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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

Sounds exactly like a typical Sullivan singing then!

I'd be questioning his sanity if he is prepared to wipe off £16m of his contract he's got with City.

England had still been picking him even though he's not been playing for City.  That obviously might change now with Tuchel and his Chelsea love-in with England, and he might know that.

He'd have to be prepared to take an enormous wage cut, and he can just sit on the bench at City if he wants to, and pick up 300K a week for doing nothing. If he REALLY wants to play football then maybe he'll agree to slash his wages, but at 29 it might not be so important to him vs financial security. I'd imagine if he goes anywhere it'll be back to Villa if they want him because he clearly loves that club and if he's going to play out of his skin for anyone, it's them. Doubt Rashford ends up there. 

This is always what makes me wary about picking up players who have fallen out of favour at those massive clubs where they are used to winning trophies and on silly money. They are inevitably very expensive, on the downside of their career, and want security from us AND very likely have no resale value. Some of this applies to any player over the age of 30 as well. It doesn't really make good business sense. You have to be absolutely sure Grealish in this instance is going to have the absolute bit between his teeth and go out to prove Guardiola and everyone else absolutely wrong. Often players in his situation don't. They just don't have that fire any more. I'd imagine even if he agreed to drop his wages, we're looking at 150k a week minimum and we'd be tied into at least 4-5 years where his play and value is only going to drop further. All we'll have actually done is relieved Man City of an expensive millstone and put it around our own necks instead. There's no doubt he's better than almost everyone at the club, but deals like this really don't often make a lot of sense especially long term. There may be a short term burst like from Lingard and did we ever dodge a bullet not signing him permanently. We need to be targeting players coming up the other side of the bell curve rather than one sliding down the other side of it.

Season long loan deal with heavily subsidised wages? Maybe. Permanent deal? Alarm bells.

If he wants to play football then he'll have to take a wage cut, the poor sod. He might go abroad, or back to Villa, who knows, but suspect his time at City is up now. World cup next summer too.

Swiss. wrote: ↑05 Jun 2025, 11:56

Lee Trundle" wrote: ↑05 Jun 2025, 11:45 How do you propose we pay his £300k a week wages?

Grealish is a nice thought, but a pipe dream.

Well I'm sure who will pay that for him now anyway. They recon only 30m transfer fee. At 29 I'm not sure this would be a good move though.

Lee Trundle" wrote: ↑05 Jun 2025, 11:45 How do you propose we pay his £300k a week wages?

Grealish is a nice thought, but a pipe dream.

How do you propose we pay his £300k a week wages?

Grealish is a nice thought, but a pipe dream.

Funny as recently I was just thinking of the prospect of Grealish playing for us and I saw on Newsnow there is a rumour this could happen. He woudl fit well into our left side with Bowen on the right and a no 9 like Fullkrug in the centre. I recon that would be good offensive line up.

Yup. Whoever is manager and head of scouting/recruitment can identify all the players they want and submit their wishlist (and haven't we just lt some slip through our fingers in recent years) but at the end of the day Sullivan always thinks he knows better on his own hunches and whims than the people who spend hours and weeks poring over these things can torpedo a deal for any player he 'doesn't fancy' or impose on the manager any player he does, regardless of whether they'll be any use whatsoever. Chopping and changing anyone else in the club is only addressing a symptom rather then the root cause. No other company would function properly or be successful in this fashion. We're only really staying in the Premier league despite him to an extent, and by virtue that we are a big enough club we usually have just about enough quality or spending power to dig ourselves out of a hole each time we fall into one. We'll get caught out sooner or later though.
 

To be honest I'm not holding my breath regarding this transfer window. We all know who the main problem is at our club and it's very little to do with whatever manager we have in situ.

We'll be linked all summer long to young up and coming players with potential only to hesitate and allow another club to get the signing over the line. Usually clubs that are far more modest and have less resources but are exemplary at doing their due diligence and homework. You gotta put the work in yourself - relying on agents to come up trumps is a false economy more often than not.

At least halfway into the window we'll show up at the bring and buy sale or flea market maybe even at the harbour expecting a juicy sardine to fall off the back of the trawler like a famous Frenchman once said.

Otherwise it's going to be an old antique which used to shine like the sun but is now beyond full restoration other than some cosmetic window dressing. Faded glamour and all that. We know the score, so does his offspring as does Vanessa Gold. 

However he's still there - surely something is brewing? It's been beyond credibility for quite some time now

Mad Ferret" wrote: ↑04 Jun 2025, 22:23 Ramsdale and Sterling thru the door would be solid business.

BerlingtonBertie wrote: ↑05 Jun 2025, 07:33 Just a fat loud mouth Ange Manuel.
Loser who is on this site 24/7 - keyboard bully and twat.


 

Just a fat loud mouth Ange Manuel.
Loser who is on this site 24/7 - keyboard bully and twat.
 

Ramsdale a massive uninspiring no from me. We've already got a decent shot stopper who is crap with the ball at his feet. Ramsdale has a frantic air about him too IMO.

This smacks of agent talk anyway IMO. Supposedly Potter and more specifically MacCauley are being 'data led' in their targets, with the Club having invested in this area.

Ramsdale's stats are pretty ropey. His wages are expensive. And he wouldn't be cheap either.  Just don't see us signing someone of his ilk to be number 2, and don't see us making a signing that at the outset makes 120k per week Areola number 2.

 

BerlingtonBertie wrote: ↑05 Jun 2025, 05:55 Just rename this forum Manuelonline,
And swap him for Potter so we have our very own Fat Ange know it all.

Just rename this forum Manuelonline,
And swap him for Potter so we have our very own Fat Ange know it all.

I think to be fair, Ramsdale is a bit better than Areola and also Fabianski as he is just getting too old. But it's not much of an upgrade and doesn't show much ambition. Sterling would be another expensive Ings bench warmer.

Apart from the fact that Ramsdale is a liability, if we're short of dough why would we lay out 20 large on a keeper? Makes no sense to me, so I'm calling beard on this. We will probably try to loan the cսnt, if anything.

Ramsdale and Sterling thru the door would be solid business.

Aaron Ramsdale is set for salvation after a season from hell by holding talks over a move to West Ham, talkSPORT understands.

The 27-year-old conceded 66 of the Saints 86 goals in their relegation campaign that was almost record-breaking with just 12 points collected - one more than Derby’s all-time low.

Yet his involvement didn’t deter West Ham manager Graham Potter, who remains impressed by Ramsdale’s stints in the top flight at Arsenal, Sheffield United and Bournemouth.

Ramsdale won’t come cheap, though, with Southampton hoping for £20million in exchange for a player they paid £18m for just under a year ago.

However, the south coast team are looking to offload his hefty £100,000 per-week wages as they gear up for their Championship return.


We never fucking learn.  

Mad Ferret" wrote: ↑04 Jun 2025, 15:13 Sterling would be a useful addition.

Tomshardware wrote: ↑04 Jun 2025, 21:12 Chelsea have signed Delap for 30 million.  

Chelsea have signed Delap for 30 million.  

goose wrote: ↑04 Jun 2025, 20:14

Mad Ferret" wrote: ↑04 Jun 2025, 20:01 Dreamland if you think we’re getting any more than £50m for Kudus.

I’ll have a bet with you chutney ferret son.
If we sell Kudus, he will got for £50m or more.

Loser never posts on here again.

Wouldn’t bother. He’ll only carry on under a new username after he’s lost the bet. 

Mad Ferret" wrote: ↑04 Jun 2025, 20:01 Dreamland if you think we’re getting any more than £50m for Kudus.