Winter Silly Season Transfer Thread 2025/2026

[Andrew]

https://x.com/FulhamTransfer/status/2006858065140990282?s=20

I do not believe this is a real think. I suspect are ot serious about this moveand are playing it up to appease unsettled fans, to make it look like they are actually 'trying' to bring in a resumed quality striker.

He may be a brilliant striker but come February I doubt he will be with us. And the club will say they tried but they didn't think the selling club's valuation was realistic.
We are mid table, Marco says Muniz will be back in Feb as will the  afcon boys so  I think the club will gambble on the current squad as is as always does.

Sorry for the typing, i am on the tablet in the warmth of my bed on such a vold morning!
I'm guessing it's so we can free up a loan spot? Makes no sense to trigger it now rather than before the end of the loan.

I think non-domestic loans don't have a cap so I don't really know why we'd do it; we've still got our 2 PL loan spots free

Could it be a bargaining chip to get Marco to sign?

Me bet is... lock him in during honeymoon period. He's shown what he can do, and if he tears up the league after AFCON he can reject a deal to come to us, and AC can sell him to a bigger club for more money.

I'd get this done ASAP if I were TK.

[Bassey the warrior]

https://x.com/FulhamTransfer/status/2006858065140990282?s=20

I'm guessing it's so we can free up a loan spot? Makes no sense to trigger it now rather than before the end of the loan.

I think non-domestic loans don't have a cap so I don't really know why we'd do it; we've still got our 2 PL loan spots free

Could it be a bargaining chip to get Marco to sign?

Me bet is... lock him in during honeymoon period. He's shown what he can do, and if he tears up the league after AFCON he can reject a deal to come to us, and AC can sell him to a bigger club for more money.

I'd get this done ASAP if I were TK.

I'm fairly certain this isn't the case

My understanding is he has signed and agreed, along with his club to join Fulham at a set cost and wage, should they exercise their option.

It's a club option not a player option? He's already agreed in principle to join fulham. So long as we do so before the end of agreement period were fine.

The agreement is on the purchase price isn't it? Would most likely not have agreed a contract with the player yet. We may have already pre-agreed a contract but that's not the norm.

According to chat gpt which cites agentfc.com and other articles on Reddit it's apparently the norm for players to pre agree wages and contractual terms prior to initial loan period. In agreeing to go on the initial loan they have agreed to the ongoing terms, so should the right to transfer be exercised this pre agreed contract then comes into effect
 
It may be wrong of course but from the articles I can find it's more unusual that a player has the ability to veto the deal even if the club wants to take the option , because the details of these deals are usually pre agreed up front.

Not able to look further into it right now but that has always been my understanding anyway.

Link says the domain is registered but not linked to a website, sounds like ChatGPT may be hallucinating.

[jayffc]

It's me that hallucinated 😅 spelt it wrong. Agentsfc.com

[Arthur]

€40m for Pepe is madness. I'd rather have another look in the summer and see what's there. We are going to get nothing useful out of Pepe until Marco has his for a full pre season anyway.

From all that Silva's been saying through the summer and up to now, it's clear it's Marco, himself, who is the driving force for purchasing a striker of this potential now.

Many P.L. clubs and others across Europe will be on the look out for strikers come the summer. If we wait to see who is available, we may well find we are not, as we seem to be currently, the only suitors for Pepi - nor any other striker on our list of top targets. It's a gamble whichever way we do it, of course, but if we sign him now, at least we can be sure he will get a full pre-season.

[ffc73]

The only way we are likely to get players in for preseason is to sign them in January, probably on deadline day.

[Woolly Mammoth]

The current circumstances are a classic example as to why Marco and management before him get frustrated at the lack of a signing or two to fill the vacancies which have developed due to injuries and afcon.
The crack recruitment unit should have been prepared, probably too busy watching men in tights.
We need reinforcements now not at the end of the window.

[AJW48361]

It's all done to Samuel I reckon.He has reputation of being hot and cold let's see how he shapes up on he's return.Definitely warrants a place on the Stand Up Circuit.

[hovewhite]

Heard from hammer mate that Stirling is on his way to them he heard from someone close to the club backroom staff.

[Thailand Mick]

https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/2007419082539446595?s=20

[C Block]

https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/2007419082539446595?s=20

Atta Boy, that's more like it .

[SerbianLad]

https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/2007419082539446595?s=20

Can't say I've seen a lot of him, but looking at the stats, he seems like the type of player we should be looking at. He's still very young too and I'd have no problem with the amount we offered.

On Pepi, I personally don't see the need to get a striker in now, I'd prefer to do that in the summer, but even more importantly, the quoted prices are just ridiculous. Too big of a gamble for someone like him.

[Nero]

Trouble with this year is it's the World Cu,p and that slows down the window as players are away or drives up prices if they have a half decent tournament

[hopper]

Atta seems an exciting link, he only joined Udinese in the summer though, so imagine they won't want to sell at all.

Great to see signs of being after a midfielder, and I like the profile of someone so good carrying the ball as it seems he is.

[Deeping_white]

If West Ham lose this game against Wolves immediately offer them £25m + Traore for Bowen

[RAY Rock]

Atta didn't play for Udinese today is he injured or is he on a plane to Farnbourgh airport

[Hugh Janus]

If West Ham lose this game against Wolves immediately offer them £25m + Traore for Bowen

I'd certainly sooner drop €40m on Bowen over Pepi.

£20m plus Munuz. I reckon Rodders goes well in the Championship.

[ArcticOctopus]

You think we could get Mane off the Wolves? He looks promising.

[SimonDaviesEnjoyer]

If West Ham lose this game against Wolves immediately offer them £25m + Traore for Bowen

I get it's tongue in cheek, but this would potentially be deal of the century!

[Deeping_white]

If West Ham lose this game against Wolves immediately offer them £25m + Traore for Bowen

I get it's tongue in cheek, but this would potentially be deal of the century!

Yeah I appreciate the total value of the deal would need to be like £50m for them to sell him, but stranger things have happened and he might not want a relegation on his CV + with him not needing to uproot family to play for us, you never know

[@jolslover]

No chance they would sell a key player in a relegation battle