{"id":77829,"date":"2025-08-18T16:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77829\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:36:08","slug":"fenerbahce-open-talks-to-sign-west-ham-united-midfielder-edson-alvarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77829\/","title":{"rendered":"Fenerbahce open talks to sign West Ham United midfielder Edson Alvarez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/united-states-v-mexico-gold-cup-2025-final-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>West Ham United midfielder Edson Alvarez is considering his options after Fenerbahce opened talks to sign him, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1957403572183715903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"according to Italian transfer expert Fabrizio Romano\">according to Italian transfer expert Fabrizio Romano<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The manager of the Turkish club, Jose Mourinho, wants the West Ham star and initial contacts have happened as they look to lure him away from the London Stadium club. <\/p>\n<p>Ajax are also keen on recruiting the services of Alvarez and it remains to be seen whether the Hammers star will be looking to leave.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udfe1\ud83d\udd35 EXCL: Fenerbah\u00e7e open talks to sign Edson \u00c1lvarez as new midfielder, strongly wanted by Jos\u00e9 Mourinho.<\/p>\n<p>Initial contacts took place as two more European clubs have made approach to sign \u00c1lvarez after Ajax interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1lvarez is considering his options now. No decision yet. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hAkPMuLRtw\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/hAkPMuLRtw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1957403572183715903?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old was an unused substitute on Saturday when the Hammers lost 3-0 to Sunderland in their opening game of the new Premier League campaign. <\/p>\n<p>The Mexico international made 31 appearances across all competitions for West Ham last term and manager Graham Potter could be looking to sell him after his decision at the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>Guido Rodriguez, James Ward-Prowse and Tomas Soucek are all ahead of him in the pecking order, and an opportunity to play regularly elsewhere could be appealing to him.<\/p>\n<p>Fenerbahce will be playing in the Champions League this season if they beat Benfica in the play-off for qualification for the elite European competition this month, and Alvarez could be open to joining such a team. <\/p>\n<p>The opportunity to work with a manager like Mourinho still tempts some players, and West Ham may need to cash in if the Mexican expresses a willingness to leave.<\/p>\n<p>They want to recruit in the department having been linked with the likes of Chelsea midfielder Andrey Santos and his Tottenham Hotspur counterpart Yves Bissouma.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues have <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsview.co.uk\/2025\/08\/chelsea-knock-back-42m-proposal-from-west-ham-united-for-andrey-santos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"reportedly\">reportedly<\/a> rejected a \u00a342 million bid from the Hammers for the Brazilian, and their next line of action is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>West Ham have also <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsview.co.uk\/2025\/08\/west-ham-united-keen-on-recruiting-lille-midfielder-ngalayel-mukau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"approached\">approached<\/a> Lille over a deal for Belgium-born DR Congo international defensive midfielder Ngal\u2019ayel Mukau, and more targets could emerge in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SV_Logo_250x50_PNG.png\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 250px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 250\/50;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham United midfielder Edson Alvarez is considering his options after Fenerbahce opened talks to sign him, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-77829","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\/77829","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=77829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}