{"id":32627,"date":"2025-07-09T18:53:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T18:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/mohammed-kudus-tottenham-agree-55m-deal-with-west-ham-to-sign-midfielder\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T18:53:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T18:53:59","slug":"mohammed-kudus-tottenham-agree-55m-deal-with-west-ham-to-sign-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/mohammed-kudus-tottenham-agree-55m-deal-with-west-ham-to-sign-midfielder\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammed Kudus: Tottenham agree \u00a355m deal with West Ham to sign midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Phil McNulty, chief football writer<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kudus is highly rated by many very good judges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When I spoke to Danny Murphy at the end of last season about players Liverpool should be looking at this summer, he named Kudus as one. The player is sought after &#8211; despite being as underwhelming last season as he was electrifying in 2023-24 following a \u00a338m move from Ajax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He only scored five goals in the most recent campaign, down from 14 the year before, and was often ineffective in the system preferred by head coach Graham Potter, who took charge in January and favours wing-backs over wingers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kudus was often utilised up front by Potter and seldom featured wide on the right, arguably his best position, but one in which West Ham already have captain Jarrod Bowen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c62dv0n74ryo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil McNulty, chief football writer Kudus is highly rated by many very good judges. When I spoke to Danny Murphy at the end of last season about players Liverpool should be looking at this summer, he named Kudus as one. The player is sought after &#8211; despite being as underwhelming last season as he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[10906,1670,449,7295,10905,1044,2802,1042,4669,3050],"class_list":["post-32627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-55m","tag-agree","tag-deal","tag-ham","tag-kudus","tag-midfielder","tag-mohammed","tag-sign","tag-tottenham","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32629,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32627\/revisions\/32629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}