🌞Summer Silly Season Transfer thread 2026

[jayffc]

The Tete debacle seems to be cooling off...

I think he's staying.

All dependent on what happens at RB which has always been the case. Still time but yeh, sounds like the options there aren't available to us. This Rayo president sounds like a serious piece of work tbh.

[The Cravenette]

Not sure how Kenny is going to feel after being out of the squad Sunday, thinking a move was on and now looking like he may need to get his head down and stay.

[Chi_FFC]

Evening Standard reporter now saying the Matsima deal isn't a runner.

Yep. Deal off.

Chaotic.

Tomori seems to be on - in terms of the player wanting to come and Milan willing to sell. But - apparently fee needs to be agreed, which I assume needs to happen before he gets on the plane?!

However, just seen this on Twitter (no idea if this is a reputable source):
https://x.com/iamperonaa/status/2094747119445778461?s=20

Based on this - Affengruber looking more likely....?

Affengruber definitely sounds like the most likely CB signing at the moment.

10m EUR fee being reported as agreed.

According to Gemini he's not the quickest and his passing is very safe. Is he actually better than Diop?

Apparently his top speed is faster than Bassey fwiw.

Where have you seen that? Accurate speed data is difficult to find, but from what I can see Bassey's sprint speed/top speed is faster.

[JimmyConway]

The Tete debacle seems to be cooling off...

I think he's staying.

Don't think it's beyond the realms of possibility Tete might have failed the medical at Everton?

[Lordedmundo]

Evening Standard reporter now saying the Matsima deal isn't a runner.

Yep. Deal off.

Chaotic.

Tomori seems to be on - in terms of the player wanting to come and Milan willing to sell. But - apparently fee needs to be agreed, which I assume needs to happen before he gets on the plane?!

However, just seen this on Twitter (no idea if this is a reputable source):
https://x.com/iamperonaa/status/2094747119445778461?s=20

Based on this - Affengruber looking more likely....?

Affengruber definitely sounds like the most likely CB signing at the moment.

10m EUR fee being reported as agreed.

According to Gemini he's not the quickest and his passing is very safe. Is he actually better than Diop?

Apparently his top speed is faster than Bassey fwiw. He's much quicker than Anderson. Not a speedster but not slow either. Tomori is considerably quicker than both - sounds a distinct possibility we get 2 which I would assume would mean an Anderson departure.

As for moving quick on Tomori, We have been bidding on CBs all summer, I think the targets we wanted outright seemed to be Nwaiwu, Ait Boudlal, of which we were bidding the last couple months, their clubs haven't let them go after very big bids from us. Other options were Matsima, Le Guen, all who we've apparently been in contact with but no go there either from their clubs so...Tamori seemed always like a potential option that would go late as a good choice if the young lads we've been throwing money at didn't come good. Who knows if we'll end up with 2 though

I would be surprised if Affengruber is quicker than Bassey, but then again if the latter keeps running around like an idiot with his shorts pulled down, then maybe that makes all the difference 

In my opinion we spent we spent too much time focusing on Nwaiwu and Ait Boudlal, but fair enough if they were our top targets.

[FFC007]

9 hours to go and nothing as of yet...

Hope the fax machine doesn't breakdown just before the deal sheets go in!

[alfie]

Who are these players we are signing never heard of any of them utter shambles of a window in my opinion.

They must be poor if you have never heard of them.

[Bronaldinho]

9 hours to go and nothing as of yet...

Hope the fax machine doesn't breakdown just before the deal sheets go in!

Also worth noting the official posts from Fulham always take a bit longer, as they require all the media work to support the announcement.

Hugo Larsson is pretty much there according to journo's.

[Thailand Mick]

Malik Fofana has just complete his medical at Sunderland and Crystal Palace have just put a bid in to try and hijack it.

[jayffc]

9 hours to go and nothing as of yet...

Hope the fax machine doesn't breakdown just before the deal sheets go in!

Nothing?
So far we've had 2 CMs essentially with Here We Goes en route or having medicals already apparently (Larsson and Angel)
1 CB rumoured flying to London reports terms all agreed subject to medical (David Affengruber)
Another CB also closely linked as being on the table (Tomori)

RW and RB the only less clear situation for now, with back and forths ongoing apparently.

Players aren't gonna be announced until they have medicals and press which won't be till tonight. Plenty clearly in action though

[alfie]

9 hours to go and nothing as of yet...

Hope the fax machine doesn't breakdown just before the deal sheets go in!

Nothing?
So far we've had 2 CMs essentially with Here We Goes en route or having medicals (Larsson and Angel)
1 CB rumoured flying to London reports terms all agreed subject to medical (David Affengruber)
Another CB also closely linked as being on the table (Tomori)

RW and RB the only less clear situation for now, with back and forths ongoing apparently.

Apparently looking at couple of keepers, Ramsdale being one of them.

[Neutral Zone Ultra]

9 hours to go and nothing as of yet...

Hope the fax machine doesn't breakdown just before the deal sheets go in!

Nothing?
So far we've had 2 CMs essentially with Here We Goes en route or having medicals (Larsson and Angel)
1 CB rumoured flying to London reports terms all agreed subject to medical (David Affengruber)
Another CB also closely linked as being on the table (Tomori)

RW and RB the only less clear situation for now, with back and forths ongoing apparently.

Apparently looking at couple of keepers, Ramsdale being one of them.

Where've you heard this? He's not an upgrade on Leno now anyway, really fallen off the last couple of years.

[Jim©]

He's not an upgrade on Leno now anyway, really fallen off the last couple of years.

Yep, much as I've been questioning Leno for the last two seasons, Ramsdale isn't the answer IMO.

 

[Lordedmundo]

He's not an upgrade on Leno now anyway, really fallen off the last couple of years.

Yep, much as I've been questioning Leno for the last two seasons, Ramsdale isn't the answer IMO.

 

He also on more or less the same salary as Leno - so unless we sell Leno (unlikely) no chance this will happen.

Apparently Saints fans don't rate him either - much prefer their starter keeper Daniel Peretz. Perhaps we should try to sign him?!

[JimmyConway]

9 hours to go and nothing as of yet...

Hope the fax machine doesn't breakdown just before the deal sheets go in!

Nothing?
So far we've had 2 CMs essentially with Here We Goes en route or having medicals (Larsson and Angel)
1 CB rumoured flying to London reports terms all agreed subject to medical (David Affengruber)
Another CB also closely linked as being on the table (Tomori)

RW and RB the only less clear situation for now, with back and forths ongoing apparently.

Apparently looking at couple of keepers, Ramsdale being one of them.

Where've you heard this? He's not an upgrade on Leno now anyway, really fallen off the last couple of years.

You are probably right with that assessment though I would argue Ramsdale is the slightly braver of the two.

[Chi_FFC]

9 hours to go and nothing as of yet...

Hope the fax machine doesn't breakdown just before the deal sheets go in!

Nothing?
So far we've had 2 CMs essentially with Here We Goes en route or having medicals (Larsson and Angel)
1 CB rumoured flying to London reports terms all agreed subject to medical (David Affengruber)
Another CB also closely linked as being on the table (Tomori)

RW and RB the only less clear situation for now, with back and forths ongoing apparently.

Apparently looking at couple of keepers, Ramsdale being one of them.

Where've you heard this? He's not an upgrade on Leno now anyway, really fallen off the last couple of years.

He's actually put up solid shot stopping numbers over the past couple seasons.

[Neutral Zone Ultra]

9 hours to go and nothing as of yet...

Hope the fax machine doesn't breakdown just before the deal sheets go in!

Nothing?
So far we've had 2 CMs essentially with Here We Goes en route or having medicals (Larsson and Angel)
1 CB rumoured flying to London reports terms all agreed subject to medical (David Affengruber)
Another CB also closely linked as being on the table (Tomori)

RW and RB the only less clear situation for now, with back and forths ongoing apparently.

Apparently looking at couple of keepers, Ramsdale being one of them.

Where've you heard this? He's not an upgrade on Leno now anyway, really fallen off the last couple of years.

He's actually put up solid shot stopping numbers over the past couple seasons.

Then why's he languishing in the Championship? Is it just his wages?

[Hatch007]

Who are these players we are signing never heard of any of them utter shambles of a window in my opinion.

I bet you'd never heard of Palhinha before we signed him

[FFC1987]

9 hours to go and nothing as of yet...

Hope the fax machine doesn't breakdown just before the deal sheets go in!

Nothing?
So far we've had 2 CMs essentially with Here We Goes en route or having medicals (Larsson and Angel)
1 CB rumoured flying to London reports terms all agreed subject to medical (David Affengruber)
Another CB also closely linked as being on the table (Tomori)

RW and RB the only less clear situation for now, with back and forths ongoing apparently.

Apparently looking at couple of keepers, Ramsdale being one of them.

Where've you heard this? He's not an upgrade on Leno now anyway, really fallen off the last couple of years.

He's actually put up solid shot stopping numbers over the past couple seasons.

Then why's he languishing in the Championship? Is it just his wages?

Saints need him off the books, but he's seen as Peretz long term now. I can only go on the eye test, but I never thought he was any good at Saints and he struggled at Newcastle as well so I feel he's a little.....meh. I likened him to Ben Foster.

[Chi_FFC]

Then why's he languishing in the Championship? Is it just his wages?

Who knows? He's not a world beater but in 24-25 with a poor Southampton side he prevented +0.1 goals in 30 league matches (Leno -4.9) and last season in 12 PL starts he prevented +1.53.