Welcome to the 2025 edition of the Hudson River Blue Transfer Tracker, your one-stop shop for all New York City FC transfer news and rumors. This page will be updated with breaking news and sketchy social posts, so check back often.
• Eintracht Braunschweig in 2.Bundesliga interested in Jovan Mijatović: Report
January 13, 2026
Status: Rumor
Leonard Hartmann and Tobias Feuerhahn of the Braunschweiger Zeitung report that Jovan Mijatović, New York City FC's loaned-out striker, is on the transfer shortlist of Eintracht Braunschweig of Germany's second-division 2.Bundesliga.
According to the report (translated from German), Eintracht Braunschweig have held an interest in Mijatović "for some time" and "there has been contact." Mijatović is on loan to OH Leuven in the Belgian top flight through June 30, 2026, his second year spent loaned out by NYCFC.
While Eintracht Braunschweig is interested, this report goes on to say that "transfer details are proving complicated" because a move to the German second division would require "compromises" given Mijatović's salary and high transfer value following his big-money move from FK Crvena Zvezda to New York City FC in February 2024.
Mijatović has seen his minutes dissipate as his second season at OH Leuven wears on, with the striker sitting on zero goals and one assist through 16 appearances in all competitions. He only started one Leuven match out of their last 14 played in all competitions while the club sits in 13th Place in the Belgian Jupiler Pro League. Eintracht Braunschweig, for its part, sits in 13th Place in the 2.Bundesliga, one year after they finished in 16th Place but won the relegation playoffs to retain their 2.Bundesliga status for this 2025-26 season.
• Julián Fernández to São Paulo on loan?
January 13, 2026
Status: Rumor
Argentina transfer spotter Uriel Iugt reports on X that São Paulo are looking to sign Julián Fernández on loan with an option to buy.
The 21-year-old has seven goals and seven assists over two-plus seasons at New York City across all competitions. Fernández was signed late in 2023 for as reported $5 million fee.
Abe Shire gave Fernández a B- for his performances in the 2025 season. You can read the final report card here.
• Club looking to transfer Mitja Ilenič
January 12, 2026
Status: Official
New York City released the 2026 preseason roster, and it doesn't include Mitja Ilenič. That's because "the Club is negotiating a potential transfer for the player," according to the official statement from NYCFC.
Read more here.
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• Maxi Moralez re-signs for 2026
January 12, 2026
Status: Official
The No 10 is back for his 10th year at New York City: Maxi Moralez signed a one-year contract that will keep him at the club through 2026. You can read all about it here.
Hudson River Blue Staff
• Talles Magno reports for NYCFC preseason
January 10, 2026
Status: Official
Talles Magno is back in the building with New York City FC, as the 23-year-old winger reported to the Etihad City Football Academy in Orangeburg, New York, with the rest of the NYCFC players arriving for the start of the team's 2026 preseason.
The Brazilian Designated Player has been away from New York City since he was loaned out to SC Corinthians Paulista in Brazil's Série A in August 2024, a loan that initially ran through June 2025 but got extended through year's end. His last match played with NYCFC was July 28, 2024, though he made 67 appearances across his year-and-change spent with Corinthians.
Talles had just nine goals and six assists in his 67 appearances, and Corinthians reportedly didn't intend to keep him beyond the end of December nor did they want to exercise their option to buy the winger outright. When his loan expired on December 31, he returned to officially being a New York City player, and now he's back in the team's facility and being welcomed by the club on social media, albeit with no real clarity on what the immediate future holds for Talles Magno.
There's one super sketchy report circulating on the AI-littered social media hellscape currently going by X that Talles will not "be utilized at New York City" and that he's been offered back to his former club, Vasco da Gama also in the Brasileirão.
Could his future instead be in MLS and with the club that still has him signed to a contract that runs through December 2027 and pays him a little over $1 million annually? Something to monitor as preseason gets started.
• NYCFC sign goalkeeper Mac Learned
January 9, 2026
Status: Official, Confirmed
There's now a fourth goalkeeper on the New York City FC roster as the club today announced signing 23-year-old Mac Learned, who played with NYCFC II in MLS Next Pro last season, to a contract with the MLS squad.
You can read up on Learned, his season with NYCFC II, and his place on the roster here in our full write-up of the signing.
Hudson River Blue Staff
• NYCFC, Seattle eyeing Ajax winger Steven Berghuis?
January 8, 2026
Status: Super Sketchy Rumor
Spotted over on X (aka "the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter" per the Financial Times) is this anonymous post from @WFCGRONINGEN linking 34-year-old Ajax winger Steven Berghuis to Seattle Sounders and New York City. Both are reportedly interested in the forward, who has one goal and two assists in eight appearances for Ajax this season, but who is currently sidelined with a groin injury suffered in October.
Berghuis scored 20-plus goals when he played with Feyenoord in 2017/18, 2019/20, and 2020/21. But he might be best known for earning a three-match ban in 2023 after throwing a punch at an opposing fan.
We don't see this happening.
