{"id":566934,"date":"2020-09-23T10:19:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T14:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=566934"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:38:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:38:04","slug":"report-west-ham-united-interested-in-calum-chambers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/09\/23\/report-west-ham-united-interested-in-calum-chambers\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: West Ham United Interested in Calum Chambers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/west-ham\/\" target=\"_self\">West Ham United<\/a> are exploring the possibility of bringing <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/arsenal\/\" target=\"_self\">Arsenal<\/a> defender <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/dc6f5bdd\/Calum-Chambers\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Calum Chambers<\/a> to the club on loan, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JacobSteinberg\/status\/1308720823327289345?s=19\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacob Steinberg of The Guardian.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old appears to be out of favour under Gunners boss Mikel Arteta, so a move away from the Emirates could suit both clubs, with the Hammers still looking for a central defender.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/JacobSteinberg\/status\/1308720823327289345?s=19<\/p>\n<h2>West Ham United Interested in Arsenal Defender Calum Chambers<\/h2>\n<h3>Defensive Reinforcements Needed at West Ham<\/h3>\n<p>West Ham manager David Moyes has made no secrets about his determination to bring in defensive reinforcements. The Hammers tried and failed on numerous occasions to sign <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/09\/17\/west-ham-have-third-bid-for-james-tarkowski-rejected\/\" target=\"_self\">Burnley defender James Tarkowski,<\/a> and have switched targets as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Chambers, who can play both as a centre-back and also cover as a right-back, could be a decent acquisition for the club. At the moment, Moyes only has three regular recognised central defenders in <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/a712ca2b\/Issa-Diop\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Issa Diop<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/3626f7d9\/Fabian-Balbuena\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabian Balbuena<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/74b2cd7e\/Angelo-Ogbonna\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Angelo Ogbonna<\/a>, so the move would be a welcome addition.<\/p>\n<p>Steinberg also added that Swansea City defender Joe Roden was a possible transfer, but was overpriced, while Monaco full-back Djibril Sidibe was no longer a target.<\/p>\n<h3>Another Loan Spell for Chambers<\/h3>\n<p>For Chambers, this would be his third loan spell away from Arsenal. In 2016\/17 he joined Middlesbrough, before spending one season at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/fulham\/\" target=\"_self\">Fulham<\/a> in 2018\/19. However, he was relegated from the Premier League with both clubs &#8211; an omen he will be looking to avoid with the Hammers.<\/p>\n<p>Despite two relegations on his CV, Chambers has won the Community Shield and came runner up in the Carabao Cup during his time in north London.<\/p>\n<p>And despite recent moves away, the versatile defender has surpassed 100 Gunners appearances since his arrival from Southampton in 2014. 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The 25-year-old appears to be out of favour under Gunners boss Mikel Arteta, so a move away from the Emirates could suit both clubs, with the Hammers still looking for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":566943,"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":[27,8,30,3],"tags":[32739,32738,3252,40,304,136],"class_list":["post-566934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-west-ham","category-arsenal","category-news","category-premier-league","tag-arsenal","tag-arsenal-fixtures","tag-calum-chambers","tag-premier-league","tag-west-ham-united","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566934","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\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664358,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566934\/revisions\/664358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}