{"id":835862,"date":"2026-07-31T15:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/835862\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T15:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:12:15","slug":"west-ham-transfer-news-hammers-in-talks-to-sign-celtic-midfielder-arne-engels-amid-premier-league-interest-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/835862\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham transfer news: Hammers in talks to sign Celtic midfielder Arne Engels amid Premier League interest | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"

West Ham are in talks with Celtic over the signing of Arne Engels, with the Scottish club holding out for a deal worth around \u00a325m for the midfielder.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old also has interest from a number of Premier League clubs. Nottingham Forest saw multiple offers rejected for him on Deadline Day of the winter window.<\/p>\n

But it is Championship side West Ham who are currently pursuing the Belgium international, who has two years to run on his contract.<\/p>\n

Martin O’Neill said during his pre-match press conference ahead of Celtic’s league opener against Dundee on Monday that an offer had been submitted for the midfielder, but claimed that it didn’t “remotely meet their valuation.”<\/p>\n

Celtic’s chief executive Michael Nicholson said a few weeks ago that the Hoops’ transfer activity was proving difficult because they are competing with clubs in the Championship for targets.<\/p>\n

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\n Engels has had interest from Premier League clubs this summer<\/p>\n

Nicholson was speaking at Celtic’s annual general meeting, in which manager Martin O’Neill said his squad was not strong enough to compete and is in major need of signings.<\/p>\n

Celtic have since signed striker Kasper Hogh for a club-record fee from Bodo\/Glimt.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen if any Premier League clubs will rival West Ham for Engels’ signature.<\/p>\n

Forest’s top midfield target is Lucas Bergvall but they have been unable to strike an agreement with Spurs for the 20-year-old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham are in talks with Celtic over the signing of Arne Engels, with the Scottish club holding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-835862","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\/835862","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=835862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}