Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread

[stubbo-admin]

Well seems like with all these international breaks, and us languishing, the rumours of ins and outs are rife.

Chuck anything 'worthy' of discussion on this thread...

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Incomings:

Pablo Felipe - €21m + €3m (Gil Vicente) | Forward
Valentin 'Taty' Castellanos - €26m + €4m (Lazio) | Forward
Adama Traore - £2m + £1m if stay up (Fulham) | Forward
Axel Disasi - Loan (Chelsea) | Centre Back
Keiber Lamadrid - £150k + £1m option | Attacking Mid

Outgoings:

Nicolas Füllkrug - 6 months loan (AC Milan)
Luis Guilherme - £17m + Sell On % (Sporting Lisbon)
George Earthy - 6 months loan (Bristol City)
Callum Marshall - 6 months loan (Bochum)
Andy Irving - 1.5m (Sparta Prague)
Guido Rodriguez - Undisclosed (Valencia)
Igor Julio - Loan Cancelled (Brighton)
James Ward Prowse - 6 months loan (Burnley)
Lucas Paqueta - £36.5m + Buy Back Clause (Flamengo)

[dealcanvey]

Apparently we rejected Flamengos 35m offer. Bonkers! 

in meantime Spurs are signing Gallagher for a similar price. 

[threesixty]

Dier did well at Bayern at think. Played all their CL games. 
strange that he’s a proper Portuguese speaker so could do well with Nuno! 

[gpike]

Thought Dier was pony but compared to the greek disaster and Kilmen I would have him all day long

[smartypants]

Tbf I can see Dier possibly turning into a Dawson like signing, which would obviously be good, he is a leader who gets stuck in 

[Massive Attack]

it gets better, Eric Dier now linked

We are so fucking desperate. 

[Takashi Miike]

it gets better, Eric Dier now linked

[Eerie Decent]

This is not a difficult situation at all, if the offer is genuine.

If he was as good as maverick as some are suggesting, we wouldn't be the worst team in the league.

It is if you spend more than three seconds thinking about it. Give it a go and get back to me. 

You not been watching this season?  Are you aware of the position we are in, when he's mostly been playing every week?

If we can somehow get close to £30mil for him, you would have to be an idiot of colossal proportions to have to give it more than 3 seconds to come to the correct conclusion.

[goose]

If we can replace him with someone who can take a penalty and not constantly give the ball away in dangerous areas then we’re already ahead.

[Vexed]

This is not a difficult situation at all, if the offer is genuine.

If he was as good as maverick as some are suggesting, we wouldn't be the worst team in the league.

It is if you spend more than three seconds thinking about it. Give it a go and get back to me. 

[Eerie Decent]

This is not a difficult situation at all, if the offer is genuine.

If he was as good as maverick as some are suggesting, we wouldn't be the worst team in the league.

[Vexed]

The Club idiotically still want to keep him! That's how bad they are at decision making. Let go of a good thing when not under pressure to sell them and would prefer to keep hold of something that costs us. Across the board their decisions are permanently backwards. 

I think the club are in an awkward spot with this and for once it's not really their doing. On the outside at least they appear to have done right by thicko Lucas, and his behaviour probably guarantees they never will again. 

Is it 1) better to keep your flakey but very talented footballer even if he's playing at 50%? or 2) sell him for decent money given his form but not be able to replace him adequately because we're toxic waste and going down so nobody wants to come here? The likelihood in option two is Sully would either trouser the entire amount or take a wild punt on some other Mendes mercenary for way over their worth and way over price we'd have to sell them for in six months time. 

If we're wriggling around on the hook going down the mercenary route I'd rather we approached some shit hot players on six months loan, like five or six players at once and financially incentive them to keep us up, like the Bowyer deal back in the day, but hopefully with more success. 
​​​​​​Or spunk it all on some up and coming 18-20 year olds that will play in the championship and start prepping for a few years down there and building a squad of youngsters we can get behind. 

This is a minor disaster among a series of other disasters and bad luck this season. Fucking ridiculous club. Pathetic cսnt of a player too. 

Also, do we really want to stay up just to do this again next season? 

[Massive Attack]

The Club idiotically still want to keep him! That's how bad they are at decision making. Let go of a good thing when not under pressure to sell them and would prefer to keep hold of something that costs us. Across the board their decisions are permanently backwards. 

[Sir Alf]

Yes the fee being mentioned makes selling him the right move but its always the Sullivan factor that puts a damper on things. Will he listen, use the fee wisely to strengthen us properly / listen to the manager, Max Hahn  etc or simply see this as the way to cover what he just spent on 2 Temu forwards? 

[gpike]

Delighted he is going and if we get some dough for him as well all the better 

[threesixty]

He’s a big name player. But unfortunately not a game changer for us historically. The stats don’t lie. I love the odd magic but in reality we are 18th and we’ve had him all season. So it doesn’t look like he’s the difference so might as well get someone in who might be. 

[Keep dreaming]

Agree with a few others here.
We should gladly accept that offer and spend asap to find an attacking midfielder who wants to play for West Ham.

Good riddance 

[Massive Attack]

What fucks me off even more now about this timely revelation is the manager has bent over backwards hanging his hat relying on him to the point he displaced Wilson up top so he could cram him in bang out of form. Then we compound it further by being on the verge of selling Wilson but also loaned out Earthy before this prima donna now wants out. He should have been the 1st out the door at the opening of the window, keep the other options whilst spending the Paqueta money on more new recruits. 

You can't miss something we've rarely had this season and it helps cut out all the lingering cancer Paqueta was causing us with his piss poor form and petulance. 

The Club has long fucked up pandering constantly to Paquetas tune and he doesn't deserve the amount of time and effort we devoted for him when it was never close to being reciprocated.

[Mad Dog]

Anyone offers us 35m, bite their fucking arm off.  He has talent but what's the use if hes always rolling around on the floor or giving the ball away.  

He has cost us quite a few goals by fucking around at corners too

[Fauxstralian]

Doubt a Brazilian club could afford him
Dont even care if he goes to Tottenham 
Move him on and get someone in who gives a shit
He is a current Brazilian international & his price should reflect that

If we do sell him can we then slip the FA any evidence we have that would see him banned over the betting stuff?

[Mad Ferret]

USELESS PAQUETA

[Massive Attack]

It's a myth he even produced plenty of assists to the assists - why don't we go further and count the assists to the assists to the assists - in any case.

Liability Lucas has cost us in so many ways and his ill discipline was the final piped icing of shit on a dogturd cake.

£35M is good considering how poorly he has performed for 2 and a half seasons now. Cut our losses ans run with it. If a bit more with add ons, even better.

Muggy selfish wanker..

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... n-flamengo

[Eerie Decent]

Paqueta is our only maverick, and whilst frustrating has also been the architect of a lot of things we have done well too.

As last night shows, we lack any kind of playmaker or creative influence when he's out of the side.  If you look at all the numbers, he's either a very creative central midfielder, or a very hard working attacking midfielder.

He's not perfect or even close, but he's the player that gives us a bit of mystery or unpredictability. And he is the second highest rated player across our season so far.

To let him go wihtout a suitable replacement lined up in our current position would be unthinkable.  He's the player in the squad that can make the progressive passes we need to set out attacking players away...he looks to assist the assist if you like.

If yo ucould say to me, Paqueta is off and Hayden Hackney will be through the door...then maybe.  Or Rolando Schmid.  But without someone lined up we'd be mental to let one of our best players leave right now unless we've given up and are just looking to cash in while we can.

 

 

We're 18th in the league, and he has contributed the square root of fuck all this season. Assist to the assist ffs, we need more than that, he has downed tools. The red card against Liverpool was the final straw with him.

I was in his corner previously, but if we can somehow nick that sort of dough, and sign 2 centre halfs on the back of it, that gives us more chance of staying up then hoping this chancer might do the odd spectacular thing at this stage.

Good riddance. 

[honky cat]

To let him go wihtout a suitable replacement lined up in our current position would be unthinkable. 
 

He's given nothing but the impression that he wants out all season. The cheapest and easiest option for our cheapskate owners would be for him to stay for the rest of the season, put a shift in and hope we can claw back those 7 points. They're letting him go, cos he wants to go.

Please god we stay up, if only to show him up for what he is.

[Russ of the BML]

Paqueta is our only maverick, and whilst frustrating has also been the architect of a lot of things we have done well too.

As last night shows, we lack any kind of playmaker or creative influence when he's out of the side.  If you look at all the numbers, he's either a very creative central midfielder, or a very hard working attacking midfielder.

He's not perfect or even close, but he's the player that gives us a bit of mystery or unpredictability. And he is the second highest rated player across our season so far.

To let him go wihtout a suitable replacement lined up in our current position would be unthinkable.  He's the player in the squad that can make the progressive passes we need to set out attacking players away...he looks to assist the assist if you like.

If yo ucould say to me, Paqueta is off and Hayden Hackney will be through the door...then maybe.  Or Rolando Schmid.  But without someone lined up we'd be mental to let one of our best players leave right now unless we've given up and are just looking to cash in while we can.

"But he's the player that gives us a bit of mystery or unpredictability"

No he isn't. He is as predictable as my week day alarm. 

Doesn't put in maximum effort. And any bit of skill he tries to be unpredictable, predictably goes wrong and he gives it away or ends our attack. The bloke switch off ages ago. Massive cսnt in my eyes. 

Saying someone is unpredictable when they are predictable because they used to be unpredictable is very predictable. 

[El Scorchio]

We're going to love a lot of money on all of them barring Todibo. We may break even or make a modest profit on him but no chance on the others. Big losses. Terrible buys all three of them. Mav by far the least poor just because he wasn't THAT expensive although still overpriced and at least his attitude is in check even if his ability isn't up to scratch. 

 

He's been better this season, but we'd not get anywhere near our money back on him, unless he was prepared to go to Saudi. Other clubs do their homework, and he still can't head the ball, we'd be lucky to get £15mil for him.

You may be right- we'd make the smallest relative loss to fee in on him most likely.