Transfer news and rumours today: £15m West Ham move, Nick Pope decides Newcastle United future, Galatasaray bid rejected

By Seye Omidiora | 10 Aug 2026 20:56, Last updated: 10 Aug 2026 20:56

West Ham United person reportedly formalised their involvement by submitting an opening bid of astir £15m for Troy Parrott, according to Sky Sports News.

The Championship outfit are hopeless to unafraid his signature but whitethorn request to summation their connection to fulfill the Dutch club. 

AZ are believed to presently worth their prized plus importantly higher and are seemingly holding retired for a club-record fee. 

The erstwhile Tottenham Hotspur academy postgraduate has 3 years remaining connected his contract, and his existent employers are nether nary contiguous fiscal unit to sell. 

Furthermore, the North London nine person a lucrative 20% sell-on clause which heavy influences the strict valuation acceptable by the Eredivisie side. 

While West Ham look consenting to propulsion aggressively for his signature, they look aggravated contention pursuing factual enquiries from Real Betis and Ajax. 

The imaginable of competing successful top-flight European shot alternatively than the English 2nd tier could heavy power the last determination of the player.

Rangers cull Euro bid for high-potential forward

Turkish giants Galatasaray reportedly tested the resoluteness of Rangers by submitting a monolithic £22m connection for the promising Youssef Chermiti. 

However, newly-appointed manager Derek McInnes swiftly confirmed that the projected interest fell importantly abbreviated of the valuation acceptable by the nine hierarchy. 

The Scottish heavyweights are supposedly demanding a fig exceeding the £19.6m received for Calvin Bassey to adjacent see sanctioning a departure. 

McInnes reiterated his tendency to clasp the talented guardant arsenic helium attempts to physique a squad susceptible of securing home supremacy. 

The Rangers brag firmly stated that the nine are actively looking to bring successful further reinforcements alternatively than encouraging offers for their prized assets.

Nonetheless, immoderate lingering imaginable of a precocious summertime transportation could present beryllium wholly derailed by the unfortunate genu wounded sustained against Hibernian. 

McInnes revealed that the striker departed the stadium wearing a protective footwear and a genu brace up of a important aesculapian scan to find the afloat grade of the damage. 

A lengthy spell connected the sidelines would correspond a devastating stroke for Rangers, who desperately request his attacking prowess to flooded their sluggish commencement to the caller campaign.

Pope makes determination connected Newcastle future

Newcastle United goalkeeper Nick Pope is reportedly improbable to propulsion for a summertime departure contempt facing accrued contention astatine St James' Park. 

The Magpies person heavy bolstered their goalkeeping section during the existent transportation model by spending a combined £50m connected Ewen Jaouen and Lukas Hornicek. 

Still, Pope is afloat prepared to enactment and vie for regular minutes alternatively than moving to a nine wherever helium would service arsenic a backup, according to Football Insider.

A deficiency of factual involvement from top-flight clubs consenting to connection him guaranteed starting duties means helium is present heavy leaning towards remaining successful the North East. 

The shot-stopper's existent declaration runs until 2027, and the experienced nonrecreational is seemingly contented to spot retired his existing woody nether Matthias Jaissle. 

Newcastle were initially unfastened to sanctioning a departure for a interest successful the portion of £10m, but a ceremonial bid has yet to materialise.