{"id":180910,"date":"2025-06-13T11:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/180910\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T11:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:04:11","slug":"west-hams-burned-bridges-in-duran-transfer-scramble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/180910\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham\u2019s Burned Bridges in Duran Transfer Scramble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By far the biggest piece of <strong>West Ham<\/strong> news yesterday was the report that former Hammers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/west-ham-transfer-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transfer<\/a> target and Al-Nassr striker Jhon Dur\u00e1n was available for loan.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, two and two were hastily put together, and the young Colombian was quickly linked with a move to the London Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>However, it\u2019s worth remembering the full context behind West Ham\u2019s failed pursuit\u2014and why it\u2019s unlikely to be revived.<\/p>\n<p>    Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n<p>When the Irons first made a move for Dur\u00e1n, the 21-year-old believed the deal was all but done. So confident was he that he even made the crossed hammers gesture on social media, seemingly celebrating his imminent switch from Aston Villa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Duran-west-ham-social-media.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128969\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128969\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Duran-west-ham-social-media.jpg\" alt=\"Duran gives the crossed hammers sign to West Ham fans\" width=\"675\" height=\"591\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-128969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duran poses for West Ham fans as he readies himself to sign<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations reportedly broke down over a \u00a33m difference in valuation, and just like that, the deal collapsed. Dur\u00e1n returned to the Midlands, embarrassed, and with the crossed hammers sign still lingering over him like a bad smell.<\/p>\n<p>But the real kicker came in the aftermath. Sources close to the player confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/category\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C&amp;H<\/a> that his agent was furious and vowed never to deal with the West Ham hierarchy again.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s the crucial detail here. With Dur\u00e1n now being touted for a move away from Al-Nassr, there\u2019s very little chance his camp would even entertain a call from the Hammers\u2014let alone agree terms.<\/p>\n<p>That said, beggars can\u2019t be choosers and if the striker really is desperate to leave Saudi and have guaranteed Premier League football there won\u2019t be too many options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By far the biggest piece of West Ham news yesterday was the report that former Hammers transfer target&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-180910","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\/114675729515026677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180910","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=180910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}