Summer Transfer Window 2025 | Official Thread

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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

[Massive Attack]

I'm still convincing myself that the Wilson thing is bollocks.

It fucking has to be.

How many times before have we been here though hoping for that to be the case down the years? Then up pops yet another cheap desperate old Transfer Striker Mido, Keane, McCarthy, Nene, Franco, Cole, Jelavic, Perez, Ings and so on.

The only surprise would be if Wilson now doesn't sign as it has Sullivan’s mucky prints all over it. 

[El Scorchio]

I'm think he is nothing more than a "vehicle( a broken down one)" to get club dosh to Salthouse and the Sullivans.  

 

 

I don't see how this could be anything else, either. I'm surprised the other owners don't have some serious questions about how Sullivan runs this club. I know Gold used to just turn a blind eye and back him with his shareholding, but unless there's some sort of formal agreement with the Gold children that this must continue and there's nothing that can be done to change it, I just can't understand why they and Kretinsky just let this happen right under their noses seen as this is devaluing their massive investment.

[Eerie Decent]

I'm still convincing myself that the Wilson thing is bollocks.

It fucking has to be.

[Massive Attack]

I hope to god Potter or Macauley sees something in that bloke because outside of one season, he appears to have done basically fuck all, especially for that price quoted.

 

 

Yep, 26 career goals when he's 25 next season doesn't quite scream prolific or anything of the sort. So brace yourselves for a £55M 5 year deal..

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

24 years old and has already played for 7 clubs.

The Italian Graham Stack.

To be fair, that ain't all that uncommon in Italy, especially if they're pretty much all loans like in his case. That's just how things are done there.

Looking at the current national team's strikers aged 24-26 and they've had similar numbers. Lorenzo Lucca has been at 9 or 10 different clubs since he was 17. He is now 24.

[Sir Alf]

ponzi scheme even

[Sir Alf]

Wilson injury record at Barcodes:In five seasons at Newcastle, Wilson missed 114 matches through injury and illness. That is the equivalent of exactly three 38-game Premier League seasons.So for three of his five years at Newcastle, Wilson was unavailable through injury.Most injuries were not short-term lay-offs either.The man in line to be West Ham’s third summer signing missed a grand total of 677 days through injury during five years at Newcastle.That is nearly two full calendar years in the treatment room.Nine of his 15 injuries were hamstring related, two were calf, one was back and another was chest.

I'm think he is nothing more than a "vehicle( a broken down one)" to get club dosh to Salthouse and the Sullivans.  The club money is all part of a pozi scheme anyway, its borrowed against future TV and ticket revenue.  And the borrowing is also to pay off the previous borrowing like getting another credit card to pay off or consolidate other credit cards.  Sullivans are wealthy in terms of assets but not so much when it comes to cash so always looking for ways for using the club for their personal liquidity?

It stinks but a odious man Sullivan its par for the course.  

[Lee Trundle]

Jhon Arias, who I think we were linked with, has just joined Wolves.

[Lee Trundle]

24 years old and has already played for 7 clubs.

The Italian Graham Stack.

[El Scorchio]

I hope to god Potter or Macauley sees something in that bloke because outside of one season, he appears to have done basically fuck all, especially for that price quoted.

[Lee Trundle]

Sport Witness

‘West Ham have swooped in’ – Hammers arrive for signing with insistence



Born in Bergamo, Roberto Piccoli came through the youth system at local club Atalanta and made his senior debut at 18-years-of-age.

Unable to breakthrough as a prominent player, the forward then went on loan to no less than six Italian clubs, before joining Cagliari on a permanent basis in June of this year.

The 24-year-old scored 10 goals for Cagliari in his loan spell at the club during the 2024/25 season. He then joined the Sardinians permanently from Atalanta for a fee of €12m and an exit is already on the cards for him.

Gazzetta dello Sport report ‘West Ham have swooped in’ for Piccoli, with Cagliari and the striker interested in a sale.

The newspaper claim that the Hammers have ‘enquired insistently’ for the player, who has previously spent loan stints at Genoa, Hellas Verona, Empoli, Lecce and Spezia.

Similar is reported by Corriere dello Sport, who state West Ham and Benfica have not made formal offers, but have made enquiries to gather information about signing Piccoli.

They note Cagliari’s valuation is around €30m, with the club now said to be making serious evaluations about Piccoli’s sale this summer due to the capital gain they can earn.

The ex-Atalanta player has scored 23 goals in his Serie A career so far, having played for a total of seven clubs already.

Who's his agent?  It'll give me some idea on if he's joining or not.

[Alan]

Sport Witness

‘West Ham have swooped in’ – Hammers arrive for signing with insistence



Born in Bergamo, Roberto Piccoli came through the youth system at local club Atalanta and made his senior debut at 18-years-of-age.

Unable to breakthrough as a prominent player, the forward then went on loan to no less than six Italian clubs, before joining Cagliari on a permanent basis in June of this year.

The 24-year-old scored 10 goals for Cagliari in his loan spell at the club during the 2024/25 season. He then joined the Sardinians permanently from Atalanta for a fee of €12m and an exit is already on the cards for him.

Gazzetta dello Sport report ‘West Ham have swooped in’ for Piccoli, with Cagliari and the striker interested in a sale.

The newspaper claim that the Hammers have ‘enquired insistently’ for the player, who has previously spent loan stints at Genoa, Hellas Verona, Empoli, Lecce and Spezia.

Similar is reported by Corriere dello Sport, who state West Ham and Benfica have not made formal offers, but have made enquiries to gather information about signing Piccoli.

They note Cagliari’s valuation is around €30m, with the club now said to be making serious evaluations about Piccoli’s sale this summer due to the capital gain they can earn.

The ex-Atalanta player has scored 23 goals in his Serie A career so far, having played for a total of seven clubs already.

[El Scorchio]

Thing is, by now the player must know the sentiment of all the online fans of the club. If it were me, I'd take one look, see I REALLY wasn't wanted and think again. Guess maybe players like him don't think like that, or just don't care as long as they are getting paid.* But I'd be really embarrassed if I was Wilson, going to a club he's publicly slated in the past, whose fans openly don't want him and don't like him, whose MANAGER doesn't want him. I just couldn't do it. I'd be just embarrassed to be pulling on the shirt and signing the contract, especially if there are 'other offers'. 

*However, if the money is as outlined below (surely it CANNOT be?!) 50k as his base wage for not even playing, but then 75k per 90 mins if he does? That's RIDICULOUS. If/when Fullkrug gets injured, assuming Wilson isn't already injured, he's picking up 125K a week- 200k if we play two games. That takes the deal far from being economical to absolutely preposterous. There has to be plenty leaking out of the back door of that and back to Sullivan and Salthouse somehow because that's top striker wages, not some broken down old has been.

This whole thing stinks to high heaven.

If we play Sun-Wed-Sat it's 275k +goals...

Ponder that for a moment.

Exactly- even worse, if those figures are to be believed. I mean I don't (luckily) think the goal bonus is going to count for much, but for him to be potentially making the sort of wedge a Man City player would make is simply disgusting. Which first makes me think it cannot be true and secondly that if it is Sullivan is going to be all over Potter saying 'don't pick him don't pick him.' like he is with other players with similar clauses. But then what if he's the only fit striker we have? Yet again it'll be outside influences dictating on field tactics (Todibo anyone? I bet my bottom dollar Ferguson as well, actually)

This whole deal stinks to high heaven. No-one benefits from it. Certainly not West Ham United football club or it's fans. This deal is purely to benefit other parties which is utterly disgusting,

[THUNDERCLINT]

Thing is, by now the player must know the sentiment of all the online fans of the club. If it were me, I'd take one look, see I REALLY wasn't wanted and think again. Guess maybe players like him don't think like that, or just don't care as long as they are getting paid.* But I'd be really embarrassed if I was Wilson, going to a club he's publicly slated in the past, whose fans openly don't want him and don't like him, whose MANAGER doesn't want him. I just couldn't do it. I'd be just embarrassed to be pulling on the shirt and signing the contract, especially if there are 'other offers'. 

*However, if the money is as outlined below (surely it CANNOT be?!) 50k as his base wage for not even playing, but then 75k per 90 mins if he does? That's RIDICULOUS. If/when Fullkrug gets injured, assuming Wilson isn't already injured, he's picking up 125K a week- 200k if we play two games. That takes the deal far from being economical to absolutely preposterous. There has to be plenty leaking out of the back door of that and back to Sullivan and Salthouse somehow because that's top striker wages, not some broken down old has been.

This whole thing stinks to high heaven.

If we play Sun-Wed-Sat it's 275k +goals...

Ponder that for a moment.

[THUNDERCLINT]

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Unlikely, Antionio is, thankfully, pissed at the terms we've offered Wilson compared to him.

The podcast could get lively.

[El Scorchio]

Thing is, by now the player must know the sentiment of all the online fans of the club. If it were me, I'd take one look, see I REALLY wasn't wanted and think again. Guess maybe players like him don't think like that, or just don't care as long as they are getting paid.* But I'd be really embarrassed if I was Wilson, going to a club he's publicly slated in the past, whose fans openly don't want him and don't like him, whose MANAGER doesn't want him. I just couldn't do it. I'd be just embarrassed to be pulling on the shirt and signing the contract, especially if there are 'other offers'. 

*However, if the money is as outlined below (surely it CANNOT be?!) 50k as his base wage for not even playing, but then 75k per 90 mins if he does? That's RIDICULOUS. If/when Fullkrug gets injured, assuming Wilson isn't already injured, he's picking up 125K a week- 200k if we play two games. That takes the deal far from being economical to absolutely preposterous. There has to be plenty leaking out of the back door of that and back to Sullivan and Salthouse somehow because that's top striker wages, not some broken down old has been.

This whole thing stinks to high heaven.

[Sydney_Iron]

This Callum Wilson stuff is just a massive wind up isn't it? Just makes no sense on every level, going to call it now, this cսnt isn't coming to West Ham!

*Crosses fingers

[RootsRadical]

[claypole]

I wouldn't blame Potter if he has instructed solicitors to look at his contract to see if he can sue for constructive dismissal 

[goose]

leave Ferret alone!!

it's not his fault that the imaginary Kappa deal that his imaginary friend told him about fell through at the last minute.
even though it never existed.

[THUNDERCLINT]

Fantasist Clint making shit up again.

 

 

Says "CWilse" biggest fan...

The Kappa King...

[violator]

Yeah he's full of K(r)appa

[Mad Ferret]

Fantasist Clint making shit up again.

[THUNDERCLINT]

It's no surprise the Wilson stuff ramped up yesterday after Cock Piss was on the plane to the US.

Cock Piss has been fighting this since the window opened. Furioous apparently and could be flying back today for a showdwn with the dwarf.

[Ron Eff]

If this does happen, it’s astonishing. Absolute prick of a bloke, 33, injured most of last season. When will we ever learn?

Might as well have given Ings a new deal.