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

[stubbo-admin]

Who do you want upfront?

Kaio George



Been offered to the club at 15m. Just received first Brazil squad selection. 6ft, strong like Aguero was. 23 years old. 

Not the Brazilian lad. Even a cursory glance at that reel tells you he generally wants too many tricksy touches, and too much time, that he just won't get in the Premier League. If he starts playing that way away at Villa, Tyrone Mings will kick him into the stands. And then limp off with another injury.

Not that it matters, as its a YouTube video, but I genuinely wonder who puts them together. Often, these reels exhibit aspects of a player's game that scouts would laugh at.

It's tricky though. In the 15m price bracket your not remotely expecting the finished article. Really that's about raw materials.  He's a product if his current environment, and that affords him those luxuries.

But we need to sign players in this bracket who aren't already finished articles at their peak but have the ceiling to be class. 

This lad is strong, quick, scores off both feet, and will have a climbing valuation. Aspects of his game of course would need to improve. But is he better raw material to come on off the bench than, say, Callum Marshall....almost certainly. Would he immediately be first choice? No.

[Rossal]

No issue with Paqueta going if he is replaced.  But ideally we get a no 10 in to compete with him and create.  

A right sided CB is more of a need than a left sided one IMO 

Summerville and Ghillurme back soon hopefully 

Then a half decent striker on loan wouldnt go a miss! 

I never get why clubs in our position don't max out the loan market to fill out the squad. Get into Chelsea, Liverpool and Man City for some loans 

Because loans from Premier League clubs are generally expensive these days. You tend to pay a disproportionate loan fee for anybody decent, and teams are generally seeking to offload 100% (or close to it) of wages now that PSR is becoming a big sticking point for all clubs. So you end up loading up your own wage bill against PSR - for temporary players.

You can still get a decent deal, but it's a lot of work for a player who will be at the club for less than a year. Still reckon we should look at a few, though. Our position is precarious.

I disagree, the big clubs stockpile talent and they inflate their squads and the players want out to go and play. Therefore you get some decent quality players for a fraction of the cost. 

As you say we are in a precarious position so filling out a few gaps with players from bigger clubs is a no brainer for me. 

[Mad Ferret]

Loaning from other PL clubs seldom really benefits us.

Can only think of Lingard and Jenkinson (first season).

[onsideman]

I see Sudakov is off to Benfica for half the fee that was mooted at the beginning of the window. Will be interesting to see how he gets on. I thought he was worth a punt... then again I was disappointed when we missed out on Patson Daka so wtfdik?

[southbankbornnbred]

No issue with Paqueta going if he is replaced.  But ideally we get a no 10 in to compete with him and create.  

A right sided CB is more of a need than a left sided one IMO 

Summerville and Ghillurme back soon hopefully 

Then a half decent striker on loan wouldnt go a miss! 

I never get why clubs in our position don't max out the loan market to fill out the squad. Get into Chelsea, Liverpool and Man City for some loans 

Because loans from Premier League clubs are generally expensive these days. You tend to pay a disproportionate loan fee for anybody decent, and teams are generally seeking to offload 100% (or close to it) of wages now that PSR is becoming a big sticking point for all clubs. So you end up loading up your own wage bill against PSR - for temporary players.

You can still get a decent deal, but it's a lot of work for a player who will be at the club for less than a year. Still reckon we should look at a few, though. Our position is precarious.

[Rossal]

No issue with Paqueta going if he is replaced.  But ideally we get a no 10 in to compete with him and create.  

A right sided CB is more of a need than a left sided one IMO 

Summerville and Ghillurme back soon hopefully 

Then a half decent striker on loan wouldnt go a miss! 

I never get why clubs in our position don't max out the loan market to fill out the squad. Get into Chelsea, Liverpool and Man City for some loans 

[southbankbornnbred]

Who do you want upfront?

Kaio George



Been offered to the club at 15m. Just received first Brazil squad selection. 6ft, strong like Aguero was. 23 years old. 

Not the Brazilian lad. Even a cursory glance at that reel tells you he generally wants too many tricksy touches, and too much time, that he just won't get in the Premier League. If he starts playing that way away at Villa, Tyrone Mings will kick him into the stands. And then limp off with another injury.

Not that it matters, as its a YouTube video, but I genuinely wonder who puts them together. Often, these reels exhibit aspects of a player's game that scouts would laugh at.

[Mad Ferret]

Sp*rs sign Xavi Simons for £60m.

What a signing btw, and typical that they’d push on after winning the Europa last year, whereas we went backwards after winning the Conference.

[stubbo-admin]

Who do you want upfront?

Kaio George



Been offered to the club at 15m. Just received first Brazil squad selection. 6ft, strong like Aguero was. 23 years old. 

[Gank]

You'd think with the 3 day medicals we seem to give people they'd pick more of our injury prone signings.

Anyway im torn about paqueta going.  On his day he is brilliant.  But he loses the ball far too much and rolls around on the ground leaving us a player down.  But we definitely need some sort of playmaker and that isnt jwp

I love Paqueta, because I'm trying to teach my kids why supporting West Ham who might never win a thing in their lifetime is a better option than supporting a team who are almost guaranteed to do so.

Agree that he needs to stop falling over waiting for a foul that won't come, but I can tolerate him giving the ball away so much because that's West Ham through and through, we'll always be that. Give the ball away 8 times, give away a goal, then score a world class one out of nothing. 

Love it.

[Mad Dog]

You'd think with the 3 day medicals we seem to give people they'd pick more of our injury prone signings.

Anyway im torn about paqueta going.  On his day he is brilliant.  But he loses the ball far too much and rolls around on the ground leaving us a player down.  But we definitely need some sort of playmaker and that isnt jwp

[nychammer]

It would be just our luck that these 2 decent midfielders will be signed to play alongside Soucek or JWP and not Paqeuta which could actually be quite exciting.
Chances are we'll be brought swiftly back down to earth by selling Paqueta to Spurs for a small fee.

 

Spurs and possibly others will test our resolve to keep Paqueta at the last minute for sure. They'll reckon being able to low ball Sullivan and there's a good chance they succeed.  I'd loathe seeing two of our flair players go there

[Barty888]

We need a commanding centre back who can head the ball and a proper striker for the first eleven aswell

We need to keep Paqueta and sign a Kudus replacement

Don't forget the two loan options! Hopefully we can use them well!

[scott_d]

It would be just our luck that these 2 decent midfielders will be signed to play alongside Soucek or JWP and not Paqeuta which could actually be quite exciting.
Chances are we'll be brought swiftly back down to earth by selling Paqueta to Spurs for a small fee.

[eusebiovic]

Who do you want upfront?

Gueye first Dju second or both if possible 

NOT Boniface - he has had very serious cruciate ligament injuries in BOTH knees...that never ends well for WH especially with our reputation for drop your pants and cough medicals...

Needs to be given an extremely wide berth indeed 

[southbankbornnbred]

It's the shocking due diligence at the Club by everyone that's been involved down the years that fucks me off. Whether it's medical history, piss poor professionalism, bad attitudes, bad form and the like, it appears we wing it a lot of the time hoping for the best and that there won't be any issues. 

 

We just point blank refuse to invest in the structures and people to do that stuff well.

In fairness, as some alluded, I’ve no idea if we could have predicted Cornet’s long-term problem. Maybe not.

But your broader point about how everything on that side of the club is two-bob and archaic is spot on.

Portakabins in a world of mansions.

 

You say that, but then recalling Steidtens time he's had shocking due diligence on players. ven recently with Hermansen where the wisdom was to get in a Keeper for big money that just shipped a shit load of goals for a relegation Teamz swapped for another one who now finds itself unsurprisingly bottom of the League. Macauley, Steidten, they've hired new data analysts from what I can gather Hahn, Jones. Investment and expense has been there, it hasnt been non existent. Just shit thus far.

 

All fair points. I suspect Steidten was expensive. His taste in Lear jets certainly was!

[Massive Attack]

Idrissa Gueye is almost 36 and another Denfensive Midfielder.

Knowing West Ham, they'd stump up £30M and a lucrative 10 year contract though to be fair.

Wrong one he's 19 I think 

 

This is GSB/West Ham remember. They’ll fuck up the paperwork and spend fortunes on the wrong Gueye (see what I did there). It would be classic West Ham. Gold couldn't even get Obiang right when announcing him.

[fraser]

Idrissa Gueye is almost 36 and another Denfensive Midfielder.

Knowing West Ham, they'd stump up £30M and a lucrative 10 year contract though to be fair.

Wrong one he's 19 I think 

[Barty888]

Idrissa Gueye (born 16 September 2006) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club Metz.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idrissa ... born_2006)

[Massive Attack]

Idrissa Gueye is almost 36 and another Denfensive Midfielder.

Knowing West Ham, they'd stump up £30M and a lucrative 10 year contract though to be fair.

[Barty888]

Who do you want upfront?

[Central Park Man]

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain anyone?
Now a free agent!
 

[Massive Attack]

It's the shocking due diligence at the Club by everyone that's been involved down the years that fucks me off. Whether it's medical history, piss poor professionalism, bad attitudes, bad form and the like, it appears we wing it a lot of the time hoping for the best and that there won't be any issues. 

 

We just point blank refuse to invest in the structures and people to do that stuff well.

In fairness, as some alluded, I’ve no idea if we could have predicted Cornet’s long-term problem. Maybe not.

But your broader point about how everything on that side of the club is two-bob and archaic is spot on.

Portakabins in a world of mansions.

 

You say that, but then recalling Steidtens time he's had shocking due diligence on players. ven recently with Hermansen where the wisdom was to get in a Keeper for big money that just shipped a shit load of goals for a relegation Teamz swapped for another one who now finds itself unsurprisingly bottom of the League. Macauley, Steidten, they've hired new data analysts from what I can gather Hahn, Jones. Investment and expense has been there, it hasnt been non existent. Just shit thus far.

[southbankbornnbred]

It's the shocking due diligence at the Club by everyone that's been involved down the years that fucks me off. Whether it's medical history, piss poor professionalism, bad attitudes, bad form and the like, it appears we wing it a lot of the time hoping for the best and that there won't be any issues. 

 

We just point blank refuse to invest in the structures and people to do that stuff well.

In fairness, as some alluded, I’ve no idea if we could have predicted Cornet’s long-term problem. Maybe not.

But your broader point about how everything on that side of the club is two-bob and archaic is spot on.

Portakabins in a world of mansions.

[Massive Attack]

It's the shocking due diligence at the Club by everyone that's been involved down the years that fucks me off. Whether it's medical history, piss poor professionalism, bad attitudes, bad form and the like, it appears we wing it a lot of the time hoping for the best and that there won't be any issues.