{"id":237677,"date":"2016-08-08T21:15:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T21:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=237677"},"modified":"2016-08-08T21:15:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T21:15:45","slug":"west-ham-sign-andre-ayew-for-club-record-20-5m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=237677","title":{"rendered":"West Ham sign Andre Ayew for club record \u00a320.5m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>English Premier League side West Ham United have completed the signing of Ghana international Andre Ayew.<\/p>\n<p>Andre Ayew joined Swansea City last summer as a free agent and made a massive impact with 12 goals and two assists in 34 games in all competitions for the Welsh club.<\/p>\n<p>West Ham United finished last season in 7th and will be playing in the UEFA Europa League this season.<\/p>\n<p>Slaven Bilic had bids for Carlos Bacca, Alexandre Lacazette and Michy Batshuayi all rejected before falling to a player who knows the English Premier League very well in Ayew.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana international captained the Black Satellites to win Ghana\u2019s and Africa\u2019s only FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2009 and played very well for his country in the 2010 World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60613\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"726\" height=\"483\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He has since been a key member of his national team\u2019s set-up and is currently the deputy skipper of the Black Stars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Rahman Osman\/citifmonline.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Premier League side West Ham United have completed the signing of Ghana international Andre Ayew. Andre Ayew joined Swansea City last summer as a free agent and made a massive impact with 12 goals and two assists in 34 games in all competitions for the Welsh club. West Ham United finished last season in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":237678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/237678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}