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

[Fauxstralian]

We have been linked with about 20 midfielders over the last few weeks many of whom looked likely types
Due to Sullivans dithering & low balling none have even been close
None of these will suddenly happen this week
Might be a loan of someone who hasn’t kicked a ball for 6 months but nothing else
Strap yourself & enjoy the ride down

[goose]

Boniface’s move to Milan has fallen through, issues with his knee.

sounds perfect for us.

[goose]

What other shit, relegated players can we sign?

Wout Faes
Harry Winks

 

[Barty888]

[Massive Attack]

Apparently Magassa has blown us out, bit of a shame because he looks the business. What happened to Mukau of Lille? 

Cheers Potter. Way to really impress the lad with your past weeks illustration of how NOT to manage.

[Vexed]

Apparently Magassa has blown us out, bit of a shame because he looks the business. What happened to Mukau of Lille? 

[Ron Eff]

He’s also peddling that he is now stepping in to take control. Like he wasn’t micro managing it anyway. Case in point Wilson. That was all Sullivan. 

He’d do anything to save a few weeks wages. Backfired now transfer fees are costing more than the cash saved on wages. In his mind clubs are going to get more desperate the later it gets. 

[Takashi Miike]

Left it left? Fucking shameless propagandist cսnt

[goose]

Their incompetence never fails to surprise me.

we are properly fucked.

[nychammer]

Haha was saying in April they need to be scouting likely signings and here we are. Honestly resigned to our fate at this point. 

[Massive Attack]

No fucking shit! They played with fire and are now getting burned alive.  

Thick as fucking pig shit this lot.

[Barty888]

[Mad Ferret]

On reflection, and with the benefit of hindsight, ridiculous that we weren’t going in for Grealish with Man City subsidising the wages (presumably). 

I was always in favour but so many weren’t. He's an infectious character, clearly a top quality player who is exciting to watch, and with a limited transfer budget, a stop gap option if nothing else. He’s going to be to Moyes what Lingard was. 

We have such shit options in the forward area outside of Bowen. 

Yep, I said that too.

Also would take Sterling.

[nychammer]

Paqueta to Spurs last day fire sale
Antonio pay to play contract when we sign nobody else 

nailed on 

[fraser]

On reflection, and with the benefit of hindsight, ridiculous that we weren’t going in for Grealish with Man City subsidising the wages (presumably). 

I was always in favour but so many weren’t. He's an infectious character, clearly a top quality player who is exciting to watch, and with a limited transfer budget, a stop gap option if nothing else. He’s going to be to Moyes what Lingard was. 

We have such shit options in the forward area outside of Bowen. 

Yep, so fucking boring over there, I would have taken anything that might get me off my seat. 

[Ron Eff]

On reflection, and with the benefit of hindsight, ridiculous that we weren’t going in for Grealish with Man City subsidising the wages (presumably). 

I was always in favour but so many weren’t. He's an infectious character, clearly a top quality player who is exciting to watch, and with a limited transfer budget, a stop gap option if nothing else. He’s going to be to Moyes what Lingard was. 

We have such shit options in the forward area outside of Bowen. 

[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.