{"id":167822,"date":"2025-06-08T14:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167822\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T14:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:45:10","slug":"west-ham-talks-collapse-as-antonio-nears-hammers-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167822\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham Talks Collapse as Antonio Nears Hammers Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>West Ham Exclusive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Irons striker Michail Antonio has rejected West Ham\u2019s latest contract offer as he continues to prove his fitness.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike fellow out-of-contract players Aaron Cresswell, Lukasz Fabianski and Vladimir Coufal, Antonio was not included on the club\u2019s released list\u2014signalling hope from both sides that a compromise could still be reached.<\/p>\n<p>    Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/claret-and-hugh-bio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Claret &amp; Hugh<\/a> have spoken to a trusted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/west-ham-transfer-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transfer<\/a> insider, who confirmed: \u201cTalks have stopped and he\u2019s got other offers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s understood the Hammers offered the 35-year-old record Premier League scorer a short-term contract on reduced basic wages, with appearance-based incentives tied to his fitness following the serious car crash he suffered just before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Antonio\u2019s camp, however, are said to be holding out for a longer-term deal with more guaranteed money, and negotiations have now ground to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to the player claim interest from other clubs is growing, which has only further complicated matters.<\/p>\n<p>The deal isn\u2019t entirely dead\u2014but at this point neither party seems willing to budge. Unless a breakthrough comes soon, Antonio\u2019s long West Ham journey may be nearing its end\u2014with the clock ticking on a resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham Exclusive Irons striker Michail Antonio has rejected West Ham\u2019s latest contract offer as he continues to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-167822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114648286776515295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}