{"id":613949,"date":"2022-06-20T14:52:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T18:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=613949"},"modified":"2022-06-20T14:52:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T18:52:40","slug":"west-ham-chelsea-armando-broja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/20\/west-ham-chelsea-armando-broja\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham &#8216;Negotiating&#8217; \u00a330 Million Deal for Young Chelsea Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/08\/who-west-ham-united-are-targeting\/\" target=\"_self\">West Ham United<\/a> are negotiating a deal for Chelsea striker Armando Broja, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/gianlucadimarzio.com\/en\/west-ham-broja-chelsea-20-june-2022\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gianluca Di Marzio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Albania international spent last season on loan at fellow Premier League side Southampton, producing a return of nine goals in 38 games.<\/p>\n<p>His impressive debut full season has caught the eye of the Hammers, who are now said to be in talks about bringing the 20-year-old to East London on a permanent deal worth somewhere between \u00a325-30 million.<\/p>\n<h2>West Ham Negotiating Deal for Armando Broja<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 West Ham are in talks with Chelsea over the transfer of Armando Broja.<\/p>\n<p>The Hammers see the striker as their number one target and negotiations over a \u00a325m-\u00a330m fee are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiMarzio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DiMarzio<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5Jsjt40sAR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/5Jsjt40sAR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeadlineDayLive\/status\/1538944802850480128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Talks On But Deal Not Close<\/h3>\n<p>This is not a deal that is close to completion, according to Di Marzio. There is currently no agreement between the two clubs, but early reports suggest that a fee of around \u00a330 million will seal the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The Hammers have already completed their first signing of the transfer window, bringing in Rennes defender <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/20\/west-ham-complete-signing-rennes-defender\/\" target=\"_self\">Nayef Aguerd<\/a> for around the same price the Broja deal would cost.<\/p>\n<p>David Moyes&#8217; side will need plenty of reinforcements next season due to their participation in the Europa Conference League. They will compete in the play-off round after finishing seventh domestically but will be confident of reaching the group stages after their exploits in the Europa League last season.<\/p>\n<h3>Broja a Young and Exciting Talent<\/h3>\n<p>Broja has has a lot of success in his two loan spells away from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/20\/chelsea-bruce-buck-todd-boehly\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a>, scoring ten goals in 30 for Vitesse in 2020\/21 before his impressive stint at Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>For a Saints side that were not particularly potent attackers, Broja&#8217;s six league goals were enough to place him third in the club&#8217;s ranks for last season, behind Che Adams and James Ward-Prowse.<\/p>\n<p>He also produced on the international stage, scoring four and assisting two in five games for Albania across World Cup qualifiers and the Nations League.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham United are negotiating a deal for Chelsea striker Armando Broja, reports Gianluca Di Marzio. The Albania international spent last season on loan at fellow Premier League side Southampton, producing a return of nine goals in 38 games. His impressive debut full season has caught the eye of the Hammers, who are now said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":613952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,11,7188,28,27],"tags":[8753],"class_list":["post-613949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-chelsea","category-rumours","category-transfers","category-west-ham","tag-armando-broja"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613949","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\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}