{"id":814935,"date":"2026-08-15T23:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T23:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/814935\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T23:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T23:00:09","slug":"west-ham-transfer-news-hammers-break-efl-record-to-sign-arne-engels-for-22m-from-celtic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/814935\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham transfer news: Hammers break EFL record to sign Arne Engels for \u00a322m from Celtic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Engels is West Ham’s fourth summer signing after the recruitment of Venezuela midfielder Keiber Lamadrid,<\/a> Dutch defender Joel Veltman<\/a> and Israel winger Manor Solomon.<\/a><\/p>\n

West Ham director of player recruitment Nils Koppen told the club website:, external<\/a> “Arne is a player we have been tracking for some time as a key target.<\/p>\n

“For a player who is still very young with his best years in front of him, he has very good experience and has established himself at a big club, showing consistency and confidence.<\/p>\n

“Arne has the right traits, both as a player and as a character, to fit into what we are trying to build moving forward. He is very motivated to be here for this challenge.”<\/p>\n

Engels, who has made four appearances for Belgium, won back-to-back Scottish Premiership titles with Celtic after arriving from Augsburg in August 2024, having begun his career at Club Brugge.<\/p>\n

“It’s a really nice project to come into,” he said. “To try to go back to the Premier League. That’s the big goal. <\/p>\n

“It’s just up to me to hopefully help the team with it and together with the supporters to get some wins. Hopefully it’s going to be a good year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Engels is West Ham’s fourth summer signing after the recruitment of Venezuela midfielder Keiber Lamadrid, Dutch defender Joel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-814935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}