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]

If the Kudos sale means the funds are released to sign a a couple of players that we desperately need to bring cover to the squad, then overall its not terrible

my main concern is that we still have paqueta, who has sadly become a shell of his former self  ever since this betting debacle has been hanging over him

If Potter can revitalise him, it will genuinely be like a new signing back to the squad, and i dont think we will miss kudos as much as we potentially would 

that being said, come September we will inevitably re-sign Antonio because we have failed opt get anyone else, have mavro starting cb, paq will have been sold on the cheap back to brazil and Bowen will be looking around wondering why the hell am i still stuck in this circus when i should be playing champions league football 

Yeah, but it isn't. It's to pay off a 40 million loan with Barclays that has 9% interest kicking in imminently. He's done the equivalent of selling the TV to cover a payday loan from fucking Wonga, and basically sold the telly for way less than it's worth because he was so desperate. There is no strategy behind this. No young players with potential waiting in the wings to come in. The only objective of this was to pay off a debt. Not strengthen the team. 

What a fucking shoddy way for a BILLIONAIRE to finance running a football club. This whole mess at the club is squarely on him and his business genius sidekick Brady. Why do they run it basically on hock the whole time? Is this what other clubs actually do as well?

[Mad Ferret]

Trundle,

At least we're WELL STOCKED at left back.

[Lee Trundle]

You'd be mad to pin any your hopes of Fullkrug this coming season, considering what happened with him last season.

1st week of preseason is almost done and we have 1 striker on our books.  It's not like this situation has suddenly appeared out of the blue.

We've got a bunch of stupid fucking idiots running and managing the club.

[goose]

If (if) we bring in 5 players who will impact the starting XI then we will be okay. But our hit rate on picking players is a bit shit so I would assume thats not happening.

two decent centre mids and a decent centre back would really transform things.

i'm expecting big things from Fullkrug this year.

[bell]

Don't forget the brand new like signing of Summerville 

[greenie1]

I really couldn't care less about Kudos going to Spurs, he is now their problem. Especially when they bomb out of the Champions League in the early stages and a mid table finish, he will no doubt want to move on again.
 

[Lee Trundle]

Fullkrug gets another injury, and it'll be Callum Wilson and Antonio lining up for us in September.

That's well within the realms of possibility.

[Sanacs on tour]

If the Kudos sale means the funds are released to sign a a couple of players that we desperately need to bring cover to the squad, then overall its not terrible

my main concern is that we still have paqueta, who has sadly become a shell of his former self  ever since this betting debacle has been hanging over him

If Potter can revitalise him, it will genuinely be like a new signing back to the squad, and i dont think we will miss kudos as much as we potentially would 

that being said, come September we will inevitably re-sign Antonio because we have failed opt get anyone else, have mavro starting cb, paq will have been sold on the cheap back to brazil and Bowen will be looking around wondering why the hell am i still stuck in this circus when i should be playing champions league football 

[El Scorchio]

Kudus to Spurs.
Do I blame him? No, Sullivan has hawked him around like lucky heather. I feel a bit sorry for him having his "value" debated by the likes of Sullivan and Levy, I am sure he will want a good wash after the dust settles.
Do I believe he is all of the rubbish thrown at him through the usual mouthpieces? Absolutely not. This board always goes into overdrive to paint the players that leave, or may leave in a less than flattering light. In Kudus and Rice's case even if they wanted to stay Sullivan made their positions untenable.
Do I believe our owners got best value? Definitely not. I suspect that Levy threw in the lube for the rogering he gave them.  
So a hypothetical situation in comes to mind:
Do I believe that the bulk of the Kudus money will offset the latest "£40m" black hole coming down the road as put out there by Whetstone? Absolutely. 
So if Kudus goes for, say £55m, that leaves £15m which will probably be spread over a period, likely 3 years. This year probably about £3.75m on the 75% rule imposed by the club.
Is that enough for the down payment on a World Class player? 
I have no ill will towards Kudus but won't wish him well at Tottenham. 


 

 

 

This is it. We've effectively sold him for nothing. To pay a debt. A debt on a ridiculous 40 million quid payday loan because of the owner's stupid short sighted business model, when we all know the owners between them have the means to easily cover it or to be the loaner- even if that is still unpalatable. 
Where is the sustainability in the club? The long term plan? There's just none. After 15 years of ownership. Other clubs have proven it can be done but we just lurch from season to season like a drunk from paycheque to paycheque, scrabbling around until the next lot of money comes in and then immediately spending it and pawning our watch to get us through the month.

It's like being run by fucking Delboy.

[BRANDED]

Kudus was mostly a moody cսnt. Getting anything more than a fiver for him is a result. Hope he fails where ever he goes and makes the fans miserable. 

[Eerie Decent]

I'm quite looking forward to the new season now.

Proper unknown innit. I hate the chairman, don't rate the manager, and think our defence and central midfield is diabolical.

But I'm proper West Ham, so let's fucking have it.

[Lee Trundle]

 I suspect that Levy threw in the lube for the rogering he gave them. 
 

No chance.  He went in dry.

[ATHammer]

Kudus to Spurs.
Do I blame him? No, Sullivan has hawked him around like lucky heather. I feel a bit sorry for him having his "value" debated by the likes of Sullivan and Levy, I am sure he will want a good wash after the dust settles.
Do I believe he is all of the rubbish thrown at him through the usual mouthpieces? Absolutely not. This board always goes into overdrive to paint the players that leave, or may leave in a less than flattering light. In Kudus and Rice's case even if they wanted to stay Sullivan made their positions untenable.
Do I believe our owners got best value? Definitely not. I suspect that Levy threw in the lube for the rogering he gave them.  
So a hypothetical situation in comes to mind:
Do I believe that the bulk of the Kudus money will offset the latest "£40m" black hole coming down the road as put out there by Whetstone? Absolutely. 
So if Kudus goes for, say £55m, that leaves £15m which will probably be spread over a period, likely 3 years. This year probably about £3.75m on the 75% rule imposed by the club.
Is that enough for the down payment on a World Class player? 
I have no ill will towards Kudus but won't wish him well at Tottenham. 
 

[violator]

I must admit I'm not well versed in transfer dealings, but why is he going for £30m less than the release clause?

[El Scorchio]

We are the new Everton.

Next few years we will flirt with relegation while trying to keep the club afloat and within PSR guidelines.
Managers will come and go as they take the blame for the ineptitude of Sullivan.

It wouldn’t be as awful if you could see them starting over with a clear strategy in the vein of Brighton, taking a couple of years to bed it in and coming back stronger, but they won’t. Sullivan is incapable of it. It’ll be bumbling along year to year with patchwork random signings of his choosing, undermining the strategy and aims of whoever is sitting in the dugout. 

How on earth have the other shareholders not had enough of this or seen this coming?

[goose]

We are the new Everton.

Next few years we will flirt with relegation while trying to keep the club afloat and within PSR guidelines.
Managers will come and go as they take the blame for the ineptitude of Sullivan.

[Maverick180180]

I'm not all that bothered Kudus has gone TBH, its more to whom we have sold him and well below his valuation Levy mugging us off again, great stuff being a West Ham fan init

Lets now see if we are going to spend any of this cash and sign anyone or are going to be spun some BS cock n bull about being skint and this money was to "save" us from FFP breaches or other such nonsense.

 

Well, it was funny yesterday, as my mate said "At least we now have another £55m to spend on players". Then it came out that we owe Barclays Bank £40m for a short term loan taken out two season ago. So I replied "It looks like we only have £15m" and then it came out that Levy is paying us over three year instalments. So I replied "Make that fuck all to spend on players". 

I mean, if a transfer ever told you how badly Sullivan has run this club and how detached from the fans he is, then this is it. 

Yes, you can argue that Kudus has been poor for a year and has a bad attitude... But, bottom line, we are selling off our top players to those cunts to pay debts. 

I said it at the start of the window. We are getting relegated. Sullivan's continual cycle of incompetence year after year will finally come home to roost. The little cսnt has got away with it in previous years but I think the hole has been dug too deep now. And to top it all off, look what's happened during the window - Only players out, no ins. They release that turgid, boring kit and then we sell Kudus to the cunts. I mean, I have known it bad at West Ham under Sullivan and before him.... But this is different level. The apathy I am seeing and hearing from hardcore West Ham is worrying. Looks like Sullivan may have beaten us. It's such a shame. 

And once Sunderland tear us apart in the first game of the season it will be downhill form there.

Can't wait for this season to start. Jesus wept. 

I genuinely want him to just drop dead, I’d be so happy if news came out that he’d died
I couldn’t care less if that makes me a bad person

[El Scorchio]

Given how we ended the season, with a manager who has the worst win % of any manager we've had, and we've gone out of our way to weaken not only our first XI, but the whole squad in general, and zero players have come in at the moment, then it's fairly understandable why anyone would see us as relegation candidates for the upcoming season.

It very much feels like Leicester’s relegation season when they sold Schmeichel and others and only one average player came in. 

[El Scorchio]

The fee is very disappointing. If you’re going to sell the silver at least get a decent fucking price for it. Don’t give it away. We all know how talented he is and how good he can be when he wants to. Sullivan has let himself be well and truly arse raped on this one. To add yes he did say we wouldn’t deal with Spurs. 

Shows how desperate he was to pay off this loan I guess that he was willing to be held to ransom. Absolute shambles how the finances of this club are run. Embarrassing stuff that we found ourselves in this position. Just highlights how fucked his transfer policy is and where it’s taken us. 

I can understand selling Kudus if it’s tactically for a premium and to build the squad for the next five years with three young players we sorely need coming in to form the backbone of a new team a la Liverpool retooling their midfield the other year, but not  for under market value by begging teams to take him to pay off a debt and leave an already weak squad even weaker. 

All I can say is players had better start arriving now after all this. 

[Lee Trundle]

Given how we ended the season, with a manager who has the worst win % of any manager we've had, and we've gone out of our way to weaken not only our first XI, but the whole squad in general, and zero players have come in at the moment, then it's fairly understandable why anyone would see us as relegation candidates for the upcoming season.

[fraser]

I actually couldn't give a flying fuck if we get relegated but don't think we will. 

I bought my tickets at 4.59pm deadline day and was full of regret and self loathing at 5pm  

[Mad Ferret]

Am told that the Diouf deal will now happen in the coming days.

[Russ of the BML]

That game against Sunderland is huge already.

Lose that, and the 1st home game against Chelsea will be toxic as fuck.

You know it, mate. I can see and hear it already. 

[Lee Trundle]

That game against Sunderland is huge already.

Lose that, and the 1st home game against Chelsea will be toxic as fuck.

[Russ of the BML]

I'm not all that bothered Kudus has gone TBH, its more to whom we have sold him and well below his valuation Levy mugging us off again, great stuff being a West Ham fan init

Lets now see if we are going to spend any of this cash and sign anyone or are going to be spun some BS cock n bull about being skint and this money was to "save" us from FFP breaches or other such nonsense.

 

 

Well, it was funny yesterday, as my mate said "At least we now have another £55m to spend on players". Then it came out that we owe Barclays Bank £40m for a short term loan taken out two season ago. So I replied "It looks like we only have £15m" and then it came out that Levy is paying us over three year instalments. So I replied "Make that fuck all to spend on players". 

I mean, if a transfer ever told you how badly Sullivan has run this club and how detached from the fans he is, then this is it. 

Yes, you can argue that Kudus has been poor for a year and has a bad attitude... But, bottom line, we are selling off our top players to those cunts to pay debts. 

I said it at the start of the window. We are getting relegated. Sullivan's continual cycle of incompetence year after year will finally come home to roost. The little cսnt has got away with it in previous years but I think the hole has been dug too deep now. And to top it all off, look what's happened during the window - Only players out, no ins. They release that turgid, boring kit and then we sell Kudus to the cunts. I mean, I have known it bad at West Ham under Sullivan and before him.... But this is different level. The apathy I am seeing and hearing from hardcore West Ham is worrying. Looks like Sullivan may have beaten us. It's such a shame. 

And once Sunderland tear us apart in the first game of the season it will be downhill form there.

Can't wait for this season to start. Jesus wept.