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

[twoleftfeet]

Bournemouth have just spent £25m on Adli from Leverkusen.

Their owner has spent £350m on signings since 2023, I know he has recouped a lot by making astute signings but still a hefty investment.

Meanwhile back at porn towers.

[Massive Attack]

Actually on Brownhill, has he even been fucking training with anyone? If not he's going to take a month to get up to match fitness anyway. 

Behave. You don't need to bother with that unnecessary nonsense at our highly Professional Club. Take Wheelchair Wilson for example. Fuck all pre-season and he's already been pushed out on to the pitch as soon as he's arrived. "Sub Ref!"

[Massive Attack]

The BullShit Machinery has been working overtime since Saturdays result. All levers have been slammed on to full tilt pumping the Clubs propaganda out at warp speed on everyone it can.  

[Sir Alf]

Yeah Brownhill will probably be lowballed too as you say
This Ex employee fella? Who is he? Jack Sullivan? He is a menace, very unhelpful and manipulative working as the Sullivans mouthpiece, putting out propaganda that creates the illusion of us seriously going after Potter and Macaulay targets or quality players we aint gonna get. All these targets including Makau, Sullivan wont get em. You can almost guarantee it. Its a smokescreen. Yeah bids go in but they know nothing will come of half of them. Fernandes is overpriced forget him. Chelsea have said Santos they want to keep. The lad at Barcelona? Who they kidding, why woukd he want to come to a relegation fight. If we were to offer big money minds might change but we wont. We are scavangers now Sullivan has told the world we’re skint.

Hayden Hackney probably the only realistic one but he will low ball, take the piss and collapse any deal even if it got started.

Loans at best. And he’s now risking not getting them wasting time shopping in Harrods when his budget and intention is Poundland

[El Scorchio]

Hahaha 'snail collective'. Love it.

Actually on Brownhill, has he even been fucking training with anyone? If not he's going to take a month to get up to match fitness anyway. If the board are intending to sign him right at the death, then he's not even going to be properly fit and available until October. It's going to be an embarrassing shambles when he comes in the day after the window shuts (probably with Antonio FFS) but if it was Sullivan's 'masterplan' all along then just swallow your fucking pride and take the pelters you're getting anyway due to inaction and at least bring him in early in the window so he has a preseason. It's just making Potter's job even harder.

Unless of course he's waiting for the window to shut so he can lowball the guy as per usual, which I'm convinced is the case with Antonio too.

It's worrying Brownhill hasn't signed for anyone else. You'd think one of the other lower prem clubs or a Championship contender may have taken him. If he's surplus to requirements at fucking BURNLEY and Leeds and Sunderland and Wolves and Everton aren't touching him (to be fair Leeds and Sunderland have been fishing in bigger ponds than we seem to be able to so I can see why they'd have no interest), then what does that say about the likely impact he will have?

It's absolute fucking DREGS. I really am starting to think that him and Antonio is going to be all we end up with. We must hold a premier league record for bringing in unattached players outside a transfer window in desperation under these cunts. 

[Sir Alf]

My prediction is we wont get any purchases in. Sullivan will want loans as he has Potter ready to take a fall for the upcoming, relegation struggle.  I can foresee Chukwuemeka and / or Bissouma coming in on loan or maybe one of those 2 and Brownhill after the window shuts on a free.  

Not what we want, short term, budget driven but actually all 3 would likely improve on our central midfield. Maybe just enough to keep us up which is the primary objective.  Even Brownhill, who some ate now saying is not a Salthouse client but some othrr agency ( theres got to be a connection ?) will help. He aint quick but is more pacy than Soucek, JWP and possibly Paqueta, works hard for the team, scores a few goals and can compete physically.  

Forget Santos. Fernandes, Hackney, the lad at Barcelona and Makau and others beinbouhht. Sullivan dont be like paying real money on any position that aint a striker ( even though he’d got 50+ of them wrong ) and there is conpetition for most players on Potter/Macaulays list and Sullivans deal making would mean is losing out to most other clubs.  Nah, its gonna be loans but if its the likes of Chukwuemeka even Bissouma they ate the right profile and willimprove us as compared to the “Snail Collective” we have currently.

[El Scorchio]

Where is he going to? Fenerbahce in the end? 

Yeah that Rice money was spent as badly as the Rio money two years removed. Shame as it looked decent for the first few months with all three players making contributions before all of them alarmingly dropped off toward the end of their first season and were essentially non entities after that aside from JWP emergency parachuted back in as it was such a show show in midfield- AFTER not getting a kick at a perceived lesser team. Although he did nothing to improve the team, just helped us retain possession more in as far as sitting deep and knocking it sideways.

Alvarez 35m- fucking loaned out. Can't even sell a player that doesn't want to be here

Kudus- 35m, sure we made a 20m profit but can't help think we could and should have got more, had Sullivan not made it public we were desperate for money. If figures for Hermansen and Diouf are to be believed, then Sullivan pocketed 17 million from doing these deals

JWP- 30 million- never getting a penny of that back, or maybe 5 million absolute tops.

Fucking disaster. At the moment we are looking at a 55 mill return on close to 100 million layout. We might get 20 mill for Alvarez or a few mill for JWP but we'll still have lost 20-30 million all said and done, plus the 17 that hasn't been reinvested from selling Kudus. Embarrassing when you see how the likes of Brighton and Bournemouth and Forest are retooling when they sell players for a wedge and we are pissing it down the sink with diminishing returns while the board siphon some out.

[stubbo-admin]

Victor Boniface going on loan to AC Milan and then a 30m EUR option to buy. 

Exactly the type of deal our owners are completely incapable of making happen.

[Massive Attack]

We got the 'here we go' green light for Alvarez.

Thank fuck for that.

[fraser]

We sold Rice, bought Kudus, Alvarez and JWP and all we have left is JWP... Like a turd that won't flush.. You have to laugh 

[twoleftfeet]

I notice that Arsenal have elbowed a small feeder club out of the way in order to capture the services of Eze from Palace.

Another Spurs loss, Ferret will be fuming.

[ragingbull]

We got the 'here we go' green light for Alvarez.

[,]

I notice that Arsenal have elbowed a small feeder club out of the way in order to capture the services of Eze from Palace.

[fraser]

I would encourage anyone who hasn't to watch that HITC sevens video on us that threesisxty posted yesterday just for a comprehensive look at what charlatans they are and how badly they are running this club, with a lot of stats and comparisons with other clubs to back it up. The amount they've leached out of the club compared to what they've put in is sickening when compared to other sides.

Fuck watching that I'm trying to wean myself off of all things depressing West Ham, I can't even be bothered to get angry about it all anymore.. I'm more annoyed at myself for renewing my season ticket. 

[El Scorchio]

Spot on. It'll be a series of 'we tried' excuses when we all know full well he fucking didn't seriously try at all, before we end up with Brownhill and some other freebie totally against the ethos of what they claimed they were going for when they hired Potter.

At this point I don't know why hired him if they knew full well they weren't going to support him and actually take advantage of the things which are his perceived strengths as a manager, and they didn't just hire a low block shithousery merchant like Dyche back then to be honest, to build a team of cheap big bullies and cloggers, seen as they only seem interested in staying in the basement and flushing what money the do spend down the toilet on an unsustainable strategy of aging players on shitty contracts.

I would encourage anyone who hasn't to watch that HITC sevens video on us that threesisxty posted yesterday just for a comprehensive look at what charlatans they are and how badly they are running this club, with a lot of stats and comparisons with other clubs to back it up. The amount they've leached out of the club compared to what they've put in is sickening when compared to other sides.

[southbankbornnbred]

Apologies for typos.

Wrote that in a hurry on the tube!

[southbankbornnbred]

I think, in our current setup, Steidten would be perfect. Potter talks to Macaulay, they identify what they need, suggest some names, Steidten either gets them or unearths a better alternative. If Sullivan had kept him on and stayed out of it from here, this is a system that could really work. As an old school manager, Potter is useless but as a Head Coach who can talk to his pal about identifying areas for improvement, his pal doing the ground work on the data side and then The Pearl Diver making the deals, you might see Potter's expertise in player development and tactical team building turn into a winning team.

I think there's a good team leader inside Potter somewhere deep down, but he's going to look a complete mug at West Ham bringing a tactical philosophy we're not ready for and with no club infrastructure to build a team in his vision. And when it fails due to not having the missing piece of the jigsaw that Steidten would have been and putting Sullivan at the top of the player identification and purchasing tree, they have their scapegoat lined up because he has Macaulay.

What a mess.

“Potter's expertise in player development and tactical team building?”

Genuine question: where does this come from?

He’s 50 years old and has one top-ten finish in the Premier League to his name: 9th with Brighton, who finished with 51 points that season - a total that often sees you finish outside the top ten.

His average finishing position in the Premier League is 14th, even with that outlier year included.

He managed Chelsea, with their unfathomable riches,  to 12th place and was sacked within 7 months.

He does not have the track record that he, and many others, think he has.

He is the epitome of the emporer’s new clothes. His best position/finish is below Glenn Roeder’s.

I just don’t get why people think he has a record to speak of. Nobody else was in for him. Almost nobody at West Ham wanted him. He’s Mr Below Average.

I'm a bit of a stats nerd, and what he did at Ostersund was nothing short of amazing. Having those accomplishments on his CV with a budget starting at zero and building it by making the players he inherited better, selling them and buying underrated players to improve and either sell at profit or better the team makes him a great Head Coach (but not a manager). It's what got him the Swansea gig to get back into this country then overachieve at Brighton.

I didn't want him because I think he belongs in a club whose stature doesn't come with any expectation whereas we are big enough to expect and demand more. I wanted Amorim, but at that time would have preferred Potter over Lopetegui. Then we got Lopetegui and wanted to back him but wasn't sure what the project was and we kept shipping tons of goals. I didn't agree with getting rid of him but given where we were, was begrudgingly accepting of Potter given his record of team building rather than buying success. However, since we are a much bigger club than the sort of club who needs a man with the Potter expertise, you'd want a recruitment team around him so that he can get on with what he's really good at. This is why he didn't succeed at Chelsea, too many irons in the fire. 

Give him a mate to deal with transfers (Macaulay) and an expert in making the deals or finding an alternative (Steidten) and I reckon we have a good, solid Head Coach who will identify his own areas for improvement and not have to deal with any interference from noisy fools. Sadly, we have lost that bridge between his team and the board with Steidten gone and the noisiest fool in the division is his boss, and the one making the deals.

It ain't gonna work, and he's going to look really bad when it goes tits up.

Enjoyed that thoughtful post, Gank: an antidote to the historical perception of WHO!

Potter's early work in Sweden is indeed impressive when taken in isolation. But it really is not a strong league. It's the Championship without resources.

So, I find myself coming to a very different conclusion about him as a manager. For me, Potter is less the pragmatic, problem-solving type that top-level English football often demands, and more of a theoretician: someone whose ideas and processes seem convincing on paper but rarely translate into practical, hard-edged success on the pitch.At every stop in his managerial career in England (even Brighton), the same pattern has emerged: the talk of “projects” and “journeys,” of long-term visions that require patience before they can be fairly judged. It all sounds great, and of course it sounds appealing.

But in the Premier League, that luxury almost never exists. You’re required to manage the problems you inherit straight away, stabilise, adapt, and win points in difficult circumstances. Potter, in my view, has struggled consistently in that area - precisely because he prefers to build slowly from a blank canvas rather than repair or adapt what’s already in place.

The problem with that approach in the Premier League is that it is just as likely to relegate you, as make you thrive (albeit not at the very biggest clubs in ££ terms).This, I thin  his managerial style and the reality of elite-level football. At a big club, you can’t keep citing time or external noise as reasons for underperformance; sooner or later you have to show you can deal with chaos and pressure head-on. That, to me, is where he consistently falls short - not in intelligence or methodology, but in pragmatism and resilience. So while I admire the qualities you outline, to me Potter's emblematic of a modern trend of managers who rely heavily on theory and process, but who often leave themselves armed with excuses when reality bites. He may well be a fine coach in the right environment, but for clubs with expectations and demands - even at our level - I think he’s the wrong fit. Watch how it will unfold quickly.

Naturally, I'd love to be wrong - because I always want us to succeed and don't really care which manager we succeed under. But I would not have picked Potter in a million years - precisely because of the circumstances he faces at this club.

[Fauxstralian]

I guess Potter & Macaulay identify the likes of Fernandes & maybe even tell Sullivan what they think he is worth
Sullivan then puts on his Russian hat & calls Southampton to offer 28 + 2
When Southampton come back & say they want 60 he goes back in again at 30 + 2
WE TRIED 

Then puts a bid in for a player showing no interest in leaving Barca
WE TRIED

Follows up with a bid for Mukau of Lille presumably under their quoted 20m Euros
WE TRIED … but not too hard

[threesixty]

I think, in our current setup, Steidten would be perfect. Potter talks to Macaulay, they identify what they need, suggest some names, Steidten either gets them or unearths a better alternative. If Sullivan had kept him on and stayed out of it from here, this is a system that could really work. As an old school manager, Potter is useless but as a Head Coach who can talk to his pal about identifying areas for improvement, his pal doing the ground work on the data side and then The Pearl Diver making the deals, you might see Potter's expertise in player development and tactical team building turn into a winning team.

I think there's a good team leader inside Potter somewhere deep down, but he's going to look a complete mug at West Ham bringing a tactical philosophy we're not ready for and with no club infrastructure to build a team in his vision. And when it fails due to not having the missing piece of the jigsaw that Steidten would have been and putting Sullivan at the top of the player identification and purchasing tree, they have their scapegoat lined up because he has Macaulay.

What a mess.

“Potter's expertise in player development and tactical team building?”

Genuine question: where does this come from?

He’s 50 years old and has one top-ten finish in the Premier League to his name: 9th with Brighton, who finished with 51 points that season - a total that often sees you finish outside the top ten.

His average finishing position in the Premier League is 14th, even with that outlier year included.

He managed Chelsea, with their unfathomable riches,  to 12th place and was sacked within 7 months.

He does not have the track record that he, and many others, think he has.

He is the epitome of the emporer’s new clothes. His best position/finish is below Glenn Roeder’s.

I just don’t get why people think he has a record to speak of. Nobody else was in for him. Almost nobody at West Ham wanted him. He’s Mr Below Average.

I'm a bit of a stats nerd, and what he did at Ostersund was nothing short of amazing. Having those accomplishments on his CV with a budget starting at zero and building it by making the players he inherited better, selling them and buying underrated players to improve and either sell at profit or better the team makes him a great Head Coach (but not a manager). It's what got him the Swansea gig to get back into this country then overachieve at Brighton.

I didn't want him because I think he belongs in a club whose stature doesn't come with any expectation whereas we are big enough to expect and demand more. I wanted Amorim, but at that time would have preferred Potter over Lopetegui. Then we got Lopetegui and wanted to back him but wasn't sure what the project was and we kept shipping tons of goals. I didn't agree with getting rid of him but given where we were, was begrudgingly accepting of Potter given his record of team building rather than buying success. However, since we are a much bigger club than the sort of club who needs a man with the Potter expertise, you'd want a recruitment team around him so that he can get on with what he's really good at. This is why he didn't succeed at Chelsea, too many irons in the fire. 

Give him a mate to deal with transfers (Macaulay) and an expert in making the deals or finding an alternative (Steidten) and I reckon we have a good, solid Head Coach who will identify his own areas for improvement and not have to deal with any interference from noisy fools. Sadly, we have lost that bridge between his team and the board with Steidten gone and the noisiest fool in the division is his boss, and the one making the deals.

It ain't gonna work, and he's going to look really bad when it goes tits up.

 

 

His early career work seems good. I think the big difference at this level is that you have to tell millionaires who probably have far more money than you do, what to do. Some were better players than you ever were, some have won more than you ever did etc. On top of that you are scrutinised by everyone, fans, press, pundits etc.. day in day out.

Thats why top level management is a whole different thing compared to management lower down. You might have great ideas, but can you get that across to the players? 

You do need a level of ego and its a psychological war as much as its about tactics and training. Some have the right recipe and others dont. I'm not sure Potter has the ingredients for this stuff tbh. Saw it at Chelsea. He just doesnt know how to deal with the scrutiny properly to give anyone confidence that he knows how to solve anything. I have zero confidence in him right now. I'm just hoping he does well, I dont believe he will.

[twoleftfeet]

Mex you could be right but I thought Sullivan wanted Steidten out. Bringing in Macaulay and promoting him to Head of Recruitment was a second step. It may indeed have meant Steidten going but yhe real driver was Sullivan who used the sacking to get the optics right and make last season’s poor perfirmance look like it was all down to Steidten.  

Sullivan wanted to get full control back and pit himself in the “gatekeeper” on transfers again. Job titles are perhaps used again for “optics” but dont necessarily man what they say. Macaulay has akways been an identifier of talent via data analytics etc so not experienced in the many of facets of recruitmenf.  The title now suggests Macaulay identifies the players and makes contact with clubs, the player and his agent, works on the trrms and conditions of the deal and fees etc.  I dont think that is the case in reality. He comes up with targets and possibly sounds out players, talks to agents and even the selling club initially but its Sullivan making the offers, shaping the deal, its terms, fees, conditions like add ons.  Before an offer us made he also gets approval of other board members because I believe any expenditure at West Ham above £1 million requires that.

In other words, Macaulay and Potter can come up with great targets but ultimately its Sullivan that controls “ gate” on who goes and who comes in and its Sullivan that can make or break a transfer.

The whole process above including having get sign off by board members makes us slow and cumbersome in deals and the Sullivan derisory bids and ridiculous terms etc makes us hard to deal with. Hence the reason every transfer feels so painful and happens one at a time.

Modern, successful clubs have a fully empowered DOF, working to a long term plan / strategy, with clear goals and objectives like buying a percentage of players that might have to be sold to generate funds, keep PSR at bay.  DOF given a budget, “his” recruitment team produce targets matching profile of players that align with the football identity or philosophy in the ling term plan and the DOF uses experience and skills, know how to get the player asap. 

[Sir Alf]

Mex you could be right but I thought Sullivan wanted Steidten out. Bringing in Macaulay and promoting him to Head of Recruitment was a second step. It may indeed have meant Steidten going but yhe real driver was Sullivan who used the sacking to get the optics right and make last season’s poor perfirmance look like it was all down to Steidten.  

Sullivan wanted to get full control back and pit himself in the “gatekeeper” on transfers again. Job titles are perhaps used again for “optics” but dont necessarily man what they say. Macaulay has akways been an identifier of talent via data analytics etc so not experienced in the many of facets of recruitmenf.  The title now suggests Macaulay identifies the players and makes contact with clubs, the player and his agent, works on the trrms and conditions of the deal and fees etc.  I dont think that is the case in reality. He comes up with targets and possibly sounds out players, talks to agents and even the selling club initially but its Sullivan making the offers, shaping the deal, its terms, fees, conditions like add ons.  Before an offer us made he also gets approval of other board members because I believe any expenditure at West Ham above £1 million requires that.

In other words, Macaulay and Potter can come up with great targets but ultimately its Sullivan that controls “ gate” on who goes and who comes in and its Sullivan that can make or break a transfer.

The whole process above including having get sign off by board members makes us slow and cumbersome in deals and the Sullivan derisory bids and ridiculous terms etc makes us hard to deal with. Hence the reason every transfer feels so painful and happens one at a time.

Modern, successful clubs have a fully empowered DOF, working to a long term plan / strategy, with clear goals and objectives like buying a percentage of players that might have to be sold to generate funds, keep PSR at bay.  DOF given a budget, “his” recruitment team produce targets matching profile of players that align with the football identity or philosophy in the ling term plan and the DOF uses experience and skills, know how to get the player asap. 

[Eerie Decent]

I did some research courtesy of TransferMarkt.co.uk earlier this week but sadly binned the spreadsheet.  I'm not sure how accurate the numbers are but let's assume they are correct for the same of this exercise.

Since moving to the London Stadium we have spent a fraction over 1bn (euros) on transfers.

We have sold around 550m of those players, but we only received about 350m back on the sales, which equates to a loss of 200m.

We have about 450m worth of players left in the current playing staud.

There is a very good chance we'll make a big loss on them too as there is no way we're going to make a profit on the likes of Kilman (47m), JWP (34m), Fullkrug (27m), Emerson (15m)

The numbers don't account for :
- players we purchased prior to the LS move and have since sold.
- players that cam through the academy that we have sold (eg Declan Rice)

But this is just an illustration of how poor our transfer actitvity has been but there are some real standout transfers:

- Felipe Anderson bought for 38m and sold for 3m (-35m)
- Kurt Zouma bought for 35m and released on a free (-35m)
- Sebastian Haller bought for 50m and sold for 22.5m (-27.5m)

I know that making a profit on players is not the most important thing, but if you don't make a profit out of them, you at least want to get some value out of their transfer fee in terms of their services to the club.

But it is very clear that we are as shit at selling players, as we are at buying.  

It's not just transfer fees with us, it's also the ludicrous wages we weigh out.

Danny Ings, for example, cost us around £30mil overall. 5 goals in 3 seasons.

[Massive Attack]

Part of the problem was churning over Managers in quick succession at the London Stadium. New ideas, new players, out with the old, in with the new and to hell with working with expensive players brought in by the previous manager. Selling Anderson for £3M and lose more than half on Haller are fucking ridiculous losses that should have been avoided at that level of loss.

[scott_d]

I did some research courtesy of TransferMarkt.co.uk earlier this week but sadly binned the spreadsheet.  I'm not sure how accurate the numbers are but let's assume they are correct for the same of this exercise.

Since moving to the London Stadium we have spent a fraction over 1bn (euros) on transfers.

We have sold around 550m of those players, but we only received about 350m back on the sales, which equates to a loss of 200m.

We have about 450m worth of players left in the current playing staud.

There is a very good chance we'll make a big loss on them too as there is no way we're going to make a profit on the likes of Kilman (47m), JWP (34m), Fullkrug (27m), Emerson (15m)

The numbers don't account for :
- players we purchased prior to the LS move and have since sold.
- players that cam through the academy that we have sold (eg Declan Rice)

But this is just an illustration of how poor our transfer actitvity has been but there are some real standout transfers:

- Felipe Anderson bought for 38m and sold for 3m (-35m)
- Kurt Zouma bought for 35m and released on a free (-35m)
- Sebastian Haller bought for 50m and sold for 22.5m (-27.5m)

I know that making a profit on players is not the most important thing, but if you don't make a profit out of them, you at least want to get some value out of their transfer fee in terms of their services to the club.

But it is very clear that we are as shit at selling players, as we are at buying.  

[dealcanvey]

ExWHUemployee says we are bidding for these two...

Both look decent. Look like they could handle the physicality of the Prem. Both though have played very little football it seems. Cisse not even 20 games?

always a gamble buying from abroad. Need guarantee a player can come in and improve what we have instantly.

id like us to sign Hackney. Over 100 games already. Talented player.