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)

[Manuel]

The fact that Nuno has just made his first real coaching appointment since he got the job months ago is another bad sign.


 

Certainly is. It’s a sign that he will see out the remainder of the season no matter what.

I have a horrible feeling we will keep him in the championship too. Seems like Nuno is only here so Sullivan can tap into his agent for players.

Yea thought the same. Aside from the agent thing he has good history in the Championship with Wolves, and after leaving both Wolves and Forest under a cloud he won't another murky exit on his CV. That said, you can never really predict what will happen these days.

[Jaan Kenbrovin]

The fact that Nuno has just made his first real coaching appointment since he got the job months ago is another bad sign.

 

Certainly is. It’s a sign that he will see out the remainder of the season no matter what.

I have a horrible feeling we will keep him in the championship too. Seems like Nuno is only here so Sullivan can tap into his agent for players.

[Sir Alf]

Can see the sense in what you say southbank. And as mentioned, its the usual half baked reaction by Sullivan just getting in a couple of wililing but B level strikers ( based on their careers to date). So at least we wont be given the false hope a CB and CM coming in might have provided.

I fully expect us to finish, at best, 2nd from bottom and possibly rock bottom by May now and deservedly so. Wolves and Burnley look better than us now. After an initial sign of improvement for 5 games after Nuno’s failed experiment against Brentford and Leeds, we have got progressively worse again imo.  Its true we remain marginally better than when Potter was at the helm but that was mostly due to improvement on set pieces ( only 2 conceded versus 8 under Potter)  and playing Fernandes,  Potts and Magassa for legs in CM over the painfully slow Guido, Irvine and Soucek.  But even the aforementioned one good spell, with wins against Newcastle and Burnley, were hardly convincing imo ( Esp Burnley) and draws at Brighton and Bournemouth ( Areola and bad finishing avoided a 5 or 6-2 defeat in that second half at Bmouth after going 2 up),   No time have we ever looked strong in midfield, hard to score against or able to break teams down and score enough goals.

Not having the CB and CM transfers ( incl  loans ) lined up on 1st Jan is yet another fatal show of incompetence and zero planning by the little narcissistic buffoon in charge. His fellow boardroom partners are equally complicit just sitting on the sidelines the last 4 years and not challenging Sullivan.

This weekend’s defeat should be the final nail. Going to be a very very painful watch

Spurs will be buoyed by the Gallagher signing and coast to a comfortable victory dedpite having 6 or 7 out.  Kilman and Todibo and a central mid of youngsters along with the unmotivated Paqueta, slow as treacle Soucek and 2 new rookie PL strikers will not make much difference

[Massive Attack]

I get all that Southbank. However there is still 51 points left up for grabs 7 points adrift from Forest. The biggest concern is this sabotaging twat is still in charge. Sullivan could not have gone about all this any worse. 

[southbankbornnbred]

Hate to be the one to put a downer on things, but I think it's all shuffling the deckchairs on the Titanic.

I get that we HAVE to try something. And we've bought two (pretty much unknown) forwards. But no seriously good players are going to join us in January - unless it's a generously funded loan for six months. Not in our position.

So many of the available options are barely upgrades on the shit we already have. There will be 1,000 names in the mix and 900 of them will be no better, or worse, than the current (poor) squad.

Add to that we have a manager who doesn't seem to be taking the role seriously - he actively celebrated with his former players when they beat us - and that he was also dealt a bit of crap hand with coaching staff...and none of this bodes well.

The fact that Nuno has just made his first real coaching appointment since he got the job months ago is another bad sign. He should have been all over Sullivan and Brady on that point from day one.

I also think we don't have a lot of money now. We've pretty much spent on the two forwards what we're recouping through Guilherme and, most likely, Paqueta (around £50m to £52m). Potter was told he had to reduce the squad's wage/revenue ratio in readiness for the new squad cost ratio rules (85%) in the summer. We're already above that, according to some (don't know if that's true, but some say we're around 90%). But what's certain is that we can't afford to splash a lot more money this month.

We'll be "linked" with a lot of players. But unless more leave, like JWP etc, then we don't have a lot of wriggle room against PSR/SCR.

The whole club needs a MASSIVE clear-out once we're relegated in the summer. The shit (Kilman etc), the dead wood (Fullkrug etc), the overpaid (JWP, Rodriguez etc), the manager (he's not West Ham, let's face it: his heart is not in this) and most importantly...the board.



 

[Mad Ferret]

Couple more days to get a CB and centre mid in ( the first more of a priority of course ) or forego another 3 points. 

Need a winger over a CM for me...... If the CB is Dier we really are fucked 

More tosh spouted by Rossknowsfuckall.

Potts and Magassa have shown themselves to not be good enough in recent games. So much so that Soucek is looking a preferable option in the middle. 

[Rossal]

Couple more days to get a CB and centre mid in ( the first more of a priority of course ) or forego another 3 points. 

Need a winger over a CM for me...... If the CB is Dier we really are fucked 

[El Scorchio]

Couple more days to get a CB and centre mid in ( the first more of a priority of course ) or forego another 3 points. 

It's a joke how it's all just stalled. Wouldn't surprise me if we finish the window with just the two lads up top. As ever half measures from Sullivan rather than actually doing what's so glaringly needed.

[Sir Alf]

Couple more days to get a CB and centre mid in ( the first more of a priority of course ) or forego another 3 points. 

[El Scorchio]

And while you're on the blower to Italy, you have my permission to use up the rest of West Ham's January budget.

I'll have a large calzone with extra mushrooms...

Mushrooms? Gross.

[southbankbornnbred]

And while you're on the blower to Italy, you have my permission to use up the rest of West Ham's January budget.

I'll have a large calzone with extra mushrooms...

[Council Scum]

You do realise the bloke we have just signed is from a team in Rome? 

Because he wasn't wanted there.... 

 

so? He obv isn't wanted at Villa either hence why he is on the move.  Let's not pretend the premier league and London doesn't offer any sort of pull to players. Serie A is not a great league anymore and Roma lost at home to Torino last night who had Vlasic starting.         Beat Spurs and Forest lose to Villa its back to 4 points.  Then Sunderland at home, theres some glimmers if we can pull a few more signings out of our arse.  

And i'd back us to beat Spurs alot more with Malen up top than this Pablo bloke 

He isn't wanted at Villa and has the choice of Rome or an East London toilet, which is Eeries point.... 

[Eerie Decent]

OK mate, get on the phone to him, the signature might not be dry yet.

[Rossal]

Son, you think when he's got the option of joining Roma, live in Rome, and fight for the title, he'd join a club falling apart, who have just been thumped by the leagues rock bottom team, and lost to the team they are battling with directly to stay up?

You live in a dream world.

You do realise the bloke we have just signed is from a team in Rome? 

Because he wasn't wanted there.... 

 

 

so? He obv isn't wanted at Villa either hence why he is on the move.  Let's not pretend the premier league and London doesn't offer any sort of pull to players. Serie A is not a great league anymore and Roma lost at home to Torino last night who had Vlasic starting.         Beat Spurs and Forest lose to Villa its back to 4 points.  Then Sunderland at home, theres some glimmers if we can pull a few more signings out of our arse.  

And i'd back us to beat Spurs alot more with Malen up top than this Pablo bloke 

[Eerie Decent]

Malen going Roma loan with a €25m option.  Wants to play up top as a number 9. 

Turns 27 in a few days, a better option than either of the two we got? 




 

Son, you think when he's got the option of joining Roma, live in Rome, and fight for the title, he'd join a club falling apart, who have just been thumped by the leagues rock bottom team, and lost to the team they are battling with directly to stay up?

You live in a dream world.

You do realise the bloke we have just signed is from a team in Rome? 

Bloody hell 

[Council Scum]

Malen going Roma loan with a €25m option.  Wants to play up top as a number 9. 

Turns 27 in a few days, a better option than either of the two we got? 




 

Son, you think when he's got the option of joining Roma, live in Rome, and fight for the title, he'd join a club falling apart, who have just been thumped by the leagues rock bottom team, and lost to the team they are battling with directly to stay up?

You live in a dream world.

You do realise the bloke we have just signed is from a team in Rome? 

Because he wasn't wanted there.... 

[Rossal]

Malen going Roma loan with a €25m option.  Wants to play up top as a number 9. 

Turns 27 in a few days, a better option than either of the two we got? 



 

Son, you think when he's got the option of joining Roma, live in Rome, and fight for the title, he'd join a club falling apart, who have just been thumped by the leagues rock bottom team, and lost to the team they are battling with directly to stay up?

You live in a dream world.

You do realise the bloke we have just signed is from a team in Rome? 

[Rossal]

Rossal is a proper thick cսnt.

Not a thick cսnt like twoleftfeet, who knows he’s a thick a cսnt. 

An actual thick cսnt who thinks he knows it all.

oooo touched a nerve earlier did I?  Proper thick cսnt that's rattled you good and proper

[Mad Ferret]

Rossal is a proper thick cսnt.

Not a thick cսnt like twoleftfeet, who knows he’s a thick a cսnt. 

An actual thick cսnt who thinks he knows it all.

[Eerie Decent]

Malen going Roma loan with a €25m option.  Wants to play up top as a number 9. 

Turns 27 in a few days, a better option than either of the two we got? 


 

Son, you think when he's got the option of joining Roma, live in Rome, and fight for the title, he'd join a club falling apart, who have just been thumped by the leagues rock bottom team, and lost to the team they are battling with directly to stay up?

You live in a dream world.

[Eerie Decent]

There is an alternative version of the Paqueta story. The club has been touting him out to other clubs including London rivals Chelsea and Tottenham, because they will get more money from them. Flamingo are only prepared to offer up to €40m. Paqueta is only interested in going back to Brazil and is prepared to wait until the summer. Paqueta hasn’t downed tools and is available to play.

I’m not saying which version is true, only that there are at least two sides to the story. This also doesn’t change the fact that he often loses the ball and pretends to be fouled, and doesn’t create or score much. However, he is still better than anyone else we have in this position.

Given that he used the fact that he asked not to play in a game in his trial, and Moyes stood up in court and backed it up, it's hardly beyond reason to assume that it is him refusing to play. He also said some rubbish on social media at the beginning of this season that this was his last year, or words to that effect, even though he had 2 years to run on his contract.

As much as it's everyone's favourite game to bash the club, and I include myself in that, let's be real, this is clearly being driven by him. No need for the conspiracy on this one.

[Vexed]

Malen going Roma loan with a €25m option.  Wants to play up top as a number 9. 

Turns 27 in a few days, a better option than either of the two we got? 


 

He's never a centre forward, not in this league anyway. Half useful winger. Flakey. 

[Mad Ferret]

Malen going Roma loan with a €25m option.  Wants to play up top as a number 9. 

Turns 27 in a few days, a better option than either of the two we got? 


 

We're going down mate. No one half decent is coming here.

[Rossal]

So since the start of the window we are turning up to Spurs most likely without

Earthy, Ghillurme, Fullkrug, Paqueta, Wilson and Marshall 

 

More concerned that we have no new defenders.

None of those listed above are a great loss.

Yeah but Van der Ven and Romero for you are still probably better than anything we have 

[Rossal]

Malen going Roma loan with a €25m option.  Wants to play up top as a number 9. 

Turns 27 in a few days, a better option than either of the two we got?