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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Billy Munday, Will Magee and Marcus Christenson

World Cup wishlists, early movers, big clearouts: 2026 summer transfer window trends

Yan Diomande, Robbie Ure and Víctor Muñoz
On the move: Real Madrid’s Yan Diomande, Sevilla signing Robbie Ure and new Liverpool winger Víctor Muñoz. Composite: Guardian picture desk

On the World Cup wishlist …

The World Cup is always a good shop window. Yan Diomande was already a rising star at RB Leipzig but shining for Côte d’Ivoire in the US helped push up his price tag before a £115.7m move to Real Madrid. There were other breakout stars: Switzerland’s Johan Manzambi, whose signature Aston Villa pipped Newcastle to; Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Kerim Alajbegovic, who went to Juventus; and Ghana’s Caleb Yirenkyi, who is now in the Premier League with Coventry. Cape Verde’s cult hero Vozinha now keeps net for the Chilean giants Colo-Colo and Morocco’s attacking dynamo, Ismael Saibari, has rocked up at Bayern. Billy Munday

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