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

[southbankbornnbred]

It's almost August and I for one can't wait to see that same brilliant team that would have finished 16th were it not for beating an already-relegated Ipswich, but augmented by Southampton's amazing relegated full-back who all the giants like Besiktas wanted.

Oh yes.

[XKhammer]

We are still in talks about Grealish

[southbankbornnbred]

Potter is highly likely to go with three centre halves - but five at the back - regularly next season.

It's his default line-up when, like many managers, he fears a whupping from the big-spending sides. It's also how he stemmed the flow of goals against us last season under Lopetegui. So being of limited ambition, and generally fearful of decent sides, he will get risk averse again and play 5-4-1 regularly. He'll tell you it's 3-4-3. But when you look at how deep we'll sit and map where the two wide full-backs are, plus the two "inside forwards" starting deeper, it will look like the same 5-4-1 that we fannied around with a lot last season.

You know, the system that bored us all to tears because we never shot at goal, had 108 men behind the ball most of the time, and went sideways alot. That one.

Brave new world.

[Lee Trundle]

Yep striker area too but my opinion is that it sits behind central midfield ( just ) as we cannot provide the supply / chances without a central midfield that can cope with the pace and intensity of the Premier League. 

We have 6 central midfielders, that's not including the yoofs that are coming through like Potts.

We need to get rid of some of those before we bring any in.

We still only have 1 striker, who's injury prone, on the books.

[Russ of the BML]

Looking very likely that the deal for Hadjari will be closed in next 48 hours. Terms agreed and FC Lugano want to sell. 22 and already played 60 games in Swiss league. Seems like an exciting prospect. 

he is a CB (but can play FB). So we already have Kilman, Todibo, Aguerd and Mavropanos. So it looks like at least one is on the way. Aguerd linked to Roma but they only want a loan. Must admit Aguerd looks as fit as a fiddle. 

Is Potter going with a 3 at the back? 

 

[Sir Alf]

Yep striker area too but my opinion is that it sits behind central midfield ( just ) as we cannot provide the supply / chances without a central midfield that can cope with the pace and intensity of the Premier League. 

[Lee Trundle]

We have ONE injury prone striker on the books.

I find it mental that people don't think this is the overriding priority.

[Sir Alf]

And while on the topic of tedious and negative ( which is my calling ), still not a whisper about strengthening that slow, statuesque central midfield. We have Soucek, JWP, Alvarez, Irvine, Paqueta, Potts but unfortunately no one to fill that large gap Rice left. 

While this area of the squad remains the same, everything else we do transfer wise will be undermined imo and any improvement on last season severely hampered. 

[Sir Alf]

Tedious negative brain is spot on

[Massive Attack]

Hajdari sounds like he'll be the creme de la creme.

[goose]

[mallard]

From Sir Alf’s tedious, negative brain

[honky cat]

Rumour is Sullivan wants loan to buy for the Leicester keeper whilst Leicester want a proper sale. Its why so many transfers ( not all as we just saw with a freebie ) for West Ham take so long or collapse imo.

Sullivan looking for a way to pay on the “ never, never” ?  


 

 

Rumour from where?

[Sir Alf]

Rumour is Sullivan wants loan to buy for the Leicester keeper whilst Leicester want a proper sale. Its why so many transfers ( not all as we just saw with a freebie ) for West Ham take so long or collapse imo.

Sullivan looking for a way to pay on the “ never, never” ?  

 

[Massive Attack]

The next Martin Samuelsen.

[Barty888]

Sign this lad West Ham, 19 years old, world class potential

Linked with Sheffield United today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%C3% ... %B0johnsen

[Sir Alf]

Because we cant shift Cornet, Aguerd, Dinos, JWP abd wven Emerson, Im now preparing for Sullivan refusing to sanction the purchase of the 2 young, athletic, energetic, pacy centre mids we need and the 2nd striker we need.  Diouf and KWP and a new goalkeeper ( who I suspect is next thru the door) will not be enough to see much improvement.  The talk about Elliott and Morton, Fernandez from Southampton or the young lad at Leicester will continue but suspect nothing will happen. 

Only chance now I see of getting some of the needed 4 players is if we sell Alvarez for a decent fee. Tbh he is probably the most saleable other than the “untouchables” like Bowen and AWB? 

[eusebiovic]

Seems thats right, we can't shift these players. Seeing Rodriguez, Mavropanos and Cornet (and, for me, JWP) there yesterday was depressing. 

The problem is for the vast majority of clubs in Europe even 50k euros a week is a massive stretch and extremely unaffordable. There are only 2-3 clubs in most of these countries that have always been able to exist on a money is no object basis but they ain't signing players that were passed up on in the first place. If you've signed the wrong player and you're paying them upwards of 50k a week then you are fucked when it comes to selling them on. Unless you have a half decent player on your hands.

This is why you need a proper scouting network that does it's due diligence rather than relying on the word of an agent that is looking to clear the chaff from their books.

[Sydney_Iron]

I see KWP has been announced on the OS, didn’t look for the cringe unveiling video, maybe still being edited?

Welcome to WHU though, let’s hope he’s as good as the other double barreled defender in AWB

[onsideman]

Seems thats right, we can't shift these players. Seeing Rodriguez, Mavropanos and Cornet (and, for me, JWP) there yesterday was depressing. 

[fraser]

We can't shift them though so that's the problem 

[Fauxstralian]

Was reading about the Belgian centre half de Winter at Genoa
23 & can play all across the defence
Highly rated and available for about £20m with Genoa keen on Cornet who was there last season
Seems a no brainer as could then shift Mavropanos (or Aguerd if he wants to go) to pay for the whole thing 

[El Scorchio]

Evan Ferguson to Roma, loan with £40m option.
im so disappointed he didnt work out for us. But whats going on with Roma, stevie wonder must be scouting for them - or its a money racket.
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Be really interesting to see if he does well there or not. That loan to us was mystifying. Definitely more than meets the eye to it 

[RootsRadical]

KWP confirmed.

[goose]

Same owners as Everton isn’t it?