Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread

[stubbo-admin]

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

[fraser]

I want West Ham to keep our better players, especially ones that can excite us.

I know we're yet to see it, but I keep being told our coach is great at coaching the players he's got.  I'm sure 99% of coaches would love to have Kudus in their squad.

Issue is, other than his questionable temperament he apparently wants out anyway with the help of getting new Agents. If he's that keen to leave, then best to get in good money for him and bring someone in who does really want to be here.

Can't really blame him, what top player would want to be here, I don't even want to be here it's a fucking shit show. 

[Nutsin]

I agree with Trundle, I want Kudus to stay. We’re a better team with him in it. You know we’ll probably squander the money he brings anyway.

Get rid of Paqueta, smooth things over with Kudus and try him as a number 10 and have him play on the left or right if Bowen gets injured.

We all know how hard it is for our director to get real talent in the door, gonna be even harder now we are not in Europe and considered relegation fodder.

Keep Kudus at Lear for another year if not longer.

How many people do you want to replace in one window ffs.

* Try him at number 10, if it doesn’t work out him on the left and use him for cover for Bowen.

* keep Kudus here at least for another year.

[Nutsin]

I agree with Trundle, I want Kudus to stay. We’re a better team with him in it. You know we’ll probably squander the money he brings anyway.

Get rid of Paqueta, smooth things over with Kudus and try him as a number 10 and have him play on the left or right if Bowen gets injured.

We all know how hard it is for our director to get real talent in the door, gonna be even harder now we are not in Europe and considered relegation fodder.

Keep Kudus at Lear for another year if not longer.

How many people do you want to replace in one window ffs.

[Massive Attack]

I want West Ham to keep our better players, especially ones that can excite us.

I know we're yet to see it, but I keep being told our coach is great at coaching the players he's got.  I'm sure 99% of coaches would love to have Kudus in their squad.

Issue is, other than his questionable temperament he apparently wants out anyway with the help of getting new Agents. If he's that keen to leave, then best to get in good money for him and bring someone in who does really want to be here.

[Barty888]

Potter has tabled a 20 million pounds bid for the Feyenoord goalkeeper Justin Bijlow and is determined to sign him up

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Bijlow

[goose]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footb ... dline.html

we will probably wait until they close the loophole and miss out on this.

[collyrob]

Kudus is best on the right side, the problem is so is Bowen. 

I can live with him leaving, just not to those cunts

I honestly couldn’t give a toss where he goes, 

 

 

I really can’t get my head around that logic. 

if he was to go, I’d 100% prefer him to fuck off to Saudi or somewhere else in Europe than to one of our rivals.

[El Scorchio]

In an ideal world I'd like us to keep him and I bet Potter does as well, but I think his hand is being forced here by Sullivan and the player.

[Lee Trundle]

I want West Ham to keep our better players, especially ones that can excite us.

I know we're yet to see it, but I keep being told our coach is great at coaching the players he's got.  I'm sure 99% of coaches would love to have Kudus in their squad.

[Pub Bigot]

Kudus is best on the right side, the problem is so is Bowen. 

I can live with him leaving, just not to those cunts

I honestly couldn’t give a toss where he goes, just as long as the Brummie has money to spend on players. Whether we think it’ll be spent wisely is another discussion. 

It’s all about West Ham, fuck everyone else. 

[Massive Attack]

Kudus is best fucked off. For all his individualistic talent, he aint worth the agg as he aint much of a Team player. Sooner we get close to £80M and fucked off out of it, the better.

[collyrob]

Kudus is best on the right side, the problem is so is Bowen. 

I can live with him leaving, just not to those cunts

[El Scorchio]

Fenerbache paying 65m for Duran.

Remember all the bods on here thinking he was the next Messi 

 

 

I remember some bellend trying to pretend an old Aston kit was our new one.

[Mad Ferret]

The genesis of our problems last season was replacing Moyes with Lopefuckingtegui.

Not missing out on the mercenary Duran.

[threesixty]

Remember all the bods on here thinking he was the next Messi 

We would be in Europe if we’d just paid Villa what they wanted. Steiden would be on the jet getting the best players from the Club  World Cup. Now we have a shit manager, scraped past relegation and are selling our best players. 

proper sliding doors moment.. (something that happens all
the time with us ). 

Mate, turn it the fuck in.

He was never good enough to start every week for Villa, went to the Middle East, and has now ended up playing in fucking Turkey.

No way he was leading us into Europe.

Never good enough?
he’s fucking 21! 
he was trying to push to be no.1 over 28yr Watkins. That’s why he was acting up. At 21 he’s worth 60 odd million but wouldn’t have done anything for us? Lol

the geezer would have been in a forward line up of Bowen, Kudus with Paq was well? 

Above all he was a planned for and considered target and we fluffed it. And the replacement was 30+ German with an injury record.  You couldn’t make it up. If the fans think that’s ok, no wonder the board get away with so much shit. 

[Mad Ferret]

Fenerbache paying 65m for Duran.

Remember all the bods on here thinking he was the next Messi 

We would be in Europe if we’d just paid Villa what they wanted. Steiden would be on the jet getting the best players from the Club  World Cup. Now we have a shit manager, scraped past relegation and are selling our best players. 

proper sliding doors moment.. (something that happens all
the time with us ). 

Mate, turn it the fuck in.

He was never good enough to start every week for Villa, went to the Middle East, and has now ended up playing in fucking Turkey.

No way he was leading us into Europe.

[threesixty]

Fenerbache paying 65m for Duran.

Remember all the bods on here thinking he was the next Messi 

We would be in Europe if we’d just paid Villa what they wanted. Steiden would be on the jet getting the best players from the Club  World Cup. Now we have a shit manager, scraped past relegation and are selling our best players. 

proper sliding doors moment.. (something that happens all
the time with us ). 

[Mad Ferret]

Fenerbache paying 65m for Duran.

Remember all the bods on here thinking he was the next Messi 

[dealcanvey]

Fenerbache paying 65m for Duran.

[El Scorchio]

For me it's more WON'T pass. Tries to take on one too many players far too often. It's decision making for me which is very frustrating.

[Jaan Kenbrovin]

It’s absolute nonsense to suggest Kudus can’t pass. He had the second highest pass success rate last season, behind JWP. 




 

[onsideman]

I think he's far from average at any part of the game, however he prefers to play in the same position as our club captain so inevitably gets moved around and he doesn't have the temperament to cope with that.
He does excel in a counter-attacking set up and will unquestionably perform better in a side with better players (than most of the shit we have)



 

[El Scorchio]

Kudus has looked a lot better when we've sat deep and he's had space to run into ahead of him, rather than when he's been working a congested midfield.

I think he's got a lot of talent and of course is one of the best players we have at the club, but his decision making can be very poor and he often makes bad decisions concerning when to take someone on or just to pass it to someone else and runs into trouble or loses possession a lot. He's frustrating to watch at the moment.

However the main problem is I just don't think he wants to play for West Ham any more and I don't think he's been particularly playing for the team last season. Absolutely sees us as a stepping stone and wants to be playing European football. That's why from a playing point it may be for the best that he gets his move because I'm not sure his value to us will be higher than it is now. (Plus there's the thought that he or someone else must move on before we will start buying which I hate but we cannot ignore because we probably cannot strengthen those areas of the team that really need it unless he goes. And yes if it were a choice between him and Bowen I'd keep Bowen despite him likely bringing in a bit more cash because the guy clearly wants to play for us a lot more, is a much better team player and scores a lot more goals and would leave a bigger hole in the team)

In an ideal world if we didn't supposedly have to sell before we buy, you'd want to see him in a team with a functioning midfield under the proviso that he gives it his all and we won't stand in his way next summer, coming off a better season and improving his value. But it's not. I think it's inevitable he goes this summer for a price lower than he probably should, and will immediately become the player he was in his first season for us again for another team. It's going to be a kick in the cock and he'll be a bargain for someone. We will at least turn a profit but it's disappointing.

[threesixty]

All opinions, isn’t it. I’m well in the massively overrated camp on Kudus. Premier League coaches tend to work out unknown quantities quite quickly. He had success in his first season on that basis, but was IMO found out last season. It’s not that difficult with Kudus, if he can’t beat a player running with the ball he is completely ineffective. His passing is abysmal and he doesn’t have any football intelligence. Without those two attributes, you’ll never be world class. 

Happy to see him moved on for a profit, but would rather it not be to Spurs.  

 

The other way to look at it is that he is in a team that has no midfield options to pass to. Everyone is so fucking isolated in our team the further we move up the pitch. The only options are only backwards. Our midfield never move together to create triangles that are 5 yards apart that allow for proper passing football. 

it’s been like that since Moyes. The difference with Moyes is that it was all counter attacking so Kudus / Antonio or Bowen was often the furthest forward running against only 1 or 2 defenders. Now Potter wants more passing he has to have CM’s that can do that properly. 

I think kudus in a team that functions correctly in midfield is a potential world class player. Very few people can dribble past multiple PL league players and hold the ball up, plus can actially strike from range. The potential is all there. 

I don’t think there is any excuse for not being able to pass a football 5 or 10 yards. He’s good at the uncoachable parts of the game, but shit at the bits you can coach, which tells me he is either too arrogant or thick. 

Maybe I’m wrong and he’ll go and be successful somewhere, but I think he’s quite average as an all round player. 

I see what you’re saying. But just don’t think he would have excelled at Ajax either if he couldn’t pass. That’s a club that invented the whole tiki taka thing, total football thing. He must have been doing that over there. (Well im guessing as I’d only seen 1 game of his there and think he got a hat trick then ) 

[Ron Eff]

All opinions, isn’t it. I’m well in the massively overrated camp on Kudus. Premier League coaches tend to work out unknown quantities quite quickly. He had success in his first season on that basis, but was IMO found out last season. It’s not that difficult with Kudus, if he can’t beat a player running with the ball he is completely ineffective. His passing is abysmal and he doesn’t have any football intelligence. Without those two attributes, you’ll never be world class. 

Happy to see him moved on for a profit, but would rather it not be to Spurs.  

 

The other way to look at it is that he is in a team that has no midfield options to pass to. Everyone is so fucking isolated in our team the further we move up the pitch. The only options are only backwards. Our midfield never move together to create triangles that are 5 yards apart that allow for proper passing football. 

it’s been like that since Moyes. The difference with Moyes is that it was all counter attacking so Kudus / Antonio or Bowen was often the furthest forward running against only 1 or 2 defenders. Now Potter wants more passing he has to have CM’s that can do that properly. 

I think kudus in a team that functions correctly in midfield is a potential world class player. Very few people can dribble past multiple PL league players and hold the ball up, plus can actially strike from range. The potential is all there. 

I don’t think there is any excuse for not being able to pass a football 5 or 10 yards. He’s good at the uncoachable parts of the game, but shit at the bits you can coach, which tells me he is either too arrogant or thick. 

Maybe I’m wrong and he’ll go and be successful somewhere, but I think he’s quite average as an all round player.