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

[threesixty]

In fact who was the CDM around when Rice broke through? We had Kouyate and Obiang about that time. And I think the season before we had Alex Song from Barca. 
I think Kouyate and Obiang moved on pretty soon. We were covered for CB’s which was Rice’s first position I think, but the whole CDM thing was a bit of a gap for us in terms of decent senior level players. 

Im not saying Rice isn’t a great player that didn’t have obvious potential. Im saying that sometime great players don’t break through because there isn’t a gap for them at this club to do so. Rice was fortunate in that regard. 

To disagree that playing 1st team football week in week out at the highest level for 3-4 yrs does not improve massively as a player is just silly. 

[Ron Eff]

Sorry. There is no way Rice only got game time because of lack of more senior players. That’s a wild claim.

He had already stood out playing in a back three under Moyes, who notoriously never gives youth a chance unless they are right at the top tier, i.e, Rooney. Pellegrini, to his credit, spotted his potential to play in midfield, but I think that transition would have happened organically anyway. 

Rice got played because it was abundantly clear he was extremely talented. All that was up for debate is which position he would be played in. It’s as simple as that. 

[threesixty]

Yup it's a sad truth. If we were churning out players of PL quality from the academy, then they'd be playing PL football for us or someone else. Absolutely Potts not getting time isn't helping him- especially before the two new lads joined and he wasn't looking bad compared to the statues sharing the dressing room with him, but if he's good enough, he will make it either for us or someone else. Rather it be with us if possible but the sad thing to say is that as you've said, Rice is really the only player to come through the academy for a long time and be a PL success. 

It's a head scratcher how the youth team of a couple of seasons ago could be so good and then none of them really amount to anything YET while some of the Arsenal lads are, but that so often happens in football. If they were genuinely good enough, they'd be playing here or elsewhere.

 

It’s a catch 22. Rice got the minutes , no one else did. If Rice had a seasoned international in the CDM position in front of him he wouldn’t have got anywhere near the minutes he got and he wouldn’t be a great player by now. And he’d have ended up at some yo yo club or in the championship.  

Rice has strangely benefited from West Ham’s notoriously poor transfer activity that left us without a genuine CDM at that time. Same issue for Nagakia when we didn’t have a right back and he claimed that place only to ask to leave instead of realising he had the chance to gain lots of minutes in the top flight as first choice RB. 

Nah. Rice isn't only the player he is because we didn't have a really good player in his position already- that's just a ridiculous assertion which also suggests just give any young player minutes and they'll be world class. 99% of all academy graduates disagree. By that logic we should just stick the youth team out there and within 2 years they'll all be world class. Rice got in the team because it was obvious even at a young age he was the fucking tits. No matter who the incumbent of the shirt is, if you're good enough you'll take it from them sooner or later. Michael Owen wasn't only good because he got minutes at a teenager, he got minutes because he was too good to not get them.

To actually say if Rice had a good player in the team in his position ahead of him at West Ham when he was younger, that he would be playing in the championship now, is just dumb.

 

 

 

 

Don’t agree. Minutes matter. Development matters. That’s the whole problem with West Ham’s academy. We don’t actually have  plans in place to bring our youth through properly. 1st team football is obviously very different to u21s and you need the regular exposure. You’re up against 30yr old men that will batter you physically or sometimes the best players on the world. You need to acclimatise. 

Because we seemed to always be flirting with relegation most years managers just got in experienced journeymen rather than think about youth development. I don’t even think we played the same system at academy level vs 1st team so how are these kids going to slot in for PL games properly?

it’s easy to say Mubama failed etc.. but we need to ask ourselves how our u21 are successful for years and can’t produce 1st team players. Yet Arsenal are playing 15 and 16 yr olds in their 1st and so are many other squads. We have the potential players it’s that we offer nothing beyond u21s in terms of planning to be in a 1st team. 

you only have to look at Harry Kane. A guy that didn’t do anything much on loan multiple times and then because of injuries got a call up to spurs 1st team and got a run of games. No one thought he had it in him. Now one of the world’s best strikers. Literally got a lucky break. Thats just how it’s been for many youngsters in this country.  

Greatness is made, it is developed, it does not just appear. 

[Eerie Decent]

"It’s a catch 22. Rice got the minutes , no one else did. If Rice had a seasoned international in the CDM position in front of him he wouldn’t have got anywhere near the minutes he got and he wouldn’t be a great player by now. And he’d have ended up at some yo yo club or in the championship"



Wow. I mean, I've read some mental shit on these boards, but that is right up there.

I'll leave that one alone i think.

[dealcanvey]

Early days I know, but there is a small part of me that thinks this transfer window will go down as one of the best we’ve had for some time. 


 

This is fucking bonkers

It's not at all. We are going to win the league.

[Vexed]

Early days I know, but there is a small part of me that thinks this transfer window will go down as one of the best we’ve had for some time. 

 

This is fucking bonkers

[El Scorchio]

That's all you needed to say.

We've had 1 player from the Academy who was genuinely good enough to be a proper Premier League player over the last 15 years, Declan Rice. No one, not even Moyes, was worried about putting him in the team.

I like Potts, and would like to see him start ahead of Mouse & Soucek, and that is a massive mark against Potter, amongst everything else he's got wrong. But let's be brutally honest, he's older than Fernandes, and they are miles apart in terms of being ready to be a regular PL player. 

Yup it's a sad truth. If we were churning out players of PL quality from the academy, then they'd be playing PL football for us or someone else. Absolutely Potts not getting time isn't helping him- especially before the two new lads joined and he wasn't looking bad compared to the statues sharing the dressing room with him, but if he's good enough, he will make it either for us or someone else. Rather it be with us if possible but the sad thing to say is that as you've said, Rice is really the only player to come through the academy for a long time and be a PL success. 

It's a head scratcher how the youth team of a couple of seasons ago could be so good and then none of them really amount to anything YET while some of the Arsenal lads are, but that so often happens in football. If they were genuinely good enough, they'd be playing here or elsewhere.

 

It’s a catch 22. Rice got the minutes , no one else did. If Rice had a seasoned international in the CDM position in front of him he wouldn’t have got anywhere near the minutes he got and he wouldn’t be a great player by now. And he’d have ended up at some yo yo club or in the championship.  

Rice has strangely benefited from West Ham’s notoriously poor transfer activity that left us without a genuine CDM at that time. Same issue for Nagakia when we didn’t have a right back and he claimed that place only to ask to leave instead of realising he had the chance to gain lots of minutes in the top flight as first choice RB. 

Nah. Rice isn't only the player he is because we didn't have a really good player in his position already- that's just a ridiculous assertion which also suggests just give any young player minutes and they'll be world class. 99% of all academy graduates disagree. By that logic we should just stick the youth team out there and within 2 years they'll all be world class. Rice got in the team because it was obvious even at a young age he was the fucking tits. No matter who the incumbent of the shirt is, if you're good enough you'll take it from them sooner or later. Michael Owen wasn't only good because he got minutes at a teenager, he got minutes because he was too good to not get them.

To actually say if Rice had a good player in the team in his position ahead of him at West Ham when he was younger, that he would be playing in the championship now, is just dumb.

[threesixty]

 

That's all you needed to say.

We've had 1 player from the Academy who was genuinely good enough to be a proper Premier League player over the last 15 years, Declan Rice. No one, not even Moyes, was worried about putting him in the team.

I like Potts, and would like to see him start ahead of Mouse & Soucek, and that is a massive mark against Potter, amongst everything else he's got wrong. But let's be brutally honest, he's older than Fernandes, and they are miles apart in terms of being ready to be a regular PL player. 

Yup it's a sad truth. If we were churning out players of PL quality from the academy, then they'd be playing PL football for us or someone else. Absolutely Potts not getting time isn't helping him- especially before the two new lads joined and he wasn't looking bad compared to the statues sharing the dressing room with him, but if he's good enough, he will make it either for us or someone else. Rather it be with us if possible but the sad thing to say is that as you've said, Rice is really the only player to come through the academy for a long time and be a PL success. 

It's a head scratcher how the youth team of a couple of seasons ago could be so good and then none of them really amount to anything YET while some of the Arsenal lads are, but that so often happens in football. If they were genuinely good enough, they'd be playing here or elsewhere.

 

 

It’s a catch 22. Rice got the minutes , no one else did. If Rice had a seasoned international in the CDM position in front of him he wouldn’t have got anywhere near the minutes he got and he wouldn’t be a great player by now. And he’d have ended up at some yo yo club or in the championship.  

Rice has strangely benefited from West Ham’s notoriously poor transfer activity that left us without a genuine CDM at that time. Same issue for Nagakia when we didn’t have a right back and he claimed that place only to ask to leave instead of realising he had the chance to gain lots of minutes in the top flight as first choice RB. 

[fraser]

Apparently Füllkrug has got a muscle injury on international duty.. 

[El Scorchio]

All I’d say is none of them have really gone on to do much elsewhere that has us kicking ourselves they left. 

That's all you needed to say.

We've had 1 player from the Academy who was genuinely good enough to be a proper Premier League player over the last 15 years, Declan Rice. No one, not even Moyes, was worried about putting him in the team.

I like Potts, and would like to see him start ahead of Mouse & Soucek, and that is a massive mark against Potter, amongst everything else he's got wrong. But let's be brutally honest, he's older than Fernandes, and they are miles apart in terms of being ready to be a regular PL player. 

Yup it's a sad truth. If we were churning out players of PL quality from the academy, then they'd be playing PL football for us or someone else. Absolutely Potts not getting time isn't helping him- especially before the two new lads joined and he wasn't looking bad compared to the statues sharing the dressing room with him, but if he's good enough, he will make it either for us or someone else. Rather it be with us if possible but the sad thing to say is that as you've said, Rice is really the only player to come through the academy for a long time and be a PL success. 

It's a head scratcher how the youth team of a couple of seasons ago could be so good and then none of them really amount to anything YET while some of the Arsenal lads are, but that so often happens in football. If they were genuinely good enough, they'd be playing here or elsewhere.

[Massive Attack]

I dont think weve gone too wild with the new signings, because this time last week the manager had two games to turn it around.

Payoff money and transfer budget for a new manager might still be needed in January.

That would be an appalling reason for the Board to hide behind for not coughing up more for a Summer window.

If that was true, it tells us they are backing a manager they don't really believe in any more, in which case why is he still here? Or it means we can't spend properly because of it.

[Nutsin]

Correction: Diouf and Magassa.

[Nutsin]

Early days I know, but there is a small part of me that thinks this transfer window will go down as one of the best we’ve had for some time. 

KWP, Disouf and Fernandes all look quality.

Wilson looks like a player still.

If the keeper settles in and Massaga delivers we will have ourselves a proper team. 

Factor in Summervilles return and the fact that we have brought in some young players you can see the logic and the potential to what we did this window.

A new young, hungry center forward and a dominant center half and we’ll have ourselves a squad to build on.

This coupled with some consistency and pride in the badge could be the trigger we need to really kick on.


Amen.

[honky cat]

I dont think weve gone too wild with the new signings, because this time last week the manager had two games to turn it around.

Payoff money and transfer budget for a new manager might still be needed in January.

[Massive Attack]

Mad Freak 

Go fuck off on to a Spurs Forum instead of always posting on a West Ham one. 

[Mad Ferret]

Massive Arsehole,

Get over it mate.

[Massive Attack]

It's as relevant to bring up now as it always has been since they first proudly trumpeted it at the start. It's one of the big reasons for wanting them out because it is a bear faced lie that they can never shake off and in part central to all the BS Out protests currently going on. Yet another timely Summer transfer window reminder that perfectly illustrates their bullshit. 

[stubbo-admin]

So I'd personally rate our window as a 6.5 out of 10.

On balance I'd say it was an ok window that takes us in the right direction but leaves some issues unresolved. 



 

That's pretty much how I view it. Not good enough and certainly nowhere near "Next Level" type signings we were always promised, that we couldn't have managed at the Boleyn had we stayed.

Agreed...i've pretty much moved beyond judging our exploits through that lens...it was clearly an undeliverable promise made by an incompetent (at best) and deliberately misleading (at worst) owner hell bent on a course of action.

Could another owner leverage our playing arena to drive next level signings? Personally I doubt it....team prestige and league standing, wages, manager and incumbent playing staff all seem things much more likely to draw a player to the Club.

We are where we are now...it won't change without new ownership.  I'm fully behind the Sullivan resign campaign as competent structural running of the Club is the only way we can hope to achive the potential the Club has given it's advantages (fan base, location, revenues, etc).

But so many of the things in their original 10 point pledge, or pledged when moving to the Olympic stadium frankly they were in no position to promise, given the stadium alone couldn't deliver any of them (and more so, they weren't within the Club's direct control).

[Massive Attack]

So I'd personally rate our window as a 6.5 out of 10.

On balance I'd say it was an ok window that takes us in the right direction but leaves some issues unresolved. 


 

That's pretty much how I view it. Not good enough and certainly nowhere near "Next Level" type signings we were always promised, that we couldn't have managed at the Boleyn had we stayed.

[Mad Ferret]

Solid 6.5/10 window for me.
 

So I'd personally rate our window as a 6.5 out of 10.

Great minds think alike.

[stubbo-admin]

So I'd personally rate our window as a 6.5 out of 10.

Pros:

• Signed a highly rated mid 20s keeper. All be it he's had an iffy start
• Addressed athletisicism in midfield with two very highly rated early 20s players
• Kept our primary match winners in Bowen, Paqueta and Soucek
• Reduced the average age of the Starting XI with 4 new first XI starters joining
• Reduced the wage bill by around 30% ahead of PSR considerations when the Rice money no longer 'counts'
• Introduced four youth players as first team squad members at the expense of 30+ veterans
• Signed an excellent sqad member in KWP that can cover both full back positions when AfCON interfers later in the season
• Brought in striker cover with a proven PL track record who is motivated to succeed (needs 11 more goals to join the PL hundred club)

Cons:

• There is still no long term strategic solution to the central striker position
• Options to affect the game positively from the bench will remain thin on the ground (assuming Summerville becomes first choice pick)
• Pathway for key young players from the academy has been somewhat blocked (Potts, Scarles in particular)
• A lot of money has now been spent across the centre back positions, but quality remains questionable
• Squad lacks depth from a proven player perspective
• Continued lack of leadership within the first XI

On balance I'd say it was an ok window that takes us in the right direction but leaves some issues unresolved. 

Probably does what we need it to do but no more. 

The elephant in the room remains a significant striker upgrade, although other areas were probably of greater importance, and squad renewal from an age perspective has clearly taken place, with the first team squad now having only 5 non-goalkeepers over the age of 30.

[twoleftfeet]

Solid 6.5/10 window for me.

Could’ve been pushed up to a 7.5 or 8 with the addition of a younger striker to compliment the two old boys. Also, if we’d shifted a couple more deadweights, such as Guido and Potts.

Has Potts dry bum fucked Ferrets dearly beloved?

He is obsessed with Potts, maybe he was turned down by him for a bit of bum?

More likely though is that Potts turned down an opportunity to join Spurs as a youngster.

[Mike Oxsaw]

Solid 6.5/10 window for me.

Could’ve been pushed up to a 7.5 or 8 with the addition of a younger striker to compliment the two old boys. Also, if we’d shifted a couple more deadweights, such as Guido and Potts.

Has Potts dry bum fucked Ferrets dearly beloved?

[Mad Ferret]

Solid 6.5/10 window for me.

Could’ve been pushed up to a 7.5 or 8 with the addition of a younger striker to compliment the two old boys. Also, if we’d shifted a couple more deadweights, such as Guido and Potts.

[honky cat]

We've brought in 4 players 25 years old and under, 5 including todibo. What a fucking disaster it's been.