{"id":11359,"date":"2025-07-21T17:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11359\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:32:20","slug":"potter-makes-huge-defender-decision-west-ham-transfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11359\/","title":{"rendered":"Potter makes \u2018huge\u2019 defender decision | West Ham transfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham have been continuously linked with a large number of defensive targets this summer but none of those will come to fruition if existing centre back Moroccan Nayef Aguerd stays put at the club: Indeed Aguerd is now expected to remain at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/west-ham-transfers-the-devils-in-the-detail-on-aguerd-second-offer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Ham<\/a> and if that is confirmed there will be no more defenders signed into Graham Potter\u2019s senior first team squad this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year old Hammers centre-back \u00a0spent the whole of last season at Liga side Real Sociedad where he impressed, but the Spanish club failed to make a permanent offer.<\/p>\n<p>Although West Ham were very publicly open to offers for the centre back, no significant enquires or offers have been made that even come close to the club\u2019s valuation and they have no desire to let him leave on loan again.<\/p>\n<p>    Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today we poured water on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/claret-and-hugh-\u2026n-defender-links\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Ham links<\/a> to Lugano defender Albian Hajdari and that is likely to be the case for any other reports on defenders unless a late serious bid comes in for Aguerd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham have been continuously linked with a large number of defensive targets this summer but none of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-11359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}