{"id":600425,"date":"2021-08-29T14:48:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T18:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=600425"},"modified":"2021-08-31T04:06:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T08:06:14","slug":"west-ham-united-submit-official-bid-for-nikola-vlasic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/29\/west-ham-united-submit-official-bid-for-nikola-vlasic\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham United Sign Nikola Vlasic From CSKA Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham United have completed the signing of Nikola Vlasic from CSKA Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>The attacking midfielder joins for a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobsteinberg\/status\/1431937267451535369?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported fee<\/a> of around \u20ac30 million, with a potential further \u20ac8 million in add-ons.<\/p>\n<h2>West Ham United Submit Official Bid for Nikola Vlasic<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Welcome to West Ham United, Nikola Vlasic! \u270d\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 West Ham United (@WestHam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WestHam\/status\/1432614131752845316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>A Head Over Heart Decision<\/h3>\n<p>When at Everton earlier in his career, Vlasic disappointed, but that was in 2019. We\u2019re now in 2021, Vlasic is no longer a fresh-faced 21-year-old. Instead, he is a confident 23-year-old, who impressed many in Russia last season, scoring 12 goals and assisting a further six in just 34 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>He will be coming back to the Premier League with a point to prove.<\/p>\n<p>Ask David Moyes who he\u2019d like to sign in the remaining days of the transfer window, and his heart will likely say Jesse Lingard. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/30\/daniel-james-manchester-united-leeds-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> man quickly became a fan favourite at the London club, where he scored nine goals and assisted a further five in just 16 appearances whilst on loan last season.<\/p>\n<p>Ask David Moyes on another occasion, however, and his head will say the younger, potentially cheaper, Nikola Vlasic. Sure, signing Lingard on a permanent deal brings with it nice sentiment after last season, but a 28, soon to be 29-year-old over a 23-year-old? West Ham are smarter than that.<\/p>\n<p>Vlasic may need more time to settle, perhaps in similar fashion to the now-flying Said Benrahma, but, when he does, he\u2019ll prove to be a top signing, maybe even coming back to bite former club Everton.<\/p>\n<p>A week ago, many West Ham fans were dissatisfied with the club\u2019s summer business, but what a difference a few days can make. Now, they have added Vlasic to the earlier signed <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/28\/kurt-zouma-signing-will-cement-west-ham-uniteds-place-in-top-eight\/\" target=\"_self\">Kurt Zouma<\/a> and there could be <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/30\/west-ham-nico-tagliafico\/\" target=\"_self\">further deals<\/a> to come.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"At0oD1ZKQ51Cm68aSp_lNQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1233702182\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'At0oD1ZKQ51Cm68aSp_lNQ',sig:'aibwQusjnJzOvnGlZC2NFMpk_EglpOijI1wlEhBdJjk=',w:'594px',h:'367px',items:'1233702182',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham United have completed the signing of Nikola Vlasic from CSKA Moscow. The attacking midfielder joins for a reported fee of around \u20ac30 million, with a potential further \u20ac8 million in add-ons. West Ham United Submit Official Bid for Nikola Vlasic &nbsp; Welcome to West Ham United, Nikola Vlasic! \u270d\ufe0f \u2014 West Ham United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3402,"featured_media":600426,"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":[27,2,30,3,28],"tags":[364,45,2916],"class_list":["post-600425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-west-ham","category-featured","category-news","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-cska-moscow","tag-everton","tag-nikola-vlasic"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600425","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\/3402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}