A massive summer shake-up is brewing at West Ham—with up to 10 players potentially heading for the exit in a £170 million fire sale!
The Hammers must sell before we can buy, and names like Mohammed Kudus, Tomas Soucek, Edson Álvarez, and Emerson are all reportedly up for grabs. If the club cashes in wisely, it could trigger one of the biggest transfer windows in recent West Ham history.
So, C&H thought we’d take a look at the players Graham Potter could potentially move on—and how it might reshape the West Ham squad for next season.
Konstantinos Mavropanos
Potter may want to keep him as a backup option, but he could be sold if funds are tight. Estimated value: £10–15 million.
Jean-Clair Todibo
West Ham could sign the loanee permanently and sell for a profit—possibly £50 million—but current signals suggest the club want to keep the Frenchman. Rumours of a fallout with the manager are likely just mischief making.
Emerson
Highly likely to return to Serie A. The Hammers can expect a modest return on the £13 million fee paid to Chelsea.
Nayef Aguerd
His La Liga loan has been one of the club’s more successful spells in recent times. Worth £25–30 million, though there appears to be a desire to retain him.
Guido Rodríguez
The club want him off the books. He’s on big wages, and West Ham will do well not to take a loss on the Argentine World Cup winner.
Edson Álvarez
Wanted by Borussia Dortmund. His market value has dipped since last year’s interest from Manchester United. Likely to fetch around £30 million.
Tomas Soucek
“Big Sou” will attract plenty of interest due to his goal-scoring threat from midfield. At 30, it’s hard to see offers beyond £20 million—from clubs like Everton or Leeds.
James Ward-Prowse
The manager may prefer to keep him, though it’s unlikely West Ham would recoup the £25 million spent. May attract interest from David Moyes.
Andy Irving
A loan with an obligation to buy seems the most likely scenario. Estimated value: £5 million.
Lucas Paquetá
Still retains market value, and if cleared of FA charges, Manchester City could reignite their interest. Valued at £25–30 million.
Mohammed Kudus
This is the big one. A likely sale, though a precise valuation is difficult due to form and a buyout clause. Unless he finishes the season strongly, £80 million will be optimistic.
Luis Guilherme
Beginning to show signs of promise. If Kudus departs, expect the club to keep both Guilherme and Summerville. Value: £15–20 million.
Maxwel Cornet
Set for a permanent move to Genoa after impressing on loan. Don’t expect a return on the £17 million paid to Burnley.
Don’t worry Sullivan is taking on the role of director of football. What could possibly go wrong. Taxi fit Callum Wilson.
keep Todibo, Aguerd and possibly Paqueta. if we manage to bring in a couple of young, strong, fast midfielders i feel that Alvarez will look a whole lot better – like the 1st half of last season. and…for some strange reason i think Mavropanos might be worth holding onto as a back-up. he might just come good, like Oggy did after a couple of very dodgy seasons to begin with. wishful thinking, maybe. Paqueta is a toss of the coin at this stage. who knows what’s going to happen with him? it would be sad to see Big Sou go cos most of us love him but perhaps it’s time. JWP won’t score many more free kicks, since the door-snake came into the defensive wall. anyone can take a corner. so, him and the rest…bye bye
Wtf …WHY GET RID OF SOME OF OUR BEST PLAYERS.. FFS …was going to write more but can’t be bothered with this shit..exactly why I come on rarely…….of course another kudus and paq will be easy to find won’t they😆😆 ..and soucek is only 30 and has another 2 orc3 years…when you fans slag him just look at how many important goals he gets …WHY DO YOU THINK OTHER CLUBS WANT THEM ….jesus
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The truth is this club is regressing in footballing quality and standards, even the ground is bottom of the table. the only hope we have is that the manager is good, but this is to be proven. If you now sell any quality we have without even knowing who will be available to be drafted in. Academy players need a bit of time, although Scarles took less than a season. So what will we have left?
In the lot of exits we have Guilherme, exactly the type of player we are told WHU want to invest in: young, talented with potential & we have 28 year old midfielder Paqueta whose innocence is likely and every club would beg to have on their teamsheet, including Man City, not too long ago. Which unknown gems are WHU going to replace them with?
So we won’t have a team left. Finding replacements with the team at the lower end of the Premier league will not be easy, unless we buy youth and championship players wisely. With which I am fine, but not 10, nor will you find the quality & experience which will have just left. After this starting from scratch will take many seasons depending on the manager, so don’t even think of Europe. Yet every time we hear “sell all players, learn GPs magical tactics over Summer, qualify for Europe” – is this some kind of Trumpian parallel reality? We have some star players, we have some great emerging youngsters (including Guilherme), build on that, buy a few players (forward, box-to-box).. build over next seasons, move up the table, Europe? depends on how well you replace a few departures and how good the manager is. if you think WHU are going to unearth 10 gems, not lose them to the competition and agree to pay the price asked, combine them over summer and suddenly be a successful club, then this truly is la-la land.
I am not sure what the point of this article is – we know that for PSR we need to sell before we can buy and the rest of the article is just speculation – I guess a sort of fantasy piece “which players would you sell?”
Potter needs to have a major input on this – our problems over the last two seasons owe a lot to the head coach not having enough of an input into transfers
IMHO Time Steidten’s main shortcoming was not being able to work well with the Head Coach – if as has been suggested he didn’t want Lopetegui he should have walked then rather than trying to dictate to him on transfers
“Maxwel Cornet
Set for a permanent move to Genoa after impressing on loan. Don’t expect a return on the £17 million paid to Burnley.”
Why? Was a £15m fee on a 5 year deal and he’s been here for 3 of those.
Way the amortisation rules work is you divide the fee by the contract length and each year adds up to show what the profit barrier is so Cornet’s 3 years works out at a value of £9m. Even if it were £17m, it’s £10.2m now.
So a £6/7m+ fee to get a return/profit is hardly an unrealistic expectation.
25 – 30m for Paqueta behave.
Would rather him see out his contract and go on a free at least wed have him for 2-3seasons and could easily get back to his best once cleared.
Imagine what shit david sullivan would replace these with
Put all of em up for sale apart from Bowen and AWB and the youngsters…
Sell the chairman whilst we’re at it and that awful ground…..worst thing we ever did was leaving Upton Park for that soulless bowl