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)

[threesixty]

I’ve just heard rumours that Harry redknapp is in the frame. I’m now petrified. We need 3 forwards. That’s all. We are creating but we have no finishers. It’s not the hardest problem to solve. Please let’s not lose our shit here. 




 

He's not. It's Sullivan's stooges throwing around names at Sullivan's bequest. Carrick will be next.

The real scoop is Nuno's gone as soon as/if Frank gets sacked.

 

 

Thomas Frank? Here?
Honestly, Frank isn’t any better than Nuno is he? There all good managers if they have time and a good squad and don’t have fans breathing down their neck every ten seconds. 

We can’t change the manager again. We just can’t. Let him have his window. Let’s asses at the end of the season. There isn’t a manager on earth that can save our team with that decimated squad. We all know that. The task was just trying to crawl to the Jan window to get more firepower and improve the basics in the team. I think he’s done that in my opinion. I like how we play, I like the improvements in the midfield and defence to Todibo and even Kilman is much better. He’s actually playing youngsters and not as a token gesture. Let’s not throw that away. It’s something to build on. 

[threesixty]

not lose our shit? we have, yet another manager that's more happy with the other team having the ball. that thinks the best way about approaching a game is not picking a striker. if you're not losing your shit yet, you have to be a bit divvy

 

55/44 posession to Fulham. 
hardly parking the buss

https://www.skysports.com/football/west ... ats/531308

the stats tell the story. We fluffed our big chances and they got lucky because our junior left back fluffed a kick.

we play far better football than under any manager I’ve seen here in the last 3-4 yrs (and yes that includes Moyes). 

the problem is our squad is decimated. I just think our fans are fantasists sometimes. Yeah I have a problem with Wilson not starting but at the same time I’m also aware that he’d been out injured for a year and is on a pay as you play contract. We have no real replacement for him so we cannot train and build a strategy around a player that isn’t going to last 90 every game. 

thw reality is we didn’t lose because Wilson wasn’t on the pitch. We lose because Bowen and Summerville are not finishing their chances. If our wide forwards and no.10 (Paq) did their jobs we’d be ok. So we have to get 3 new attackers in the window. And we will win our games. 

getting another manager in with the squad we have after all the work that’s been put in to blood youngsters in and change our style is absolutely deranged.
(this is the first functioning midfield I have seen in about 4yrs that you can’t just run through).  

give him a fucking window an back him. We gave Pother two windows and kept with him and I never saw anything positive). This guys had like 3 months and taken over a bottom 3 club. It’s nuts how our club and fans are sometimes. I don’t get it. 

We all know that our club is a shockingly run in every measurable indicator but there are plenty on here who have Stockholm Syndrome and continue to make excuses for the ownership by blaming the coach. Now it's poor Nuno's turn to perform alchemy and create gold out of a bucket of shit.

We have only one senior striker who is on a pay as you go contact. He simply isn't fit enough to last one half of football never mind 60 odd minutes. That ain't his fault it's the stupid fuckers who signed him. We should have 2 first choice strikers capable of scoring 12 goals each a season. I'm not talking about Mbappe or Isak or even Harry fucking Kane it shouldn't be beyond a club of our resources to identify a couple of players with a bit of youth on their side to be able to achieve that aim.

We are the worst run club in the Premiership by quite some margin  - some might point to Wolves but at least when they were flush with money somebody they had a habit of identifying the right players. Now the money has gone they have had to sell anything that wasn't nailed to the floor because their Chinese owner isn't prepared to subsidise it anymore.

How can you sign 4 centre halfs and (the departed Aguerd included) for £125 million and every last one of them struggles to post a 5/6 out of 10 in most of the matches they play?

James Ward Prowse - scores as many direct free kicks as Beckham in his career and as soon as we sign him the only thing the blokes good at turns to crap. 

Stockholm Syndrome - I'm telling ya!

 

 

Mate, I used to think West Ham fans in general were a bit clued up and it was just Sullivan. But some of the comments now, and the YT guys.. I’m like bloody hell you people are insane. I agree with everything you said. 
1 fucking 34 yr old striker with a crazy injury record is meant to last 13 games! We’ve got a game in 2 days, is he meant to do 90 there as well? 

we allowed the last manager to bomb out players who are starting CL games for Marseille! 
Yet the fans think it’s just Nuno’s tactics and if we go all
out attack we’ll be fine. Some of them wanted Ange ffs! Look at what happened to ange at Forest? 
this is a serious league. People need to have serious ideas.

[ragingbull]

Dawson is out of contract,i would offer him a six month deal and tell him to work from home because he can't live down south.

He can train locally just be available for match days they can go over tactics via Teams daily,
he would be the best centre back at the club a natural leader i would make captain.

[THUNDERCLINT]

I’ve just heard rumours that Harry redknapp is in the frame. I’m now petrified. We need 3 forwards. That’s all. We are creating but we have no finishers. It’s not the hardest problem to solve. Please let’s not lose our shit here. 


 

He's not. It's Sullivan's stooges throwing around names at Sullivan's bequest. Carrick will be next.

The real scoop is Nuno's gone as soon as/if Frank gets sacked.

[Eerie Decent]

I've definitely been on the side of backing this manager, I can see a lot of good things about him, and were we not in the situation we're in, and were mid table when he took over, I think he'd turn us into a good solid team. I've also given him a bit of leeway with some of the mad decisions he's made.

However, you simply cannot defend the decision not to start with Wilson yesterday. We are running out of time, we are getting further away from the teams above us, we are playing fucking Fulham at home, you have to try to win that game at all costs. The time for just trying to be 'solid' has gone, games like that have to be identified and attacked.

I've been a Paqueta advocate, but he has been fucking abysmal this season, to play him yesterday, and not play a striker who, albeit 33, is still clearly a massive goal threat for an hour, was criminal. We need to win games FFS, we've got to essentially win half the games we've got left, if you go out with the intention of getting a point at home to Fulham, you deserve to go down.

If he doesn't start him in the next game, and we don't win, we've got to sack him. You can't sleepwalk to relegation just because he took over a shit situation, and he's improved some players. We need to stay up because of that cuntbowl stadium, if he keeps playing it safe, we'll go down without a whimper.

[eusebiovic]

not lose our shit? we have, yet another manager that's more happy with the other team having the ball. that thinks the best way about approaching a game is not picking a striker. if you're not losing your shit yet, you have to be a bit divvy

 

55/44 posession to Fulham. 
hardly parking the buss

https://www.skysports.com/football/west ... ats/531308

the stats tell the story. We fluffed our big chances and they got lucky because our junior left back fluffed a kick.

we play far better football than under any manager I’ve seen here in the last 3-4 yrs (and yes that includes Moyes). 

the problem is our squad is decimated. I just think our fans are fantasists sometimes. Yeah I have a problem with Wilson not starting but at the same time I’m also aware that he’d been out injured for a year and is on a pay as you play contract. We have no real replacement for him so we cannot train and build a strategy around a player that isn’t going to last 90 every game. 

thw reality is we didn’t lose because Wilson wasn’t on the pitch. We lose because Bowen and Summerville are not finishing their chances. If our wide forwards and no.10 (Paq) did their jobs we’d be ok. So we have to get 3 new attackers in the window. And we will win our games. 

getting another manager in with the squad we have after all the work that’s been put in to blood youngsters in and change our style is absolutely deranged.
(this is the first functioning midfield I have seen in about 4yrs that you can’t just run through).  

give him a fucking window an back him. We gave Pother two windows and kept with him and I never saw anything positive). This guys had like 3 months and taken over a bottom 3 club. It’s nuts how our club and fans are sometimes. I don’t get it. 

We all know that our club is a shockingly run in every measurable indicator but there are plenty on here who have Stockholm Syndrome and continue to make excuses for the ownership by blaming the coach. Now it's poor Nuno's turn to perform alchemy and create gold out of a bucket of shit.

We have only one senior striker who is on a pay as you go contact. He simply isn't fit enough to last one half of football never mind 60 odd minutes. That ain't his fault it's the stupid fuckers who signed him. We should have 2 first choice strikers capable of scoring 12 goals each a season. I'm not talking about Mbappe or Isak or even Harry fucking Kane it shouldn't be beyond a club of our resources to identify a couple of players with a bit of youth on their side to be able to achieve that aim.

We are the worst run club in the Premiership by quite some margin  - some might point to Wolves but at least when they were flush with money somebody they had a habit of identifying the right players. Now the money has gone they have had to sell anything that wasn't nailed to the floor because their Chinese owner isn't prepared to subsidise it anymore.

How can you sign 4 centre halfs and (the departed Aguerd included) for £125 million and every last one of them struggles to post a 5/6 out of 10 in most of the matches they play?

James Ward Prowse - scores as many direct free kicks as Beckham in his career and as soon as we sign him the only thing the blokes good at turns to crap. 

Stockholm Syndrome - I'm telling ya!

[threesixty]

not lose our shit? we have, yet another manager that's more happy with the other team having the ball. that thinks the best way about approaching a game is not picking a striker. if you're not losing your shit yet, you have to be a bit divvy

 

 

55/44 posession to Fulham. 
hardly parking the buss

https://www.skysports.com/football/west ... ats/531308

the stats tell the story. We fluffed our big chances and they got lucky because our junior left back fluffed a kick.

we play far better football than under any manager I’ve seen here in the last 3-4 yrs (and yes that includes Moyes). 

the problem is our squad is decimated. I just think our fans are fantasists sometimes. Yeah I have a problem with Wilson not starting but at the same time I’m also aware that he’d been out injured for a year and is on a pay as you play contract. We have no real replacement for him so we cannot train and build a strategy around a player that isn’t going to last 90 every game. 

thw reality is we didn’t lose because Wilson wasn’t on the pitch. We lose because Bowen and Summerville are not finishing their chances. If our wide forwards and no.10 (Paq) did their jobs we’d be ok. So we have to get 3 new attackers in the window. And we will win our games. 

getting another manager in with the squad we have after all the work that’s been put in to blood youngsters in and change our style is absolutely deranged.
(this is the first functioning midfield I have seen in about 4yrs that you can’t just run through).  

give him a fucking window an back him. We gave Pother two windows and kept with him and I never saw anything positive). This guys had like 3 months and taken over a bottom 3 club. It’s nuts how our club and fans are sometimes. I don’t get it. 

[Takashi Miike]

not lose our shit? we have, yet another manager that's more happy with the other team having the ball. that thinks the best way about approaching a game is not picking a striker. if you're not losing your shit yet, you have to be a bit divvy

[threesixty]

I’ve just heard rumours that Harry redknapp is in the frame. I’m now petrified. We need 3 forwards. That’s all. We are creating but we have no finishers. It’s not the hardest problem to solve. Please let’s not lose our shit here. 

 

[Takashi Miike]

he needs to go before the window opens. if still in the job, just start selling the most expensive assets. I know it's a bleak attitude, but we're done. maybe that will be the last straw for the complacent majority that continue to put up with that four foot sex case

[Mad Dog]

Lotnof rumours about that adama traore coming in.  He doesnt make fulham's starting line up most weeks.  Cant see what he would bring
rumours also of that wolves cf.  Hes done well hasn't he?  They'll pull our pants down over price again and use the cash to better themselves next season.

Fuck this im so disillusioned now

[goose]

Who cares anymore?

We need so many players to even have the slightest hope to avoid relegation, it's just unfunny. Sullivan is rapidly making the club worth 1£

Exactly.

Apathy rules. The club is sleep walking to the championship. People are caring less and less.

The only amusing part is watching Sullivan destroy his most valuable asset. Fuck him and fuck the club.
Enjoy your world class stadium when it’s half full in the championship.

[goose]

I believe they’ve sold the ladies team to a 3rd party to cover some of the losses.

[Sir Alf]

We are about to post a £100 million loss in the accounts. Not good when you need to buy 4 or 5 quality players able to play PL level footie to even have a small chance of winning 9 games from 19. Add that to that the fact that the owner’s vision barely gets past the end of his pug  nose. He doesnt know what or where he wants the club to be or where he wants it go in terms of the way it will play, who to recruit to get there etc. He doesnt think about that when recruiting managers let alone players. Iust whos cheapest, out of work, will accept Sullivan vetoing anything he wants.  

We need to “sh*t a miracle” so basically we are down

[Keep dreaming]

Who cares anymore?

We need so many players to even have the slightest hope to avoid relegation, it's just unfunny. Sullivan is rapidly making the club worth 1£

[Sir Alf]

Getting players in that would make a difference in the first week of the window. Absoltely no chance.

[Sweep]

What fucking fit players good enough will want to join now we are cast adrift thanks to numpty? Very few, if any.

5 points with 20 games to go incl. a head to head. 

Who'd come? People looking for a chance to play, people on the promise of a big survival bonus etc. 

It's up to the owners to get the right people in. And on time. 

Obviously, that's breaking the habit of a lifetime, so not holding out much hope, but it depends how much their arses are squeaking at the thought of £400m-£500m being lopped off the value of their 'asset'.

None of this should be a surprise to them.

[cup of tea]

Get Kitson and Hartson in  

[Massive Attack]

What fucking fit players good enough will want to join now we are cast adrift thanks to numpty? Very few, if any.

[Sweep]

Have to have a CF and LW into the club on New Years Day.

[Massive Attack]

Chris Wood has not played since October due to a knee injury and he turned up at today’s game in a knee brace so you can rule him out. 

Fuck off! Sounds like a peak Sulley special signing in January whenever I've heard one.


#welcomewood

[twoleftfeet]

Chris Wood has not played since October due to a knee injury and he turned up at today’s game in a knee brace so you can rule him out. 

[Massive Attack]

Sir Alf, it really is. 15 years consisting of;

- Consecutive Premier League and parachute payments

- Gifted a near free monster capacity stadium for peppercorn rent, next to fuck all maintainance or Security costs

- Selling off the Boleyn for £40M

- Selling prized assets like Rice for a record £105M, Diangana for £18M of pure profit etc

- Player sales money like Payet, Arnautovic, Haller, Scamacca

- Fans forking out for endless merch tatt, schemes and the like

- Corporate money

- Betway sponsorship amongst many others 

- European gates/TV money

- Trophy prize money

- Kretinsky pumping in something like £200M investment

The Club has raked in mega money during that time across the board and don't believe for a second this is the best they can do for the Club instead of gor themselves. The sums and logic of it all just don't add up.

Instead we scrounge around for freebies and decrepit old biddies that cost little like Wilson and Wood. It's like we never left 2010 standing still staring relegation square in the face once more. Just look at the state of the Training Ground that Coufal gently points out the bleeding obvious.

SO WHERE IS THE FUCKING MONEY?!?!

Sulleconomics

[Sir Alf]

Massive I lm not sure its “wheres the money” ( although the continued bleating on about sell before we buy and FFP dont help against thinking its an excuse for not spending more) its for me just the appalling way its been spent over the last 3-4 seasons. The tipping point was 2022/23 culminating in the conf win but bad league season and the enormous loss of Declan Rice who had been masking the weakness of the squad.  Abject failure to replace him or strengthen the squad with Sullivan and his managers going for past reputation older, experienced players rather than young, athletic, fast prospects.  The bias in the recruitment to this profile of player is the biggest cause of our current problems and demise. The midfieldhas been wanting pace, physicality, youth for 10 years.  Sullivan was still hearing Alan Hanson’s “ you win nothing with kids” line 20 years after it expired. You do win things with kids longer term if you build a plan around it.  

Sullivan’s psychology ( narcissistic, small man ego ) meant he also preferred getting “name” players who played or were playing for “big clubs” etc rather tyam actually research and use analysis to build something long term.  The equivalent of buying a 1999 top of tye range BMW with 100000 on the clock because it had electric seats and all the best gadgets for its time. Bling factor so he could boast or show he is a “ big shot” with “name” players not young unknowns more befitting of small clubs like Bournemouth, Brighton etc

[Massive Attack]

Reading rumours of Chris Wood maybe arriving. 1st off we are in a desperate sorry position thanks to BS which is why we have to look for bargain fossils lurking about in the bargain basement bin - 15 CUNTING YEARS OF THE SAME SHIT NOW. 

That said, even though I'm not happy with the mismanagement of it all, like Wilson I've always liked Chris Wood as a Striker and wish we had him in his prime. I do think like Wilson he can still do a job when at his current age and think his Premier League experience would be invaluable. 

Shocking we are even having to contemplate such signings though, like we haven't progressed 1 bit from 2010 under these Club killing wankers. It's 2010 all over again.

OI SULLEY, WHERE'S THE FUCKING MONEY?!?!