Squad List / Transfers / Transfer Rumours (Summer 2026 Update) by BlueBoots 30 Jun 2024 13:40
Summer transfer window opens 15/06/2026...below you will find:

* Squad
* Players out on loan
* Players returning from loans
* Academy signings
* Players signed this season (with fees)
* Players sold / released this season (with fees)
* Transfer rumours (Players In)
* Transfer rumours (Players Out)

I will continue to update the thread with any signings / sales (and transfer rumours will be added to the OP - I only include rumours that Phil has confirmed on TWTD, rather than random rumours posted elsewhere)

If I've missed anything, just let me know.

(Latest transfer rumours are at the end of this post)

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SQUAD (23 Players):

(1) Palmer (2028)
(27) Button (2026)
(28) Walton (2028)

(18) Johnson (2028)
(19) Furlong (2028)

(3) Davis (2028)
(22) Townsend (2026) [Not Registered]

(4) Kipre (2028)
(26) O'Shea (2029)

(24) Greaves (2029)
(25) Baggott (2028)

(5) Matusiwa (2029)
(6) [Neil (2026)]

(12) [Cajuste (2026)]
(14) Taylor (2028)

(7) Burns (2026)
(8) Walle Egeli (U21 - 2030)
(20) McAteer (2029)

(29) Akpom (2029)
(32) Nunez (2029)

(11) Philogene (2029)
(33) Mehmeti (2029)
(47) J. Clarke (2029)

(9) Hirst (2029)
(31) [Azon (2026)]

(Year after name = Contract Expiry Date)
(Players in brackets [] are on loan)

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PLAYERS OUT ON LOAN (2025/2026)

[(2) H. Clarke (2026) > Charlton Athletic]
[(10) Chaplin (2026) > Portsmouth]
[(13) Slicker (2028) > Barnet]
[(16) Al-Hamadi (2028) > Luton Town]*
[(21) Ogbene (2028) > Sheffield United]
[(23) Szmodics (2028) > Derby County]
[(30) Humphreys (2026) > Huddersfield Town
[(49) Muric (2028) > Sassuolo]

* To become permanent Summer 2026 (£3m Fee)

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ACADEMY SIGNINGS

U21

Josh Lewis
Abube Onuchukwu
Leon Elliott
Tudor Mendel-Idowu
Josh Pitts
Somto Boniface
Corbin Mthunzi
Luca Fletcher (Loan from Manchester City)
Tyler Young
Frankie Runham (Loan from Chelsea)
Ryan Doherty (Stevenage)
Bobby Sains

U18

Darragh McCann
Jayden Adetiba

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PLAYERS INCOMING (SUMMER 2026):

Chuba Akpom (Ajax - £7m)
Cedric Kipre (Stade Reims - £2.2m)

PLAYERS OUTGOING (SUMMER 2026):

Ashley Young (Retirement)

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PLAYERS INCOMING (WINTER 2026):

Anis Mehmeti (Bristol City - £3m)
Dan Neil (Loan - Sunderland)

PLAYERS OUTGOING (WINTER 2026):

None

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PLAYERS INCOMING (SUMMER 2025):

David Button (Free Transfer)
Cedric Kipre (Loan with option - Reims)
Azor Matusiwa (Rennes - £7.8m)
Ashley Young (Free Transfer)
Jens Cajuste (Loan with option - Napoli)
Chuba Akpom (Loan with option - Ajax)
Kasey McAteer (Leicester City - £11.5m + Add-ons)
Darnell Furlong (West Brom - £3.5m + £0.5m Add-ons)
Ivan Azon (Loan - Como)
Marcelino Nunez (Norwich City - £7.5m + £2.5m Add-ons)
Sindre Walle Egeli (FC Nordsjælland - £17.5m)

PLAYERS OUTGOING (SUMMER 2025):

Massimo Luongo (Millwall - Free Transfer)
Marcus Harness (Huddersfield Town - Free Transfer)
Harry Barbrook (Chelmsford City)
Liam Delap (Chelsea - £30m)
Cameron Burgess (Swansea City - Free Transfer)
Axel Tuanzebe (Burnley - Free Transfer)
Sam Morsy (Kuwait SC - Free Transfer)
Nathan Broadhead (Wrexham - £7.5m + £2.5m)
Omari Hutchinson (Nottingham Forest - £37.5m)
Luke Woolfenden (Coventry City - £4m)

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PLAYERS INCOMING (WINTER 2025):

Ben Godfrey (Atalanta - Loan)
Jaden Philogene (Aston Villa - £20m + £3m)
Julio Enciso (Brighton - Loan)
Alex Palmer (West Brom - £2m + Add-ons)

PLAYERS OUTGOING (WINTER 2025):

Janoi Donacien (Chesterfield - Free Transfer)
George Edmundson (Middlesboro - £600k + Add-ons)
Osman Foyo (AFC Wimbledon - Undisclosed)
Jesse Nwabueze (Bath City - Free Transfer)

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PLAYERS INCOMING (SUMMER 2024):

Omari Hutchinson (Chelsea - £18m + £2.5m + 25% Sell-On)
Ben Johnson (West Ham - Free Transfer)
Jacob Greaves (Hull City - £15m + £3m)
Liam Delap (Man City - £15m + £5m + 20% Sell-On)
Arijanet Muric (Burnley - £8m + £2m)
Conor Townsend (West Brom - £500k)
Sammie Szmodics (Blackburn - £9m + Add-ons)
Kalvin Phillips (Manchester City - Loan)
Jens Cajuste (Napoli - Loan + £10m Buy-Out on Premier League Survival)
Jack Clarke (Sunderland - £15m + £3m)
Dara O'Shea (Burnley - £12m + £3m)
Chiedozie Ogbene (Luton Town - £8m)

PLAYERS OUTGOING (SUMMER 2024):

Vaclav Hladky (Burnley - Free Transfer)
Nick Hayes (Barnet)
Corrie Ndaba (Kilmarnock)
Dominic Ball (Leyton Orient - Free Transfer)
Panutche Camara (Crawley Town - Free Transfer)
Idris El-Mizouni (Oxford United - £400k)
Sone Aluko (Retired From Playing - First Team Coach)
Kayden Jackson (Derby County - Free Transfer)
Gassan Ahadme (Charlton Athletic - £1m)
Freddie Ladapo (Huddersfield Town - Free Transfer)

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LOANEES RETURNED (2025):

Ben Godfrey, Kalvin Phillips, Jens Cajuste, Julio Enciso

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PLAYERS OUT ON LOAN (2024/2025)

[Al-Hamadi > Loan to Stoke City]
[Baggott > Loan to Blackpool]
[H. Clarke > Loan to Sheffield United]
[Harness > Loan to Derby]
[Humphreys* > Loan to Wycombe]

[Ayinde* > Loan to Rochdale]
[Ayoola* > Loan to Lowestoft Town]
[Fin Barbrook* > Loan to Sutton United]
[Harry Barbrook* > Loan to Chelmsford City]
[Boatswain* > Loan to AFC Fylde]
[Boswell* > Loan to Felixstowe & Walton United]
[Carr* > Loan to Ebbsfleet]
[Davis* > Loan to St Albans City]
[Fleischer* > Loan to Heybridge Swifts]
[Gray* > Loan to Braintree Town]
[Iorpenda* > Loan to Brightlingsea Regent]
[Jambang* > Loan to Chatham Town]
[Mauge* > Loan to Bury Town]
[Mazionis* > Loan to Woking]
[O'Connor*> Loan to Farnborough]
[Okunowo*> Loan to Braintree Town]
[Valentine* > Loan to Chelmsford City]

COMPLETED LOANS:

[Edmundson > Loan to Middlesbrough]

[Agbaje* > Loan to Sutton United]
[Harry Barbrook* > Loan to Lowestoft Town]
[Binns* > Loan to Bishop's Stortford]
[Carr* > Loan to Gateshead]
[Foyo* > Loan to Chelmsford]
[Valentine* > Loan to Needham Market]
[Williamson* > Loan to Chelmsford City]

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LOANEES RETURNED (2024):

Brandon Williams, Lewis Travis, Jeremy Sarmiento, Omari Hutchinson, Kieffer Moore

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(*=Signed by another club after rumoured link became public)

SUMMER 2026 TRANSFER RUMOURS (IN):

GK: Carl Rushworth (Brighton & Hove Albion)
CB: Flavien Enzo Boyomo (Osasuna), Moustapha Mbow (Paris FC), CJ Egan-Riley (Marseille)
9: Joe Taylor (Huddersfield Town)

SUMMER 2026 TRANSFER RUMOURS (OUT):

Jack Clarke (Sheffield United)

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WINTER 2026 TRANSFER RUMOURS (IN):

CB: Ryan Egan (Hull City)
DM: Ryan Doherty (Stevenage), Tom Cairney (Fulham), Dan Neil (Sunderland)
AM: Kendry Paez (Chelsea), Anis Mehmeti (Bristol City), Femi Azeez (Millwall)
9: Patrick Bamford (Sheffield United), Callum Wilson (West Ham United), Joel Piroe (Leeds United), Sam Surridge (Nashville SC)

WINTER 2026 TRANSFER RUMOURS (OUT):

Aro Muric (Juventus)
Harry Clarke (Sheffield United, Charlton Athletic)
Fin Barbrook (Colchester United)
Cameron Humphreys (Wycombe Wanderers, Oxford United)
Jack Clarke (Sheffield United)
Sammie Szmodics (Derby County, Wrexham)

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SUMMER 2025 TRANSFER RUMOURS (IN):

CB: Sebastian Caceres (Club América), Stephen Mfuni (Manchester City)
RB: (*Issa Kaboré-Wrexham), Darnell Furlong (West Brom)
DM: (*Josh Brownhill-Al Shahab), (*Lewis Travis-Derby County), Jens Cajuste (Napoli), (*Lennon Miller-Udinese), Marcel Ruiz (Deportivo Toluca), Hayden Hackney (Middlesbrough), (*Malick Yalcouye-Swansea (Loan)), (*James McConnell-Ajax), Lewis Miley (Newcastle), (*Jordan James-Leicester City), Marcelino Nunez (Norwich City)
AM: Sindre Walle Egeli (FC Nordsjælland), Kasey McAteer (Leicester City)
9: (*Marc Guiu-Sunderland (Loan)), (*Divin Mubama-Stoke City (Loan)), (*Patrick Agyemang-Derby County), (*Oli McBurnie-Hull City), Iván Azón (Como), Chuba Akpom (Ajax), Bailey Cadamarteri (Sheffield Wednesday)

SUMMER 2025 TRANSFER RUMOURS (OUT):

Liam Delap (Chelsea)
Dara O'Shea (Burnley, Leeds Utd, Wolves)
Cameron Burgess (Valencia)
Axel Tuanzebe (Trabzonspor, Burnley)
Omari Hutchinson (Everton, Brentford, West Ham, Fulham, Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig, Nottingham Forest)
Arijanet Muric (Sassuolo, AS Monaco, Çaykur Rizespor)
Sam Morsy (Derby County, Kuwait SC)
Ali Al-Hamadi (Luton Town, Toulouse, Charlton, Cardiff)
Nathan Broadhead (Wrexham)
Leif Davis (Nottingham Forest)
Luke Woolfenden (Coventry City, Watford, Stoke City)
Chieo Ogbene (Sheffield United)
Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth)

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WINTER 2025 TRANSFER RUMOURS (IN):

CM: Flynn Downes (Southampton)
AM: (*Ben Doak-Bournemouth)
9: (*Igor Jesus-Nottingham Forest)

WINTER 2025 TRANSFER RUMOURS (OUT):

Liam Delap (Juventus, Tottenham, Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Man City, Man Utd, Liverpool, Newcastle)
Luke Woolfenden (Sheffield United, Inter Miami)
Harry Clarke (Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United)
Ali Al-Hamadi (West Brom, Stoke)
Cameron Burgess (Girona)
George Hirst (Burnley, Leeds)
Ben Johnson (Fulham)
Leif Davis (Nottingham Forest)

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SUMMER 2024 TRANSFER RUMOURS (IN):

GK: (*Carl Rushworth-Hull(Loan)), (*Thomas Kaminski-Charlton Athletic), Sofiane Karraoui
LB: Jayden Oosterwolde
CB: (*Joe Rodon-Leeds), (*Cedric Kipre-Reims), Anel Ahmedhodžić
CM: (*Flynn Downes-Southampton), (*Jordan James-Rennes), (*Oliver Skipp-Leicester City), (*Tanner Tessmann-Lyon), (*Steven Alzate-Hull City)
RW: (*Reiss Nelson-Fulham(Loan))
LW: (*Jaden Philogene-Aston Villa), (*Wilson Odobert-Tottenham), (*Alexis Saelemaekers-Roma(Loan))
9: (*Steve Mounié-FC Augsburg), (*Andrea Pinamonti-Genoa(Loan)), (*Armando Broja-Everton(Loan)), (*Odsonne Édouard-Leicester City(Loan)), (*Fotis Ioannidis-Sporting), (*Kevin Denkey-Cincinnati), Lyle Foster, (*Emmanuel Latte Lath-Atlanta United)

SUMMER 2024 TRANSFER RUMOURS (OUT):

Cieran Slicker (Loan)
Ali Al-Hamadi (Loan)