{"id":277039,"date":"2025-07-20T09:47:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T09:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/277039\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T09:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T09:47:19","slug":"west-ham-issue-transfer-update-on-imminent-new-signing-and-graham-potters-striker-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/277039\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham issue transfer update on imminent new signing and Graham Potter’s striker plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

West Ham have provided a fresh transfer update, with news of an imminent signing and adjusted plans to add a new striker to Graham Potter\u2019s squad. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Hammers have been accelerating their business with just over six weeks of the summer window<\/a> remaining.<\/p>\n

Selling Mohammed Kudus to Tottenham will likely be the most controversial decision West Ham<\/a> make this summer.<\/p>\n

West Ham\u2019s \u00a354.5m Kudus deal will already be filling David Sullivan with regret<\/a> after what he did on his Spurs bow.<\/p>\n

But it did hold the key to unlocking West Ham\u2019s window.<\/p>\n

More deals on the way for West Ham<\/p>\n

Graham Potter<\/a> finally made his first permanent signing as West Ham boss when El Hadji Malick Diouf arrived from Slavia Prague in a deal worth up to \u00a323m.<\/p>\n

Diouf may take the edge off the loss of Kudus<\/a> after an exciting Hammers showing.<\/p>\n

West Ham are far from done there, though.<\/p>\n

There was surprise when the club immediately moved on from Diouf to try and sign another fullback.<\/p>\n

After being formally announced as an imminent signing on Besiktas\u2019 website, West Ham made an 11th hour bid to sign Kyle Walker-Peters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The free agent has been a West Ham target since 2020.<\/p>\n

In fact the Hammers tried to sign him before bringing in Vladimir Coufal.<\/p>\n

\"FormerPhoto by Matt Watson\/Southampton FC via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The fast and versatile former Tottenham man can play just as well at left full-back as he can on his natural right side.<\/p>\n

At 28, Walker-Peters has experience too, something West Ham lost a lot of when releasing Aaron Cresswell, Coufal and Lukasz Fabianski.<\/p>\n

The former England man also counts as a homegrown player.<\/p>\n

His signing is particularly savvy given Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Diouf will be going to the African Nations in January.<\/p>\n

Turkish giants Besiktas all but confirmed Walker-Peters\u2019 move to West Ham<\/a>.<\/p>\n

West Ham issue transfer update on imminent new signing<\/p>\n

Walker-Peters has been having his medical this weekend and the club has now confirmed his announcement is imminent.<\/p>\n

\u201cKyle Walker-Peters is 99 per cent done,\u201d a spokesman for West Ham\u2019s owners told Hammers News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

There has been much talk about midfield being the club\u2019s next priority.<\/p>\n

But it was put to the Hammers board whether signing a striker is still among the priorities too.<\/p>\n

Especially after the unimpressive performance of Niclas Fullkrug in the friendly win over Grasshoppers.<\/p>\n

\"WestPhoto by Rob Newell \u2013 CameraSport via Getty ImagesHammers make Potter\u2019s striker plan clear<\/p>\n

Just over a week ago, West Ham\u2019s hierarchy revealed the club still \u201chope to sign one or two strikers\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Having already ruled out moves for injury-prone free agents Dominic Calvert-Lewin<\/a> and Callum Wilson<\/a>, that update seriously excited supporters.<\/p>\n

Now when pressed on the striker search, West Ham have made their stance clear.<\/p>\n

And it will manage expectations among fans about the type of forward the Hammers will be in the market for.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe manager doesn\u2019t think we need an expensive striker,\u201d the top spokesman for West Ham\u2019s owners<\/a> exclusively told Hammers News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Expensive striker signings have rarely worked out at West Ham down the years.<\/p>\n

Marko Arnautovic has been the best striker the club has signed in the last decade or more.<\/p>\n

And he only cost \u00a320m from Stoke.<\/p>\n

So West Ham stating Potter doesn\u2019t want to use up too much money going after an expensive striker signing isn\u2019t necessarily a disaster.<\/p>\n

Potter right to focus on value in West Ham striker hunt<\/p>\n

Those signings often bring big pressure for the player and manager and the risk to reward at a team like West Ham is too high.<\/p>\n

Evann Guessand<\/a> of Nice, Emanuel Emegha<\/a> of Strasbourg and Celtic\u2019s Daizen Maeda have all been linked and would not cost any more than \u00a325m each according to reports.<\/p>\n

However, there is a lot of interest in Guessand and Emegha is expected to sign a deal to eventually join Strasbourg\u2019s sister club Chelsea in the future.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Brentford are reportedly planning to try and sign Maeda if they sell Yoane Wissa \u2013 who was reportedly turned down by West Ham.<\/p>\n

The fact West Ham have made it clear the manager wants an inexpensive striker signing will undoubtedly reignite talk of moves for free agents Calvert-Lewin and Wilson.<\/p>\n

The Hammers had made it clear neither were being targeted due to their injury records previously.<\/p>\n

However, many thought West Ham had moved on from the Walker-Peters interest only for him to sign somewhat out of the blue.<\/p>\n

So while Calvert-Lewin and Wilson are both available for no transfer fee, they cannot necessarily be ruled out.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham have provided a fresh transfer update, with news of an imminent signing and adjusted plans to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49417,33761,86439,782,29938,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-277039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-callum-wilson","9":"tag-dominic-calvert-lewin","10":"tag-evann-guessand","11":"tag-graham-potter","12":"tag-kyle-walker-peters","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114884932050115057","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}