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

[Adsiron]

I've long felt that Steidten was badly treated. He clearly wasn't given final say on any deals except those that he could get blamed for if or when they go wrong. And he got some wrong but no means as wrong as the previous set up we have returned to.

And there are signs of where Sullivan's grubby mits are assumed to have rested. Ings being a classic back-up signing for Antonio because they are both strikers we assume that no professional would have sanctioned long before Steidten started...  

Point me towards his great successes

I never said he was successful just that he was unfairly treated. He clearly didn’t have the final say nor do we know his brief for the failures.

We do know that many of the players like Kilman and Rodriguez, were Lopetegui picks. We know that JWP was a Moyes pick before that. 

The point is that Sullivan is obviously a micro-managing boss  who will always avoid owning the mistakes he makes. Then he can blame the employees for getting it wrong….

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

I don't think he did. This pearl diver reputation he had was always nonsense. The two clubs he was at previously just had a very good scouting and analytics setup, which Sullivan should have had him building up here.

[Lee Trundle]

Realistically, which 'pearl' did Steidten discover?

I'm not buying he discovered Guilherme, as even Sullivan had probably already heard about him from Football Manager.

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

I've long felt that Steidten was badly treated. He clearly wasn't given final say on any deals except those that he could get blamed for if or when they go wrong. And he got some wrong but no means as wrong as the previous set up we have returned to.

And there are signs of where Sullivan's grubby mits are assumed to have rested. Ings being a classic back-up signing for Antonio because they are both strikers we assume that no professional would have sanctioned long before Steidten started...  

For me Steidten's job should have focused on a long term strategy of building up data analytics for scouting and recruitment. Seems like he believed this "pearl diver" bullshit instead and just hired his own brother instead of creating and overseeing a proper scouting and analytics team.

Now we're back where we started and Sully can point to him as a reason for not appointing a director of football.

[El Scorchio]

Sullivan WILL spend big on occasion. Trouble is it's almost always on the wrong/shit/ill suited players.
Bloke cannot spot talent. Much as Lop wanted Kilman, Sullivan agreed he was worth what we paid in fee and wages and contract length or he wouldn't have arrived.

TS didn't want Lopetegui and Sullivan did and maybe he painted himself into a corner with that one.. 

Fully agree. In many ways he got what he deserved by purposely picking a manager his technical director didn't want for seemingly maybe petty reasons. Fuck knows, but it's led to this shit situation we're currently in.

[RootsRadical]

The money wasted in recent years on CB & other positions is ridiculous and into the hundreds of millions. Considering we're always pleading poverty it just highlights how incompetant and foolish Sullivan is.

Everytime a new manager comes in we have to have a big clearout and buy a another bunch of players that suit them. And so it goes on & on.

The standard aporoach for well run  modern clubs thesedays like Brighton, Brentford & Bournemouth etc... who have all managed to punch above their weight, is to have a long term strategy for buying players and recruiting managers that fit the style and business model that suits this strategy so new managers and players can slot seamlessly into the system.

Of course Sullivan is incapable of devising and sticking to any strategy & business model, so we lurch from having a DOF who Sullivan undermines in any case to Sullivan playing Football Manager with his agents, a random new managers who are unsuited to our needs and playing staff, who then need to waste even more money shifting players out for peanuts to buy more players that only suit his ideas.

Rinse & repeat and here we are.




 

[onsideman]

I've long felt that Steidten was badly treated. He clearly wasn't given final say on any deals except those that he could get blamed for if or when they go wrong. And he got some wrong but no means as wrong as the previous set up we have returned to.

And there are signs of where Sullivan's grubby mits are assumed to have rested. Ings being a classic back-up signing for Antonio because they are both strikers we assume that no professional would have sanctioned long before Steidten started...  

Point me towards his great successes

[Adsiron]

I've long felt that Steidten was badly treated. He clearly wasn't given final say on any deals except those that he could get blamed for if or when they go wrong. And he got some wrong but no means as wrong as the previous set up we have returned to.

And there are signs of where Sullivan's grubby mits are assumed to have rested. Ings being a classic back-up signing for Antonio because they are both strikers we assume that no professional would have sanctioned long before Steidten started...  

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

The only reason that Kilman contract length makes any sense is if Sullivan or Steidten were trying to spread the cost of the transfer fee for as long as possible, without realising that the rules had changed that year to make amortisation only count for up to 5 years. Either that or else we really didn't try to negotiate at all and just bent over for whatever Kilman's agent wanted.

[fraser]

Sullivan WILL spend big on occasion. Trouble is it's almost always on the wrong/shit/ill suited players.
Bloke cannot spot talent. Much as Lop wanted Kilman, Sullivan agreed he was worth what we paid in fee and wages and contract length or he wouldn't have arrived.

TS didn't want Lopetegui and Sullivan did and maybe he painted himself into a corner with that one.. 

[El Scorchio]

Sullivan WILL spend big on occasion. Trouble is it's almost always on the wrong/shit/ill suited players.
Bloke cannot spot talent. Much as Lop wanted Kilman, Sullivan agreed he was worth what we paid in fee and wages and contract length or he wouldn't have arrived.

[greenie1]

"..... but we tried"

 

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

Sullivan has told media contacts that “this summer’s transfer window is tough”. He says that about every window. It really means that clubs yet again aint falling for his derisory bids and ridiculous terms, conditions, payment schedules and add ons. Trying to do things on the cheap because previous recruitment has been so poor when he used his great negotiating expertise which is also known as being “ penny wise, pounds foolish” 

You must have been completely flummoxed with the Kilman transfer, Sir Alf.

It goes against everything you think of the bloke.

Presumably it was Steidten who negotiated the Kilman deal, although the story goes that he thought the price was too high and we should have kept Aguerd instead anyway. Hard to say what involvement Sullivan had in it, except maybe to overrule Steidten and let Lopetegui have at least one player that he really wanted.

[Lee Trundle]

Sullivan has told media contacts that “this summer’s transfer window is tough”. He says that about every window. It really means that clubs yet again aint falling for his derisory bids and ridiculous terms, conditions, payment schedules and add ons. Trying to do things on the cheap because previous recruitment has been so poor when he used his great negotiating expertise which is also known as being “ penny wise, pounds foolish” 

You must have been completely flummoxed with the Kilman transfer, Sir Alf.

It goes against everything you think of the bloke.

[Sir Alf]

Sullivan has told media contacts that “this summer’s transfer window is tough”. He says that about every window. It really means that clubs yet again aint falling for his derisory bids and ridiculous terms, conditions, payment schedules and add ons. Trying to do things on the cheap because previous recruitment has been so poor when he used his great negotiating expertise which is also known as being “ penny wise, pounds foolish” 

[Massive Attack]

Not too upset if we miss out on Luiz


 

Same, very overated.

[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]