Crysencio Summerville has completed a move from West Ham United to Saudi Pro League club Al Hilal, in a deal reported at an initial £55m rising to £60m with add-ons. The 24-year-old Netherlands winger has signed a four-year contract and becomes Al Hilal's sixth signing of the summer. He arrived at the Saudi club after fighting off strong competition: Roma had a £39m bid turned down, Manchester United and Aston Villa were both credited with interest, and talks with Barcelona never got over the line before Al Hilal moved decisively.
The appeal for Al Hilal is straightforward. Manager Simone Inzaghi, who took charge after leaving Inter Milan, wanted a winger comfortable on either flank to add another layer to his attack, and Summerville's directness and end product made him the priority target. He scored seven goals and set up five more in the Premier League last season despite playing for a struggling side, and he joins a squad already featuring Ruben Neves, Karim Benzema and Theo Hernandez at a club that finished runner-up in the Saudi Pro League and scored 85 goals last term.
For West Ham, this is a sale forced by circumstance as much as choice. The Hammers were relegated from the Premier League on the final day of last season, finishing 18th on 39 points and ending a 14-year run in the top flight. Summerville was one of the squad's most productive attackers, but with the club now rebuilding for the Championship, selling him for a big fee made financial sense. It is West Ham's third-highest sale in their history, behind only Declan Rice's move to Arsenal and this summer's sale of Mateus Fernandes to Tottenham, and takes the club's combined income from those two deals past £150m.
Since joining from Leeds United in August 2024, Summerville made 56 appearances for West Ham, contributing eight goals and five assists. Last season alone he was directly involved in ten goals, second at the club only to captain Jarrod Bowen, and he ranked among West Ham's most productive players for completed dribbles and chances created. His value only grew over the summer: at the 2026 World Cup he scored twice and set up two more in four appearances for the Netherlands, despite missing a penalty as the Dutch went out to Morocco on spot-kicks in the last 32.
At Al Hilal, Summerville is expected to operate off the left, cutting inside onto his stronger foot in a front line built to create and finish chances quickly. He swaps Premier League football for a shot at the Saudi title and continental competition alongside a squad with genuine European pedigree, and Inzaghi will be looking for him to add pace, dribbling and goal threat to a side that already scores freely.
It caps a whirlwind few weeks for the winger, who went from relegation with West Ham to a World Cup with his country to a big-money move to Saudi Arabia inside a matter of months.