West Ham manager Graham Potter looking confused and David Sullivan looking on.
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Declan Carr
Wed 27 August 2025 17:40, UK
West Ham have had a truly miserable transfer window.
West Ham have added the likes of Mads Hermansen and Malick El Hadji Diouf for a combined total of £36million, with Callum Wilson and Kyle Walker-Peters joining on free transfers.
There is still a glaring lack of quality in the London Stadium squad, with just five days left to find potential additions before 1 September.
West Ham are bottom of the Premier League table, and there is no sign of things getting any better with the chaos surrounding the East London club.
Callum Wilson looking calm in Newcastle jacket
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Graham Potter bears responsibility for West Ham transfer shambles
David Sullivan has been blamed for West Ham’s shortcomings in the market, but the fiasco may not be his fault after all.
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The Guardian’s Jacob Steinberg shared on 27 August that multiple sources have stated that Sullivan entered the transfer window, giving Potter and Kyle Macaulay free rein over signings.
The feeling is that the duo aimed too high when it came to potential targets, with misguided moves for Jacob Ramsey and Harvey Elliott.
It claimed that the Hammers’ pursuit of Chelsea star Andrey Santos was regarded as a joke by the Stamford Bridge club, and they were warned not to bid for Barcelona’s Marc Casado before doing so.
Graham Potter and David Sullivan need to work it out
Potter and Sullivan need to sort it out in the final few days of the window and sign some real quality, otherwise they are in real danger of relegation.
It does not matter where the blame lies; it matters what they do to sort out the shambles that have unfolded this summer, and they only have a limited amount of time to fix it.
If they fail to do so, there is little chance of the situation improving, and Potter will likely be out of a job, and Sullivan will be under more pressure than ever from the supporters.
That is not what anyone wants; everyone wants the Irons to be successful, and they must come together and salvage their business in the final knockings, otherwise it will be catastrophic.
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