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

[twoleftfeet]

Can confirm Hermansen was in goal when Leicester somehow beat us 3-1
We had 61% possession & 31 shots & he made 7 saves
To be honest I’d prefer a keeper with Premier league experience over Cooper who has only played for a fairly dominant Championship team

Was reading that Hermansen made only one error last season that led directly to a goal
Areola made 3,and another 2 v Man U at the weekend 

Either would be an upgrade on what we have, we can then sell him to Saudi Arabia and get his wages off the books.

We will probably end up with Ben Foster 

[Fauxstralian]

Can confirm Hermansen was in goal when Leicester somehow beat us 3-1
We had 61% possession & 31 shots & he made 7 saves
To be honest I’d prefer a keeper with Premier league experience over Cooper who has only played for a fairly dominant Championship team

Was reading that Hermansen made only one error last season that led directly to a goal
Areola made 3,and another 2 v Man U at the weekend 

[goose]

Supposedly:

• Suzuki is first choice
• Hermansen, who is well known to the keeper coach, is second choice
• Cooper is somewhere to turn if we can't get the others over the line

From what the 'stats' say, Cooper looks the better keeper (never seen any of them play) in terms of keeping the ball out of the net. 

That's based on Percentage of Saves Vs Shots Faced (one of these new fangled metrics). 

No idea about with ball at their feet. He's also more dominant in the air based on the stats.

Cioper hasn't had a season in the Prem behind a shit defence, facing far superior attacking players.

That said, everyone seems to rate him, I've never seen him play but by the sounds of it, a very good keeper as well.

I'd rather those 2 than that Suzuki. Watched highlights of him, and he's a puncher, at every opportunity. Never a good sign for me.

Cooper is a superb keeper, I’d have no issue with him or the Leicester keeper but please god not Suzuki.

So you go for a walk when West Ham play but you watch a load of Sheffield United & Parma?

who did you think was the better Parma coach? Chivu or Fabio Pecchia?

[twoleftfeet]

Supposedly:

• Suzuki is first choice
• Hermansen, who is well known to the keeper coach, is second choice
• Cooper is somewhere to turn if we can't get the others over the line

From what the 'stats' say, Cooper looks the better keeper (never seen any of them play) in terms of keeping the ball out of the net. 

That's based on Percentage of Saves Vs Shots Faced (one of these new fangled metrics). 

No idea about with ball at their feet. He's also more dominant in the air based on the stats.

Cioper hasn't had a season in the Prem behind a shit defence, facing far superior attacking players.

That said, everyone seems to rate him, I've never seen him play but by the sounds of it, a very good keeper as well.

I'd rather those 2 than that Suzuki. Watched highlights of him, and he's a puncher, at every opportunity. Never a good sign for me.

Cooper is a superb keeper, I’d have no issue with him or the Leicester keeper but please god not Suzuki.

[Eerie Decent]

Supposedly:

• Suzuki is first choice
• Hermansen, who is well known to the keeper coach, is second choice
• Cooper is somewhere to turn if we can't get the others over the line

From what the 'stats' say, Cooper looks the better keeper (never seen any of them play) in terms of keeping the ball out of the net. 

That's based on Percentage of Saves Vs Shots Faced (one of these new fangled metrics). 

No idea about with ball at their feet. He's also more dominant in the air based on the stats.

Cioper hasn't had a season in the Prem behind a shit defence, facing far superior attacking players.

That said, everyone seems to rate him, I've never seen him play but by the sounds of it, a very good keeper as well.

I'd rather those 2 than that Suzuki. Watched highlights of him, and he's a puncher, at every opportunity. Never a good sign for me.

[Lee Trundle]

I'd be surprised if it wasn't Hermanson.  The club have seemingly put in a lot of work to get him to the club, like getting his old coach.

[fraser]

Saves to shots made is a weird metric especially if one keeper hasn't played in the top league, there's a gulf in quality when it comes to who's doing the shooting.

From what highlights I've seen of Suzuki he just palms everything out but Hermanson likes to come and catch the ball, this is obviously from limited clips of both. Also Suzuki looks out of our price range. 

Lots of noises that Hermanson was nearly done but also lots of noises about us signing Elliot and I don't believe those for a second. 

[scott_d]

Was he in goal for Leicester when we battered them but somehow lost at their place?
few people seem to rate him highly and he’s good with his feet so fits the crab football plan. 

Are we ever going to solve the huge problems in the middle of the pitch?

I reckon at the start of the summer most people would say centre mid & a centre forward are the priority? We’ve done nothing to solve those glaring issues.

In thoery, we've only replaced players that have left, or are due to leave rather than solved any problems.

KWP is obviously a replacement for Coufal and you could argue that we didn't even need Diouf with Scarles ready to take over from Emerson when called upon (whilst Emerson is still here).

It's not an overstatement to say we are in a worse position than we were in at the end of last season.

[stubbo-admin]

Supposedly:

• Suzuki is first choice
• Hermansen, who is well known to the keeper coach, is second choice
• Cooper is somewhere to turn if we can't get the others over the line

From what the 'stats' say, Cooper looks the better keeper (never seen any of them play) in terms of keeping the ball out of the net. 

That's based on Percentage of Saves Vs Shots Faced (one of these new fangled metrics). 

No idea about with ball at their feet. He's also more dominant in the air based on the stats.

[scott_d]

The constant mistakes by Areola probably doesn't help the defenders confidence in him although that probably works the other way round too.

Either way, we need to be solid from the GK upwards and we aren't.

Would welcome another keeper to take the no.1 spot or at least challenge him because right now he's our no.1 keeper regardless of how well or shit he plays.

[goose]

Was he in goal for Leicester when we battered them but somehow lost at their place?
few people seem to rate him highly and he’s good with his feet so fits the crab football plan. 

Are we ever going to solve the huge problems in the middle of the pitch?

I reckon at the start of the summer most people would say centre mid & a centre forward are the priority? We’ve done nothing to solve those glaring issues.

[Lee Trundle]

Geo speaks a hell of a lot of sense.  He's the only one I bother to listen to out of all of the SOCIAL MEDIA crew.

It's frustrating how long this has taken to get this keeper in.  That's my main criticism.

And thank god we didn't go for Ramsdale.  There's just something I don't like about him.

[Eerie Decent]

Exactly fras, much as I hate the chairman and don't rate the manager, people just want to criticise every single thing.

As I said before, that Geo fella watches football as a job, and he's normally a good judge of a player, he thinks he's superb, as well as pretty much every Leicester fan. I'm old school in that i like keepers to be keepers first, all their fans say he's absolutely outstanding with his feet, as well as being an excellent keeper.

Trusting their judgement over the views on here on this one.

[fraser]

I've hardly seen this Herman's en play but from a bit of Googling he seems quite well rated.

How have others watched enough of him to say he isn't very good, I find it hard to imagine any West Ham fan watching enough of Leicester to make a judgement, watching us is bad enough why would anyone be watching loads of them. 

[Fauxstralian]

I watched Hermansen a couple of times & he caught my eye as he was impressive behind an abysmal Leicester defence
Havent seen Cooper beyond the playoff final where he had little to do though might have done better with Sunderland’s winner
Some on here rate him it seems
Areola is a decent shot stopper but doesn’t command his area and is dodgy with his feet
Happy with either to replace Areola as long as it isn’t Relegation Ramsdale who I see is talking to Newcastle 

Patrick Kelly has joined league 1 Barnsley permanently 
Did well on loan at Doncaster last season but obviously decided he has no future with us. Good luck to him

[Massive Attack]

Really can’t believe how anyone can see Hermansen as an improvement. 






 

Did you watch Areola on Saturday night?

Tit by name, tit by nature. He's shocking at Premier League level. 

[Barty888]

[onsideman]

So who would you be happy with?

[Jaan Kenbrovin]

Really can’t believe how anyone can see Hermansen as an improvement. 





 

Did you watch Areola on Saturday night?

Yes, and I’m all in favour of replacing him with a new number 1. I also saw Hermansen play all last season and my point still stands.

[onsideman]

Really can’t believe how anyone can see Hermansen as an improvement. 


 

Did you watch Areola on Saturday night?

[Eerie Decent]

I'm not for one second claiming to know how good the Leicester keeper is, but on a couple of fronts, first the Scotch lad on Hammerschat watches loads of football, and he thinks this keeper is absolutely mustard, and the other thing is Leicester fans rave about him.

No one posting on here seems to know anything other than the cliched stuff, so if he does sign, let's hope that you're all wrong, and those that have watched him a lot, are right.

[El Scorchio]

We broke the world transfer record for a Goalkeeper when we signed Phil Parkes.

In recent years we've shown no ambition when signing keepers usually signing them from relegated clubs & or on frees.
Even smaller clubs show more ambition and are able to sign better keepers than us.
Thete's been & is plenty of quality keepers we could go for but don't.

I find it odd that in possibly the most important position we don't spend money or show ambition yet don't mind spending huge amounts on a succession of failed CBs.






 

Not recently, but we have had some very good keepers at decent prices over the years. Bargains, which TBH is just as good as spending big.

Ludo
Green
James

All stand out as being very good buys for not a lot of money. I think we got good value out of Fabianski and Adrian as well. Don't think you needed to break the bank in the past to get a very solid goalkeeper. It's changed a bit now, but if wither Cooper or the lad from Leicester join and we get either a decade of reliable goalkeeping or a decent profit out of, then that's good enough, even if the price is going to be 20-25 mill.

[Sir Alf]

Goose, someone out of work, managed in the premiership, old as possible ( assuming Sully will pick again not Brady this time), a bloke who has managed a big club ( for max razzle/dazzle and bling effect), some success but at least 5 years ago. Sullivan will likely prefer another Brit.  Roy Hodgson’s retirement might come to an abrupt end

 

[Mike Oxsaw]

So who do we reckon will replace CockPissPotter in November?
Dyche?
3rd coming of Moyes?
Steve Cooper?
Chris Wilder?

Well, we've managed for ages without a striker, so maybe managing without a manager is not such an illogical, let alone cheaper, option.

[goose]

So who do we reckon will replace CockPissPotter in November?
Dyche?
3rd coming of Moyes?
Steve Cooper?
Chris Wilder?