West Ham United will part ways with Lukasz Fabianski and Adama Traore on free transfers at the end of the season, closing the door on two senior players who arrived with different expectations and are now heading out together. Neither has been offered a new deal.

The timing matters because West Ham are doing this in the wake of relegation from the Premier League, and the club’s latest round of departures is landing as supporters take stock of what survives and what does not. Fabianski, 41, first joined in 2018 and has played 216 games for the club, including the 2023 Uefa Europa Conference League run that ended with silverware. Traore, 30, made 12 appearances after arriving from Fulham in January, but his short spell has not been enough to earn an extension.

Fabianski’s exit carries its own odd twist. He was initially released at the end of last season, only to re-sign in September 2025, a rare second act that now appears to be ending almost as soon as it restarted. For a player who spent years as West Ham’s established presence between the posts, the sequence underlines how abruptly the club’s plans have shifted.

West Ham’s reshaping does not stop with the first team. Development squad players Michael Forbes, Junior Robinson, Tyron Akpata, Daniel Rigge, David Chigwada and Tom Wooster have also been released, while academy scholar Jonathan Unwin is set to leave as part of the same clear-out. The scale of the departures suggests the club is moving quickly to reset after the drop, trimming experience at senior level while also thinning the pipeline below it.

What remains unknown is where Fabianski and Traore go next. Both are free to move on at the end of the season, but West Ham have not lined up new deals, and no next destination has been confirmed. For one veteran who helped deliver a European trophy and another who arrived only in January, the club’s message is now unmistakable: the future is elsewhere.