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The West Ham United Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

West Ham United bid $19.6M for Yves Bissouma

The offer went to Tottenham this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

West Ham United make their move for Samuel Edozie

$6.8M on the table at Southampton. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

West Ham United make their move for Ben Nelson

$4.6M on the table at Leicester City. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

West Ham United bid $2.2M for Louis Page

The offer went to Leicester City this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market10 Aug 2026

West Ham United say no — this time

The offer from Burton Albion for Joshua Ajala was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Taty Castellanos signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Taty Castellanos and West Ham United agree another 4 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at West Ham United

Taty Castellanos was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market10 Aug 2026

Tranmere Rovers watching Josh Landers

The interest is real enough to have reached print. West Ham United have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words at West Ham United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pablo Felipe is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

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The West Ham United Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market3 Aug 2026

Stade Rennais come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and West Ham United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Too dear: West Ham United walk away from Tyrick Mitchell

$6.1M was the most the club would pay and Crystal Palace were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Joël Veltman signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Joël Veltman and West Ham United agree another 2 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Taty Castellanos in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at West Ham United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market3 Aug 2026

Mads Hermansen wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at West Ham United hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A row about effort at West Ham United

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jarrod Bowen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market3 Aug 2026

Talks stall between West Ham United and Joël Veltman

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market3 Aug 2026

The clock runs on Alphonse Areola's contract

24 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

Taty Castellanos knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at West Ham United, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief