Mads Hermansen (close to 18m move to West Ham)

[Lambert09]

5 hours ago, Jazzy_Jeff said:

Assuming Mads does go I think we sign another keeper.

 

Jakub needs competition, as good as Begovic has been I can’t imagine he will be trying to outperform him in training to put pressure on Marti.

 

We should either look abroad for another prospect ala Mads or see if there is a more ambitious younger keeper in England who wants to try to earn their place. 

Personally, I’d be looking to get pierce charles from Sheffield weds. He’s got a bright future ahead of him so we should take advantage of their situation 

[LestaLad]

“It's drawing to a close for Mads Hermansen. Several PL clubs have expressed interest, but West Ham are leading the race and have the personal terms with the goalkeeper in place. Now it's Leicester and West Ham who have to find each other.”

[FrankieADZ]

 

[Lesta2014]

13 minutes ago, FrankieADZ said:

 

Nowt against him leaving but to say he’s been loyal is a slight stretch, only been here two years. 

[Benji]

Winter talking like he’s been here 4 years and through 2 relegations.  Best of luck to him if he goes but he’s done nothing but benefit from the platform of our last two years.

[TheGoldenGod]

5 minutes ago, Lesta2014 said:

Nowt against him leaving but to say he’s been loyal is a slight stretch, only been here two years. 

Agreed, hasn't had the opportunity to leave! Ridiculous comment from Winters.

[FoxTimmy2]

Good as gone according to most recent reports. Thank God that Ward’s gone as well.

[CrazyKopCorner]

1 minute ago, FoxTimmy2 said:

Good as gone according to most recent reports. Thank God that Ward’s gone as well.

Yes Ward was always looming in the background so when there were any injuries the complete imbeciles at the club decided to pick him 

 

Tells me there's no one at the club who knows anything about goalkeeping 

[VLC86]

21 minutes ago, Benji said:

Winter talking like he’s been here 4 years and through 2 relegations.  Best of luck to him if he goes but he’s done nothing but benefit from the platform of our last two years.

Not really sure what this is getting at but Mads comes across as one of the most down to earth, genuine players I’ve met so calling him an excellent pro sounds spot on. 
 

As a footballer, of course he’s benefited but we have massively. In the Championship he was clearly levels above what should have been in that division and we were very lucky to have him.

 

Shame we are having to sell at a time when we can’t hold out for a top fee but that isn’t down to anything he’s done, we would have probably been on about 4 points before he got injured.

[Number 6]

It always slightly niggles at me when somebody who I think could go on to be great is sold, but this just makes sense. Should mean we can have some freedom for small psr losses on some sales, and to fill in the couple of gaps that the squad does have.

 

Think he could be good there but the gamble is that he didn't look as good following his injury, and West Ham also looked fairly poor under Potter. There one of the teams I could see struggle if they start badly.

[Tielemans63]

Isn't it more likely the case that West Ham are using these other links (Suzuki, Vitor) in a ploy to low-ball us for Mads?

[sdb]

2 hours ago, FrankieADZ said:

 

Sell to the lowest bidder!!!!

[Fox-LMA]

 

Are they signing both, or deal off?

[shen]

I'll go against the grain here and suggest that we must do all we can to make him stay.

A player of his quality and in that position is easily worth 8-10 more points than e.g. Stolarczyk at this level, probably more. I would even argue he's more valuable to us than BEK or Fatawu.

 

It might be a necessary step backwards, but one I'd be most reluctant to take. If we can get a similarly talented replacement within a year, then fine, but Stolarczyk is not promotion level, IMO.

[Old Fox]

1 minute ago, shen said:

I'll go against the grain here and suggest that we must do all we can to make him stay.

A player of his quality and in that position is easily worth 8-10 more points than e.g. Stolarczyk at this level, probably more. I would even argue he's more valuable to us than BEK or Fatawu.

 

It might be a necessary step backwards, but one I'd be most reluctant to take. If we can get a similarly talented replacement within a year, then fine, but Stolarczyk is not promotion level, IMO.

Completely agree we need to learn form how we originally got into the prem 15 years ago - backbone Keeper, Centre half and centre midfielder - we don’t have any at all maybe Nelson in time but we need a great keeper to build from !

[Finnegan]

16 minutes ago, shen said:

I'll go against the grain here and suggest that we must do all we can to make him stay.

A player of his quality and in that position is easily worth 8-10 more points than e.g. Stolarczyk at this level, probably more. I would even argue he's more valuable to us than BEK or Fatawu.

 

It might be a necessary step backwards, but one I'd be most reluctant to take. If we can get a similarly talented replacement within a year, then fine, but Stolarczyk is not promotion level, IMO.

 

We just simply don't have anyone else we can sell to make the kind of profit we can off Hermansen.

 

It's alright saying he's worth 8 points but, for all we know, selling him might be the difference between us getting an 8 point deduction or not. Relegation means this is going to be yet another year in which we're sailing perilously close to the wind with PSR.

 

Plus, there's loads of holes in our squad. Who do you think, on current form and confidence, is likely to cost us more points this season, Stolarczyk or Daka? I've defended Daka more than anyone else on here but even I've got to admit he almost certainly can't be our main striking option this season. We've got to find a forward from somewhere good enough to get us out of the league on money we can afford. 

 

Like I said earlier, Stolarczyk is worse than Hermansen, of course he is, but he'll "do."

 

[Super Shinji]

29 minutes ago, Old Fox said:

Completely agree we need to learn form how we originally got into the prem 15 years ago - backbone Keeper, Centre half and centre midfielder - we don’t have any at all maybe Nelson in time but we need a great keeper to build from !

Matrix must be glitching. I’m sure we were playing Sousa ball in the championship 15 years ago….

[shen]

8 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

We just simply don't have anyone else we can sell to make the kind of profit we can off Hermansen.

 

It's alright saying he's worth 8 points but, for all we know, selling him might be the difference between us getting an 8 point deduction or not. Relegation means this is going to be yet another year in which we're sailing perilously close to the wind with PSR.

 

Plus, there's loads of holes in our squad. Who do you think, on current form and confidence, is likely to cost us more points this season, Stolarczyk or Daka? I've defended Daka more than anyone else on here but even I've got to admit he almost certainly can't be our main striking option this season. We've got to find a forward from somewhere good enough to get us out of the league on money we can afford. 

 

Like I said earlier, Stolarczyk is worse than Hermansen, of course he is, but he'll "do."

 

I don't disagree and accept the necessity of selling and that Hermansen, BEK and Monga are our leading assets (add Fatawu once he's fit).

 

But like when Schmeichel left, I think he will leave a bigger hole than any of the other players.

If we have ambitions of pushing for promotion this season, then we have to keep players like Mads.

 

If and when he does leave this season, it feels obvious that getting a new goalkeeping talent is a scouting priority for next summer at latest and accept mediocrity. All I ask is that we time it so that we get the least PSR penalty in the long run.

[Muzzy_no7]

3 hours ago, Lesta2014 said:

Nowt against him leaving but to say he’s been loyal is a slight stretch, only been here two years. 

That’s really poor from Winter that 

[Finnegan]

20 minutes ago, shen said:

I don't disagree and accept the necessity of selling and that Hermansen, BEK and Monga are our leading assets (add Fatawu once he's fit).

 

But like when Schmeichel left, I think he will leave a bigger hole than any of the other players.

If we have ambitions of pushing for promotion this season, then we have to keep players like Mads.

 

If and when he does leave this season, it feels obvious that getting a new goalkeeping talent is a scouting priority for next summer at latest and accept mediocrity. All I ask is that we time it so that we get the least PSR penalty in the long run.

 

I wish he wasn't going I really do. 

 

But Schmeichel went and was replaced by Ward in the Premier League. 

 

Mads (worse than Kasper) is going and is being replaced by Stolarczyk (better than Ward) in the Championship (worse than Premier League) it's not quite the same. 

 

[shen]

2 hours ago, Finnegan said:

 

I wish he wasn't going I really do. 

 

But Schmeichel went and was replaced by Ward in the Premier League. 

 

Mads (worse than Kasper) is going and is being replaced by Stolarczyk (better than Ward) in the Championship (worse than Premier League) it's not quite the same. 

 

It's difficult to compare Schmeichel in his last years with Mads in his one PL season due to their respective contexts.

I think Hermansen's ceiling is higher, without doubt, and he must have outperformed Schmeichel in a number of metrics during the half season prior to his injury.

 

But I'm not trying to make a parallel comparison here, all I'm saying is that Hermansen is a PL-ready goalkeeper and I don't believe Stolarczyk will ever be.

So if we sell Hermansen, then goalkeeper's another piece we have to find and upgrade to get back and stay in the PL.

Selling off our few wanted and prized assets will only make it harder for us to return to the PL.

 

Maybe it's a sacrifice that needs to be made, only the club will really know, but I'd rather take a PSR hit in the short term than risk our medium-to-long term ambitions.

[HankMarvin]

11 hours ago, jammie82uk said:

Really? Not according to this, but anyway doesn’t matter if it’s £15 million or £120 million total spend, the point still stands that £20 million is a substantial number in the championship especially when the premier league have just broken the £1.5 billion barrier 

 

https://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/blackburn-rovers/transfer-talk/feature/championship-transfers-confirmed-ins-and-outs_574195.html

 

Championship total spent to date: £14.47m

 

Championship total received to date: £58.64m

 

Championship net transfer spend: £44.17m

just from your article 

the 3 bottom teams on the list, equates  to more than 15m 

for example 

Swansea 5m
West Brom 7.8m

Wrexham 4.1m

 

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/championship/transfers/wettbewerb/GB2

On transfer market in euros

 

Arrivals: 207

Transfer expenses: €131,946,000
Expenditures per club: €5,497,750
Expenditures per player: €637,420
 

 

Edited 2 August 2025 by HankMarvin

[MPH]

10 hours ago, LestaLad said:

“It's drawing to a close for Mads Hermansen. Several PL clubs have expressed interest, but West Ham are leading the race and have the personal terms with the goalkeeper in place. Now it's Leicester and West Ham who have to find each other.”

 

10 hours ago, FrankieADZ said:

 

 

he’s just used Google translate hasn’t he

[AyewJoking]

7 hours ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

That’s really poor from Winter that 

maybe Winter knows there have been opportunities for him to leave within those 2 years but he chose to stay??

[Gazza M]

Perfect for Potter ball. He can pass round his own penalty area all day long avoiding the opposition in a game of cat and mouse so they can "break a few lines" 2 mins later. Lovely.