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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

honky cat" wrote: ↑14 Jul 2025, 09:59

Lee Trundle" wrote: ↑14 Jul 2025, 09:23 Timmy who?

 

Fine Garms.
​​​​​​Come on you eyerons

Sir Alf" wrote: ↑14 Jul 2025, 09:04 I see our interest in Harvey Elliott now over due to fee in excess of £40 million. 

Yep was clearly in a rush this morning getting ready having a fight with his shower curtain. Main thing is he's on his way by the looks of things. Finally some positive news!

Lee Trundle" wrote: ↑14 Jul 2025, 09:23 Timmy who?

 

Iron Duke" wrote: ↑14 Jul 2025, 09:29 I closed my eyes, drew back the curtain…
 

Iron Duke" wrote: ↑14 Jul 2025, 09:29 I closed my eyes, drew back the curtain…

I closed my eyes, drew back the curtain…

Timmy who?

I see our interest in Harvey Elliott now over due to fee in excess of £40 million. The other lad Tyler Morton still of interest but mixed reports on his ability and potential. 

We need an athletic, young, powerful central midfielder or 2 with pace desperately.  Surely we are not going to stick with Alvarez, JWP and Soucek as our only options in that area? 

goose wrote: ↑27 May 2025, 10:38 I really hope the rumours about Todibo being parked here for a season are true. Cash in on him and Aguerd and get two proper defenders who want to head, tackle, mark players etc etc.

Kilman hasn't been great either but i dont see anyone wanting to sign him.

FauxstralianScarles is going nowhere, he will get enough games
Hopefully he learnt a lot last season but he certainly isn’t ready to play 38 league games
Its time for him, Earthy & Potts to step up & be first team squad members at least 
 

mallard wrote: ↑13 Jul 2025, 19:59 It irritates me when players take squad numbers which don’t correspond to their playing position 

Just to be clear - I meant a right back having no.5, and a centre forward with no.11

I’m not going to lose any sleep over it, just find it IRRITATING 

onsideman wrote: ↑13 Jul 2025, 21:42
Or is it just completely irrelevant?

Yeah, but what number would Rice be anyway? I mean sometimes he plays as a 4, sometimes as an 8 and sometimes as a 6? And what about Jarrod "JB20" Bowen? Surely he should be a 7... or is it a 9... and is a left wing-back a 3 or an 11? I don't know... it's so confusing. 

Or is it just completely irrelevant?

mallard wrote: ↑13 Jul 2025, 19:59 It irritates me when players take squad numbers which don’t correspond to their playing position 

Blimey! You're easily irritated 

It irritates me when players take squad numbers which don’t correspond to their playing position 

Emerson will be off to Italy in the next few weeks
Scarles is going nowhere, he will get enough games
Hopefully he learnt a lot last season but he certainly isn’t ready to play 38 league games
Its time for him, Earthy & Potts to step up & be first team squad members at least 

I see Scarles is switching to #30 from #57 & Potts will be #32
Kilman is taking #3 with Cresswell leaving. Would have thought he’d take Coufal’s #5 & leave #3 for Diouf

stubbo wrote: ↑13 Jul 2025, 19:09

onsideman wrote: ↑13 Jul 2025, 19:00

stubbo-admin wrote: ↑13 Jul 2025, 18:02 Have to say though if I was Ollie Scarles off the back of a break through season, I'd be having a few doubts.

He breaks through, sees off Emerson to become pretty much first choice, and then immediately we drop 20m off on someone in his position who is only a few months older than him.

He'd surely be thinking his pathway just got blocked?!

I think I'm in the minority on here but I believe Scarles has a lot of work to do before he's good enough to start week in week out. He did 'see off' Emerson but that wasn't hard and he still wasnt a guaranteed starter even after that with Cresswell and AWB ahead on occasions

Totally agree. But I guess what I'm saying is it's one thing to have a seasoned pro ahead of you, that you just have to bide your time on....another for the club to have dropped relatively big money on a full international that's only a few months older than you.

To me that suggests you're done...I mean if we're signing this guy, he's not coming in as backup. If I was Scarles I'd be thinking season long loan at this point. 

Yet to see a player linked for central midfield who is quick, athletic, combative. An athletic type that is physically dominant in duels and presses relentlessly. A Kante type of player. This is critical to turning aound our form imho

Luiz, Elliott etc have some of these attributes but Luiz aint that quick and Elliott is more of an attacking / creative midfielder.  Im just not that confdent that Alvarez has the legs / pace to be our only holding midfielder?

Elliiott and / or Luiz good additions of course but without the above type of player will still not be enough. I would take an offer above 35 million for Alvarez. What is certain imo is that any central midfield pairing from Alvarez, JWP and Soucek means another season of struggle
 

onsideman wrote: ↑13 Jul 2025, 19:00

stubbo-admin wrote: ↑13 Jul 2025, 18:02 Have to say though if I was Ollie Scarles off the back of a break through season, I'd be having a few doubts.

He breaks through, sees off Emerson to become pretty much first choice, and then immediately we drop 20m off on someone in his position who is only a few months older than him.

He'd surely be thinking his pathway just got blocked?!

I think I'm in the minority on here but I believe Scarles has a lot of work to do before he's good enough to start week in week out. He did 'see off' Emerson but that wasn't hard and he still wasnt a guaranteed starter even after that with Cresswell and AWB ahead on occasions