{"id":25037,"date":"2025-07-26T07:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T07:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/25037\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T07:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T07:59:07","slug":"baffling-belief-behind-west-ham-striker-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/25037\/","title":{"rendered":"Baffling Belief Behind West Ham Striker Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If true, reports that Callum Wilson sees himself as a regular starter for West Ham reveal much about the striker\u2019s mindset.<\/p>\n<p>To say the news of Wilson\u2019s potential arrival at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/london-stadium-bio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">London Stadium<\/a> was greeted with a lukewarm response would be something of an understatement. In truth, there\u2019s been a real backlash over the suggestion that the Hammers could soon be signing a 33-year-old with a horrendous injury record.<\/p>\n<p>However, the leaked claim that the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/newcastle-united-bio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle<\/a> man would join West Ham on a pay-as-you-play basis made little sense. After all, Wilson doesn\u2019t play much football and would surely struggle to stay fit\u2014let alone force his way into the starting XI. In essence, no games and no goals mean no wages, so I\u2019m at a loss as to why he\u2019d agree to such terms.<\/p>\n<p>    Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n<p>But if the striker genuinely believes he can stay fit and break into the first team, it would explain a lot. To be fair, you have to admire the man\u2019s confidence\u2014particularly given there\u2019s precious little evidence he\u2019s still up to the rigours of Premier League football.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I\u2019m still unconvinced this is a good move\u2014for the player or for West Ham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If true, reports that Callum Wilson sees himself as a regular starter for West Ham reveal much about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-25037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}