{"id":720700,"date":"2026-07-31T10:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720700\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:05:11","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\/uk\/720700\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham transfer news: Hammers in talks to sign Celtic midfielder Arne Engels amid Premier League interest | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham are in talks with Celtic over the signing of midfielder Arne Engels. <\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>Celtic&#8217;s chief executive Michael Nicholson said a few weeks ago that the Hoops&#8217; transfer activity was proving difficult because they are competing with clubs in the Championship for targets.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/skysports-football-arne-engels_7153501.jpg\"   alt=\"Engels has had interest from Premier League clubs this summer\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Engels has had interest from Premier League clubs this summer<\/p>\n<p>Nicholson was speaking at Celtic&#8217;s annual general meeting, in which manager Martin O&#8217;Neill said his squad was not strong enough to compete and is in major need of signings.<\/p>\n<p>Celtic have since signed striker Kasper Hogh for a club-record fee from Bodo\/Glimt.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen if any Premier League clubs will rival West Ham for Engels&#8217; signature.<\/p>\n<p>Forest&#8217;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 midfielder Arne Engels. The 22-year-old also has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-720700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720700","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=720700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}