{"id":403967,"date":"2026-02-02T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/403967\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:50:09","slug":"west-ham-deadline-day-move-to-sign-taylor-harwood-bellis-not-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/403967\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham Deadline Day Move to Sign Taylor Harwood-Bellis Not Happening"},"content":{"rendered":"

West Ham United<\/a> have had a whirlwind transfer window as they bid to stay in the Premier League<\/a> after a 14-year stint – and there is room for one more twist yet with Taylor Harwood-Bellis set to stay at Southampton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Hammers have seen major departures in the likes of Lucas Paqueta, Andy Irving, Guido Rodriguez and Luiz Guilherme, as well as the loan exits of James Ward-Prowse and Niclas Fullkrug.<\/p>\n

However, stars such as Pablo, Taty Castellanos, Adama Traore and Keiber Lamadrid have been brought in, with Nuno Espirito Santo aiming to keep the Hammers in the league.<\/p>\n

Ornstein: Taylor Harwood-Bellis Set for Southampton Stay as West Ham Move Fails<\/p>\n

\"Taylor<\/p>\n

Yet in a late twist, the report by The Athletic reporter David Ornstein states that Harwood-Bellis is now set to stay at Southampton, despite interest from West Ham late in the window.<\/p>\n

It’s thought that the Hammers made two bids for the Manchester City<\/a> youth academy graduate over a permanent deal, but both offers failed for the one-time England international, and he is set to remain on the south coast.<\/p>\n

Harwood-Bellis, who turned 24 on Friday, has been incredibly important for the Saints in recent weeks, starting each of their previous 18 games at the back. And despite a poor run of results which included a seven-game winless streak, the club have deemed him too important to leave at the eleventh hour.<\/p>\n

Harwood-Bellis joined Southampton in 2023 after winning promotion to the Premier League in a loan spell with Burnley, and he repeated the trick with the Saints after beating Leeds United 1-0 in the Championship play-off final.<\/p>\n

However, after making his move a permanent one for \u00a320million, a dismal campaign under both Russeel Martin and Ivan Juric followed, pushing the Saints back into the second-tier.<\/p>\n

It’s yet to be seen where Harwood-Bellis will be playing his football next season, especially after links to Burnley, but the rest of his campaign will be spent trying to close the seven-point gap between themselves and the play-offs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham United have had a whirlwind transfer window as they bid to stay in the Premier League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-403967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403967","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=403967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}