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

[Lee Trundle]

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has just been released.

Just in time to be included for the photoshoot with Callum Wilson.

[Mad Dog]

This diouf cubt signed yet?

[Barty888]

[stubbo-admin]

Morton had seasons on loan in the Championship at Blackburn & Hull and played 40+ games for each
stayed at Liverpool last season & played about half a dozen DEAD RUBBERS.
Obviously needs to move as he is never getting in their team permanently

Liverpool are saying £40m for Elliot if they have a buy back clause. £50m if it’s a full transfer with no buy back
The only way he is coming to us (if he even wanted to) is if Paqueta is cleared and sold for something similar.

There is a way. It's already being discussed. It involves no buy back, we get Elliot, Morton and some cash but we lose someone..

Who?

Realistically the only player we have that could drive that kind of deal (given they value Elliott at 50m without buyback and Morton between 15 and 20m) is Bowen.

[twoleftfeet]

Antonio?

[Eerie Decent]

Soucek

[Barty888]

Morton had seasons on loan in the Championship at Blackburn & Hull and played 40+ games for each
stayed at Liverpool last season & played about half a dozen DEAD RUBBERS.
Obviously needs to move as he is never getting in their team permanently

Liverpool are saying £40m for Elliot if they have a buy back clause. £50m if it’s a full transfer with no buy back
The only way he is coming to us (if he even wanted to) is if Paqueta is cleared and sold for something similar.

There is a way. It's already being discussed. It involves no buy back, we get Elliot, Morton and some cash but we lose someone..

Who?

[THUNDERCLINT]

Morton had seasons on loan in the Championship at Blackburn & Hull and played 40+ games for each
stayed at Liverpool last season & played about half a dozen DEAD RUBBERS.
Obviously needs to move as he is never getting in their team permanently

Liverpool are saying £40m for Elliot if they have a buy back clause. £50m if it’s a full transfer with no buy back
The only way he is coming to us (if he even wanted to) is if Paqueta is cleared and sold for something similar.

There is a way. It's already being discussed. It involves no buy back, we get Elliot, Morton and some cash but we lose someone..

[Barty888]

Those two would be insane business.

They are very good mates 

[fraser]

Mateus Fernandes is supposed to be plan B, I prefer him. 

[Fauxstralian]

Morton had seasons on loan in the Championship at Blackburn & Hull and played 40+ games for each
stayed at Liverpool last season & played about half a dozen DEAD RUBBERS.
Obviously needs to move as he is never getting in their team permanently

Liverpool are saying £40m for Elliot if they have a buy back clause. £50m if it’s a full transfer with no buy back
The only way he is coming to us (if he even wanted to) is if Paqueta is cleared and sold for something similar.

[Mad Ferret]

Those two would be insane business.

[Lee Trundle]

We have a much better chance of getting Morton.

[El Scorchio]

Harvey Elliott would be a great get, but I just cannot see it happening. Him and a high energy box to box or CDM would be lovely business.

[Barty888]

[Swiss.]

Have we not sold Cornet yet? What a strange signing that was. I guess if he comes back like with Aguerd it will be like a new signeing.

[Eerie Decent]

The truth is, those 2 games aside, he struggled.

We wouldn't be doing £20mil on a bloke in that position if we didn't have to.

[Massive Attack]

Not saying you Faux but I really can't see why being up against 1 of the world's best attacking wingers and Champions elect Team where we only conceded once during that time at Anfield would be something that's held against Scarles. Especially considering he made such a fantastic impact prior to that picking up impressive PERSON of the Match performances away against Arsenal and Villa in the Cup amongst other positive performances he also made in his breakthrough Premier League season. 

I would have preferred we made him our mainstay but we've gone this route now with this new chap we'd expect to be the main man for the money we've forked out on him. 

As some others point out, it's not quite sure how Potter intends to play him so there are some unanswered questions about how exactly they'll be played and prioritised. All I hope is that there has been real thought and logic behind it all. 

[Eerie Decent]

Scarles was relatively solid but seemed reluctant to go past his man

 

Unfortunately, he lacks the pace for that. Given we'll be playing wingbacks mostly, i don't think he'll get a lot of gametime due to that. 

Personally, I think he should try to go down the left sided centre half route. Got the size for it, just needs to work on his heading and defensive nous.

[Mad Ferret]

Regarding Malick Dioufs expected signing now, my only concern is how it will impact Scarles having spent so much on Diouf. With the money used for him, Left Back wouldn't have been a priority for me. So got mixed feelings about the signing in that regard because I genuinely believe Scarles is a talent. Was it really wise to spend so much on another Left Back, only time will tell..

Ideally it leads to excellent competition between them and neither 1 gets the hump not getting enough playing time. 

The priority must be to ship Emerson out now.  No point in having him in the squad now we've bought another left back.

Diouf will be missing for a chunk of this season at the stupid African cup, so we'll need Scarles to fill in then, I guess.

 

 

Really can't understand why we've signed Diouf when we're so WELL STOCKED at LB, eh Trundle.

[Fauxstralian]

Scarles was relatively solid but seemed reluctant to go past his man
Not sure if that was under instructions or what 
Got a chasing from Salah (not a surprise) & got taken out after that
Hopefully he learnt a lot that day 

[Fauxstralian]

Was reading that Summerville was expected to be out til mid September but is now aiming for the back end of our preseason schedule 

[eusebiovic]

Regarding Malick Dioufs expected signing now, my only concern is how it will impact Scarles having spent so much on Diouf. With the money used for him, Left Back wouldn't have been a priority for me. So got mixed feelings about the signing in that regard because I genuinely believe Scarles is a talent. Was it really wise to spend so much on another Left Back, only time will tell..

Ideally it leads to excellent competition between them and neither 1 gets the hump not getting enough playing time. 

 

 

I think that Scarles true position on the pitch is actually as a deep lying centre midfield player on the left side of 3 in the middle. He can only get better by learning his role at left-back and do a good job there when required and called upon but I certainly see him as a midfielder on long term basis.

[El Scorchio]

I suppose if he ever recovers, Summerville can play RWB.

Mental he's been out injured longer than Antonio was with a fucking hamstring (or whatever it was) tear.

[Lee Trundle]

Good point about the AFCON and yes it's surely must be the end of Emersons stay.

It's not only him, but AWB also.

We'll likely need a right back to come in and cover him.

Or the plan is to play a formation with no fullbacks/wingbacks during that time.