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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

Mad Ferret" wrote: ↑11 Jul 2025, 10:18 He was late to training twice recently btw.

Still, all Sully's fault.

 

I reckon if it was obvious that the owner of the company I worked for, and my boss, didn't want me around, then I'd look to move away and not really be fucked about coming into work also.

He was late to training twice recently btw.

Still, all Sully's fault.

Ron Eff" wrote: ↑11 Jul 2025, 10:13
Bloke kicks up a fuss about playing in a non favoured position because we have better in his preferred, almost downs tools, then agitates for a move to Spurs. Not his fault though, he’s just ambitious and everyone else is to blame. 

Laughable apologies being made for Kudus.

Feels like a lot wish him well. 

I get everyone hates Sullivan, but fuck we’ve turned soft. 

Bloke kicks up a fuss about playing in a non favoured position because we have better in his preferred, almost downs tools, then agitates for a move to Spurs. Not his fault though, he’s just ambitious and everyone else is to blame. 

fraser wrote: ↑11 Jul 2025, 09:53

We probably would have been relegated without the break... But not sure you can say the next season was due to it 

I think we should all clap Kudus when he returns to the bowl.

Bless him, it's not his fault.

Jean-Luc Paul Goddard" wrote: ↑11 Jul 2025, 09:50

Westside wrote: ↑11 Jul 2025, 09:46 "Have we ever had a season in recent memory where expectations were rock bottom and we had a blinder (relatively) because I can't think of any? I'm really clutching to a ray of hope here because it's happened plenty of times the other way round."

Moyes's first full season? Went from finishing 16th the previous season, to 6th.

All we need then is another global pandemic and lockdown. Extremely doubtful that we'd have finished top half if that hadn't happened. 

Westside wrote: ↑11 Jul 2025, 09:46 "Have we ever had a season in recent memory where expectations were rock bottom and we had a blinder (relatively) because I can't think of any? I'm really clutching to a ray of hope here because it's happened plenty of times the other way round."

Moyes's first full season? Went from finishing 16th the previous season, to 6th.

"Have we ever had a season in recent memory where expectations were rock bottom and we had a blinder (relatively) because I can't think of any? I'm really clutching to a ray of hope here because it's happened plenty of times the other way round."

Moyes's first full season? Went from finishing 16th the previous season, to 6th.

Btw Henderson is off to Brentford.

Lose all your best players and manager then go and sign Henderson and the Liverpool reserve keeper and put the set-piece coach in charge

Does everyone still think they’re so well run?

What happens when the season after next, when Spurs aren't in the CL. He'll prob down tools for them too.

The geezers an absolute cսnt and we're well shot of him. Getting £55m is actually good business from us.

The window shaping up as expected. The “Sullivan Effect” in full flow so I still dont expect any incoming signings until Emerson and Aguerd and possibly one or two others are sold. August at the eatliest.  Sullivan  wont commit to anything until he has cash flow from sales in place.   

We will start the season with the same team we ended the last with perhaps this left back Diouf being the only new face.  Sullivan will leave things to the last week or so of the window for any other additions to undermine chances of getting other Macaulay and Potter targets which essentially gives him more control of who comes in as he is “forced” ( cough ) to turn to favoured agents to get players like Wilson, Brownhill, Calvert Lewin, Zinchenko etc all players that will be either old, injury prone and thus continue the disasterous rrecruitment we have seen at West Ham in the last 15 years Sullivan has owned and controlled the club.  

I think that for Kudus Spurs are as much a stepping stone as West Ham has been. He will need though to dramatically up his game to move up another level from Spurs.

Curious that nobody seems to have commented that, unusuall, he’s a big money buy that we’re making a reasonable profit on.

Ron Eff" wrote: ↑11 Jul 2025, 09:13

Parker 3x player of the year, gave everything for the club, only left because we were relegated and he had international ambitions. You’ve topped my most idiotic comment. Well done. 

There's little blame I'm throwing towards Kudus.

As Scorch has said, Sullivan pimped him out to everyone.

Sullivan has form for smearing every player on their way out, when he knows fans are likely to be annoyed about it. Tries to make it all about the player being unreasonable or a bad egg. 

I don’t think Kudus gave his all last season but Sullivan has been hawking him publicly for ages and then starts releasing stories about him not going to training or being late or forcing his hand or whatnot. Just a snide effort to cover himself. 

Hammer I am" wrote: ↑11 Jul 2025, 07:44

Sydney_Iron wrote: ↑11 Jul 2025, 07:21

E6 Hammer" wrote: ↑11 Jul 2025, 06:23 I see on this forum that a lot of supporters are getting at each other 

I think this is a sign that we are all gutted.





 

Nothing new with supporters arguing and getting at each other, been like that as long as I’ve posted on WHO, which is around 25 years! FMOB

But would agree on being gutted, think many have had enough and can’t be arsed at times, most seasons are pretty shit for us, the odd time we do have a decent season we always seem to fuck it up the next rather than use it to step up a level or show any ambition 

 But I suppose for the board and owners as long as we can fill the stadium, have the TV money roll in and retain PL status that seems to be job done, never mind the fans wanting better.

Never have I felt so unenthusiastic about an upcoming season, would love to be wrong and we somehow have a blinder but I think that’s just for my dreams

Have we ever had a season in recent memory where expectations were rock bottom and we had a blinder (relatively) because I can't think of any? I'm really clutching to a ray of hope here because it's happened plenty of times the other way round.

 

Jean-Luc Paul Goddard" wrote: ↑11 Jul 2025, 09:04

Ron Eff" wrote: ↑11 Jul 2025, 08:51

No amount of hating Sullivan changes the fact he joins the likes of Ince, Lampard, Defoe. 

One of the most idiotic things I've ever read on here. Well done.

Did he wear a Spurs kit before signing? No.
Has he talked about hating the club? No.
Did he put in a transfer request or force a move in any way? No.

Kudus probably did less to warrant the Judas tag than Rice or Parker but those two generally get off scot free.

Ron Eff" wrote: ↑11 Jul 2025, 08:51

No amount of hating Sullivan changes the fact he joins the likes of Ince, Lampard, Defoe. 

Ron Eff" wrote: ↑11 Jul 2025, 08:51

fraser wrote: ↑11 Jul 2025, 08:32

Ron Eff" wrote: ↑11 Jul 2025, 08:14

 

Are we ignoring that this cսnt made a beeline for Spurs and in his cringey signing VT started it with “I only wanted Spurs”?

Sullivan is a prick, too, sure, but stop giving this wanker a free ride. 

Shit attitude last season at being asked to play on the left, and then makes clear he wants to sign for Spurs this summer. We used to treat these type of characters properly in previous decades. 

You're on a wind up right, every player who joins every club says shit like that when they join. We wanted to sell him he wasn't wanted and only one club came in for him. Was he supposed to say "nope I'll stay where I'm not wanted at a shit show of a club and turn down extra money and champions league" then say "I only came here because you were my only option" 


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Can only work with the facts in front of us Fras ol’ chum. All the noise is that he only wanted to sign for Spurs. He/they use it in the VT which supports those rumours, even though people want to decide the truth was that nobody else wanted him. 

Even if it is just PR for his new set of fans, it still makes him a proper wanker. If it were a player with a bit of respect for his previous club, or at least their fans, they could very easily say “not sure that line is necessary”

To be clear, I’m not offended by the VT. I do think he’s a massive wanker for how he has gone about a transfer to them though. No amount of hating Sullivan changes the fact he joins the likes of Ince, Lampard, Defoe. 

We obviously still have a Kudus fan club even though he has joined our rivals, which is a shame. 

 

You need to add Rice to that list of yours as well, seeing as he did pretty much the same thing.  He only wanted Arsenal.

fraser wrote: ↑11 Jul 2025, 08:32

Ron Eff" wrote: ↑11 Jul 2025, 08:14

Keep dreaming" wrote: ↑10 Jul 2025, 23:17

What a moronic thing to say. If you blame this move on Kudus, and not Sullivan, then you have no working brain cells (in other word, you are a yid...)

 

Are we ignoring that this cսnt made a beeline for Spurs and in his cringey signing VT started it with “I only wanted Spurs”?

Sullivan is a prick, too, sure, but stop giving this wanker a free ride. 

Shit attitude last season at being asked to play on the left, and then makes clear he wants to sign for Spurs this summer. We used to treat these type of characters properly in previous decades. 

You're on a wind up right, every player who joins every club says shit like that when they join. We wanted to sell him he wasn't wanted and only one club came in for him. Was he supposed to say "nope I'll stay where I'm not wanted at a shit show of a club and turn down extra money and champions league" then say "I only came here because you were my only option" 


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Lee Trundle" wrote: ↑11 Jul 2025, 08:39 We've got a useless shitcunt of an owner, who is probably one of the most stupid men ever to own a Premier League football club.
We've got his sidekick Brady earning millions from the club for not doing much apart from suggesting to Sullivan to employ her mate Potter.
We have statisically (22% win ratio) the worst manager we've ever had at the club.
Our squad is currently MUCH worse than the one that finished the season so poorly.
We're selling players under their value.
We'll likely buy players over their market value.
The new kit's shit.

Anything else I've missed?

We've got a useless shitcunt of an owner, who is probably one of the most stupid men ever to own a Premier League football club.
We've got his sidekick Brady earning millions from the club for not doing much apart from suggesting to Sullivan to employ her mate Potter.
We have statisically (22% win ratio) the worst manager we've ever had at the club.
Our squad is currently MUCH worse than the one that finished the season so poorly.
We're selling players under their value.
We'll likely buy players over their market value.
The new kit's shit.

Anything else I've missed?