Hull City

Hull City have done the following business on transfer deadline day:

• Union Berlin striker Ilyas Ansah has penned a five-year contract to become Hull City's 13th summer signing.

• Forward Liam Millar has joined Birmingham City on a season-long loan.

• Midfielder Tim Iroegbunam has signed on a permanent deal from Everton.

• Defender Brooke Norton-Cuffy has joined on a five-year deal from Genoa with Cody Drameh going the other way.

• Robinio Vaz seals a season-long loan switch from Roma with Hull holding an option to buy the striker at the end of the season.

• Winger Sorba Thomas has signed from Stoke City for a reported fee of £7m.

• Greece midfielder Christos Mouzakitis has signed from Olympiacos on a five-year deal.

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Hull City have announced the signing of Brooke Norton-Cuffy from Genoa with Cody Drameh going in the opposite direction.

The 22-year-old defender joins on a permanent deal on a five-year contract.

BBC Radio Humberside have reporter the fee to be £12m, with the Tigers receiving £3.4m for Drameh.

As well as the addition of the Genoa defender, Hull have added 19-year-old French striker Robinio Vaz from Roma on a season-long loan deal.

The deal for Vaz includes an option to buy at the end of the season.

The Tigers have also signed winger Sorba Thomas from Stoke City and Greece midfielder Christos Mouzakitis from Olympiacos.

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Hull City have announced the signing of Tim Iroegbunam on a permanent deal from Everton on a five-year deal.

The midfielder joins for an undisclosed fee and says he is "excited" about the opportunity to join the Premier League newcomers.

"I'm very happy. From the first moment I heard about the opportunity to come and join this club, I was excited," the 23-year-old said. "Now, it's finally done. It's taken a long time but I'm excited to get started.

"Quite early on in pre-season, I heard about the interest. I was just waiting around, then I got injured. I thought it might have been off the cards, but I managed to recover and get right.

"I spoke to the owner and he explained everything about the club. I'm close with 'Gilo' [Ryan Giles] – you could call him 'Agent Gilo' because he said a lot of things that made me want to come.

"I've been around different changing rooms and hopefully I can bring [Premier League] experience on and off the pitch.

"I like to get on the ball and drive the team forward. I like to get involved with big tackles, be aggressive, be on the front foot and show loads of energy.

"The stadium is beautiful – I've played here once before. I want to hopefully help this team push and finish as high as we can."

Iroegbunam has made 60 appearances in the Premier League – 48 for Everton and 12 for his previous club Aston Villa.

Nick Mashiter
Football reporter

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Hull City winger Liam Millar is having a medical at Birmingham City ahead of a loan move.

The 26-year-old had interest from Stoke City and Preston North End.

Tigers boss Sergej Jakirovic did not rule out an exit before the deadline, despite Millar's winner at Coventry City on Saturday which earned Hull a second win from their opening two Premier League games.

Canada international Millar was understood to be open to a return to Preston after spending 2023-24 on loan at Deepdale, but he is now due to move to Birmingham.

He moved to Hull from Basel in August 2024 and has made 53 appearances, scoring five goals for the club.

Mike White
BBC Humberside sports editor

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Hull City have agreed a £12m deal for Genoa right-back Brooke Norton-Cuffy.

Norton-Cuffy, 22, who has spent two years with the Serie A side, began his career at Arsenal and was part of the England Under-21 squad that retained the European Championship in Slovakia in 2025.

He is having his medical in Italy before a move to the Tigers.

Full-back Cody Drameh, who has featured in all three of the Tigers matches this term, is heading in the opposite direction, with the Italian club set to pay £3.4m for his services.

Drameh is flying to Italy with the move agreed.

It suggests a deal for Stuttgart right-back Josha Vagnoman has fallen through, despite Hull City owner Acun Ilicali telling BBC Radio Humberside on Monday that an agreement in principle had been reached with the Bundesliga club and the player.

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It is also understood that Hull City have submitted an offer for Olympiacos central midfielder Christos Mouzakitis.

Any deal for the 19-year old would not take up a slot in Sergej Jakirovic's registered 25-man squad due to age.

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"It is a dream come true for me to play in the Premier League," Hull City's newest signing Ilyas Ansah has said.

The 21-year-old striker has arrived at MKM Stadium on a five-year contract from Union Berlin, becoming the Tigers' 13th summer signing since promotion from the Championship.

Making his Bundesliga debut in August 2025, Ansah featured 37 times last season, scoring five goals and registering three assists.

"I'm very excited," Ansah said. "It is really an honour for me to be here. I have heard a lot about this club, these players and this team. I'm excited to play with the boys and get to know them.

"It was an honour and a dream playing in the Bundesliga, but now I have another dream to play in the Premier League and I'm going to work hard for it.

"I'm a very flexible player. I can play almost anywhere up front - on the left side, the right side and maybe as a number 10. I'm definitely a player who always gives his best and leaves it all on the pitch.

"It has been a really exciting start to the season, with two wins out of two games. Now it's time for me to get into the team and be a part of what they are already achieving."

Nizaar Kinsella
Chelsea reporter

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Chelsea midfielder Dario Essugo is no longer expected to join Hull City on loan, despite recent talks.

The Tigers are instead set to sign alternative midfield option Tim Iroegbunam from Everton.

Essugo, a Portugal Under-21 international, is now likely to either stay at Chelsea or go to sister club Strasbourg to fill the final international loan spot available to the Stamford Bridge club.

BBC Radio Humberside will be bringing you a special show on later on Tuesday examining the transfer business done by Hull City.

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Pat Nevin
Former footballer and presenter

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I undertook the 600 mile round trip to watch Coventry against Hull at the weekend, keen to see if either has a chance of avoiding relegation.

Frank Lampard's Sky Blues looked very impressive for half an hour at home, knocking the ball about neatly, creating nice patterns and generally being pleasing on the eye as they moved from defence to midfield. Unfortunately, as a team they tend to float like a butterfly and sting like one too.

It feels painful considering the honest endeavour on display from both sides and the passion shown by the fans, but the Premier League shows no mercy.

After watching them live, even though they have spent big, I reckon both Hull and Coventry are long shots to stay up.

They have boldly spent £150m on new players, big money for a club their size and with their recent history. Frank has obviously coached them extremely well, but the obvious glaring problem is the lack of real Premier League quality in the final third. Apart from some flashes of serious ability from substitute winger Tatsuhiro Sakamoto, it looks like it could be a long hard season ahead for them with precious little creativity and few goals to cheer.

What about their promotion partners Hull City? Certainly not as pleasing on the eye but who cares about that after grabbing all six points from six without conceding a goal.

Have they found, the admittedly more prosaic, answer of how to stay in the Premier League? Maybe they have – the back three are incredibly strong, organised and fabulously athletic and clearly love defending.

There is still a nagging doubt though. Premier League teams will work out that impressive-if-obvious Plan A. I just wonder what the Plan B looks like.

Eventually, they will need one when they go behind in a game as that breaking style becomes a bit pointless when you are two down.

The suspicion is that they will have a slightly better chance than Coventry, but right now survival would be a major triumph for either.

Pat Nevin writes weekly in the Football Extra newsletter. If you're outside the UK and would like to receive it, sign up here.

Mike White
BBC Radio Humberside sports editor

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Hull City are pushing to sign Stuttgart right-back Josha Vagnoman.

Acun Ilicali has told BBC Radio Humberside that an agreement in principle has now been reached with the Bundesliga club and the player himself.

Hull City will now work to get the finer details of the move sorted before Tuesday's 23:00 BST deadline.

The 25-year-old has a wealth of German top-flight experience, having made 96 league appearances during spells with Hamburg and Stuttgart.

Vagnoman, who lifted the German Super Cup with his current club in 2024-25, is also a full Germany international.

What business do Hull City still need to do - both ins and outs - before the transfer deadline at 23:00 BST on Tuesday?

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We asked for your thoughts after Saturday's Premier League game between Coventry and Hull City.

Here are some of your comments:

Coventry fans

Alan: For their goal, the physicality Lampard tries to instill was non existent. Sakamoto tried to win the ball on the edge of their 18-yard line with all the physicality of a 12-year-old. Cant happen if we want any chance of staying in this league.

Gaz: Overall, not terrible, but a little one-dimensional in the final third. For the number of crosses we put in the box, we didn't look like scoring - and Hull, in fairness, looked far more likely as the game went on. With Manchester City away next week we may be waiting a while until the first points on the board.

Neil: Slow play and lacking in top third. New players still to bed in, but we need more improvement. We could be a very exciting team when we can get it together.

Derek: Coventry were too slow going forward. We have spent over £100m and for what? Players that are no better then what we had last season. We have played three games so far and not put in one good performance.

Hull City fans

Chris: Hull's start is a testament to teamwork, preparation and self-belief, NOT expensive individuals, presumption and the arrogance displayed by teams that wrote City off before they kicked a ball. Whether they stay up or go down, no-one should ever say they somehow got in by the back door that doesn't exist or are not worth watching. Well done Hull City - keep it and yourselves up.

Den: Enjoyed the win, even though we weren't the best team, unlike last week. A win's a win. We sat back too much and gave Coventry an easier game than against Manchester United, who we hounded more.

Dominic: Classic Hull performance - strong and solid and playing for the sucker-punch goal. Their ability to see an overall lower total possession as a tool to threaten opponents, who haven't scored and are increasingly frustrated, near the end of the game just shows you how tenacious and robust they are drilled to have the energy to threaten when it matters most. Tougher tests will come but great start.

Gary: Perfect away performance. Controlled and nullified Coventry and then a clinical counter-attack. Clean sheets are so important and we have two from two. Need to remain humble and continue to work hard.

Nizaar Kinsella
Chelsea reporter

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Hull City remain in talks to sign Chelsea midfielder Dario Essugo on loan.

Sources close to the Portugal Under-21 international say he would prefer a move within the Premier League to joining Chelsea's sister club Strasbourg.

The Tigers are expected to be active before the transfer deadline having had a move for Eintracht Frankfurt winger Jean-Matteo Bahoya collapse over the weekend.

Nick Mashiter
Football reporter

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"To say we are the worst team in Premier League history, it is not a bad start from the boys," said Ollie McBurnie, in a light-hearted jab to Hull City's critics.

Liam Millar's late winner against Coventry made it two wins from two games to leave the Tigers in dreamland on their Premier League return.

After the opening day victory over Manchester United, it was a different, gritty display on Saturday - but winning at CBS Arena, against a perceived relegation rival, earns Hull huge momentum and belief.

"We don't feel we have anything to prove to anyone," said striker McBurnie. "No-one has given us the Premier League, we have all earned it.

"We are here on merit. We deserve to be here. We don't have anything to prove to anyone. It has been a great start."

The Scotland international refused to get carried away, but the tune of "we're going to win the league" from the away end signalled the Hull fans' glee.

It may be fanciful, but at least history is now on the Tigers' side as they look to stay in the division.

Only three teams have ever been relegated from the top flight having won their first two games. One was the Tigers themselves in 2016-17. Wolves in 2011-12 and West Brom in 2017-18 are the others.

Their Premier League survival chances were written off instantly after beating Middlesbrough in the Championship play-off final last season, but they now sit second in the early table.

The Tigers are also the first promoted side to win their opening two games for nine years, since Huddersfield dispatched Crystal Palace and Newcastle.

The Terriers beat the drop by four points in 2017-18 and that remains the goal for boss Sergej Jakirovic.

Hull City boss Sergej Jakirovic told BBC Radio Humberside that left-back Ryan Giles is not leaving the club despite media reports of a possible loan move to Burnley.

Speaking to sports editor Mike White, Jakirovic said: "Why should I let this happen if Ryan Giles is a first team player… this is not my decision… I spoke with Mr Chairman, very nice, and just said 'no way'.

"He [Acun] respects this of course"

On why it was being considered, the Tigers boss added: "I don't know. No disrespect to Burnley of course but, on loan? If you bid £20m we can discuss about that."

Hull City striker Oli McBurnie also told BBC Radio Humberside: "He's not going anywhere so it's all good."