{"id":24257,"date":"2026-01-05T14:07:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/west-ham-sign-valentin-taty-castellanos-lazio-striker-joins-for-undisclosed-fee\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:07:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:07:41","slug":"west-ham-sign-valentin-taty-castellanos-lazio-striker-joins-for-undisclosed-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/west-ham-sign-valentin-taty-castellanos-lazio-striker-joins-for-undisclosed-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham sign Valentin &#8216;Taty&#8217; Castellanos: Lazio striker joins for undisclosed fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">West Ham<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> have signed Lazio striker Valentin &#8216;Taty&#8217; Castellanos for an undisclosed fee on a four-and-a-half-year contract, with the option for a further year.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old joined Lazio in 2023 and made 98 appearances, scoring 22 goals and providing 16 assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Castellanos, who has won two caps for Argentina since making his debut in 2024, has also played for New York City FC and Girona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">West Ham<\/a> said head coach Nuno Espirito Santo identified Castellanos as &#8220;a key target&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Castellanos said he will &#8220;give everything&#8221; to the club.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c0417qyqkygo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham have signed Lazio striker Valentin &#8216;Taty&#8217; Castellanos for an undisclosed fee on a four-and-a-half-year contract, with the option for a further year. The 27-year-old joined Lazio in 2023 and made 98 appearances, scoring 22 goals and providing 16 assists. Castellanos, who has won two caps for Argentina since making his debut in 2024, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24259,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24257\/revisions\/24259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}