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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

Sullivan does not want to pay fee Prague are asking for. Shy by a few million as usual. Fortunately silkman or Salthouse will have someone available instead

Looks like we finally have some movement. Hopefully the left back gets tied up.

that Exwhu reckons we are in advanced talks for a young Japanese GK from Parma. Not seen it mentioned elsewhere.

Lee Trundle" wrote: ↑04 Jul 2025, 08:37 I hope we've found a buyer for Emerson, otherwise it's not really a position that really needed looking at, IMO.

Keep dreaming" wrote: ↑05 Jul 2025, 11:19

John Drake" wrote: ↑04 Jul 2025, 06:50 "we seem to be shopping in the lower price brackets for players…"

Or that could be seen in a positive light. Recruit emerging talent and sell on at a profit rather than paying over the odds for established players who have little residual value at the end of their contracts.

Buying low and selling high is arguably the only way West Ham can hope to develop as a club 

IF that only was the case. You think Sullivan is close to being RB Leipzig?

John Drake" wrote: ↑04 Jul 2025, 06:50 "we seem to be shopping in the lower price brackets for players…"

Or that could be seen in a positive light. Recruit emerging talent and sell on at a profit rather than paying over the odds for established players who have little residual value at the end of their contracts.

Buying low and selling high is arguably the only way West Ham can hope to develop as a club 

Again though. Suddenly, nothing happened.

Other reports say this Diouf will be having a medical this weekend
What to believe?
My expectation is that Kudus is close. Reports are that we’d accept £60m and Tottenham have supposedly bid 50 then 55
If I was guessing I’d expect Chelsea will come in with £60m and leave Tottenham hanging about with their dicks in their hands

If that happens we maybe will do Diouf & the Celta Vigo defender Oscar Mingueza for two thirds of that leaving room for one of the midfielders we’ve been dithering over
PURE SPECULATION of course

As for Emerson … if we were BUYING a 31yo Italian international with a full set of European club medals what do you reckon we’d be quoted?

I read this morning that WHU fanzines are treading back on the Diouf signing not yet being agreed.

How could it be when Sullivan hasn't sold anyone yet so no chance....

goose wrote: ↑04 Jul 2025, 11:22 This Diouf fella looks like a decent player. I hope this gets done.

if you think we can get £15-£20m for a player that turns 31 next month, reportedly on +£90k a week

that we paid £15m for 3 years ago, and hasn't dramatically improved in that time

You are a very optimistic person! i hope I'm proven wrong though 

I remember him playing well against England, mind you that's no yard stick really.

This Diouf fella looks like a decent player. I hope this gets done.

I don't know much about this El Hadj Diouf fella but hopefully he's a much better egg than the one who liked covering supporters in spit and driving around in a gold painted beemer or jeep

Young players from Europe & the Championship around the £20m mark with improvement in them is where we SHOULD be shopping 
Emerson was looking for an Italian exit last summer so same again I’d say. Should be able to get £15m-£20m for him & mostly pay for his replacement 
If we can get the young centre half Cresswell for around £20m then could shift Aguerd or Mavropanos on a similar deal.
The key area is midfield of course … need to get on with it there

We're shopping in the right price bracket in my opinion.

Not many of our big money deals have actually worked out well have they?

 

Apparently this player can play centre back too is young pacey and athletic. Definitely something we need on the left hand side, Scarles can't be our regular wing back as not good enough going forward. Surely Emerson is going. 

I hope we've found a buyer for Emerson, otherwise it's not really a position that really needed looking at, IMO.

Yeah there is the hope that for once Macaulay and Potter’s scouting and analysis is so good that no one is really aware of some of the players we have identified. This Diouf might be an example of that as only us and one Italian club mentioned as making bids. But that would seem unlikely and a first since all clubs employ scouting networks across the globe and teams of data analysts. I suppose Brighton and Bournemouth have proved you can get players at the £20 - 30 million price point like Baleba and Edmilson etc that are exceptional but this is West Ham and Sullivan involved.  He believes he is still the best talent spotter and deal maker in football

"we seem to be shopping in the lower price brackets for players…"

Or that could be seen in a positive light. Recruit emerging talent and sell on at a profit rather than paying over the odds for established players who have little residual value at the end of their contracts.

Buying low and selling high is arguably the only way West Ham can hope to develop as a club 

we seem to be shopping in the lower price brackets for players…

Sign of the times…Sell your high value assets/players…

Replae with cheap options…

Likely result… Relegation battles ahead…

The Sullivan Brady CON JOB…

Goose, probably best not to tempt fate with Sullivan now handling all negotiations.

He will probably “move the goal posts” at the last minute by insisting on a 5 year payment scheme or part of the fee to be based on “add ons” like West Ham winning the treble including Champs league. Slavia Prague will get pissed off with beimg disrespected etc and deal collapses. Alternatively, he will bid £2 million or so less in “take it or leave it” style so the deal collapses last minute. Then an alternative turns up out of thin air via Barry Silkman, Will Salthouse or Mackay.

Sullivan simply cannot be trusted. He is duplicitious and dishonest in equal measure. 

We might actually sign a player

Sounds like a replacement for Emerson.

Always knew we’d end up with El Hadj Diouf.

Jiří Sodoma
@Sodomic33
Here we go, the deal is done and El Hadji Malick Diouf will become the most expensive transfer in Czech league history.

The transfer could reach a fee of up to 25 million euros. @WestHam_Central

I genuinely don’t believe there’s going to be a single signing of any note 
Sullivan has this fan base sussed 
he’s been lying through his teeth about PSR and there’s barely been a reaction 
He doesn’t want to spend and he’s got no reason to