Championship transfer window: Six signings to watch in 2026-27 season including £5m World Cup star

The 2026-27 Championship play volition get underway this week, with 24 teams starting the run with hopes of achieving their respective goals.

Some volition beryllium targeting automatic promotion, respective clubs volition beryllium aiming for the recently expanded playoffs, and others volition conscionable beryllium hoping to steer wide of the bottommost three. 

There person been plentifulness of breathtaking additions crossed the league who volition besides beryllium targeting a beardown run for their caller team.

Here, Sports Mole picks retired six imperishable signings to support an oculus connected successful the upcoming Championship campaign. 

Elijah Just (Swansea City)

Motherwell sold Just to Swansea successful a club-record interest for the Scottish club, with reports suggesting that the magnitude was astir the £5m mark.

Just impressed with 7 goals and 7 assists successful 43 Scottish Premiership appearances successful the 2025-26 season, earning him the prize of Motherwell's Player of the Year.

He past showcased his endowment connected the biggest stage, scoring 3 goals successful New Zealand's little World Cup campaign.

Swansea tin look backmost astatine his show against Iran arsenic a illustration of what they tin look guardant to, arsenic helium linked up neatly with teammates and showed a calm caput successful beforehand of extremity to nett doubly successful a 2-2 draw.

Vitor Matos volition besides admit Just's versatility arsenic an attacker who plays arsenic a fig 10, connected either flank and adjacent arsenic a centre-forward.

Will Lankshear (Middlesbrough)

Lankshear joined Spurs from Sheffield United successful 2022 earlier making his debut 2 years aboriginal successful the Europa League.

The striker was yet sent retired connected indebtedness to West Bromwich Albion successful January, but it proved to beryllium a hard clip arsenic helium failed to people successful 11 appearances.

However, that pugnacious acquisition yet proved to beryllium a learning curve due to the fact that helium showcased his existent imaginable successful past season's indebtedness spell astatine Oxford United, netting 11 league goals for a squad that was yet relegated and finished arsenic the fourth-lowest scorers.

After demonstrating his oculus for extremity for a squad astatine the bottommost extremity of the table, Lankshear present has the accidental to amusement helium tin people regularly and important goals for a nine that is targeting automatic promotion aft signing for Middlesbrough successful a £10m woody this summer.

The ex-Tottenham antheral has already settled immoderate nerves by scoring the victor connected his debut successful the EFL Cup against Wrexham, and portion the likes of Tommy Conway and David Strelec volition propulsion him for a starting spot, helium volition presumption the play arsenic a accidental to marque a sanction for himself arsenic 1 of England's champion young strikers.

Ugo Raghouber (Burnley)

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Raghouber joined Burnley from French broadside Lille earlier this summertime for a reported €5m (£4.3m) fee. 

The 23-year-old has the imaginable to beryllium a cardinal subordinate successful Burnley's bid to unafraid an contiguous instrumentality to the Premier League.

Raghouber arrives aft spending the 2nd fractional of past play playing successful La Liga for Levante, wherever helium made 16 appearances successful a high-pressure relegation conflict that saw the Granotes past the driblet connected head-to-head record.

The antiaircraft midfielder was not a regular starter successful Spain, but that should alteration successful his archetypal play with the Clarets, particularly arsenic Florentino Luis has departed the club.

Burnley volition payment from Raghouber's strengths retired of possession, his quality to triumph the shot backmost by making captious tackles oregon interceptions.

He is besides comfy keeping the shot circulating erstwhile his squad is successful possession, though helium volition trust connected his passing to advancement the shot alternatively than carrying the shot forward.

Andrei Coubis (Lincoln City)

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This prime is thing of a curveball, purely due to the fact that Coubis is making a important measurement up by joining a Championship club, adjacent if helium started his vocation successful the younker setup with five-time European champions AC Milan.

Coubis near without ever featuring for the five-time European champions and past experienced a akin destiny during his little clip with Sampdoria.

The 22-year-old yet breathed beingness into his elder vocation during a indebtedness stint with Universitatea Cluj successful the 2nd fractional of past season, helping the Romanian broadside decorativeness 2nd successful the league successful his 15 league appearances.

Coubis joined Lincoln successful a club-record woody worthy up to £2.6m, but not earlier making an quality in Universitatea Cluj's Europa League qualifying necktie against Dynamo Kyiv. 

With a beardown passing range, the Romania planetary is the epitome of a modern-day centre-back, though helium whitethorn request clip to set to his caller surroundings successful the Championship. 

The adaptation process volition beryllium made tougher by the anticipation that Lincoln volition beryllium battling to enactment successful the 2nd tier.

Rafiki Said (Wolverhampton Wanderers)

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Recently relegated Wolves recruited Said successful a £7.7m woody from Belgian broadside Standard Liege.

The right-footed attacker usually plays disconnected the near and possesses the dribbling quality to get fans disconnected their seats, thing helium showed by ranking seventh for the astir palmy dribbles per 90 successful the Belgian top-flight past term.

The Comoros planetary finished the run with 8 goals and 4 assists successful 37 league outings, truthful Wolves fans tin expect him to spot successful with goals arsenic good arsenic being a originative outlet.

There is each accidental helium volition registry much assists this term, considering helium volition beryllium providing opportunities to a objective goalscorer successful Raul Jimenez.

However, Wolves supporters look a waiting crippled to spot Said's attacking talent, with the wide antheral expected to beryllium retired for up to 2 months aft suffering a genu wounded successful pre-season.

Rocco Shein (Portsmouth)

Shein was not shy successful admitting his Premier League aspirations erstwhile helium completed a £2.1m determination from Norwegian broadside Fredrikstad earlier this summer.

The midfielder has filled the void created by Andre Dozzell's exit and offered a glimpse of his undoubted imaginable successful Pompey's EFL Cup decision to West Ham United.

Composed successful the mediate of the park, helium ever looked to make a passing enactment for his teammates and orchestrated respective of Pompey's attacks, a show that made him the standout subordinate successful the club's caller yellowish distant garment astatine the London Stadium. 

He lacked the aforesaid assurance retired of possession, but helium volition amended that broadside of the crippled arsenic helium adapts to the carnal demands of Championship football.