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• Ewan Ferguson, ST (Brighton)
• Carney Chukwumeka, CM (Chelsea)
• Carlos Soler, CM (PSG, Loan to Perm)
• Emmanuel Latte Lath, ST (Middlesbrough)
• Shea Charles, CM (Southampton)
• Ezekiel Banzuzi, CM (Leuven)
• Arthur Carbral, ST (Benfica)
• Taiwo Awoniyi, ST (Forest)
• Igor Jesus, ST (Botofogo)
• Marcus Rashford, FW (Man Utd)
• Jonathan David, ST (Lille)
• Evann Guessand, ST, (Nice)
• Randal Kolo Muani, ST, (PSG)
• Kieran Dewsbury-Hall , CM, (Chelsea)
• André Silva, ST, (RB Leipzig)
• Elye Wahi, ST, (Marseille)
• Kristjan Asllani, CM, (Inter)
• Rodrigo Muniz, ST, (Fulham)
• Callum Wilson, ST, (Newcastle)
• Ansu Fati, AM, (Barcelona)
• Angel Gomes, CM, (Lille, pre-contract)
• Adam Webster, CB, (Brighton)
• Brian Brobbey, ST, (Ajax)
• Ricardo Pepi, ST, (PSV)
• James McAtee, MF, (Man City)
• Yuri Alberto, ST, (Corinthians)
• Tyler Morton, DM, (Liverpool)

• Kudus (Liverpool, Newcastle, Arsenal)
• Fullkrüg (Juventus)
• Rodriguez (Betis)
• Alvarez (Monaco)
• Emerson (Juventus)
• Luis Guilherme (Al Hilal)

• Josh Landers (!), ST (Hibernian)
• James Ward-Prowse, MF, (Nottigham Forest | Return from loan)
• Evan Ferguson, ST, (Brighton, Loan...no option/obligation to buy)

• Max Cornet (Genoa, Loan)
• Favour Fawunmi
• Sean Tarima
• Junior Robinson — Sutton United (loan)
• Regan Clayton — Dagenham & Redbridge (loan)
• Brad Dolaghan — Aldershot Town (loan)
• Michael Forbes — Colchester United (loan)
• Krisztian Hegyi — Debreceni (loan)

stubbo wrote: ↑20 Jan 2025, 10:51

El Scorchio" wrote: ↑20 Jan 2025, 10:43

dealcanvey wrote: ↑20 Jan 2025, 10:12 Not following the championship but must be some HG prospects there that can improve us?

I see Palace signed that winger from Millwall. Eze has worked out brilliantly for them as did Bowen for us.

not sure why we don’t look there anymore? Last one being Downes and I thought he was a tidy player. Better than that Argentinian tortoise we currently have anyway. 

 

To be fair, it's becoming hard to even find that much value in the championship now (at least compared to a guarantee of the player performing in the prermier league as well) Gone are the days of 5 million bargains. Seems like teams are paying 25-30 mill for young champ prospects now.

"Interesting" tit-bit on this I read was that Newman in conjunction with the academy wanted to go about signing the best 15 to 18 year olds form the Category 2 and 3 acadamies to bring into our academy.  Would work out about 250k per signing.

They did the ground work, presented the list...and Sullivan threw it out because he 'couldn't see the point or value in it'.

The man at the top is at best incompetent, and at worst deliberatly sabotaging in favour of himself.  While he's there, any discussion about our incomings which is grounded in sense or logic is largely pointless.

The energy woul dbe better put into a campaign to oust Sullivan.

Best start for me would be establishing some kind of chant to be used home and away that targets the guy and makes him start to feel very uncomfortable.  Sounds weak, but he'd hate it.

El Scorchio" wrote: ↑20 Jan 2025, 10:43

dealcanvey wrote: ↑20 Jan 2025, 10:12 Not following the championship but must be some HG prospects there that can improve us?

I see Palace signed that winger from Millwall. Eze has worked out brilliantly for them as did Bowen for us.

not sure why we don’t look there anymore? Last one being Downes and I thought he was a tidy player. Better than that Argentinian tortoise we currently have anyway. 

 

To be fair, it's becoming hard to even find that much value in the championship now (at least compared to a guarantee of the player performing in the prermier league as well) Gone are the days of 5 million bargains. Seems like teams are paying 25-30 mill for young champ prospects now.

dealcanvey wrote: ↑20 Jan 2025, 10:12 Not following the championship but must be some HG prospects there that can improve us?

I see Palace signed that winger from Millwall. Eze has worked out brilliantly for them as did Bowen for us.

not sure why we don’t look there anymore? Last one being Downes and I thought he was a tidy player. Better than that Argentinian tortoise we currently have anyway. 

dealcanvey wrote: ↑20 Jan 2025, 10:12 Not following the championship but must be some HG prospects there that can improve us?

I see Palace signed that winger from Millwall. Eze has worked out brilliantly for them as did Bowen for us.

not sure why we don’t look there anymore? Last one being Downes and I thought he was a tidy player. Better than that Argentinian tortoise we currently have anyway. 

stubbo wrote: ↑20 Jan 2025, 10:10

fraser wrote: ↑20 Jan 2025, 08:55

stubbo wrote: ↑19 Jan 2025, 21:58 So as most will know I've been staunchly in the 'give Guilherme a chance and time' camp since his arrival, as well as the 'Steidten isn't the devil' camp.

However...having trawled the KUMB January transfer thread for any interesting info amongst all the dribbling shite, one of their two meaningful ITKs (DDH) has dropped in in a couple of places that the Guilherme deal is comsidered very suspect beyond footballing reasons, and that Steidten has been investigated for some of his deals with the Guilherme deal throwing up some red flags that aren't football related. 

Sounds like the club want Guilherme off the books for more than just footballing reasons, and that Steidten's deals made are potentially suspect. 

Watch this space I guess.

That DDH is a colossal cսnt 

A know nothing colossal cսnt, or just a colossal cսnt?

fraser wrote: ↑20 Jan 2025, 08:55

stubbo wrote: ↑19 Jan 2025, 21:58 So as most will know I've been staunchly in the 'give Guilherme a chance and time' camp since his arrival, as well as the 'Steidten isn't the devil' camp.

However...having trawled the KUMB January transfer thread for any interesting info amongst all the dribbling shite, one of their two meaningful ITKs (DDH) has dropped in in a couple of places that the Guilherme deal is comsidered very suspect beyond footballing reasons, and that Steidten has been investigated for some of his deals with the Guilherme deal throwing up some red flags that aren't football related. 

Sounds like the club want Guilherme off the books for more than just footballing reasons, and that Steidten's deals made are potentially suspect. 

Watch this space I guess.

That DDH is a colossal cսnt 

stubbo wrote: ↑19 Jan 2025, 21:58 So as most will know I've been staunchly in the 'give Guilherme a chance and time' camp since his arrival, as well as the 'Steidten isn't the devil' camp.

However...having trawled the KUMB January transfer thread for any interesting info amongst all the dribbling shite, one of their two meaningful ITKs (DDH) has dropped in in a couple of places that the Guilherme deal is comsidered very suspect beyond footballing reasons, and that Steidten has been investigated for some of his deals with the Guilherme deal throwing up some red flags that aren't football related. 

Sounds like the club want Guilherme off the books for more than just footballing reasons, and that Steidten's deals made are potentially suspect. 

Watch this space I guess.

honky cat" wrote: ↑19 Jan 2025, 10:10

Tomshardware wrote: ↑19 Jan 2025, 08:02 When you invest poorly in the first place then it's a constant cycle of getting stuck with players who are ageing, not performing, not good enough.

Mateta cost palace less than 15m,  Wissa cost brentford 8.5m,  there are players out there but we don't seem to be scouting them.   Our recruitment hasn't been good enough for a long time now.   

 

This. I keep looking at decent mid priced players brought in by other clubs that seem 'less attractive' than west ham. Maybe i am deluded about our place in the world, are we seen as a shit club?  Or the recruitment is shocking compared to fulham/palace/brighton/bournemouth etc
i looked at our squad yesterday and crossed out 12 players that need to be gone asap or who might want to go . That was being generous and keeping a few unpopulars like mavro etc and not selling kudus and or paq. So a wholesale change in personnel is needed. The last club to attempt this in one season was Forest when they shifted lingard etc, and they looked in trouble for a while but obvs its paid off this season. Are we able to do the same. It would take a massive shift in how and who does our business. I like potter but feel a bit low today that we wont be able to get the players we need in. 

Takashi Miike" wrote: ↑19 Jan 2025, 09:11

Tomshardware wrote: ↑19 Jan 2025, 08:02 When you invest poorly in the first place then it's a constant cycle of getting stuck with players who are ageing, not performing, not good enough.

Mateta cost palace less than 15m,  Wissa cost brentford 8.5m,  there are players out there but we don't seem to be scouting them.   Our recruitment hasn't been good enough for a long time now.   

Toms, it will always be a problem when our owner likes dealing with a certain group of agents. It's a clear conflict of interest, but he continues to do it. It's also a problem (and nothing to with Potter) employing sub standard managers when you're paying out £40-50m on talent, as these useless fucking managers devalue most of the talent as soon as they walk through the door (Rice being a rare example of not being affected by this)

onsideman wrote: ↑19 Jan 2025, 10:33

zico wrote: ↑18 Jan 2025, 23:14 Like the look of that Bournemouth left back. Looked decent every time i've seen him but sad to say why would he leave Bournemouth to come to West Ham right now!

We should have courted and scouted him when we played 2 legs against AZ and all the pre-tie talk was about this young left back of theirs. 

zico wrote: ↑18 Jan 2025, 23:14 Like the look of that Bournemouth left back. Looked decent every time i've seen him but sad to say why would he leave Bournemouth to come to West Ham right now!

Tomshardware wrote: ↑19 Jan 2025, 08:02 When you invest poorly in the first place then it's a constant cycle of getting stuck with players who are ageing, not performing, not good enough.

Mateta cost palace less than 15m,  Wissa cost brentford 8.5m,  there are players out there but we don't seem to be scouting them.   Our recruitment hasn't been good enough for a long time now.   

Tomshardware wrote: ↑19 Jan 2025, 08:02 When you invest poorly in the first place then it's a constant cycle of getting stuck with players who are ageing, not performing, not good enough.

Mateta cost palace less than 15m,  Wissa cost brentford 8.5m,  there are players out there but we don't seem to be scouting them.   Our recruitment hasn't been good enough for a long time now.