{"id":44,"date":"2016-08-11T17:04:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2020-12-21T19:20:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T00:20:17","slug":"transfer-update-ayew-stones-williams-and-mahrez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2016\/08\/11\/transfer-update-ayew-stones-williams-and-mahrez\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer Update: Ayew, Stones, Williams, and Mahrez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Premier League<\/strong> Transfer News brings you the updated list of all the biggest names to move to bigger clubs. With the summer transfer window coming to a close in a few short weeks; clubs are in a mad dash to sign big name players. They look to ensure safety, financial security, or help them challenge for European qualification.<\/p>\n<h1>PREMIER LEAGUE TRANSFER NEWS: AYEW, STONES, WILLIAMS, MAHREZ<\/h1>\n<h3>Andre Ayew to West Ham United<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Andre Ayew<\/strong> has secured a move to <strong>West Ham United<\/strong>, a club on the fringes of <strong>Champions League<\/strong> qualification. Ayew spent only a single season with <strong>Swansea City<\/strong>.\u00a0They\u00a0signed him on a free transfer last summer, but it was enough to attract the bigger clubs in England. He was a bright note last season for the Swans. Ayew\u00a0helped them secure Premier League safety with his 12 goals.<\/p>\n<p>Ayew had this to say about the move to West Ham <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whufc.com\/News\/Articles\/2016\/August\/8-August\/Ayew-becomes-Club-record-signing\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via the club\u2019s official website<\/a>, <em>\u201cI am very proud and happy to be at this magnificent club.<\/em> I am happy to be playing for these fans and I hope to make the people very happy here\u201d. The feeling is surely mutual from the Hammers, as they splashed out \u00a320.5 million on the Ghana international.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can find the rest of this article at our previous site\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\" target=\"_self\">Last word on sports<\/a>. Keep it locked here on <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Football<\/a>\u00a0for all the latest analysis, news, opinion and more about the beatiful game as we expand and bring you a dedicated, football only site. It is all the best of what you expect from last word, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier League Transfer News brings you the updated list of all the biggest names to move to bigger clubs. With the summer transfer window coming to a close in a few short weeks; clubs are in a mad dash to sign big name players. They look to ensure safety, financial security, or help them challenge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28],"tags":[1297,40,37],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-football-transfer-news","tag-premier-league","tag-transfers"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}