The truly great players always give it their all, regardless of the opposition or quality of the teammates. I think someone like Kudus would shine for a while elsewhere and then revert to type when things werent going his way. Bowen over him every time for me.

[El Scorchio]

Kudus probably has more raw talent and physical gifts but Bowen has ten times the attitude, heart and desire and is no Fucking slouch either. 

I’d have Bowen every day over the Kudus that showed up last season. He carried the team on his back. No doubt Kudus will look the business when he’s somewhere else bothering to put full effort in but I don’t want a player that isn’t going to give their all every match 

[Ron Eff]

 

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. 

You’ve got to be joking? 13 goals, and 21 direct goal involvements in 34 matches last season, for a struggling team that spent most of the season around 17th. 

Let’s not compare Bowen to Kudus.

Lots of goals from Bowen and he was missing in a lot of games especially those when he was played out of position...My point was none of our players played to their potential.. 4 years ago Bowen wasn't as prolific as he is now and didn't start all the time, how do you think he would have managed stuck out on the left out of position? 

Sorry, Fraser, that’s a load of bollocks. Bowen, as ever, was our standout last season, along with Wan-Bissaka. 

Bowen always makes a decent fist of playing up front. It’s embarrassing how bad Kudus is on the left for a left footed player. Seems to have no ability or confidence to take someone on on the outside and cross with his favoured foot. I understand players have favoured sides, but do I think Bowen would have a better stab at left wing than Kudus? Absolutely. He has a better attitude for starters. It just so happens he is better than him on the right as well. And up front. 

People make way too many excuses for Kudus playing on the left. He was generally average when he played on the right, too. 

[Barty888]

If Kudus goes to Tottenham Sullivan deserves to be put down.

[Mad Ferret]

fraser,

Are you still off your nut from last night’s rave?

Go and sleep it off, fella.

[fraser]

 

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. 

You’ve got to be joking? 13 goals, and 21 direct goal involvements in 34 matches last season, for a struggling team that spent most of the season around 17th. 

Let’s not compare Bowen to Kudus.

Lots of goals from Bowen and he was missing in a lot of games especially those when he was played out of position...My point was none of our players played to their potential.. 4 years ago Bowen wasn't as prolific as he is now and didn't start all the time, how do you think he would have managed stuck out on the left out of position? 

[Ron Eff]

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. 

You’ve got to be joking? 13 goals, and 21 direct goal involvements in 34 matches last season, for a struggling team that spent most of the season around 17th. 

Let’s not compare Bowen to Kudus.

[stewey]

We are not at the races,clubs are on their second or third signings,we will be left picking at the crumbs for more than their worth.

[Maverick180180]

For me the most important signing that could be made before the season starts would be a death warrant for Sullivan 

[El Scorchio]

Sullivan appoints Dull Dave & Loppy the loser & now is having buyers regret over Beardy Graham
And he reckons the managers are the problem 

Don’t even think he’s having buyers regret. Potters plans will have been discussed when he was appointed. Sullivan as usual is just bullshitting his manager and not giving them what they actually want. I don’t think it’s a coincidence Moyes has at least partly lost his shyness to make a signing since not working for Sullivan any more. 

[Fauxstralian]

Sullivan appoints Dull Dave & Loppy the loser & now is having buyers regret over Beardy Graham
And he reckons the managers are the problem 

[El Scorchio]

Scorch.  This has happened every year he's been in charge

Make a big song and dance about a player
Offer peanuts
act surprised when its turned down
the players goes somewhere else
Claim he tried 

Rinse, repeat

Then panic buy a useless twat on too much money

 

I know it has. But this is the ONE year it absolutely cannot happen because we’ll be fucked if/when it does. 

[Mad Dog]

Scorch.  This has happened every year he's been in charge

Make a big song and dance about a player
Offer peanuts
act surprised when its turned down
the players goes somewhere else
Claim he tried 

Rinse, repeat

Then panic buy a useless twat on too much money
 

[El Scorchio]

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 


 

This will be the story of our summer. Losing out on players to the likes of Leeds and Sunderland because Sullivan is playing his usual tricks is worrying. 

His plan B is the whole reason we are in this Fuckjng mess. It’s infuriating the man is too blind to see his decision making is why we are so fucked.