Winter '25/26 Transfer Rumours Thread

[stubbo-admin]

Well seems like with all these international breaks, and us languishing, the rumours of ins and outs are rife.

Chuck anything 'worthy' of discussion on this thread...

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Incomings:

Pablo Felipe - €21m + €3m (Gil Vicente) | Forward
Valentin 'Taty' Castellanos - €26m + €4m (Lazio) | Forward
Adama Traore - £2m + £1m if stay up (Fulham) | Forward
Axel Disasi - Loan (Chelsea) | Centre Back
Keiber Lamadrid - £150k + £1m option | Attacking Mid

Outgoings:

Nicolas Füllkrug - 6 months loan (AC Milan)
Luis Guilherme - £17m + Sell On % (Sporting Lisbon)
George Earthy - 6 months loan (Bristol City)
Callum Marshall - 6 months loan (Bochum)
Andy Irving - 1.5m (Sparta Prague)
Guido Rodriguez - Undisclosed (Valencia)
Igor Julio - Loan Cancelled (Brighton)
James Ward Prowse - 6 months loan (Burnley)
Lucas Paqueta - £36.5m + Buy Back Clause (Flamengo)

[stubbo-admin]

Keep Earthy....if we get relegated players like him will be valuable to our squad.

Hammers Chat are extrapolating in something Ex said and adding 9 anyway...more likely is he gets a loan second half of season.

[Fauxstralian]

Not sure any fee we’d get for Earthy would vary between January & the summer if we were relegated 
Should have been on the bench Sunday ahead of Rodriquez 
So should Doris the tea lady but that’s another matter

[RBshorty]

If we were 'primed for the drop' Earthy is basically the last player we'd be selling. 

Or maybe the Braintrust feel’s. Sell while you can. Because we going to get fleeced in the Summer.? 

[El Scorchio]

If we were 'primed for the drop' Earthy is basically the last player we'd be selling. 

[claypole]

I thought we were signing Neymar

[twoleftfeet]

Well. According to Geo. And that Fat Guy who likes broadcasting in the Supply Cupboard.! The club are going to. “Turfy. Earthy.!” And try and flog him in the January sales.

PRIMED FOR THE DROP.

COYI

Hammers chat, West Ham network and Ex are never ever wrong

It’s click bait, he is going nowhere.

[RBshorty]

Well. According to Geo. And that Fat Guy who likes broadcasting in the Supply Cupboard.! The club are going to. “Turfy. Earthy.!” And try and flog him in the January sales.

PRIMED FOR THE DROP.

COYI

[Massive Attack]

At a time when many have rightly complained of a lack of leaders and players taking responsibility in the dressing room as well. Warned this would happen and yet we continue to shoot ourselves needlessly in the foot. Our Transfer policies are 1 of the worst around be it incomings or outgoings.

[honky cat]

We could do with signing that cresswell from stoke as LB cover during afcon.

And that Coufal flying high with Hoffenheim. 

Yep. Fair enough you might want to get some older players off the payroll, but there is just no forward plan whatsoever with this club. Its like its run week to week. Afcon? Nah fucking load of shit - we'll be alright. 

[Massive Attack]

We could do with signing that cresswell from stoke as LB cover during afcon.

And that Coufal flying high with Hoffenheim. 

[honky cat]

We could do with signing that cresswell from stoke as LB cover during afcon.

[Massive Attack]

What’s going on with Cummings ? 

We don't know whether he's Cummings or going.

[nychammer]

What’s going on with Cummings ? 

[RBshorty]

We're being primed for the drop. So that will mean a Jordan Hugill type of deal. ie Josh Sargent.!

COYI.

Well. Who would Adam and Eve it.? Sorry folks. We’re already gone. The rest is noise.!

[eusebiovic]

Hayden Hackney at Boro and Jack Rudoni at Coventry are the two best players in the Championship. Both midfielders the first one is box to box and the second is more attacking.

Hackney is from Redcar and Rudoni from Carshalton - he started out at Wimbledon. It's a shame that we'll probably miss out on them due to far more urgent priorities.

We need a striker though...two strikers even - one a left sided forward that cuts in at the very least.

 

[Fauxstralian]

Paper talk probably bollocks about Conor Gallagher
If Atletico Madrid wanted to do a swap for Paqueta he’d be more use in a relegation scrap

[Fauxstralian]

Is Sargent premier league standard?
Joined Norwich when they were plummeting out of the league & scored 2 in 26 in a terrible team
Has played 3 and a bit Championship seasons since scoring around 50 league goals in 113 league games

The only strikers who have done anything in recent years for us … Ashton , Antonio plus Bowen if you want to call him a striker .. have come from the Championship 
The massive failures have been from European leagues. Zaza, Scamacca, Haller, Fullkrug etc

[stubbo-admin]

Being linked with the lad from Coventry as well (Haji Wright).  Only seen brief highlights, but looks like someone that would be worth having....although strikers from the Championship rarely make good transitions to the Prem it feels.

[twoleftfeet]

It’s an upgrade!

Replacing a 30 something year old injury prone striker with a younger injury prone striker.

[fraser]

We’re being heavily linked with Josh Sargent from Norwich City, with us paying £15-17m for the forward. His stats aren’t exactly prolific, and he seems to have missed a lot of games in the last few years. Not exactly exciting.

Apparently the yanks think he's fucking toilet as are all their front line options and he's down their pecking order, has scored once since August.. 

[Iron Duke]

We’re being heavily linked with Josh Sargent from Norwich City, with us paying £15-17m for the forward. His stats aren’t exactly prolific, and he seems to have missed a lot of games in the last few years. Not exactly exciting.

[Westside]

"Sullivan ain't putting money into saving our Premiership status."

How many more times. The monies Sullivan  (or anybody else) can put in to the club are very limited and constrained by PSR.

I'd settle for no money from him and for him to sell up.



 

Well that's partly correct. 

Based on the current financial landscape of the Premier League and West Ham United's specific situation as of late 2024/early 2025, the short answer is no, it is not strictly true.

While Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR) do limit how much money a club can lose, West Ham United is currently in a financial position where David Sullivan (or other investors) could invest more money if they chose to. The claim that they are "constrained by PSR" is viewed by many financial experts as a negotiation tactic or a business choice, rather than a hard regulatory ban.

In other words. Sullivan doesn't want to invest into West ham with his own funds.
This is why he is hated, and has to be flogged out. Dead or alive!

Well, let's wait and see, when last season's accounts are released. Legally due by the end of February, but generally released any time between now and mid January. 

[OK_Guy]

Cheeky bid for Mo Salah?

Sullivan couldn't even afford a packet of fruit salads.

he'll probably stump-up for a couple of black-jacks, you never know, he could put in a bid for Bazooka Joe, you know he loves a duff & injury prone striker. 

[XKhammer]

If we're gonna play silly buggers, Declan Rice back on a Bosman.

More unfunny utter bollocks 

[fraser]

"Sullivan ain't putting money into saving our Premiership status."

How many more times. The monies Sullivan  (or anybody else) can put in to the club are very limited and constrained by PSR.

I'd settle for no money from him and for him to sell up.



 

Well that's partly correct. 

Based on the current financial landscape of the Premier League and West Ham United's specific situation as of late 2024/early 2025, the short answer is no, it is not strictly true.

While Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR) do limit how much money a club can lose, West Ham United is currently in a financial position where David Sullivan (or other investors) could invest more money if they chose to. The claim that they are "constrained by PSR" is viewed by many financial experts as a negotiation tactic or a business choice, rather than a hard regulatory ban.

In other words. Sullivan doesn't want to invest into West ham with his own funds.
This is why he is hated, and has to be flogged out. Dead or alive!

I couldn't give a fuck if he puts his own funds in its his misuse of the clubs funds because of his mates is why I hate him.