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 😂

A Dawson type would be great! I really like the idea of Pinnock at Brentford but that seems to have gone quiet

Just about all of the proven central backs are out of our price range, and the Konate’s aren’t going to want to come. I remember Craig Dawson a few seasons ago and wonder if a loan for Harry McGuire might be worth a punt with his experience

Agreed. Is there anyone out there you’d like us to get, who is perhaps more of a realistic name?

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?

Kretin-sky doesn’t want any more shares, he just wants to make money as does Sullivan and the Hag Brady, the club is a cash cow for them. Where else could Brady earn £1.3m salary per annum.

Even if he goes, he’s got a clause that says the kid stays, so he’ll still have his greedy fingers in the pie

No. We are staying up. We get rid of the Devil. After staying up. Then the Devil 😈 will sale it because he is affecting by hunger cash 💸 💰 🤑.

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.