{"id":38733,"date":"2025-08-02T00:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T00:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38733\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T00:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T00:30:11","slug":"romano-west-ham-make-surprise-bid-for-world-club-cup-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38733\/","title":{"rendered":"Romano: West Ham Make Surprise Bid For World Club Cup Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when everyone else was looking the other way, West Ham have launched a surprise move for a goalkeeper nobody was talking about\u2014according to Fabrizio Romano.<\/p>\n<p>The well-known football insider revealed within the past hour that the Hammers have made an official offer for a keeper\u2014but it\u2019s not one of the two names dominating recent headlines.<\/p>\n<p>While Leicester City\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/report-adds-to-speculation-over-hermansen-transfer-west-ham-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mads Hermansen<\/a> and Japanese stopper Zion Suzuki have soaked up most of the attention, West Ham have reportedly submitted a bid for Brazilian goalkeeper John Victor instead. The 29-year-old, who currently plays for Botafogo, featured in the recent Club World Cup and is also said to be on the radar of Everton and Galatasaray. Manchester United have previously been linked to the player as well.<\/p>\n<p>    Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n<p>West Ham have publicly denied making a formal offer for Hermansen, and until an hour ago, Suzuki was thought to be Graham Potter\u2019s top goalkeeping target.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1951260282459656432\" rel=\"nofollow\">Romano broke the news<\/a> on his X account, posting:<br \/>\u201cWest Ham submit formal bid worth \u20ac8m for Brazilian GK John Victor from Botafogo. Galatasaray and Everton also keen on John Victor after Man United monitored him in the recent months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an unexpected move from the Irons\u2014 who had revealed their goalkeeper search was set to kick into action this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just when everyone else was looking the other way, West Ham have launched a surprise move for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-38733","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\/38733","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=38733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}