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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

fraser wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 14:32 Forest were ridiculed on here for their transfer strategy,  Them and Villa so close to relegation and look at them both now. We had a massive chance to kick on but between Sullivan and Moyes we weren't brave enough to take it. 

Forest were ridiculed on here for their transfer strategy,  Them and Villa so close to relegation and look at them both now. We had a massive chance to kick on but between Sullivan and Moyes we weren't brave enough to take it. 

El Scorchio" wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 14:28

Jean-Luc Paul Goddard" wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 14:12 Shame that Elanga going to Newcastle definitely puts them out of the running to make a Kudus bid. Expect Spurs to hold their ground now and wait for Sullivan to inevitably cave in to a lowball offer.

Yes, I think the only positive would be Madueke going to Arsenal might reignite Chelsea's appetite- if it happens. Kudus would need his head examined if he just dismissed them in favour of spurs.

Sullivan has to be prepared to be strong and play hardball over this with a longer term view and even tell the player he can't leave as the valuation hasn't been met (well played Brentford over Mbuemo), but as you say he won't, because he can't see or strategise past any current transfer window especially financially and will always grab at any money immediately rather than be patient or speculate to accumulate, to the detriment of the club both in terms of buying and selling. 

 

Hammer I am" wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 14:12

El Scorchio" wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 13:53 Forest another club putting us to shame and absolutely leapfrogging us in not only footballing terms but recruitment and strategy terms.

Buy Elanga for 16 mill, sell for 55 mill then immediately go after a promising PSV winger they've been tracking as a ready made, cheaper and younger replacement. That's the way to do it. Yeah it might fall apart for them next season but even they are making far more positive and forward thinking moves than us.

 

Depressing isn't it, trouble with us is we sometimes take a step in the right direction and immediately panic and revert to the same all boring default position because things didn't fall into place quick enough. I would 100% welcome relegation and all the risks involved with it if it meant getting rid of the board and hoping things will be different going forward

Jean-Luc Paul Goddard" wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 14:12 Shame that Elanga going to Newcastle definitely puts them out of the running to make a Kudus bid. Expect Spurs to hold their ground now and wait for Sullivan to inevitably cave in to a lowball offer.

El Scorchio" wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 13:53 Forest another club putting us to shame and absolutely leapfrogging us in not only footballing terms but recruitment and strategy terms.

Buy Elanga for 16 mill, sell for 55 mill then immediately go after a promising PSV winger they've been tracking as a ready made, cheaper and younger replacement. That's the way to do it. Yeah it might fall apart for them next season but even they are making far more positive and forward thinking moves than us.

 

Shame that Elanga going to Newcastle definitely puts them out of the running to make a Kudus bid. Expect Spurs to hold their ground now and wait for Sullivan to inevitably cave in to a lowball offer.

Forest another club putting us to shame and absolutely leapfrogging us in not only footballing terms but recruitment and strategy terms.

Buy Elanga for 16 mill, sell for 55 mill then immediately go after a promising PSV winger they've been tracking as a ready made, cheaper and younger replacement. That's the way to do it. Yeah it might fall apart for them next season but even they are making far more positive and forward thinking moves than us.

fraser wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 13:09

El Scorchio" wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 11:35 I think the release clause only lasts 10 days (1-10 July) What the fucking point of that is, I don't know. Surely any team interested just waits until 11th and then offers less. 

Perhaps the anticipation was that there would be an absolute frenzy for his signature immediately in the window. Maybe if he'd had a better season, there would have been. 

But it seems utterly pointless having a release clause that's only applicable for ten days, if what I've read is correct.

No you've got this the wrong way around, it means we don't have to accept £85 million out of that window. If he had carried on the same trajectory as first half season we would have been forced to sell him for that, if out of that window we would say nope, more or we keep him.. It's totally in our favour
We can sell him for what we want under that anytime it was to stop us selling him for less than we wanted to. 

El Scorchio" wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 11:35 I think the release clause only lasts 10 days (1-10 July) What the fucking point of that is, I don't know. Surely any team interested just waits until 11th and then offers less. 

Perhaps the anticipation was that there would be an absolute frenzy for his signature immediately in the window. Maybe if he'd had a better season, there would have been. 

But it seems utterly pointless having a release clause that's only applicable for ten days, if what I've read is correct.

I think the release clause only lasts 10 days (1-10 July) What the fucking point of that is, I don't know. Surely any team interested just waits until 11th and then offers less. 

Perhaps the anticipation was that there would be an absolute frenzy for his signature immediately in the window. Maybe if he'd had a better season, there would have been. 

But it seems utterly pointless having a release clause that's only applicable for ten days, if what I've read is correct.

Never particularly taken to Kudus with stupid goal celebrations (or non-celebrations). However, there's definitely a player there. Was great first season but like many players last season, looked lost most of the time. I think he'd do well in a better side and it's inconceivable that we would sell to Spurs. Sullivan has conveniently forgotten that he would never deal with them again? He's got way too comfortable since the Burnley days to think it's even an option. I can see him doing well there and if we don't beat Sunderland first game of the season, every game suddenly looks a struggle for points for a while. Ultimately, Kudus has the release clause and we should be saying it's that or nothing at all for Spurs. Suddenly the Chelsea cash plus a couple of players deal looks golden in comparison. I'd rather us keep an unhappy Kudus than sell for £50-60 million to Spurs. How is it time and time again we end up selling our best players for a pittance because they're unhappy? Arnautovic and Payet were at their peak and we sold them for peanuts because they threw a strop. About time we showed some balls than bend over again and again 

Mad Ferret" wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 10:21

fraser wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 09:43 I'd have Saudi over Sully any fucking day. 

Disappointed to hear that from you, frase.

I expected as much from the phony eye-tie.

fraser wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 09:43 I'd have Saudi over Sully any fucking day. 

goose wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 09:33

E6 Hammer" wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 09:21

goose wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 08:56

when he bought into the club 'mate'. keep up.

I always was under the impression that there would be several rounds of investments.

why?

I'd have Saudi over Sully any fucking day. 

E6 Hammer" wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 09:21

goose wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 08:56

Mad Ferret" wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 08:46

When's Kretinsky investing mate?

when he bought into the club 'mate'. keep up.

I always was under the impression that there would be several rounds of investments.

THUNDERCLINT wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 07:25 Saudi's?

Fuck no, we're better than that and CANNOT let that happen.

goose wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 08:56

Mad Ferret" wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 08:46

goose wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 08:20

whats the difference? we have a British piece of shit running the club, at least they might actually invest in the club and run it properly.
politics aside, you cannot knock what the lot at Newcastle have done.

i know Turki al-sheikh has been linked with a few clubs recently including the 'wall. 
on his own he prob isnt rich enough (just the £2bn), but he is very well connected.

When's Kretinsky investing mate?

when he bought into the club 'mate'. keep up.

Mad Ferret" wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 08:46

goose wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 08:20

THUNDERCLINT wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 07:25 Saudi's?

Fuck no, we're better than that and CANNOT let that happen.

whats the difference? we have a British piece of shit running the club, at least they might actually invest in the club and run it properly.
politics aside, you cannot knock what the lot at Newcastle have done.

i know Turki al-sheikh has been linked with a few clubs recently including the 'wall. 
on his own he prob isnt rich enough (just the £2bn), but he is very well connected.

When's Kretinsky investing mate?

goose wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 08:20

THUNDERCLINT wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 07:25 Saudi's?

Fuck no, we're better than that and CANNOT let that happen.

whats the difference? we have a British piece of shit running the club, at least they might actually invest in the club and run it properly.
politics aside, you cannot knock what the lot at Newcastle have done.

i know Turki al-sheikh has been linked with a few clubs recently including the 'wall. 
on his own he prob isnt rich enough (just the £2bn), but he is very well connected.

I used to feel quite proud of being one of the very few British owned Premier League clubs before Kretinsky rocked up.

Now that he's here and done pretty much SFA, I'd be quite happy for anyone to come in to take over from the current mob if they are in any way competent.

THUNDERCLINT wrote: ↑08 Jul 2025, 07:25 Saudi's?

Fuck no, we're better than that and CANNOT let that happen.

The only takeover going on at West Ham is Beryl trying to take bean serving duty away from Doris in the canteen 

Saudi's?

Fuck no, we're better than that and CANNOT let that happen.