2026 Summer Transfer Speculation

BubblesNeverDies

I wonder if Nuno will bring Alvarez back from loan?

Fortuneseeker

BND I believe he is due to return to the club after his loan in Turkey and rumours are he would be willing to stay and play this season.

steve

Reports out there that Gustavo Sa is about to be signed even saying a medical is booked .Anyone know anything Please don't let him be another Pablo

EXETERHAMMER

He has played for Portugal at all levels except first team.

Must be at least ok

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

Think we're going to see a fair few Portuguese players arrive this summer

alderz

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes said:

Think we're going to see a fair few Portuguese players arrive this summer

Big_Oli_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

Fortuneseeker

@Jorderz, If they are as good as the few Mendes brought to Wolves when NES was there we will be happy. I wonder if Nils Koppen has to be in agreement on them though?

ASLEFshrugged

From Ex earlier today

Gustavo Sa "no way near as close as was being reported"

James McAtee "talks that he is close to a deal are also inaccurate”

Axel Disasi "club are keen...although there seems to be a lot of competition"

FC Koln Icelandic CM Isak Jóhannesson "perhaps a deal involving Alvarez could be struck"

Other names mentioned

Troyes AM Martin Adeline

Girona LW Kim Min-su

FC Midtjylland Ecuadorean DM Denil Castillo and Chilean RW Darío Osorio

FC Nordsaelland Ghanaian DM/CM Caleb Yirenk ()

https://www.thewesthamway.com/2026/07/08/used-exwhuemployee-west-ham-transfer-update/

Fortuneseeker

Meanwhile in the WSL

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cvg7wenkklyo

Some of us can only dream of our Womens team making a signing like this.

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Callum Wilson got a "here we go" from Romano to move to Brentford

Not entirely surprising, good option off the ebnch when Thiago isn't scoring

Lukerz

Bemoans the lack of game time last year, so goes to the club with the highest scoring striker.

Just shows you the rubbish a lot of players speak. Scored some big goals for us, but I always found his performances underwhelming.

IronHerb

He wants 100 Prem goals which he won't get with us.

Lukerz

Highly unlikely with Brentford either

ASLEFshrugged

At Brentford Wilson will be 2nd choice striker out of two, they've only got Thiago and a Belgian kid they want to send out on loan

Last season Thiago started 37 Premier League matches and played the full 90 minutes 33 times

The one game he didn't start they played Schade as a makeshift striker, three times they replaced him with Dango Ouattara who's more of a winger than a striker and the other time they replaced him with Reiss Nelson cos Ouattara was at AFCON

Thiago started against Morocco for Brazil but was on the bench for the other games. He will probably miss a lot of the pre-season so Wilson could start against Spurs

Brentford definitely looks like a good move for him

ASLEFshrugged

Okay, let's not get overexcited but...

Simon Phillips of Si Phillips Talks Chelsea podcast reckons we have remained in contact with Disasi over a permanent move, a £25m deal is all but agreed with Chelsea "and it’s worth noting he is yet to turn them away,”

TeamTalk reporting that we have opened talks with Forest for McAtee, that it might take £30m but he's interested in joining

This is all very un-West Ham

Fortuneseeker

The McAtee deal brings into question whether Forest can really expect to get their money back on a player who they didn't really pick, a reduced fee then it would make more sense, a bit like the valuation given for Disasi.

Fortuneseeker

See the Womens team have signed two England Under 19 internationals in the last 2 days.

Fortuneseeker

WHUWFC have announced their seventh signing of this transfer window, maybe, just maybe they might be trying to be more competitive this season.

buffybegood

Our ladies team usually have to make loads of signings each summer as so many leave each season.

Fortuneseeker

buffy, Won't the Mens team have to make a load of signings if the rumours of up to Ten players leaving is correct?

buffybegood

Oh I'm sure, but I was just pointing out that the women's team always has a high turnover of players, so us signing a lot doesn't necessarily signal a change.

Fortuneseeker

I agree buffy it's a regular necessity for the Womens team although this summer they appear to have signed a few players who are of a more than decent standard instead of a player from a lesser nation which normally doesn't help the team progress. .

Lukerz

So as it stands, 11 for Burnley

Hermansen
Wan-Bissaka - Mavropanos - Todibo - Diouf
Potts - Magassa
Bowen - Pablo - Summerville
Taty

Nice!

steve

Not sure Todibo Will even bother to turn up ,But apart from him not bad ,Start the season now

Expat_Hammer

I do hope that Pablo comes good this year and bangs in a good few goals.

Must have been a bit hard on him coming in as a striker and being played in midfield, but all credit to him for giving it a go.

New country, new league, new club and his work rate was excellent.

Hopefully he might get his place up top with Taty and get himself some goals.

There is definitely a decent player in him ..................... please

ASLEFshrugged

Football Insider reporting that Glasner wants to assess McAtee in the pre-season as he wanted to bring him to Palace last summer to replace Eze

https://www.footballinsider247.com/nottingham-forest/oliver-glasner-to-make-james-mcatee-transfer-decision-after-crystal-palace-reveal-orourke