Town Linked With Brazilian Striker
Tuesday, 30th Jun 2026 11:22

Town are reported to be among the admirers of Toulouse striker Emersonn.

Championship play-off winners Hull City have had a £17.3 million bid for the 21-year-old turned down and, according to Sky Sports, Town are among a number of other interested clubs.

Former Brazil U16 international Emersonn, who is 6ft 1in tall, started his career with Athletico Paranaense in his home country before moving on to Turkish side Göztepe in January 2025.

That spell led to his move to his current club in Ligue 1 on deadline day last summer for around €3 million (£2.6 million) and last season he scored seven goals in 31 appearances in all competitions, picking up three assists.

Town are certainly looking to add to their attacking ranks this summer ahead of their return to the Premier League.

Bringing in experience to their frontline would appear to be an obvious first step and TWTD revealed three weeks ago that West Ham striker Callum Wilson remains on their list of potential recruits having been eyed in January with the 34-year-old expected to leave the Hammers, although the former England striker is now reported to be in talks with Brentford.

However, the Blues are also looking at younger frontmen in the mould of Emersonn, who is similar in profile to Italian international Jeff Ekhator, currently with Genoa, and Levante’s Cameroon striker Karl Etta Eyong, who the Spanish media reported was in talks with Town a fortnight ago.

Emersonn is the second Brazilian reported to be a Town target this week with the Blues reported to have made an approach to Lille for central defender Alexsandro yesterday.

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TomCruise added 11:28 - Jun 30 Well, I imagine few very, if any Town fans have actually seen Emmersonn, Ekhator or Etta Eyong play, so you just have to hope that the club has scouted potential players well and the fee and wages involved are sensible. Matusiwa we can point to as evidence of good overseas scouting and business by the club, Walle Egleli to an extent too. Let's see.
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RetroBlue added 11:33 - Jun 30 All these links and " players negotiations a fair way down the road", so hopefully we'll be seeing a large influx of new players all at once soon then, if these reports can be believed !
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Benji1611 added 11:37 - Jun 30

Scouting video looks terrible, just a compilation of him either ballooning shots over the bar or rushing the shot which rolls harmlessly at the goalie. In my humble, non-data driven opinion, Etta Eyong would be a much better alternative and worth the extra €10m. Also, Vipotnik's still available for circa £15m apparently and would at least definitely be physical enough for the Prem

Counagoal added 11:40 - Jun 30 Bring me this as my ST lineup next season: Delap (Loan OTB) Wilson (Free) A foreign gamble (20-30m?) A strike force I think that would be more than good enough to keep us up. Whether Delap is realistic I’m not so sure but bring him home!!
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Gforce added 11:40 - Jun 30 Great to hear we are looking at top level international talent, hopefully a few of these links will actually go through in the coming days/weeks. GO'Neils experience of the French league could well prove invaluable.
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Marcus added 11:41 - Jun 30 There is a logic to targeting two players from a similar background, it reduces the risk of homesickness and helps with morale. To compete in the Premier League we need to be a League of nations and not a tenacious Championship squad trying to punch above lur weight.
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TimmyH added 11:55 - Jun 30 The 'links' keep coming...interesting how other clubs similar to us have been watching the same players - lack of scouting? or are clubs all alerted to which players are out of contract / wanting to move / have done well at a certain level. At least we're looking abroad as opposed to the cream of the Championship.
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fifeblue added 12:09 - Jun 30 TimmyH: There is NO cream in the Championship apart from Hackney who is off to Everton.
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Ferguson added 12:17 - Jun 30 Sorry, but with few exceptions, I'm not convinced Ligue 1 strikers have the quality we need to hit the ground running. That said who will O'Neil recommend ? Looking forward to finding out !
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SickParrot added 12:35 - Jun 30 Cost Toulouse £2.6 million a year ago, only scored seven goals but Hull have offered £17.6 million and Toulouse want even more! Not enough goals or assists last season to justify that sort of fee, so let's look elsewhere.
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PortmanTerrorist added 12:36 - Jun 30

All sounds positive, but feel like GON has something of a masterplan he has sold the club re staying up. That will am sure require targeted recruitment. So long as there is joined up thinking I will support any new faces....but these are still just rumours and at the risk of more negative reactions, we have already missed out on getting a head start on our Premier League competition with our season having ended early. I understand that was impacted by Kieran leaving but we really need to get a shift on !

Bazza8564 added 12:49 - Jun 30

Counagoal, would be massively surprised if we even considered Delap coming back. Word from within (reliable) was we would unload him even we stayed up last time, and a friend knows one of the Town surgeons who was quoted as saying Town were praying he would pass his Chelsea medical, some sort of underlying knee issue that emerged here.

That, if indeed it's as bad as quoted, would mean it made little sense, and the lack of talk of too would kind of mean it's unlikely?

And as much as I heard about LD, I know nothing of any of these other guys.

What I would say is that there seems to be a bit of foreign recruit scepticism in some comments, and yet for years we've been crying out and waiting to use foreign scouts and markets more aggressively. Which is it? Im firmly in favour of the overseas players personally, they don't expect mega wages and are generally cheaper....

boysof1981 added 12:50 - Jun 30 Half a team of Brazilians will do, be great time to bring back the yellow and blue away kit as well.
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tetchris added 13:06 - Jun 30 Can’t be any worse than Akpom
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SuffolkPunch70 added 13:12 - Jun 30 PortmanTerrorist - not sure if you have noticed, but no team are getting "a shift on" because the financial year for football teams runs to June 30th, so any business done before then would fall into last year's financial PSR. Once we tick over into July, you should see a sudden upturn in transfer traffic and I suspect MA knows what he is doing here.
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tractordamage added 13:19 - Jun 30

We may not have seen these these guys play...but many people do, hence the ratings on Transfermarkt etc. And many pc games too.
FM26 will a good source of fairly precise ratings...

https://www.fmscout.com/player
https://www.fmscout.com/player
(he was originally a CM, so he'll be useful)
https://www.fmscout.com/player
(All priced over £20m).

https://www.fmscout.com/player
https://www.fmscout.com/player
(These two are priced much lower than the other guys, but good prospects).

Personally I'd like Alecsandro AND L Kelly, because that would mean Leif would play more forward.
Does O'Neil do Wing-backs?

Etta Eyong looks like a strong Striker who can help defend upfield.

Linkboy13 added 13:22 - Jun 30

People on here giving opinions on players they've never seen on regular basis or heard of is stupid we have to trust the system. You can't buy a player that is guaranteed to score you 15 or 20 goals a season one who has the potential to yes and these are very difficult to find and very expensive and are snapped up by the likes of Manchester city etc. So the likes of Ipswich have to gamble on experienced players slightly past their best Wilson for example or youngsters as mentioned and try to develop them or players with a history of injuries.

Carberry added 13:27 - Jun 30 What we don't want are players coming in who need time to adjust to the rigours of the Premier League. We have to hit the ground running this season.
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Dissboyitfc added 13:45 - Jun 30 I am loving reading the links, but can’t comment on the actual player as I know nothing about him! Wonder when the first signing will happen! As others have mentioned we need to get our skates on, that said I would rather take a little longer and get the correct ones through the door!
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Razor added 14:08 - Jun 30 Yup I like sputnik too and there must be some good young Dutch stikers?
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TimmyH added 14:22 - Jun 30 Yes a lot of looking in Ligue 1 at the moment...I wonder why? :)
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Monkey_Blue added 14:50 - Jun 30 The thing I trusted most was that McKenna got the final say on transfers. He turned down suggested strikers in Jan. From what has been said of course we have continued to build the recruitment infrastructure so we should be finding better players in theory.
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dirtydingusmagee added 14:55 - Jun 30 Im taking all these stories with a large pinch of sodium chloride , wont be doing the Samba just yet,
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wischip added 14:57 - Jun 30 It would be good to get an Emersonn. We've already got a Palmer. That just leaves getting a Lake then we can have a Fanfare.
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