{"id":341535,"date":"2025-12-11T11:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341535\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:03:08","slug":"finished-at-31-sorry-tale-of-west-hams-injury-prone-27m-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341535\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFinished at 31\u201d Sorry Tale of West Ham\u2019s Injury Prone \u00a327M Signing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fortunes of two former West Ham footballers have taken a downturn \u2014 if recent reports are accurate.<\/p>\n

There are unconfirmed claims that ex-Hammers centre-back Luizao has been released by Brazilian Serie B side Crici\u00fama EC. He signed a short-term deal with the club at the end of September, which is believed to have expired in November. The 23-year-old made just one appearance, and if reports are substantiated, he will soon be on the hunt for a new club.<\/p>\n

Luizao joined West Ham in January 2023 on a free transfer<\/a> from S\u00e3o Paulo and became a regular in the Academy side, racking up 56 appearances, scoring five goals and providing one assist. He spent time on loan at Polish team Pogo\u0144 Szczecin last season, where he featured four times for the senior side and twice in the reserves. His West Ham contract was terminated by mutual consent in August 2025.<\/p>\n

Injury Woes for Zouma in Romania<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, former West Ham defender Kurt Zouma, once billed as a marquee signing for Romanian outfit CFR Cluj, is also facing an uncertain future. The Frenchman has made just four appearances \u2014 totalling 107 minutes \u2014 since joining. Despite playing 19 times for Saudi club Al-Orobah last season, injuries have hampered his progress.<\/p>\n

Although contracted until June 2027, both Zouma and CFR Cluj are reportedly in talks over an early termination. Club president Iuliu Mure\u0219an told Fanatik: \u201cZouma is injured. I think a winter change is possible. It\u2019s hard for him to play football at this level anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n

Both players now find themselves at pivotal crossroads in their careers \u2014 and time will tell where they end up next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fortunes of two former West Ham footballers have taken a downturn \u2014 if recent reports are accurate.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-341535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341535","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=341535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}