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

[El Scorchio]

 

Gonzo is claiming TS was tracking Fernandes 12 months ago but we bought someone else instead. 

I saw that too. We went cheap in CM and paid the price. Although to be fair I will say we should have seen a bit better from those players we had

Wasn't cheap though, loan fees, signing on fee and massive wages for Soler and Guido probably came to more. 

 

 

 

Good point. Not even cheap. Very short sighted though. Pretty glad they were short deals, but deals that just set the team back,. 

[Iron Duke]

Are we still preparing our bid for Fernandes?

[claypole]

I do hope Everton's deal for Grealish has an obligation. 50m for a 31 year old. Perfect

[onsideman]

He's just been made vice captain 

that's almost as depressing as not signing anyone else

[fraser]

Hope we do get him, but waiting a year has probably cost us 15 million quid....

 

Gonzo is claiming TS was tracking Fernandes 12 months ago but we bought someone else instead. 

I saw that too. We went cheap in CM and paid the price. Although to be fair I will say we should have seen a bit better from those players we had

Wasn't cheap though, loan fees, signing on fee and massive wages for Soler and Guido probably came to more. 

[Barty888]

Hermansen
Bissaka Todibo Kilman Aguerd Diouf
Mukau
Fernandes Paqueta
Bowen Fullkrug

 

 

[El Scorchio]

'West Ham preparing opening bid for Saints midfielder Fernandes'
West Ham are preparing an opening bid for Southampton midfielder Mateus Fernandes, according to The Guardian.

It is claimed the Hammers have made the 21-year-old their top target after assessing several midfielders, including Aston Villa’s Jacob Ramsey and Lille’s Ngal’ayel Mukau.

The report says the Portugal U21 international would cost about £30m with the Premier League club optimistic a deal can be struck with the Championship side.

West Ham boss Graham Potter is reportedly looking to add energy and creativity in midfield.

Hope we do get him, but waiting a year has probably cost us 15 million quid....

 

Gonzo is claiming TS was tracking Fernandes 12 months ago but we bought someone else instead. 

I saw that too. We went cheap in CM and paid the price. Although to be fair I will say we should have seen a bit better from those players we had

[El Scorchio]

5 days to go to we kick off and our midfield looks as slow and shit as it did last year. 

 

 

 

 

Yup there is no excuse for not acting on this position until a week before the start of the season. Feels like Sullivan has just waited and waited to see if anyone else bids for any of our targets (Fernandes, Hermansen) before the low offer goes in. I get it in that you'll get it for a few mill less as there's no competition, probably and you avoid paying wages all summer as well, but the player won't be properly integrated into the team or up to speed with their teammates at all, and what if someone else swoops in and nicks him? We'd be in all sorts.

Anyyway if the plan all along was to get him and we end up getting him for a decent price then ok, but it just seems frugality at the cost of performance at least the first few weeks of the season while the player gets to grips with things and the rest of the squad get used to them. Meanwhile Potter's had to do all of preseason without key parts of what he wants. 

[fraser]

He's just been made vice captain 

[Fauxstralian]

If we could weasel JWP into a Fernandes deal that would be ideal 
If JWP was a small fee I guess we’d have to give it to him as Southampton can’t afford his wages
Gets them off our books going forward though 

[fraser]

'West Ham preparing opening bid for Saints midfielder Fernandes'
West Ham are preparing an opening bid for Southampton midfielder Mateus Fernandes, according to The Guardian.

It is claimed the Hammers have made the 21-year-old their top target after assessing several midfielders, including Aston Villa’s Jacob Ramsey and Lille’s Ngal’ayel Mukau.

The report says the Portugal U21 international would cost about £30m with the Premier League club optimistic a deal can be struck with the Championship side.

West Ham boss Graham Potter is reportedly looking to add energy and creativity in midfield.

Hope we do get him, but waiting a year has probably cost us 15 million quid....

 

 

Gonzo is claiming TS was tracking Fernandes 12 months ago but we bought someone else instead. 

[Fauxstralian]

We need 3 midfielders… wouldn’t mind Fernandes (or El Khannous) , Mukau & one with some pace & physicality (ie a Soucek who can move & ideally pass)
As mentioned many times the problem is getting shot of the likes of JWP & Rodriquez 

Those would transform us from bottom 6 to top half

[Barty888]

[claret on my shirt]

5 days to go to we kick off and our midfield looks as slow and shit as it did last year. 

[El Scorchio]

'West Ham preparing opening bid for Saints midfielder Fernandes'
West Ham are preparing an opening bid for Southampton midfielder Mateus Fernandes, according to The Guardian.

It is claimed the Hammers have made the 21-year-old their top target after assessing several midfielders, including Aston Villa’s Jacob Ramsey and Lille’s Ngal’ayel Mukau.

The report says the Portugal U21 international would cost about £30m with the Premier League club optimistic a deal can be struck with the Championship side.

West Ham boss Graham Potter is reportedly looking to add energy and creativity in midfield.

Hope we do get him, but waiting a year has probably cost us 15 million quid....

[southbankbornnbred]

Was reading that Lille are quoting us 20m Euros for Mukau
Suspect he might be the first player called Ngal’ayel to play for us
Just a hunch

There must have been a member of the Allen or Ferdinand families with that name on our books at some point?!

[Fauxstralian]

Was reading that Lille are quoting us 20m Euros for Mukau
Suspect he might be the first player called Ngal’ayel to play for us
Just a hunch

[El Scorchio]

Feel like McAtee at anywhere around £20m is a huge miss. There’s not much better value around, and I think he is a really good player. 

Having said that, budget is limited, and Fernandes if we get him is probably more what we need.

The problem is we're not in the position to pounce on players like McAtee when they become available, because we've got other more vital issues to address first, due to being so poorly run. Forest are another who have shot past us in terms of being an attractive destination and a team who are in a position to sign these players, with a solid foundation to their team and squad which is ready for nice additions like that, rather than still scraping around, a week out of the start of the season, for a player to make our midfield even function properly, let alone to add a player of McAtee's profile.

We are financially not in the right place for a player like him, and in terms of the state of the squad, we are not in the right place either.

[Gaffer58]

I’m not 100% on this but I think if English clubs transfer between themselves then a bigger amount of the fee has to be paid upfront, whereas if it’s from a foreign league then the fee can be spread over more years, maybe this is why clubs seem to want to bring in from abroad rather then the championship.

[Massive Attack]

There's loads of talented young players around Europe.   But we don't seem to have any scouts at the club. 

Like Diouf and Cummings we've just brought in to the Club?

[Ron Eff]

Feel like McAtee at anywhere around £20m is a huge miss. There’s not much better value around, and I think he is a really good player. 

Having said that, budget is limited, and Fernandes if we get him is probably more what we need.

[El Scorchio]

Meanwhile Bournemouth are about to sell another player for big money. If it goes through:

54 from Zabarnyi
50 from Huijsen
40 from Kerkez

144 million in from players who cost a combined 50 million approx. Superb business, and they already have his replacement (24 years old) lined up for 34 million, so that's 24 million pure profit with the replacement in place. Granted they might have sold one too many this summer- we will see this season, but if they maintain the levels they were at last season, they deserve a huge pat on the back for spotting, developing and turning a big profit on those players with plenty to reinvest to keep up the cycle. And the clubs they've moved on to as well. PSG, Real, Liverpool.

Night and day between that and us. Let's hope that Diouf, Hermansen and hopefully that midfielder we've been sorely lacking can kickstart a similar cycle of success in the transfer market for us, while raising the standard of quality on the pitch. Making profits on young players while hopefully keeping the ones we really want to build around.

Sadly we are at the moment in a place where it feels clubs like Bournemouth, Brighton, even Sunderland are a more tempting destination for players and probably have more spending power than us as well.

[Tomshardware]

There's loads of talented young players around Europe.   But we don't seem to have any scouts at the club. 

[El Scorchio]

We are lucky, weirdly. To an extent while it's frustrating we probably should be more successful or at least consistently better due to our size and stature as a club, it's probably the one things that's saved us from being sucked down like other clubs into championship purgatory, despite being run very poorly for the last couple of decades where decisions from ownership probably should have got us into more difficulties. We've survived firstly a little in spite of that and secondly that they've always found the money conveniently round the back of the sofa when it's really needed to do the bare minimum to keep us clinging on, while at the same time, every time failing to capitalise on any sorts of short term success we've had.

The frustration is what the club could achieve under forward thinking and progressive leadership. When you look at the consistency clubs like Brighton have shown, we should be better than that with our resources. When you look that the likes of Palace, Leicester, Wigan have won the cup. We should be consistently going a lot further in those competitions and we should be in a position each season where a cup run is a great bonus when we are comfortable in the league and not a tricky distraction when we are needing to pick up points in the league to be sure of survival and not prioritising a cup.

Pfffft anyway TL:DR the owners are shit- again.

We sail very close to the edge, cash flow wise.

So close that the extra costs involved in going on a cup run (home or away legs) could easily drop us in the shit.

That's not because the extra money from (winning) cup ties is not welcome, it's that we have to pay out, up front, to participate in these games, whether it be travel (& possibly accommodation) for away matches, or extra rent for use of the stadium in home games.

We then have to wait for the prize money to arrive (and Sullivan can't borrow against potential prize money in a cup competition (partly because he won't build a strong enough squad to improve our chances in such games)).

Dream on as much as you like about cup runs, but they're not on Sullivan's map of where he wants to be next season. 17th in the league will do nicely, thank you very much.

Yup, hard to disagree with that. I feel like anything above that is considered a bonus to keep the cash cow ticking over. Because we are a cash cow for the owner. Could be the reason the other owners aren't all that fussed tbh. It's sad to be surrounded and passed by clubs with ambition and forward thinking, especially as we have to potential to really compete at a higher level year in year out than the odd top ten finish surrounded by bottom third finishes.

[dealcanvey]

'West Ham preparing opening bid for Saints midfielder Fernandes'
West Ham are preparing an opening bid for Southampton midfielder Mateus Fernandes, according to The Guardian.

It is claimed the Hammers have made the 21-year-old their top target after assessing several midfielders, including Aston Villa’s Jacob Ramsey and Lille’s Ngal’ayel Mukau.

The report says the Portugal U21 international would cost about £30m with the Premier League club optimistic a deal can be struck with the Championship side.

West Ham boss Graham Potter is reportedly looking to add energy and creativity in midfield.