{"id":168675,"date":"2025-06-08T22:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T22:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168675\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T22:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T22:18:16","slug":"antonio-exit-means-only-one-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168675\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonio exit means only one thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham watchers really will feel that this summer signifies the end of an era at London Stadium. The high profile departures of Coufal, Cresswell, Fabianski, Ings and now, we hear, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/west-ham-talks-collapse-as-antonio-nears-hammers-exit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michail Antonio<\/a> \u2013 along with the loan repatriations of Evan Ferguson and Carlos Soler really does constitute a seismic shift at the club. Five trophy winners no less departing means that there will be an experience vacuum, however \u2018past their best\u2019 several of those aforementioned had become.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138466\" class=\"wp-image-138466 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-08-at-15.45.03-238x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"523\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-138466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Never to be forgotten memories \u2013 Michail Antonio<\/p>\n<p>Antonio departing can only mean that the Irons are 100% confident of landing a Premier League-quality replacement. With the injury-blighted Niclas Fullkrug \u2013 linked with leaving himself \u2013 as the club\u2019s only top tier striker, Hammers fans will watch and wait to see when \u2013 not if- a new striker is \u00a0brought in. Previous seasons have been \u2018make do and mend\u2019 with Antonio and Ings but they\u2019re gone for good in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>    Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n<p>So, no back up plan, no \u2018just in case\u2019 short term deal for Antonio to eke out a few cameos: The Hammers have nailed their colours to the mast and have \u00a0made their intention clear to bring in a new number nine this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Which in a way is a kind of relief from the possibility of another short-term fix kicking the can down the road for another season, getting through with Bowen, Fullkrug and a bit of Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Antonio era\u2019 appears over. Not before time, (actually a couple of seasons overdue) he goes with huge affection and love from anyone who\u2019s ever cheered on the Hammers from the stands.<\/p>\n<p>But now the position is absolutely clear. Who, for how much, and from where \u2013 that\u2019s for another day.<\/p>\n<p>But the flagship number nine shirt will be up for grabs as the Irons head into new territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham watchers really will feel that this summer signifies the end of an era at London Stadium.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-168675","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\/114650068542421980","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168675","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=168675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}