Summer Silly Season Transfer Thread 2025

[cookieg]

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

If SK wanted to sell now would be the time as if we get relegated he would get less money not that he will ever get his money back.

[SimonDaviesEnjoyer]

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

Wasn't our point tally last year a record or close to it?

[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

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

Why not? An owner and manager with proper scouting? Brining younger talented players in, selling for decent profit, improving team, moving up the league, knowing when to sell, gaining position and Europe all of which individually or together increase revenue. Brentford, Brighton, Forrest and Bournemouth are examples of teams who have done a mixture of some of the above, they appear to be spending well off this. Isn't SCR an issue because it's an issue of our own making in lack of the above

MS and Board have just played safe to survive and that's it, we build to survive to one season in front of us, nothing more. This is one reason we have the oldest squad in the PL. They lack ambition, forward thinking, desire to take risk, grow etc.

Someone will know doubt say "But we had our highest ever points" it's true, but it gained 11th four places down versus our previous highest points place! UTD, Spurs, West Ham etc finished below but are building a strong return, we are not.

15th/16th is on the cards, let's hope they do not relegate us

[Pavel Dempsey]

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

Yep, we are just a solid Premiership club, terrible.

[Lighthouse]

Silva has been with Fulham longer than expected. He may well leave. But the owners building stands at the Cottage when people were scared the ground would be sold. The owners piling in the money for players despite multiple relegations and now establishing themselves as a Prem club. Gaining a record in the Prem for the club last season and not endangering our financial situation. Building for the future.

Yet somehow people think they are bad owners and will sell the club. If they sell it will at a massive loss considering what they have done for the club. People moaning because we didn't buy lots of players and make the club insolvent.

I blame computer games.

[Pavel Dempsey]

Silva has been with Fulham longer than expected. He may well leave. But the owners building stands at the Cottage when people were scared the ground would be sold. The owners piling in the money for players despite multiple relegations and now establishing themselves as a Prem club. Gaining a record in the Prem for the club last season and not endangering our financial situation. Building for the future.

Yet somehow people think they are bad owners and will sell the club. If they sell it will at a massive loss considering what they have done for the club. People moaning because we didn't buy lots of players and make the club insolvent.

I blame computer games.

Spot on, Lighthouse.

[OZ-WHITE]

The only factor that comes into focus in regards to the Khan's reconsidering their current ownership would be if the Flex-N-Gate Group was being smashed by the tariffs , I have not seen any stock report that covers that but considering that most companies in the US are deliberately obscuring tariff damage, we may never know until after the fact if it actually becomes reason for the Khan's to reconsider ownership

[Fulham Tup North]

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

...and there speaks the voice of someone who clearly doesn't remember the 80s or early 90s...
Good luck finding your utopia..

[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.

Why not? An owner and manager with proper scouting? Brining younger talented players in, selling for decent profit, improving team, moving up the league, knowing when to sell, gaining position and Europe all of which individually or together increase revenue. Brentford, Brighton, Forrest and Bournemouth are examples of teams who have done a mixture of some of the above, they appear to be spending well off this. Isn't SCR an issue because it's an issue of our own making in lack of the above

MS and Board have just played safe to survive and that's it, we build to survive to one season in front of us, nothing more. This is one reason we have the oldest squad in the PL. They lack ambition, forward thinking, desire to take risk, grow etc.

Someone will know doubt say "But we had our highest ever points" it's true, but it gained 11th four places down versus our previous highest points place! UTD, Spurs, West Ham etc finished below but are building a strong return, we are not.

15th/16th is on the cards, let's hope they do not relegate us

So new owners coming in will solve all our problems overnight? It took years for us to be a stable prem club after MAF sold out and as for having the oldest squad and lack of youth players well Marco has been here long enough to oversee this policy so maybe the issue lies at his doorstep.

[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

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

Why not? An owner and manager with proper scouting? Brining younger talented players in, selling for decent profit, improving team, moving up the league, knowing when to sell, gaining position and Europe all of which individually or together increase revenue. Brentford, Brighton, Forrest and Bournemouth are examples of teams who have done a mixture of some of the above, they appear to be spending well off this. Isn't SCR an issue because it's an issue of our own making in lack of the above

MS and Board have just played safe to survive and that's it, we build to survive to one season in front of us, nothing more. This is one reason we have the oldest squad in the PL. They lack ambition, forward thinking, desire to take risk, grow etc.

Someone will know doubt say "But we had our highest ever points" it's true, but it gained 11th four places down versus our previous highest points place! UTD, Spurs, West Ham etc finished below but are building a strong return, we are not.

15th/16th is on the cards, let's hope they do not relegate us

So new owners coming in will solve all our problems overnight? It took years for us to be a stable prem club after MAF sold out and as for having the oldest squad and lack of youth players well Marco has been here long enough to oversee this policy so maybe the issue lies at his doorstep.

No one said overnight, that's you. However, someone with say a 3 to 5 year strategy for growth I would welcome for sure

[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.

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.

Well infer that if we accepted offers around £60m each for King/Bassey/AR/Muniz and replaced most of them with a month of the window still remaining with more foreign-market young players using a model that had recruited very successfully up to now, yielding a transformative net profit in the process, as you described, then yes, I'd be very much ok with that.

[Nero]

Jesus, can we just copy and paste the transfer thread each time it happens same crap every window, TKs useless, SIlva going to leave, Kahn is going to sell etc etc etc, IF we just stuck to rumours cut the crap out these threads would be about 20 pages

[KentFulham]

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.

Well infer that if we accepted offers around £60m each for King/Bassey/AR/Muniz and replaced most of them with a month of the window still remaining with more foreign-market young players using a model that had recruited very successfully up to now, yielding a transformative net profit in the process, as you described, then yes, I'd be very much ok with that.

I could accept that too, it highlights how our lack of knowing when to sell is as important as buying. The sell/buy/sell etc process needs more agility and dynamism to it

[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.

Why not? An owner and manager with proper scouting? Brining younger talented players in, selling for decent profit, improving team, moving up the league, knowing when to sell, gaining position and Europe all of which individually or together increase revenue. Brentford, Brighton, Forrest and Bournemouth are examples of teams who have done a mixture of some of the above, they appear to be spending well off this. Isn't SCR an issue because it's an issue of our own making in lack of the above

MS and Board have just played safe to survive and that's it, we build to survive to one season in front of us, nothing more. This is one reason we have the oldest squad in the PL. They lack ambition, forward thinking, desire to take risk, grow etc.

Someone will know doubt say "But we had our highest ever points" it's true, but it gained 11th four places down versus our previous highest points place! UTD, Spurs, West Ham etc finished below but are building a strong return, we are not.

15th/16th is on the cards, let's hope they do not relegate us

So new owners coming in will solve all our problems overnight? It took years for us to be a stable prem club after MAF sold out and as for having the oldest squad and lack of youth players well Marco has been here long enough to oversee this policy so maybe the issue lies at his doorstep.

No one said overnight, that's you. However, someone with say a 3 to 5 year strategy for growth I would welcome for sure

And in that time we may well get relegated as we will still be restricted by SCR/PSR or whatever is used to limit how much we can spend.

[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

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

Why not? An owner and manager with proper scouting? Brining younger talented players in, selling for decent profit, improving team, moving up the league, knowing when to sell, gaining position and Europe all of which individually or together increase revenue. Brentford, Brighton, Forrest and Bournemouth are examples of teams who have done a mixture of some of the above, they appear to be spending well off this. Isn't SCR an issue because it's an issue of our own making in lack of the above

MS and Board have just played safe to survive and that's it, we build to survive to one season in front of us, nothing more. This is one reason we have the oldest squad in the PL. They lack ambition, forward thinking, desire to take risk, grow etc.

Someone will know doubt say "But we had our highest ever points" it's true, but it gained 11th four places down versus our previous highest points place! UTD, Spurs, West Ham etc finished below but are building a strong return, we are not.

15th/16th is on the cards, let's hope they do not relegate us

So new owners coming in will solve all our problems overnight? It took years for us to be a stable prem club after MAF sold out and as for having the oldest squad and lack of youth players well Marco has been here long enough to oversee this policy so maybe the issue lies at his doorstep.

No one said overnight, that's you. However, someone with say a 3 to 5 year strategy for growth I would welcome for sure

And in that time we may well get relegated as we will still be restricted by SCR/PSR or whatever is used to limit how much we can spend.

Certainly could, but it would at least be while trying to put a longer term strategy in place to remedy it

[General]

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.

Why not? An owner and manager with proper scouting? Brining younger talented players in, selling for decent profit, improving team, moving up the league, knowing when to sell, gaining position and Europe all of which individually or together increase revenue. Brentford, Brighton, Forrest and Bournemouth are examples of teams who have done a mixture of some of the above, they appear to be spending well off this. Isn't SCR an issue because it's an issue of our own making in lack of the above

MS and Board have just played safe to survive and that's it, we build to survive to one season in front of us, nothing more. This is one reason we have the oldest squad in the PL. They lack ambition, forward thinking, desire to take risk, grow etc.

Someone will know doubt say "But we had our highest ever points" it's true, but it gained 11th four places down versus our previous highest points place! UTD, Spurs, West Ham etc finished below but are building a strong return, we are not.

15th/16th is on the cards, let's hope they do not relegate us

So new owners coming in will solve all our problems overnight? It took years for us to be a stable prem club after MAF sold out and as for having the oldest squad and lack of youth players well Marco has been here long enough to oversee this policy so maybe the issue lies at his doorstep.

Our transfer policy and issues have been going on long before Marco arrived. This is at least our 3rd or 4th manager now who's said they're unhappy with our transfer process. If ever there was a sign it's not up to Marco, the continuity of it being a thing is all the evidence you need.

It's TK (who should really be replaced with a seasoned pro), Ali Mac and whatever infrastructure we have in place.

Marco says yes he wants a player or not, perhaps, bit getting the job done is 100% down to others.

[General]

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.

Well infer that if we accepted offers around £60m each for King/Bassey/AR/Muniz and replaced most of them with a month of the window still remaining with more foreign-market young players using a model that had recruited very successfully up to now, yielding a transformative net profit in the process, as you described, then yes, I'd be very much ok with that.

23 days including today is not a month.

[Rightwhite]

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

Oh behave. Owners that are hampering the club ?? Do you remember our plight in the 80's and most of the 90's ? Even worse, that arsewipe Bulstrode. I would suggest we are quite lucky in our current position imo.

[FFC1987]

   Funny old read this morning. Some of you lot just love misery.

[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

Oh behave. Owners that are hampering the club ?? Do you remember our plight in the 80's and most of the 90's ? Even worse, that arsewipe Bulstrode. I would suggest we are quite lucky in our current position imo.

Sadly I do, my first season was the 1993/94 season where we were relegated with 52 points! Using the past to justify modern day incompetency from the board feels a stretch through.