As things stand, Magassa and Walker-Peters are back-up options for Hammers boss Nuno Espirito Santo<\/a>.<\/p>\n Aaron Wan-Bissaka is West Ham\u2019s first choice right-back while Mateus Fernandes, Tomas Soucek and Freddie Potts are all ahead of Magassa in the central midfield pecking order.<\/p>\n Summerville, Todibo and Mavropanos are firing at last! <\/p>\n Is your view of the Tim Steidten era changing? Or has the damage been done? \ud83d\udcb8<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc47 Join the debate; share your insight. Use the comment button on the bottom left to have your say <\/p>\n Magassa has already been linked with an exit from West Ham<\/a>, in spite of showing a few exciting glimpses of what he has to offer.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Walker-Peters has been well below average for West Ham since joining the east London outfit six months ago.<\/p>\n Now a truly stunning claim has been made about both players.<\/p>\n Claim made about West Ham duo Soungoutou Magassa and Kyle Walker-Peters<\/p>\n Soungoutou Magassa and Kyle Walker-Peters may not have been playing regularly for the Hammers recently.<\/p>\n However, it\u2019s fair to argue that both players will still have key roles to play for West Ham periodically throughout the remainder of the 2025\/26 season.<\/p>\n That\u2019s what makes the latest claim about the Hammers duo so surprising.<\/p>\n Italian football journalist Matteo Moretto<\/a> suggested that West Ham pair Soungoutou Magassa and Kyle Walker-Peters are targets for Fiorentina, during an appearance on Fabrizio Romano\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n In fact, he claims that the Serie A side are actually \u2018in talks\u2019 to sign both players from the Hammers in the January transfer window.<\/p>\n Both Walker-Peters and Magassa leaving West Ham before the January transfer window closes would be a big shock.<\/p>\n Not necessarily because either of them are indispensable to the club but more so because Nuno needs more bodies through the door at the London Stadium as it is.<\/p>\n West Ham cannot afford to let Magassa and Walker-Peters leave<\/p>\n The Hammers are battling really hard to avoid relegation right now.<\/p>\n And the West Ham squad is short on numbers and, indeed, in quality.<\/p>\n Comment on where you now think West Ham will finish in the Premier League \ud83d\udc47 <\/p>\n We are staying up \ud83c\udfb5<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc47 Join the debate; share your insight. Use the comment button on the bottom left to have your say <\/p>\n Allowing Magassa and Walker-Peters to leave at this stage of the January transfer window would be a crazy move from West Ham.<\/p>\n David Sullivan surely won\u2019t sanction an exit for either player.<\/p>\n If Walker-Peters left to join Fiorentina, Nuno would then have no cover for Wan-Bissaka at right-back.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Guido Rodriguez has just left the club while Paqueta is close to moving on as well.<\/p>\n West Ham are already extremely stretched when it comes to central midfield options, and Magassa will very much be needed between now and the end of the season.<\/p>\n Join Our Newsletter <\/p>\n Receive a digest of our best West Ham content each week direct to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soungoutou Magassa and Kyle Walker-Peters joined West Ham United from Southampton and Monaco respectively in the summer of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,81603,2943,43092,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-393967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-january-transfer-window","tag-kyle-walker-peters","tag-soungoutou-magassa","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tim](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Tim-Steidten-rating-819x1024.jpg\")
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