Summer Silly Season Transfer Thread 2025

[JoeS]

Anyone know if the keeper was in London today as per the rumours yesterday?

[St Eve]

Textor also got Forest mates rates for Igor Jesus and Jair Cunha, has to be something going on between Marinakis and him under the table.

Surely not. Anyone would think such a conflict of interest would never happen!

[JoeS]

Anyone know if the keeper was in London today as per the rumours yesterday?

Just seen him and Sega (who works at the club) follow each other on Instagram, suggests they have met!

[@jolslover]

Personally think its bonkers to suggest Berge doesn't have a football IQ when compared to Andre. The guy looked unhinged in a lot of his appearances and also started really poorly for them but grew as the season went on. Berge has a great grasp of the game and am more than happy we have him over Andre.

Think Andre is better than Berge and will show over the next 3 years. No doubt Berge is a good player too though. I rate him but Andre second half of the season (once he adapted to English game) was brilliant and Wolves fans have been raving about him after some time getting up to speed with Prem. Juventus interest already this summer as well and rumours they had a 30m bid rejected (Wolves paid 22m last year)

[FFC1987]

Personally think its bonkers to suggest Berge doesn't have a football IQ when compared to Andre. The guy looked unhinged in a lot of his appearances and also started really poorly for them but grew as the season went on. Berge has a great grasp of the game and am more than happy we have him over Andre.

Think Andre is better than Berge and will show over the next 3 years. No doubt Berge is a good player too though. I rate him but Andre second half of the season (once he adapted to English game) was brilliant and Wolves fans have been raving about him after some time getting up to speed with Prem. Juventus interest already this summer as well and rumours they had a 30m bid rejected (Wolves paid 22m last year)

That's a different discussion though. As Angus mentioned, the ceiling position isn't something I'd disagree with necessarily, but judging last season alone, Berge had a better season, and looked better in my opinion, across the whole season. If we're talking about who is better right now, I'm team Berge. Granted he could add some stats to his game, but Andre at times looked erratic, unhinged at times too, but then again, Wolves was a tricky team to be in last year.

[General]

Anyone know if the keeper was in London today as per the rumours yesterday?

Just seen him and Sega (who works at the club) follow each other on Instagram, suggests they have met!

Who's Sega?

[Tabby]

Anyone know if the keeper was in London today as per the rumours yesterday?

Just seen him and Sega (who works at the club) follow each other on Instagram, suggests they have met!

Who's Sega?

Chancel Sega Makiza is the "player care assistant" for Fulham.

[General]

Anyone know if the keeper was in London today as per the rumours yesterday?

Just seen him and Sega (who works at the club) follow each other on Instagram, suggests they have met!

Who's Sega?

Chancel Sega Makiza is the "player care assistant" for Fulham.

You're right they are. And lecomte's insta is quite an interesting sight.

Despite getting relegated he seemed to have had a decent season, getting into team of the weeks a couple of times and in one game during the season managing to make 12 saves in the game, which from the compilation looks pretty impressive.

He also seems to engage with a clubs foundation/community work and has highlighted it on his insta, which makes me feel like he'd be a good fit for Fulham in that regard.

One things for certain, there'll definitely be healthy competition in goal for us if he does sign.

[LC]

I just found this video on YouTube of Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall. With a club like Fulham under a manager like Marco Silva.. I think he could be a great signing for us. 

[General]

I just found this video on YouTube of Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall. With a club like Fulham under a manager like Marco Silva.. I think he could be a great signing for us. 

He does look decent.. my only concern though is that he's not really ever performed to a high level in the prem.

He was played in the conference league a bit last season, but that was against European minnows.

He hardly played in the league, and when he played in the PL for Leicester his g/a contributions were low.

His best season, which prompted Chelsea to buy him, was in the championship. Which doesn't always translate.

Interestingly too, I for some reason always saw him as a winger, but he's apparently played most games in CM/DM..

Looks like alongside striker and one or two wingers, we may be looking for a CM too, especially if Palhinha rumours are true.

[Rambler]

I don't see us doing a deal for him (KDH). Chelsea overvalue all their players, they got him for over 30 mil and they'll want to recoup most of that.

He's not worth nearly 30 mil.

[IloveFFC]

https://twitter.com/jackellyffc/status/1948299691340227012

https://twitter.com/jackellyffc/status/1948299814321426782

[bencher]

https://twitter.com/jackellyffc/status/1948299691340227012

https://twitter.com/jackellyffc/status/1948299814321426782

Or in plain English - we haven't signed anyone yet, it's ruining my pre-season, we will sign players, but they won't get a pre-season and it will affect our opening batch of games.

[jayffc]

Usual stuff and logical but "We have a lot of business to do in this market"is semi interesting,can be interpreted a few ways. I suppose.

My guess is we see the first through the door in the next week or 2.

[demeant0r]

https://twitter.com/jackellyffc/status/1948299691340227012

https://twitter.com/jackellyffc/status/1948299814321426782

I honestly can't see him agreeing to renew his contract with us if signings in the summer continue to be so slow and difficult while our rivals are speeding ahead and I don't blame him.

[jayffc]

https://twitter.com/jackellyffc/status/1948299691340227012

https://twitter.com/jackellyffc/status/1948299814321426782

Or in plain English - we haven't signed anyone yet, it's ruining my pre-season, we will sign players, but they won't get a pre-season and it will affect our opening batch of games.

So alarmist

Or, it's just exactly what he's saying, which he's said before and yet we've started just fine for years (well I'm fact!) despite this same knee jerk stuff every year...I AND all managers obviously like to have an ideal dream world where the whole squads done and dusted by early July, but the reality is that hasn't been possible (and it rarely is for managers - as noted many teams making larger amounts of signings have equally lost a ton of key players) so whilst the first isn't in the door yet, we are working hard on some significant moves 🤷

Nothing in there that sounds like he's exactly raging or doesn't understand the game, he's just stating the obvious of any managers ideal situation business matters aside.

[jayffc]

He also added a nothing statement about nelson

"Reiss Nelson was with us last season, he was very unlucky in terms of his injury record last season," added Silva.

"Perhaps in his best moment of the season, he had a bad injury that broke the momentum of him.

"But he's not our player right now, he's an Arsenal player so I'm not going to talk about players from another club."


Also

https://x.com/FulhamTransfer/status/1948305603249439107?t=P5kGrdujbqGCswRvEN5gvg&s=19

Further article about interest in KDH from the Sun
This is his usual response to such things of course not our player "right now" could be taken 2 ways I suppose.

[Count Flapula]

Apparently Forest have agreed a deal for Malick Fofana, something really weird going on between Eagle Group (Textor) and Marinakis, so many deals - at really favourable rates to Forest.

Where you seen that mate? Was the best rumour for us I've heard but never thought it would happen with Chelsea and Liverpool all over it. If frigging Forrest have got him defo some dodgy arrangements behind the scenes and gutting.

Fabrizio Romano...

For those who don't know. There is a list of deals between Textor and Marinakis that are not representative of normal market value, but all in Marinakis' favour. A broke Lyon spent €31m on Moussa Niakhate before 30 June when Forest massively needed money. While moving on Sarr for €10m who is mow at Chelsea. Also bought Mangala for €25m. Now £10m agreed for Igor Jesus, who is worth around 2-3 times that value.

It's weird. Wonder what Textor is getting as nobody in football would agree to these deals unless there is something else going on we don't know about. Which is plausible given Marinakis' history.

Also earlier this summer a very plugged in US reporter said Matt Turner would be sold to Lyon for $9.1M (basically the same price Forest paid for him which would be an insane fee considering how big of a disaster he was in the PL). Not sure if Lyon's recent relegation will impact that.

An interesting update on the bizarre relationship between Lyon/Textor and NF/Marinakis we discussed a few weeks ago. Would appear Lyon are now trying to get out of the deal for Matt Turner. From L'Equipe:

"Lyon officials have tasked a lawyer with revoking the transfer of Matt Turner, the American goalkeeper from Nottingham Forest, which John Textor had finalized for €8M before the DNCG review."

"OL must pay a high sum for a player of his status and age: €8M. The American international (52 caps) does not have the level to be number 1 in the event of the sale of Lucas Perri and there is no room at the club for a number 2 at this price."

https://x.com/lequipe/status/1948060092839924103

What stinks the most about all of this is that Steve Parrish and Gary Linekar mentioned on the Rest Is Football that Palace being relegated to the Conf League stems from Forest (Marinakis) putting in a formal complaint about Textor's involvement in both Lyon and Palace. You'd think Textor would want nothing to do with Marinakis after that. Stinks to high heaven - Marinakis must have some incredible dirt on him.

[General]

https://twitter.com/jackellyffc/status/1948299691340227012

https://twitter.com/jackellyffc/status/1948299814321426782

I honestly can't see him agreeing to renew his contract with us if signings in the summer continue to be so slow and difficult while our rivals are speeding ahead and I don't blame him.

What? Why so negative?

I read what Silva said completely differently.

What I think Silva acknowledges is that yes we haven't signed anyone, and he'd like to, but he's acknowledging that the club and himself are working hard, which to me implies a lot of effort to achieve what he wants to see done and an acknowledgement the effort is there, to get the right players in.

Silva also seems to acknowledge that he's not alone in wanting all new players in and suggesting that it's more a part of management then anything particularly frustrating to him individually.

There's a significant difference is putting in no effort, being lazy and ineffective, vs putting in a lot of effort and moving things forward for ambitious targets.

Now, the only slightly ambiguous term for me is that we have a lot of business to do in this market.. does he mean we have a lot of players to bring in? I have a striker, one winger, a backup gk and a goalscoring central midfielder.. which is 4 and not a lot of business.

So maybe another winger, a LB?

6 players though isn't necessarily a lot of business though.

[TB1973]

Also other clubs maybe steaming ahead with signings, but are any the type of player Silva wants, he has said there is stuff going on in back ground.