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Posted: **26 May 2025, 20:02**

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

Daniel Cummings | ST | Celtic
Koni De Winter | CB | Genoa
Morten Frendrup | DM | Genoa
Richard Kone | ST | Wycombe
Aaron Ramsdale | GK | Southampton
Caiomin Kelleher | GK | Liverpool
James Trafford | GK | Burnley
Kyle Walker-Peters | FB | Free Agent
Taylor Harwood-Bellis | CB | Southampton
CJ Egan-Riley | CB | Free Agent
Josh Brownhill | CM | Free Agent
Albian Hajdari | CB | Lugano
Lucas Høgsberg | CB | FC Nordsjælland
Ardon Jashari | CM | Brugge
Raphael Onyedika | CM | Brugge
James McAtee | AM | Man City
Mario Struykens | AM | Anderlecht
Mathias Kvistgaarden | ST | Brondby
Clement Bischoff | LB | Brondby
Mika Biereth | FW | Monaco
Barış Alper Yılmaz | AM | Galatasaray
Evann Guessand | ST | Nice
Lucas Stassin | ST | Saint Etienne
Marcus Taverner | FW | Bournemouth
Soungoutoo Magassa | CDM | Monaco
Valentin Atangana | CM | Stade Reims
Mads Hermansen | GK | Leicester City
Hamza Igamane | ST | Rangers
Yeremay | FW | Deportivo La Coruna
Adama Bojang | ST | Reims
Rocco Reitz | MF | Borussia Moenchengladbach
Dominic Calvert-Lewin | ST | Free Agent
El Hadji Malick Diouf | LB | SK Slavia Prague
Oscar Mingueza | RB/MF | Celta Vigo
Tyler Morton | CM | Liverpool
Harvey Elliott | AM | Liverpool
Zion Suzuki | GK | Parma
John Victor | GK | Botofogo
Jacob Ramsey | MF | Villa
Mateus Fernandes | CM | Southampton
Nga Makou | CM | Lille
Quinten Timber | CM
Hayden Hackney | CM | Boro
Yves Bissouma | CM | Spurs

Rumoured Out

Nayef Aguerd | CB | Leverkusen, Marseile
Maxel Cornet | FW | Genoa/Others
Guido Rodriguez | DM | Betis/Espanyol
Tomas Soucek | CM | Everton
Michail Antonio | ST | Free Agent
Mo Kudus | FW | Chelsea/Newcastle/Arsenal
Lucas Paqueta | AM | Man City
Andy Irving | CM | Celtic/Wrexham
Emerson | LB | Marseille

Confirmed In

Jean Clair Todibo | CB | Loan To Perm (32m)
Daniel Cummings | ST | Celtic (Free Agent...Tribunal)
El Hadji Malick Diouf | LWB | Slavia Prahia | 20m
Kyle Walker-Peters | RWB | Free Agent
C****m Wilson | ST | Free Agent
Mads Hermansen | GK | Leicester (18m)
Mateus Fernandes | CM | Southampton (38m + 4m)
Soungoutoo Magassa | CDM | Monaco (17m)
Igor Julio | CB | Brighton (Loan)

Confirmed Out

Aaron Cresswell | LB | Free Agent | 0m
Danny Ings | ST | Free Agent | 0m
Vladimir Coufal | RB | Free Agent | 0m
Lukusz Fabianski | GK | Free Agent | 0m
Kamari Swyer | AM | Free Agent | 0m
Kurt Zouma | CB | Free Agent | 0m
Carlos Soler | CM | PSG | End of Loan
Evan Ferguson | ST | Brighton | End of Loan
Brad Dolaghan | Released
Dondre Abraham | Released
Mehmet Halim | Released
Muhammed Judus |stroppy| sp*rs| £55m
Michail Antonio | Released
Kieran Casey | Swansea | Loan
Edson Alvarez | Fenerbache | Loan with Option
Emerson | Marseille | £1m
Aguerd | Marseille | £20m
Max Cornet | Genoa | Loan

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 14:51**

We let in even more goals in the season before, when Kilman wasn't here. Can't blame it all on one player. The midfield have to take some responsibility as well as the CB's.

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 14:47**

WOT…NO STRIKERS…? ? ?

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 14:38**

I don’t mind the KWP transfer. We need more English players. He’s better than Coufal.

We really need to sort our CB’s though, as that was the reason our defence let in so many goals. If Kilman continues to be a regular, nothing will change.

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 14:28**

Read we are interested in the 21yo Southampton midfielder Mateus Fernandes
Id include JWP in a deal for him

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 14:19**

How can you include a player in a free transfer?

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 14:15**

Just read he's scored 6 goals in 202 appearances for the Saints. Which probably means he can play up front for us as well- similar goals to games ratio as most of the strikers we seem to sign

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 14:13**

We've signed far worse players than KWP, for a lot more money and wages.

Whether he's a squad player or first choice, its not going to make or break our season. I would have been happier if we could have included JWP as part of the deal and freed up some of his wages.

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 13:58**

Jean-Luc Paul Goddard" wrote: ↑18 Jul 2025, 12:28
Sir Alf" wrote: ↑18 Jul 2025, 12:17 Nick at C&B saying that he thinks KWP’s agent is Will Salthouse? Is that true?

No, it's not.

He"s the same agent as cole palmer and eze.
i think its decent business for a free, in a position that we need someone.
That Nick's a shit talker.

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 13:52**

Adsiron wrote: ↑18 Jul 2025, 13:49

Either that or Sullivan is back doing what he always does and overruling his managers...

That's surely got to be the most logical thing to me, seeing as he does it all the fucking time.

Anyway, a lot of people seem delighted with this signing regardless if it's a SULLY SPECIAL or not.

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 13:49**

Lee Trundle" wrote: ↑18 Jul 2025, 12:31 It'll be interesting to know Potter's change of heart on this transfer, considering it was reported he had turned him down a few days ago.

Me too. I hope that it isn't that Potter doesn't rate KWP.. Mind you it could simply be that KWP wanted too much money at first. A lot of clubs were reported as interested so perhaps his demands were too much.

Either that or Sullivan is back doing what he always does and overruling his managers...

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 13:03**

Lee Trundle" wrote: ↑18 Jul 2025, 12:31 It'll be interesting to know Potter's change of heart on this transfer, considering it was reported he had turned him down a few days ago.

Allocation of transfer funds is most logical. Arnau Martinez would have been £10-15 million more. For a back up player. It's a non brainer.

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 12:31**

It'll be interesting to know Potter's change of heart on this transfer, considering it was reported he had turned him down a few days ago.

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 12:31**

C & B just make shit up, it’s click bait same as his brothers site. They know as little or as much as we do.

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 12:28**

Sir Alf" wrote: ↑18 Jul 2025, 12:17 Nick at C&B saying that he thinks KWP’s agent is Will Salthouse? Is that true?

No, it's not.

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 12:17**

Nick at C&B saying that he thinks KWP’s agent is Will Salthouse? Is that true?

I like Nick’s “heart on a sleeve” videos even if, by his own admission, he doesnt get all his facts right

But back to KWP, while there is sense to the deal and gives cover and he’s decent, versatile, no fee, the real problem is not the player its the tact that it proves Sullivan still controlling everything. This is what will continue to undermine everything at West Ham. His ego or need for validation is relentless. He’s beaten or silenced the traditional fans with the move so no protests. We just got to outlive him.

Keep healthy lads coz people like Sullivan live until a 100

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 12:16**

How many times have you seen that Martinez play, Russ?

I'm going to guess as many times as Sir Alf & eusebiovic.

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 12:04**

eusebiovic wrote: ↑18 Jul 2025, 09:28
Russ of the BML" wrote: ↑18 Jul 2025, 08:36 Logistically KWP is a sound move.

It makes our full back positions probably the strongest in the squad with AWB, Diouf, Scarles and (apparently) soon to be announced KWP who can play both sides. And with AFCON looming we will need Scarles and KWP.

£75k a week is alot for KWP. But he comes with no fee and we do have the wages available. And if, against all of my better judgement and sense, we are unbelievably having a half decent season by AFCON, he could be a very important player for us.

Does make me laugh though, we have been linked with Arnau Martinez (RB at Girona) who is 22 and up and coming. Girona had agreed to sell for £13m and player wanted move yet we have procrastinated and now that move will be off. Sulli's backers will say its shrewd as its saved us £13m, but we all know the truth.

The lad at Girona would be a far better signing, less wages plenty of top level match experience under his belt and ready to kick on. Plus decent resale value if he gets homesick and wants to return to Spain.

Which is highly unlikely because he's a northerner...that type of Spaniard can adapt like a fish to water over here...

Totally agree that Martinez would have been a better signing. Would've been a bolder and more dynamic signing. But, bold and dynamic are not two words that are generally linked to the dwarf's transfer policy.

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 11:58**

Tomshardware wrote: ↑18 Jul 2025, 10:36
Lee Trundle" wrote: ↑18 Jul 2025, 10:34 "AWB could play on the right side of a back 3"

I keep seeing this suggestion. He's never played there in his life from what I can gather. I have no idea why people suddenly think this.

(you're not the only one Brenty)

Also I don't understand why anyone would want to put him there anyway, one of his biggest assets is bombing forward and assisting and popping up with the odd goal.

That’s weird, given this time last season all I read was that AWB was great defensively but offered nothing going forwards.

He’s pretty good at both, it turned out. He can definitely play in a back three, such is his defensive ability. I’m sure he did at Man Utd from time to time but could be wrong.

Nobody is saying he should be there every game, just that it’s an option, and that KWP is a sensible signing.

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 11:47**

fraser wrote: ↑18 Jul 2025, 11:35 There were a few of us that rated AWB..

Yeah probably was, just remember debating against a few.

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 11:43**

Probably his wages, 360. I doubt Besiktas were going to pay him £75k a week.

He's most likely a squad player in the way Ings and others were, so I won't linger on it. The team needs players in starting positions that are far more important, as people (including Eerie) have said.

We definitely need legs, and speed, in central midfield otherwise we'll be crab-crawling around next season.

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 11:41**

Some people will cream themselves about spending £20m on a 20 year old prospect they've never heard of from eastern Europe, then cry about getting an established PL player at his peak, who fills a lot of squad holes, on a free transfer.

I guess it's just a case of better the devil you don't know. If you've never heard of or seen the player there's always the hope that he's going to be great. Whereas with players they think they know, like AWB or Craig Dawson, people are unimpressed or even upset about their signing.

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 11:41**

threesixty wrote: ↑18 Jul 2025, 11:36
BillyJenningsBoots wrote: ↑18 Jul 2025, 11:25
Oh and his age? Well hes 6 months older than AWB!

The age thing for me is that he’s senior and should expect to be 1st team at his age rather than a backup. So just wondering how that fits in if he we’ve bought diop in as well.

I suppose diop and Scarles are the junior players and KWP and AWB are the senior 1st team players here? (Assuming Emerson is going). that would make sense to me.

Im still not sure if Potters plan is to play AWB as the right side of a three. Which means KWP will be first choice RWB.

Lets see what he does. I guess it depnds on his 3 Central defenders. Is Aguerd staying and playing?

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 11:36**

BillyJenningsBoots wrote: ↑18 Jul 2025, 11:25
Oh and his age? Well hes 6 months older than AWB!

The age thing for me is that he’s senior and should expect to be 1st team at his age rather than a backup. So just wondering how that fits in if he we’ve bought diop in as well.

I suppose diop and Scarles are the junior players and KWP and AWB are the senior 1st team players here? (Assuming Emerson is going). that would make sense to me.

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 11:35**

There were a few of us that rated AWB..

Posted: **18 Jul 2025, 11:34**

Oh dear!

For the record, I jokingly told my mate that the only way Southampton would score would be through Flynn because he has West Ham blood. Then that it actually happened (Downes played well that day, IIRC). So sue me for laughing at the time.

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