Crysencio Summerville spent the World Cup turning himself into one of the Netherlands' most eye-catching performers. Now, according to Sport1 (Maariv), the winger is heading somewhere few had pencilled in a month ago: Riyadh, not Manchester, and not Rome either.
Al-Hilal have reached agreement with West Ham to sign the 24-year-old, Sport1 reports, a deal corroborated by Sky Sports and several other outlets, effectively hijacking a move Roma had spent weeks trying to complete and closing the door on any lingering Premier League ambitions.
Manchester United's name had circled the story for weeks, but Sky Sports reports the interest never amounted to much more than talk — 'nothing progressed beyond initial, exploratory talks,' with any serious United move dependent on first selling Marcus Rashford this summer. That sale never materialised in time, and neither did a bid.
Roma's pursuit was more concrete but ultimately came up short. The Serie A club had an opening offer of roughly £39m (about €46m) rejected by West Ham, and Sky Sports News reports Roma have no plans to raise it to match Al-Hilal's package, turning their attention instead to alternative wing targets including Norway's Antonio Nusa and Andreas Schjelderup.
The fee itself is reported slightly differently across outlets — Sky Sports puts the package at £55m guaranteed plus £5m in add-ons, while other reports have cited figures as high as roughly €80m — but all agree it represents a significant outlay by Saudi Pro League standards, with Summerville set for a medical before signing a long-term contract at Al-Hilal.
Should it go through as reported, the sale would rank as West Ham's third-highest ever, behind only Declan Rice's move to Arsenal and this summer's sale of Mateus Fernandes — underlining how far Summerville's stock has risen since he arrived at the London Stadium.
That rise crystallised at the World Cup. Summerville, capped only a handful of times before the tournament, scored a curling left-footed strike against Japan in a 2-2 draw and then came off the bench against Sweden to set up Cody Gakpo before scoring himself in a 5-1 rout — two goals and two assists in four appearances for a Dutch side that went deep into the tournament.
His form carried into the club game too. Summerville managed seven goals and five assists in 34 Premier League appearances for West Ham in 2025/26, having joined from Leeds United in the summer of 2024 after his own breakout campaign at Elland Road.
For West Ham, cashing in near the peak of Summerville's value fits a familiar pattern of selling their most coveted attacking talent for a premium; for Al-Hilal, it is another marquee name added to a Saudi project that has already reshaped the market for the league's biggest recruits. For Manchester United and Roma, it is one more high-profile miss in a summer transfer window that keeps producing them.
