{"id":37206,"date":"2023-08-28T02:19:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T02:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=37206"},"modified":"2023-08-28T02:19:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T02:19:13","slug":"west-ham-complete-38m-deal-for-ajax-midfielder-mohammed-kudus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/08\/28\/west-ham-complete-38m-deal-for-ajax-midfielder-mohammed-kudus\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham complete \u00a338m deal for Ajax midfielder Mohammed Kudus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400\">West Ham have completed the signing of midfielder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mohammed Kudus<\/a> from Ajax.<\/span><p style=\"margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 1.25em;margin-left: 0px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;font-size: 16px;line-height: inherit;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">Kudus has signed a five-year contract, with the option of a further 12 months, after completing his medical over the weekend.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"595\" height=\"327\" data-id=\"37207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/08\/MO-KUDUS-jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/08\/MO-KUDUS-jpg.webp 595w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/08\/MO-KUDUS-300x165.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deal is understood to be worth around \u00a338m (\u20ac44.5m) including add-ons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">West Ham will pay an initial \u20ac41.5m (\u00a335.59m) and \u20ac3m (\u00a32.57m) in performance-related add-ons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An unnamed Premier League club made a late bid to sign Kudus on Saturday, but his mind was made up to join the <a href=\"http:\/\/skysports.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Hammers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The kid from Accra \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y8k1Wqt1tB\">pic.twitter.com\/y8k1Wqt1tB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; West Ham United (@WestHam) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WestHam\/status\/1695870292827201932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Moyes said he is looking forward to working with Kudus, who scored four goals in six Champions League group-stage appearances for Ajax last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kudus scored a hat-trick for Ajax in Thursday\u2019s Europa League play-off first leg against Bulgarian side Ludogorets as the Dutch side won 4-1 in what proved to be his last game for the club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham have completed the signing of midfielder Mohammed Kudus from Ajax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":37208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3295],"tags":[1351,1911,2311,10339,8240,12143,8707,267,5350,12790,6218,594],"class_list":["post-37206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-sport","tag-ajax","tag-champions-league","tag-david-moyes","tag-dutch","tag-europa-league","tag-kudus","tag-mohammed-kudus","tag-premier-league","tag-twitter","tag-weekend","tag-west-ham","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37209,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37206\/revisions\/37209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}