{"id":634477,"date":"2024-01-23T03:34:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T08:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=634477"},"modified":"2024-01-23T03:34:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T08:34:18","slug":"west-ham-manchester-city-kalvin-phillips-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/01\/23\/west-ham-manchester-city-kalvin-phillips-links\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018In Direct Contact\u2019: West Ham Pushing Hard to Bring in Man City \u2018Monster\u2019 Amid Interest From Other Premier League Clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham United are now ramping up their efforts to bring in Manchester City midfielder, Kalvin Phillips, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1749424282407522479?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>. The City outcast is getting closer to the exit door and he is also a subject of interest for other Premier League clubs.<\/p>\n<h2>West Ham &#8216;Insist&#8217; on Signing Kalvin Phillips from Man City<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\u2692\ufe0f West Ham and Man City are in direct contact for Kalvin Phillips. More will follow this week as West Ham want to insist on this one.<\/p>\n<p>Bar\u00e7a are currently not working on this deal, as stated in the morning. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KdxNGmkp66\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/KdxNGmkp66<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1749424282407522479?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch<\/strong>: Biggest Problem with Your Premier League Club<\/p>\n<h3>This Week Crucial in Deciding City Outcast&#8217;s Next Destination<\/h3>\n<p>Romano has revealed that the Hammers keep insisting on signing Phillips in the January transfer window and that they want to wrap up the transfer as soon as possible. Negotiations are underway between the clubs to reach an agreement on a potential loan deal. The England international is yet to make his stance clear and according to the Italian journalist he is yet to make a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1749341126614483181?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decision on his future.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong> &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/01\/20\/arsenal-west-ham-emile-smith-rowe\/\" target=\"_self\">&#8216;Talks Taking Place&#8217;: West Ham Looking to Sign Arsenal&#8217;s Young Star<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/transfer\/news\/12691\/13051247\/kalvin-phillips-barcelona-and-atletico-madrid-among-six-clubs-interested-in-signing-man-city-midfielder\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sky Sports<\/a> reported recently that the player is also on the radar of fellow Premier League clubs Newcastle and Crystal Palace. The Irons need to move fast in order to secure the deal. Spanish giants, Barcelona were also reported to be interested in the former Leeds United player. However, Romano clarified that the deal is too expensive for the Catalans and that they won&#8217;t be pursuing the player at the moment.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2GNhwMen_Qo?start=15&amp;feature=oembed\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Kalvin Phillips&#8217; Situation at Man City<\/h3>\n<p>The &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballfancast.com\/everton-dyche-gareth-barry-kalvin-phillips-premier-league-transfer-rumours\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">monster<\/a>&#8221; midfielder was signed by the Cityzens from Leeds United in the summer of 2022 for a transfer fee close to \u00a342 million. It is safe to say that the Englishman has failed to live up to his billing. However, it has to be noted that the 28-year-old has not received as much playing time as he would have hoped for.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/01\/10\/brighton-valentin-barco-boca-juniors-transfer\/\" target=\"_self\">Medical Booked: Brighton Beat Manchester City and Liverpool in Race to Sign South American &#8220;Phenomenon&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The City midfield is stacked with world-class players and with Rodri making the defensive midfield position his own, it is hard to see Phillips breaking into the first team. The Englishman has only made four appearances in the Premier League so far this season with most of them being off the bench. A move to West Ham could potentially help the player bring his career back on track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham United are now ramping up their efforts to bring in Manchester City midfielder, Kalvin Phillips, according to Fabrizio Romano. The City outcast is getting closer to the exit door and he is also a subject of interest for other Premier League clubs. West Ham &#8216;Insist&#8217; on Signing Kalvin Phillips from Man City \ud83d\udea8\u2692\ufe0f [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4733,"featured_media":633024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[17,3,7188],"tags":[3970,7880],"class_list":["post-634477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-city","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-kalvin-phillips","tag-west-ham-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Delight Wellington","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634477","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\/4733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}