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

[John Drake]

You are 100% wrong about the Premier League not being an attractive investment proposition. Club valuations will only increase over time as more is squeezed out of media rights – which may include the PL setting up its own TV channel with direct subscription.

Although it’s true that owners cannot buy immediate success under existing PSR rules, they are still able to improve year on year by increasing revenues through investing in the squad, development and attracting more high-profile sponsors (including associated parties). You can see this happening at Newcastle where revenue growth has rapidly outstripped West Hams. And the existing PSR rules may well be replaced in the next year or two.

What is needed is for someone to consolidate the shares held by Kretinsky and the Gold family so that Sullivan is forced into a minority shareholding.

It would be ludicrous for any owner to get their side relegated on purpose.

[RBshorty]

Calling it here folks. We're being prepped for the drop. A lot of names will be thrown about by the ITK's. And Brownhill will be the only body through the door. Razzle, Dazzle. Bait and Switch. Or plain old Bullshit. It's just noise. This time in twelve months we will be in the Championship. And someone different in the big chair.

COYI.

To suggest Sully is doing a Brewster's Millions with the club is a bit mental, it's pure ineptitude for sure. I think we'll get two midfielders but one of them might be Brownhill, who I actually welcome on a free for a role off the bench. He'll be alright. Fernandez and Mukau would be the ideal for me. Not much chance of that though.

 

 

V. Take the football club out of any Sullivan decision. Investing in us was always a gamble to get the OS. Now that ain't happening. We're a burden to him. He never has been a football person. (Agents have always filled in the gaps.) And nobody going to take it off his hands at Premierships prices. (Who at this moment in time is going to buy a team. When the richest owners on the planet. Can't even invest in the playing squad. Newcastle anyone.?) After 15 years. Both him and the Gold estate have made money on their investment. Just not as much as they would have hope for. West Ham United is now a Distressed- Asset. That's why other people in the boardroom are here. Anyone we bring in will be sold next summer. Or be good enough to get us out of The Fizzy Pop. At the first time of asking.

[Gank]

 
The “Sullivan Effect” is in overdrive right now.  He will not get the signings Potter and the squad needs is where Im leaning as we have seen many times before. Steidten may have not been perfect but could get a deal over the line

I think, in our current setup, Steidten would be perfect. Potter talks to Macaulay, they identify what they need, suggest some names, Steidten either gets them or unearths a better alternative. If Sullivan had kept him on and stayed out of it from here, this is a system that could really work. As an old school manager, Potter is useless but as a Head Coach who can talk to his pal about identifying areas for improvement, his pal doing the ground work on the data side and then The Pearl Diver making the deals, you might see Potter's expertise in player development and tactical team building turn into a winning team.

I think there's a good team leader inside Potter somewhere deep down, but he's going to look a complete mug at West Ham bringing a tactical philosophy we're not ready for and with no club infrastructure to build a team in his vision. And when it fails due to not having the missing piece of the jigsaw that Steidten would have been and putting Sullivan at the top of the player identification and purchasing tree, they have their scapegoat lined up because he has Macaulay.

What a mess.

“Potter's expertise in player development and tactical team building?”

Genuine question: where does this come from?

He’s 50 years old and has one top-ten finish in the Premier League to his name: 9th with Brighton, who finished with 51 points that season - a total that often sees you finish outside the top ten.

His average finishing position in the Premier League is 14th, even with that outlier year included.

He managed Chelsea, with their unfathomable riches,  to 12th place and was sacked within 7 months.

He does not have the track record that he, and many others, think he has.

He is the epitome of the emporer’s new clothes. His best position/finish is below Glenn Roeder’s.

I just don’t get why people think he has a record to speak of. Nobody else was in for him. Almost nobody at West Ham wanted him. He’s Mr Below Average.

I'm a bit of a stats nerd, and what he did at Ostersund was nothing short of amazing. Having those accomplishments on his CV with a budget starting at zero and building it by making the players he inherited better, selling them and buying underrated players to improve and either sell at profit or better the team makes him a great Head Coach (but not a manager). It's what got him the Swansea gig to get back into this country then overachieve at Brighton.

I didn't want him because I think he belongs in a club whose stature doesn't come with any expectation whereas we are big enough to expect and demand more. I wanted Amorim, but at that time would have preferred Potter over Lopetegui. Then we got Lopetegui and wanted to back him but wasn't sure what the project was and we kept shipping tons of goals. I didn't agree with getting rid of him but given where we were, was begrudgingly accepting of Potter given his record of team building rather than buying success. However, since we are a much bigger club than the sort of club who needs a man with the Potter expertise, you'd want a recruitment team around him so that he can get on with what he's really good at. This is why he didn't succeed at Chelsea, too many irons in the fire. 

Give him a mate to deal with transfers (Macaulay) and an expert in making the deals or finding an alternative (Steidten) and I reckon we have a good, solid Head Coach who will identify his own areas for improvement and not have to deal with any interference from noisy fools. Sadly, we have lost that bridge between his team and the board with Steidten gone and the noisiest fool in the division is his boss, and the one making the deals.

It ain't gonna work, and he's going to look really bad when it goes tits up.

[Barty888]

ExWHUemployee says we are bidding for these two...

They got pretty decent stats...

[Vexed]

Calling it here folks. We're being prepped for the drop. A lot of names will be thrown about by the ITK's. And Brownhill will be the only body through the door. Razzle, Dazzle. Bait and Switch. Or plain old Bullshit. It's just noise. This time in twelve months we will be in the Championship. And someone different in the big chair.

COYI.

To suggest Sully is doing a Brewster's Millions with the club is a bit mental, it's pure ineptitude for sure. I think we'll get two midfielders but one of them might be Brownhill, who I actually welcome on a free for a role off the bench. He'll be alright. Fernandez and Mukau would be the ideal for me. Not much chance of that though.

[RBshorty]

Calling it here folks. We're being prepped for the drop. A lot of names will be thrown about by the ITK's. And Brownhill will be the only body through the door. Razzle, Dazzle. Bait and Switch. Or plain old Bullshit. It's just noise. This time in twelve months we will be in the Championship. And someone different in the big chair.

COYI.

[southbankbornnbred]

 
The “Sullivan Effect” is in overdrive right now.  He will not get the signings Potter and the squad needs is where Im leaning as we have seen many times before. Steidten may have not been perfect but could get a deal over the line

I think, in our current setup, Steidten would be perfect. Potter talks to Macaulay, they identify what they need, suggest some names, Steidten either gets them or unearths a better alternative. If Sullivan had kept him on and stayed out of it from here, this is a system that could really work. As an old school manager, Potter is useless but as a Head Coach who can talk to his pal about identifying areas for improvement, his pal doing the ground work on the data side and then The Pearl Diver making the deals, you might see Potter's expertise in player development and tactical team building turn into a winning team.

I think there's a good team leader inside Potter somewhere deep down, but he's going to look a complete mug at West Ham bringing a tactical philosophy we're not ready for and with no club infrastructure to build a team in his vision. And when it fails due to not having the missing piece of the jigsaw that Steidten would have been and putting Sullivan at the top of the player identification and purchasing tree, they have their scapegoat lined up because he has Macaulay.

What a mess.

“Potter's expertise in player development and tactical team building?”

Genuine question: where does this come from?

He’s 50 years old and has one top-ten finish in the Premier League to his name: 9th with Brighton, who finished with 51 points that season - a total that often sees you finish outside the top ten.

His average finishing position in the Premier League is 14th, even with that outlier year included.

He managed Chelsea, with their unfathomable riches,  to 12th place and was sacked within 7 months.

He does not have the track record that he, and many others, think he has.

He is the epitome of the emporer’s new clothes. His best position/finish is below Glenn Roeder’s.

I just don’t get why people think he has a record to speak of. Nobody else was in for him. Almost nobody at West Ham wanted him. He’s Mr Below Average.

[Gank]

 
The “Sullivan Effect” is in overdrive right now.  He will not get the signings Potter and the squad needs is where Im leaning as we have seen many times before. Steidten may have not been perfect but could get a deal over the line

I think, in our current setup, Steidten would be perfect. Potter talks to Macaulay, they identify what they need, suggest some names, Steidten either gets them or unearths a better alternative. If Sullivan had kept him on and stayed out of it from here, this is a system that could really work. As an old school manager, Potter is useless but as a Head Coach who can talk to his pal about identifying areas for improvement, his pal doing the ground work on the data side and then The Pearl Diver making the deals, you might see Potter's expertise in player development and tactical team building turn into a winning team.

I think there's a good team leader inside Potter somewhere deep down, but he's going to look a complete mug at West Ham bringing a tactical philosophy we're not ready for and with no club infrastructure to build a team in his vision. And when it fails due to not having the missing piece of the jigsaw that Steidten would have been and putting Sullivan at the top of the player identification and purchasing tree, they have their scapegoat lined up because he has Macaulay.

What a mess.

[Barty888]

We aren’t doing jackshit so news from elsewhere

Was reading that Eze to Tottenham is close … but that Arsenal have come back in late & he’d prefer to join them
That’s got to hurt

Of course we could have bought Eze for £20m when he was at QPR but went for Benrahma on loan & subsequent purchase
Usual cock up

And we could have signed Ekiteke from PSG for 15 million ca but Moyes did not want him

[eusebiovic]

Even as a fan you have to laugh at the total ineptitude of the situation.

I know Kretinsky & Smith aren’t football people but they are serious business people. They must just sit back & think ‘WTF is going on here’??

I would say they know exactly what they are doing. 

Neither will be subsidising his crass stupidity any further so it's simply a waiting game. How long can the he hold on for now that they have withdrawn their advice and support which he has just taken for granted and pissed up the wall?

I suspect they must be seething about it... it's the straw I'm grasping at this late stage...there is some logic to it

[Fauxstralian]

We aren’t doing jackshit so news from elsewhere

Was reading that Eze to Tottenham is close … but that Arsenal have come back in late & he’d prefer to join them
That’s got to hurt

Of course we could have bought Eze for £20m when he was at QPR but went for Benrahma on loan & subsequent purchase
Usual cock up

[Vexed]

I wonder what Sully's record is for consecutive wrong decisions is? He must have smashed his PB this window. Everything you could possibly do wrong to do with transfers this cսnt has done it. Yeah I think this two million will make all the difference! Meanwhile, time, patience and alternatives drift away. When we get beat by a hatful on Friday they'll be everywhere saying there going to step up their efforts - aka showing everyone how desperate they are now. Helicopter fireball please baby Jesus son.
 

[El Scorchio]

Carlos Bacca

Don't joke. He's 38 and still playing....

[Tomshardware]

Carlos Bacca

[El Scorchio]

Whichever is the cheapest player from the most desperate club will end up signing for us. Regardless of what number on Potter's list they are- if indeed they are on his list at all.

[Barty888]

ExWHUemployee says we are bidding for these two...

[dealcanvey]

Looking at the saints forum it seems they majority would rather them sell Dibling and keep Fernandes.

were having a good old laugh at the latest offer. 

[Massive Attack]

If I had to choose out of all of them? Casado please! Schooled in La Masia and had a decent season last year for Barcelona in his first full season earning 2 Spanish caps as well.

[Barty888]

[RBshorty]

Even as a fan you have to laugh at the total ineptitude of the situation.

I know Kretinsky & Smith aren’t football people but they are serious business people. They must just sit back & think ‘WTF is going on here’??

As a pair of business men who have made their fortune from Distressed-Assets. I would guess they know full well what's going on. And like us.Waiting for our Glorious Leader to perform Seppuku.!

[stubbo]

Trouble is Sullivan assumes all the other clubs are like him.  Basically that they WANT to do a deal for players.  He probably assumes they're in the same boat with Fernandes that he was with Kudus...that they want to sell and he can 'tease' them into it.

Reality...Southampton don't need the money and are happy to keep the player.

So it's all rather pointless.

He's just bad at this game.  He's always been bad at it. And he'll always be bad at it.

Everything that can be said about him, has already been said about him.  A frustrating, hopeless, omnishambolic mess of his own making.

As an owner he deserves for us to get relegated.  We don't deserve it as fans.  He deserves huge pelters this season and I hope he gets it at every single home game.  Abhorrent, nasty chants aimed squarely in his direction over and over.

[goose]

Even as a fan you have to laugh at the total ineptitude of the situation.

I know Kretinsky & Smith aren’t football people but they are serious business people. They must just sit back & think ‘WTF is going on here’??

[Massive Attack]

It seems Sullivan has gone fucking senile

 

It probably shouldn't be ruled out at this stage in his life..

[Lee Trundle]

They are looking for £35 maybe even £40 million.

 

 

Everything I've read is that they're looking for £50m.

[claypole]

It seems Sullivan has gone fucking senile