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

[Vexed]

I would imagine yesterday’s embarrassment at Sunderland will put a few potential targets off, especially if they are weighing up several offers?

Unless it’s stupid money (mercenary) or they are short of offers (bang average) why would any young ambitious talent want to join West Ham for a what looks like a relegation battle whilst playing Crab football

Because it's the easiest place in he world to walk into the first team and potentially get yourself on that plane next year. 

[Pshyco scored all 4]

Sullivan is the problem. That lavender scented prick whetstone used to constantly pump out articles . Stating how the dwarf doesn't rate potter . Yet he somehow ends up employing him at the insistence of Brady a woman that freely admits she knows nothing about football.  if any owners deserve  a relegation its this mob . 

[Sir Alf]

I thought it was Potter and Macaulay that identified the  targets and Sullivan who negotiates and gets the deals done ?

[Mex Martillo]

It is crap. The clubs that will be around us have picked up some decent players. We have a much better recent history and a quite impressive fan base to attract these good players. For me it is Potter and Macaulay, they're proving to be not much good at transfers. I am starting to find it more concerning than Potters coaching ability.

[Sir Alf]

“We cannot just get in players that Graham Potter and Kyle Macaulay dont want”

Sullivan begins the scapegoating of Potter as he did with Steidten, Loppy, Hussilos, Bilic etc etc

 

[boleyn8420]

It's still fucking galling that a club like Forest can spend almost £140m on young exciting players  one of whom scored today  after selling Elanga for £55m, as I've said before, and yet yesterday we get to replace old and slow JWP and Guido with older and slower Soucek and Wilson. Still fucked off with that result yesterday. Goin dahn.

[Sir Alf]

The simple answer is probably the correct one as Scorch says, we cannot buy anyone Potter wants until we sell players for funds. And the sales have to be structured to give us a large first installment right now as we have no liquidity or need a lot of to service the loaned money we will use to pay first installments. Its a big ponzi scheme. The club owner Sullivan and board members bought initial shares and thats it, no investment ever again. The idea is to use future revenues and loan against them. It works if you can recruit well and sell players at a profit. We’ve done that 3 or 4 times in 15 years under Sully but made losses on 10+ players? Possibly more?  We can buy but Sullivan wont until we sell.  

 

[Sydney_Iron]

I would imagine yesterday’s embarrassment at Sunderland will put a few potential targets off, especially if they are weighing up several offers?

Unless it’s stupid money (mercenary) or they are short of offers (bang average) why would any young ambitious talent want to join West Ham for a what looks like a relegation battle whilst playing Crab football

[El Scorchio]

The annoying thing is we've had months upon months to figure out who we need and yet another clusterfuck of a window has unfolded where we've sold our best and not replaced them. Now the penny has dropped that the midfield "might be struggling" we'll be out scouring the bargain basement for an emergency loan.

I don’t think the penny has just dropped. Potter obviously knew last season and Sullivan can’t not know. He just won’t sanction the necessary signings. 

He too busy getting bent over trying to flog our only saleable assets to anyone- even a club he swore he wouldn’t do business with again- and taking on his mates unwanted shit like Wilson to address the real problems with the playing staff. 

I can only think there is basically no money to spend whatsoever. I bet at least one of Alvarez or Paqueta has to go before Potter is allowed to add anyone that’s not a freebie or a Sullivan special. 

[Mike Oxsaw]

After what we did to the Brazilian GK, if you were a player/agent/club and West Ham bid for one of your players……… would you want to do business with them?

It's almost as if a situation is being created where the only people that will deal with us are (through) Sullivan's agent/mates.

[goose]

After what we did to the Brazilian GK, if you were a player/agent/club and West Ham bid for one of your players……… would you want to do business with them?

[nychammer]

Yes of course. Decent manager. Champions league.there what it gets you. 

no ambition and relegation battle can’t compete 

[Barty888]

I fucking hate tottenham but I envy their fans

[nychammer]

The annoying thing is we've had months upon months to figure out who we need and yet another clusterfuck of a window has unfolded where we've sold our best and not replaced them. Now the penny has dropped that the midfield "might be struggling" we'll be out scouring the bargain basement for an emergency loan.

[Keep dreaming]

And that won't happen. At best a late loan for a CDM.,.

[Barty888]

Fullkrug and wilson ffs!!!!!

We need 4 signing for the first eleven to have a chance of staying up. CB, 2 CM'S and a striker

[Massive Attack]

New midfield or we go down. 

What's worse is he's purposely sold Kudus (not that he could get the best out of him) so we have even less creativity and goals to rely on but he also benches a regular goalscoring Midfielder for the likes of donkey Rodriguez who offers little protection defensively and zero threat in attack or creativity.

[Westham67]

Terry Alderman was a menace and not too pacey either

[Fauxstralian]

Given Sullivan’s mismanagement where we have no money after 10 years in a 60,000 seat stadium costing £2.5m a year we have to sell to buy the obvious players we need to plug massive holes
That may mean Paqueta & Alvarez go along with small fees for the likes of Rodriguez & Irving to give us anything to plug our gaping midfield holes 
Impressive … one game in and we look a basket case
Of course until Sullivan is driven out we will lurch from crisis to crisis

[dealcanvey]

New midfield or we go down. 

[Fauxstralian]

Hopefully this scares the shit out of Sullivan like his trans girlfriend approaching with a foot long strap on

Hayden Hackney opens the scoring for Boro in a 3-0 win at Millwall. Young English midfielder with working legs
Get him & the boy from Lille

Bin the turgid Rodriguez & JWP any which way 
Not good enough at this level

[southbankbornnbred]

It is bonkers - and yet so fucking West Ham - that we haven't yet done anything about central midfield since May. We're like those wide-eyed dads you see out shopping for their wife's present at 4pm on Christmas Eve.

"Knock-off perfume that smells like cat litter? At this stage, mate, I'll take it..."

"Ropey Bolivian international midfielder with half a knee and a drug habit? And you say he's only wanted by Interpol and the FBI? Yeah, go on then..."

[Sir Alf]

A kindred spirit for Sully too:

“On 6 October 2021, Sussex Police arrested him on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman”

[Sir Alf]

Always liked Bissouma at Brighton but he’s been injury prone since being at the Spuds and is now 28th and on high wages. Which makes him a typical Sullivan signing. Who’s his agent?

[southbankbornnbred]

Does anyone think we need a couple of pacey, high energy centre midfielders?

I haven't seen it mentioned by anyone. Could be the key.

Interesting thought: tell us more..!

[Grabs jotter pad]