{"id":318332,"date":"2025-08-04T23:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/318332\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T23:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:14:16","slug":"ex-west-ham-star-linked-with-wolves-in-germany-to-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/318332\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-West Ham Star Linked With Wolves &#8216;In Germany&#8217; To Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"> Christof Koepsel\/Getty Images <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-quote\" style=\"display: block; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin: 30px 0px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;\">Former <a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/west-ham-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Ham United<\/a> defender and <a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/wolves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wolves<\/a> target Vladimir Coufal is to join German Bundesliga side Hoffenheim and is already in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coufal\u2019s contract at West Ham ran out at the end of June and the experienced full-back has been available as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wolves, who have been looking for a new right-back, <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/07\/27\/wolves-are-showing-interest-in-free-agent\/689536\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">started to show interest in Coufal as a short-term option<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former Hammer though is going to Germany and, according to Italian journalist <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1952465438929289408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>, is \u2018already in Germany\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coufal has agreed to sign for Bundesliga outfit Hoffenheim and he is in Germany to undergo his medical and put pen to paper to a contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/West_Ham_Graham_Potter6_620_ofg.webp.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The length of the deal that Coufal has agreed to sign with Hoffenheim is unclear, but he will be playing his football in the Bundesliga next season if he can pass the medical.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coufal made 25 appearances across all competitions for West Ham over the course of last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<tr>\nSigned<br \/>\nArrived from<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; 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padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black; width: 54.7685%;\" data-darkreader-inline-border-top=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-right=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-border-left=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor=\"\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">Southampton<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black; width: 44.8907%;\">Callum Wilson<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black; width: 54.7685%;\">Newcastle United<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>West Ham United\u2019s signings so far this summer<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was on the books at the Hammers from 2020, with the Premier League side forking out around \u00a35.5m to secure his signature from Slavia Prague.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coufal will join a Hoffenheim side who struggled in the Bundesliga last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Wolves_Vitor_Pereira2_620_ofg.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hoffenheim finished just a place above the relegation playoff zone in the German top flight and will be hoping Coufal can help to tighten up a leaky defence.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They conceded a whopping 68 goals in their 34 Bundesliga matches, a total that was worse than two of the sides that finished below them in the league table.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coufal is one of several players aged over 30 that West Ham released this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christof Koepsel\/Getty Images \u00a0 Former West Ham United defender and Wolves target Vladimir Coufal is to join German&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-318332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114973040049535945","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318332","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=318332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}