West Ham United do not have long to get a deal for Chelsea defender Axel Disasi over the line.
Quite why West Ham United have allowed their urgent need for a new central defender to drag on towards Deadline Day is unclear.
It has been painfully obvious all season that West Ham need defensive signings, given their porous backline.
Pretend YOU call the shots – who are you signing on Deadline Day?! 🤑
Feel free to name one REALISTIC target and one DREAM addition 😂
Still, the situation is what it is.
Several centre-backs have been linked with a move to the club over the course of the January transfer window, and the Blues defender is among the latest.
Indeed, West Ham are reportedly trying to sign Axel Disasi in a late swoop on Chelsea to try and improve their defence and a signing of any description there – within reason – is urgent.
They do not have long, however.
When the 2026 January transfer window closes
Clubs in English football have until 7pm GMT on Monday 2 February, 2026 to complete deals.
They can, however, submit a deal sheet that could allow them a further two hours to get any late signings over the line.
Would you take relegation if it meant that David Sullivan would leave?! 🤔
Not a nice position to be in – but what would YOU choose if you had to?
West Ham’s best-ever signing on Deadline Day
The Blues defender is not the only West Ham transfer rumour as the transfer window draws to a close.
West Ham have pulled the cat out of the bag on the final day of the January transfer window before, of course.
Jarrod Bowen surely has to be considered one of the club’s greatest players in the modern era and he arrived with little time to spare back in January 2020.
Those were very different times, however.
Now, the club need to act or they risk dropping down into the Championship for the first time in well over a decade.
It’s a dramatic end to the January transfer window and while that is exciting, the fact that it has got to this point underlines the chaos at the club.
Indeed, it’s not hyperbolic to suggest that the club’s Premier League survival rests on what happens over the next few hours in the transfer market.
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