{"id":234764,"date":"2025-10-23T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/234764\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:08:07","slug":"nunos-mind-made-up-luxury-player-west-ham-cant-afford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/234764\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuno\u2019s mind made up | Luxury player West Ham can\u2019t afford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The squad which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/analyse-this-the-bleak-truth-for-nunos-backroom-team\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo<\/a> announced for the home fixture against Brentford raised many eyebrows ahead of the game \u2013 and dropped jaws after the dreadful performance. Players out of position, second-tier squad players started instead of internationals \u2013 and several omitted altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly for those who\u2019d watched the training videos during the international break, Luis Guilherme didn\u2019t even make the match day squad. He\u2019d been buzzing around in training and apparently looking good under his head coaches\u2019 tutelage, by all accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few weeks ago, remember, the Brazilian teen was reported as having just a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/two-months-to-prove-yourself-young-star-facing-january-exit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">couple of months<\/a> to prove himself or face a winter departure. His omission from Monday\u2019s match squad would seem to advance the idea that Guilherme has already been judged by the Portuguese head coach and has come up short.<\/p>\n<p>    Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n<p>Just a few brief weeks go under Graham Potter, Guilherme was content and happy with his pre-season:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m very happy with the opportunities the coach is giving me\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whufc.com\/news\/luis-guilherme-im-very-happy-opportunity-coach-giving-me\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">whufc.com<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>By contrast now the teenager can\u2019t seem to make it onto the bench.<\/p>\n<p>In a side crying out for any attacking flair \u2013 has Nuno already made a judgement on West Hams\u2019 \u2018luxury\u2019 teen talent?<\/p>\n<p>With a realistic value in the winter market of some \u00a315 million-plus, West Ham won\u2019t turn a profit on a Guilherme sale but could free-up funds to aid their urgent recruitment needs.<\/p>\n<p>Guilherme has never really been given an opportunity: When Steidten brought the teenager to London he was seen as a \u2018luxury\u2019 signing \u2013 a \u2018punt\u2019 that might come good one day. West Ham in their current situation cannot afford the luxury of waiting a couple of seasons to see if the winger does mature into a top quality Premier League signing.<\/p>\n<p>If he stays absent from the bench come Friday evening, and in the absence of any injury explanation, it\u2019d be a sensible assumption to see his Hammers career as likely about to come to an abrupt end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The squad which Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo announced for the home fixture against Brentford raised many eyebrows ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-234764","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\/234764","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=234764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}