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

[Jasnik]

What I  don't get is even if we are getting brownhill & Wilson why haven't we announced them or is it a load of bollocks and we see them both sign for Everton not that I would be bother but rumours are a pain.

[Barty888]

SIGN EITHER ONE OF THEM ASAP!

[Barty888]

[Sir Alf]

No Ferret. Its terminal. It has become more natural the older I get though

If I had confidence we would bring in younger, athletic players we need in midfield, a keeper and striker all of a decent quality I might crack a smile but I just have less faith than ever now Sullivan is back in full control of recruitment

[Mad Ferret]

Sir Alf,

Do you ever stop moaning dude?

[Sir Alf]

Im assming we wont see any signings until more players are sold and also until the manager and team come back next week?  Another week of wages saved  by Sullivan “the man who knows the cost of everything but the value of nothing”

[Barty888]

----------------------Suzuki

----------Todibo - Kilman - Cresswell

Bissaka--------------------------------------Diouf

-------------------Reitz - Alvarez

Bowen-------------------------------------Paqueta

---------‐--------------Schick

[El Scorchio]

Not wishing to discredit the 3 B’s recruitment policy, but would you really want to support a club that consistently sells their best players year after year?

Depends. With Brighton, they are just replacing them and barely skipping a beat. If you're selling a  player or two for big money that's where your succession planning comes in. So as long as the team keeps winning or improving and the money keeps coming in to replenish the players then that's fine. They haven't even taken a hit on losing their last couple of managers either. So if the success is sustainable year after year under that business model I don't see why not. It's not terrible to lose a player if one that's seemingly going to be just as effective is coming in to take their place. Sure, sooner or later it might all dry up for them but they've done exceptionally well to be competitive for many more years than they rightly should.

In general (of course there are a few exceptions) it's quite hard for most clubs except a handful to keep their exceptional players for a long time anyway. You have to be in a position where you sell on your terms though to maximise the value, unlike Sullivan acting like Bonnie Blue in a rugby team changing room, desperately whoring Kudus (and probably anyone else he thinks has any value) around to anyone and everyone. Would it have been bad losing Kudus if the team were performing well and we had a younger player ready to take his place with no discernible drop in quality while netting 20 million quid profit? It's largely because we are shit with no succession planning that selling good players hurts us. 



Totally agree with what you’re saying, but these are models used by smaller clubs that would otherwise struggle in the top division.

Personally, I like to have decent players that can stay with us for at least 5 years and maintain a rapport with the fans.

​​​​​​…And just to clarify, I’m not defending Sullivans shit-cսnt business model in any shape or form.
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Yeah absolutely no argument from me either. I'd love to have some very good players who stick around for a long time, and with any luck and hopefully a new owner we might get to that position, We are definitely a big enough club that we should be able to be managing this or at least getting close to it. We need to be trying to match the ambitions of our best players so they don't feel the need to go elsewhere. Sullivan is letting us and them down. He couldn't get Rice out the door quick enough either. Just a really crap message to send to us and the rest of the squad.

Agree it's a bit of a small club mentality the way the B's do it, but I guess it's got them punching way above their station so at least aspects of that would be similarly helpful for us, at least to start rebuilding from. You'd hope that some really good scouting recruitment and succession planning at a club with our size and potential could go hand in hand with success on the pitch, attracting some quality players and holding on to the ones we really want to while still making a profit or at least breaking even on player trading.

Any of that feels so fucking far away at the moment with the shambolic way we are run. Living hand to mouth season to season with no discernible long term vision. Just platitudes about where we want to be but with no plan as to how to start getting there.

[mallard]

Not wishing to discredit the 3 B’s recruitment policy, but would you really want to support a club that consistently sells their best players year after year?

Depends. With Brighton, they are just replacing them and barely skipping a beat. If you're selling a  player or two for big money that's where your succession planning comes in. So as long as the team keeps winning or improving and the money keeps coming in to replenish the players then that's fine. They haven't even taken a hit on losing their last couple of managers either. So if the success is sustainable year after year under that business model I don't see why not. It's not terrible to lose a player if one that's seemingly going to be just as effective is coming in to take their place. Sure, sooner or later it might all dry up for them but they've done exceptionally well to be competitive for many more years than they rightly should.

In general (of course there are a few exceptions) it's quite hard for most clubs except a handful to keep their exceptional players for a long time anyway. You have to be in a position where you sell on your terms though to maximise the value, unlike Sullivan acting like Bonnie Blue in a rugby team changing room, desperately whoring Kudus (and probably anyone else he thinks has any value) around to anyone and everyone. Would it have been bad losing Kudus if the team were performing well and we had a younger player ready to take his place with no discernible drop in quality while netting 20 million quid profit? It's largely because we are shit with no succession planning that selling good players hurts us. 



Totally agree with what you’re saying, but these are models used by smaller clubs that would otherwise struggle in the top division.

Personally, I like to have decent players that can stay with us for at least 5 years and maintain a rapport with the fans.

​​​​​​…And just to clarify, I’m not defending Sullivans shit-cսnt business model in any shape or form.
​​​​​

 

 

 

[Barty888]

Sign him up ASAP Potter!!!!

[Massive Attack]

Apart from Paqueta & the kids I’d sell them all.

what a pile of shit.

Bowen and Wan-Bissaka?

They don’t play centre midfield mate

Ah, got ya.

[El Scorchio]

Not wishing to discredit the 3 B’s recruitment policy, but would you really want to support a club that consistently sells their best players year after year?

Depends. With Brighton, they are just replacing them and barely skipping a beat. If you're selling a  player or two for big money that's where your succession planning comes in. So as long as the team keeps winning or improving and the money keeps coming in to replenish the players then that's fine. They haven't even taken a hit on losing their last couple of managers either. So if the success is sustainable year after year under that business model I don't see why not. It's not terrible to lose a player if one that's seemingly going to be just as effective is coming in to take their place. Sure, sooner or later it might all dry up for them but they've done exceptionally well to be competitive for many more years than they rightly should.

In general (of course there are a few exceptions) it's quite hard for most clubs except a handful to keep their exceptional players for a long time anyway. You have to be in a position where you sell on your terms though to maximise the value, unlike Sullivan acting like Bonnie Blue in a rugby team changing room, desperately whoring Kudus (and probably anyone else he thinks has any value) around to anyone and everyone. Would it have been bad losing Kudus if the team were performing well and we had a younger player ready to take his place with no discernible drop in quality while netting 20 million quid profit? It's largely because we are shit with no succession planning that selling good players hurts us. 

[Fauxstralian]

To be honest Bournemouth Brighton & Brentford given their size & resources should be nowhere near the Premier league 
If it wasn’t for their great scouting & trading they’d be mid to lower Championship at best so I guess you do what you have to do.
The problem is obviously you need to keep coming up with winners and if you have a bad season or two with average replacements you sink
Like Southampton or Swansea & a whole collection of former Premier league teams in the Championship or lower 

[goose]

Apart from Paqueta & the kids I’d sell them all.

what a pile of shit.

Bowen and Wan-Bissaka?

They don’t play centre midfield mate

[stubbo-admin]

What does Salthouse have on Sullivan? Or does Sullivan literally get a cut of any transfer we make involving a Salthouse client?

Quite likely is Salthouse pays an 'opportunity finder' fee as part of the deal to the person that brought the deal to him. 

We can imagine where that goes.

It's alledgedly why Sullivan tries to insert either Salthouse or Silky into every deal (even one's not for their clients).

[mallard]

Not wishing to discredit the 3 B’s recruitment policy, but would you really want to support a club that consistently sells their best players year after year?

[Massive Attack]

Apart from Paqueta & the kids I’d sell them all.

what a pile of shit.

Bowen and Wan-Bissaka?

[Eerie Decent]

I think you need to get some help, Alf.

[Sir Alf]

Well I assume the agent fee is a percentage on the fee or loan or whatever and it can vary on every deal.  Salthouse could be funnelling a but of that back to the Sullivan coffers is one theory and hence why he is the preferred agent.   Reduces the scope of players we can get so hardly the best for the club over the long term but Sullivan is “Mr Short” in every sense except feathering his own nest.

Ive not drilled onto Sullivans wealth other than hearing its mostly tied up in property assets. Hence syphoning off cash via deals in his football business is a nice way to keep his cash / liquidity topped up.  Thing is this cash is ultimately coming from futureTV and ticket revenues which finance the whole operation including transfers. Its all done on the “never never”, borrowing against future TV, ticket even transfer instalment income to pay off the growing interest and instalments for past borrowing.  The best run clubs take a long term view and look at ways to finance their spending either via success ( Euro league qualification and league placing and trophies etc) and / or recruitment policy designed to give the best chance of increasing the value of players  purchased. We’ve done it once with Rice. 

[Steady]

What does Salthouse have on Sullivan? Or does Sullivan literally get a cut of any transfer we make involving a Salthouse client?

[Sir Alf]

Ramsay may be but injury prone possibly? Salthouse needs someone to take that chance on him so calls his mates Dave or Dave Jnr who is being given a role as a player wheeler / dealer like the best in the business his old man.  Suppose he has to do something with his life young Dave Jnr?  Dad didnt think the family porno business was his thing after he struggled with beimg a tester for the latest “big boy pegging” appliances ?

[El Scorchio]

Fairly versatile, right?
For all the jokes and despair, a Salthouse client is ok if they will actually be beneficial to the team assuming we aren't stitched up by the terms of the contract. On the playing side, Ramsey gets into the team no doubt.

[goose]

Jacob Ramsey is actually a very decent player.

[Sir Alf]

Sadly Scorch you might be right.

”Yesterday’s solutions, today”. The Sullivan mission statement for West Ham.  .   A “state of the Arc” team for a “state of the arc” stadium.  

 

[El Scorchio]

Cooper, Ramsey- the DVD writer on Salthouse's laptop must be going a dime a dozen this week with bike couriers waiting on the doorstep to deliver them to the gaudy mansion.