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

[Fauxstralian]

We wanted the loan with the obligation to buy for cash flow purposes
Not too upset if we miss out on Luiz
Had read that Man U were also interested
They seem to be distracted by trying to shift those 5 players that are prob costing them £1m a week
Plus being bent over by Brentford over Mbuemo. Agreed at £65m, now being told it’s £70m. Ha ha ha

[Mad Ferret]

Luiz going to Everton. They will actually buy the player. Sully wanted “try before u buy” with loan first allegedly.  Was a great player at Villa. That said he’s 27, on high wages.  But at least “we tried”

Stop posting your fictitious thoughts as gospel. 

[Sir Alf]

Luiz going to Everton. They will actually buy the player. Sully wanted “try before u buy” with loan first allegedly.  Was a great player at Villa. That said he’s 27, on high wages.  But at least “we tried”

[Fauxstralian]

Grealish is talented but needs to leave City where he isn’t being used properly … bit like Joe Cole under Mourinho
The only way he’d come to us is on loan with City paying about two thirds of his wages
Unlikely

Agree that Elliot or McAtee would be better options
Elliot will be too expensive & have more attractive choices
I wouldn’t mind the Leicester (El Khannouss) or Southampton (Fernandes) linked players
Cheaper & less competition
Plus Hermansen the Leicester keeper. Finance that by selling Areola & bringing in a cheaper no2

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

Can't really see Man City loaning out Grealish unless it's with an obligation to buy. Next year he'll have one year left on his contract and be 31 in September, so now is the time for them to sell. Of course if they get no takers then they might as well get a loan fee and his wages taken care of rather than having him sit on the bench or in the reserves. He only made one league start for them since December. He did play in most of the FA cup games but was dropped for the final. I'd say he's on the way out for sure.

I do think he'd suit Potter's style of play but overall would be a poor signing unless he took a massive cut in wages, was on a fairly short contract and didn't cost too much.

[Massive Attack]

Grealish would be an expensive vanity project waste of time.

[Mad Ferret]

Grealish would be an insane addition.

[dealcanvey]

 

He’s a very good player no doubt but we need to stop looking at this type of player. Nearly 30. 300k a week he is on. 

much rather the club invested in the likes of Elliot or Mcatee. Long term prospects whose value are much less likely to go down. 

id take Grealish on loan if we were to sign someone like Elliot also but that is never going to happen. 

[Barty888]

[Mike Oxsaw]

Perhaps the footballing lexicon needs a new term:

"The Sullivan": a promise made that all parties know will never be honoured.

[RBshorty]

Click Bait. If there was any going. Sullivan loves this kind of BS.!

[Barty888]

[eusebiovic]

What hoodwinked Tim when he had his interview for the job, and subsequently took it?

I don't think it's all about money. It's more likely that Sullivan and Vinegar TIt's promised him the earth and when he got started the midget couldn't keep his snout out of it.

Just like he has done with everybody else...it should be obvious to everyone by now

[Barty888]

[Eerie Decent]

What hoodwinked Tim when he had his interview for the job, and subsequently took it?

[Keep dreaming]

You rarely see players, manager or even directors going out verbally towards a former club like this. In football things can change very quickly, and you might end up with the same player, manager, club etc, so one have to be very careful.

This cas is special because he is damn right, and everyone need to know what's going on (even if we already do). So thanks Tim, and sorry it didn't work out. But it doesn't with Sullivan...

[eusebiovic]

It's well worth a read...you can translate from German to English by right clicking the top right hand corner of your browser and selecting translate (funnily enough!)


https://www.transfermarkt.de/steidtens- ... ews/457015

https://www.transfermarkt.de/steidten-u ... ews/457021

Transfermarkt: What would you rule out? (From any potential new employer) 

Steidten: That I would be working in a structure where it's not entirely clear what's needed and, therefore, no common path is discernible. Commitment to a path and good employees are the most important things.  


 

[Sir Alf]

Steidten hinting clearly that Sullivan is the problem. No surprise to us of course but nonetheless its a confirmation.

http://sportwitness.co.uk/tim-steidten- ... uch-power/

 

[RootsRadical]

I think there will be a few outgoing transfers.
Rodriguez, Emerson, Aguerd & Irving all look likely. Paquetta if he gets off too though I would hope he stays. Almost forget about Cornet who I hope also leaves.
A few others possibly, Mavro, Soucek, Alvarez & or JWP,  though am not averse to Soucek & Alvarez staying as long as the other midfielders I mentioned leave and as rumoured we sign a couple of younger energetic midfielders.

All the above have rumoured interest in them so I would expect most of them to go.

From what I can gather we are targetting 2 new midfielders, a RB, CB and another striker.

[Mike Oxsaw]

Juventus not impressed by Sullivan’s first derisory offer for Luiz is latest coming from the Italian media.  No surprise now football’s self proclaimed, “greatest negotiator” ( he’s also better at picking players than those overrated DOFs according to him ) is back in control.  Expect yet another long, protracted set of deals before seeing too many more signings before late August. Just hope we dont get back into losing out and “we tried” territory.  

Things might change if we could get some cash in for one or more of Soucek, JWP, Alvarez, Aguerd, Emerson, Rodruiguez, Paqueta or Irvine but “takers” for them are likely to be thin on the ground with the possible exception of Alvarez and Paqueta although the latter aint going nowhere with the “sword of the FA kangaroo court” still hanging over his head.

What I do still believe though ( as many do ) is that all our business will be ineffective in turning arpund our fortunes without 2 players for central midfield with pace, power and athleticism to plug the massive hole Rice left.  

Will keep my dungarees in the drawer until mid August bit beyond that will begin to soil myself even more than usual

 

[Mike Oxsaw]

Juventus not impressed by Sullivan’s first derisory offer for Luiz is latest coming from the Italian media.  No surprise now football’s self proclaimed, “greatest negotiator” ( he’s also better at picking players than those overrated DOFs according to him ) is back in control.  Expect yet another long, protracted set of deals before seeing too many more signings before late August. Just hope we dont get back into losing out and “we tried” territory.  

Things might change if we could get some cash in for one or more of Soucek, JWP, Alvarez, Aguerd, Emerson, Rodruiguez, Paqueta or Irvine but “takers” for them are likely to be thin on the ground with the possible exception of Alvarez and Paqueta although the latter aint going nowhere with the “sword of the FA kangaroo court” still hanging over his head.

What I do still believe though ( as many do ) is that all our business will be ineffective in turning arpund our fortunes without 2 players for central midfield with pace, power and athleticism to plug the massive hole Rice left.  

Will keep my dungarees in the drawer until mid August bit beyond that will begin to soil myself even more than usual

Sullivan's low-ball bids may well be a tactic to entice other potential bidders to steam in and snap up players he doesn't really want to buy, leaving the club's only options at the end of the window as only buying players from his agent-mates.

[El Scorchio]

This would make a lot of sense for us if we spent it (as you say) on retooling the midfield with players who can get us goals without relying on Soucek to have to do so.

[Keep dreaming]

News around about Soucek to Everton for 18m.
Fuck yes, and spend it all in Elliot please

[El Scorchio]

That Italian one about 10 posts below, I guess.
All went quiet on that Stassin bloke unless he already got sold to someone else.

[Lee Trundle]

Have we ben linked to any strikers recently?

I find it mad we still haven't got one in, who can be classed as a 1st teamer, yet.