Summer Silly Season Transfer Thread 2025

[Chi_FFC]

https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1953800238034030704

A week out from the start of the season and Bournemouth has now lost 4 of 5 starters from last season's back line and only signed a LB and GK (and imo ~25M for Djorde Petrovic is an INCREDIBLE overpay). Sky and Fab are also reporting that Brentford is working on a deal for Dango Ouatarra as a replacement for Wissa (who looks likely to be off for Newcastle).

Bournemouth obviously have a lot of money to spend but 1) they need to spend a good chunk of it and 2) they need to spend it well.

Petrovic is actually good tho.

I'm not at all convinced of that. He put up very poor numbers in his 22 PL starts with Chelsea in 23-24.

[@jolslover]

https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1953800238034030704

A week out from the start of the season and Bournemouth has now lost 4 of 5 starters from last season's back line and only signed a LB and GK (and imo ~25M for Djorde Petrovic is an INCREDIBLE overpay). Sky and Fab are also reporting that Brentford is working on a deal for Dango Ouatarra as a replacement for Wissa (who looks likely to be off for Newcastle).

Bournemouth obviously have a lot of money to spend but 1) they need to spend a good chunk of it and 2) they need to spend it well.

Petrovic is actually good tho.

The market is crazy. You cant get a decent prem player for anything below £30 mil.

So considering that, I dont think they overpaid by much.

Some signings last season below 30m that I would say are good prem level players. Definitely possible to get good prem quality around the 15m mark if you shop wise

Hujisen 15m
Lacroix 18m
Sarr 13m
Ndiaye 15m
Delap 18m
El Khannous 21m
Mazraoui 13m
Milenkovic 12m
Fernandes (Southampton) 15m
Bergvall 10m
Bissaka 15m
Andre 21m

[General]

https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1953800238034030704

A week out from the start of the season and Bournemouth has now lost 4 of 5 starters from last season's back line and only signed a LB and GK (and imo ~25M for Djorde Petrovic is an INCREDIBLE overpay). Sky and Fab are also reporting that Brentford is working on a deal for Dango Ouatarra as a replacement for Wissa (who looks likely to be off for Newcastle).

Bournemouth obviously have a lot of money to spend but 1) they need to spend a good chunk of it and 2) they need to spend it well.

Petrovic is actually good tho.

The market is crazy. You cant get a decent prem player for anything below £30 mil.

So considering that, I dont think they overpaid by much.

Some signings last season below 30m that I would say are good prem level players. Definitely possible to get good prem quality around the 15m mark if you shop wise

Hujisen 15m
Lacroix 18m
Sarr 13m
Ndiaye 15m
Delap 18m
El Khannous 21m
Mazraoui 13m
Milenkovic 12m
Fernandes (Southampton) 15m
Bergvall 10m
Bissaka 15m
Andre 21m

Add the majority of our squad too.

[WolverineFFC]

https://twitter.com/rikelfrink/status/1953501620139876381

Translation: What @Santi_J_FM reports about #Fulham is correct. The British were willing to spend 30 million euros for him, but that amount is absolutely not enough for PSV. Pepi himself is now aiming for a season with lots of goals for PSV and wants to go to the World Cup.

PSV are getting mad over there, they rejected 30m for an unproven player who wasnt even a starting striker for them. I am personally happy for that, would much rather have Romulo for 20m or even Sadiq for less than 10m.

I like Pepi, but he's not a 30 million plus player, especially coming off an injury. His athleticism would be a concern at the Premier League level regardless. More so not knowing how he is post injury.

[Angus Telford]

Oh, so you'd have been ok with Fulham selling say King/Bassey/AR/Muniz this summer, buying 4 cheaper players to replace them (waiting until the week before our first match (at the earliest) to buy two of them) and banking a massive profit but not improving? That would surprise me given all you've said here.

And leaving that aside, let's treat the 2nd CB leaving rumor as real given it's gotten the "here we go" from Fab (though of course there are times when he has to backtrack). How is replacing 2 of 4 starters "better than us"??? They're still be 2 starters down from last season while Fulham hasn't lost any one of consequence this summer (at least yet).

And finally I offered the Bournemouth example merely to point out for all those complaining about late business and our lack of activity, we're going into week one of the season with a strong/settled squad while one of our peer clubs has lost 4 starters and replaced only two. I feel pretty confident that if we were in Bournemouth's shoes rn you'd be screaming for Shad Khan's head even louder than you are now.

I was sad to see both Palhinha and Mitrovic go, and may well have bemoaned the failure to replace Mitrovic, but I didn't criticise the decision to sell in either case, given the fees offered, and in Palhinha's case I recognised that turning such a good profit in a short period of time reflected well on the original scouting.

As I understand it, Silva wants four first team signings this summer, none of which we've made yet. Bournemouth in contrast have already got 50-66% of these 3-4 replacements done. Given they've a much younger squad already and finished above us last season, I'd say that if we both just end up roughly the same this season as we were last season, they can be more content with that than us.

[Deeping_white]

https://twitter.com/fulhamtransfer/status/1953929171777864103

Given the supposed media briefing about us only adding to the squad where we think there's tangible improvement, this would be both weird and somewhat uninspiring given his age and record

[Lighthouse]

https://twitter.com/fulhamtransfer/status/1953929171777864103

Given the supposed media briefing about us only adding to the squad where we think there's tangible improvement, this would be both weird and somewhat uninspiring given his age and record

A position we need depth in the squad for is the forwards. We lost Vini so this would be a replacement for him?

[Chi_FFC]

I was sad to see both Palhinha and Mitrovic go, and may well have bemoaned the failure to replace Mitrovic, but I didn't criticise the decision to sell in either case, given the fees offered, and in Palhinha's case I recognised that turning such a good profit in a short period of time reflected well on the original scouting.

Nice to know, though not responsive to anything I said in my post as I never suggested you were critical of the decisions to sell Joao or Mitro.

As I understand it, Silva wants four first team signings this summer, none of which we've made yet. Bournemouth in contrast have already got 50-66% of these 3-4 replacements done.

LOL

[Deeping_white]

https://twitter.com/fulhamtransfer/status/1953929171777864103

Given the supposed media briefing about us only adding to the squad where we think there's tangible improvement, this would be both weird and somewhat uninspiring given his age and record

A position we need depth in the squad for is the forwards. We lost Vini so this would be a replacement for him?

I agree it would be, however you'd hope the club would target a younger player who can maybe step up to be #2 when Raul leaves, rather than someone who will be 7 months from their 30th birthday by the time that happens! A bit of futureproofing wouldn't go amiss rather than another 28 year old who we'll get next to nothing for when they leave based on the law of averages (I now look forward to him having the season of his life when he joins and Man Utd give us £40m next summer)

[General]

https://twitter.com/fulhamtransfer/status/1953929171777864103

Given the supposed media briefing about us only adding to the squad where we think there's tangible improvement, this would be both weird and somewhat uninspiring given his age and record

A position we need depth in the squad for is the forwards. We lost Vini so this would be a replacement for him?

We have ageing forwards that need heavy investment in. Jimenez is 30+, iwobi is 30 this season, so will Adama.. Wilson will be 29. Its one of our weakest areas.. in fact, our wings and attack are.. and half of our options for midfield are too.

[Lighthouse]

I really don't think the club are planning for much longer than the end of next season when Silva will go and a new coach comes in. Just a thought.

[Caedal]

The club is quite obviously being sold at the end of this season, and Silva will leave

[Drewry66]

The problem with this striker position is it's not exactly attractive for any top younger talent. Would love Romulo at 23 as looks a very exciting prospect but not an easy sell when he knows Muniz and Raul are here vs going to a club as big as Leipzig and either Sesko going he knows he may well start. Reputable sources said we did bid for him.

End of the day as much as I'd prefer a younger option here not the end of the world if we do get a cheap stop gap for the third striker position. This guy has 11 goals in about 26 games of playing time the last three years in La Liga so not bad. Looks a unit. You then go big when Raul goes.

Having said all that still wish we'd go for Mihailo Ivanović (baby Mitro) from Millwall. Only 20 and looks talented snd know SL approves. Wouldn't break the bank. Sounds like Wolves are sniffing around now but considering his idol is Mitro the connection could have some influence.

Suppose the sell is look Raul may be off in a year if you can show what you can do. Still tough however when any of these guys know they may not make the match day squad most of the season.

[Angus Telford]

I was sad to see both Palhinha and Mitrovic go, and may well have bemoaned the failure to replace Mitrovic, but I didn't criticise the decision to sell in either case, given the fees offered, and in Palhinha's case I recognised that turning such a good profit in a short period of time reflected well on the original scouting.

Nice to know, though not responsive to anything I said in my post as I never suggested you were critical of the decisions to sell Joao or Mitro.

I mean, if you can't join the dots between a hypothetical question about selling current first team players for big fees, and my opinion on the only equivalent sales we've made in the past, probably no point continuing a debate anyway.

[Chi_FFC]

I was sad to see both Palhinha and Mitrovic go, and may well have bemoaned the failure to replace Mitrovic, but I didn't criticise the decision to sell in either case, given the fees offered, and in Palhinha's case I recognised that turning such a good profit in a short period of time reflected well on the original scouting.

Nice to know, though not responsive to anything I said in my post as I never suggested you were critical of the decisions to sell Joao or Mitro.

I mean, if you can't join the dots between a hypothetical question about selling current first team players for big fees, and my opinion on the only equivalent sales we've made in the past, probably no point continuing a debate anyway.

Eh, the hypothetical q posed was quite a bit more involved than simply asking how you would have reacted to "selling current first team players for big fees". But you know that and simply wanted to avoid answering the question actually asked.

[Arthur]

The club is quite obviously being sold at the end of this season, and Silva will leave

Why would SK wait, may I ask? If our chairman wants out, I can't think of any financial advantage for him in hanging on another year.

[Fulham Tup North]

The club is quite obviously being sold at the end of this season, and Silva will leave

What a very strange statement 😕
'Obviously'?...

[Deuce]

https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1953800238034030704

A week out from the start of the season and Bournemouth has now lost 4 of 5 starters from last season's back line and only signed a LB and GK (and imo ~25M for Djorde Petrovic is an INCREDIBLE overpay). Sky and Fab are also reporting that Brentford is working on a deal for Dango Ouatarra as a replacement for Wissa (who looks likely to be off for Newcastle).

Bournemouth obviously have a lot of money to spend but 1) they need to spend a good chunk of it and 2) they need to spend it well.

Petrovic is actually good tho.

The market is crazy. You cant get a decent prem player for anything below £30 mil.

So considering that, I dont think they overpaid by much.

Some signings last season below 30m that I would say are good prem level players. Definitely possible to get good prem quality around the 15m mark if you shop wise

Hujisen 15m
Lacroix 18m
Sarr 13m
Ndiaye 15m
Delap 18m
El Khannous 21m
Mazraoui 13m
Milenkovic 12m
Fernandes (Southampton) 15m
Bergvall 10m
Bissaka 15m
Andre 21m

Basically every player on that list is from abroad (much less crazy market) and a all of these were far from "proven Prem players"

Huijsen is great example of this. Bournemouth doing good scouting and taking a punt on a young unproven cb which payed of big time.
No one knew that he was going to be this good.

A really good list of how good foreign markets can be

[KentFulham]

The club is quite obviously being sold at the end of this season, and Silva will leave

Agree - The sooner it happens the better, these clowns are really hampering the club

[cookieg]

The club is quite obviously being sold at the end of this season, and Silva will leave

Agree - The sooner it happens the better, these clowns are really hampering the club

If SCR is the issue then it isn't going away by new owners coming in.