{"id":40196,"date":"2025-08-02T14:47:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T14:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40196\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T14:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T14:47:05","slug":"west-ham-set-to-launch-second-hurry-up-transfer-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40196\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham Set to Launch Second Hurry-up Transfer Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham are set to make a second bid for Botafogo goalkeeper John Victor, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uol.com.br\/esporte\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports in Brazil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old stopper is said to be keen on a move to the Premier League following his impressive performances in the Club World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Fabrizio Romano revealed the Hammers had a \u20ac8 million offer rejected, but it\u2019s now being reported that a second bid\u2014potentially above \u20ac10 million\u2014could be submitted today.<\/p>\n<p>    Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.claretandhugh.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/John-Victor.webp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-139903\" class=\"size-large wp-image-139903\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/John-Victor-1024x683.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-139903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It\u2019s unclear whether Victor would be West Ham\u2019s backup or first choice<\/p>\n<p>ExWHUEmployee also disclosed yesterday that there is a buyout clause in Victor\u2019s contract, and it was suggested that the player may have been offered to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Ham<\/a> by an agent.<\/p>\n<p>The club remain interested in both Mads Hermansen and Zion Suzuki, but momentum behind those moves appears to have slowed over the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>As the search for a new No.1 continues, Ex has this morning confirmed that any new keeper would compete with Alphonse Areola who is expected to stay at West Ham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham are set to make a second bid for Botafogo goalkeeper John Victor, according to reports in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-40196","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\/40196","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=40196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}