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
I’m referring to last season, when he clearly threw his toys out of the pram being asked to play on the left.
It wasn’t Paqueta’s chosen position the season prior either, but he just got on with it.
You know the two players are completely different, right? Paqueta didn't suddenly play as a left winger, running with the ball, bunging crosses in, etc. He played his own game, same as he does in the centre, fancy tricks, slick passing, careless giving the ball away. It made little difference to him that he was played wider. In some ways he might have preferred it as he linked up well with Emerson.
Kudus, on the other hand, his whole game is about running with the ball TOWARDS the goal. Not away from it. Not running it to the corner flag or being pushed sideways or backwards as the defender knows how to play him (which is what mostly happened). I don't blame him for getting an attitude about it. I blame the idiots in charge for not seeing what a piss poor decision it was to play him there again and again and again.
Lopetegui in particular should have put Bowen up front with Kudus on the right rather than playing the completely ineffectual Antonio in the centre. Potter I could understand a bit more as he doesn't like that sort of direct running anyway. He probably actually liked Kudus just keeping the ball and running backwards and sideways with it. Got to keep those possession stats up.
Re: Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread
Posted: 07 Jul 2025, 03:42
by Monsieur merde de cheval
Ive never taken to Kudus...he's always been a short term flipper for me... .
good riddance ...60 minimum and we've made a tidy profit on a geezer who is massively overrated
Re: Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread
Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 21:52
by Massive Attack
E6 Hammer" wrote: ↑06 Jul 2025, 21:45
I honestly thought the days of us acting as a stepping stone for players going to Spurs were years gone!
Give it the old RAZZLE, DAZZLE
Re: Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread
Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 21:45
by E6 Hammer
I honestly thought the days of us acting as a stepping stone for players going to Spurs were years gone!
Re: Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread
Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 21:40
by Massive Attack
Unless Sullivan manages to get Levy paying over the odds for Kudus, he shouldn't be doing business with that cսnt for 1 of our best playing assets (albeit with a suspect attitude). If he gets close to the release clause then fair enough but any talk of £50M with staggered payments on the never, never means Spurs are getting the best deal out of this by a long way.
Ideally he's just been stringing the gollum wanker along and at the last minute sells Kudus to someone else for much more, but this is Sullivan we are talking about here who has a long history of fucking up business in our interests..
Re: Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread
Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 21:07
by Fauxstralian
I imagine if Chelsea came in he’d go there
Also read that his agent told Liverpool that he’d take a pay cut to join them
Anywhere but our clown show I expect
Re: Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread
Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 20:35
by Maverick180180
No other West Ham sites are mentioning it though
you can bet your life Sullivan was straight on the phone telling them to write about it
Re: Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread
Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 20:33
by Jaan Kenbrovin
The story of Kudus only wanting a Spurs move came from Fabrizio Romano, not C&H/Sullivan.
Re: Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread
Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 20:28
by Maverick180180
El Scorchio" wrote: ↑06 Jul 2025, 19:29
Classic Sullivan tactics. Try to make a villain of the player/manager/staff member in the hope they get the blame for his actions or inactions.
This is why I can’t stand the piece of shit
I’m used to having unambitious owners who love to cash in on our best players, but this is the only one that tries to make out it’s not his choice or fault
He honestly reminds me of a Bond villain,
manipulates the media for his own narrative like Elliott Carver from Tomorrow Never Dies, same weasel appearance as Nik Nak from the Man with the Golden Gun and a bird that looks like fucking Jaws from the Spy who Loved Me standing by his side
Re: Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread
Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 20:15
by boleyn8420
Surely this is simple. Release clause is £85m for a Premirr League team. Pay it or fuck off.
Bowen always makes a decent fist of playing up front. It’s embarrassing how bad Kudus is on the left for a left footed player. Seems to have no ability or confidence to take someone on on the outside and cross with his favoured foot. I understand players have favoured sides, but do I think Bowen would have a better stab at left wing than Kudus? Absolutely. He has a better attitude for starters. It just so happens he is better than him on the right as well. And up front.
People make way too many excuses for Kudus playing on the left. He was generally average when he played on the right, too.
I don't think that Kudus was "generally average" in his first season, when he mainly played on the right. 18 goals and 10 assists in his first season in England is excellent by anyone's standards. Not fucking average at all.
Last season, under Lopetegui he started 4 times on the right (3 of them vs Chelsea, Man City and Liverpool which the manager didn't even try to win, the other vs Wolves where we won and Kudus got an assist). Under Potter he started twice on the right (1 win, 1 draw, 1 assist). He was given very few chances to be at his best.
As for Bowen I tend to agree that he would have been better than Kudus on the left, but we'll never know will we? I guarantee that he wouldn't have played as well as he does from the right or up front though.
I’m referring to last season, when he clearly threw his toys out of the pram being asked to play on the left.
It wasn’t Paqueta’s chosen position the season prior either, but he just got on with it.
Re: Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread
Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 19:29
by El Scorchio
Classic Sullivan tactics. Try to make a villain of the player/manager/staff member in the hope they get the blame for his actions or inactions.
Re: Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread
Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 19:04
by Maverick180180
Kudus is off to spurs then
the hobbit cսnt is using his mouth piece claret and hugh to put it out there that Kudus wants to go to Tottenham, what better way to appease what he’s about to do than to try and make the fan base take it out on Kudus rather than him
nice try Sullivan, but no matter what you do no one will ever be as hated by this fanbase as much as you are you slimy cսnt
Re: Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread
Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 18:58
by dealcanvey
Sullivan and Levy negotiating with each other? This could drag on for a couple of years.
Re: Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread
Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 18:26
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
the exile" wrote: ↑06 Jul 2025, 18:19
Is it entirely beyond the bounds of possibility to suggest that Sullivan's failure to move in the transfer market might be a tactic to try to get Potter to resign?
Even a fuckwit like Sullivan knows that Potter won't resign. Someone who already has a chequered history is not going to quit when his current win rate is just 26%. Even if we buy no-one he won't do that much worse than he has already. And he can just use the lack of transfer funds as an excuse when he does inevitably get sacked (and also get the HUGE payout that goes with it).
Re: Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread
Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 18:19
by the exile
Is it entirely beyond the bounds of possibility to suggest that Sullivan's failure to move in the transfer market might be a tactic to try to get Potter to resign?
Bowen always makes a decent fist of playing up front. It’s embarrassing how bad Kudus is on the left for a left footed player. Seems to have no ability or confidence to take someone on on the outside and cross with his favoured foot. I understand players have favoured sides, but do I think Bowen would have a better stab at left wing than Kudus? Absolutely. He has a better attitude for starters. It just so happens he is better than him on the right as well. And up front.
People make way too many excuses for Kudus playing on the left. He was generally average when he played on the right, too.
I don't think that Kudus was "generally average" in his first season, when he mainly played on the right. 18 goals and 10 assists in his first season in England is excellent by anyone's standards. Not fucking average at all.
Last season, under Lopetegui he started 4 times on the right (3 of them vs Chelsea, Man City and Liverpool which the manager didn't even try to win, the other vs Wolves where we won and Kudus got an assist). Under Potter he started twice on the right (1 win, 1 draw, 1 assist). He was given very few chances to be at his best.
As for Bowen I tend to agree that he would have been better than Kudus on the left, but we'll never know will we? I guarantee that he wouldn't have played as well as he does from the right or up front though.
Re: Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread
Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 17:42
by Ron Eff
honky cat" wrote: ↑06 Jul 2025, 17:28
The truly great players always give it their all, regardless of the opposition or quality of the teammates. I think someone like Kudus would shine for a while elsewhere and then revert to type when things werent going his way. Bowen over him every time for me.
Even the Ghanaian fans think Kudus is a prick with an attitude problem, I gather.
Re: Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread
Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 17:28
by honky cat
The truly great players always give it their all, regardless of the opposition or quality of the teammates. I think someone like Kudus would shine for a while elsewhere and then revert to type when things werent going his way. Bowen over him every time for me.
Re: Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread
Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 17:17
by El Scorchio
Kudus probably has more raw talent and physical gifts but Bowen has ten times the attitude, heart and desire and is no Fucking slouch either.
I’d have Bowen every day over the Kudus that showed up last season. He carried the team on his back. No doubt Kudus will look the business when he’s somewhere else bothering to put full effort in but I don’t want a player that isn’t going to give their all every match
I'm on about Bowen being in poor form and anonymous in a lot of games due to being misused. Played out of position and ball played forwards too slowly with no space for him to run into due to Potter's crab ball. It suits hardly any of our players and if you think Bowen played anywhere close to his potential last season your eyes must be worse than mine.
You’ve got to be joking? 13 goals, and 21 direct goal involvements in 34 matches last season, for a struggling team that spent most of the season around 17th.
Let’s not compare Bowen to Kudus.
Lots of goals from Bowen and he was missing in a lot of games especially those when he was played out of position...My point was none of our players played to their potential.. 4 years ago Bowen wasn't as prolific as he is now and didn't start all the time, how do you think he would have managed stuck out on the left out of position?
Sorry, Fraser, that’s a load of bollocks. Bowen, as ever, was our standout last season, along with Wan-Bissaka.
Bowen always makes a decent fist of playing up front. It’s embarrassing how bad Kudus is on the left for a left footed player. Seems to have no ability or confidence to take someone on on the outside and cross with his favoured foot. I understand players have favoured sides, but do I think Bowen would have a better stab at left wing than Kudus? Absolutely. He has a better attitude for starters. It just so happens he is better than him on the right as well. And up front.
People make way too many excuses for Kudus playing on the left. He was generally average when he played on the right, too.
Re: Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread
Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 16:05
by Barty888
If Kudus goes to Tottenham Sullivan deserves to be put down.
Re: Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread
Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 14:57
by Mad Ferret
fraser,
Are you still off your nut from last night’s rave?
