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

[goose]

We’re proper fucked now.

nobody decent is interested in joining us.
anyone who is, the clubs will take us to the cleaners.
Sullivan won’t trust any of Potters picks.

Sterling
Brownhill
Michael Keane 
re-sign Antonio
 

[ATHammer]

Great News!!!!!!
Whetstone reports that "the owner" is taking personal charge of transfers.
I am over the moon!!!!!!
Looking forward to some excellent, earth shattering moves. No more Callum Wilsons; No More Walker-Peters; no more injury prone pensioners; no more crony driven purchases with no analytics whatsoever.
Oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wait!!!!!!!!!
WHICH cսnt SIGNED THOSE TWO?
Fuck off Whetstone and take your senior source with you.

[Fauxstralian]

West Ham about to buy Kilman

Alan Devonshire: hi it’s Alan Devonshire here can I speak to Mr Sullivan?
Karren Brady (PA & BJ dispenser) : Putting you through caller.
Mr Sullivan it’s someone call Alvin Devonholme or Alan Devonshire for you
David Sullivan : Who? Never heard of him

[mallard]

We could probably get away with two shite CB’s if we had a decent CDM

[southbankbornnbred]

 

Would like to dial it in doesn’t know the number- beautiful! 

sadly we know the numbers though. 40 mill. SEVEN years. 100k a week. We are never shifting that millstone. No other team in their right mind is taking him unless it’s heavily subsidised and what incentive does he have to ever leave?

It’s the worst transfer in the club’s history - by a street mile. It isn’t even close. Because, as you point out, it’s not just the ridiculous fee: it’s the obscene wages (for his talent) and, worst of all, the length of the contract.

And we’ve signed some ringers down the years.

 

I struggle to think of a worse one as well tbh. We’ve had far shitter players before but they were usually peanuts on short contracts. This is an absolute albatross. 

Todibo and Aguerd are pretty bad and we are likely to lose a lot of money on both but Kilman is a manager killer and a club killer for a club the size of ours where we can’t just shove him in the reserves without thinking about it. 

Felipe Anderson may be the runner up given what we ended up giving him away for and Haller is up there along with Scamacca but we could at least sell both of those and loan/get rid of Anderson. No one is taking Kilman off our hands. We either have him stinking up the pitch or rotting on the bench for another six years unless we can just strike a deal for him to leave. But why would he? It’s not his fault we offered him this obscene contract and he’s not making half that money anywhere else. He certainly never playing for England.  We’ve paid international levels of money for a championship level defender. 

But at least he has a futsal background as we are reminded of by commentators every single game… 
Probably why he can’t head the ball or tackle then. 

This x1000.

I don’t blame Kilman. I’d have signed that contract in a millisecond. And he’s a battler. To be blunt, he just doesn’t have the ability.

The club should never have been stupid enough to pay the fee, wages and contract length it has. West Ham United FC in a nutshell.

[El Scorchio]

Then again, as much of a legend as Alan Dev was I wouldn't blame him if he thought Sullivan deserved to have his pants pulled down...not that I 'm suggesting he was asked in the first place of course!

But I guarantee he probably can't believe the windfall his club has had as a result of the sell on clause. 10% so £4 million quid.

Which is fuckin' enormous by the standards of a non-league club

Due diligence? Nah! Who needs that shite?

Yeah. As much as I am sure he’d have an eye out for us, he’s got to look after Maidstone first and he’d be silly to just give up a huge amount for his club. 

[El Scorchio]

I think everyone assumed Kilman was signed at the request of Lopetegui who had him at Wolves
Obviously overrated and like all our central defenders afraid of heading the ball 
Just watched MOTD & our defending from balls into the box was Sunday league at best 
Cucurella who is about 4 ft tall wins a near post header & the keeper doesn’t dominate & the centre halves are weak & second to everything 
And I wouldn’t say Chelsea have lots of tall physical players

Have always said is that Potter plays a back 3 as he doesn’t trust any of the centre halves as a pair. That makes us one short in midfield which is already the slowest & weakest in the league
We have just over a week to find two or three competitive midfielders at least one centre half & a mobile striker

 

 

I think there’s something in that as well. He feels forced into playing 3 at the back because our CBs are so piss poor whatever combo of two you put out. Because I don’t believe he was married to 3 at the back at Brighton or Chelsea (happy to be corrected) This obviously impacts the midfield and any other attacking ambitions which you can almost overlook if you’re getting some results. Which we weren’t really. 

Now it seems we are getting pumped playing three at the back as well so is there anything at all to gain from it? I thought maybe we could muddle through at CB with Aguerd coming back after a decent season and hopefully a fitter better Todibo. However they both look fucking awful and to add to our list of must haves it’s at least one big fast commanding CB who can take responsibility back there. 120 million worth of supposed talent back there and it’s a shit show. 

[eusebiovic]

Then again, as much of a legend as Alan Dev was I wouldn't blame him if he thought Sullivan deserved to have his pants pulled down...not that I 'm suggesting he was asked in the first place of course!

But I guarantee he probably can't believe the windfall his club has had as a result of the sell on clause. 10% so £4 million quid.

Which is fuckin' enormous by the standards of a non-league club

Due diligence? Nah! Who needs that shite?

[Massive Attack]

What got me and goes to prove just how bad Potter really is on the training pitches, is we religiously play with 5 at the back and we still shipped in 5 goals at Home in the opening games of the season and 3 goals against a piss poor promoted side!

Chelsea after an hour actually felt sorry for us after racing to scoring 5 goals at our supposed Home. If they really wanted to bust a gut to score more they could have got at least another 3. Then Maresca made a raft of 5 changes soon after feeling pity for us. 

How he aint been sacked yet is a fucking joke.

[Fauxstralian]

I think everyone assumed Kilman was signed at the request of Lopetegui who had him at Wolves
Obviously overrated and like all our central defenders afraid of heading the ball 
Just watched MOTD & our defending from balls into the box was Sunday league at best 
Cucurella who is about 4 ft tall wins a near post header & the keeper doesn’t dominate & the centre halves are weak & second to everything 
And I wouldn’t say Chelsea have lots of tall physical players

Have always said is that Potter plays a back 3 as he doesn’t trust any of the centre halves as a pair. That makes us one short in midfield which is already the slowest & weakest in the league
We have just over a week to find two or three competitive midfielders at least one centre half & a mobile striker

[El Scorchio]

It’s the worst transfer in the club’s history - by a street mile. It isn’t even close. Because, as you point out, it’s not just the ridiculous fee: it’s the obscene wages (for his talent) and, worst of all, the length of the contract.

And we’ve signed some ringers down the years.

 

I struggle to think of a worse one as well tbh. We’ve had far shitter players before but they were usually peanuts on short contracts. This is an absolute albatross. 

Todibo and Aguerd are pretty bad and we are likely to lose a lot of money on both but Kilman is a manager killer and a club killer for a club the size of ours where we can’t just shove him in the reserves without thinking about it. 

Felipe Anderson may be the runner up given what we ended up giving him away for and Haller is up there along with Scamacca but we could at least sell both of those and loan/get rid of Anderson. No one is taking Kilman off our hands. We either have him stinking up the pitch or rotting on the bench for another six years unless we can just strike a deal for him to leave. But why would he? It’s not his fault we offered him this obscene contract and he’s not making half that money anywhere else. He certainly never playing for England.  We’ve paid international levels of money for a championship level defender. 

But at least he has a futsal background as we are reminded of by commentators every single game… 
Probably why he can’t head the ball or tackle then. 

You would think that if signing a player like Kilman who began his career at Maidenhead United before Wolves picked him up as a bargain punt that someone at the club would have the nous to ask an ex-WH legend to give them an opinion or heads-up before spunking all that cash.

Alan Devonshire has managed Maidenhead for well over 800 games and he would've been well aware of Kilman at some point in his various tenures at the club. 

It's obvious to us but why not ask someone who has first hand experience of the fella from a young age?

Why bother doing that when you can trust the opinion of an agent? Yeah, that's much more reliable init?

Yup that’s very true. I guess Sullivan did court the opinion of the bloke who had just been managing him and deemed him so essential that we needed to spend that much on him. Even at the time I recall Wolves supporters couldn’t believe it. We could have probably got him for 25 mill. Still would have been 10 mill too much. 

[Far Cough UKunt]

Yeah but maybe he shines in the National league south but no higher?

[eusebiovic]

 

Would like to dial it in doesn’t know the number- beautiful! 

sadly we know the numbers though. 40 mill. SEVEN years. 100k a week. We are never shifting that millstone. No other team in their right mind is taking him unless it’s heavily subsidised and what incentive does he have to ever leave?

It’s the worst transfer in the club’s history - by a street mile. It isn’t even close. Because, as you point out, it’s not just the ridiculous fee: it’s the obscene wages (for his talent) and, worst of all, the length of the contract.

And we’ve signed some ringers down the years.

 

I struggle to think of a worse one as well tbh. We’ve had far shitter players before but they were usually peanuts on short contracts. This is an absolute albatross. 

Todibo and Aguerd are pretty bad and we are likely to lose a lot of money on both but Kilman is a manager killer and a club killer for a club the size of ours where we can’t just shove him in the reserves without thinking about it. 

Felipe Anderson may be the runner up given what we ended up giving him away for and Haller is up there along with Scamacca but we could at least sell both of those and loan/get rid of Anderson. No one is taking Kilman off our hands. We either have him stinking up the pitch or rotting on the bench for another six years unless we can just strike a deal for him to leave. But why would he? It’s not his fault we offered him this obscene contract and he’s not making half that money anywhere else. He certainly never playing for England.  We’ve paid international levels of money for a championship level defender. 

But at least he has a futsal background as we are reminded of by commentators every single game… 
Probably why he can’t head the ball or tackle then. 

You would think that if signing a player like Kilman who began his career at Maidenhead United before Wolves picked him up as a bargain punt that someone at the club would have the nous to ask an ex-WH legend to give them an opinion or heads-up before spunking all that cash.

Alan Devonshire has managed Maidenhead for well over 800 games and he would've been well aware of Kilman at some point in his various tenures at the club. 

It's obvious to us but why not ask someone who has first hand experience of the fella from a young age?

Why bother doing that when you can trust the opinion of an agent? Yeah, that's much more reliable init?

[Tomshardware]

I just don't agree that all these players are as bad as they are being made to look. Particularly the centre halves.   The fact we don't have a mobile midfield is exposing them.   But agree that the other night there were also really basic mistakes as well.  

[El Scorchio]

 

Would like to dial it in doesn’t know the number- beautiful! 

sadly we know the numbers though. 40 mill. SEVEN years. 100k a week. We are never shifting that millstone. No other team in their right mind is taking him unless it’s heavily subsidised and what incentive does he have to ever leave?

It’s the worst transfer in the club’s history - by a street mile. It isn’t even close. Because, as you point out, it’s not just the ridiculous fee: it’s the obscene wages (for his talent) and, worst of all, the length of the contract.

And we’ve signed some ringers down the years.

It has to be up there with -

Dale Gordon
David Kelly
John Radford
Ilie Dumitrescu
Richard Hall
Marco Boogers
Joey Beauchamp
Davor Suker

The list is actually quite endless.

This is far worse just for the fee, wages and contract length. Most of those players were shit but they were far cheaper and not tied to us for seven years. 

[El Scorchio]

There isn’t enough money for us to fill all the gaping holes in this team.

That back three on Friday is, genuinely, the worst defence I’ve seen in the Premier League since the days of Gary Breen.

Todibo can’t finish a game, no concentration.

Aguerd doesn’t want to be here, dialling it in.

Kilman worst £40m in history. Can’t run, tackle, head, jump or read the game. Would like to dial it in: doesn’t know the number.

Add a terrible new goalkeeper to that, the slowest and least creative midfield in the league and a striker with the movement of a corpse and you’ve got about eight players you need.

By next Sunday. Good luck.

 

Would like to dial it in doesn’t know the number- beautiful! 

sadly we know the numbers though. 40 mill. SEVEN years. 100k a week. We are never shifting that millstone. No other team in their right mind is taking him unless it’s heavily subsidised and what incentive does he have to ever leave?

It’s the worst transfer in the club’s history - by a street mile. It isn’t even close. Because, as you point out, it’s not just the ridiculous fee: it’s the obscene wages (for his talent) and, worst of all, the length of the contract.

And we’ve signed some ringers down the years.

 

 

I struggle to think of a worse one as well tbh. We’ve had far shitter players before but they were usually peanuts on short contracts. This is an absolute albatross. 

Todibo and Aguerd are pretty bad and we are likely to lose a lot of money on both but Kilman is a manager killer and a club killer for a club the size of ours where we can’t just shove him in the reserves without thinking about it. 

Felipe Anderson may be the runner up given what we ended up giving him away for and Haller is up there along with Scamacca but we could at least sell both of those and loan/get rid of Anderson. No one is taking Kilman off our hands. We either have him stinking up the pitch or rotting on the bench for another six years unless we can just strike a deal for him to leave. But why would he? It’s not his fault we offered him this obscene contract and he’s not making half that money anywhere else. He certainly never playing for England.  We’ve paid international levels of money for a championship level defender. 

But at least he has a futsal background as we are reminded of by commentators every single game… 
Probably why he can’t head the ball or tackle then. 

[twoleftfeet]

There isn’t enough money for us to fill all the gaping holes in this team.

That back three on Friday is, genuinely, the worst defence I’ve seen in the Premier League since the days of Gary Breen.

Todibo can’t finish a game, no concentration.

Aguerd doesn’t want to be here, dialling it in.

Kilman worst £40m in history. Can’t run, tackle, head, jump or read the game. Would like to dial it in: doesn’t know the number.

Add a terrible new goalkeeper to that, the slowest and least creative midfield in the league and a striker with the movement of a corpse and you’ve got about eight players you need.

By next Sunday. Good luck.

 

Would like to dial it in doesn’t know the number- beautiful! 

sadly we know the numbers though. 40 mill. SEVEN years. 100k a week. We are never shifting that millstone. No other team in their right mind is taking him unless it’s heavily subsidised and what incentive does he have to ever leave?

It’s the worst transfer in the club’s history - by a street mile. It isn’t even close. Because, as you point out, it’s not just the ridiculous fee: it’s the obscene wages (for his talent) and, worst of all, the length of the contract.

And we’ve signed some ringers down the years.

It has to be up there with -

Dale Gordon
David Kelly
John Radford
Ilie Dumitrescu
Richard Hall
Marco Boogers
Joey Beauchamp
Davor Suker

The list is actually quite endless.

[southbankbornnbred]

There isn’t enough money for us to fill all the gaping holes in this team.

That back three on Friday is, genuinely, the worst defence I’ve seen in the Premier League since the days of Gary Breen.

Todibo can’t finish a game, no concentration.

Aguerd doesn’t want to be here, dialling it in.

Kilman worst £40m in history. Can’t run, tackle, head, jump or read the game. Would like to dial it in: doesn’t know the number.

Add a terrible new goalkeeper to that, the slowest and least creative midfield in the league and a striker with the movement of a corpse and you’ve got about eight players you need.

By next Sunday. Good luck.

 

Would like to dial it in doesn’t know the number- beautiful! 

sadly we know the numbers though. 40 mill. SEVEN years. 100k a week. We are never shifting that millstone. No other team in their right mind is taking him unless it’s heavily subsidised and what incentive does he have to ever leave?

It’s the worst transfer in the club’s history - by a street mile. It isn’t even close. Because, as you point out, it’s not just the ridiculous fee: it’s the obscene wages (for his talent) and, worst of all, the length of the contract.

And we’ve signed some ringers down the years.

[southbankbornnbred]

Should add, the other slim chances we have is that two or three of the kids make the grade, adapt to first team football quickly and save us a fortune (something we haven’t done since the early 2000s). Or a new manager with serous ability decides he wants to work with Sullivan - and the poison dwarf stays the fuck out of all team affairs.

All of which are possible, but unlikely.

[twoleftfeet]

There isn’t enough money for us to fill all the gaping holes in this team.

That back three on Friday is, genuinely, the worst defence I’ve seen in the Premier League since the days of Gary Breen.

Todibo can’t finish a game, no concentration.

Aguerd doesn’t want to be here, dialling it in.

Kilman worst £40m in history. Can’t run, tackle, head, jump or read the game. Would like to dial it in: doesn’t know the number.

Add a terrible new goalkeeper to that, the slowest and least creative midfield in the league and a striker with the movement of a corpse and you’ve got about eight players you need.

By next Sunday. Good luck.

 

 

I’m still confident that the keeper will come good, my concern is that the 3 CBs in front of him are not good enough aerially and are very weak when it comes to challenges which in turn probably  makes him think “ shit these cunts are winning nothing from crosses therefore I need to come for everything”.
If he had someone like Dawson, Martin, Bilic or Bonds in front of him then I think his confidence would grow.

I think we need to go and buy someone like Dunk or, I hate to say it, Maguire who might not have the pace or skill but who would challenge for everything and put their bodies on the line. Our 3 just want to pass it about and leave the dirty stuff to someone else but sadly there is no one else.

[El Scorchio]

There isn’t enough money for us to fill all the gaping holes in this team.

That back three on Friday is, genuinely, the worst defence I’ve seen in the Premier League since the days of Gary Breen.

Todibo can’t finish a game, no concentration.

Aguerd doesn’t want to be here, dialling it in.

Kilman worst £40m in history. Can’t run, tackle, head, jump or read the game. Would like to dial it in: doesn’t know the number.

Add a terrible new goalkeeper to that, the slowest and least creative midfield in the league and a striker with the movement of a corpse and you’ve got about eight players you need.

By next Sunday. Good luck.

 

 

Would like to dial it in doesn’t know the number- beautiful! 

sadly we know the numbers though. 40 mill. SEVEN years. 100k a week. We are never shifting that millstone. No other team in their right mind is taking him unless it’s heavily subsidised and what incentive does he have to ever leave?

[southbankbornnbred]

There isn’t enough money for us to fill all the gaping holes in this team.

That back three on Friday is, genuinely, the worst defence I’ve seen in the Premier League since the days of Gary Breen.

Todibo can’t finish a game, no concentration.

Aguerd doesn’t want to be here, dialling it in.

Kilman worst £40m in history. Can’t run, tackle, head, jump or read the game. Would like to dial it in: doesn’t know the number.

Add a terrible new goalkeeper to that, the slowest and least creative midfield in the league and a striker with the movement of a corpse and you’ve got about eight players you need.

By next Sunday. Good luck.

 

 

That’s why, genuinely, I can’t see anything other than relegation this year. This team and squad are just not good enough for the top flight, and there’s so much dead money trapped in the club.

Even if we’re realistic and say we can get three players in next week, they’d need to be pretty outstanding to drag this whole squad up a notch. It’s possible, of course, and I hope we do it.

But who are those signings?

[Far Cough UKunt]

sbbb, pretty much sums it up.

[southbankbornnbred]

There isn’t enough money for us to fill all the gaping holes in this team.

That back three on Friday is, genuinely, the worst defence I’ve seen in the Premier League since the days of Gary Breen.

Todibo can’t finish a game, no concentration.

Aguerd doesn’t want to be here, dialling it in.

Kilman worst £40m in history. Can’t run, tackle, head, jump or read the game. Would like to dial it in: doesn’t know the number.

Add a terrible new goalkeeper to that, the slowest and least creative midfield in the league and a striker with the movement of a corpse and you’ve got about eight players you need.

By next Sunday. Good luck.

[Takashi Miike]

the fan base were more united back then. of course you had the minority of vermin that were quite happy to go along with the bond scheme, and a few that had already bought one when we were on the pitch protesting but the cearns/brown crew didn't have a network of scum like ex, whetstone, steinberg, etc winding up the fans and pushing propaganda for the owner. also, the players had more respect for the fans and they were quite understanding about the protests, rather than the over the top reaction from the board pet noble. it was a much different, less poisonous time