{"id":35025,"date":"2025-07-25T00:35:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T00:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/35025\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T00:35:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T00:35:20","slug":"aguerd-switches-squad-number-west-ham-united-f-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/35025\/","title":{"rendered":"Aguerd switches squad number | West Ham United F.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham United defender Nayef Aguerd will wear a new squad number in 2025\/26.<\/p>\n<p>The Morocco international will switch to the No5 shirt, having previously worn No27 since joining the Hammers from Stade Rennais in June 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Previous occupants of the No5 during the Premier League era include Anton Ferdinand, James Tomkins and Pablo Zabaleta, while Vladim\u00edr Coufal &#8211; who left the Club at the end of last month &#8211; wore it most recently, between 2020 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Aguerd joins teammates Maximilian Kilman, Ollie Scarles and Freddie Potts in choosing a new number for the fresh campaign, and he will be hoping to play a key role back in east London after making 36 appearances on loan at Spanish La Liga side Real Sociedad in 2024\/25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham United defender Nayef Aguerd will wear a new squad number in 2025\/26. The Morocco international will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-35025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}