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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

El Scorchio" wrote: ↑11 Aug 2025, 21:55

fraser wrote: ↑11 Aug 2025, 21:09

El Scorchio" wrote: ↑11 Aug 2025, 20:53

I saw that too. We went cheap in CM and paid the price. Although to be fair I will say we should have seen a bit better from those players we had

Wasn't cheap though, loan fees, signing on fee and massive wages for Soler and Guido probably came to more. 

 

 

Good point. Not even cheap. Very short sighted though. Pretty glad they were short deals, but deals that just set the team back,. 

fraser wrote: ↑11 Aug 2025, 21:09

El Scorchio" wrote: ↑11 Aug 2025, 20:53

fraser wrote: ↑11 Aug 2025, 19:39

 

Gonzo is claiming TS was tracking Fernandes 12 months ago but we bought someone else instead. 

I saw that too. We went cheap in CM and paid the price. Although to be fair I will say we should have seen a bit better from those players we had

Wasn't cheap though, loan fees, signing on fee and massive wages for Soler and Guido probably came to more. 

  Good point. Not even cheap. Very short sighted though. Pretty glad they were short deals, but deals that just set the team back,. 

Are we still preparing our bid for Fernandes?

I do hope Everton's deal for Grealish has an obligation. 50m for a 31 year old. Perfect

fraser wrote: ↑11 Aug 2025, 19:54 He's just been made vice captain 

El Scorchio" wrote: ↑11 Aug 2025, 20:53

fraser wrote: ↑11 Aug 2025, 19:39

El Scorchio" wrote: ↑11 Aug 2025, 17:34

Hope we do get him, but waiting a year has probably cost us 15 million quid....

 

Gonzo is claiming TS was tracking Fernandes 12 months ago but we bought someone else instead. 

I saw that too. We went cheap in CM and paid the price. Although to be fair I will say we should have seen a bit better from those players we had

fraser wrote: ↑11 Aug 2025, 19:39

El Scorchio" wrote: ↑11 Aug 2025, 17:34

dealcanvey wrote: ↑11 Aug 2025, 13:39 'West Ham preparing opening bid for Saints midfielder Fernandes'
West Ham are preparing an opening bid for Southampton midfielder Mateus Fernandes, according to The Guardian.

It is claimed the Hammers have made the 21-year-old their top target after assessing several midfielders, including Aston Villa’s Jacob Ramsey and Lille’s Ngal’ayel Mukau.

The report says the Portugal U21 international would cost about £30m with the Premier League club optimistic a deal can be struck with the Championship side.

West Ham boss Graham Potter is reportedly looking to add energy and creativity in midfield.

Hope we do get him, but waiting a year has probably cost us 15 million quid....

 

Gonzo is claiming TS was tracking Fernandes 12 months ago but we bought someone else instead. 

claret on my shirt" wrote: ↑11 Aug 2025, 19:21 5 days to go to we kick off and our midfield looks as slow and shit as it did last year. 

  

He's just been made vice captain 

If we could weasel JWP into a Fernandes deal that would be ideal 
If JWP was a small fee I guess we’d have to give it to him as Southampton can’t afford his wages
Gets them off our books going forward though 

El Scorchio" wrote: ↑11 Aug 2025, 17:34

dealcanvey wrote: ↑11 Aug 2025, 13:39 'West Ham preparing opening bid for Saints midfielder Fernandes'
West Ham are preparing an opening bid for Southampton midfielder Mateus Fernandes, according to The Guardian.

It is claimed the Hammers have made the 21-year-old their top target after assessing several midfielders, including Aston Villa’s Jacob Ramsey and Lille’s Ngal’ayel Mukau.

The report says the Portugal U21 international would cost about £30m with the Premier League club optimistic a deal can be struck with the Championship side.

West Ham boss Graham Potter is reportedly looking to add energy and creativity in midfield.

Hope we do get him, but waiting a year has probably cost us 15 million quid....

 

We need 3 midfielders… wouldn’t mind Fernandes (or El Khannous) , Mukau & one with some pace & physicality (ie a Soucek who can move & ideally pass)
As mentioned many times the problem is getting shot of the likes of JWP & Rodriquez 

Those would transform us from bottom 6 to top half

5 days to go to we kick off and our midfield looks as slow and shit as it did last year. 

dealcanvey wrote: ↑11 Aug 2025, 13:39 'West Ham preparing opening bid for Saints midfielder Fernandes'
West Ham are preparing an opening bid for Southampton midfielder Mateus Fernandes, according to The Guardian.

It is claimed the Hammers have made the 21-year-old their top target after assessing several midfielders, including Aston Villa’s Jacob Ramsey and Lille’s Ngal’ayel Mukau.

The report says the Portugal U21 international would cost about £30m with the Premier League club optimistic a deal can be struck with the Championship side.

West Ham boss Graham Potter is reportedly looking to add energy and creativity in midfield.

Fauxstralian wrote: ↑11 Aug 2025, 16:00 Was reading that Lille are quoting us 20m Euros for Mukau
Suspect he might be the first player called Ngal’ayel to play for us
Just a hunch

Was reading that Lille are quoting us 20m Euros for Mukau
Suspect he might be the first player called Ngal’ayel to play for us
Just a hunch

Ron Eff" wrote: ↑11 Aug 2025, 14:57 Feel like McAtee at anywhere around £20m is a huge miss. There’s not much better value around, and I think he is a really good player. 

Having said that, budget is limited, and Fernandes if we get him is probably more what we need.

I’m not 100% on this but I think if English clubs transfer between themselves then a bigger amount of the fee has to be paid upfront, whereas if it’s from a foreign league then the fee can be spread over more years, maybe this is why clubs seem to want to bring in from abroad rather then the championship.

Tomshardware wrote: ↑11 Aug 2025, 13:54 There's loads of talented young players around Europe.   But we don't seem to have any scouts at the club. 

Feel like McAtee at anywhere around £20m is a huge miss. There’s not much better value around, and I think he is a really good player. 

Having said that, budget is limited, and Fernandes if we get him is probably more what we need.

Meanwhile Bournemouth are about to sell another player for big money. If it goes through:

54 from Zabarnyi
50 from Huijsen
40 from Kerkez

144 million in from players who cost a combined 50 million approx. Superb business, and they already have his replacement (24 years old) lined up for 34 million, so that's 24 million pure profit with the replacement in place. Granted they might have sold one too many this summer- we will see this season, but if they maintain the levels they were at last season, they deserve a huge pat on the back for spotting, developing and turning a big profit on those players with plenty to reinvest to keep up the cycle. And the clubs they've moved on to as well. PSG, Real, Liverpool.

Night and day between that and us. Let's hope that Diouf, Hermansen and hopefully that midfielder we've been sorely lacking can kickstart a similar cycle of success in the transfer market for us, while raising the standard of quality on the pitch. Making profits on young players while hopefully keeping the ones we really want to build around.

Sadly we are at the moment in a place where it feels clubs like Bournemouth, Brighton, even Sunderland are a more tempting destination for players and probably have more spending power than us as well.

There's loads of talented young players around Europe.   But we don't seem to have any scouts at the club.