2025-26 Premier League Club Previews: Part 4
By: AT
Image Credit: Terrace Grain
Ahead of the 2025-26 Premier League (EPL) season, we created a preview of all 20 EPL clubs, including the three clubs that were promoted from the EFL Championship in 2024-25: league winners Leeds United; league runners-up Burnley FC and Promotion Playoffs winners Sunderland AFC.
These EPL club previews include text and posters detailing a short biography of the club — including the club’s stadium, its capacity, the manager and the number of EPL titles won — and the summer 2025 transfers: both incoming and outgoing players. The transfers section excludes the following:
players who returned to their parent club from a loan stint;
players whose contracts expired after June 2025; and
players who signed with a club’s first team after graduating from that club’s academy or from that club’s reserve team.
This collection of articles is divided into four parts. Each part includes five clubs listed in alphabetical order. Part 3 consists of previews for the following EPL clubs:
Nottingham Forest;
EFL Championship promotion playoffs winners, and newly promoted, Sunderland AFC;
Tottenham Hotspur;
West Ham United; and
Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Nottingham Forest
Source: Transfermarkt
Notes:
Nottingham have signed defender Zack Abbott from their reserve team.
Goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey retired at the end of the 2024-25 season.
On August 31, Nottingham terminated the contract of defender Emmanuel Dennis; he remains a free agent.
On September 9, Nottingham sacked former manager Nuno Espírito Santo and hired Ange Postecoglou as the club’s new manager.
Transfer Update
Since August 16, Nottingham signed seven additional players and sold or loaned eight additional players.
Nottingham’s seven additional signings are:
GK, John Victor (€8.0 million from Botafogo);
DF, Cuiabano (€6.0 million from Botafogo);
DF, Nicolò Savona (€13.0 million from Juventus FC);
DF, Oleksandr Zinchenko (one-year loan from Arsenal FC);
MF, Douglas Luiz (one-year loan from Juventus FC);
FW, Dilane Bakwa (€35.0 million from RC Strasbourg); and
FW, Arnaud Kalimuendo (€30.0 million from Stade Rennais).
Nottingham’s eight additional sales and loans are:
GK, Carlos Miguel (€5.5 million to SE Palmeiras);
DF, David Carmo (one-year loan to Real Oviedo);
DF, Eric da Silva Moreira (one-year loan to Rio Ave, Portugal);
DF, Omar Richards (one-year loan to Rio Ave, Portugal);
MF, Mario Stamenić (undisclosed amount to Swansea City);
FW, Josh Bowler (free transfer to Blackpool FC);
FW, Jota Silva (one-year loan to Besiktas); and
FW, Ramón Sosa (€12.5 million to SE Palmeiras).
Sunderland AFC
Source: Transfermarkt
Note: Sunderland have signed defender Zak Johnson and midfielder Harrison Jones from their reserve team.
On August 31, Chelsea FC recalled forward Marc Guiu, effectively terminating the one-year loan deal.
Transfer Update
Since August 20, Sunderland signed three additional players and sold or loaned eight additional players.
Sunderland’s three additional signings are:
DF, Lutsharel Geertruida (one-year loan from RB Leipzig);
FW, Brian Brobbery (€20.0 million from AFC Ajax); and
FW, Bertrand Traoré (€2.9 million from AFC Ajax).
Sunderland’s eight additional sales and loans are:
DF, Niall Huggins (one-year loan to Wycombe Wanderers);
DF, Jenson Seelt (one-year loan to VfL Wolfsburg);
MF, Milan Aleksić (one-year loan to Cracovia, Poland);
MF, Alan Browne (one-year loan to Middlesbrough FC);
MF, Nectarios Triantis (€2.5 million to Minnesota United);
FW, Nazariy Rusyn (one-year loan to Arkansas Gdynia, Poland);
FW, Patrick Roberts (one-year loan to Birmingham City); and
FW, Luís Semedo (one-year loan to Moreirense FC, Portugal).
Tottenham Hotspur
Source: Transfermarkt
Note: The contracts of goalkeepers Fraser Forster and Alfie Whiteman, and defender Sergio Reguilón expired at the end of June 2025; all three players remain free agents.
Transfer Update
Since August 20, Tottenham signed two additional players and sold or loaned three additional players.
Tottenham’s two additional signings are:
MF, Xavi Simons (€65.0 million from RB Leipzig); and
FW, Randal Kolo Muani (one-year loan from Paris Saint-Germain).
Tottenham’s three additional sales and loans are:
DF, Luka Vusković (one-year loan to Hamburger SV);
FW, Bryan Gil (€6.0 million to Girona FC); and
FW, Manor Solomon (one-year loan to Villarreal CF).
West Ham United
Source: Transfermarkt
Notes:
West Ham have signed defender Kaplan Casey; midfielders George Earthy, Lewis Orford and Freddie Potts; and forward Callum Marshall from their reserve team.
West Ham and forward Michael Antonio had mutually agreed to terminated the latter’s contract with the club; he is currently under contract with West Ham’s reserve team.
On September 27, West Ham sacked former manager Graham Potter and hired Nuno Espírito Santo as the club’s new manager.
Transfer Update
Since August 20, West Ham signed three additional players and sold or loaned eight additional players.
West Ham’s three additional signings are:
DF, Igor Julio (one-year loan from Brighton & Hove Albion);
MF, Matheus Fernandes (€44.0 million from Southampton FC); and
MF, Soungoutou Magassa (€17.0 million from AS Monaco).
Tottenham’s eight additional sales and loans are:
GK, Wes Foderingham (free transfer to Aris Limassol, Cyprus);
DF, Nayef Aguerd (€23.0 million to Marseille);
DF, Emerson (€700,000 to Marseille);
DF, Junior Robinson (one-year loan to Livingston FC, Scotland);
DF, Kurt Zouma (free transfer to CFR Cluj);
MF, Edson Álvarez (one-year loan to Fenerbahce);
FW, Maxwell Cornet (one-year loan to Genoa CFC); and
FW, Danny Ings (free transfer to Sheffield United).
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Source: Transfermarkt
Notes:
Wolves have signed forward Mateus Mané from their reserve team.
The contract of defender Craig Dawson expired at the end of June 2025; he remains a free agent.
Transfer Update
Since August 20, Wolves signed two additional players and sold or loaned six additional players.
Wolves’s two additional signings are:
DF, Ladislav Krejci (one-year loan from Girona FC); and
FW, Tolu Arokodare (€26.0 million from KRC Genk).
Wolves’s six additional sales and loans are:
DF, Nasser Djiga (one-year loan to Rangers FC);
DF, Pedro Lima (one-year loan to FC Porto);
DF, Fábio Silva (€22.5 million to Borussia Dortmund);
MF, Tommy Doyle (one-year loan to Birmingham City);
MF, Boubacar Traoré (one-year loan to FC Metz); and
FW, Saša Kalajdžić (one-year loan to LASK, Austria).
