Transfer Rumours Summer 2025 1 - 10 June, 16 June - 1 September

It is weird how the worst Premier League team for a very long time is West Ham’s shopping destination of choice!

 

Their fans aren’t happy about it. Not sure of their comments about THB but there aren’t pleased about signing players from relegated clubs.

seen something on their forum about the belief being that THB will be a cheaper option than Cresswell. This can only be true if cresswell is a sale only and THB is a loan fee

 

It is a lazy comparison. Which means lots of people make it. Not just on here

And I’d be highly skeptical about most of them having the same well thought out reasoning that you have.

Despite that reasoning the comparisons should stop though. They are not really that similar at all.

 

THB getting on the fringes of the England squad last year will be mean he’ll probably push for a move and we probably do need to lose a centre back, I guess one to watch

 

I am not sure he is even our best CB

 

I don’t know what’s happened, impending parenthood, wanting more money or just premier league football but for me he hasn’t been brilliant for a while. I can understand a move to PL but West Ham- ffs???

 

They have the same hair though, so they must play the same.

 

Mara is underrated. He scored at an impressive rate of one goal every 2.5 games last season.

Oh, wait, there shouldn’t be a decimal point there.

 

So, who thinks Downes is off?

 

I wouldn’t be all that upset, though we’d probably need another CM in if so.

 

He peed me off by his last minute illness.

 

I have a lingering suspicion he’s a bit of a knob.

 

Apparently Aguerd and Pacqueta have refused to play for West Hampton tomorrow. Have been linked with THB if Aguerd leaves??

 

I think he is a bit of a twat

 

It’s unacceptable in my opinion. As I posted in the match thread in my view it only happens if he lied about his illness or did something stupid during the day that made him feel unwell. Either is not good enough

Happy to have other options suggested to me. I guess lying about how ill he felt either last night or first thing because he really wanted to play could be the positive spin?

we’d need someone else in if he went. Surely. Because even if we retained Smallbone or Aribo - they aren’t similar players ?

 

Couldn’t happen to a nicer club…

 

I don’t think they (or at least the fans) want Aguerd to stay

 

I think it happened to us today

 

Bit late refusing to play when the team had been named? Surely if Downes didn’t want to play he would have said before Still named the team?

 

Not sure why we would say illness and not injury in the warm up if you’re making it up and why would you refuse to play after traveling up, getting off the coach etc
Doesn’t make sense, I think it’s just a simple case of us pushing him as late as we could because we were short in that position and him not feeling great after the warm up.