{"id":197811,"date":"2025-06-19T18:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T18:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/197811\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T18:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T18:33:10","slug":"semi-ajayi-hull-city-sign-west-brom-defender-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/197811\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi Ajayi: Hull City sign West Brom defender on two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hull City have signed West Brom defender Semi Ajayi on a two-year deal.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old Nigeria international will join the Tigers on 1 July when his contract with the Baggies expires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He made 170 league appearances in six seasons with The Hawthorns side and helped them win promotion to the Premier League in 2019-20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Hull have terminated the contract of forward Joao Pedro by mutual consent, one month after exercising an option to extend his deal by a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old one-cap Italy international joined the Tigers as a free agent until the end of the season in September and scored six goals in 35 league appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Championship side <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cdedlr6l4z3o#:~:text=Hull%20City%20have%20exercised%20a,last%20day%20of%20the%20season.\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took up the opportunity to keep him at the club for a further year<\/a> but they are now letting him go to &#8220;pursue other opportunities&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hull City have signed West Brom defender Semi Ajayi on a two-year deal. The 31-year-old Nigeria international will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-197811","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\/114711468744384931","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197811","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=197811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}