{"id":605599,"date":"2026-08-26T22:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/605599\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:38:11","slug":"brentford-transfer-news-west-ham-accept-40m-bid-for-el-hadji-malick-diouf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/605599\/","title":{"rendered":"Brentford transfer news: West Ham accept \u00a340m bid for El Hadji Malick Diouf"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brentford<\/a> have reached a verbal agreement with West Ham to sign defender El Hadji Malick Diouf in a deal worth up to \u00a340m.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old Senegal left-back would cost an initial \u00a335m, with a further \u00a35m in add-ons.<\/p>\n

West Ham have accepted Brentford<\/a>‘s bid and Diouf has been cleared to have a medical.<\/p>\n

Diouf played in West Ham’s Championship opener against Burnley, but has been excluded from the matchday squads of the Hammers’ past two games.<\/p>\n

He has been the Bees’ priority defensive target<\/a> in this transfer window, but discussions had stalled this summer before being reopened this week.<\/p>\n

Diouf would return to the Premier League after suffering relegation with the Hammers last season.<\/p>\n

And his sale would represent a big profit for West Ham on a player they paid \u00a319m for a year ago<\/a> to join from Slavia Prague.<\/p>\n

Diouf played 34 times for West Ham last season, providing five assists.<\/p>\n

He could become Brentford<\/a>‘s fifth summer signing of the summer after the arrivals of striker Callum Wilson, midfielder Mamadou Sangare, centre-back Jannik Schuster and winger Jaidon Anthony.<\/p>\n

After breaking into the Senegal side last year, Diouf played four times at the World Cup this summer.<\/p>\n

While West Ham were relegated after finishing 18th last season, Brentford<\/a> enjoyed an excellent campaign under Keith Andrews, finishing ninth and just missing out on European football on goal difference.<\/p>\n

Brentford<\/a> began their season on Saturday with a 3-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur<\/a>, and play Leeds<\/a> on Sunday in their next league game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brentford have reached a verbal agreement with West Ham to sign defender El Hadji Malick Diouf in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-605599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}