Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

Goat said:
We spent 20m on Doucs, we wont get a penny back for him.

But even tho im not his biggest fan, I think we can agree he was worth the fee.

I cant think of many players we have spent big money on that I consider old, 28 isnt old by the way, but yes, when you buy a player that age you aint looking at resale. Of course Iceland stands out, but we got "good service" from him and might have sold him for a fee if only, well you know.

Not every player has to turn a profit, some just help the squad.

But I cant see West Ham letting Soucek go for a price we would find acceptable, so its a moot point.
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….are we linked with Soucek? He scores a few, is decent in the air but he’s painfully slow in open-play. I’d hope he’s not on our shopping list.
 

Goat said:
People who think we will buy a load of 17 year olds this Summer are in for a shock.
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'anyone'

Was talking this through about a week ago, a wholesale squad rebuild just isn't feasible, we'll offer a few 12 month contracts, rely on a few more loans and maybe sign 5 or 6 players, a couple for the first team and a few to back up what we have. We've limped on for the season with McNeil and Ndiaye injured, Cal-Lewin not looking to sign, Chermiti peripheral. We missed Garner, we got super lucky O'Brien came in looking a superstar, we've papered over the cracks and bought ourselves some breathing room. Expect next season a sell out every game, corpo maxxed out, and some side ventures down on the docks, it'll take time to transmit this new direction fully to the pitch and the manager.

We're better off than we were, but to quote some former pm I'm certain disney modelled Droopy upon... "This isn't the beginning of the end, rather this is the end of the beginning".
 
Pickford 31 (3 weeks ago)
Tarkowski 32
Gueye 36 in September
Mykolenko 26 in May
McNeil 25

There's a good blend of experience and age in the league there. If Barry was available and 31 again then yes yes yes, but that's a unicorn type signing.

We'd benefit from a super specialist right winger like Kanchelskis. Screaming out for that player.
 

Rita_Poon said:
'anyone'

Was talking this through about a week ago, a wholesale squad rebuild just isn't feasible, we'll offer a few 12 month contracts, rely on a few more loans and maybe sign 5 or 6 players, a couple for the first team and a few to back up what we have. We've limped on for the season with McNeil and Ndiaye injured, Cal-Lewin not looking to sign, Chermiti peripheral. We missed Garner, we got super lucky O'Brien came in looking a superstar, we've papered over the cracks and bought ourselves some breathing room. Expect next season a sell out every game, corpo maxxed out, and some side ventures down on the docks, it'll take time to transmit this new direction fully to the pitch and the manager.

We're better off than we were, but to quote some former pm I'm certain disney modelled Droopy upon... "This isn't the beginning of the end, rather this is the end of the beginning".
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SIgning 5-6 players with a few more loans would improve our situation immensely for sure? Not every signing will be a hit, just like the loans. At least we can send them back to their parent clubs. Long time ago that I've been looking towards the summer transfer window like this time.
 
Goat said:
We spent 20m on Doucs, we wont get a penny back for him.

But even tho im not his biggest fan, I think we can agree he was worth the fee.

I cant think of many players we have spent big money on that I consider old, 28 isnt old by the way, but yes, when you buy a player that age you aint looking at resale. Of course Iceland stands out, but we got "good service" from him and might have sold him for a fee if only, well you know.

Not every player has to turn a profit, some just help the squad.

But I cant see West Ham letting Soucek go for a price we would find acceptable, so its a moot point.
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I'd argue Allan was the bigger waste of money. Good player but he did not thread the needle and immediately fell off in his second year. He ended up a win now signing that didn't help us actually achieve that. It's why I'm against big bucks for 30 year olds at our level.
 
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Osamabindiesel said:
I'd argue Allan was the bigger waste of money. Good player but he did not thread the needle and immediately fell off in his second year. He ended up a win now signing that didn't help us actually achieve that. It's why I'm against big bucks for 30 year olds at our level.
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Almost all managers bring a player or two with them into their new squad in a new job. Receptive ears, known quantities, buy into the new way of doing things.
Allan was a Carlo man, plain and simple. The PL is more physical that serie a, and it showed because at 30+ he couldn't cope week in week out.
 

Blue83 said:
We'll be signing whoever we can afford who will add to the team either as first team or for depth, I don't think age will matter
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We’re not going to waste money on players who have no sell on value and in 3 yrs were basically starting again and Branthwaite and Armstrong will be getting sold to fund it.
 
The ‘team’ that will oversee player recruitment is still being assembled so nothing is yet set in stone, however the plan currently being worked to is ‘leave youth to the youth teams’ and to sign undervalued players between 25 and 30 for the first team. The reasoning is that the asking price for younger players is currently too inflated and poor value in terms of associated risk, with us having limited funds to carry out a large overhaul. Moyes is apparently happy with the plan. Younger players will be signed to the youth teams for modest fees and developed over time as part of a longer term strategy.
 

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