Key events
West Ham move for Osman: As we await confirmation of Kalvin Phillips’s move to the London Stadium on loan from Manchester City, news reaches us that West Ham are hoping to sign the 19-year-old winger Ibrahim Osman from Danish club Nordsjælland for a fee of approximately £16m.
A graduate of the Right to Dream Academy in Ghana, Osman could join his compatriot and fellow alumni Mohammed Kudus at the London Stadium. Brighton and Brentford are also reported to be interested in the teenager and given the famously keen eyes their respective scouting departments have for talent, the kid almost certainly has moxie.
Kieran Trippier to stay at Newcastle. Newcastle’s overlords have rejected a new and improved offer for Kieran Trippier from Bayern Munich, it says here. The German champions are believed to have offered £13m for the right-back, a million more than Newcastle paid to take him from Atletico Madrid two years ago.
For their part, Newcastle insist the defender, who has been so instrumental in their resurgence under Eddie Howe, is not for sale. While open to a move to Bavaria, Trippier, 33, is not reported to be agitating for one.
Valdimarsson to Brentford: Brentford are reported to have beaten Aston Villa in the race to secure the signature of Iceland and Elfsborg goalkeeper Hakon Valdimarsson.
The Athletic say the Bees have agreed a fee of around £2.5m with the Swedish club and the 21-year-old is en route to London to undergo a medical.
The acquisition of Valdimarsson will mark Brentford’s third foray into the market during the current window, following the arrival of the 18-year-old midfielder, Yunus Emre Konak, from Sivasspor and the loan signing of full-back Sergio Reguilon from Tottenham Hotspur.
Gio Reyna to Nottingham Forest: Fabrizio Romano has tweeted that Borussia Dortmund and Nottingham Forest are to hjave another pow-wow over the finer points of a loan deal that would see the USA midfielder move to the City Ground on loan.
The 21-year-old has started just two games for Dortmund this season, making another 11 appearances in all competitions off the bench. He signalled his eagerness to get a move in the current window by signing for Jorge Mendes’s Gestifute agency in December. Forest are believed to want an optioon to buy included in any loan deal.
🚨🌳 Nottingham Forest and Borussia Dortmund have scheduled new round of talks for Gio Reyna loan deal.
Loan fee and salary coverage still being discussed while Gio has already accepted #NFFC as destination.
His new agent Jorge Mendes is taking care of the deal. pic.twitter.com/xvCx7py11c
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) January 24, 2024
Welcome to the latest Transfer Live
With nine days of the current window remaining, there are no shortage of rumours and counter-rumours to report, but the sad fact of the matter for transfer enthusiasts is that very little in the way of actual Premier League business has been done.
Over three weeks since clubs were allowed to start horse-trading, Tottenham Hotspur remain the only club to have paid money for a player with a view to chucking him straight into their first team squad.
The man in question, Radu Dragusin, got his first taste of Premier League action since signing for £25m from Genoa when his new team twice came from behind to draw with Manchester United at Old Trafford.
Otherwise it’s been a particularly quiet window thus far, largely soundtracked by the forlorn clanging of a distant church bell, the chirping of crickets and the audible twitching of club executives terrified of falling foul of the Premier League’s profit and sustainability (PSR) rules. But on we must go …
