{"id":20127,"date":"2025-07-25T03:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T03:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20127\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T03:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T03:20:08","slug":"aguerd-switches-squad-number-west-ham-united-f-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20127\/","title":{"rendered":"Aguerd switches squad number | West Ham United F.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham United defender Nayef Aguerd will wear a new squad number in 2025\/26.<\/p>\n<p>The Morocco international will switch to the No5 shirt, having previously worn No27 since joining the Hammers from Stade Rennais in June 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Previous occupants of the No5 during the Premier League era include Anton Ferdinand, James Tomkins and Pablo Zabaleta, while Vladim\u00edr Coufal &#8211; who left the Club at the end of last month &#8211; wore it most recently, between 2020 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Aguerd joins teammates Maximilian Kilman, Ollie Scarles and Freddie Potts in choosing a new number for the fresh campaign, and he will be hoping to play a key role back in east London after making 36 appearances on loan at Spanish La Liga side Real Sociedad in 2024\/25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham United defender Nayef Aguerd will wear a new squad number in 2025\/26. The Morocco international will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-20127","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\/20127","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=20127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}