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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
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fraser wrote: 11 Jul 2025, 09:53
We probably would have been relegated without the break... But not sure you can say the next season was due to it 
The lockdown had a huge impact on results, especially regarding home advantage. For the first time us not being in a proper football stadium wasn't a hindrance, whereas the lack of crowds made things worse for other teams. It also impacted training and how players were used on the pitch. There was much less pressing and counter pressing from all teams, which suited us.

The players were naturally full of confidence going into the following season but within a couple of months of the lockdown being over everything was back to normal and we were mostly shit again.
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I think we should all clap Kudus when he returns to the bowl.

Bless him, it's not his fault.
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Jean-Luc Paul Goddard" wrote: 11 Jul 2025, 09:50
Westside wrote: 11 Jul 2025, 09:46 "Have we ever had a season in recent memory where expectations were rock bottom and we had a blinder (relatively) because I can't think of any? I'm really clutching to a ray of hope here because it's happened plenty of times the other way round."

Moyes's first full season? Went from finishing 16th the previous season, to 6th.
All we need then is another global pandemic and lockdown. Extremely doubtful that we'd have finished top half if that hadn't happened. 
We probably would have been relegated without the break... But not sure you can say the next season was due to it 
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Westside wrote: 11 Jul 2025, 09:46 "Have we ever had a season in recent memory where expectations were rock bottom and we had a blinder (relatively) because I can't think of any? I'm really clutching to a ray of hope here because it's happened plenty of times the other way round."

Moyes's first full season? Went from finishing 16th the previous season, to 6th.
All we need then is another global pandemic and lockdown. Extremely doubtful that we'd have finished top half if that hadn't happened. 
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"Have we ever had a season in recent memory where expectations were rock bottom and we had a blinder (relatively) because I can't think of any? I'm really clutching to a ray of hope here because it's happened plenty of times the other way round."

Moyes's first full season? Went from finishing 16th the previous season, to 6th.
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Btw Henderson is off to Brentford.

Lose all your best players and manager then go and sign Henderson and the Liverpool reserve keeper and put the set-piece coach in charge 😂

Does everyone still think they’re so well run?
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What happens when the season after next, when Spurs aren't in the CL. He'll prob down tools for them too.

The geezers an absolute cսnt and we're well shot of him. Getting £55m is actually good business from us.
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The window shaping up as expected. The “Sullivan Effect” in full flow so I still dont expect any incoming signings until Emerson and Aguerd and possibly one or two others are sold. August at the eatliest.  Sullivan  wont commit to anything until he has cash flow from sales in place.   

We will start the season with the same team we ended the last with perhaps this left back Diouf being the only new face.  Sullivan will leave things to the last week or so of the window for any other additions to undermine chances of getting other Macaulay and Potter targets which essentially gives him more control of who comes in as he is “forced” ( cough ) to turn to favoured agents to get players like Wilson, Brownhill, Calvert Lewin, Zinchenko etc all players that will be either old, injury prone and thus continue the disasterous rrecruitment we have seen at West Ham in the last 15 years Sullivan has owned and controlled the club.  
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I think that for Kudus Spurs are as much a stepping stone as West Ham has been. He will need though to dramatically up his game to move up another level from Spurs.

Curious that nobody seems to have commented that, unusuall, he’s a big money buy that we’re making a reasonable profit on.
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Ron Eff" wrote: 11 Jul 2025, 09:13
Parker 3x player of the year, gave everything for the club, only left because we were relegated and he had international ambitions. You’ve topped my most idiotic comment. Well done. 
Not sure why the fans voting Parker player of the year 3x makes him less of a Judas. Some would say that makes him more of one. We took him to our hearts and he demanded a move to our no 1 rivals. Kudus means very little to us as supporters. Just a decent player we had for a couple of years who we need to sell and we're making a profit on. Your hatred of him is misplaced and frankly laughable. As for ambitions, is Kudus allowed none? Should he carry on ruining his own career being played out of position at a club that's both poorly managed on the field and poorly run off it?
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There's little blame I'm throwing towards Kudus.

As Scorch has said, Sullivan pimped him out to everyone.
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Sullivan has form for smearing every player on their way out, when he knows fans are likely to be annoyed about it. Tries to make it all about the player being unreasonable or a bad egg. 

I don’t think Kudus gave his all last season but Sullivan has been hawking him publicly for ages and then starts releasing stories about him not going to training or being late or forcing his hand or whatnot. Just a snide effort to cover himself. 
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Hammer I am" wrote: 11 Jul 2025, 07:44
Sydney_Iron wrote: 11 Jul 2025, 07:21
E6 Hammer" wrote: 11 Jul 2025, 06:23 I see on this forum that a lot of supporters are getting at each other 

I think this is a sign that we are all gutted.





 
Nothing new with supporters arguing and getting at each other, been like that as long as I’ve posted on WHO, which is around 25 years! FMOB😳

But would agree on being gutted, think many have had enough and can’t be arsed at times, most seasons are pretty shit for us, the odd time we do have a decent season we always seem to fuck it up the next rather than use it to step up a level or show any ambition🤷‍♂️ 

 But I suppose for the board and owners as long as we can fill the stadium, have the TV money roll in and retain PL status that seems to be job done, never mind the fans wanting better.

Never have I felt so unenthusiastic about an upcoming season, would love to be wrong and we somehow have a blinder but I think that’s just for my dreams😞
Have we ever had a season in recent memory where expectations were rock bottom and we had a blinder (relatively) because I can't think of any? I'm really clutching to a ray of hope here because it's happened plenty of times the other way round.
 
 
Sadly I agree. I have zero expectations this season. I’m just hoping to cling on to survival. I’m not excited about any matches.
its nuts. 
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Jean-Luc Paul Goddard" wrote: 11 Jul 2025, 09:04
Ron Eff" wrote: 11 Jul 2025, 08:51
No amount of hating Sullivan changes the fact he joins the likes of Ince, Lampard, Defoe. 
One of the most idiotic things I've ever read on here. Well done.

Did he wear a Spurs kit before signing? No.
Has he talked about hating the club? No.
Did he put in a transfer request or force a move in any way? No.

Kudus probably did less to warrant the Judas tag than Rice or Parker but those two generally get off scot free.
Parker 3x player of the year, gave everything for the club, only left because we were relegated and he had international ambitions. You’ve topped my most idiotic comment. Well done. 

I’d agree entirely with Rice. Left him out as we have loads of his fanboys on here as well, and couldn’t be bothered waking those up as well as the Kudus ones. 

Hope you give him a nice clap when he returns. 
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Ron Eff" wrote: 11 Jul 2025, 08:51
No amount of hating Sullivan changes the fact he joins the likes of Ince, Lampard, Defoe. 
One of the most idiotic things I've ever read on here. Well done.

Did he wear a Spurs kit before signing? No.
Has he talked about hating the club? No.
Did he put in a transfer request or force a move in any way? No.

Kudus probably did less to warrant the Judas tag than Rice or Parker but those two generally get off scot free.
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Ron Eff" wrote: 11 Jul 2025, 08:51
fraser wrote: 11 Jul 2025, 08:32
Ron Eff" wrote: 11 Jul 2025, 08:14
 
Are we ignoring that this cսnt made a beeline for Spurs and in his cringey signing VT started it with “I only wanted Spurs”?

Sullivan is a prick, too, sure, but stop giving this wanker a free ride. 

Shit attitude last season at being asked to play on the left, and then makes clear he wants to sign for Spurs this summer. We used to treat these type of characters properly in previous decades. 
You're on a wind up right, every player who joins every club says shit like that when they join. We wanted to sell him he wasn't wanted and only one club came in for him. Was he supposed to say "nope I'll stay where I'm not wanted at a shit show of a club and turn down extra money and champions league" then say "I only came here because you were my only option" 


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Can only work with the facts in front of us Fras ol’ chum. All the noise is that he only wanted to sign for Spurs. He/they use it in the VT which supports those rumours, even though people want to decide the truth was that nobody else wanted him. 

Even if it is just PR for his new set of fans, it still makes him a proper wanker. If it were a player with a bit of respect for his previous club, or at least their fans, they could very easily say “not sure that line is necessary”

To be clear, I’m not offended by the VT. I do think he’s a massive wanker for how he has gone about a transfer to them though. No amount of hating Sullivan changes the fact he joins the likes of Ince, Lampard, Defoe. 

We obviously still have a Kudus fan club even though he has joined our rivals, which is a shame. 
 
 
Depends where you think the noise came from.. 

Do you disrespect players when they sign for us and do the same? 

Nothing to do with being in his fan club   Sullivan has done this for years as far back as Bellamy who said he didn't ask to leave but as soon as the club wanted to sell him the same stories were put out there. 

There's always noise, and the source of it is always constant IMO
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You need to add Rice to that list of yours as well, seeing as he did pretty much the same thing.  He only wanted Arsenal.
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fraser wrote: 11 Jul 2025, 08:32
Ron Eff" wrote: 11 Jul 2025, 08:14
Keep dreaming" wrote: 10 Jul 2025, 23:17
What a moronic thing to say. If you blame this move on Kudus, and not Sullivan, then you have no working brain cells (in other word, you are a yid...)
 
Are we ignoring that this cսnt made a beeline for Spurs and in his cringey signing VT started it with “I only wanted Spurs”?

Sullivan is a prick, too, sure, but stop giving this wanker a free ride. 

Shit attitude last season at being asked to play on the left, and then makes clear he wants to sign for Spurs this summer. We used to treat these type of characters properly in previous decades. 
You're on a wind up right, every player who joins every club says shit like that when they join. We wanted to sell him he wasn't wanted and only one club came in for him. Was he supposed to say "nope I'll stay where I'm not wanted at a shit show of a club and turn down extra money and champions league" then say "I only came here because you were my only option" 


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Can only work with the facts in front of us Fras ol’ chum. All the noise is that he only wanted to sign for Spurs. He/they use it in the VT which supports those rumours, even though people want to decide the truth was that nobody else wanted him. 

Even if it is just PR for his new set of fans, it still makes him a proper wanker. If it were a player with a bit of respect for his previous club, or at least their fans, they could very easily say “not sure that line is necessary”

To be clear, I’m not offended by the VT. I do think he’s a massive wanker for how he has gone about a transfer to them though. No amount of hating Sullivan changes the fact he joins the likes of Ince, Lampard, Defoe. 

We obviously still have a Kudus fan club even though he has joined our rivals, which is a shame. 
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Lee Trundle" wrote: 11 Jul 2025, 08:39 We've got a useless shitcunt of an owner, who is probably one of the most stupid men ever to own a Premier League football club.
We've got his sidekick Brady earning millions from the club for not doing much apart from suggesting to Sullivan to employ her mate Potter.
We have statisically (22% win ratio) the worst manager we've ever had at the club.
Our squad is currently MUCH worse than the one that finished the season so poorly.
We're selling players under their value.
We'll likely buy players over their market value.
The new kit's shit.

Anything else I've missed?
Shit stadium with no atmosphere 
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We've got a useless shitcunt of an owner, who is probably one of the most stupid men ever to own a Premier League football club.
We've got his sidekick Brady earning millions from the club for not doing much apart from suggesting to Sullivan to employ her mate Potter.
We have statisically (22% win ratio) the worst manager we've ever had at the club.
Our squad is currently MUCH worse than the one that finished the season so poorly.
We're selling players under their value.
We'll likely buy players over their market value.
The new kit's shit.

Anything else I've missed?
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Ron Eff" wrote: 11 Jul 2025, 08:14
Keep dreaming" wrote: 10 Jul 2025, 23:17
twoleftfeet wrote: 10 Jul 2025, 21:57 “ Judus “ has left the building.

I wish him nothing but misery.
What a moronic thing to say. If you blame this move on Kudus, and not Sullivan, then you have no working brain cells (in other word, you are a yid...)
 
Are we ignoring that this cսnt made a beeline for Spurs and in his cringey signing VT started it with “I only wanted Spurs”?

Sullivan is a prick, too, sure, but stop giving this wanker a free ride. 

Shit attitude last season at being asked to play on the left, and then makes clear he wants to sign for Spurs this summer. We used to treat these type of characters properly in previous decades. 
You're on a wind up right, every player who joins every club says shit like that when they join. We wanted to sell him he wasn't wanted and only one club came in for him. Was he supposed to say "nope I'll stay where I'm not wanted at a shit show of a club and turn down extra money and champions league" then say "I only came here because you were my only option" 


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The ‘we tried’ excuse needs to be swapped for the truth this season, which is ‘I was too busy counting my money’
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The disappointment is not that we sold Kudus, it's that we know what is coming next.

Not very much.
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Last season was abysmal and if you didn’t think it was possible this season is shaping up as worse.
Think many have said the teams coming up are probably better than the dross that came up & went down in a heart beat
Struggling to think of one positive going into the new season 
If you can’t have some at least blind optimism now it’s profoundly depressing 
A poor start will see Potter sacked obviously 
Thanks Sullivan!
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Keep dreaming" wrote: 10 Jul 2025, 23:17
twoleftfeet wrote: 10 Jul 2025, 21:57 “ Judus “ has left the building.

I wish him nothing but misery.
What a moronic thing to say. If you blame this move on Kudus, and not Sullivan, then you have no working brain cells (in other word, you are a yid...)
 
 
Are we ignoring that this cսnt made a beeline for Spurs and in his cringey signing VT started it with “I only wanted Spurs”?

Sullivan is a prick, too, sure, but stop giving this wanker a free ride. 

Shit attitude last season at being asked to play on the left, and then makes clear he wants to sign for Spurs this summer. We used to treat these type of characters properly in previous decades. 
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