{"id":24302,"date":"2026-01-06T14:28:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/callum-wilson-west-ham-in-talks-to-terminate-forwards-contract\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:28:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:28:38","slug":"callum-wilson-west-ham-in-talks-to-terminate-forwards-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/callum-wilson-west-ham-in-talks-to-terminate-forwards-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Callum Wilson: West Ham in talks to terminate forward&#8217;s contract"},"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\"> are close to an agreement with striker Callum Wilson to terminate his contract at the club.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wilson joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">West Ham<\/a> on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c0qlw7e98j4o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">free transfer in the summer<\/a> and has scored four goals in 18 appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the Englishman&#8217;s first-team opportunities are set to become limited following the arrival of forwards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c62wdp4kr3xo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Pablo Felipe<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c0417qyqkygo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Taty Castellanos<\/a> this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old wants to continue playing regular first-team football and is not keen on accepting a peripheral role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And the expectation is that Wilson will leave the Hammers, with sources confirming that talks to release him from the remaining six months of his contract are now being finalised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hammers boss Nuno Espirito Santo confirmed the talks on Monday, saying: &#8220;Me and Callum we had a lot of conversations, just 10 minutes ago we were speaking about that situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Two strikers have joined, correct. I personally decided these strikers have joined. Callum is a very experienced man, he&#8217;s been in the game for so much time, he knows that his position has changed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were honest with each other. Yes, your position has changed, but you are still a player for the club and we still maybe need him and he should help us because he joined us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/czejpg4jw8ko?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham are close to an agreement with striker Callum Wilson to terminate his contract at the club. Wilson joined West Ham on a free transfer in the summer and has scored four goals in 18 appearances. But the Englishman&#8217;s first-team opportunities are set to become limited following the arrival of forwards Pablo Felipe and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24302","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=24302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24304,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24302\/revisions\/24304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}