\n The Hammers are keen on signing the 24 year old, who has made 110 appearances for Saints since joining on an initial loan from Man City in 2023.\n<\/p>\n
\n Saints paid \u00a320million to make his signing permanent when they won promotion from the Championship in May 2024 under boss Russell Martin.\n<\/p>\n
\n He scored on his senior England debut in November 2024, and has remained a key player for Saints this season, with 24 appearances and four goals.\n<\/p>\n
\n West Ham made an eight-figure offer to purchase the defender, but it falls below that fee and is less than Saints would accept, particularly in January.\n<\/p>\n
\n The fresh offer also included payment terms deemed to be unacceptable by Saints, with an extended payment plan over a period of many years.\n<\/p>\n
\n Several media reports elsewhere have reported that Harwood-Bellis is open to making the move to London Stadium, but Saints are reluctant to sell.\n<\/p>\n
\n The move is considered unlikely to happen, unless there is a significant increase in the bid. Harwood-Bellis is under contract until at least June 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hammers are keen on signing the 24 year old, who has made 110 appearances for Saints since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-400323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}