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

[El Scorchio]

Jacob Steinburg reckons 

- new bid for fernandes 
- bid for Castaro at Barca but seemed unlikely 
- loan bid went in for Santos at Chelsea, player not interested 

It's amazing how we aren't brassic when we bid for players we know we won't get. I don't get why we didnt go in for Dewsbury-Hall for £30m

No idea why we thinking loaning out Alvarez makes any sense whatsoever.  Get Soucek, JWP, Rodriguez and Irving out the door before Alvarez on a poxy loan no? 

We are an absoulte mess, tough first 4/5 fixtures of which we will probs get 1 point max and then we are chasing out tails already. Sullivan is a cretin, always rushing round last few weeks of the window once the season has already started rather than getting the names through the door and ready to go first game. 

Forest in a week after finding out about the court case have achieved more than we have all summer. 

I dont believe any of these bullshit made up bids have been made, all just a smokescreen to avoid friday night being a toxic cauldron before the game has started. 

It will be Brownhill on a free or surely he would of lined something up by now.  Maybe then a loan castoff like Pellegrini at Roma 

Didnt expect much this window but its looking even more bleak than i expected.  We are so shit at both buying and selling players. 

 

 

Flogging JWP actually hurts PRS. To add no-one is taking him off our hands for anything like the fee or wages he's on. We would have to swallow yet another big loss. I doubt even Southampton would take him as part payment for Fernandes. His skillset just isn't what's needed in the game now for CM at a top level. It's moved on. I don't know why there's stalling over Irving. Wonder if it just won't be sanctioned until new players come in which is fair enough. Letting him go does fuck all financially for us anyway. Guido and Soucek? Clearly no takers. This is the trouble. Our squad is so poor no-one wants to buy any of our players. They've all been for sale all summer along with Emerson and not a bite. It's indicative of why we are so poor on the field. The players are not up to scratch.

[Massive Attack]

How comes Rodriguez hasn't been moved on yet for that reported £6M? I've not followed it closely but please don't let turn out it's the Manager that's put a stop to it having started him in the opening game.

[Rossal]

No idea why we thinking loaning out Alvarez makes any sense whatsoever.  Get Soucek, JWP, Rodriguez and Irving out the door before Alvarez on a poxy loan no? 

 

Yeah cos there's loads of clubs queuing up to sign them.

Rodriguez has a Saudi offer and theyve turned down bids for Irving.  Getting those deals done would bring in more £ than the Alvarez loan fee and we would be left with the best midfielder of the above mentioned group. 

[El Scorchio]

 

Sullivan isn’t lying to anyone. They know what he’s about. They come into this job with their eyes open. I think you don’t get that there are only 20 PL management jobs in the world. This is the top league in the world. Managers are BEGGING for these roles. Only decorated managers like Conte are telling PL clubs to fuck off. 

also, Newcastle didn’t spend much money at all when they got Howe. He coached his way out of the crap. Didn’t spend much at all. 

And can we please stop saying every manager “needs their own squad”. It’s utter bollocks. It’s become some fashion statement. No other leagues think like that. It’s wrong. In other countries they have DOF’s mostly so no coach gets to have their own players before they do anything useful. It’s just a lie. 
. 

Every manager does need their own squad or at least some significant update to it when the players he inherits aren't capable of doing the owner has brought said manager in to do. The reason why so many managers can slot in quite nicely is their owners have put together a system of which the manager is a part, picked to fit what the club is trying to do to ensure continuity of style and success. We are just drunkenly lurching all over the place with our last three managers wildly differing in terms of how they want to try and achieve success on the pitch. This requires a change in personnel each time which is simply not happening here. Half the squad are Moyes players incapable of playing how Lop or Potter want. This is a huge problem and requires backing financially to address- far more than has been made available. It's 100% not a lie, it's just another indication of how badly West Ham are run from boardroom level downward.

If managers are begging for Premier league roles, then how come a plethora of 'better' managers didn't fall over themselves for the job after Moyes or Lop? How come we don't just have the world's best 20 coaches plying their trade here? How come Moyes is employed here? Scott Parker, Keith Andrews? Not to mention recent managers like Dyche or multiple failures like Lampard? That's just a nonsense statement. It also stands to reason then that if Potter is that bad why did we employ him and not one of the world class managers knocking Sullivan's door down? If the answer is because he's cheap, then that's on Sullivan once again for wrecking our club.

As for saying Sullivan isn't lying to anyone... come on.

 

It’s weird that all these players have been labelled “Moyes” players as if they are some “skill challenged” players not capable of playing any other type of football. 

Emerson has played for Chelsea, Italy national team and won every trophy available. 
Soucek, Czech captain, different player in international tournaments. 
Paqueta , braziilain star player. 
Alvarez: Mexican captain , player of South American tournament 
agurerd - one of the best defenders in la Liga last year. 

etc etc. 
all these players have played in passing and attacking sides. They can all play multiple styles of football. That’s why they are professional players on around 100 bags a week. 

its their coach who tells them how to play in that team. And they follow the instructions as close as they can. 

the idea that they can’t adapt is just laughable. Alvarez and kudus were at Ajax. One of the most attacking passing sides in world football!

as for the managers. Sullivan doesn’t want to pay compensation. That’s all it is. So he gets out of work managers who are DESPERATE to get a job in the PL. which is probably why they agree to his stupid behaviour.
But come on, you think he couldn’t have got Glasner? He got Pelligrini who had won a title. Sullivan can get anyone to manage this club. He has the money. He just likes arse kissers who need a job, that’s all. 

 

 

Well they clearly aren't, because they are crap at it aren't they. You even just said 'as close as they can.' which is clearly not very close, particularly in midfield which is why we're so off the pace.
Yes individually they are all good player of course but they just can't play together in this system in the roles they need to play. It's not rocket science. Man U had the exact same problem as we do, last season.

So we've got world class managers banging on Sullivan's door and he's turning them down in favour of crap because he's too cheap? Not buying that. If you can furnish me some examples of world class managers begging to come to us last season, that would be great. No-one is banging down our door. Pellegrini was in China and came for the money. But as you say Sullivan does love a cheap option and he's fully in charge so it's 100% squarely on him the last two managerial appointments, ergo this mess is entirely his fault and as of this moment he's not doing what he needs to to dig us out of it. Get in those two midfielders we need and that's a step.

[Massive Attack]

No idea why we thinking loaning out Alvarez makes any sense whatsoever.  Get Soucek, JWP, Rodriguez and Irving out the door before Alvarez on a poxy loan no? 

 

Yeah cos there's loads of clubs queuing up to sign them.

How did the 2nd Trophy Parade go the other week?

[Mad Ferret]

No idea why we thinking loaning out Alvarez makes any sense whatsoever.  Get Soucek, JWP, Rodriguez and Irving out the door before Alvarez on a poxy loan no? 
 

Yeah cos there's loads of clubs queuing up to sign them.

[Massive Attack]

It's interesting and notable that the Club are pumping Steinberg relentlessly with Transfer info since the Sunderland humiliation leading up to the 1st Home match against Chelsea. They are flapping big time to try and keep things positive, when all the facts scream the opposite. I reckon Bradys soiled at least 5 pairs of knickers since Saturday night. 

[Rossal]

Jacob Steinburg reckons 

- new bid for fernandes 
- bid for Castaro at Barca but seemed unlikely 
- loan bid went in for Santos at Chelsea, player not interested 

It's amazing how we aren't brassic when we bid for players we know we won't get. I don't get why we didnt go in for Dewsbury-Hall for £30m

No idea why we thinking loaning out Alvarez makes any sense whatsoever.  Get Soucek, JWP, Rodriguez and Irving out the door before Alvarez on a poxy loan no? 

We are an absoulte mess, tough first 4/5 fixtures of which we will probs get 1 point max and then we are chasing out tails already. Sullivan is a cretin, always rushing round last few weeks of the window once the season has already started rather than getting the names through the door and ready to go first game. 

Forest in a week after finding out about the court case have achieved more than we have all summer. 

I dont believe any of these bullshit made up bids have been made, all just a smokescreen to avoid friday night being a toxic cauldron before the game has started. 

It will be Brownhill on a free or surely he would of lined something up by now.  Maybe then a loan castoff like Pellegrini at Roma 

Didnt expect much this window but its looking even more bleak than i expected.  We are so shit at both buying and selling players. 

[Sir Alf]

Southampton thought 30 million for Fernandes was derisory and know West Ham are desperate as Sullican announced before the window opened to the world and his dog.  

We have made an improved bid allegedly. Now, none of us are necessarily top negotiators but they say they want 50 million, we offered 30. I reckon Sullivan will offer 33 and be surprised when its rejected. 40 with add ons gets him perhaps especially if he wants out. Is he worth that? Probably not but they hold all the cards.

I liked the look of the lad from Lille ( Makau?) but only based on a pre season game so not exactly much data driven analysis to back it up 

Anyway, dont expect us to get these Potter / Macaulay targets and nothing this week. Sullivan will be watching the bank account waiting for a loan fee for Alvarez to drop before anything serious happens. It seems he can only do 1 deal at a time so I would not be surprised if only 1 central midfielder comes in despite it veing blindingly obvious we need 2. 

Josh Brownhill out of the Salthouse “hat” after the window shuts. “It was a difficult window”, “ we tried our hardest”, “Josh has a great attitude” etc etc

[Massive Attack]

We now go into our first home game of the season with what is arguably a worst starting XI than the end of last season.


 

I don't even think it's at all arguable. It's a cold hard fact it's worse. 

[goose]

While not perfect at his job, Steidten knew how to get deals done.
We now go into our first home game of the season with what is arguably a worst starting XI than the end of last season.

meanwhile the ownership have suddenly noticed the thing everyone else could see 6 months ago as we ‘prepare bids’ for players.

absolute shit show. 

[Central Park Man]

We are apparently tracking Vardy.

Not ideal but at the same time may prove to be a useful squad player.

West Ham United are still keeping an eye on Jamie Vardy after woeful start to new campaign | SportsView

It may be true or it could be a load of rubbish!

Either way no fishing rod here my friend.

[Massive Attack]

Forest closing in on Douglas Luiz.

Not fussed missing out on him, think he's overrated.

[dealcanvey]

Forest closing in on Douglas Luiz.

[twoleftfeet]

We are apparently tracking Vardy.

Not ideal but at the same time may prove to be a useful squad player.

[Massive Attack]

We are apparently tracking Vardy.

Not ideal but at the same time may prove to be a useful squad player.

[Central Park Man]

We are apparently tracking Vardy.

Not ideal but at the same time may prove to be a useful squad player.

[Massive Attack]

Yep, I liked Emerson. Wasn't always good but more often han not he was. The Cup win proved that. Definitely got our money's worth, arguably his winning mentality also helped rub off on others when it really mattered.

[Ron Eff]

You've literally just agreed with me.

Apart from your opinion that he's been generally considered a solid signing.

No, I've disagreed with pretty much every one of your poorly though out words. You had a bang on the head?

You concede that he wasn't very good last year. In his first season he only got 16 PL starts. You can only claim that he was first choice 'for most of his time here' (in other words, didn't fully establish himself over Cresswell and Scarles). He's started just 77 PL games in three seasons. And he's been mostly cack.

You need to read things more carefully. He's been a terrible signing.

 

 

I completely disagree. In a world of transfer fees as they are, at £13m for a left back who has started ~70% of games while here, straddling three managers who all have different views on how to play the game, but played a key role in us winning our first trophy in more than 40 years including arguably being MoM in the final, and has been anything but “cack” IMHO, I think it’s ridiculous to say he has been a terrible signing. 

[THUNDERCLINT]

Vardy being contacted...

The Fernandes "bid" is designed to fall. We tried.

[THUNDERCLINT]

"It’s not actually what Potter wants at all. He actually wants what we are seeing. He doesn't want to create loads of chances. He doesn't want quick transitions. He doesn't want more direct football at all."

Sorry but I think that's crap. To actually believe and say that a coach wants us to play slow boring football is just rubbish. Of course, Potter doesn't want that. In interviews he has even said he wants us to play positive, attacking football with flair, which is what West Ham were once known for.

What he is struggling with is how to get to that. He has a method but its too slow in the process. He may not even have the ability to get there. Yes, he wants a solid back line with one or two solid holding players, but he clearly and obviously wants wide players and attackers to play positive attacking football. 

Yes, its frustrating and infuriating. But to say Potter actually wants and is actively coaching slow boring football is just letting your emotions cloud your logic. 

An interesting look at he opposite ends of the Cock Piss stages of grief.

Russ is still at stage one, denial.

360 has reached stage five, acceptance.

Other's are still bargaining a few signing will fix it. Most are just angry or depressed.

Stop being such a fucking know it all. Like you are some clever bastard that everyone else needs to catch up with. I am not in denial at all. I just made a comment that very clearly Potter doesn't deliberately play slow ponderous football and nor does he want to. Nobody thinks the way we have played under Potter is right and nor does Potter himself. And to say he does is just fucking stupid. 

I also questioned if he has the ability to actually get us playing the way he wants. He certainly doesn't have the players. Abd Potter is proving he doesn't seem to be able to take a group of players and coach them round to his way. But who's fault is that? God knows. Because once again Sullivan the dirty little snivelling cսnt employed the wrong manager and gets the wrong players and leaves everyone wondering who is getting the players.... Is it a Moyes player? A Steidten player? A Potter player? A Sullivan player? That's the fucking game he plays. Because it gives him an out. And when it goes wrong he throws the manager under the bus.

That's the fucking truth of it. Whether you like or not, it was said on another thread, we are all victims of Sullivan. Potter, the players, the supporters. Everyone. And that isn't me feeling sorry for Potter. I didn't want him after Lope and I don't think he's good enough.

But, in the face of it all, people like you fucking slipping around this site trying to score points just makes things worse. 

 

Russ has reached Cock Piss stage of grief 2, ANGER. Only 3 more to go before he gets it.

[claypole]

Steinberg saying an improved offer has gone in for Fernandes. 

Half a million over our initial offer i expect 

[dealcanvey]

Steinberg saying an improved offer has gone in for Fernandes. 

[Massive Attack]

Plus Todibo £35m

Have also released / sold 7 first team squad players saving well in excess in wages compared to those in

Ahh, but you know why the Todibo money doesn't wash? Because that's not what is being pumped out of Faulty Towers. The only line is we have to sell because we need to make room for wages (which is a total lie), no mention of it being due to a lack of financial room for purchasing players. 

And even if we did include Todibo that would make us £15M down if we work crudely off the buys and sales thus summer. No one is going to convince me we only had wriggle left as a Budget of around £15M to work with once all is said and done in a new season cycle. 

None of it adds up and as intended. 

Kaz, let's have a another look at that ROCK you flaunted live on Talksport again darling...

[Fauxstralian]

Plus Todibo £35m

Have also released / sold 7 first team squad players saving well in excess in wages compared to those in