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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 has, apparently, privately accepted that Cock Piss is done so he's locking the cheque book away.

He's likely to be allowed to limp on until January. Frees and loans with low intial fees, heavily subsidised wages and no obligation are all he'll sanction now. Bascially the PL's dregs.

Paqueta to spurs also in the pipeline. 35million  +  5.

It's fucking madness or intentional  sabotage.

Those of you who understand business / finance, am I reading this right? The club we love is actually just a side issue in a failed property deal that was the actual focus of Sullivan and Brady all along. That’s why their interest and ours are so far apart. So long as Gold was around they could pretend there was some feeling for the club at board level and that the move to the Olympic stadium made sense from a footballing viewpoint. That’s gone now and we are left with two self-serving incompetents who’ve completely taken their eye off the ball. They are out of their depth and have invested in a white elephant of a stadium that they don’t own and probably never will. We’re suffering on and off the pitch because of a couple of arrogant shysters who don’t know what they’re doing and who no one likes doing business with. My one consolation is that the fans are looking at them as much as Potter. Though at Sunderland and last night my feeling was that the people around me were more apathetic than angry. What a disgraceful selfish way to destroy something that really matters to thousands of people. 

Arrogance and incompetency, Zico. Pure and simple.

It's all a total fucking mess. All of it from top to bottom.

The Stadium move has also killed us. Like you say, we've were bang at it in 2016. Then the fateful move happened against our will.

Massive Attack, Totally agree.  What I can't understand is why the fans clearly could see what was needed.  At the very minimum two central midfielders with legs, at least one, ideally two centre backs, some more creativity going forward, an athletic striker under 30 who isn't injury prone and a left/wing back.  We could have kept Fabianski on a lower wage as back up and he would have been better than what this new guy has shown so far.  Areola isn't perfect but it wasn't a priority.  Diouf looked a good buy in pre season but even he looked shot last night. Why can't the board/manager see what the fans see, unless they just ignore the obvious.  Even two young midfielders from League Two would be better than Guido, who bless him is slower than I am.  Against Sunderland I was hoping Potter would bring Soucek on for some pace!!  It's typical West Ham and something we have been crap at for years.  2016 when we had Payet, Lanzini etc, we should have progressed and we didn't.  That six months with Lingard and Dawson playing like a colossus, we could have added two or three but just chased Lingard for the entire summer.  Fornals, Benrahma and Yarmolenko would do better than half the current crop.  In fact Pablo would look like Usain Bolt in the midfield compared with what we currently have.

ANOTHER username?  What's the point in changing it?

Surely not?

https://www.givemesport.com/tottenham-t ... med-kudus/

"West Ham United can confirm Edson Álvarez has joined Turkish club Fenerbahçe SK on loan for the 2025/26 season, with an option to make a permanent transfer next summer."

Been confirmed.

Conceding 8 goals on two games and letting your best defensive midfielder go out on LOAN is fucking wild. 

Potter and the Club had the longest Pre-Season in history that began back in January. We had two fucking windows and all that time to assess what is or isn't needed and they've all dragged their heels resting on their laurels believing Potter really was the answer.

You couldn't have asked for better to conditions with regards to coming in with zero pressure and the lack of professionalism is staggering to produce what we have in the opening League fixtures. 

Insanely baffling why we always leave any business till the last minute if at all or when we do get in early it's an out of control splurge on over priced rubbish like last summer. Why don't we just target certain players to cover the positions that need strengthening early in the window allowing them to settle and by the time of the first game you would hope the manager has a good idea of a starting eleven. Now we have left it so late with two disastrous results on the board any potential targets will be reluctant to come to what clearly is a sinking ship.

That YouTube video posted on here about how badly the club is run alluded to us being able to spend some 200m and still not break PSR.

theres definitely money that can be spent.

How the actual fuck can Everton, points deduction, shitty old stadium, sold no one, no European football, errr points deduction, afford to spend £42m on Dibling at Southampton, on top of the £90m they have already shelled out. Forest the other points deductee spend £140m. We on the other hand.... you know the rest. Still, at least the results on the pitch.... fuck.

dealcanvey wrote: ↑23 Aug 2025, 08:47 Let’s get in 3/4 talented players from the Championship. Probably the only type of player that would have interest in joining us whilst also giving us a chance of improving.

If we go down they can stay around..

Hackney been mentioned a lot but there must be a couple of CBs that will do a job and put their head on the line unlike the current shower. 

Let’s get in 3/4 talented players from the Championship. Probably the only type of player that would have interest in joining us whilst also giving us a chance of improving.

If we go down they can stay around..

Hackney been mentioned a lot but there must be a couple of CBs that will do a job and put their head on the line unlike the current shower. 

southbankbornnbred wrote: ↑23 Aug 2025, 07:14

Mex Martillo" wrote: ↑23 Aug 2025, 06:14 With our start in the league, I cannot see any decent players signing for us.

This is true - and it could become a big problem.

Any decent players, such as that kid at Monaco, will probably have their agent bending their ear about joining somebody else or staying put.

I wouldn’t leave Monaco for West Ham right now. Look at the shit you’d be waking into. Sullivan, Potter, that side, the Championship etc etc…

Mex Martillo" wrote: ↑23 Aug 2025, 06:14 With our start in the league, I cannot see any decent players signing for us.

With about 10 days to go other clubs have us over a barrel so all the prices are going up
And the dismal dwarf wasn’t paying what was originally asked
Brownhill decides to sign on at Burnley again, Antonio joins his mate Wilson & we scour the loan market for players that haven’t played for a year
Fucked after 2 games … amazing 
 

With our start in the league, I cannot see any decent players signing for us.

The Claret and Booze post-match tonight was mostly a call talking to an agent who offers South American players to the Club, talking about the machinations of the transfer window.

A good listen after the first 10 mins. Interesting to hear why we won't get Makau, the craziness of the Fernandes bidding, and how we've been offered a Flamengo striker call Pedro on a loan with an option, who apparently is very good, but Potter has said no thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/live/01Cy5EO3tQs

We need a commanding centre back who can head the ball properly (Charlie Cresswell?), a defensive midfielder ready for the first eleven (Mukau?), a technical and pacey centre midfielder (Fernandes?), left winger/forward, attacking midfielder and a striker.!.

COUGH THE FUCK UP SULLIVAN!!!!

Barty888 wrote: ↑22 Aug 2025, 23:48

twoleftfeet wrote: ↑22 Aug 2025, 21:53 Try persuading anyone to join us after this.




 

The only way now is by- you’ve guessed it- giving any prospective player a big, long contract with loads of guarantees in it. As the cycle of short term short sighted panic and mistakes keeps repeating itself.

This is just criminal neglect. 

Try persuading anyone to join us after this.

Brownhill, Antonio and Sterling.