{"id":173738,"date":"2025-06-10T19:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T19:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/173738\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T19:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T19:38:10","slug":"hammers-left-for-dead-as-rivals-snag-wonderkid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/173738\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammers left For Dead as Rivals Snag Wonderkid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/west-ham-in-two-way-fight-for-greek-wonderkid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C&amp;H wrote a report<\/a> linking West Ham with a move for Olympiacos striker Charalampos Kostoulas.<\/p>\n<p>It followed information received that the Hammers had been scouting the talented forward, who was believed to be high on the list for Kyle MacAulay and Graham Potter.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to now, and it would appear that Brighton &amp; Hove Albion are on the cusp of signing Kostoulas, who is rated one of the most promising young strikers in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>    Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n<p>Now, it could very well be that the \u00a330m player is deemed too much of a risk and that Potter has completely switched his attention to Lucas Stassin. However, it does highlight how financially handcuffed West Ham currently are when the club can\u2019t actively contest for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/west-ham-transfer-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transfer<\/a> targets.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the Hammers had wanted to battle Brighton for the Greek wonderkid, we would have had to wait until players were sold.<\/p>\n<p>While it may be very early in the transfer window\u2014which is now closed until Monday\u2014over half of the Premier League teams have already recruited players. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/category\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Ham<\/a>, on the other hand, are still waiting to sell before we can buy, but there\u2019s just one problem: nobody is buying.<\/p>\n<p><strong>West Ham<\/strong> run the very real risk of falling behind our competitors before a ball has even been kicked, and while we delay and procrastinate, other clubs are signing the players the Hammers have been scouting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, C&amp;H wrote a report linking West Ham with a move for Olympiacos striker Charalampos Kostoulas. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-173738","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173738","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=173738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}