{"id":2859,"date":"2025-07-18T10:24:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2859\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T10:24:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:24:03","slug":"transfer-news-liverpool-set-to-sign-ekitike-plus-mbeumo-walker-peters-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2859\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer news: Liverpool set to sign Ekitike plus Mbeumo, Walker-Peters latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham agree personal terms with Walker-Peterspublished at 11:00 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>11:00 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dbbc71db-9f26-48c8-81be-402f406e5682.png.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Simon Stone<br \/>BBC Sport chief football news reporter<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Ham have agreed personal terms with Kyle Walker-Peters on a free transfer following the full-back&#8217;s exit from Southampton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old England international left the Saints, who were relegated from the Premier League last season, after the expiry of his contract at St Mary&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was on the verge of joining Ole Gunnar Solskjaer&#8217;s Besiktas but the Turkish club said they were walking away from the transfer on Thursday after the defender delayed his medical following interest from the Hammers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Walker-Peters, who has two England caps, made 202 appearances for Southampton and scored six goals during his time there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After initially joining on loan from Tottenham, he signed a permanent contract in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He played 43 league games in 2023-24 as the Saints were promoted to the Premier League, and 35 during the 2024-25 season, providing two top-flight assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Ham, who finished 14th last season, signed Senegal defender El Hadji Malick Diouf from Slavia Prague for \u00a319m this week and also made Nice defender Jean-Clair Todibo&#8217;s loan move permanent.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kyle Walker-Peters in action for Southampton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/e8e176ca-b7b5-46bc-b362-37df470ff3ae.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1005\" height=\"565\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham agree personal terms with Walker-Peterspublished at 11:00 British Summer Time 11:00 BST Simon StoneBBC Sport chief&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-2859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}