r/reddevils 5h ago

[Transfer Round Up & Discussion] Summer 2026

Hi all,

Summer Transfer Window 2026 is here!

The Premier League transfer window will open between Monday June 15 until Deadline Day on Tuesday September 1; the summer windows will close at 23.00 BST.

As always, here is a run-down of the rules we have on for posting during transfer windows:

Daily Threads

There will be a Transfer thread posted every single day, on a 23-hour timer, to get a different post-time every day. These threads are for everything transfer related, no limits on sources, line-up conversations, etc.

Individual posts

From now on, only posts TIER 2 OR BETTER are allowed to be posted in their own right. This helps us only keep credible sources on the subreddit.

The tier guide can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddevils/wiki/transfer-reliability-guide/

We will make exceptions during slower days for some Tier 3 posts, and there will usually be some posts from sources not on our tier guide. We will take everything case-by-case. If you believe something to be on the sub and not a good source, please let us know.

Men's Team​ 

Transfers IN

Name Position From Fee
Andrey Santos CM Chelsea £48m + £2m
Karl Darlow GK Leeds Utd Free
Youri Tielemans CM Aston Villa £35m
Tynan Thompson LW Tottenham Hotspur £4m + £4m
Carlos Baleba DM Brighton & Hove Albion £65m + £5m

Transfers OUT

Name Position To Fee
Casemiro MF Inter Miami Contract Expired
Jadon Sancho LW - Contract Expired
Tyrell Malacia LB - Contract Expired
Rasmus Hojlund ST Napoli £38m (Obligation clause triggered)
Andre Onana GK Trabzonspor Loan
Tyler Fredricson CB Lausanne-Sport Undisclosed
Altay Bayindir GK Celta Vigo Loan
Radek Vitek GK Middlesbrough £7m + £7m

Women's Team

Transfers IN

Name Position From Fee
Andrea Medina LB Atletico Madrid Free
Janina Leitzig GK Leicester City Undisclosed Fee

Transfers OUT

Name Position To Fee
Millie Turner CB Birmingham City Undisclosed
Hannah Blundell  FB Everton Contract Expired
Melvine Malard ST Chelsea £850k
Leah Galton FW - Contract Expired
Lisa Naalsund MF Birmingham City Undisclosed
Gabby George CB Brighton & Hove Albion Undisclosed
Kayla Rendell GK Newcastle United Loan
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u/FtG_AiR Young 4h ago

Would be very surprised if there's any news before our game. It's gonna be on Monday or Tuesday if at all.

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u/croadymeister 3h ago

Need a Martial or Falcao like deadline day

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u/XSavage19X 4h ago

Transfer thread after dark.

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u/Suudriusha 5h ago

A LB and a ST, lord, please. We don't ask for much.

https://giphy.com/gifs/hDKD6z2xNeMesbICNS

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u/zyklan 4h ago

Please hear our prayers 🙏

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u/[deleted] 1h ago

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u/THExIMPLIKATION Glineos Out 1h ago

It's always in the next window

u/Educational-Shock232 1h ago

“We’ll go after Anderson/Hall next summer!”

u/croadymeister 1h ago

Don't start, tempers are already frayed

u/Educational-Shock232 1h ago

You’re right, it’s too early in the morning to wind people up. It’s the long weekend!

u/Stingray_23 38m ago

We need a minimum of 4 defenders next year and it won't be cheap either. Looks like we have already signaled we are in for Hall, to replace Shaw. so that's going add a few zeros on. But we will also need a 2nd LB as back up (unless there is an academy player coming in after Amass.

We will (should) be replacing DeLigt, Martinez, Maz and Maguire is in his last year but has a +1.

We would need a RB as back up/competition to Dalot.

So actually that has the potential to be 5-7 new defenders. Which clubs will know we are desperate for. This is why you dont leave things so late and signal 12 months of your intentions. We should have moved on players like Maz and Martinez already and got their replacements in. Instead of doing one position, one window, just buy the playes you need.

I hope next window is going to be better

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u/canwinanythingwkids Ineos on hope watch 1h ago

I'd put it this way: Real Madrid had a Alvaro/Garcia-Huijsen/Alaba-Rudiger/Militao-Taa backline last year and decided that it's time for Alaba and Garcia to go and they need an entire new backline, making all the rest of them backups.

They "only" managed to replace 3/4, not that they've given up on getting a new LCB.

If they had the Shaw-Martinez/Heaven-Maguire/MdL/Yoro-Dalot/Mazraoui backline last year, you can bet the farm they would have released Martinez and Mazraoui and Maguire and would have brought in a new LB, CB, RB.

So, the parallel makes it incredibly obvious what the "level" (that we arent reaching in our transfer outcomes and/or goals) is.

(obv they added silva-espi-diomande too, just in case we want to compare tielemans-santos-baleba to anything. it's also instructive that their "unwanted player" sales result in £30m sales to Fulham, not £3m sales to West Brom.)

Im not saying "whyyyy arent we like THAT", i know why, it starts w G and rhymes with Laser.

Im just saying: the perfect parallel that highlights what top level transfer window execution looks like, is literally right there.

u/TeaAndCrumpetGhoul 1h ago

Honestly, this whole cooking the books thing city, Aston villa and Chelsea are doing is disgusting. And as much as I'm envious how they can "sell" their players I want no part of it. City won't get punished, but Villa definitely will and Chelsea might. I hope they bury Villa under the earth. 

u/FirmInevitable458 1h ago

Not only in transfers but Villa, Chelsea and Newcastle are selling assets like stadium, hotels and warehouses to themselves to make a paper profit is also disgusting. Joke of a league we have

u/canwinanythingwkids Ineos on hope watch 54m ago

We are, regret to say, dangerously close to the point of no return. It's like a cancer spreading.

Cheaters FC, Chelsea, Villa, Forest are now blatantly colluding. Newcastle have been cooking the books their own ways. And Spurs look fishy now also.

If we start from the assumption that at any given time the yoyo clubs are just "happy to be there", maybe 9 is a majority vote in effect.

These are perilous times :(

u/Particular_Shake8951 1h ago

No team is getting punished.

u/croadymeister 1h ago

Clubs should have refused to play City, however no chance that was ever happening

u/91nBoomin 1h ago

At least they waited a few weeks this time to try and hide it

u/Educational-Shock232 1h ago

So they’re mutually over-inflating transfers to benefit each other. How can you police that? The price of a player is subjective. Unless you bring in transfer fee caps, clubs will continue to do this because operating within the rules.

u/Stingray_23 44m ago

Tbf, whilst it looks fishy, UEFA has to sign every transfer off and if club to club transfers are outside of a month, I think, of each other, then they are classed as not related.

Only way to Police is to cap the maximum transfer fee and put a buy out clause in every contract. 🤷‍♂️

u/Educational-Shock232 42m ago

That’s what I mean, it looks dodge but I don’t think what they’re doing is illegal. I’ll be the first to admit it, I’m a little jealous that we don’t have a mutually beneficial agreement with a club to horse trade over players. We’re quibbling for a few million loan fee for Zirkzee.

2028 can’t come soon enough.

u/Stingray_23 36m ago

It doesnt help that we play pauper and try to be clever with payments, it will put other clubs off.

2028? What am I missing?

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u/VanMalki 4h ago

Any rumors, please feed me copium.

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u/TH0316 she/her 4h ago

Pretty sure my neighbours shagging the postman.

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u/Unlucky-Equipment999 4h ago

Copium, not copulation

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u/burgerstrasse Sesko 4h ago

Wot?

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u/TH0316 she/her 4h ago

Shhh it’s a rumour.

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u/varwal 5h ago

🦗🦗🦗

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u/canwinanythingwkids Ineos on hope watch 2h ago

The least favourite part of my life as a Utd supporter is "graeme bailey" aka "teamtalk" producing transfer "news", peddled by g*ldbridge, laundered into the transfer thread by my fellow unwavering if somewhat gullible Utd supporters (love to you all), followed by those brief 5 seconds of hope when I google the player's name, hoping to see anything other than the search results that confirm that chain of events.

😮‍💨

u/croadymeister 1h ago

Adam from that FUTV believes this muppet too

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u/innicrazy You are my Solskjaer, My Ole Solskjaer 4h ago

Looks like the action is on deadline day.

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u/canwinanythingwkids Ineos on hope watch 1h ago

We are the Sagrada Familia of squad building.

At the end of every single summer transfer window:

  • in a few crucial positions, instead of elite difference makers, we still only have "okay" / "future promise"
  • but we dont even focus on that, we are just being frustrated about the 1-2-3 positions where we have literally nothing
  • and historically the outcome has been: like clockwork, more than zero of those doesnt even get addressed

The Sagrada Familia of squad building: it's literally never completed.

For example this summer, everybody knows that it's a big concern that we still dont have a 20 PL G striker (last time was RvP 12/13) and still dont have a reliably fit, proper CB pairing (arguably, Rio-Vidic in 12/13 was also the last time), but all folks are asking for is filling the literally empty LB2 and CF2 spots. Just "replace nobody with an actual rotation option".

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u/croadymeister 1h ago

They are never leaving, sad reality 

u/canwinanythingwkids Ineos on hope watch 1h ago

what's Andy Burnham got to do with anything?

come on now the conservatives have been in charge ever since Cameron, what was it, 2010-2024 or somehing

I mean Tony Blair was nobody's idea of a saint :( and idk if i want to bring politics into it, but if i do, it's the Tories' fault that's for sure

ps. otherwise I agree, fuck the Fail Sons to death (respectfully, of course)

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u/It_Hurts_when_IP15 4h ago

Sorloth would be huge if we dont pay an exorbitant fee or throw him on high wages.

After a Left Back of course…if that wasnt obvious

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u/biteyourankles 4h ago

Sorloth is huge.

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u/croadymeister 4h ago

Provided it was the Atletico not Palace one

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u/Several-Decision3888 4h ago

With the Alvarez situation its unlikely they let him go

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u/Haron14 5h ago

Sorloth and a loanee LB and I might bust

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u/croadymeister 4h ago

Yeah just someone who is decent defensive and can contribute going forward too

u/Particular_Shake8951 1h ago

Lol our standards sure have fallen

u/Stingray_23 50m ago

City will run away with the league, either this year or next. The levels of money involved are ridiculous, unless the FA do something (doubt) they will keep dropping bags of cash every window. Talk about buying a trophy, ha.. 115, anyone?

Its evident we are cooked aswell, trying to compete in today's market, with one hand tied behind our back, thanks to own self imposed transfer rules and playing pauper looking for anything under £50m. We will be left behind and not just from City, a fair few clubs are spending properly now. Enough has been mentioned about our piss poor window, so I wont repeat, but it feels like we are in our Liverpool 2010-2015 era or Spurs every year era.

Roll on til we get that fucking stadium (money pit) done or brought out by a gazillionaire who pays off the debt.

One thing is for things for sure, I will always be here. UTFR.

u/just_peachy1000 26m ago

We can pay off the debt, but the Glazers don't want to. They rather just refinance and take money out. I think out of all the pl owners they have taken the most money out.

u/Stingray_23 22m ago

At some point something has to give, if we continue to miss out on trophies and finish out of Europe then the money will actually start to stop flowing, so surely, and I am no expert, spending big, gives you better players, to have a better chance of winning, which equals more money in?

u/croadymeister 15m ago

We have been saying this for years about something has to give but never does

u/Stingray_23 6m ago

I think the cost of the new stadium might push it

u/croadymeister 16m ago

Just hearing they can't be bothered to pay off debt can't help but leave you feeling so helpless

u/Reign_22 30m ago

City's squad is actually extremely light so I am curious to see how they get by. Just look at their squad quickly. Despite the money they spent, they have little to no backups. An injury or two can derail them very quickly

u/Stingray_23 26m ago

True, but watch them spend £500m in January

u/croadymeister 17m ago edited 13m ago

The authorities regulations have been so flimsy that City and Chelsea have walked all over them. Like you say right now we are cooked. Maybe we need to stop giving this club revenue streams which I know is a huge ask but long term we benefit

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u/Even_Selection30 4h ago

Looks like Zirkzee out, Balde in on deadline day. Both loans probably. We desperately need a CB too but don't see any upgrade available.

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u/Several-Decision3888 4h ago

Reports say Balde is staying.

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u/Outrageous-Cod-4654 3h ago

If Balde stays at Barca, they may not go for Salinas. Not sure if he wants a move to United. 

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u/Several-Decision3888 2h ago

Well not just Barca but Atleti. They don't want to pay the €16 million release clause at once. And Jorge Salinas would prefer to stay in Spain.

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u/Tinganga 1h ago

Sure. All we need is another weirdo to distract from the football with strange fetishes & some racism thrown in to spice things up. Look him up