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

[honky cat]

Irving is a strange one. I like him,  he's decent and I'm  surprised championship clubs haven't been sniffing around. 3.5m is a steal. Think of some of the dogshit west ham brought in over the years for 6,7,8 times that amount.

[Fauxstralian]

Celtic offered a couple of million then upped it to £3m or £3.5m

Full Scottish international… is that the price these days?

[Tomshardware]

Quite a few reports saying there's a number of clubs interested in signing Irving.  

[El Scorchio]

I hope you're right, but everything about the signing feels wrong. His age, his last season, his injury record, our record with injuries to strikers.

He was a superb player, who knows, we might get lucky. Can't see it personally.

The fact he was injured for Saturday pretty much sums it up, but if he plays and we create chances, he'll score. 

Is he injured already??

Certainly he cannot be match fit, or he'd have been on the bench. I have a feeling Potter is going to do a Moyes with him and just not use him unless he's simply got no-one else. It also wouldn't completely surprise me if Sullivan actually asks/asked Potter to use Wilson as little as possible as well given the money it'll cost. That sort of insanity is what comes to mind when you consider how this club is run and what's happened in the past with players who have clauses based on financials in their contracts. Get a guy in who no-one wanted in the first place and then ask the manager not to play him.

[Massive Attack]

I hope you're right, but everything about the signing feels wrong. His age, his last season, his injury record, our record with injuries to strikers.

He was a superb player, who knows, we might get lucky. Can't see it personally.

The fact he was injured for Saturday pretty much sums it up, but if he plays and we create chances, he'll score. 

Is he injured already??

[El Scorchio]

Calvert lewin to Leeds seems likely 

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

He started 2 games last season. 

And those two were away to Liverpool and Arsenal. He did also start one FA cup game vs Birmingham, which he scored in. Bit harsh to judge him based on what amounted to just 5 full games, spread out over 22. Half of them 22 games either only had a few minutes left to run or were already over as a competition with either side being 3+ goals up.

As for his age, Defoe and Vardy both had 15 goal seasons twice in a row at 33 & 34 years of age, not playing for top clubs.

All that said, it seems so unlikely that he'll be available much because of his injury record that you know it's going to make the manager's job more difficult. Even if he starts a few games and does well it'll probably mean that Fullkrug loses his place, which won't help his form and confidence when he has to step in again come injury time (and that's if he's fit himself, which isn't a given). It wouldn't be a surprise at all to see both strikers spend most of the season in the physio room or catching up with fitness. We might have been better off with a less prolific scorer who can at least be relied upon to likely be available.

[Lee Trundle]

I would find it funny if Wilson is injured for the first proper game of the season.

Like, no one saw that one coming.

[dealcanvey]

Wilson is the same failed and tested formula that the clubs owners repeat year after year.

For the club, it is the cheaper alternative to give him a shot than to seriously invest in the ST department.

His last pay day. Knows that with lack of competition there is a hi likelihood he will be relied upon this season. Probably be the fittest he has ever been and will chip in with a few goals but that is as good as it gets.

Hoping Fullkrug can stay fit as feel as he may have a big season for us. We need him to or we are fucked.

No point playing Fullkrug without someone alongside him. 

Have you been following pre-season?

[El Scorchio]

Well, cheaper short term with no up front fee and if he doesn't ever get on the pitch but apparently an absolute money drain if he does, whether he does or does not score. A very short sighted transfer when what we are spunking on prospective wage bonuses/structure could absolutely have gone toward a young striker with a fee, but far lower wages, far more promise and far more positive long tern benefit for us.

This was a ridiculous transfer for a club like ours to take. The only winners are probably Sullivan and Salthouse, and Wilson IF he gets on the pitch. If he does, I don't expect much impact at all and more than 5 goals, if that and at the end of the season, a squad place and a bunch of money down the toilet which could have been far better spent. I hope Potter just has him riding the bench unless it's an emergency. Would rather see Marshall as first backup for Fullkrug. At least there's more benefit to us in giving him experience.

The cսnt's got the number nine shirt as well. I know it's fairly meaningless at the end of the day but it just boils my piss that little bit more.

[Lee Trundle]

The fact he was injured for Saturday

 

 

Was that ever confirmed by the club?  I did wonder if he was already injured considering he was nowhere to be seen in either of the games.

[Council Scum]

Wilson is the same failed and tested formula that the clubs owners repeat year after year.

For the club, it is the cheaper alternative to give him a shot than to seriously invest in the ST department.

His last pay day. Knows that with lack of competition there is a hi likelihood he will be relied upon this season. Probably be the fittest he has ever been and will chip in with a few goals but that is as good as it gets.

Hoping Fullkrug can stay fit as feel as he may have a big season for us. We need him to or we are fucked.

No point playing Fullkrug without someone alongside him. 

[dealcanvey]

Wilson is the same failed and tested formula that the clubs owners repeat year after year.

For the club, it is the cheaper alternative to give him a shot than to seriously invest in the ST department.

His last pay day. Knows that with lack of competition there is a hi likelihood he will be relied upon this season. Probably be the fittest he has ever been and will chip in with a few goals but that is as good as it gets.

Hoping Fullkrug can stay fit as feel as he may have a big season for us. We need him to or we are fucked.

[scott_d]

I don't think anyone is questioning Wilson's goal-scoring ability.

But West Ham do not get on well with injury-prone players, especially at 33 years old when the desire and ability to recover quickly probably isn't the same as it is when you are 23.

It's all well and good saying: "If he's fit...." but it's the "IF" that make this deal so questionable.  In that it's so fucking big.
 

[Council Scum]

I hope you're right, but everything about the signing feels wrong. His age, his last season, his injury record, our record with injuries to strikers.

He was a superb player, who knows, we might get lucky. Can't see it personally.

The fact he was injured for Saturday pretty much sums it up, but if he plays and we create chances, he'll score. 

[Eerie Decent]

I hope you're right, but everything about the signing feels wrong. His age, his last season, his injury record, our record with injuries to strikers.

He was a superb player, who knows, we might get lucky. Can't see it personally.

[Council Scum]

Didn't Wilson only score 2 goals in his last 18 months at Newcastle, why would he suddenly score 2 in one game? 

Hope he does, just can't see it 

He started 2 games last season. 

2022-2023 he got 18.

I'd rather we got someone young not at the end of their career, but he does know how to put away chances, we created some great chances on Saturday in the first half, that were made for him. 

[fraser]

Didn't Wilson only score 2 goals in his last 18 months at Newcastle, why would he suddenly score 2 in one game? 

Hope he does, just can't see it 

[El Scorchio]

Well he clearly wasn't fit enough to even make the bench. What a signing....

[Council Scum]

Indeed it is.

No one in their right mind can be positive/happy about Wilson signing, I'm certainly not.

I'm happy with the other signings though, think we've done some good business.

if Wilson had been playing on Saturday he'd probably have had 2 goals. 

[Eerie Decent]

Indeed it is.

No one in their right mind can be positive/happy about Wilson signing, I'm certainly not.

I'm happy with the other signings though, think we've done some good business.

[Lee Trundle]

Yeah, BEFORE he signed

I wasn't suggesting you were saying all of that after he had signed?

Anyway, it's a pointless row.

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

Man City had a 20% sell on clause for Lavia when they sold him to Southampton so maybe he would have gone for less otherwise. I don't think Sporting had that kind of clause with Fernandes.

[fraser]

There was a bidding war for Lavia but they also got good money for Livramento was it £50 million? 

[Eerie Decent]

I can't see us weighing out anything north of £40mil including unrealistic add-ons. Anything up to that feels like we'll get an excellent player, given what we've read and the snippets seen of him.

Feels like we won't get this one done, sadly, but fingers crossed.