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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

Squad I guess is stronger overall if Diouff turns out to be better than Emerson or Scarles and KWP turns out to be better than Coufal ( he aint nowhere near AWB’s  level but not many are imo ).

But being the miserable, pessimistic git I am, the season still rests on athletes/pace and ability to press etc in midfield. Did not think this bloke at Leicester or Fernandez is it ? at Southampton provide the much needed pace or energy but will defer to others that may have watched them a few times.  What I do know is if we are regularly starting games with Soucek, JWP and relying on Alvarez and Paqueta too for pace and energy, relentless pressing etc, we are fvcked again 

Massive Attack" wrote: ↑17 Jul 2025, 16:53

southbankbornnbred wrote: ↑17 Jul 2025, 16:31 I'm serious: everything is beginning to feel a bit 2002/03 around West Ham at the moment. We seem to be complacently wandering into an awful mindset where the expectations of everybody - board, manager, players and some fans - has gradually drifted downwards.

I'm fully expecting a one-kneed Nigel Winterburn, followed by a beaming and clueless Glenn Roeder (on the phone to Laurent Courtois), to walk into Rush Green and declare the second coming...




 

 

You cսnt, you almost triggered off a seizure after that horrific flashback.

southbankbornnbred wrote: ↑17 Jul 2025, 16:31 I'm serious: everything is beginning to feel a bit 2002/03 around West Ham at the moment. We seem to be complacently wandering into an awful mindset where the expectations of everybody - board, manager, players and some fans - has gradually drifted downwards.

I'm fully expecting a one-kneed Nigel Winterburn, followed by a beaming and clueless Glenn Roeder (on the phone to Laurent Courtois), to walk into Rush Green and declare the second coming...



 

 

Grealish rumour doing the rounds again

According to the german journalist on kumb . Our next signing after KWP  will be the Leicester goalkeeper herman something or another.  I left school at 15 in 1988 and it shows.  

Any danger of actually bringing in some attackers and central Midfielders after we just let go of another one on our books and not yet another Defender...

southbankbornnbred wrote: ↑17 Jul 2025, 16:36 Why is it decent business? Have you seen his wage demands?

He's going to be another second-stringer on big money, likely to play poorly when he's in the side. A wing-back version of Danny Ings.

No thanks. I'd wager that Scarles, with some more experience, will become a better left-back than him within 12 months (making a mockery of the versatility argument - because he'd become better cover for Diouf). Do we need the back-up to AWB to be on £75,000 a week? Or should we put that towards an international class striker?

So far, I'm not seeing a massive difference in the way we do transfer business from this summer to others.

Why is it decent business? Have you seen his wage demands?

He's going to be another second-stringer on big money, likely to play poorly when he's in the side. A wing-back version of Danny Ings.

No thanks. I'd wager that Scarles, with some more experience, will become a better left-back than him within 12 months (making a mockery of the versatility argument - because he'd become better cover for Diouf). Do we need the back-up to AWB to be on £75,000 a week? Or should we put that towards an international class striker?

onsideman wrote: ↑17 Jul 2025, 16:26

Maverick180180 wrote: ↑17 Jul 2025, 15:53 I’d be well happy with Walker-Peters considering we stupidly released our only cover at right back and then pleaded poverty 

releasing the 33 year old Coufal was '"stupid". Lol

 

Calm down.

I'm serious: everything is beginning to feel a bit 2002/03 around West Ham at the moment. We seem to be complacently wandering into an awful mindset where the expectations of everybody - board, manager, players and some fans - has gradually drifted downwards.

I'm fully expecting a one-kneed Nigel Winterburn, followed by a beaming and clueless Glenn Roeder (on the phone to Laurent Courtois), to walk into Rush Green and declare the second coming...

 

Southampton fans seems to think he's a good player, and an excellent professional. I'll take that over what some say on here who probably see him 2/3 times tops last season.

Homegrown, covers both flanks, better as a wing back which is what we'll mostly be using, on a free (signing on fee aside). Decent business.

Maverick180180 wrote: ↑17 Jul 2025, 15:53 I’d be well happy with Walker-Peters considering we stupidly released our only cover at right back and then pleaded poverty 

Makes perfect sense.

When AWB and Magic bugger off to the Afcon then we have readymade replacements in Scarles and KWP.

Walker-Peters is a decent Championship player - nothing more.

Couldn't give two wanks about his so-called versatility. "He's played in several positions" So what? Every time I saw him last season, he played badly in different positions. Why do we want versatility when quality matters more? You can find versatile players at Exeter City or Wycombe. But here's the clue: they play for Exeter City and Wycombe.

I fear that some fans are being conditioned into thinking that players whose best level is the bottom quarter of the Premier League or the top of the Championship are where we should be looking for signings.

The players I've seen us linked with in recent days, including Leicester midfielders and half of that terrible Southampton team...many of them were relegated last season for a reason. The Moroccan lad at Leicester looks half-decent, but disappeared in several of their games that I saw last season. Sure, he has good technique. But he shows it in rare flashes and he's a bit of a shrinking violet when tackles start flying. He's a YouTube highlight reel at the moment - not yet a consistent, Premier League-level player.

We're the 7th biggest club in the Premier League by revenues - the 16th biggest in the world. Why do we so often act like we'd be happy to scrape past relegation with a guy who was a walking mistake in a poor Southampton side?

Another really good bit of business.

FMOB

KWP as a back up, versatile, knows the league, home grown. Can cover left and right and also enable AWB to play at cb if we're short there.. Sensible bit of business that may also enable us to spend more elsewhere. 
​​​​​​Only gripe us AWB, JWP, KWP.. 
wtf.. 

Even if KWP is a SULLY SPECIAL, Maverick?

I’d be well happy with Walker-Peters considering we stupidly released our only cover at right back and then pleaded poverty 

goose wrote: ↑17 Jul 2025, 15:32 KWP

medical apparently.

not overly impressed with that.

If Fullkrug doesn't breakdown injured within the first 10 games, I'll be impressed. 

KWP

medical apparently.

not overly impressed with that.